Searching for something for your Jewish grandmother? Type in the word 'Jew' and you'll find the book 'The Jews and Their Lies' for sale right next to 'Cool Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of the Tribe.' | POLITICO Staff RNC pulls game selling offensive items

A Republican National Committee online game that challenges players to spend trillions of dollars was taken down today after reports that it offered some objectionable items for sale – including sexually explicit, anti-Semitic and anti-Latino items.

The game was designed to drive home to Young Republicans how much could be purchased with the $3.4 trillion President Obama requested in his budget by asking players to charge everyday items to their “Obama Card.”


But it turns out some of the items for sale weren't so kosher.

Searching for something for your Jewish grandmother? Type in the word “Jew” and you’ll find the book “The Jews and Their Lies” for sale right next to “Cool Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of the Tribe.”

Interested in reading about Latinos? A search on the website turns up “The Latino Threat” or, for something less ominous, “Latino Talent.”

And while the words “gay” and “vagina” are banned search terms, yielding a response of "Bad word!", homosexual will find you the book “Loving Homosexuals as Jesus Would.”

RNC spokeswoman Gail Gitcho said the website pulls its inventory from Amazon.com, but developers didn’t realize that Amazon stocked potentially offensive items.

“It’s unfortunate that someone would spend the time, and go to great lengths, to abuse and exploit this website feature that was designed to give taxpayers the opportunity to see if they could spend $3.4 trillion – like President Obama did with his budget,” Gitcho said. “Profanity blockers were included since the site’s launch. However, the website feature has been taken down until additional, stricter search filters have been added.”

While the launch page for the Obama Card game (motto: "Life costs nothing") is still online, clicking "Enter" now pops up a server error message.

The liberal website Americablog was one of the first to report on the GOP website and searched all kinds of naughty words, including bondage and escorts, which yielded suggested purchases including handcuffs, how-to-books and Astroglide.

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