You can find the full transcript of the interview here.
In the name of decency, excerpts from the interview are available after the jump.
Lets start with the non-racist stuff. On GOP Joe Repya’s service in Iraq:
Frankly I think he’s a bit of a party outsider since he was away
playing war of late.
Playing war? Its gets way worse…
Apilkowski uses the famous Imus line not once
With all due respect, are you on drugs? Did you have one too many ‘nappy headed ho hos’ or something?
But twice
Unless Shrillary could shed about 50 pounds and drop the sourthern twang. Then, well, maybe. I would just love to see how Slick Willy sneaks ‘nappy headed hos’ into the Oval Office behind her back now.
Is this guy really representative of Blaine Republicans?
And then there is this little number
I am a bit worried about
your boy Obama though. He used to worship that Allah, and his middle-name is Hussein. Coincidence????
Ugh.
Those kind of people are nuts, and the last thing we need is another Muslim in DC, let alone the White house. Ellison is enough. It scares me to even think about what he is sending thru CAIR to bin Laden and Iran. I bet Obama would sign a new NATO-esque agreement with Syria and Iran and attack Europe and Israel.
Did I mention that Andy Apilokowski is a Republican Party official?
I don’t think any of us really realized just how dimwitted the Sorosphere really is!
http://restraininorder.blogspot.com/2007/05/what-do-you-get.html
Hahaha!
It must be a slow news day. Zack’s really scraping the bottom of the barrel when he can’t find something bad to say about any of the elected Republicans, Ron Carey or any of the staff at the MNGOP. Andy Aplikowski??? I’ve got news for Zack, nobody outside of his Senate District even knows who he is. Once again, MNPublius is showing why the press doesn’t take this site seriously.
I wonder how Blaine Republican elected officials will feel about being associated with these comments as Republicans. Will Andy’s Senate District back him up?
Sounds to me like Andy Punk’d himself. I have read and re-read his borderline incoherent explanation at Residual Forces, and while I’m still not entirely sure what his intentions were, I think I have a fairly good idea. It seems like Andy’s plan was to respond to Jeff’s serious questions with responses so outrageous that Jeff would simply abandon his story.
However, unlike Andy, Jeff was clearly interested in providing readers with an unbiased story about intraparty tension between Carey backers and Repya supporters. The original article posted on Minnesota Monitor left out many of Andy’s most outrageous statements and stayed focused on the race, rather than turning the story into a hit piece — something that could have been done with ease, as shown by the full interview transcript.
For some reason, Andy is now gloating that Jeff’s decision to take seriously the words of a Republican Party official participating in a media intermview and use them accurately in an on-topic story is evidence of Minnesota Monitor’s bias and lack of journalistic credibility.
I don’t get it.
On his blog, Residual Forces, Andy has posted an earlier version of the article as proof of Minnesota Monitor’s bias. Yet the version of the article posted by Andy is similar to the published article, and as I’ve already noted, Jeff chose to stay focused on the party chair race and did not use Andy’s more appalling comments to twist the story into a hit piece.
If anything, Andy has shown exactly why his recent loss in the race for Sixth District State Vice Chair was good for the Republican Party. He’s an undisciplined loose cannon more at home in the MOB locker room than the higher echelons of party leadership. His obvious passion for conservative Republican values is consistently overshadowed by his wildly over-the-top rhetoric.
He may claim that his comments to Jeff were intended as a joke. That defense won’t fly with anyone familiar with the Republicans’ non-stop attacks on Al Franken. And considering Aplikowski’s past statements on his personal blog, it’s both unsurprising that Jeff took his comments at face value and difficult to accept that he was joking.
Chris — Are you saying that what Mr. Apilkowski said — in a public forum, no less — is ok? Does he represent the thinking of Republicans, or even just Republicans in District 51? Or is attacking the messenger just a way of changing the subject?
Hey Randy, does that hook hurt much?
I am saying that Mr. Aplikowski is a volunteer - no different than anyone else who is an activist in the GOP. What he says is almost entirely irrelevant. I’m not going to defend the guy because I don’t even know him (although to be fair I do know his mother). But the feigning of shock and horror at what a young man who is a volunteer activist in the GOP reminds me of Captain Renault in Casablanca who said, “I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!”
What the guy said was idiotic but not of much news value. If you listen for long to either party you can always find somebody saying something stupid.
Go to a union rally once and see what kind of quotes you get.
“But the feigning of shock and horror at what a young man who is a volunteer activist in the GOP reminds me of Captain Renault in Casablanca who said, “I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!””
Chris - this seems to be going from bad to worse. First you say it doesn’t matter what he believes/says since nobody’s ever heard of him and he’s a volunteer. Then you defend that by implying it’s such a typical Republican belief, that nobody should be surprised by what he said?? I hope you just made a bad analogy.
Gee, Swiftee, you’re right. Here I am, fooled into thinking that the Republican Party is made up of a bunch of bigoted yokels who can’t think for themselves, but are reduced to recycling the blather they hear on talk radio.
Sorry, I still don’t get it. What would your reaction be if a DFL District Chair called for a dictatorship of the proletariat (“HAHA! Just kidding! Gotcha!”)?
Randy - you forgot the ‘Pffft’.
Bert and Ernie,
You completely misunderstood my point. What the guy said is irrelevant because he’s just a volunteer in the party. The quote has to do with the typical response by people like Randy who feign shock and horror to try to stir up something for political gain.
Speaking of Randy, if you want to stay on your high horse about so-called bigoted rhetoric from talk radio, etc. you risk me throwing every hateful and bigoted comment at you from the Daily Kooks, the Huffington Post and other Democrat web sites. Do you really want me to go there, Randy?
“What would your reaction be if a DFL District Chair called for a dictatorship of the proletariat..”
Heh, are you suggesting that isn’t being called for every day already? Advised by the party elite of course..
But the correct analogy would be if the DFL District Chair wrote ME a letter stating that he thought the DFL had become a bunch of smarmy, smug, elitist pinheads that needed to be torn down to the floor joists….I MIGHT have thought at some point “Hmmm, I think this guy is yanking my chain”.
But by all means, don’t let me dampen the dupe-a-thon that is in session..
pfft.
as a Republican activist, take my word that no one takes Andi Aplikowski seriously. He’s an embarassment and word is that he has some mental “issues” he’s dealing with….even if he’s not playing with a full deck, his comments are inexcusable.
No, Chris, I find the “your people are just as bad” argument to be a childish distraction. Get over it.
I was not feigning anything. Should we not be “shocked and horrified” and racist comments? I don’t find them funny — jokes are often the first step.
Swiftee — My father risked his life fighting Communism. I take the same umbrage to your reference as Chris does to being called a “fascist.”
Randy,
Fair enough. I won’t hold all of the Democrats to the hateful comments found on the Daily Kooks, Huffington Post, Underground, etc. if you won’t hold the idiotic statements of someone who is a volunteer and isn’t that well known in the party against all Republicans.
Chris — Is it fair to hold these comments against the Republicans of District 51 if they let him go on being their Chair?
Andy may be a volunteer, but he was ELECTED chair of SD 51. ELECTED.
Randy,
Yep - just as fair as it is to hold the constituents of Tom Rukivina accountable for his words when he called Pat Anderson (Awada) Osama bin Awada or when he called Tom Huntley Saddam Hussein.
Personally, I wouldn’t elect Aplikowski dog catcher. But he certainly was not representing his organization (SD 51) when he made his comments. If you want to say he was, I think that’s absurd. Volunteering to serve in several capacities is different than being a paid staff person. He has the right to make a fool out of himself even if it is offensive.
Zack,
So what. Was he representing SD 51 when he spouted off? No. Does he represent SD51 on his stupid blog? No. I think it’s pretty ridiculous that you even bring this topic up. As I said before, it must be because the State party and Republican elected officials are doing a good job if you have to pick such low hanging fruit so to speak.
“Republican elected officials”
Chris, by definition, if Aplikowski was ELECTED as the REPUBLICAN CHAIR of SD 51, he is a Republican elected official. I think that’s why Zack brought that up
NB: In the interest of full disclosure, “The Other Chris” and “A Different Chris” are the same person, just using two different computers.
Astounding. That’s the only adjective I can think of for this interview. The GOP needs to seriously, kick this guy to the curb. He is the personification of the modern day Hilter youth.
Has anyone heard the latest racist slander over the Republican sheep-waves? Rush Limbag has done it again. We’ll see if his network has the same guts MSNBC had in dealing with Imus. I wasn’t even all the way in favor of the Imus thing, but you won’t believe the crap Limbag allowed to be aired on his show. Check it out:
http://themoderatevoice.com/entertainment/12489/rush-limbaugh-runs-obama-race-lampoon-in-wake-of-imus-firing/
Anonymous,
Nice job reading the liberal talking points. Did you know it was a LIBERAL columnist at the LA Times who called Obama a “Magic Negro”? Rush is pointing out the liberal hypocrisy in that very funny song. Not only that, but Obama was asked by Detroit radio host Paul W. Smith about the song. Obama said he has listened to Rush in the past (not regularly however) and he wasn’t offended.
Now that your whole argument has been decimated, I can understand why you post ANONYMOUSLY.
P.S. Anonymous,
Liberal shock jocks Opie & Anthony today did a segment on their show where they discussed violently raping the First Lady, Laura Bush, and Condoleeza Rice. Of course, you won’t read about that kind of vile on Media Matters or the other George Soros funded sites.