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Citing Email Flap, McKalip Says He'll Withdraw From Public Debate Over Healthcare
Dr. David McKalip has told fellow conservative activists that thanks to the flap over his racist email showing President Obama as a witch doctor, he will no longer appear publicly in opposition to health-care reform.
"For now, in the interest of protecting this movement from any collateral damage, I am withdrawing from making media appearances on health system reform," McKalip wrote this morning in an email -- obtained by TPMmuckraker -- to fellow members of an online health-care discussion group affiliated with the Tea Party movement. The email went to the same recipients to which McKalip sent the original racist email.
As we noted in our original post, McKalip -- an energetic and widely quoted conservative activist -- had recently written an anti-reform op-ed in the St. Petersburg Times, and had appeared with at least two GOP members of Congress in an online townhall meeting aimed at stopping reform.
In response to McKalip's announcement, many fellow Tea Partiers pledged their support. One, Nancy Meinhardt, wrote:
Ok I had not seen the picture before and it reminded me of all the hellish depictions of our former Preisdent, the legitimate one. I would not have apologized to the fraudulant (sic) President. But thats (sic) just my opinion.
The email exchange obtained by TPMmuckraker also shows that even McKalip's apology to President Obama last night wasn't quite the heartfelt act of contrition it was presented as.
When McKalip showed the apology to his Tea Party cohorts, he included a separate message just for them -- published earlier by the Florida alt weekly Creative Loafing -- in which he minimized the email as a "lapse in judgment" and blamed the flap on "powerful enemies."
It reads:
I have had a very hard day. When you stand up and fight effectively for freedom and to protect the rights of patients from control by the government and insurance companies - you develop powerful enemies. They have used the opportunity of a lapse in judgment to try to discredit me since they can't discredit my arguments. I am proud of my accomplishments in this fight. I am more proud of the hundreds of thousands of Americans I have come to know who feel as I do and are willing to stand up for freedom. The next few days will be difficult, and I ask for your support.
The emails also show that McKalip's original response to the criticism he began to receive after we revealed his racist email was equally defiant. About an hour after our post went up yesterday morning, he wrote to fellow activists, in an email titled: "Race Baiting by Obama Camp on health care":
Here they come. The first of what likely will be many emails accusing me of being a rascist (sic) for forwarding this email of Obama as a witch doctor. Almost like Hillary and the Obama photo form the presidential campaign.ADVICE TO ALL: DON'T GET ANGERED AND TAKE THE BAIT ON STUFF LIKE THIS. Remain calm and cool and discuss health policy at all times. The worst they got from me was that people are worried about the health care plans Obama has and that I am busy and had to end the call.
So Talking points memo is apparently painting me as a racist for sending around a picture that points out that health care will get worse if the government takes it over. Looks like I made the top of the list and they BUT THEY DID USE THE ONLY QUOTE I GAVE THEM!! (see below). Apparently they have a professional "Muckraker" for a reporter (see below).
This may be worth doing a story on about how these ultra liberal groups like to race bait and avoid the issue. Professional muckraker? Please. Now they are calling my office phones too!!! Yippee.
Lesson learned: Any attempt to discuss politics will lead to a race-baiting war. Also: Don't engage on anything that looks like personal attacks on Obama. It casues distraction that confuses the issues.
Don't let them bait you. I will choose to ignore them and always talk about the issues.
In response, one recipient, Robin Stublen, listed as the "FL Co-State Coordinator Tea Party Patriots" wrote:
What we cant tell them to kiss our white ass anymore? Man you guys are no fun at all.
Later, after McKalip had apologized, Stublen wrote that what McKalip had done in sending the email was "no different than what liberals did for eight years with Bush cartoons" and "no different than the passing of Jib Jab videos that we all have shared." Stublen called McKalip a "victim," and a "great man fighting for a great cause" and charged that "radical members of the left" had tried to "silence" him.
Here's Stublen's full email:
David,
I like and respect you for your undying faith and conviction concerning our Constitution and our health care. I admire you for what you have done in the past and what I know you will do in the future.I realize why you have apologized and respect your decision to do so. Yet, I want you to know that you never offended Obama. My guess he has never seen the picture in question and more than likely never will. What has happened is that you, my friend are a victim. You like millions of us across this great country of both parties saw something that was humorous to you and you passed it along to your like minded friends. This is no different than what liberals did for eight years with Bush cartoons. This is no different than the passing of Jib Jab videos that we all have shared. You are no different. You are human.
The difference lies in the fact that radical members of the left saw an opportunity to try and destroy and outspoken and effective leader against socialized medicine and they took it. Their attempt to silence you must not succeed. I realize that they have contacted the hospital where you practice. I realize that your career in many ways is jepordized and that you will have to defend yourself in the coming days. Please know that all of us not only in this group but accross the country admire and support you. We believe in you and believe in our hearts that you have done nothing wrong.
I am sure in this situation that I speak for others when I say, we support you now more than ever. We respect you now more than ever and we will never fail to come to your defense when we are needed. You sir are a great man fighting for a great cause and in the end our country will be better for it.
I thank you, my children thank you and your country thanks you.
God Bless and Keep You Safe.
Robin Stublen
Late Update: McKalip has now resigned as president of the Pinellas County Medical Association.
Josh
Zachary
McKalip just announced he is stepping down as president-elect of the Pinellas Medical Society.
http://saintpetersblog1.blogspot.com/2009/07/continuing-coverage-of-doctors-racist.html
July 24, 2009 12:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
They truly are Freedom Fighters and Perpetual Victims.
July 24, 2009 10:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
"So Talking points memo is apparently painting me as a racist for sending around a picture that points out that health care will get worse if the government takes it over."
TPM painting Mr. McKalip as a racist?
Good G-d, how f'ing lame does he have to be to go blaming TPM for his obvious and blatant racism? TPM wasn't the one who produce the racist picture of Obama as a witch doctor, and TPM isn't the one holding the paint bush, either.
No, Mr. McKalip, you're the SOB holding that racist paint brush...it's all you, Mr. McKalip, you have taken your place amongst the many racist faces of the Republican Party, enjoy your easily earned accomplishment.
July 24, 2009 1:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
ditto, Ditto and DITTO!
July 24, 2009 1:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
I fail to see the connection between McKalip's racist "cartoon" and the health care debate. Which is to say, I fail to see what racism has legitimately to do with health care, or the debate about reform.
As for the fake "patriot" "Tea Party": it's members are in the bag.
July 24, 2009 2:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
And I was really surprised to see that he's been fighting insurance companies, too:
"When you stand up and fight effectively for freedom and to protect the rights of patients from control by the government and insurance companies..."
If he'd tell us a bit more about that, rather than portraying our President as a New Guinea carpenter (or at least not a "witch doctor") he might not have gotten the response that he did.
July 24, 2009 6:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
McKalip didn't produce the cartoon either. Please stick to facts. We like them, remember?
July 24, 2009 2:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Okay, I'll grant he didn't "create" the picture, but he certainly promoted it, and thus owns it, lock, stock, and barrel.
July 24, 2009 4:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
You don't understand, Republicans have rights and feelings, anyone else does not.
The first right is they can do or say anything with no consequences.
The second is if they get caught doing something bad, immoral or illegal, its never their own fault.
July 24, 2009 7:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Forget the president, the picture offended ME. Hard to take that some people in this country are so mean-spirited, bigoted and hard of heart.
July 24, 2009 1:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
At the risk of pointing out the obvious... even if he weren't blatantly racist, no way would I want to be treated by a medical doctor who is so flabbergastingly stupid.
July 24, 2009 2:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
He probably became a neurosurgeon because he figured it would substitute for his lack of brains.
July 24, 2009 2:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Interesting that he is trying to protect us from "control by the government and insurance companies." Wonder what he is advocating to protect us from the insurance companies?
July 24, 2009 2:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, that jumped out at me, too. So health care reform is a power grab by insurance companies, who apparently don't yet control health care? Imagine our predicament if they actually did!
July 24, 2009 2:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's right -- he had one very powerful enemy who stabbed him in the back ...himself!
July 24, 2009 2:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
The glorification of doctors in this country has to end. They are no better or worse than the rest of us. This guy is obviously worse. But to pretend MDs have special powers or status thanks to going to medical school is beyond ridiculous. Isn't John Ensign a veterinarian? That lunatic Coburn in Oklahoma is an OB-Gyn.
July 24, 2009 2:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Old Joke:
Q. What's the difference between God and a doctor?
A. God doesn't think he's a doctor.
July 24, 2009 4:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
But He DID heal the lepers. And without asking for a copay either (hat tip to Stephanie Miller).
July 24, 2009 6:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ha, ha!
July 24, 2009 2:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
In addition to agreeing with the question as to what has he done or proposed to get insurance companies out from between physicians and patients (nothing?) are we to infer from his email to his "supporters" and their responses back to him that his "sincere apology" to the President wasn't sincere at all?
It would seem we are...
July 24, 2009 2:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why am I not surprised.
Nobody can ever own up to mistakes and just say "sorry" and leave it at that.
There's always some excuse and blaming of others.
Just like that bully cop in Cambridge.
This is the kind of thing that most people try to teach children -- just admit it and move on.
Reminds me of that phrase -- "adultescents"
July 24, 2009 2:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do we also teach kids that when someone doesn't apologize, we hector them until they do? I don't remember that part.
July 24, 2009 3:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Probably because you have never been a victim of rascism
July 24, 2009 4:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
A community has the right to condemn anti-social behavior that violate norms and ethics. All the more so when the actor is unapologetic.
July 24, 2009 4:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
People...stand together.....stand tall, our e-mails worked!!!
July 24, 2009 2:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cool, you got someone fired for thinking a political cartoon picturing Obama as a Papua New Guinean was funny.
Jeebus.
July 24, 2009 2:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
You don't distinguish a clearly racist image from a political cartoon?
Jeebus.
July 24, 2009 2:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
The freeper setup a strawman. That's not what the pic represents and he knows it.
July 24, 2009 4:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
"The freeper setup a strawman"? That's not even English.
Sorry that you don't know how to identify a freeper in the field. Go spend 1 hour on their site as penance.
July 24, 2009 5:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Will do...what's your moniker there - racistloverwithgoodgrammer
July 26, 2009 7:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
heh.. that was kind of funny.
July 28, 2009 6:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry to throw facts into your racist post, but nobody got anything for "..thinking.." anything.
July 26, 2009 10:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
How are the emails getting leaked? If its a listserver, then these guys are basically nincompoops to talk openly about things that they are not proud of in public.
I thought the "White Ass" comment (even in jest) wasnt really something you would say unless others receving the mail understood it as well. It seems these guys dont understand that they think of skin color as some sort of important factor.
July 24, 2009 2:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
I love this site but six or seven stories on this topic? Really? The guy saw something he thought was funny. It was an image that made a point about an issue on which he's an outspoken advocate. There is some racist visual language in the image but it's subtle and has mostly been misunderstood (since the guy pictured is not from Africa). For that offense people are getting themselves in a lather of righteous indignation. It's like everyone wants to take out their anger at the anonymous racists on FreeRepublic.com on this guy because we know his name and where he works. Doesn't matter that he didn't actually say or write anything racist, he found something funny that we think is offensive so let's bring him down.
Years ago there was a musical called "The Mad Show", by the people who brought you Mad Magazine. This episode made me think of the following song:
July 24, 2009 2:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
There is some racist visual language in the image but it's subtle...
What planet are you living on?
July 24, 2009 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
One in which there's a difference between people from Papua New Guinea and Africa.
July 24, 2009 3:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Are you actually saying that because it's a Papua New Guinean it's not a racist "political cartoon" (lol) but that the people who assume it's African ARE racists?
Is that really what you are saying?
July 24, 2009 3:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
ignore this freeper
July 24, 2009 4:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, God forbid someone disagree with the torch-carrying mob.
July 24, 2009 5:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
How dark is it in there where your head is?
July 25, 2009 3:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's pretty dark - the racist-lover invokes God's name in his defense. It doesn't get much darker than that.
July 26, 2009 7:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
"It was an image that made a point about an issue on which he's an outspoken advocate."
Really, the picture made a point?
So...other than indicating a racist mindset, what other point did it make?
Hmm...perhaps...something other than the usual banal contrarian stone-walling without the intellectual burden of producing a counter proposal?
Or perhaps it was just Mr. McKalips way of avoiding addressing the content of the issue by denigrating the messenger with a racist picture.
There is some racist visual language in the image but it's subtle and has mostly been misunderstood (since the guy pictured is not from Africa).
Again, really, how magnanimous of you to cede that there are racist overtones despite the NOT so subtle imagery. The implication was plain, the insinuation even plainer.
"Doesn't matter that he didn't actually say or write anything racist, he found something funny that we think is offensive so let's bring him down."
A picture speaks volumes, and a person who promotes any form of artwork for subjective promotion of a particular point of view owns the content and insinuation of that picture because it reveals the intent and mindset of the sender/promoter.
As a person who appreciates facts I'm surprised I had to explain that to you.
July 24, 2009 4:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Empathy and understanding. It's what we're good at, remember? Even if you find the thought deplorable and stupid, which it is, look at the intentions of the "artist". I'd say that the person who made the image wanted to picture Obama as a healthcare wacko and his plan as socialism. So they added the hammer and sickle, which says "socialism" to them, and pictured him as a witch doctor, which says "less-than stellar healthcare" to most westerners. It's likely that they thought the image of Obama as a African-looking stereotype with a bone in the nose was a side benefit. Knowing nothing at all about McKalip except that he's a GOP healthcare lack-of-a-plan advocate, I have to figure that's the part of the image that he connected with. I think you're right, when people forward something on it signals tacit agreement, but in this case I'm not sure that we can divine what he's agreeing with.
I'd love to be wrong. I'd like it if we figured out his freeper handle and saw that his posts were as racially ugly as the rest of theirs. I'm just not ready to wield a pitchfork based on the comment "Funny". Just my $.02.
July 24, 2009 5:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Are you being deliberately obtuse?
It is not a cartoon. It is a racist image photoshopped and sent out to a racist teabaggers.
Why you would rationalize overt racism is beyond me.
What is your excuse?
Are you scared of being accused by racists of playing the race card?
Or are you totally blind to racism that you can't recognize the most obvious example of it comes up and bites you on the butt...
and sez: "I am a product of racist piece of shit....but you are free to deny what is obvious to anyone with functioning neurons."
July 24, 2009 6:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
I use the term 'cartoon' loosely; its origin is as political commentary, regardless of whether it's hand-drawn. (Unless it started as just the image and someone tacked on the Obamacare part later, in which case I take that back.)
July 24, 2009 8:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Unless you can link to the source and prove it is some kind of political commentary (under what definition, I know not...because all racist propaganda is by some definition "political commentary"
your argument is meaningless. Go over to Stormfront and check it out....
you will see a lot racist Nazi propaganda which I am sure you would love to excuse as "political commentary"
in other words you criteria is bullshit and your argument is meaningless.
July 24, 2009 8:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
And you're sort of angry and acting kind of ignorant. Have a great weekend.
July 24, 2009 9:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
If you are going to act as an defender of racist propaganda...
and use the argument that racist propaganda is political commentary...
and defend this right wing tool because he repeated a racist joke...instead of creating it, show a little class when you are nailed for the apologist of racism you are.
And don't attack people for not buying the bullshit you are passing off as some defense of "free speech."
Now you can whine to your Freeper pals about how badly you were treated when you you defended one of the most offensive and overt racist pieces of "political commentary" that that came down the tubes.
July 24, 2009 9:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow. You're really a stupid person, aren't you? I'm not even sure you know what a freeper is; do you mistake that as a synonym for troll? If you'd been to their site you'd know that I'm not one because I can write in full sentences and don't use any of their sneering little code words for our president or anything else. You say I'm using some sort of misapplied 4th Amendment argument, something you pulled out of your ass. You call this one of the most "offensive and overt" things you've seen; how about comparing this with the "Obamabucks" showing him next to fried chicken and watermelon? I know, you'll say they're equally bad, because anything else would dent your righteousness.
You pissant little troll, you got me worked up when I should be cooking dinner. Damn.
July 25, 2009 12:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
OK, I've now read enough of your comments to know that you're a friggin idiot. I have no idea why you are supporting this racist asshole but it's apparent your critical thought processes are defective. You may or may not be a "freeper", I really don't care, but your comments are worthless drivel.
July 25, 2009 12:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, I know what a Freeper is.
I have been online since Compuserve's interface was in ASCII.
You might be interested to know that the Obama Bucks graphic was created by a liberal as a piece of political satire which backfired. Interesting huh.
You would know that if you used that little search engine up on the corner of your browser and you could figure out what would be a key word to use:
hint: It isn't cartoon.
Glad you think I am stupid. Because my observation about the difference between smart people and people who think they are smart, is the smart person knows when he is talking to someone smarter than he is.
July 25, 2009 12:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
It isn't cartoon.
That's not even english. Why not follow your own criticisms....if you're so smart?
July 26, 2009 7:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
Of course it is English...
for those for the ability to read.
You would know that if you used that little search engine up on the corner of your browser and you could figure out what would be a key word to use:
hint: It isn't cartoon.
July 26, 2009 9:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Last resort when you get caught flat out wrong, claiming the people pointing that out don't have compassion. Turn out whatever light you have on, and go...
July 26, 2009 10:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
Note that I didn't use the word "compassion", which is different than empathy. I don't have compassion for the idiot who created the original image (for what?). But I do think it's a good exercise to put oneself in their shoes in order to understand their output.
July 26, 2009 11:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
If you put yourself in my shoes I'd set them on fire.
July 26, 2009 3:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here is where you got it wrong: they ARE proud of it! It is evident in their e-mails.
These people are so emotionally deficient they genuinely do not see the difference between any basic anti-Bush illustration of the past 8 years and this racist garbage, for example, the photoshopped pics of Bush as Gollum seeking the ring of power. This is the same deficiency responsible for causing Republicans to excuse what Nixon did that got him rightfully impeached by saying "everybody does it" even though it is quite clear that everybody does not. Facts and reality have nothing to do with how these people think or act.
It is this deficiency that, from a political perspective, makes these people truly dangerous.
July 25, 2009 3:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is just TOO much! That is one hell of a "lapse in judgement".
"Any attempt to discuss politics will lead to a race-baiting war..." especially if it includes circulating an overtly racist photo of the President as a black witch doctor with a bone through his nose which then gets picked up by the internet media outlets (of course) and exposed for just what it is. This guy stepped in it, big time. So what does he do? He turns around and blames TPM for "discrediting" him! Whoo-haa! You can't make this stuff up.
CONGRATULATIONS, TPM!
July 24, 2009 2:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
You can write him here:
dmckalip@neuro3.net
My email to him: With all due respect go to Hell punk. You despicable racist.
July 24, 2009 2:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow! You were much nicer in your e-mail than I was; I used my Boston vocabulary ;).
July 24, 2009 5:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't know what got into me. Maybe I'll write him another one tonight after I have a few drinks.
July 24, 2009 6:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is Friday afterall; could be time for the modern version of drink and dial -- drink and e-mail.
July 24, 2009 6:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just left Boston for Seattle a few years ago. Let's see now, if I remember the tongue of my youth, "muth-ah" is only half a word.
July 24, 2009 11:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
I live in the West now too; I have had to tone my East coast personality way down. When I first moved here I would make some off the cuff, smart ass comment and people would look at me as though I had just slapped them. Having to be nice totally sucks.
July 26, 2009 3:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is a Macaca moment--George Allen didn't think he did anything wrong, either.
July 24, 2009 3:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Exactly.
Nobody pays attention to the guys in the pointy hoods; the real threat comes from the racists who think their toxic output is somehow harmless and acceptable โ and from those who rationalize racism as legitimate discourse.
July 25, 2009 10:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Congratulations, Zach, on shining light on this story.
July 24, 2009 3:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good job TPM!
July 24, 2009 3:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's a political cartoon. Whether the imagery is racist or not does not change that.
July 24, 2009 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
(sorry, this was in reply to comment above)
July 24, 2009 3:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
That is one of the stupidest statements I have ever read.
July 24, 2009 3:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
So were the anti-semetic cartoons in the Volkischer Beobachter and Der Sturmer. WTF is your point, exactly?
July 24, 2009 4:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
"It's a political cartoon. Whether the imagery is racist or not does not change that."
/facepalm
July 24, 2009 4:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
As I said, it was supposed to follow a comment above, which said "It's not a political cartoon, it's racist". Which is just dumb.
July 24, 2009 5:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
the fact that it was a political was not what got him in throuble.
The fact that the image was racist, that's what caused him throuble.
July 24, 2009 6:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Right. I was replying to the poster who said it couldn't be both.
July 24, 2009 8:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
except that you've [i]also[/i] been arguing (somewhat inexplicably) that it ISN'T racist because the 'witch doctor' in the photoshop isn't african.
July 26, 2009 6:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Great job exposing this cretin. This is one BIG reason why I follow TPM. Thanks.
July 24, 2009 3:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Exactly. Who wants to be associated with a psychologically unbalanced doctor?
July 24, 2009 4:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
this is the perfect person that gang members should go after
July 24, 2009 5:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Doctors are supposed to be healers; this man is not a healer.
July 24, 2009 6:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
I may have a lot of problems (which I do), but at least I'm not Nancy Meinhardt.
July 24, 2009 7:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Funny. With minimal changes McKalip's email to his supporters could easily have been from Obama:
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July 24, 2009 8:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Clearly, in Florida, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to be a brain surgeon.
Does this moron really have a medical degree? From where?
July 24, 2009 11:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
The same correspondence school that gave Orly Taitz her law degree.
July 24, 2009 11:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is no different than what liberals did for eight years with Bush cartoons.
So, what are they saying? What was done to Bush was bad? Then that's admitting this cartoon was bad, too, isn't it?
Or if this cartoon is OK, then what was done to Bush was OK, too.
Their logic escapes me but then again, it's GOP logic and I'm a Democrat so I guess that explains it.
July 25, 2009 12:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
If you read the transcripts of the first AMA meetings, you'll find their main subject was how to ensure doctors would be highly paid.
McKalip is proof of the pudding. The US medical system is and always has been morally bankrupt. For US doctors, it's not the Hippocratic Oath, it's the hypocritical oath -- especially if they do not now stand up en masse and publicly repudiate this guy. Which they will not do because they are collectively too busy planning golf vacations they feel are justified by their long years enjoying the fruits of our educational system. I went to a college that was heavily pre-med. For every Hawkeye Pierce there are a hundred like Frank Burns with no higher ambition than the ownership of fancy cars.
We need to completely revamp the medical system in this country. A good start would be to make it less of an upper middle class profession and one more attractive to those truly committed to truth and the welfare of others -- and thus anathema to conservatives and racists like McKalip and those who elected him. Medicine should be more like the real discovery sciences, where conservative doctrine can barely maintain a toehold.
US medicine makes me shudder with disgust. Perhaps we should fire all current doctors and start over, using British and Canadian ones until a new batch can be trained from first principles in a much more egalitarian way.
July 25, 2009 2:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
McKalip has had plastic surgury, but I know a Ballchinian when I see one.
July 25, 2009 5:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
We are in a sad state when True Patriots can be attacked for racial slurs or teabagging in public.
July 25, 2009 9:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sure, Skippy! Maybe Obama will begin his next presser with "Ooh-E-Ooh-Ahh-Ahh, Wing, Wang, Walla-Walla Bing-Bang"!! Won't we have eggs on our faces then, huh?
July 25, 2009 2:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
You racist fuck.
July 25, 2009 6:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, fuck YOU, you racist asshole. Go back to wherever the hell it is you came from, and take your knuckledragging mindless sophomoric stupidity with you.
I would not piss on you if you were on fire. Maybe throw on a couple additional matches, that's about it.
Of course, the fire would no doubt have come from the cross you torched on someone's lawn.
Now go home and cry, you whiny little racism-rationalizing swine. Or we'll really start to unload on you.
July 26, 2009 4:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
And you're who, exactly?
July 26, 2009 6:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
One of your nightmares, asshole.
One of the truly bad ones. The ones that leave you shivering in your urine-soaked bedsheets. The sheets your mother has to wash afterward, because you're still a helpless little juvenile reject who lives on Cheetos and Mountain Dew in her basement.
Do the rest of the world a favor. Go play with matches at the gas station.
July 26, 2009 7:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL
July 26, 2009 7:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
This comment is a little off topic, so I do apologize, but I am so infuriated with what I just saw, I have to blog about it.
Mika Brzezinski yesterday made on the most ignorant and racist statements I have heard in quite some time.
Here is the clip.
http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=2288
July 25, 2009 2:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
I e-mailed him the very night I saw that e-mail. I am still so furious. How dare he insinuate that it is his position in the Health Reform debate that fuels my anger. That is as outrageous as the e-mail he forwarded. He sees nothing wrong with his racist, hatred driven bigotry. I advise no one of color to be dumb enough to allow this man to touch them. We now see what he thinks of people of color, even when they are legally and overwhelmingly elected as President of the United States. This so-called doctor is a Pig.
July 25, 2009 6:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
People let this guy cut on them, messing with their brains and spines and stuff? He looks like a real putz, doesn't he, kind of like a big baby Huey. Nowhere near as cool and handsone as Obama. Why do these pukes think that white people are so far superior? Seriously, what makes then think that?
July 25, 2009 6:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Most normal people look at the KKK and shudder, and think boy, those people are really out there. So, they are actually far less of a danger than this here doc and his crew. They are more "respectable" in their bigotry, more sublte and, therefore, far more dangerous. The "Tea baggers" is just a name for the crowd that just can not stand it that a black family is in the White House. They say he is a socialist, or fascist, or a commy pinko fag, or the latest - an illegal alien, but that is not their beef. We know what they mean, what all this is code for. THEY are the ones who are not true Americans.
July 25, 2009 6:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Salutations have to have meaning. Just so I know, has "doctor" mckalip ever operated on a black person who survived the op?
July 25, 2009 8:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't let commenters intimidate you for calling out racists. I hope racists are called out as often as possible. Thank you, TPM, for doing one of the best news reporting jobs in the country.
July 25, 2009 9:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've seen a pattern for the past few years...when you catch a conservative being a racist, he/she accuses you of "racism" or some kind of unfair practice against them. These people apparently do not have a clue about what racism has been in this country. They need a #$@$% dose of documentaries about what we have been through.
July 25, 2009 9:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
"The "Tea baggers" is just a name for the crowd that just can not stand it that a black family is in the White House. They say he is a socialist, or fascist, or a commy pinko fag, or the latest - an illegal alien, but that is not their beef. We know what they mean, what all this is code for. THEY are the ones who are not true Americans."
I agree and I have suspected this for awhile. And this story seems to indicate that even more. I have wondered what it is that ties teabaggers together, since they throw around so many random gripes. I think this may be the unifying force.
July 25, 2009 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why are "conservatives" so devoid of personal responsibility? It never seems to be a matter of what they did or didn't do. It's always someone else's fault. Grow up.
July 27, 2009 6:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Conservatives/radicals have no interest in the truth. The truth might compromise their manifesto.
This guy is a neurosurgeon because that is where the money is.
The "teabaggers" have a double goal in mind, bring down Obama & maintain the status quo for health care payments. Congress is already mucking with the bill for reform. If they keep it up, the "teabaggers" will wind up with what they want.
What is their manifesto?
July 28, 2009 3:33 PM | Reply | Permalink