Different From Things Not Written By Him
Posted on February 23rd, 2009 by Gavin M.
Shorter Andrew Breitbart:
And now for something completely different, please
The Washington Times
Monday, February 23, 2009
- As we standard-bearers of the free market gather at CPAC this week, the liberal CPAC was actually the extra-gay Oscars that were made of gay treason. Solution: wingnut welfare plz.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.™
Notes:
1 – Truly is this the swag hunt of the gods.
2 – As AT&T and Google enhance their public reputations, hey, where did the proverbial cake go? Why, the phony-grassroots group called ‘TV Watch‘ has taken it.
3 – Wolverines!
I eagerly await the new revolutionary thinking of the Hollywood conservatariat. Will a “Black Dawn” be on the horizon?
Look, furniture arranging is an honorable profession and if it’s all you’ve got…
Is Mr. Leonard Pierce going to make an appearance at CPAC again? Last year produced some of the best SadlyNuggets evah!
Since Heston won a Lifetime Achievement award in 1972 WTF was supposed to have been on offer? The Lifetimest Achievement award?
Rebranding and Kulturkampf? Such novel ideas, Monsieur Breitblart! I haven’t seen anything like this since Sarah Palin lost the Republicans their last election!
“Brown Dawn” might be up first.
Breitbart’s already in over his head with this one:
If “the medium is the message,” as Marshall McLuhan formulated 45 years ago in “Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man,” then Hollywood-style liberalism is America´s current and future message.
That wasn’t McLuhan’s point, at all. McLuhan was talking about the amount of involvement the consumer has with the medium he’s consuming.
A movie is a “hot” medium. It involves one sense above the others and engages the viewer to abandon his thought processes.
TV, by contrast, is a “cool” (like jazz is “cool”) medium, meaning the viewer has to involve himself a little in order to extract meaning out of it.
He wasn’t talking about political POV, idjit. Don’t blame McLuhan because you sit in the movie theatre, jaw agape, and certainly don’t blame liberals, who have been trying to educate the nation for decades.
There are thousands of creative and business minds toiling in anonymity in Hollywood who want the conservative movement to bring them aid, cover, money and a mission to finally take on a generation of one-party creative rule.
Will you ignorant fucks get over the fact that no matter how hard you piss and moan, a rich old white guy dumping toxic waste in a schoolyard is not being heroic?
The guy rounding up Nuns and beheading them? Not a Hero.
The guy selling arms and false information to both sides? Not a Hero
The guy beating up kids for their lunch money and cough drops? Nope
NOT A FUCKING HERO in the crowd…
I wish. But there’ll be clips on C-Span, so at least the possibility of having some commentary from him is greater than zero.
Um, doesn’t News Corporation own 20th Century Fox? Isn’t there enough aid, cover, money and ideology already there? What’s the holdup?
I’m guessing it’s simply a lack of talent. If the people who are going to the front lines in the conservative Kulturkampf on the movie industry are the same people who wrote and directed An American Carol and the lulz-packed Half-Hour News Hour, methinks Breitblart would be unwise to hold his breath. Hollywood’s probably going to be leaning our way for a long time yet.
Whiney-ass titty babies cry that they can’t find work in Hollywood because they are conservative, not because they suck. Too fucking bad.
CPAC is always a good time!
Breitbart (my emphasis):
Do you remember Million Dollar Baby and the right-wingers’ reaction to it? Neither do I.
Deck chairs, to be specific.
My browser is apparently allergic to the Moonie Times. I shall therefore presume that the “shorter” is perfectly representative of the original and probably written in a much clearer, more informative and more entertaining style.
So now I’m headed back to GheyPutzriot in a (probably futile) effort to find out why noted mathematician Bruce has such a boner for Bill Moyers.
Also, recall his threat to “out” Obama admin officials from the other day? Now he’s asking for liberals to send him names of gay Obama admin people. It took me all of 60 seconds to gazoogle up half a dozen. Seems he’s learned something from Jonah!
Beige Dawn?
Braun Dawn?
Fawn Dawn?
Something in a MOR non-threatening hue, anyway.
Gavin said-
“I wish.”
But…but Youth for Western Civilization is (are?) going to be there! Someone has to cover this. Attn. must be pd.
Something in a MOR non-threatening hue, anyway.
I think Yellow Dawn, while missing the overt racism, might be a good one.
Wuh? Conservatism is sustained by a small cabal of the extremely wealthy?
Is this supposed to be said out loud?
Conservative silent majorities, everywhere you turn. There’s even a conservative silent majority inside of you waiting to come out.
The guy rounding up Nuns and beheading them? Not a Hero.
The guy selling arms and false information to both sides? Not a Hero
The guy beating up kids for their lunch money and cough drops? Nope
NOT A FUCKING HERO in the crowd…
I finkz if Jo teh Plumber getz him pwned in Isrofl dat wud mak him an hero, rite?
It’s a well known fact leftists have pretty much total control of academia, Hollywood, and the MSM. It is how Obama got elected.
Actually, what is equally well-known about me is that I have a well-documented liberal bias.
Wow, so we own Fox, Disney, and GE now?
Where’s my dividend check?
I would probably watch Rosy-Fingered Dawn, if they get the right actress for the part.
Oh yes, wow, I totally forgot to go look at that… It promises greatness, doesn’t it?
[…]
“actor212 said,
February 23, 2009 at 22:35
Wow, so we own Fox, Disney, and GE now?”
Disney and GE, yes.
Just look at MSNBC, owner: GE.
There’s even a conservative silent majority inside of you waiting to come out.
There was, but I took some Ex-Lax.
Cripes, there’s no link.
Must be a respectedly serious and well-established organization.
Okay, maybe I’ve been wrong about Conservatives not being able to do comedy. Because that made me laugh.
ftfy
I enjoy the “civil rights” organizations that err on the side of not supporting civil rights.
It’s a well known fact leftists have pretty much total control of academia, Hollywood, and the MSM. It is how Obama got elected.
Of course. Authoritarian types cannot create, which is an inherently independent action, so naturally the creative industries run that way. As for how Obama got elected, most Americans realized that stupid people had their shot the last eight years, and consistently failed to return on investment. So they gave smart people a chance. Pretty rational, I’d say.
And now for something completely different, please
Which is the man with three buttocks?
There’s even a conservative silent majority inside of you waiting to come out.
I thought Alien was fiction! Noooooooo!
“…their political dollars are better spent making movies and nurturing the culture.”
As Dominick Dunne said when OJ swore he would spend the rest of his life hunting for his wife’s “real” killer: “Let’s watch.”
Oh do. Do, conservative million- and billionaires, pour money and effort and Post-Its and coffee into an effort to make more An American Carol’s. Yes, let’s watch as the Andrew Bright-Boys of the world, who are all for “freedom” until it results in their political or financial loss, try to nurture the culture.
And I want you all to know: I pulled into a Union (yay!) 76 station yesterday in Studio City, and who was sitting in his new Cadillac, giving me a simpering smile, and whom I glared at and CUT DEAD with a scowl?
Ben Stein.
You heard it here first.
(I asked my wife if I should have gone up to him and confronted him over “Expelled,” but she said no. Maybe next time.)
Classic stuff. The logo is an especially subtle detail, the message of which is difficult to decipher.
Just look at MSNBC, owner: GE.
You mean, GE, formerly run by Jack Welch who famously went into the control room at Election Central in NOv 2000 and threatened to fire anyone who called the election for Gore after Fox called it for Bush?
THAT GE? We own it?
HOORAY! I need some fluorescent fixtures!
The only refuge for conservatives is AM radio and Fox, but those will be abolished once Obama re-introduces the anti-free speech “Fairness Doctrine” (he won’t call it that, but the end policy will be identical, and probably applied to the internet and cable TV too).
Liberals hate free speech and would like nothing better than to shut down Rush and Fox.
creative rule
There’s your problem right there.
I mean the GE that owns MSNBC, the channel that gives FOUR HOURS of prime time to liberal propaganda (Chris Matthews, David Shuster, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow) every night.
Perhaps the more specific “Yellowstain Dawn” would work.
WOLVER… DEPENDS!!!Thankfully it STILL has horrible ratings, lol!
(I asked my wife if I should have gone up to him and confronted him over “Expelled,” but she said no. Maybe next time.)
No need to do that – just go up and ask him to say “Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?” a few times. I’m sure he dies a bit inside every time that happens.
Liberals hate free speech and would like nothing better than to shut down Rush and Fox.
No need. There are no radios or TVs in the gulag, so once your kind are safely ensconced there EIB and Fox will wither on the vine.
Pravda had more shame than Fox News.
Might How Obama Got Elected be one of the same damned guys again?
I have this theory they get stuck trying to figure out where that echo is coming from.
shorter “how Obama Got elected”
“I whine like an eight-year old boy”
Re: the whole “silent conservative majority” thing, I suppose the folks saying stuff like that assume the majority is silent because otherwise it would be obvious they’re a majority, but why do they assume they’re a majority in the first place? Don’t things like polls and vote results show they’re not, and the fact that every other conservative is a loud-mouthed SOB show they couldn’t be silent even if they had their pieholes glued shut?
Might How Obama Got Elected be one of the same damned guys again?
Nah, it’s probably just a random-number generator connected to a database of wingnut talking points. Most likely a Rushbot 3000 model.
mean the GE that owns MSNBC, the channel that gives FOUR HOURS of prime time to liberal propaganda (Chris Matthews, David Shuster, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow) every night.
See, that’s the problem right there. You’ve got a whole network at Fox plus the rest of the day at MSNBC and that’s still too much competition for you. Man up, Nancy.
Re: the whole “silent conservative majority” thing,
Because conservatives consistently confuse good manners with assent.
Win, L’il Pig. Win.
TV Watch, while indeed a phony grassroots movement, is at least commendable for trying to fight the idiocy of the PTC.
Luckily, MSNBCs ratings are still in the shitter.
As a Hollywood leftist, I can assure any readers or trolls that nobody, but nobody, has control of Hollywood. The place is in a perpetual state of chaos and confusion. The same can be said for the mainstream media, which is the same thing as Hollywood, only in bulk packaging.
Here’s what is perpetually happening in the entertainment & information industry: everybody’s trying to figure out how to make the most recently made fortune. You see the rub: it’s already been made. Anarchy descends upon the land. Omigod, I think our WAITER IS GAY!!!! Look, a screenwriter nursing a short Americano at Starbucks. Hey, in the parking lot of Erewhon — it’s that guy that used to be on ‘The Love Boat’.
Hollywood conspiracy theories always go hand-in-hand with diatribes about how greedy and selfish Hollywood people are. You think people that greedy and selfish would want to conspire with anybody? Ask any movie director: it would be like a bunch of kindergarten kids attempting to pull off a diamond heist.
I burst my hemhorroids at you and your conspiracies.
Oh, you control the Clinton News Network (CNN) too, now that Bill and Hill are in the BHO fold.
Yes, that awful, awful Lieberal MSNBC, and all the rest of that commie media that won’t give conservatives a voice.
Worked in Hollywood for decades. Have met maybe, er… zero conservatives in that time.
Most likely a Rushbot 3000 model.
I think they didn’t introduce the Name Mutation-o-Mat™ feature until the 4000.
Fox News – As fair as a Florida election. As balanced as Ann Coulter when she’s off her meds.
Oh, you control the Clinton News Network (CNN) too, now that Bill and Hill are in the BHO fold.
That’s the kind of thing that makes me think you must be 19 or 20. Lost blondes eaten by sharks stories are neither conservative nor liberal, so it fails on that score, and calling CNN liberal is an Overtoning of a most moronic sort. Listen to Pacifica a while, shitwhistle, and see what liberalism really is.
CNN isn’t liberal so much as Clintonian in its political coverage. Even BHO supporters saw this during the primary, at long last.
Because, y’know, if you haven’t busted out of the handcuffs, you must like getting it up your butt.
We don’t have news channels anymore we have infotainment channels. They’re all bad but Fox is leading the race to the bottom.
If I want real news I go to the BBC.
“it would be like a bunch of kindergarten kids attempting to pull off a diamond heist.”
Thanks, but we have something just like that in development.
Doop de doo, I’m back again!
Hollywood has one and only one political philosophy: bucks.
The only restraint on those bucks are whatever the government tells them they have to restrain from doing, like, you know, porn.
That’s it. If Hollywood makes it, it’s because it makes money. There’s way too much at stake for a political agenda to take dominance over the production of films.
So I guess if Hollywood movies have a liberal bent, it’s because the nation is bent that way, or at least the people who pay good money to watch movies are.
If conservatives are whining about “no good conservative movies” maybe a) they ought to realize they’re really aren’t any good “liberal movies”, else why would Michael Moore have to go to Lionsgate of all places to release F 9/11 and b) conservatives ought to start shelling out good money when a halfway conservative movie, like say 2008’s “Rambo”, comes out.
Funny, that somehow rings a bell. Almost like something I’ve been forced to witness for almost a decade, but I can’t quite put my finger on…
Naaahhhhh, that’s just wacky.
“Clinton News Network”
You guys haven’t had an original slur since 1950
“It’s The Breakfast Club — in KINDERGARTEN!”
An American Carol Part II: Off Da Hook
Has anyone opened a pool on “Time taken for Breitbart to Co-opt Slumdog Millionaire as an Objectively Conservative Box-office Hit”?
Hmm…muslim makes good, gets girl. There’s gotta be a way…
Why don’t Rush and Fox bankroll motion pictures? Why don’t conservatives, who after all make up the “productive class” in America, invest in conservative movies? Why don’t they open up neighborhood movie houses and show them? Conseratives are proper stewards of the markets right? Why not exploit your expertise at making money by selling incredibly awesome conservative movies?
Instead of getting all butt-hurt about being locked out of Hollywood?
All of them, Troofie. As usual, it’s your failure.
Instead of getting all butt-hurt about being locked out of Hollywood?
Beats workin’ a real job.
“Hollywood has one and only one political philosophy: bucks.”
Agreed. Hollywood is all about Money and Power and little else. What films that do get made with ‘liberal’ messages tend to be mushy Odes to middle-of-the-road “centrist”/accomodationist crap, i.e. the most useless, toothless kind of “liberalism” there is. Pandering, dumbing things down to the level of Lowest Common Denominator, etc. etc. The sort of thing that’s hardly worth getting upset about, not that our idiot troll is arguing in anything even remotely like good faith, here, obviously.
Well, absentee owner of the L. A. Kings (I think it’s a hockey team) & various downtown L. A. entertertainment venues, Philip Anschutz (No Anschluss jokes, please.) financed that C. S. Lewis Narnia crap. That didn’t result in a vast change in the kultur.
Does this moron Breitbart really think he can write ignorant foolish crap about how Hollywood is influencing us so negatively (I know most Hollywood films are all about more welfare & taxes, & less work) & then beg for money from people who stole it honestly to finance something that any second-yr. marketing student could tell you would go over like a lead balloon?
“Millionaire Masters!! Yoo hoo!! Down here!! Please may I have some money to make big Hollywood movies? No, no don’t judge my abilities on any of my writing or my repugnant personality or my inability to get along w/ others.”
The logo is an especially subtle detail, the message of which is difficult to decipher.
Sure is. I get the spike stiletto but what’s with the unnatural axe?
Philip Anschutz (No Anschluss jokes, please.)
Now that I have availed myself of the global system of computers, and have determined that Philip Anschutz seems to have no connection with the gunmaker, I will abide by your wish.
You really dodged a bullet there, MB.
That logo would look really cool on an armband. I think it would contrast nicely with a brown sleeve.
According to the MPAA’s own statistics, 178,000,000 Americans got up, drove to a theater and sat their butts down in a seat after paying god-knows-what for parking, the ticket, and snacks. Follow the money is the only rule in “Hollywood”.
…er, in the year 2007, that is.
Dig this guy from Young Americans for
FascismWestern Civ. 101.He likes those crests & shields & stuff (Ah, the days of nobility & royalty …) & Henry Killinger is his friend.
In fact, now that you mention it, that axe logo reminds me of something.
Wait, it’ll come to me…..
Oh yeah, that’s it.
CPAC again?
I’m just curious about which movies specifically Breitbart and them label “liberal”.
“The Pursuit of Happyness”, because it has a single black male parent who doesn’t get jailed, but ends up making a comfortable living because someone gives him a chance?
“Independence Day” because it has a scientist (who uses a MAC!) as a hero and not God?
“Juno”? “The Dark Knight”?
I burst my hemhorroids at you and your conspiracies.
I tried that once and all I wound up with was a(nother) bloody conspiracy…
You can open your presents later.
Yikes, my gun-nut credentials are fading, never heard of Anschutz target rifles. (Of course, I like weapons that are useful in real-world situations, like when a troll or ogre jumps up from under the infrastructure I’m using & demands some sort of libertarian “usage fee.”)
“Unnatural Axe.” Best band name/album title in a wk., PeeJ.
Fucking Gran Torino was NOT FUCKING OBJECTIVELY CONSERVATIVE
Maybe that was supposed to be some kind of hint, to a Manson-esque bunch of whackos. You know, will no one rid me of this meddlesome character actor?
Classic stuff. The logo is an especially subtle detail, the message of which is difficult to decipher.
You are fucking kidding me.
Sure is. I get the spike stiletto but what’s with the unnatural axe?
Ax? I thought it was a rubber-stamp on a stick.
Tom Fowler:
You aren’t one of the Fabulous Fowler Bros. of musical fame, are you?
“…There are thousands creative and business minds toiling in anonymity in Hollywood who want the conservative movement to bring them aid, cover, money and a mission to finally take on a generation of one-party creative rule…”
Well, since they failed in politics, won’t fight in the 2 wars they started, won’t even OK trying to fix with the Financial disintegration, don’t know how to “Google”, perhaps it IS time to give them a chance at “teh Arts”. What else is there for them to extirpate (destroy) ?
I’m just curious about which movies specifically Breitbart and them label “liberal”.
…“The Dark Knight”?
As you may know, Actor, the cons have claimed all the movies you listed as their own. Which is ridiculous enough, but the rationale for them claiming The Dark Knight may be the stupidest of all. It basically goes like this: the Joker is Islamofascism or whatever they’re calling it these days because of Michael Caine’s “some men just want to watch the world burn” speech.
Now, Islamic militants can fuck themselves sideways as far as I’m concerned, but they actually have definable political goals and aren’t out to make chaos for chaos’ sake like the Joker was.
Maybe cons don’t make good movies because they don’t understand character and motivation.
The Youth for Western Civilization Facebook page lists Kevin DeAnna as its creator. s.z. profiled him back in 2006.
Classic stuff. The logo is an especially subtle detail, the message of which is difficult to decipher.
If their asses weren’t so damned tight, I’d think it was a bong.
I see on the exhibitor’s list for CPAC that Google™ is one. If any needed proof that “do no evil, or harm,” or whatever their motto is, is bull, there it is. Right up w/ The Louse of Blues’ “Help Ever, Hurt Never.”)
Also noted that “Culture 11” is on the list. I thought they failed, because Megan McMooncow’s boy-friend was one of their employees, & he was laid-off not too long ago. (Maybe they were just trimming fat or eliminating dead-weight, & the site goes on w/o him.)
I still really like the Klavan thing. A similarly inspired comment from the thread:
Wow, check out the Youth for Western Civilization photos page.
Okay, I’m not very familiar with Facebook groups pages. If I join this one, am I allowed to post pictures? Like of the Italian Fascist flag that looks exactly like their little symbol?
Also, do I really want to make my Facebook experience even more shitty by joining a proto-fascist wingnut group?
RB, did you see Breitblart’s post during the “live blog” of the Oscars wherein he complains that the DFHs running the show aren’t mentioning terrorism in Mumbai, which they should be because, y’know, Slumdog Millionaire is winning all these awards? Fucking priceless.
“Also, do I really want to make my Facebook experience even more shitty by joining a proto-fascist wingnut group?”
Yes?
If I join this one, am I allowed to post pictures?
It depends on the terms of the group, but that should be mentioned somewhere in the page before you click join.
2012 Draft Sarah Palin Committee
ohpleaseohpleaseohplease …
“#Doctorb said,
February 24, 2009 at 0:09
2012 Draft Sarah Palin Committee
ohpleaseohpleaseohplease …”
You all used to say that about Ronald Reagan, too!
Well, you know, Doctorb, ever since she was convicted of evading taxes, you haven’t heard much about her spunky l’il self, youbetcha!
“Well, you know, Doctorb, ever since she was convicted of evading taxes, you haven’t heard much about her spunky l’il self, youbetcha!”
How about Geithner, and Daschle, and, and about a half dozen other O-admin appointees?
The Slumdog plot was pure Reagan: poor but honest young man from the ghetto strikes it rich and gets the super-model WITHOUT A GOVERNMENT HAND-OUT.
Hmm… let’s do talk about big media…..
Instead, the conservative movement needs to think in revolutionary terms.
And the revolution must begin in Hollywood.
Every Blart Blarts, but not every Blart truly Blarts.
FREEDUMB!!!!!
I’m all for Western culture, liking cheese as much as any other non-vegan lactose-tolerant human, but why have the Westliche Kulture Jungen enshrined the fuck-me pump as if it were the pinnacle of Western achievement?
Funny.
Looked at s. z.’s 2006 item, which said the YAF site had been untouched since 2003. So I looked, & it’s active. Big story on the first page?
Back to s. z., where she types:
Whoaaaa!! Big mistake. Not very active, as the latest news story is dated 27 February 2008. (WFB’s death.) The W&M president resigns story is dated 14 February 2008. (Yes, I’m still writing “5768” on my checks.)
Well, why pay for a web-site when you can recruit khaki’d brownshirts right from FaceDick?
I agree. Governor Mooseburgers should run a presidential campaign based on the fact that she’s just like Geithner and Daschle.
“The Slumdog plot was pure Reagan: poor but honest young man from the ghetto strikes it rich and gets the super-model WITHOUT A GOVERNMENT HAND-OUT.”
Heh. Indeed!
If I have a diaper fetish I don’t get all poopy over movies that don’t feature diapers. Well okay I do, but it’s a good kind of poopy.
BTW, India was ruined until the 1980s by radical leftist that stilted its economic growth.
Not so today. It cut regulation, cut taxes, and turned away from socialism and boomed.
Any Indian made movie that ever tried to portray India as anything more that the idealised orientalist version of it would never get played in the West, let alone nominated. Slumdog is nothing but typical Bollywood
Umm…..wow. The ignorance displayed here is amazing.
India’s film industry puts US Hollywood to shame.
Is he trying to imply that the Indian film industry’s output is an idealized orientalist version of India targeting the west?
Debate all you want whether Slumdog is “typical Bollywod” – Consumers of Bollywood products are first and foremost Indians living both in India and other countries. Bollywood actually doesn’t really give a damn what mainstream American audiences watch – they have plenty of custom giving Indians what they want.
And, my god, he actually infers Bollywood movies deliberately paint Hindus negatively, in favor of Muslims….the mind boggles.
Cut regulations! Cut taxes! Be like India!
Look-India builds McMansions
“David Horowitz Freedom Center”
I could support that if it means what I wish it means.
“The Slumdog plot was pure Reagan: poor but honest young man from the ghetto strikes it rich and gets the super-model WITHOUT A GOVERNMENT HAND-OUT.”
But only after being detained without a warrant and tortured in prison.
…Increasing income inequality and overall poverty. Just like here! 80% of the Indian population is MORE poor than the average person in China, which exercises central control over the economy. Molly Mooseburgers should run on a platform of total deregulation and no taxes so as that one day we in America can enjoy the standard of living of China and India.
USA! USA! USA!
300 million Indians have been lifted out of poverty since they turned towards free market reforms.
“The Slumdog plot was pure Reagan: poor but honest young man from the ghetto strikes it rich and gets the super-model WITHOUT A GOVERNMENT HAND-OUT.”
He gets lucky on a game show. Pure Reagan, true.
So that’s where that number came from.
The New Fiscal Conservatism:
poor but honest young man from the ghetto strikes it rich
On a mother-fucking game show!! Talk about hand-outs to the useless parasites!
It is very Reaganesque, however. Be a third-rate but amiable/genial actor-type, luck into a few paying roles & stumble through life, following whatever madness is whispered in your ear, ’cause you’re too dumb to think for yourself.
It is very Obamaesque, however. Be a third-rate but amiable/genial actor-type, luck into a few paying roles & stumble through life, following whatever madness is written on your teleprompter, ’cause you’re too dumb to think for yourself.
FTFY.
You know what I think is just sad? What I think is just sad is the way these pitiful cons feel the need to label every fucking thing in the whole world either “liberal” or “conservative.” Similar insecure groups suffer from such deep, paralyzing notions of self-worthlessness that they must construct an “us” or “them” binary out of everything, partially so they can keep track of the Other, but also so they can create a fantasy world for themselves in which they are the bestest and totally not the dumb stinky-butts. Little boys in their “No Girlz Allowed” club houses, for example, and college sorority girls who feel compelled to belittle other sorority girls’ clothes and hairdos. I mean, what kind of life is that? “Sorry, can’t read that book, it’s not CONSERVATIVE.” “Eww, I never eat there, it’s a LIBERAL place.” “Why waaahhh! aren’t there more CONSERVATIVE waaahaaaahhhh! movies/TV shows/clothes/bottled water brands/waaaaaaahhhhhh”
Try first rate graduate of Columbia & Harvard Law. On his own, not through legacy admissions for the idiot children of the inbred rich, C students every one. And that’s because they have to get Cs. It’s part of the you take my spoiled brat spawn/I give your school money.
How the free market works, right? Merit & qualifications.
funny how the only US industry not in trouble is the one conservatives whine that they are not given a chance to break into
To recycle an old wingnut talking point – If India’s so great why don’t you move there?
Has anyone ever rectified the simultaneous conservative claims that the liberal media is in the tank for Obama and that is what won him the election and that the fact the ratings war between MSNBC and Fox is being won by Fox is proof that the American public doesn’t trust the liberal media? Because if this troll is still here I’d like to see that.
I think the Dustbin of the Galaxy may have won something.
Obama wrote what appears on his teleprompter. That’s the difference between him and the Mooseburger.
It’s also funny that wingers whine about how Hollywood excludes them while simultaneously whining about stimulus aid to the industry. So many people make money from motion picture productions it’s not funny. Reminds me of when Rudy black-balled development of the Brooklyn Navy Yard to build production stages.
Oh and also HOGE are you really arguing that Indira Gandhi was a radical leftist because then you are arguing you don’t know what radical leftist means
poor but honest young man from the ghetto strikes it rich
Actually, though, the young man isn’t really “honest,” he and his brother work by begging and by tricking tourists. It’s only after he breaks with his brother that he gets a job as a chai-wallah – and it’s not his hard work that gets him his riches, it’s dumb luck and the memories of traumatic moments in his life.
FOX vs. MSNBC (Mighty Sorry, No Body Cares):
While both sides like to have their prejudices confirmed, sit in the echo chamber until their ears ring, etc.,
NorbiznessThe Left is at least a bit more capable of searching for other information, & being literate, we don’t have to rely on being talked at & shown pictures of everything.The retired/unemployed on the right just want to stew in their couches & be slathered in
butterbitterness & hate, w/o even using the remote.So every RW is a setting in his rec room watching Fox & listening to any number of RW fools on the radio, while libs are, you know, not so retired, using other sources of information, or typing here.
“Obama wrote what appears on his teleprompter.”
Bullshit, it is his speech writer. Even his book he supposedly wrote sounds an awful look like the style or writing used by his terrorist buddy Bill Ayers.
Governor Mooseburgers should hire Twoofie to be her campaign strategist in 2012. Not paying taxes and repeating the idiotic tactics of the 2008 contest should definitely win her probably Utah.
“Even his book he supposedly wrote sounds an awful look like the style or writing used by his terrorist buddy Bill Ayers.”
Well, now, it must burn you up that Obama is president. Amirite?
Uh, g, is a chai-walla one of those guys who delivers lunch to business men, or does he just hawk chai, whatever that is? Tea, maybe?
“Liberal media gets horrible ratings! Liberal media won the election for Obama!”
Sorry, can’t have it both ways.
“#Legalize said,
February 24, 2009 at 0:59
Governor Mooseburgers should hire Twoofie to be her campaign strategist in 2012. Not paying taxes and repeating the idiotic tactics of the 2008 contest should definitely win her probably Utah.
”
I think she (or any other Republican) will win the McCain states +IN, VA, NC, FL, OH, PA, NH, NM, IA, WI, MN, MI, NV, CO, and maybe OR or NJ, too.
That’s how awful and Carter-esque Obama’s single term will be.
Bookmark it, liberals!
Uh, g, is a chai-walla one of those guys who delivers lunch to business men, or does he just hawk chai, whatever that is?
I think he wallas around in it.
The Dow hit an 11-year low today.
Obama sure has inspired confidence in the economy!
He’s just a combination of moralizer an doom-and-gloom, “things are going to suck now!” kind of leader. Just like Carter.
No sunny optimism like FDR, JFK, or Reagan.
That “How Obama Got Elected” appears to be a real site advertising a movie from “Right Reel” Productions of Films or something.
Let’s see, though. How did Obama get elected? Oh, right, more people voted for him than all the other candidates combined, And more states w/ more Electoral College votes went for him over Sucky Sarah, The SuperPalin, & that old man who was always looking at her cari-booty.
No need to click now.
It’s also a John Ziegler joint, from the same guy who brought us this lovely interview and push-poll.
Indeed President Hussein Hussein Malcolm X Barack Obama Hussein X did write a book with some nautical phrases in it and absolutely Bill Ayers wrote a book that USED SOME NAUTICAL PHRASES!!!!
So the Obama book was either written by Ayers or Sir Francis Drake.
Oscar results, Bush turns down hardware store job, McDick’s showing how big a collective dick they are and other news in Blogtopia.
You’re not even trying anymore, Troofy.
The Dow will continue to drop. Not Obama’s fault. When 1/3rd of our economy essentially goes tits up, losses are gonna be had. What matters is Obama’s plan for what happens next. You can have the crybaby day-traders. I’ll take the 60%+ of Americans who agree with Obama’s plan.
If only I could bookmark this…..
tigrismus is faster than zombies. He should survive the zombocalypse.
“You can have the crybaby day-traders. ”
How about all those people with 401k s, ready to retire only to have their savings wiped out during the O-administration?
A whole lot of other people own stocks besides “cry baby day traders”, libs. A lot of middle class people.
Gee, maybe selling our houses to each other wasn’t the best thing to base the economy on.
sunny optimism
The default position of the four yr. old as X-mess approaches. Doesn’t work so well in the real world of adults & greed.
And when is moralizing & doom & glooming (babies born to unwed Muslim Negroes are coming to take your welfare check & farm subsidy!! And then they’ll blow up the Denny’s in the next town & you’ll starve.) reserved for leftists?
He should survive the zombocalypse.
I would like to hear more about this zombocalypse plz.
Funny, I though the wiping out of the 401Ks happened before January 20th.
I confess, I do have a weak grasp of causality in Bizarro Wingnut Universe…..
Uh, g, is a chai-walla one of those guys who delivers lunch to business men
I’m not an expert, but I think “wallah” is a term that means “servant.” Years ago I worked for a business that sold high-end imports from India, and the Execs were both British and American. It was not uncommon for them to refer to the guys in the warehouse – and I mean African-American guys – privately, among one another or to clients, as “wallahs.” I was so glad to leave there!
I think a chai-wallah is like a coffee-boy in an office setting.
“The default position of the four yr. old as X-mess approaches. Doesn’t work so well in the real world of adults & greed.”
Tell it to ever successful President of the 20th Century.
Do you even remember the late 70s? Carter tried to doom-and-gloom moralizer approach and it got tiring after about six months.
1980-1992: Glorious Morning In America
1992-2000: The Clenis roams the countryside, demolishing entrepreneurs and stifling free speech of real patriotic Americans
2001: The Bad Thing
2002-2008: The Mystery Time
2009+: SCHWARZFUHRER OBAMARAMA IS DESTROYING THE ECONOMY WITH HIS BLACKAMOOR SAVAGERY AND HIS TELEPROMPTER MUMBLES AAARGH
“Funny, I though the wiping out of the 401Ks happened before January 20th.”
The Dow hit an eleven year low, today. The last time the Dow was this low I had a 56k modem and an AOL account.
ready to retire only to have their savings wiped out during the O-administration?
My 401K lost 2/3rds of its value during the Bush administration.
I can handle Da Twoof. Bring it on Trooooofie!
You know what? Fuck you, racist dumbass. That I totally knew you were going to try this is reason enough for going back to ignoring your tired bullshit. Mods, this asshat claimed he would stop the killfile-sidestepping at the threat of bannination. Make true your words, please.
All that surgery can only help.
We support Obama.
Sorry, Truthy.
Thank you NC. Now I see.
The Republican Party is now populated by Underwear Gnomes.
The Dow hit an eleven year low, today. The last time the Dow was this low I had a 56k modem and an AOL account.
Hey! What’s wth the doom & gloom stuff, there, Toofy?
I’m NOT “troofy”, for the last freakin’ time.
I would like to hear more about this zombocalypse plz.
oops, sorry.
Wasn’t supposed to say that in mixed company. Ignore please, all you breathers….
Not being “Troofy” I promised nothing.
Absolutely pathetic bullshit. Your now legendary micropenis gets smaller and smaller.
promised nothing, and delivered it copiously!!
Ask the mods. I’m not “troofy”.
Yeah, you’re me.
Also, you’re inventing more and more ways of getting out of owning up to Bookmark this, liberals.
A “wallah” is (also?) sort of a maven or specialist, I think. The band Dish-wallah (sp?) is named after guys who set up satellite dish systems in Indian apartment bldgs.
Ah, here:
Maybe the schmucks you worked for were too lazy to say “warehouse-wallahs.”
My curiosity was whether he was a lunch deliverer. They may be known as lunch-wallahs.
As to what that makes my former residence of Walla Walla, who knows?
Anyway, my point still stands that Obama is talking down the economy and doesn’t seem to know what the hell he is doing.
Obama just a bumbling doofus, trying to pretend to be a great President. Like a little kid playing “grown up”.
The Republican Party is now populated by Underwear Gnomes.
Less hot than it sounds.
How about all those people with 401k s, ready to retire only to have their savings wiped out during the O-administration?
O-man is Master of Space and Time! We should be glad for our 401ks willing having been demolished since it means Obama wioll haven been defeating Hitler!
“And now, a man with a tape recorder up his nose”.
It looks to me like Obama was inaugurated in 2005, then.
So… guess what Hollywood liberal is making a lot of money off “Slumdog Millionaire”?
From Wikipedia:
Halfway through the month, Warner Independent Pictures and Fox Searchlight Pictures entered a pact to share distribution of the film with Fox Searchlight buying in a 50% stake. As of 22 February 2009, the film has grossed $159,226,072 worldwide……
Fox Searchlight Pictures is a film division of Twentieth Century Fox….
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation ….is a subsidiary of News Corporation, the media conglomerate owned by Rupert Murdoch.
You’ll note that Fox Searchlight also made lots of money with films about teen pregnancy, winos, kiddie beauty pageants and male strippers.
Hmmf. Rupert Murdoch. What a Hollywood liberal.
Hey, remember us, shit-for-brains?
Obama just a bumbling doofus, trying to pretend to be a great President. Like a little kid playing “grown up”.
Teh bitter is strong in this one.
“The majority of Americans said,”
Tell me what you think in January, 2010.
Hell tell me what you think by say this July when it is obvious the recession is not ending, the stimulus is failing, and more and more Americans will be jumping off the BHO ship.
*glug glug glug*
By July, he will be down to the 30s in his approval rating.
GO AWAY
Carter tried to doom-and-gloom moralizer approach and it got tiring after about six months.
Whereas Bush tried the “Aw, schucks, I don’t know nuthin’, lookit me, I’m a proud C student, haw haw, you covered your ass, etc..” approach, & it got tiresome after about 10 mins.
As well as being just a tiny bit more dangerous to our nation.
KA-BOOM!!!
Bush, Bush, Bush.
Bush is gone, liberals. Over. History. He’s not around. Now YOU have to take responsibility.
Underwear Gnomes
Are they the ones who bring crotch crickets when they move in?
I’m a Reagan fan, not a Bushie, anyway.
more and more Americans will be jumping off the BHO ship
Lead the way, mon Capitan! Oopsie doodle, I forgot we’re dry-docked…
Touch me, Bob! sploot
You know who else is gone? Clinton.
By July, he will be down to the 30s in his approval rating.
Bookmark it, libs.
Also by July, Troofy will have saved up a whole Mason jar of his manly emissions to present to his Future Amazonian But Properly Submissive Magic-Wife, Sarah PalCoultMalkbaugh.
Hell tell me what you think by say this July when it is obvious the recession is not ending, the stimulus is failing,
And who’s doom-and-glooming it now?
Ya know what I hear? I hear Reagan and certain anonymous rent-boys had, how you say, special fun-time happy man-parties back in the day…
Okay, anyone who even remotely tries to argue that there is any credence to that Ayers-wrote-Obama’s-book rumor/nonsense should be banned from teh intertoobz. FOR-EVAH.
And, that goes double for anyone who supported Bush and then complains about Obama’s public speaking ability. Seriously? SERIOUSLY??? That is someone who is looking reality in the face and saying, “I don’t have to accept you,” and then expecting everyone else to respect his reality exemption.
It goes triple for anyone with that many incorrect predictions trying to make predictions again.
Why do you guys keep saying “bookmark it, libs” and the like?
“And who’s doom-and-glooming it now?”
Hey, just being realistic. I recognize we have totally incompetent leadership in DC now. Hillary even would have been better. At least the Clintons would have been “the devil I know”.
a Michael Moore documentary that portrayed the screen legend as a doddering fool.
I understand that Charleton Heston did his own stunts for the portrayal, and that no CGI was involved. Old school!
“And, that goes double for anyone who supported Bush and then complains about Obama’s public speaking ability. ”
Bush Bush Bush. WAAAH BUSH! Get over it! YOU’RE IN CHARGE NOW. Don’t fuck up. Oops! Too late.
Can it. The guy’s been in office a month after eight years of Bush’s boondoggling. So yeah. Bush Bush Bush.
The very instant Bush admits that he was wrong wrong wrong on everything, & that none of it was Clinton’s fault, we’ll still have the truth, historical record, etc. to lay virtually all of what is wrong w/ the world, the economy, & so on at the clay feet of the Bush Admin. You can bet your ass that the people living in the bushes down by the river, or next to the railroad tracks, & the vets living under the 405 right here in L. A. will be calling their encampments Bushvilles, not Obamavilles.
Oh, that’s right, you don’t have to take responsibility for anything, except for telling everyone else that they have to take responsibility for YOUR failed ideology.
It’s part of your whole failure to get along with reality thing. We know.
I reject the laws of gravity, so I am able to fly around my living room.
What are you crybabies going to say in 2012 if there is a depression and the stimulus failed? And record deficits?
“Hey! It was Bush’s fault!!” isn’t going to fly come election time THEN.
totally incompetent leadership in DC now
Beats the no leadership whatsoever we had for the last eight yrs.
Remind me not to again. Naaaaasty.
American history ended in January 2001 and resumed four weeks ago.
I see all you liberals can resort to is silly 8th grade sexual insults. Pathetic, much like your President.
I left my gonorrhea untreated for eight long years but it wasn’t until Obama took office that my dick fell off.
The second Bush left office, every mistake he ever made, every personal failure he ever demonstrated and every horrible result of his policies vanished – poof! – into thin air.
Clinton’s Legacy can suck it, though. He is responsible for anything my retarded supporters can’t pin on Obama.
It’s true. I should get that checked out.
Alright, HOGE is now reduced to our level. Ignore henceforth.
Ok, liberals. When will Obama “own” this economy since according to you Bush still “owns” it right now? One year? Two? When?
Please note these two items:
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http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38746
Obama owns the economy. Bush just rented it out.
What are you saying about being on the threshold of depression with record debt because of the record deficits of the past 8 years? Boo hoo, the failed Obama administration hasn’t already fixed the record shithole after a month? Sad.
I see all
liberalsI can resort to is silly8th grade sexual insultsso-called “arguments”. Pathetic, much likeyour Presidentme.OK, now I’ll stop.
Un self aware troll is un self aware.
There was a “fixt” there somewhere. I guess Obama eated it.
Here in the real world, my 401k disappeared during the Bush Administration.
As did my job.
As did my best friend’s job.
As did my brother’s job.
“#
SomeNYGuy said,
February 24, 2009 at 2:00
Here in the real world, my 401k disappeared during the Bush Administration.
As did my job.
As did my best friend’s job.
As did my brother’s job.”
Did that happen before or after Pelosi/Reid took over Congress?
Not everyone has a full-time job like meeeeee!
Back when Dave Barry was still funny occasionally, he used to lampoon the right’s immediate frenzied attacks on Clinton during the first couple of months by calling it ‘the failed Clinton Administration’
Obviously, being based in something approaching the real world, we would chuckle at the obvious incongruity. Little did we know that the less literate members of the wingnut Korps (those who couldn’t finish ‘1984’ in order to use THAT as a template) would view it as an Operating Procedure…
Did that happen before or after Congress had Democrats?
Well frak me, I actually know the dude. He’s (probably) Czech and regularly contributes to leading Czech anti-EU and anti-islam portals. Now there’s a leader in the making!
Bush is a red herring.
Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing. Even the liberal MSM is beginning to admit it. He is flailing around while the Dow plummets, probably because the investor class is terrified at the thought of bank nationalizing, trade protectionism, a nuclear Iran, trillion dollar deficits for years on end, and massive capital gains/income tax hikes.
If only they touched my fake boobies, like The Truth still does from time to time!
Aren’t I a good boy, mommy?
Yes, sweetie, but not tonight, my poonanner’s rented out for the night.
Bush is a red herring.
small, slimy, and smelly.
I approve of this message.
Bush is a red herring.
I was thinking more along the lines of an albatross.
I see all you liberals can resort to is silly 8th grade sexual insults. Pathetic, much like your President.
Which is why you hang around.
You’re just trying to bait me into doing the same thing back to you so I get banned. I’m onto your game, libs.
Yeah, we’re so pathetic that you’re trolling us. Face it, Troofie. You love us.
Seriously, why are you here? To amuse us? Well done, then.
I’m not “troofie” but I’m here to give the opposing view, preventing this site from becoming a shrill left wing echo chamber circle jerk like DailyKos.
I like troofie’s new name – it keeps having to post the phrase “Obama got elected”.
Why don’t you go to Fascist Republic then, where you can ruin their shrill, hate-filled, everything-phobic, rabid weasel echo chamber circle jerk? I bet you win all the circle jerks.
No, really, why do you give two shits about what some libs think? Do you really think your mindlessly repeated dittohead talking points are going to change anyone’s mind? You’re not pissing anyone off. If that’s your goal— fail.
“Adam said,
February 24, 2009 at 2:28
No, really, why do you give two shits about what some libs think?”
Because it’s fun to watch your reactions as the Obamamessiah implodes, that’s why.
NYT News Alert:
I see all you liberals can resort to is silly 8th grade sexual insults. Pathetic, much like your President.
Obama’s resorting to silly 8th grade sexual insults? I don’t think that’s his style.
As for us resolrting to silly insults here – um….I guess you’re kind of unfamiliar with this blog, aren’t you? That’s what we DO here.
Pfft, oh wow the NYT. Ground Zero of the liberal MSM.
Their last poll had Obama up 10 points before the election. He got 52%. Yeah, I sure trust them.
Karl Rove’s math, on the other hand, is infallible as the Pope.
“#
How Bush Got Appointed said,
February 24, 2009 at 2:36
Karl Rove’s math, on the other hand, is infallible as the Pope.
”
His final electoral map this year was pretty damn accurate, now that you mention it. He only missed Indiana.
Yeah, it was fun to watch reactions as Bush’s entire career & life dropped around his ankles. Except the RWs were in such denial they had no reaction except: “Aaagh!! Make the media stop reporting the truth!”
By the way, if this guy’s desire is to keep S,N! from becoming the Great Orange Satan, let’s just call “Mission Accomplished” for him & send him home, w/ a nice little ban.
“By the way, if this guy’s desire is to keep S,N! from becoming the Great Orange Satan, let’s just call “Mission Accomplished” for him & send him home, w/ a nice little ban.”
BAN HIM! BAN HIM! NOT FAIIIR!
He’s rather fond of pie.
OT (Off Troll, that is) who’s the dummy on the left in the picture? I recognize would-be welfare leech Breit-butt, & the sad-ass shrimp in the middle is one of the powerTOOLS, I think, but I’m drawing a blank on the third wheel there. Is it another of the powerTOOLERS?
If some guy wants to degrade himself by spending all day proving that he hasn’t had an original thought in a decade and telling whoppers of lies that his audience knows are lies…
I don’t know – seems like the joke is on him, doesn’t it?
“The Dow hit an 11-year low” is a lie?
I think that’s Mirengoff on the left.
Gavin & Co.: I humbly suggest that a rethinking of the S,N! banning policy is overdue. In these troubled times, it’s reasonable to acknowledge that certain trolls, unable to secure the institutionalization they so desperately need, should be shown the door. It’s not that we don’t feel pity for them. On the contrary; it is supremely ironic that the Bushitization of our country has largely created their plight. Regardless, it’s not the fault of us, your devoted regulars, that these pathetic beings have nowhere else to go and nothing else to do.
Therefore, I beg you to permanently eject them, fumigate, and make this once more a hospitable place for snark, sarcasm, recipes, and all-around fun and laughter. Please.
I KNEW the liberals always need a “fairness doctrine”.
Soon you’re going to “ban” Rush and FOX, too.
Frumpy pudge Paul Mirengoff.
The house is burning down, and Troofy’s blaming the firefighters instead of the drunken idiot who fell asleep with a lit cigarette.
Honey, I think it’s time to go home. Bob Owens needs a playmate.
Bob Owens needs a playmate.
Not to mention a chin.
Whatever. I’m out, libs. Later.
Whatever. I’m out, libs.
You certainly are. On your ass.
Later.
Please don’t hurry on our account.
– Libertarian Party: Never any fun, the first guy there always scoops up all the Rand Institute ballpoint pens and John Galt keychain fobs.
– AT&T: No swag at this booth, just a bunch of out-of-work College Republicans elbowing each other to practice their high-pressure commissions-only sales act to get you buy a Razr.
– Hispanic Leadership Fund: Get yer miniature Texas Border Wall commemorative refrigerator magnets, while they last!
– Not Evil Just Wrong: Uncharacteristically accurate T-shirts not popular with the wingnuts for some reason.
– The Washington Times: Free signup sheet for this afternoon’s mass wedding by Sun Myung Moon!
Thank you both, tigrismus & Bubba. Now I don’t need an idiot scorecard. “Frumpy pudge” indeed, heh.
Truly, the mere posting of long-ago discredited talking points, denial of (apparently) the very existence of the Bush Admin., & “Obama-Mobama–Bobama hasn’t fixed the world yet” contributes nothing here.
Not that I want to do anyone a favor, but if he’s forced to go back to looking for work, instead of fapping here, we may get the nation back on its feet a bit sooner. (Those precious fry-cook jobs will get us going in no time, & HOG can go back to stealing food from his employer, to keep his “prosperous man” self-image going.)
“You can’t fire me, I quit!”
Much later, for preference.
Racism, Eric Holder, my Son and Me
By Larrey Anderson
Enough is enough. I have had thirty plus years of enough. I have had enough of being called a “racist.” I will not sit here and be called a racist and a coward by a self-serving, race-baiting politician like Eric Holder.
You wanna talk racism, Mr. Holder? Okay. It’s time we talked. In fact, we should have had this talk thirty years ago. It’s time someone like me talked to someone like you about race.
Why am I qualified to talk about racism? Simple: I am a middle-aged white American male — this fact alone qualifies me as a racist in this Wonderland of political correctness that is the United States.
But my “racism” goes much deeper than particulars of gender and skin color. In fact, as a working writer and a retired politician, I have a lifelong pattern of “racism.” I was called a “racist” twenty-five years ago when I voted against “hate crimes” legislation in the Idaho State Senate. I had this insane notion that all violent crimes were hate crimes — clearly a racist thought (no doubt instilled by the white culture of hate that surrounded me).
I have been called a racist for writing that the science behind man made global warming is shaky — and for defending Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech for her vice presidential nomination at the RNC. Surely these are thoughts that spring from a childhood that must have been spent with the KKK.
During the past twenty-five years, I have been called a racist for writing about gun control, taxes, international banking, property rights, the Constitution, and abortion. All of these topics are obviously crucially related to race relations in the United States. How could I have been so blind?
In short, I am a racist because I am not a liberal. I am a racist because I do not agree with Eric Holder’s politics. Not only am I a racist, Mr. Holder informs me, I am also a coward because I don’t want to talk about being a racist.
Mr. Holder wants me to pony up, be a man, and finally face my cowardice — and the inner hatred I may have of human beings that have a skin color different from mine.
There is one tiny little problem: Holder’s request is coming about thirty years too late. And, if my son’s and my life experiences are any indication, Holder is twenty to thirty years late challenging other Americans to look inside of themselves.
The fact is that most Americans have already been there, done that. We let go of our racism — if we happened to have had any — years ago.
I first heard about my soon to be son when he was two days old. I had had a friend call me about the baby. My friend was on an adoption list. He was seventh on the list. He told me that there was this newborn baby boy that no one wanted.
I bluntly asked my friend if the infant was physically deformed or had some mental impairment. “No. Not exactly,” he told me. “Maybe you should come and take a look at him.”
So I did. I first held my son when he was three days old. His skin was discolored by jaundice and his body was swollen with some type of blood incompatibility. His skin was a puffy, dark, almost Brunswick green — except for his fat butt — which was glaucous hued.
I still tease my son about our first few moments together. Honest to goodness, I thought I was holding My Favorite Martian. He looked like some creature out of a really bad science fiction movie.
As I gazed down at this strange and lonely little being in my arms, I had, what might be called, a religious experience. Lights flashed at the periphery of my vision. (Think of the lights that flash by in the tunnel on a subway.) I found myself sitting in a park on a bench staring into the eyes of a handsome young black man. We were laughing together. We were connected through the laughter to a profound friendship and empathy. I understood and loved this young man and he understood and loved me.
The lights flashed again. I was staring into the eyes of the little baby boy in my arms that I now knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, was my son.Larrey and son
That was some thirty years ago. And in those thirty years, I have watched America grow up regarding matters of race. I have watched most of my fellow citizens learn how to treat all people as human beings. And my fellow citizens have been doing a damn good job of it. I know this for a fact because for thirty years I have watched the people around me mature and treat my own son with increasing respect and dignity as a human being.
Sure there were a few racial related problems in the late 70s when I first adopted my son. (I was still in graduate school when he was adopted. We lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia until the early 80s.) I went to meetings where some people would not sit next to me because I was holding a little black baby. (Not very many people — but there were a few.)
I had a couple of people ask me if I was “looking for trouble” by adopting a non-white child. My response? I asked them if they were looking for trouble by asking me such a stupid question.
Reflecting back, problems like these were few and far between.[i] Most people congratulated us, supported us, and admired us. I don’t remember any person openly hating us.
They certainly did not hate my son. In 1982 we moved from the east coast back to Idaho. My son started his education here in Idaho. He was an extraordinarily popular kid in school. In a few of the schools he attended he was the only black student in the school. Although there was some name calling in some of these schools (there always is in every school), there was only one outright racial incident that I know of.
One time, in the sixth grade, one of his classmates called my son a “nigger.” The kid physically challenged my son. My son accepted the challenge (he was taught never to back down from this kind of mindless bullying) and agreed to meet the young thug in the playground after school to settle the matter.
I found out about the impending confrontation and drove to the school. I hid behind some cars in the parking lot to watch the episode unfold. Apparently, the ruffian expected my son to be a no-show. I watched as the punk walk down the steps into the schoolyard, got a good close look at my son’s fists, and then turned tail and sprinted back into the school crying.
The thirty young white kids, who had gathered in the playground to witness the event, encircled my son and cheered. Six years later, my son went on to be elected student body president of one of the whitest high schools in America. That, Mr. Holder, is how racist America really is — which is to say not much.
Racism exists in America only in the communities were it is stipulated, reinforced, and taught as a alternative to the veracity of hard work and lasting opportunity that is the real America. In other words, Mr. Holder, racism, where it exists in this country, is a political and cultural contrivance sustained and manipulated by people like you.
Is more evidence needed? My son has always had a job (in fact, he has always had multiple job offers) since he reached manhood. Why? Because he is a responsible, articulate, hard working, smart, human being — who happens to be black. For someone like my son, belonging to a minority race in today’s America is not a curse — it is a blessing.
My son is married to a very good-looking young white woman. They have two (soon to be three) beautiful sons.[ii] Maybe my daughter-in-law carries the brunt of the racism. I called her the other day, told her I was writing this article, and asked her how bad the racism surrounding her marriage was. What was it like to walk into a store with a black husband and two little mixed race sons. Was she ever threatened? Was she ever afraid?
She just laughed at the questions. (She tends to laugh at me — must be a daughter-in-law thing.)
“Never,” she replied in one word.
“Never what?” I asked.
“Racism. Never. Not once … well, my ninty-year-old great grandmother didn’t like the idea of me dating a ‘colored man.’ I remember she really hurt my feelings. But, other than that, I can’t think of anything. It just doesn’t happen. People love my husband. They respect our family. We just don’t have those problems. I don’t think people have those problems.”
She then told me about some of the mixed race marriages of some of her friends. None of them have problems either. When these couples get together, they don’t even talk about racism — because there isn’t any.
Sorry, Mr. Holder, it isn’t cowardice that keeps Americans from discussing racism — it is the fact that there is nothing to talk about. The racist America that you are talking about started to disappear at least thirty years ago.
There are, of course, certain communities in this country that have been deliberately and continually segregated by people like you. In these communities people eat, drink, and breathe racism.
It is a shame that racism still exists in this country. But the Eric Holders, the Jesse Jacksons, the Al Sharptons, and the Barack Obamas of the world are keeping this issue alive. Mr. Holder, the shame and the cowardice of racism belong to you — not to my son and me.
Larrey Anderson is a writer, a philosopher, and submissions editor for American Thinker. His latest award-winning novel is The Order of the Beloved. His memoir, Underground: Life and Survival in the Russian Black Market, has just been released.
[i] I suppose our little family broke a few racial barriers. It was certainly not our intention. I didn’t adopt my son because he was black. I adopted him because I fell immediately and deeply in love. Still, not many people were adopting kids of different races back then. So we were pioneers — of a sort.
[ii] These three boys will be the only males in our family to carry the “Anderson” name into the future.
132 Comments on “Racism, Eric Holder, my Son and Me”
It’s been said before:
“L.H. Puttgrass, signing off and heading for the tub!”
hey, scroll troll ashhole:
You don’t wanna be called racist? How about you try not ACTING like one?
Perhaps instead of banning, we could just delete the scroll-posts which violate copyright law? It couldn’t hurt.
Doesn’t troofy owe someone around here like, $500?
So much for that “personal responsibility” schtick.
More results from the best swag hunt evar…
– Family Research Council: Expired condoms with pinholes poked in them.
– Islamic Free Market Institute Foundation: Booth empty and surrounded by yellow police tape.
– Pajamas Media/TV: Bowl with a few pennies and gumwrappers in it labeled “Please Support Pajamas Media”.
– White House LLC: Oh, it’s whitehouse dot com, not dot org. Booooring.
Yes, I believe that someone who makes a bet with a troll is owed real money and has actually won something, yes indeedily do.
Oh, I see. he’s claiming there is no racism by telling us that sometimes he’s experienced some racism, while other times he hasn’t. Which means there’s no racism. Except when there is. It’s clear as ever!
1 – Truly is this the swag hunt of the gods
You’d come home with enough astroturf for your own golf course.
Further results from teh swag haul of the century:
– Black Republican PAC: Alan Keyes 2012 campaign stickers, still plenty available.
– The Poker Players Alliance: Sorry, I cleaned the table out already, you guys might want to wait a bit til some more Republicans show up.
– National Rifle Association: Too crowded to get close.
– Americas Majority: Hung out for a while hoping Marie Jon’ would stop by to loan them an apostrophe. No luck.
Isn’t there a character missing from Mr. Anderson’s story?
Where was Mrs. Anderson? Chained in the basement?
best swag hunt evar
Wonder how much of their swag is made in China, and painted with lead-based paint?
The copy & paste shit is pretty dull & stupid, but it can be the occasional inspiration for more snark.
But that’s not why I have returned. No, it’s because:
FREE PANCAKES TOMORROW!! NATIONWIDE!!
Poorly written/edited article ’cause I think this is the station where Cornfed Wankee gets his “news.”
The slums of Mumbai are the Bollywood Hole.
Final leg of my epic CPAC swag hunt:
– The Republican Majority: I couldn’t find this group anywhere, is it possible they’re completely imaginary?
– Network of Enlightened Women: These were nowhere to be found either, I can only assume they refused to participate or were uninvited for their uppityness.
– HowObamaGotElected.com: I got a sweet little pocket edition of the US Constitution here.
– The American Conservative Union: It was a mistake to put these guys’ booth next door to the Save Our Secret Ballot group, they were all swingin’ at each other and screaming something about “scabs” and “union thugs” and all.
Remember when Palin was going around saying, “some of my best friends are gay!” But, then continuing to claim that they should be denied rights?
That’s what that Larrey Anderson article reminds me of.
That “swag hunt of the gods” link is a smorgasbord of ugliness, surpassed only by the “enhance their public relations” link. I wonder how many of these ad-hoc clusters of ideological dangleberries will still be around by 2010?
The fewer the merrier.
The troll obviously is NOT Herr Trout, but it IS awfully cute … yeah, the only thing more adorable then calling a magna cum laude law grad a bumbling fool who doesn’t know what he’s doing is frantically playing “Pin The Meltdown On The Darkie” when everyone knows damn well exactly who’s to blame for America’s economy doing a roadkill impersonation.
Meanwhile, Obama’s approval rating has actually gone UP slightly since the election – while the GOP proudly compares itself to the Taliban & proclaims that working for the government isn’t really a job at all. Nothing beats watching the neoconderthals try to bail out their sinking ship with a jackhammer … good times.
Oh, & it’s a fan of Ronald “Nevar Forget, The Waffen-SS Murderers Who Lay Here In Bitburg Were Victims, Too” Reagan, to boot! Yeah … America used to have monotonously constant massive trade & budget surpluses, but Sherriff Ronnie took care of that. Enjoy your $18,000 Pentagon coffee-makers, America!
Crybaby scroll troll is a crybaby scroll troll.
I’m guessing it’s simply a lack of talent. If the people who are going to the front lines in the conservative Kulturkampf on the movie industry are the same people who wrote and directed An American Carol and the lulz-packed Half-Hour News Hour, methinks Breitblart would be unwise to hold his breath. Hollywood’s probably going to be leaning our way for a long time yet.
The “creative mind” Conservatards have spent the last eight years (or the last 30-odd, depending on how strict your definition) working in the finance industry, coming up with new and inventive ways to steal. Their less gifted siblings went into politics and invented “Neoconservatism”, i.e., “new cover stories for the same old crimes”. When someone’s only deeply-rooted belief is that Money is the Measure of All Things, only the cult’s failures would waste their energies on risky high-dollar investments like Hollywood when they could be rakin’ in the sacred dollars from ponzi schemes and the PNAC (assuming there’s a difference between those two).
As for the YWC… I was sure that any logo combining *both* the SS badge motif and Mussellini’s fascio had to be a parody. But, once again, the modern Conservative
bowelmovement proves that it is no longer possible to be sufficiently cynical!They so need a Scheissenkopf lapel pin to complete the trifecta.
Soon you’re going to “ban” Rush and FOX, too.
Strictly from an esthetic point of view, however. We’re tired of fat white farts.
I would probably watch Rosy-Fingered Dawn, if they get the right actress for the part.
I should have said ‘actresses’ for the two main roles.
I would also hope that the film would put an end to Rosy’s hyphen.
M.Bouffant:
‘My curiosity was whether he was a lunch deliverer. They may be known as lunch-wallahs’.
The term is ‘Tiffin-wallah’.
They may be known as lunch-wallahs’