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Another 'Kenya' Video Surfaces with Tommy Thompson's Son

Days after a video was released showing Jason Thompson joking about sending Barack Obama back to Kenya, another video is leaked revealing he has made the comment at least one other time.

 

Tommy Thompson's U.S. Senate's campaign has taken some heat this week after the former governor’s son said the upcoming presidential election is an opportunity to send President Barack Obama back to Kenya.

But it turns out it's not the first time that phrase has come up during a GOP rally featuring Jason Thompson.

In a video obtained by the Huffington Post, Jason Thompson tells a group of supporters at a rally in Fond du Lac on Oct. 6: "We have an opportunity to send President Obama back to Chicago."

The crowd responds with cheers and a few audience members yell out, "Back to Kenya."

"That would even be better," Jason Thompson joked.

The video was recorded by a Democratic tracker, HuffPo says.

It came out a few days after the first video was released of Jason Thompson rallying supporters in Kenosha on Sunday. There he said, "We have the opportunity to send President Obama back to Chicago — or Kenya." He has since issued an apology.

Tommy Thompson characterized the comment as an "off-handed remark that someone in the audience said and he (Jason) repeated it," according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

"My son feels miserable about it."

But Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Michael Tate said Wednesday the apology didn't go far enought.

"Is he going to apologize to the voters?" Tate asked in a statement. "Is he going to apologize to the president? This is bordering on absolute absurd behavior."

Republican Tommy Thompson is locked in a tight battle for the U.S. Senate race with Democratic U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin.

Related Topics: Barack Obama, Birther Comment, Jason Thompson, Kenya, Tammy Baldwin, Tommy Thompson, U.S. Senate Race, election 2012, and participate 2012

AWD

1:09 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

The Marxist Usurper deserves a place much hotter than Kenya.

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Steve ®

1:21 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

He does have family there. He will have much more time after January to visit Kenya. Jason was just being a nice man suggesting that it would be better to see this family in Kenya.

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H.E. Pennypacker

1:25 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

I remember living in Chicago when Barry ran for the Senate as the guy from Kenya.

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WEACHATER

1:48 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Gee I wonder how many more they will leak over the next 3 weeks.

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Steve ®

1:58 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Obama has a record of changing his birthplace to best suit his best opportunity

http://tinyurl.com/cww25mc

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Greg

2:04 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

“President Obama’s approval ratings are so low now, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the United States.”

–Jay Leno

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H.E. Pennypacker

2:56 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Where is the outrage from Obama Zombies like Bren and the rest of the Star Wars bar scene?

Bren

2:10 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Thompson has already apologized to his firm.

There's truth in that old chestnut, "Many a true word is spoken in jest."

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James R Hoffa

12:02 am on Thursday, October 18, 2012

@Bren -

He didn't need to apologize for anything - Michelle Obama confirmed to the nation that Barack's "home country" is in fact Kenya:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBJihJBePcs

You can't change or spin the facts on this - or was Michelle LYING?

Craig

2:19 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Kids say the darndest things....usually they say what everyone else is thinking.

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a quiet conservative

2:54 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

So the Patch is reposting Huff Po stories?

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James R Hoffa

4:16 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Can someone please explain how wanting to send someone back to their self-admitted "home country" is somehow newsworthy or scandalous?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBJihJBePcs

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Greg

4:37 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

He said Chicago. Did he mean that Obama was born in Chicago? I think not. Then why is it a birther issue with Kenya? Libtards lack all logic.

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Steve ®

5:51 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

I think this is a larger issue. Chicago is not Obama's homeland and this blatant monstrosity of a lie is worthy of many articles. Patch, huf po, and JS Online need to pick up on this ASAP while there is still time.

Nuitari

4:37 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Even the Patch media runs after this bone. I've lost my remaining little bit of respect.

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keepin'itreal

5:53 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

It would be like a Democrat constantly bringing up at his political rallies that Romney and some of his fellow rich punks ganged up on a gay kid, penned him down and shaved his head, to serve as a reminder of how powerful they were. Oh right, that's different! It's true!

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Keith Best

6:25 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

No one died after getting a haircut, unlike Libya and Fast & Furious.

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James R Hoffa

6:35 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

@keepin 'itreal -

And it's also true that Kenya is Obama's "home country."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBJihJBePcs

Or did Michelle lie?

Keith Best

6:24 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Yeah, and Obama said domestic terrorist Bill Ayers was "just a guy from the neighborhood". Liberal media bias at it's best.

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Nuitari

7:10 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

It would be different if he said "back to Africa". A little too general to be deemed racist. I would be more specific though..."back to Kenya to his sleeper cell."

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Joe Fritz

7:13 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Kids usually repeat what they've heard at home

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James R Hoffa

12:00 am on Thursday, October 18, 2012

@Joe Fritz -

How do you know he didn't hear it from Michelle Obama?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBJihJBePcs

Or was Michelle LYING?

Bucky

7:55 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

I was very pleased to hear that the Ole man sat his kid ( 38 years old ) down and tried to explain to him why he's such an idot. Maybe the Ole man should give the kid a list of things that he should say at the Gop rallies and things that he should say only at the KKK rallies.

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James R Hoffa

11:58 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

@Bucky -

"...KKK rallies?"

Really?

You're nothing but a racist race baiter!

mmlgreendale

9:45 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

What a bunch of pompus greendalers. If the dems were saying inappropiate things about Romney you better believe it would NOT be ok. This just points out the racism that exists in our village. How did all of you feel when the incident in Oak Creek happened, are we really coming together to accept one onother? NO it is obvious that we are not you are all just hippocrites.

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James R Hoffa

12:00 am on Thursday, October 18, 2012

@mmlgreendale -

Hoffa must have missed all your comments criticizing the remarks from the left about Romney's "magical Mormon underwear," as well as other inappropriate things then, as he can't find them anywhere here on the Patch!

Who's the real hypocrite here?

Greg

10:55 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Yeah, pompous Greendalers, shame on you.

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Dirk Gutzmiller

3:04 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Racism is difficult to disguise. With this group of commenters, there is not even a good attempt among the mob at hiding the seething hatred.

Time for another ultra-right blogger to write another piece of propaganda stating that Republicans are not really racists at all, why, we are all highly mistaken and unfair to even mention such a fact.
By their words here, you shall know them.

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H.E. Pennypacker

3:06 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

You are forgetting how your kind attacked Condi Rice? Ultra left wing bigots!

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James R Hoffa

3:17 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

@Dirk -

How is it racist to want to send a political opponent back to their self-admitted "home country?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBJihJBePcs

Or was Michelle LYING?

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Greg

3:29 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Is it racist if he stopped at sending him back to Chicago? Is the Kenya part the only issue?

Dirk Gutzmiller

5:33 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Most people claim a "home country". It is where there are family ties and ancestors.
For Ryan, for example, it's Ireland, though they do not want him there. The racism part is wanting to send Obama BACK to Kenya, when he is not even from there. Who is claiming he is from there, besides Tommy's son? Sheriff Joe in Phoenix? Trump? AWD? Dinesh D'Souza, the director of the recent anti-Obama propaganda film? The King's College in New York today announced Dinesh D'Souza's resignation. Its board had been meeting about the evangelical school president and his relationship with a woman who is not his wife.
He brought the woman to a Christian values(!) event last month and introduced her as his fiancee. D'Souza is married.

all part of that "birther" malarky.

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James R Hoffa

5:58 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

@Dirk -

Quite trying to shift the subject.

When did Ryan ever claim that his "home country" was Ireland? Please provide a link.

To the contrary, Michelle Obama, Barack's wife and our current first lady, definitely stated in public that Barack's "home country" was in fact Kenya.

So again, Hoffa asks, how is it racist to want to send a political opponent back to their self-admitted "home country?"

WEACHATER

5:38 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Dude, I think you may have some synapses, that may have shutdown.

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Dirk Gutzmiller

1:45 pm on Friday, October 19, 2012

Hoffa - You are mincing and construing words, such as "home country", as usual, in a desparate attempt to cover for Republicans playing the racist card again and again.

As to Ryan, he now downplays his Irish homeland and ancestors, though he has tried to appeal to Irish Americans, a big voting bloc but diminishing in importance. The reason is probably because he is held in such very low regard in Ireland itself, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/16/us-usa-campaign-ireland-idUSBRE89F0LY20121016

His Irish roots go back to his great-grandfather’s arrival in Janesville, dominated by three families, the Ryans, Fitzgeralds and Cullens, known as the Irish "mafia", that word getting your rapt attention. When Ryan had his first run for office at age 28, 14 years ago, a political advertisement showed him walking through the graveyard where his immigrant ancestors lay.
Unlike Obama and Biden, who are wildly popular in Ireland, that Country as a whole does not even welcome him there. It seems Ryan's Republican policies are similar to those that the British used during the Potato Famine that starved millions of Irish, yet he often gives speeches referring to his Irish Famine roots, or did, when it became too hypocritical and attracted the scrutiny of the press.

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Greg

2:09 pm on Friday, October 19, 2012

Then can we send Obama to Ireland?

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James R Hoffa

2:27 pm on Friday, October 19, 2012

@Dirk -

You never answered Hoffa's question - when has Ryan referred to any country other than America as being his "home country?"

It's one thing to acknowledge foreign ancestry or lineage, but to call a nation other than the one in which you were born your self-declared "home country," well, that's just down right strange!

And Obama has referred to Kenya as being his "home country" on a regular basis. Hoffa has never heard another President, or politician in general, do something like this.

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Greg

2:31 pm on Friday, October 19, 2012

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger

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James R Hoffa

3:19 pm on Friday, October 19, 2012

@Greg -

Schwarzenegger really was born overseas though!

Obama claims his "home country" to be Kenya, despite his assertions that he was born in the US - again, this is very odd behavior never before encountered by Hoffa.

Dirk Gutzmiller

3:08 pm on Friday, October 19, 2012

Hoffa - You are dodging and weaving on your own interpretation of a phrase "home country". By that interpretation you are repeatedly trying to imply that Obama was born and raised in Kenya, which puts you on the screaming lunatic fringe of political liars.
What I really find intriguing is the perpetrator, son of Tommy, has already apologized and says he really feels awful about saying "back to Kenya." He has been widely condemned in Republican circles, including his own father. You go on defending a person that has pled guilty days ago and is serving his time out of the legitimate limelight, perhaps forever, with no chance of an appeal.

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James R Hoffa

3:23 pm on Friday, October 19, 2012

@Dirk -

Please name one other politician who was born here, and yet constantly refers to their "home country" as being a nation other than this one, as our current President constantly does.

If you can't, then you have to admit that doing this is most definitely curious behavior at a minimum. Hoffa's never seen anything like it before - have you?

Tommy and his son don't think for Hoffa - Hoffa thinks for himself, thank you very much.

Dirk Gutzmiller

6:30 pm on Friday, October 19, 2012

Hoffa - I have not heard Obama constantly referring to his "home country" as being Kenya. It seems you are not just mplying that Obama is an African,American, that his black father was born and raised in Kenya and Obama has relatives there as a result, and he is therefore normal in that he has some affinity toward Kenya. You are actually "fear-mongering" that Obama is somehow more loyal to Kenya (omg!), was born and raised there (birthers now regarded as having serious mental difficulties) , is not essentially Christian ((Kenya is mostly Christian), or is against Colonialism ((Kenya was a British Colony, the U.S revolted against that) .
What the hell is your point here besides fear-mongering?

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James R Hoffa

10:36 pm on Friday, October 19, 2012

@Dirk -

Not fear mongering at all - just raising a legitimate point of concern.

Did you not watch the video wherein Michelle definitely stated that Barack's "home country" is Kenya? Are you saying that Michelle was lying to everyone?

In his books, Barack refers to this regularly. Not to mention the fact that for decades, in both the Harvard Law Review biography and in his publisher's expose of upcoming authors, he actually stated that he was "born in Kenya."

According to what has been reported about Obama, he was born in Hawaii, spent a few years in Washington state, a few years in Indonesia, and the remainder of his youth in Hawaii. There's no physical connection with Kenya to his childhood at all.

Thus again, it's very weird that he would constantly and consistently refer to his "home country" as being Kenya - it just doesn't make very much sense at all!

Shouldn't the first lady be claiming that the President of the United State's "home country" is the United States if he was born here? And yet, she didn't. WHY?

And why is it somehow racist for a political opponent's son to state that he wants to send Barack back to his self-declared "home country" of Kenya?

Hoffa is just very confused by this whole thing and why this 'story' is even considered newsworthy to report.

As Greg previously said, would it have been newsworthy or racist if Tommy's son had stopped with wanting to send him back to Chicago?

Craig

11:37 pm on Friday, October 19, 2012

Here's Obama's full bio from the 1991 brochure:

Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation. He served as project coordinator in Harlem for the New York Public Interest Research Group, and was Executive Director of the Developing Communities Project in Chicago's South Side. His commitment to social and racial issues will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White.

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