You would have thought that the tragic death of Tyler Clementi at Rutgers would be something that the chattering gay Republican quislings would have had the decency to at least shut up about. But then you would be underestimating the sheer loathsomeness of America’s homeliest gay quisling and date rape apologist Alex Knepper.
Not surprisingly, Knepper’s column on Clementi, which is printed in The Daily Tucker, starts off by blaming the victim:
First of all: forgive me if my sympathy runs thin for someone who commits suicide over a sex tape. This incident is humiliating and shameful, to be sure — but in the grand, cosmic scheme of things, it doesn’t even begin to rank as tragic. We have got to be realistic when assessing this event and maintain publicly that humiliation is a preposterous rationale for suicide.
This is easy for Knepper to say who, one would imagine, has had to become accustomed to a great deal of public humiliation of all sorts, little of which probably has anything to do with his claims to be gay.
At this point, specialists in psychobabble are apt to remind us of the inherently irrational nature of suicide and admonish that we have “no room to judge” what was going on in this boy’s head. But this is ridiculous: thousands of people are humiliated on this scale in the United States on a yearly — perhaps monthly — basis. Most of them deal with the shame in ways other than throwing themselves off of a bridge.
Alex dealt with his shame by becoming a Republican, for example.
Having more or less spit on the corpse of Tyler Clementi, Alex now get to his real point which is to use this incident as an opportunity to splutter on about gay liberals who — unlike Alex, who has no ulterior motive — are trying to use this incident for their own dastardly agenda of bringing an end to suicides by gay youth bullied by their classmates.
As is typical when these sorts of events transpire, the Gay Party — in this case, its representatives are Garden State Equality — is jumping all over this bizarre saga to hijack it for its own wants. To recapitulate: the organization’s spokesman deemed the incident a “hate crime” and said that he was “sickened” that anyone would “consider destroying others’ lives as a sport.”
Well, which is it? Were they out to destroy innocent life for kicks, or were they calculating, hate-filled homophobes? The statement makes no sense.
Uh, maybe, Alex they were both? The real crime here is the one being committed by Knepper as he collaborates with, and gives support to, the forces that want us to pretend that bullying doesn’t exist, or that it is only directed at gay youths, who don’t count because they’re gay or, worse, who don’t count because they allow humiliation to drive them to suicide.
Pardon me for thinking that the world would be a better place if it had been Alex Knepper who jumped off the GW Bridge and not a talented, sweet-tempered young violinist.
UPDATE:Vox Day can set himself on fire and jump off a bridge too. [h/t Evan Hurst]
SECOND UPDATE:For every useless POS like Alex Knepper that wants to blame gay teen suicide on the victims, there are a hundred people like Dan Savage who want bullied gay kids to know that “It Gets Better.”
From where I sit (which is well beyond any real battlefield), the stoning of a small-town mayor in Mexico is sufficient casus belli for our military to invade Mexico. ¡Conmoción y pavor, muchachos!
It’s because of the Mexicans. (Fun fact: I have 21 rolls of toilet paper at home right now just in case I use up all the Yellow Pages before the next Yellow Pages book comes.)
Because of the European Socialists at the U.N. you now can’t call people “retards” anymore. But, you know, just because you now have to call them “intellectually” disabled doesn’t stop them from drooling on themselves.
Shorter Victorophon Davidoros Hyanseninthosocles, National Review A Nation of Peasants
For the gad-about naysayers and epicene liberal aesthetes who hurl epitimesis at trickle-down economics, permit me, therefore, to proffer an example of successful trickle-down economics, namely, ancient Greece, where wealthy landowners made everyone rich through their enlightened entrepreneurial activities untrammeled by government taxation and regulation and aided by slave labor. Personally, I think that owning slaves might be the best crucible in which to forge the wealth of the ruling classes that can then rain down on everyone else, and we owe it to ourselves at least to consider the reinstitution of this beneficial practice for the greater good of all, except perhaps the slaves.
It should come as no surprise that Dan Blatt, America’s Dumbest Homosexual™ would fall in line behind GOP’s New “Pledge to America” regardless of what it said about Teh Gays. Even if it called for mass execution of homosexuals, our buddy Dan would be endorsing it saying that some gays probably really did need to go and that he was himself ready to make the personal sacrifice of putting his own head on the chopping block as long as it would result in tax cuts for the rich.
Well, somewhat surprisingly, the GOP “Pledge” stopped short of gay genocide but, not surprisingly, dog-whistled the bible-thumping base that the GOP stood firm against homonuptials. So let’s watch Dan twist himself up into a pretzel as he tries to say that what the GOP said in this regard was, in fact, good for the gays and was, according to his alliterative title, a “particularly pleasant pledge.”
I also took note of one interesting juxtaposition:
We pledge to advance policies that promote greater liberty, wider opportunity, a robust defense, and national economic prosperity.
We pledge to honor families, traditional marriage, life, and the private and faith-based organizations that form the core of our American values.
I like the first line, love it, in fact. Love the focus on liberty. And while I wish Republican leaders had left marriage out of their “pledge”*, the language of the second line is particularly anodyne, as if they had spent hours hashing over it so they could throw a bone to social conservatives and say something which most people agree with.
Note, the operative verb here is “honor.” And who doesn’t want to honor traditional marriages? (A gay marriage advocate, if he really valued the institution he seeks to promote, would honor traditional marriages. Note what the document doesn’t say, it doesn’t say let’s dishonor nontraditional ones nor (unless I missed it) nor does it say anything about same-sex marriage, though that will be implied to said social conservatives …
This is not far from a pig defending a recipe for a club sandwich by arguing that there is nothing that said the bacon couldn’t be omitted or replaced by turkey bacon or, even, by a few tasty salted corrugated cardboard strips. Or a cow looking at an abattoir and thinking that there is no reason it might not be a day spa for cattle. Only someone who has been buried beneath the surface of Mars for the past 20 years doesn’t understand that the GOP honors “traditional” marriage by fighting gay marriage.
I’m beginning to think that calling Dan America’s Dumbest Homosexual™ may be too kind.
The scorpion I saw in my minivan on 9/11 is proof that the Muslims will destroy America on September 23. Save yourselves while you can. If you doubt my power of prophecy, don’t forget I’m the one that said the Bible foretold the election of George W. Bush.
Jim Hoft, the Gateway Dumbshit (a/k/a the “Shame of St. Louis”) is yet again hurling his trademarked brand of fact-free calumny at Obama, this time for, gasp, going to church. And it seemed it was only yesterday that Hoft was decrying Obama for not going to church. What a difference a day ten minutes makes.
The latest in this never-ending parade of damned if Obama does, damned if he doesn’t wingnuttery is Obama’s trip yesterday morning to St. John’s Lafayette Square, the Episcopal Church near the White House. According to Hoft, Obama went there not for the purpose of worship but apparently for the express purpose of violating the Church’s rules by taking communion, thereby condemning himself (and the congregation who was there at the same time) to the burning fiery flames of the lakes of Hell. Obama, Hoft thinks, violated church rules by taking communion even though he wasn’t confirmed. Hoft’s deep knowledge of the intricacies of Episcopal canon law derives from an email that someone sent Hoft stating that confirmation was required in the Episcopal Church before one was allowed to receive communion.
A normal person might have been inclined to disregard the email, there being no other evidence of any rule violation. The stories of Obama’s trip to St. John’s are bereft of any claims that Obama charged out of the pews, grabbed a handful of hosts from the priest without his consent, and scarfed them down while shouting Allahu Akbar. Instead it appears the priest voluntarily handed the host over the rail to the President.
You may wonder why someone who, like me, is French, gay or both and who lives in Brussels would wind up an Episcopalian, but it’s true. I am a smells-and-bells Episcopalian, so I know more than a little bit about Episcopal canon law. And according to Canon 17, Section 7, the only requirement to receive communion is that the communicant has been baptized.
So, Jim, have a nice big fat helping of Sadly, No!
Normal people reacted to Christine O’Donnell’s views on masturbation by saying a short prayer thanking their deity of choice that they were not the children of this nutjob. Wingnuts, predictably, had quite different reactions
1. The Double Down Approach
ABOVE: Robert Stacy McCain
Robert Stacy McCain leads off the pack with a straightforward approach of someone who is so unattractive that the thought of having sex with himself elicits only a wave of self-loathing and a limp wiener. He, of course, heartily endorses the idea that masturbation is wrong and accuses that lesbo-Maddow of having an unhealthy obsession with the practice:
Do you, Miss Maddow, find anything factually wrong about Miss O’Donnell’s assertions? Perhaps you believe that we should not discuss sexuality “from a moral point of view.” Perhaps you think that masturbation without lust is possible. Do you think Americans don’t masturbate enough?
Well, Mr. McCain, we all probably think that you don’t masturbate enough, since any time that you would spend engaged in that activity, if you could bring yourself to it, might at least partially limit the time that you engage in the substitute wanking you call blogging.
2. The “Female Liberals Are The Real Misogynists” Approach.
Above: Jacobson, masturbating
Pseudo-professor Bill “Colonel Mustard” Jacobson takes the tired-and-true turn-the-tables approach that he uses in his frequent posts on how liberals are the real racists and the teapartyites are the real civil rights champions.
Christine O’Donnell won the Delaware primary last night, and within minutes (literally) über liberal Rachel Maddow started running video and commentary on MSNBC about O’Donnell’s views on masturbation.
The pretext for sexualizing O’Donnell was a 1996 video in which O’Donnell was interviewed about her conservative Christian views on sex. …
An almost 15-year old video was all the excuse Maddow needed to take the story national. Because the fate of the nation turns on whether O’Donnell masturbates. …
The liberal feminist death march has continued through the sexualized attacks on Sarah Palin and other conservative women in more recent times.
From reading Col. Mustard’s post you’d think that the video being circulated was secretly captured footage that showed a supine O’Donnell in the midst of pleasuring herself rather than a video that showed O’Donnell saying straight to the camera that children should be taught the masturbation leads to blindness, insanity, hairy palms, socialism and hell. Nobody’s “sexualizing” O’Donnell other than herself. Nobody made her say that stuff.
3. The “Awwwww, Isn’t She Cute?” Approach
ABOVE: Tony Harnden
Next up is the Torygraph’s Tony “The Chav” Harnden, who had more than a little tingle in his leg when he wrote this:
With rather sweet naivety, she dutifully uttered the word “masturbation” a number of times, spoke about how couples should “be pleasing each other”, blushed a bit and was filmed looking adoringly (but not lustfully) at a goatee-ed youth pastor as he talked about how the Bible says that any sexual act outside marriage is sinful.
Now we must excuse Toby as he takes his laptop and a box of tissues into his basement, puts on that saucy French-maid outfit he keeps hidden from his wife under the stairwell, and watches that video a few more times. “Talk dirty to me, Christine,” he whispers gruffly to the video. A few tugs later and it’s all she wrote.
Hardly a day goes buy without community college Assistant Associate Professor Donalde Douglas dribbling Snicker-tainted drool on his tent-size t-shirt:
So the hyper-literate community college assistant associate professor wants to call us commies who hate and winds up calling us people who hate commies. Awesome. Because we do in fact hate commies, at least real commies, not the imaginary commies that community college Assistant Associate Professor Douglas sees lurking behind every potted plant.
And what exactly is up with the community college assistant associate professor’s faux urban hip-hop dude speak?
So, yeah, you know it’s hard out there in the ‘hood sometimes. But when you be hangin’ low you toughen up, mofo! You take the blows and move on. Basically, if you can’t put up then shut up. Know what I’m saying, yo!?
It’s probably just another effort by the community college assistant associate professor, like his outdated photo, to make people believe that he’s a young and hip dude and not just an angry and dumpy old fart whining about how the nasty liberals have been mean to him. Does anyone else relish the irony of a well-fed white assistant associate professor at a community college playing the victim card?
(We will return to our regularly scheduled programming once I finish a post I’m writing right now on teapartyites and masturbation.)
*Please note that this shorter is five words and one-third shorter than even the frigging headline to Harnden’s story. Have they no story editors at the Torygraph?
1I profoundly apologize for misleading this blog’s readers by previously using a photo of Asst. Prof. Douglas that was out of date by about 20 years and at least 50 pounds. It’s Asst. Prof. Douglas’s fault, however, because that’s the photo that he uses on his blog. How was I to suspect that he would deliberately mislead people with such an inaccurate photo?
2Asst. Prof. Douglas links to this post of mine about Jonah to prove that I’m an anti-Semite. Isn’t Asst. Prof. Douglas going to feel foolish when he learns that my last name is Kaufmann?
The Hill has the current whip count of Democrats who don’t want to let the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest of the wealthy expire.
If, in the middle of the worst economy in a lifetime, with unemployment and poverty at toxic levels, you can’t bring yourself to tell the most privileged amongst us that they ought to resume chipping in a couple of percentage points more at the top marginal rate, why even call yourself a Democrat?
This country really is going to the dogs. And it’s being pushed in that direction by wealth disparity that is third-worldish in its propensity for beating down the psyches of the have-nots — only our national mythology of studiously denying that the vast majority of have-nots (including you!) are in fact never-wills prevents the whole thing from crumbling. That and the insidious creep throughout society over the past 40 years of the Randian philosophy of selfishness, rich people worship and the attendant calculated purging of empathy from the citizenry.
But the recession has exposed the wealth disparity wound a bit, at least. A recent CBS poll finds that 53 percent of respondents now favor having the nation’s top earners contribute a little bit more to the country that made them so fabulously wealthy.
Above: An example of one OkCupid user’s tag cloud of ‘likes’.
The oktrends team took the most popular profile words from 526,000 users of the dating site OkCupid. Then they broke those out based on the users’ stated race and gender to come up with basic tag clouds that purport to show what sorts of things, say, a female Pacific-Islander digs the most.
It’s actually kind of fascinating. Especially when you dig into the various tag clouds and discover some really interesting stuff. F’rexample:
- As mentioned in the headline, Middle Eastern guys like Nickelback. They are the only group that does — even white dudes don’t. Pam Geller should look into this.
- Male Pacific-Islanders randomly like ’500 Days of Summer’. And it’s pretty high in their cloud. They also like ‘the hulk’, ‘sharks’ and ‘beer pong’, all of which are pretty cool. For some reason they like ‘my abs’ — but I don’t think they’ve seen my belly recently.
- Female Pacific-Islanders love them some Alicia Keys. It’s No. 1 on their list of likes … pretty much every other group of women except white chicks also likes Ms. Keys, just not so much.
- Where da white wimmin at? Probably 4 Yawkey Way — if not physically then in spirit. ‘The Red Sox’ is their shared top ‘like’, along with ‘jodi picoult’, whatever that is (Google is apparently not on my personal list of likes). One suspects this is because the Red Sox are a lovable, scrappy bunch that gets little media exposure and has no appreciable number of fake bandwagon fans who infect the sporting body politic like enormous drunk bedbugs with stupid hats. White females also like ‘my toes’, and I will admit they are rather shapely.
- Latinas like ‘sixteen candles’. Oddly, Asian men do not.
- Indian men are the only group that has ‘ayn rand’ amongst their likes. Maybe they see an aspect of Kali in her hate-filled face and necklace of severed heads.
The crew at Sadly, No! has always had a particular soft spot in their hearts for Donald Douglas, a professor of some sort at some community college somewhere, ever since he referred to us as the slow-witted cattle of the leftosphere. So forgive me a moment if I spit out the grass that I was eating and help my self to a large and tasty helping of schadenfreude:
Then turning around, I saw this kid yacking it up for the crowd, obviously having a blast with this ugly Jew-hating sign. And what does that mean, “SASQUATCH ISRAEL”? This is a play on the “legitimacy myth” of Israel’s existence. As there’s of course a “Sasquatch myth,” it’s worth noting the implied comparison: that Israel is also an ape-like beast existing only in historical folklore. Absent legitimacy, Israel has “no right to exist.” This kid’s sign is but one more example of eliminationist anti-Semitism. And look at how overjoyed he is in boasting this hatred. Creepy
That is, of course, Donald talking about someone, allegedly a counter-protestor, whom he saw during the day of hating mosques recently held in lower Manhattan. SASQUATCH ISRAEL is, indeed, a rather cryptic insult to Israel and I’m not for a moment convinced by the community college professor’s over-heated exegesis of the phrase. But fortunately, Douglas posts a picture of said leftist and said sign so that perhaps we can figure out what on earth is meant by “SASQUATCH ISRAEL.”
It turns out, of course, that the sign had nothing to do with Israel, much less with any desire to do bad things to Israel, but instead was, in fact, a travel warning advising people of the dangers of traveling alone in the backwoods of America, not only because of the danger of being made to squeal like a pig by a single-toothed teatard, but also because of the very real danger of encountering the dangerous forest creature known as Sasquatch who, in case you weren’t certain, IS REAL!
You know if Sadlynauts are slow-witted cattle, I think that means our illiterate community college professor must be relegated to an even lower rung in the zoosphere, such as, say, brain-damaged poultry or, better yet, windshield-splattered insects.
UPDATE: Hilarious. Thin-skinned Don Douglas responds:
So “SASQUATCH ISRAEL” is really truly “SASQUATCH IS REAL.” And there’s even a website for that, on Facebook.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I’m dumb.
I stand by what I wrote, either way.
…
Leftists hate moral clarity. And they hate Israel. We don’t need a Sasquatch myth to figure that out. So, a hearty F*** You to the lot of you, assholes.
In other words: “I was wrong but that is central to my point.”
Don also didn’t like the hat we put on him in the picture either, not fully understanding that the joke wasn’t that he loved Jesus, but that he probably couldn’t spell the name any better than he could spell Israel. For him this is all proof that all Leftists hate Jesus, hate Israel, love Satan and Beelzebub, love Iran and Cuba, hate America, hate Oreo cookies with milk, love catfood canapés and human blood smoothies, love Charles Manson, hate our grandparents, etc., etc., etc. Just because I said he was stupid.
SECOND UPDATE:More from Professor Douglas who, frankly, seems a little deranged and, well, un-professorial.
We could solve the mosque problem best by declaring Christianity to be our nation’s official religion and by outlawing worship of false gods such as “Allah.” That way there wouldn’t even be a question as to whether the Muslims could build a mosque in lower Manhattan.
Because teh gays all love Judy Garland, a Republican campaign commercial based on The Wizard of Oz is a clever way to lure gays into my wonderful Republican fantasyland of no taxes for everyone and no rights for gays.
Frank Maguire: Black people need to forget that they are black. White people, however, are allowed to remember that black people are black.
A.J. DiCintio: You know how I know that Reid and Pelosi hate most Americans? Because of nasty things said by commenters at a website, that’s how!
Michael Bresciani: The Bible says that it’s okay to burn the Koran so the media should just STFU about Pastor Jones.
Stella Lohman: September 11 is really an occasion to remember Bernard Kerik, who is now in jail.
Gabriel Garnica: Where are the cries of liberal tree-huggers when New York City cuts down some trees at Lincoln Center? Busy burning bibles, that’s where!
Ken Connor: Oh, for the good old days of the Crusades!
Alan Caruba: First the Muslims destroyed my favorite restaurant; now they want to build a victory mosque there.
Dan Popp: You can’t create jobs by trying to create jobs, unless you’re trying to create jobs by cutting taxes on CEOs.
Judie Brown: Pro-choice liberals are the reason why there are back-alley abortion clinics run by unlicensed practitioners.
