Welcome to the 766th original “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profile, where today we’ll be discussing Stacey Dash, who you may remember as “that actress who was the best friend in the movie Clueless”, a minor bit of fame which Dash used to get on Fox News as their main guest pundit to kick the discussion to when they want to have a discussion on race and have someone willing to sell out their own.
And, we’re lucky enough to not have to watch every minute of her appearances as a pundit, but Media Matters did a great job of summing them up after Dash announced her intention to run for Congress in 2018:
- Dash said that the Democratic Party has a “plantation mentality” while on Hannity in 2014. In 2016, she repeated the same ludicrous statement on The O'Reilly Factor nearly two years later, adding that this “mentality” kept African-Americans “on entitlements.”
- In 2014, Stacey Dash also that government assistance is the “Democratic Party’s new version of slavery.”
- In 2015, Dash, without any evidence or logic to why…attributed a rise in divorce rates to women not knowing “how to take care of their men.”
- In 2015, while discussing a rise in sexual assault on college campuses, Dash intimated that some sexual assaults are the result of “bad girls … who like to be naughty.”
- During a 2015 discussion about the gender pay-gap in Hollywood, Dash blamed the women, saying they needed to “be better negotiators.” In a separate segment, she said actresses facing pay discrimination should “be grateful” for opportunities to star alongside famous men.
- In 2015, Dash was briefly suspended from Fox News after she suggested that President Barack Obama didn’t “give a shit” about terrorism.
- In 2016, when #OscarsSoWhite was trending on Twitter, Dash hopped onto Fox News to respond to that that “either we want to have segregation or integration” and claiming that “there is no need” for the NAACP or BET Awards. She also said that “there shouldn’t be a black history month” because there isn’t a white history month. Only hours later, she repeated this statement on another show.
So as we said, Stacey Dash used her Fox News fame to run for U.S. House of Representatives in California’s 44th Congressional District. Even with that high profile, it is a very blue district, and most predicted she was only doing it to be a troll and stay relevant for another few years. That seems accurate, because Dash actually finished fourth in the primary, not even coming close to qualifying for the general election with only 7% of the vote. To put that in even more perspective, Jazmina Saavedra, who we profiled earlier this month, got 10% of the vote in the same primary after stalking and harassing a trans-woman in a Denny’s bathroom.
We’ll just say that Stacey Dash’s fifteen minutes of fame should have run out at least a decade ago. And that she’s probably not going to be invited to a Clueless reunion, in spite of embodying the title more than anyone should have any right to be.
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