Update: Teabagging racist-email-sending doctor resigns from medical association

Brush with blackness

I love how the instant these people are called on their outrageous, blatant racism, they suddenly remember the ONE time they helped a black person - and wield that moment like a flaming Sword of Truth!

I can't be a racist!  There was this one time when I was going into an office building and a black guy was right behind me - and I totally held the door open behind me instead of letting it drop in his face!  Doesn't that count for anything, you race-baiters?

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by: popebuck1 @ Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 02:25:31 AM CDT

And probably thisclose to having a black bff

"I hung out with this one black dude at the bar during the NCAA Sweet Sixteen and he was totally cool and I didn't think he was going to [insert negative stereotypical action here] or anything!"

Clumsier than Constanza.  

"Oh, I thought you meant a specific plan. With maps and stuff." -Buffy

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by: Aspasia @ Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 21:27:33 PM CDT

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Yeah ex-doktor McKalip

We evil liberals really had to go out on limb to call you an ignorant racist F*CKTARD.

You make it SO easy....cupcake.
I hope you are mortgaged up to your hateful eyeballs, in medical school bills. Thinking of you living in a cardboard box....gives me great joy.

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner

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by: peteyPornpig @ Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 08:35:09 AM CDT

call the hospital.....

...he is affiliated with and ask the President's or Chief Medical Officer's office if they really want to take the risk that the doctor presents to their risk management program.  

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by: suigenerousla @ Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 10:38:43 AM CDT

why is it that

racist/homophobe republicans all have the same teenager-style of email compositions?  

The gays stole my lunch money

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by: matt in mpls @ Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 11:36:37 AM CDT

Because they are unsophisticated

I have noticed this, too.

Most of these folks aren't creative thinkers. They may be intelligent, but they don't have the ability to use creative language and organize their thoughts into something that is elegant and mature.

These people don't write peotry. They may be able to do the N.Y. Times crossword, but they can't put the words they know into anything artful.

That's why this human turd thought that his witch doctor image of Obama was funny. He probably tells his wife fart jokes.

These are the kinds of people you run away from at a party. They are simply dull.

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

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by: Fritz @ Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 12:02:25 PM CDT

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about those jokes...

He probably tells his wife fart jokes.

Great, just when I'd gotten those James Joyce letters out of my head...

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by: M @ Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 15:47:25 PM CDT

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that's what struck me about this guy

we see these from time to time--it's fascinating because it's a glimpse beyond the "professional" facade of carefully constructed public statements and into the true casual nature of these nitwits.  not all of them have much intelligence beyond public manipulation, but this guy got himself through medical school, for crying out loud.  he's got some brains somewhere.  and that email is so dumb, inarticulate, and sensationalistic that it reads like something written by lindsay lohan.  

The gays stole my lunch money

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by: matt in mpls @ Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 23:48:42 PM CDT

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Here in Florida

The Bishop of the Methodist Church is a huge homophobe. I know, I have talked to him several times on this subject, and had extensive email exchanges. He does have a PhD, and actually fancies himself quite the intellectual. But so help me god, he once defended himself by saying, "I couldn't be bigoted, there are gay people living in my neighborhood." I swear I wrote it down because I couldn't believe he said it.

I responded with, "So you get a vote on who moves in?" He never answered that question.

As hard as it is to believe, apparently these people actually think they're not homophobes/bigots/racists if at some point in their life they came within a city block of someone of color or gay or whatever else.

As my grandfather was fond of saying, "You're not a cowboy just because you stepped in a pile of cow manure once."

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by: bjohnm @ Wed Jul 29, 2009 at 18:55:07 PM CDT

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Dear Dr. McKalip: I read with interest your position on Government Funded Healthcare

...and frankly, you are so wrong it is unbelievable. In an email to friends after your resignation from the County Medical Association you said, "This may be worth doing a story on about how these ultra liberal groups like to race bait and avoid the issue."

Since I don't know you personally, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt about the possible racists motivations of the photo of the President you distributed, but that doesn't change the fact that it showed incredibly poor judgment, was certainly in extremely poor taste, and was just a stupid thing to do. You complain about race-baiting to avoid the issue, and then you yourself stoop to a tactic like this photo. It's one and the same, so please get off the "holier than thou" meme. You fell off the high road Doc the instant you hit the "send" on the email that contained the picture. So if you want to get into a tit for tat...well you started it.

The numbers are in, and the current system of private health insurance for profit does not work to help sick people. It does help rich people get richer though.

Here's a little economics lesson for you. In a free market the primary overriding legal obligation that the insurance companies (as publically traded companies) have is to increase shareholder value. That's fine, that's their obligation under the law. However, they don't do that by keeping me well or paying for my healthcare. They do that by cherry picking who they will insure, collecting the most they can in premiums, and paying out the least they can in claims.

I have employer provided coverage. I have never once filed a claim that I didn't have to argue with the insurance company about before they paid all they were obligated to pay. The system is to deny, deny, deny, and hopefully I'll just give up and go away. I've had them second guess my physician on many occasions. If the system you advocate works so well why are most bankruptcies in this country the result of catastrophic healthcare costs (even for people who supposedly have insurance)? If the system works so well, why does the government-run healthcare we do have operate with less than 12% overhead while the insurance companies need 30% to operate? If the system works so well why did people drive from Florida and Georgia to Virginia and line up outside for two days just to try to see a doctor or a dentist?

You call for a plan where the young and healthy pay "actual costs" and don't carry the burden for the old and sick. That sir is the definition of "insurance." It's supposed to be a pool that everyone pays into. Some will never claim as much as they pay in, and some will have to claim more. You advocate for a system where people who already can't afford to make it to the end of the month pay into, in addition to insurance premium, a "super health savings plan" so they can go to the doctor they choose. You advocate for insurance companies to be able to sell "across state lines." This only gives them the ability to incorporate in the states with the least regulation.

You are obligated under your oath to "do no harm," but sir, advocating for more of the same as the way to fund healthcare in this country is harming millions of people, both their physical and fiscal health...and you should be ashamed of yourself. I for one will never use your services, and will discourage everyone I know in this area from using your services.

Yours,

P.S. I also understand you are involved in some sort of "tea-bagging" movement. I feel strongly that consenting adults are entitled to do whatever they want in the privacy of their homes, but it is in very poor taste for anyone, especially a professionally licensed person such as yourself, to make their personal sexual proclivities public. Please keep that to yourself.

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by: bjohnm @ Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 16:01:44 PM CDT

Just so we're clear

I do actually know what the tea-baggers are all about, but thought this was a good snark, and a lot of fun to write to him.

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by: bjohnm @ Wed Jul 29, 2009 at 18:49:11 PM CDT

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