Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R - Georgia

You may wonder why someone from the state of Washington is writing about a Congressman from Georgia. It's because I think everyone, everywhere should be aware of this man and others like him. Rep. Westmoreland was interviewed after Palin's acceptance speech and was asked to compare her to Michele Obama. (Dumb question, but....) In response Westmoreland called the Obama's "uppity." The reporter asked him to clarify -- did you use the word, "uppity?" Westmoreland responded, "Yeah, uppity." 

Well, as you can imagine there was quite an uproar, but it was mostly confined to the internet and places like the LA Times and NY Times -- not in your average American newspapers, nothing in the Bellingham Herald and probably not in the Oil City Derrick or the York Daily Record. 

So the next day, Westmoreland issued a statement saying that he didn't know that "uppity" was a common derogatory term used to describe blacks seeking equal treatment!!!! 

Can you believe that??? Here is a man born in Georgia in 1950 and raised in the segregated South and he claims he didn't know???

Does he think the American people are stupid enough to believe that?? Oh, right, he's a Republican. 

(His Republican buddies probably think that his only mistake was using the real word rather than the Republican-approved code word -- elitist.)