Doug Story, America’s new White Trash Sweetheart, needs a fresh decoration for his pickup, now that the jackbooted thugs have made him peel off his 9/11 porn. Won’t you visit the Stinqueria and send him the gift that keeps on giving?

America’s Losers [Stinque/CafePress]

Poor Douglas Story. He blows $224.90 on some 9/11 porn for his tailgate, installs a Confederate Loser flag in his rear window, and all everyone cares about is his fucking license plate:

But he got more than he bargained for when a photo of his pickup went viral on the Web last week. Motorists and Muslim groups complained that his Virginia vanity license plate — 14CV88 — was really code for neo-Nazi, white supremacist sentiments. The state Department of Motor Vehicles voted last week to recall Story’s plates and force him to buy new ones.

“There is absolutely no way I’d have anything to do with Hitler or Nazis,” Story said Wednesday… “My sister-in-law and my niece are Jewish. I went to my niece’s bat mitzvah when she turned 13 three years ago. Does that sound like something an anti-Semite would do?”

It’s true: While the Venn diagram of anti-Semites and Raging Assholes does show significant overlap, you can be the latter without the former. And that neo-Nazi “1488” reference is an innocent mistake — NASCAR’s Tony Stewart drives #14, while Dale Earnhardt Jr. handles #88.

Oh, and the CV? “Sons of Confederate Veterans”. Great-great-great-grandpappy fought valiantly for the slavedrivers.

Virginia driver denies license plate had coded racist message [WaPo]

Update: Say, let’s check Doug’s Facebook page…

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Ted Nugent: “If Sarah Palin played a loud, grinding instrument, she would be in my band… She embraces the critical duty of we the people by participating in this glorious experiment in self-government.” That, and quitting. [Time]

@jody_beth, 11:29 p.m. Monday:

Dear Arizona: If you don’t change your immigration policy, I will have to stop drinking your enjoyable brand of iced tea. RIP Arnold Palmer.

@travisjnichols, 3:04 p.m. Tuesday:

I think we should all also boycott Arizona Iced Tea because it is the drink of fascists.

Daily News, 4 a.m. Wednesday, quoting only the above tweets:

Opponents of immigration law call for boycott of Arizona Iced Tea – but it is brewed in New York!

JamieWearingFool, 7:45 a.m.:

The kneejerk haters need to do a little research before they reflexively call for boycotts. The uninformed pantywaists who haven’t the slightest clue about Arizona’s new law are running around calling for boycotts far and wide and have now called for a boycott of Arizona Iced Tea.

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“Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin on Tuesday night declared that there is ‘no ability or opportunity’ for the new Arizona immigration law to encourage racial profiling, and blamed Barack Obama for ‘perpetuating this myth.'” Let’s check with Marco Rubio on that. [Politico]

“Orange County authorities are launching an investigation into possible voter registration fraud after a local newspaper reported over a hundred cases of voters being tricked into registering as Republicans by petitioners who asked them to sign petitions for, among other causes, legalizing pot.” [TPM]

Time was when you could read a Talibunny post and reasonably doubt she wrote it. But now her lawyer has upped the stakes, challenging us to believe that the following could be spoken by any human:

When I discussed this with Governor Palin, she had an interesting take: “My reaction upon reading the opinion in this matter was not what I expected. Though I’m always pleased with the results of these investigations that prove the false allegations wrong, and I appreciate the detailed reasoning set forth in this recent opinion, I was primarily disappointed that the State of Alaska, the Attorney General’s office, and others, still have to spend time and resources addressing the abusive onslaught of frivolous complaints directed against me — even after I left office.”

We don’t know about you, but we wouldn’t trust anyone who talked like that to cook our moose.

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