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Catching Up With Ol’ Angry Redbottom
Erick Erickson, RedState:
Support Citizen Verification
- After the, uh, DOJ-approved Georgia voter elimination test flagged 2,100, uh, persons-not-unreasonable-to-question, the berserk DOJ was not deterred by this success, and attacked Georgia about
the 7,007 wrongly disenfranchised voters, most of whom wereminorities, when the test reports don’t even specifically say HEHE TIHS GUY IS TEH BLAXXOR VOTEFAIL! so how can you even know anything, in life? Yup, if you’re as confused as me, sign this emergency petition.Full disclosure: I am a Republican elected official in Georgia.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.™
Note: If Erickson looked at the actual DOJ report, it was only to make sure he was plausibly ignorant about the right things.
El Cid said,
June 8, 2009 at 23:41
I will repeat the relevant sections from the Atlanta Journal Constitution (a newspaper which totally fails in its Confederate responsibilities) and also the key quote from spokesperson Matt Carrothers for the Georgia Secretary of State and Chief of Redneck Voting Type Stuff Defiance, Karen Handel.
There ya go. Clearly the DOJ is UNFER in not RESPECKING the wishes of the Georgia State Aw-thori-tays for figgerin’ out its own damn ways of scrubbin da nigras and spic-types and slant-eyes off the voter rolls by their super-secret methodologizin’, and as PROOF of how desperately needed this system was of votuh soopuh-vizin’, look at how many of all the damn nigras and spics and such they wuz that still voted!!!!
Righteous Bubba said,
June 8, 2009 at 23:49
If you reveal the methodology THE TERRORISTS WILL VOTE.
Pere Ubu said,
June 8, 2009 at 23:50
Furthermore, the department found, those flagged as non-citizens were overwhelmingly black, Asian or Hispanic…
Gosh, what a coinky-dink. Just like in Florida!
Wow, what ARE the odds…?
St. That Girl said,
June 8, 2009 at 23:50
Note: If Erickson looked at the actual DOJ report, it was only to make sure he was plausibly ignorant about the right things.
WIN.
Sir Windblown Dentist said,
June 8, 2009 at 23:50
I believe I speak for all of us when I say, WOLVERIIIIINES!!eleventy-one!
St. That Girl said,
June 8, 2009 at 23:51
Oops, forgot to take off the “St.” from when I was responding to some troll 8 days ago or whatever.
That Girl said,
June 8, 2009 at 23:51
FYWP. Also.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
June 8, 2009 at 23:56
I bet he longs for the days when the entire DOJ seemed to be composed of Liberty University graduates.
The fact that he’s harping on this so soon after Malkin excreted her screed (exscreeded?) puts Tw00fie/Fool’s “liberal hivemind” comments in a hilarious light. I guess the wingnuts have a hiveass, out of which they collectively pull their nonsense.
ahem said,
June 9, 2009 at 0:04
Let’s see if Erick, son of Erick, can prove that he’s a fucking citizen. Ideally, by the method he designed for GA, which involves taking his car and directing him to the nearest DMV.
PeeJ said,
June 9, 2009 at 0:07
But, he said, there was a significant increase in voting among African-Americans and Hispanics in 2008.
But? What “but?” But, teh darkies and spics is votin and we knoes dey aint liggle? But, there must be more illegals on account of because them darkies and wetbacks is votin more? But, we can’t reveal our methodology because NIGRAS AND SPICS!
M. Bouffant said,
June 9, 2009 at 0:08
The decision, she said, “shows a shocking disregard for the integrity of our elections.”
Uh, where can one even start w/ that?
Those who haven’t really should look at Redass’s twits. He’s no Grassley, but he’s as close to la connerie as you can get.
Nom de Plume said,
June 9, 2009 at 0:19
Those who haven’t really should look at Redass’s twits.
I’ll thank you to keep such suggestions to yourself.
Oh, misread. Never mind.
Mr. Wonderful said,
June 9, 2009 at 0:19
“The decision, she said, ‘shows a shocking disregard for the integrity of our elections.’”
I beg to differ. It shows a complete and utter CONDEMNATION of the integrity of your elections, BECAUSE OF ON ACCOUNT YOU AIN’T GOT ANY, you silly, silly woman.
Can this be a new trope? “Your punching me in the face shows a shocking disregard for the integrity of my nose,” and such as?
M. Bouffant said,
June 9, 2009 at 0:22
Chuck’s most frighteningly revealing Twit&trade:
This would imply that his grandson is a State Representative, & bat-shit crazy enough to name his sprog “Reagan.”
I’m beginning to think reproduction licenses are more important to public safety than drivers licenses.
J— said,
June 9, 2009 at 0:22
because the department would not reveal its methodology
Let me guess. They were asking for vault copies of birth certificates.
Pere Ubu said,
June 9, 2009 at 0:23
Can this be a new trope? “Your punching me in the face shows a shocking disregard for the integrity of my nose,” and such as?
For example:
“Harry Whittington showed a shocking disregard for Dick Cheney’s buckshot.”
Marco said,
June 9, 2009 at 0:24
I invite Erick and his Red State friends to come eat at my new restaurant, Bagodick’s.
Come eat anytime. 24/7.
tensor said,
June 9, 2009 at 0:24
I guess the wingnuts have a hiveass…
Win.
“Your punching me in the face shows a shocking disregard for the integrity of my nose,” and such as?
Runner-up.
This thread is done. Short, but oh so sweet!
M. Bouffant said,
June 9, 2009 at 0:26
A little more like:
“Your attempt to give me a tissue to staunch the bleeding of my nose, & your offer to give me a ride to the emergency room, after I continuously whacked myself in the face w/ a 2×4 for no apparent reason, shows a shocking disregard for the integrity of my nose.”
Sir Windblown Dentist said,
June 9, 2009 at 0:33
…shocking disregard for the integrity of my nose.
Will that the Internets have been won by you.
Arguing With Signposts said,
June 9, 2009 at 0:37
M. Bouffant June 9, 2009 at 0:26
Revote. New winner.
Smut Clyde said,
June 9, 2009 at 0:38
I guess the wingnuts have a hiveass…
That would be a fractal anus? A fractail? Perhaps there is some appropriate illustration from H. R. Giger’s oeuvre.
Something like a Sierpinski basket, but different.
Googling for ‘fractal anus’ led me to this, which is OT but amusing.
Smut Clyde said,
June 9, 2009 at 0:46
If you reveal the methodology THE TERRORISTS WILL VOTE.
Also works for questions about the security provisions for voting-machine software.
Please give some warning before any future posts or comments about ‘hive-asses’, so I can immediately respond with ‘Fristula!’
I Make Thousands of Dollars a Month Posting Links on Google from Home said,
June 9, 2009 at 0:47
Hey, nice post, really well written. You should blog more about this.
You Can't Put Lipstick On A Repig said,
June 9, 2009 at 0:48
Those who haven’t really should look at Redass’s twits.
This is a case of a Twit Tweetering to Twats.
You Can't Put Lipstick On A Repig said,
June 9, 2009 at 0:51
This would imply that his grandson is a State Representative, & bat-shit crazy enough to name his sprog “Reagan.”
Hopefully by the time that spawn is full grown, the word “Reagan” will have become an obscenity, or a synonym for yuckiness like “santorum”.
You Can't Put Lipstick On A Repig said,
June 9, 2009 at 1:01
If you reveal the methodology THE TERRORISTS WILL VOTE.
The new meta-shorter for wingnutz:
“The terrorists WIN if you do anything other than actions which lead to more wheelbarrows full of money for the top 1%”
El Cid said,
June 9, 2009 at 1:01
This just in:
Concerned that Republicans had not yet done enough recently to alienate the votes of union workers and non-Southern relatively sane people, noted leaders of the Republican Party of the Dixie Confederate Free Market Baptist Teabag Uprisin’ Rush Limbaugh and Hugh Hewitt call for a boycott of consumers against GM cars:
However, they did not explain how they would use data to tell if their plan had succeeded, given that the number of buyers of GM vehicles right now is so small as to almost be noise.
alec said,
June 9, 2009 at 1:09
Someone’s clearly behind the times. Terrorism is a nonsensical PC myth made up by the liberal Jew media to disenfranchise people with strong opinions about people who remove obscene parodies of life from women’s bodies continuing to live.
This is actually kind of alarming. Like most such right-wing memes its failure can ultimately be chalked up to the admirers of these gasbags being impotent man-children who wouldn’t hold their piss for an hour to bring Jesus back, but it really seems out of character for Limbaugh: it could seriously threaten his ability to pretend to have a massive audience by illustrating that his loyal followers number too few to destroy a car dealership in the middle of a massive industry failure.
J— said,
June 9, 2009 at 1:11
Karen Handel says, “Bring it on, Eric Holder. Bring it on.”
Joe Max said,
June 9, 2009 at 1:25
Holy crap, the spam-bots got through the defenses.
Time to build a concrete wall across the borders of Sadly,No!sylvannia.
Tom Tancredo said,
June 9, 2009 at 1:28
Border walls make me soooo horny. You don’t even KNOW.
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
June 9, 2009 at 1:29
Rush Limbaugh and Hugh Hewitt call for a boycott of consumers against GM cars:
So have they given this another one of their goofball pseudo-military names like “Operation Chaos”?
I vote for Operation Hiveass.
The Kid from Kounty Meath said,
June 9, 2009 at 1:33
@Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist : Ever notice it’s always the chickenhawks who want to call their Sekrit Plans something ridiculous and militaristic? Oliver North is a traitor and moreover a raging douchebeast, but I’ve never heard him announce his grand plans for Project Gleaming Eagle Dick or whatever.
tensor said,
June 9, 2009 at 1:34
Limbaugh reassures any GM workers who might be listening that the boycotters aren’t angry at them.
Wanting them to be broke and homeless, in the midst of the greatest economic crisis since Tojo, is just collateral damage, like all of those dead Iraqi children en route to Preznit KultureLife liberatin’ Mesopotatoia from
Rumsfeld’s palthe brutal dictator Saddam.I always wondered how long it would take the “Reagan Democrats” to discover they’d been screwed blue & tatooed by their right-wing buddy-buddies. I really didn’t think it would be more than twenty years after C’n'C Alzheimers rotored off into the setting sun. I really had more respect for them than that, silly me.
Smut Clyde said,
June 9, 2009 at 1:37
I vote for Operation
HiveCystass.Fickled.
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
June 9, 2009 at 1:40
I vote for Operation
HiveCystass.The only problem with that is that that names all of El Tushbo’s plans.
Ever notice it’s always the chickenhawks who want to call their Sekrit Plans something ridiculous and militaristic?
Oh yes. It never occurs to me to refer to my morning dump as Operation Grunt-n-Plop. “Project Gleaming Eagle Dick” would be a fine name for boycotting GM, though.
alec said,
June 9, 2009 at 1:42
The ‘reagan Democrats’ meme only seems to have had any kind of permanence in West Virginia, whose internal politics are dominated by the wider move of the border south / high Cohee region violently to the right on almost every issue. And, in fact, we lost those brave sons of the coal-fucking soil while making gains in virtually every fucking state, which evidently just goes to show that real, honest working America is about the size of Estonia, and every bit as enthusiastic about rehabilitating Hitler.
Lesley said,
June 9, 2009 at 1:42
There’s a word for “Angry Redbottom”: diaperrash
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
June 9, 2009 at 1:43
I always wondered how long it would take the “Reagan Democrats” to discover they’d been screwed blue & tatooed by their right-wing buddy-buddies.
It’s possible they figured it out long ago but that the need to not admit being wrong – loudly, obnoxiously, earthshatteringly wrong in front of a hojillion witnesses – outweighed the need to interact with the real world in a sane fashion. So instead they bluster and screech and double down.
Lesley said,
June 9, 2009 at 1:43
Hee, I forgot the cure for “angry redbottom.” CHANGE.
Marco said,
June 9, 2009 at 1:46
The Detroit Bureau reports that an idea seems to be picking up some cachet on the right-wing blogs and in talk radio: Fighting the “Government Motors” bailout by boycotting the company. Most of it so far is limited to relatively little-known writers, but two big names have picked up on it: Hugh Hewitt, who wants to save free enterprise — and Rush Limbaugh, who wants anything President Obama does to fail, and is urging his listeners to help push towards that goal…
It’s time to show the tea baggers how it is done. Douchebags for Limbaugh and Hugh is the only way to accomplish this. I am going to CVS in the morning.
alec said,
June 9, 2009 at 1:47
Also, lest you think the Pentagon was any more classy than its wingnut-welfarist constituents in the media, see operations and battles in Iraq, action movies, and professional wrestling moves.
Nom de Plume said,
June 9, 2009 at 1:50
Rush Limbaugh and Hugh Hewitt call for a boycott of consumers against GM cars
Those dumb fucks have had plenty of reasons before now to boycott GM, who have generally (no pun intended) behaved like dickheads for much of their history, like helping the Nazis invade Poland, just to cite one example.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
June 9, 2009 at 1:52
Tensor, it’s not easy admitting you’ve been played for a chump, especially when so much money is being spent to tell you it’s still all the fault of them liberals and coloreds.
Pere Ubu said,
June 9, 2009 at 1:52
Also, lest you think the Pentagon was any more classy than its wingnut-welfarist constituents in the media, see operations and battles in Iraq, action movies, and professional wrestling moves.
Is the stupid “macho code names” thing recent? ‘Cause I know while Vietnam had some of that kind of thing going on there, it seems like it got really bad about the time of Desert Shield/Storm. Far as I can remember there were objectives in that campaign named for brands of beer.
Maybe it’s the “war is just a cool videogame” kind of mentality we’ve been instilling in kids for the last couple decades?
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
June 9, 2009 at 1:56
It was only a couple years ago that Criticizing the Commander in Chief in A Time of War was treason to these hypocrites.
Now, they want people to boycott a U.S. automaker so that the president will fail.
Sure, that makes sense.
Loneoak said,
June 9, 2009 at 2:00
Holy crap, the spam-bots got through the defenses.
Time to build a concrete wall across the borders of Sadly,No!sylvannia.
Fuck concrete walls, we demand a shit moat!
M. Bouffant said,
June 9, 2009 at 2:07
his loyal followers number too few to destroy a car dealership in the middle of a massive industry failure.
Like “Operation Chaos,” where Limbaugh urged his flock to vote for Hillary in cross-over primaries?
Current SCOTUS Assoc. Justice nominee B. Hussein X cries himself to sleep every night because of Rush’s power to affect the electorate.
Dick Cheney's Friends said,
June 9, 2009 at 2:08
We build shit moats! They were supposed to be water coolers for soldiers, but we build ‘em all the same!
Cobra Commander said,
June 9, 2009 at 2:19
I thought names like “Operation Chaossssss” were badasssss, but I’m a fuckin’ cartoon ssssssupervillain. What’sssss these fuckers’ excusssssse?
Shit Moats, Inc. said,
June 9, 2009 at 2:23
We demand that all persons cease and desist in impugning our brand name by associating it with Dick Cheney, Dick Cheney’s friends, Dick Cheney’s associates, or anyone who has ever met Dick Cheney. Our corps of high-powered attorneys are on standby, ready to spring to action in the defense of our brand name against this senseless slander.
If you molest us again, sir, you will feel the sting of the lash across your pitiful shoulders.
Major Kong said,
June 9, 2009 at 2:23
Far as I can remember there were objectives in that campaign named for brands of beer.
Long story:
During the Gulf War the F-4Gs that suppressed enemy air defenses went by beer call-signs. So you might hear “Miller Three One” or “Bud Two Five” on the radio and know it was an F-4 “Wild Weasel”.
They carried a special missile that could home in on enemy radars, called a HARM. When they fired one, they would call “Magnum!” on the radio.
Once us B-52 guys figured out that the Iraqis were listening in on our radios, any time they lit us up with a missile radar we would make up a radio call like “Coors Two Five – Magnum!” and the radar would shut off.
TheFool said,
June 9, 2009 at 2:24
“If you molest us again, sir, you will feel the sting of the lash across your pitiful shoulders.”
I like to stand athwart you yelling “Yum!”
M. Bouffant said,
June 9, 2009 at 2:37
Is the stupid “macho code names” thing recent? ‘Cause I know while Vietnam had some of that kind of thing going on there, it seems like it got really bad about the time of Desert Shield/Storm.
In WWII, they usually wanted to keep the operations secret. So they called them stuff like Operation Shoebox, or whatever. I remember Operation Linebacker (I & II, I think) somewhat macho, from ‘Nam, but not just plain dumb. (Probably were never many “Operation Lace Doilies” or the like.)
Once they started calling a fucking war “Operation Desert Shield/Storm” it was pretty much over. Likewise Operation Iraqi Liberation (Ooops, we meant Freedom, not the acronym for OIL, heh, heh) but it’s all image-mongering now. No one found out the names of the big WWII operations until after the operations (or the press kept quiet about it if they did find out).
The Kid from Kounty Meath said,
June 9, 2009 at 2:38
When can we have Operation Pantload? It would be central to the war’s point.
M. Bouffant said,
June 9, 2009 at 2:40
Once us B-52 guys figured out that the Iraqis were listening in on our radios, any time they lit us up with a missile radar we would make up a radio call like “Coors Two Five – Magnum!” and the radar would shut off.
See? See? COMMIES trained Saddam’s forces! COMMIES!! Probably Ho Chi Minh’s sons!
Major Kong said,
June 9, 2009 at 2:43
I’m just lucky Saddam didn’t go to some retirement home in Hanoi and hire some guys who really knew how to operate those missiles.
M. Bouffant said,
June 9, 2009 at 2:44
Oh, wait a minute. I thought you meant Wild Weasels in Veet-Nam. And that this knowledge had somehow reached the Iraqis. Well, you see how this proves my point. The Saddamites were so clever, we had to take them out, for the sake of the Emir of Kuwait’s gold faucets.
Major Kong said,
June 9, 2009 at 2:46
Believe me, I wasn’t too thrilled about the whole thing when I was there.
I was usually scared shitless thinking – “I’m going to get shot down. I’m going to be a POW. They’re going to beat the crap out of me. This sucks!”
M. Bouffant said,
June 9, 2009 at 2:46
Yeah, lucky for the Major, the Soviets weren’t exactly making w/ the global out-reach & training in those days.
alec said,
June 9, 2009 at 2:49
Ultimately, we are served a lot better by our op-names than Hitler was by his; the early-war ones were just colors, but shit like Barbarossa got increasingly histrionic and obvious.
Churchill tended to try and push bombastic operations names, because he was a fucking idiot. (I say this without any reserve whatsoever when it comes to strategy in World War II – he did in it the same thing he did in every other conflict of his career: obsessively try and appropriate his allies’ resources (including, in one fucking horrible case, trying to get us and the Soviets to fight it out for no evident reason) and act out his grand strategic idiocy on the map of Europe. It’s hard to imagine a worse strategic move than attacking Italy – we got lucky, but it was still a freaking meat grinder, possibly the hardest and most defensible Axis territory we could have asked for.)
But in theory, as long as we do one or the other – understated, anonymous, random names for everything or giant heavy-metal names for everything – the key aim of keeping the enemy from discerning our intentions is preserved. It’s in mixing and matching, naming one operation Husky and another Overlord, where you run into trouble.
Major Kong said,
June 9, 2009 at 2:49
The best description I ever heard was –
You know the feeling you get the instant the cop turns his lights on in your rear-view mirror?
You feel that way the whole time.
tigrismus said,
June 9, 2009 at 2:53
I always thought “Operation Just ‘Cause” was aptly named.
J— said,
June 9, 2009 at 3:12
The Grenada invasion, the United States’ first major military operation after Vietnam, was called Operation Urgent Fury. A little over the top in my opinion.
The Wikipedia entry on “code name” includes a lengthy quote from Churchill on naming military operations. It opens with this piece of advice:
To which the United States hasn’t paid much attention in recent years. He also says avoid terms like Bunnyhug and Ballyhoo.
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge said,
June 9, 2009 at 3:17
I think naming military operations is a lost art. Totally aside from the fact that wingnuts aren’t smart enough to do it properly, WWII was the high point.
Churchill insisted on passing on each British operation name himself; he said he never wanted to be put in the position of explaining to some little girl that her father had been killed in “Operation Bunnyhug,” or suchlike. But Allied code names during the war really were an art form, although after the war people decided that they weren’t sufficiently meaningless, and a clever enemy could figure out their purpose from the name. (The invasion of Japan being codenamed “Operation Downfall” was a little too on-the-nose.) That theory is the source of the downright silly names we’ve seen since.
I don’t know if it’s because Saturday was D-day or what, but just the name “Overlord” still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up a little.
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge said,
June 9, 2009 at 3:20
Stepped on your line, J___. Sorry.
Loneoak said,
June 9, 2009 at 3:32
My personal favorite military operation code names:
Operation Purple Nurple. (Oh man that was clusterfuck, wasn’t it?)
Operation Nipple Biter (during which FUBAR was coined, if I have my military history right)
Operation Blow Our Collective Load (the mop-up was rather messy)
Operation Balls to the Wall (No retreat!)
Operation No Exit (Hell is other people)
Operation Chickenhawk Pissing Contest (aka, Operation Iraqi Liberation)
Operation Panty Raid (in which Cheney ordered Special Forces to steal a pair of Rumsfeld’s poop-streaked tighty whities)
Operation Shit Rope (“You see the shit kind of acts like grease, the harder you hold on, the faster you fall down, all the way to con college. You’re up a shit rope now boys …”)
PeeJ said,
June 9, 2009 at 3:32
Watched the Handel vid linked above. Now, I didn’t watch it real careful like but a couple things struck me.
The only person featured prominently other than “Spike Heels Handel” was a black woman.
The classroom scene had zero people of color in it.
The silhouettes of people – the black shapes – at the end seem to have fairly tight, close cropped hair, as if they were, you know, black maybe.
J— said,
June 9, 2009 at 3:35
It ain’t my line, The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge, it’s Churchill’s. And you had it in your head; I just ripped off Wikipedia.
I think the military should turn to the blogosphere for new names.
Operation FTW
Operation Nailed It!
Operation The Whole Thing
M. Bouffant said,
June 9, 2009 at 3:39
Operation Double Wetsuit:
justme said,
June 9, 2009 at 3:39
May I suggest the appetizer?
Take that, fuckbum.
El Cid said,
June 9, 2009 at 3:39
Via Oliver Willis & Gawker: Fox Nooz Bidness plays Moron Relay Race.
Major Kong said,
June 9, 2009 at 3:40
I always preferred “Operation get my little pink butt home in one piece”.
Pere Ubu said,
June 9, 2009 at 3:40
Operation This Is Central To My Point
Operation Also
Operation Fitzed
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
June 9, 2009 at 3:53
I always preferred “Operation get my little pink butt home in one piece”.
I’ve never been in the military, but I suspect this is what I’d call every operation.
TheFool said,
June 9, 2009 at 3:59
Right there’s no chance that blacks and Mexicans, excuse me, Afro-Americans and Aztec and Incan-Americans, just make a lot of mistakes when they try to register themselves to vote. Must be institutionalized racism. Only explanation.
Arguing With Signposts said,
June 9, 2009 at 4:02
Rev.:
Yeah, was in Bedford, VA on Saturday. There’s an Overlord Drive there. And that’s one helluva testosterone-laced operation name.
Arguing With Signposts said,
June 9, 2009 at 4:07
Operation You’re Doing It Wrong
Hell, that could be a summary of the entire GOP existence.
TheFool said,
June 9, 2009 at 4:07
Did I tell you about the time I shot a nigg__ down in Reno just to watch him die?
You Can't Put Lipstick On A Repig said,
June 9, 2009 at 4:08
Hell, that could be a summary of the entire GOP existence.
That would be Operation WAAAAAHHHHHH MOOOOMMMMMIIIIIEEEE
Loneoak said,
June 9, 2009 at 4:13
That would be Operation WAAAAAHHHHHH MOOOOMMMMMIIIIIEEEE
You forgot the ELEVENTY!!!ONE11!!
tensor said,
June 9, 2009 at 5:16
It was only
a couplesixyearsmonths ago that Criticizing the Commander in Chief in A Time of War was treason to these hypocrites.F’zd.
“If you molest us again, sir, you will feel the sting of the lash across your pitiful shoulders.”
RNC requests ideas, newsletter, etc.
St. Jesus of Max said,
June 9, 2009 at 5:44
Um, the challenges were about citizenship, not “mistakes” in registration, dumbass. If the result was tilted toward Hispanics and Asians, that would be, at least, slightly defensible. But why so many Blacks getting their citizenship questioned? Is there some teeming Haitian ghetto in Atlanta I’m not aware of?
Honus said,
June 9, 2009 at 13:18
I was in Bedford on D-Day about ten years ago. There was a lot of sadness, not much testosterone. I come from a small town like that, and 22 guys is just about everybody.
Arguing With Signposts said,
June 9, 2009 at 14:02
Honus:
There was a lot of sadness, not much testosterone. I come from a small town like that, and 22 guys is just about everybody.
Not meant to imply that the town was “testosterone-laden,” just the name of the operation was – “Overlord.” Bedford is in beautiful country, btw.
actor212 said,
June 9, 2009 at 15:40
Matt Carrothers, a spokesman for Handel, said he could not respond to King’s contention that minorities were more likely to be flagged because the department would not reveal its methodology. But, he said, there was a significant increase in voting among African-Americans and Hispanics in 2008.
Truly, a caging response from a clever operative.
actor212 said,
June 9, 2009 at 15:42
Right there’s no chance that blacks and Mexicans, excuse me, Afro-Americans and Aztec and Incan-Americans, just make a lot of mistakes when they try to register themselves to vote. Must be institutionalized racism. Only explanation.
T’ain’t like no white raidnecks are reddin’ Englesh allat good either, ahtellyewwhut…
slippy hussein toad said,
June 10, 2009 at 21:21
Thoughts that never cross a staunch and brave Young Republican’s mind.
Because they’re sitting in front of a keyboard in their Mom’s basement, shrieking about filthy commie liberals.