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This is from the Baltimore Sun... Does anyone buy her "explanation"? Man, it is just beneath the surface with some people, isn't it? Makes you wonder what kind of "friends" she has, that she feels safe telling them she has a black cow named Oprah. No black ones, I bet.
February 18, 2011
A Republican leader on the Eastern Shore has angered some members of her party by having a black Angus cow named Oprah.
Diana Waterman, the newly elected First Vice Chairman of the Maryland Republican Party noted on Facebook that the family cow, Oprah, recently birthed a calf. (She joked that the newborn would not be called "Veal.")
The post caught the attention of Sveinn C. Storm, who runs a Queen Anne's County-focused blog called "Pave Our County?" The blog mostly focuses on development related issues.
Naming a cow after an African-American talk show host who has struggled with her weight is "precisely why an enormous number of Americans view Republicans as racists," Storm wrote. He identifies himself as a Republican.
We emailed Waterman, and she had a different take. The family owns three adult cows: Oprah, Ferdinand and Isabella. She said the black Angus was named by her children "after a famous person they admire." The two others, also named by the children, honor the Spanish monarchs who approved Christopher Columbus' trip to the New World.
"That’s all there is to it," Waterman wrote.
The Maryland state party wasn't impressed with the flap.
"With Maryland facing a record budget deficit, historic unemployment and a government that spends beyond its means - I’m not sure why we’re talking about cows when we could be addressing these real problems facing our state,” said Maryland GOP spokesman Ryan Mahoney.
This is from the Baltimore Sun... Does anyone buy her "explanation"? Man, it is just beneath the surface with some people, isn't it? Makes you wonder what kind of "friends" she has, that she feels safe telling them she has a black cow named Oprah. No black ones, I bet.
February 18, 2011
A Republican leader on the Eastern Shore has angered some members of her party by having a black Angus cow named Oprah.
Diana Waterman, the newly elected First Vice Chairman of the Maryland Republican Party noted on Facebook that the family cow, Oprah, recently birthed a calf. (She joked that the newborn would not be called "Veal.")
The post caught the attention of Sveinn C. Storm, who runs a Queen Anne's County-focused blog called "Pave Our County?" The blog mostly focuses on development related issues.
Naming a cow after an African-American talk show host who has struggled with her weight is "precisely why an enormous number of Americans view Republicans as racists," Storm wrote. He identifies himself as a Republican.
We emailed Waterman, and she had a different take. The family owns three adult cows: Oprah, Ferdinand and Isabella. She said the black Angus was named by her children "after a famous person they admire." The two others, also named by the children, honor the Spanish monarchs who approved Christopher Columbus' trip to the New World.
"That’s all there is to it," Waterman wrote.
The Maryland state party wasn't impressed with the flap.
"With Maryland facing a record budget deficit, historic unemployment and a government that spends beyond its means - I’m not sure why we’re talking about cows when we could be addressing these real problems facing our state,” said Maryland GOP spokesman Ryan Mahoney.
Why do people think that because someone makes a comment and they're Republican they're speaking for all REPUBLICANS?
Do people really see the world as Republican or Democrat 24 hours a day? One jerk thinks it's racist to call a cow Oprah so because a Repub said it now that means it proves REPUBLICANS are racist?
That's just the dumbest excuse to paint Republicans as racist EVER. That's the ONLY way the Dems keep people snowed.
I don't think she made a racist comment, stupid comment yeah but not racist. Does Oprah qualify as black? Yes. Is she a fatty... YES. And what?
May lightning strike anyone down who disagrees that Oprah isn't black and fat. Oh and do we use the word cow to describe an obese or overweight person... Yes.. Is it NICE? Hell no....
Poor taste, yes. Racist... NO.
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