Alex, I’ll Take “Racial Slurs” for $100
ABOVE: Confederate Yankee Bob Owens on patrol for Black Bart*
One of the favorite memes of the right-wing nutjob-o-sphere is that liberals and blacks are the real racists and that, in reality, the true champions of diversity and racial harmony are conservative white guys who, believe it or not, spend almost every waking hour mulling over what, in the end, is most beneficial for blacks. Of course, the holy grail in this quest for evidence of liberal and black racism is President Obama, the socialist blackmander-in-chief running amok in the White House ramming “stuff” down everyone’s throat.
Now the conservatives are aware that Obama, like most uppity, well-educated Negroes, is way too smart to just run around calling white people crackers and honkies or publicly admitting his plans to relocate all white people to “work” camps in the Okefenokee Swamp. So, the task of uncovering his undeniable racism requires the application of close hermeneutic analysis by highly-educated right-wing bloggers uniquely skilled in coaxing from each Presidential utterance the incipient racism hiding behind what appear to the untrained eye to be ordinary words.
Speaking of highly-educated right-wing bloggers with unique analytic abilities, is that you Confederate Yankee? I thought so. Who better to sniff out the evils of racism than someone who choses to call himself a Confederate and who decorates his website with the Confederate flag? Oh wait, you’re some guy named MikeM who posts for Mr. ConWankee when he’s too liquored up to drive from his trailer park to the library in town with an internet terminal. Well, what have you to say, MikeM?
Mr. Obama is at it again. … But Mr. Obama redeemed himself on Monday by inviting Republicans along on the Obama Magic Bus, with one proviso: We have to ride in the back.
Hope, change, progress, lunatic racial slurs…it’s a brave new world.
Oh, dear, but I think Mr. Con Wankee’s fill-in is cheating just a teensy bit here, judging from what Obama actually said.
As he does frequently, Obama compared the economy to taking over a car that veered into a ditch. As Democrats have tried to push the car out of the ditch, Republicans, he said, were “fanning themselves, sippin’ on a Slurpee” and kicking dirt in their faces.
“Now we get the Republicans tapping us on the shoulder, saying ‘We want the keys back,'” Obama said to cheers. “You can’t have the key back — you don’t know how to drive,” Obama said to hoots, hollers and hurrahs. “You can ride with us if you want, but you’ve got to sit in the backseat. We’re going to put middle-class America in the front seat.”
Hmm. It seems the “backseat” of a car got all transmogrified by Mikey’s fetid imagination into the back of a bus, an alleged allusion to a practice that we can be certain that Mikey vigorously opposed at the time and now rightly finds morally reprehensible and, on top of that, a racial slur.
And God forbid that Obama should ever utter the phrase “hang on” because if he does Mr. Wankee and his little elf assistants will be telling us that Obama has just called for every white person in the United States to be lynched.
*Yeah, I know that the post was written by one of Mr. Yankee’s elves and not by Mr. Yankee himself, but I noticed that only after I finished this P-shop, and I thought it was too good to waste. If anyone wants to complain about this, I’ll gladly refund the price of their subscription to this blog.
As I said last thread (like 30 seconds ago), they’re assuming the Republicans are all white.
How dare that black fellow think that he and his political allies should come before his political opponents who are the One and True Inheritors of Amurka?
Sheesh, the guy wins one little election and he thinks he’s, like, in charge or something.
“You can ride with us if you want, but you’ve got to sit in the backseat. We’re going to put middle-class America in the front seat.”
So middle class America is white (check) and Republicans are the dirty underclass (check)
His problem with that is….?
Tis amusing to me that “backseat = back of bus = RACISM!!!” is a logical reasoning that flies in the conservative world, but making speeches about states’ rights on the site where civil rights workers were murdered is not.
Good old Ronnie Reagan and his teflon coating.
Confederate Yankee is just mad because President Obummer the LZ into a beach party. As much as the Yankee tried to make it like it was, the more he missed the good old days when blacks knew their place.
Oh wait, you’re some guy named MikeM who posts for Mr. ConWankee when he’s too liquored up to drive from his trailer park to the library in town with an internet terminal.
Hey, it’s not his fault he has two riding lawnmower DUIs!
Republicans in the South are very concerned with Racism:
http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/105746088.html
BECAUSE SHE WAS A NICE LADY AND SHUT UP, THAT’S WHY!
they’re assuming the Republicans are all white
The last couple GOP conventions sure as hell have looked like it.
Good thing Obama didn’t asked ConWankee and company to pick the cotton. Otherwise they would have to make good on what their bumperstickers seem to promise:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/waldoj/199819016/
asked=ask.
The last couple GOP conventions sure as hell have looked like it.
There was a brief moment after the 2008 election when the RNC tried to make it look otherwise, in the hopes that putting a black guy in charge would help make them more credible.
That plan was promptly sabotaged, of course, by the unanimous howls of outrage from the heartland at the sight of such
uppitypolitically correct behavior displayed by their own Real American Party. Hence the almost immediate reversion to their usual old selves.Goddman, you stupid liberal vegan hippie whiners, do I have to spell it out for you?
Barack Obama = B.O. = Black Oppressor
I mean, holy shit, it’s embedded in his fucking name!
Good thing Obama didn’t asked ConWankee and company to pick the cotton. Otherwise they would have to make good on what their bumperstickers seem to promise:
Jeeeeeeesus.
Good thing Obama didn’t asked ConWankee and company to pick the cotton. Otherwise they would have to make good on what their bumperstickers seem to promise:
Jeeeeeeesus.
Okay, the office computer blocks Flikr, so I’ll bite. What’s it say?
Okay, the office computer blocks Flikr, so I’ll bite. What’s it say?
Confederate flag bumper sticker with “If I had known this, I’d have picked my own cotton.”
Tis amusing to me that “backseat = back of bus = RACISM!!!”
Because Nigras in the Old South were always chauffeured all over the place…
Confederate flag bumper sticker with “If I had known this, I’d have picked my own cotton.”
Sacrebleu!
I bet those stickers were pretty popular in Atlanta after the war.
Because Nigras in the Old South were always chauffeured all over the place…
Of course! Haven’t you seen Driving Miss Daisy?
Of course! Haven’t you seen Driving Miss Daisy?
Stupid old white cracker bitch drivin’ all slow and shet…
Stupid old white cracker bitch drivin’ all slow and shet…
I say, old man! You’ve killed the thread!
I say, old man! You’ve killed the thread!
Stupid old white honky cracker bitches, threadin’ all slow and shet…
Confederate flag bumper sticker with “If I had known this, I’d have picked my own cotton.”
Sacrebleu!
I bet those stickers were pretty popular in Atlanta after the war.
A few years ago, a similar bumper sticker was found on the personal car of a white cop in a Chicago suburb who was notorious for rousting every black motorist he could find. He honestly couldn’t see why that might be a problem.
Ironically, Al Franken just yesterday talked about how Bush and the GOP put the country in the backseat…but you didn’t hear one little whine from the GOP about that inherent racism, did you?
Gawd damn Holl’awood New York Volvo latte sushi liberal socialist homasecshall elitist bluebelly superior sumbitch. I knowed you had it in for us white people!
In a brief fit of seriousness, it’s interesting to note the intense consciousness of all forms of discrimination these twits have. Back of the bus, check. Lynching, check. And so on, and so on. I’m seeing each of them trying to mark all the “this is what racial discrimination looks like” boxes with examples of reverse racism. I believe this is because, if they get all the boxes checked, they imagine the entire history of white-on-black race hatred will be neutralized.
This must be something to do with how slavery kind of cuts into the cracker idea of perpetual victimhood belonging only to themselves.
I don’t know which is more pronounced; the racism, the stupdity, or the sense of entitlement.
*cough* This looks familiar. Guffawing at the p-shop.
Conservatives are bringing up race. Does this mean they’re the real racists now?
This must be something to do with how slavery kind of cuts into the cracker idea of perpetual victimhood belonging only to themselves.
“Lissen, wen dem nigras was slaves, we white folks wuz o-pressed too!”
Gawd damn Holl’awood New York Volvo latte sushi liberal socialist homasecshall elitist bluebelly superior sumbitch. I knowed you had it in for us white people!
I have trouble believing that the real Confederate Yankee could have correctly spelled any of those words at all.
This must be something to do with how slavery kind of cuts into the cracker idea of perpetual victimhood belonging only to themselves.
The pathological obsession with their own victimhood, combined with the insecurity that comes from knowing how little they’ve earned it.
Guffawing at the p-shop.
He looks like he should be a character in some skinhead version of the Village People…
but you didn’t hear one little whine from the GOP about that inherent racism, did you?
HE CAN SAY IT ARR GRR BUSH NOT BLACK BLART BLART
These people. I swear, Obama could ask to please pass the salt and they’d start parsing it for racial content. But they’re not racists, nope, nuh-huh, colorblind they are, fersure!
Obama could ask to please pass the salt and they’d start parsing it for racial content
Salt is white! To pass on something means to deny it! HE’S DENYING WHITE FOLKS!
MikeM can console himself: at least he’s got rhythm. Who could ask for anything more?
BTW, is Palin actually looking for endorsements for 2012? Are they seriously going to run her?
*snicker*
No, really, CRISWELL PREDICTS that if the GOP wins at all next week, they’ll double-down on the stupid and run her. The GOP, Home Of The Bottomless Cup Of Crazy.
Obama could ask to please pass the salt and they’d start parsing it for racial content.
You know what other brown person had a thing about salt? Gandhi. You know what Gandhi was? An anti-colonialist. You know what an anti-colonialist is? As of October, 2010, IT IS THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD.
There was some guy on MSNBC yesterday who seemed pretty convinced Palin was going to run. I know some of you find the idea horrifying, but I think it would be AWESOME. Seriously, I don’t think I could wipe the grin off my face.
BTW, is Palin actually looking for endorsements for 2012? Are they seriously going to run her?
You know, if she actually ended up winning that, she’d end up wrecking and sinking her party like no president since Herbert Hoover.
Rincewind considered himself a racist, the hundred meters, the mile, the marathon, he’s run them all. However, when he found out the real meaning of the word he decided he was definitely not one.
I’m gonna be surprised if it happens; she doesn’t need to.
There was some guy on MSNBC yesterday who seemed pretty convinced Palin was going to run. I know some of you find the idea horrifying, but I think it would be AWESOME. Seriously, I don’t think I could wipe the grin off my face.
The reason the idea’s horrifying to so many is that it’s possible, however unlikely, that she’ll win.
Like I said above – if she does, even Jimmy Carter’s reputation will have nothing on hers. But the amount of damage someone that retarded and that far right can do while in office – well, we’ve barely started recovering from the Bush years. And he, compared to her, really was a moderate.
HE’S DENYING WHITE FOLKS!
SASQUATCH WHITE FOLKS!
No, really, CRISWELL PREDICTS that if the GOP wins at all next week, they’ll double-down on the stupid and run her. The GOP, Home Of The Bottomless Cup Of Crazy.
When you stop to consider that Sharron Angle might be a U.S. Senator next year, where’s the compelling evidence that doubling-down on the stupid won’t work in 2012?
I’m gonna be surprised if it happens; she doesn’t need to.
Also true, probably a safe bet.
Responsibility ain’t her bag – she proved that when she gave up the governorship of Alaska. All she wants is the popularity and influence without a shred of the responsibility, or even the need to think (smarter people than her have it all scripted).
BTW, is Palin actually looking for endorsements for 2012? Are they seriously going to run her?
I hope so. I didn’t realize it at the time, but the reason they picked her to run in 2008 was to make McCain look less angry. And young.
There was some guy on MSNBC yesterday who seemed pretty convinced Palin was going to run. I know some of you find the idea horrifying, but I think it would be AWESOME. Seriously, I don’t think I could wipe the grin off my face.
I would be surprised if she doesn’t run. Look at how many millions of dollars she made losing a vice-presidential race. Think how much losing a presidential campaign could be worth to her. Of course, if she somehow wins, her plans as well as all of America would be totally screwed.
Rincewind considered himself a racist, the hundred meters, the mile, the marathon, he’s run them all. However, when he found out the real meaning of the word he decided he was definitely not one.
I have a similar story about why I no longer call myself a sexist.
I have a similar story about why I no longer call myself a sexist.
The you woke up and smelled the glove?
When you stop to consider that Sharron Angle might be a U.S. Senator next year, where’s the compelling evidence that doubling-down on the stupid won’t work in 2012?
This. I remember being overjoyed that the GOP nominated Chimpy. It was only 8 years earlier his dad lost, and W was obviously dumber. I was sure the election would be Gore’s in a walk. Nobody could vote for someone as fucking stupid as Bush.
I will never make the mistake of believing that again.
Rosa Parks was forced to sit in the back of a limousine.
She’s already got SarahPAC. What’s she’s gotta convince people of is that her endorsements matter and that she should be the money funnel.
Still, my reasoning for why she won’t run requires her to demonstrate some smarts I’m not sure she has: seems clear to me that she wouldn’t win the nomination and I don’t think she wants to do stuff that she can’t win at.
This. I remember being overjoyed that the GOP nominated Chimpy. It was only 8 years earlier his dad lost, and W was obviously dumber. I was sure the election would be Gore’s in a walk. Nobody could vote for someone as fucking stupid as Bush.
In defense of your 10-year-younger self, people did vote for Gore, even with all the problems his campaign had. Alas, our beloved system wasn’t set up for something as disruptive as the popular will.
I was sure the election would be Gore’s in a walk. Nobody could vote for someone as fucking stupid as Bush.
Well, Gore DID win, except in the one place it mattered.
But your point is valid. I figured Bush would get creamed. I mean, people HATED his dad after Clinton won, and you had to figure they’d take it out on his son…nevermind that the son was functionally Triggered…
When you stop to consider that Sharron Angle might be a U.S. Senator next year, where’s the compelling evidence that doubling-down on the stupid won’t work in 2012?
Yeeeaaaah, Unless they nominate, like, a hot dog, I’m not going to feel safe.
What’s she’s gotta convince people of is that her endorsements matter and that she should be the money funnel.
She’s not exactly winning races. She’s about fifty-fifty, and while candidates had been getting bumps in the polls from her endorsements (Paul, Miller, and Angle) they haven’t exactly translated into clear leads yet.
I figure after 11/2 her record will be somewhere around 30%, and unless she pulls an upset out of her pocket, this will effectively end her kingmaking career.
Unless they nominate, like, a hot dog, I’m not going to feel safe.
Given the Dems this past Congress, I’d take a close look at the Hot Dog candidate. What are his positions? Is he kosher? What’s his take on Grey Poupon? Can he compromise with arugula? Will he execute his duties with relish? Can he get some mustard on the bills he passes?
Yeeeaaaah, Unless they nominate, like, a hot dog, I’m not going to feel safe.
While the ‘sins of omission’ would be up in hot dog administration, there shouldn’t be much in the way of ‘sins of commission’. It would probably be a wash. In other words a step up from a Bush administration and roughly equal to a DLC democrat administration.
She’s already got SarahPAC. What’s she’s gotta convince people of is that her endorsements matter and that she should be the money funnel.
The superrich would love her – she’s exactly the kind of phony populist empty shirt they had in George Bush, someone who’s orders of magnitude too stupid to do anything but follow their commands.
The only question is whether she’s electable. At the moment, she’s not; Democrats and independents alike consider her a negative more than a positive. Political winds change, of course, but if she ran today she’d be a fail. You’d have to make sure the terrain was well prepared if you were going to run her.
(And like I said, this assumes she’d have the guts to actually run).
Yeeeaaaah, Unless they nominate, like, a hot dog, I’m not going to feel safe.
Even then, the GOP would still carry Nebraska, Wyoming and Utah.
My $0.02: Who the hell are the Rs gonna nominate? It seems to me that in a crowded field, Sarah! can win the nom. And, the way things are going, the R nom is gonna be very valuable. If it wasn’t so serious, it would be fun to just sit back with the popcorn and beer……
Yeeeaaaah, Unless they nominate, like, a hot dog, I’m not going to feel safe.
Ladies and gentleman, I give you… the 2012 Republican ticket!
SASQUATCH WHITE FOLKS!
WHITE FOLKS ISREAL!
While the ‘sins of omission’ would be up in hot dog administration, there shouldn’t be much in the way of ‘sins of commission’. It would probably be a wash. In other words a step up from a Bush administration and roughly equal to a DLC democrat administration.
Campaign slogan of Hot Dog 2012:
Benign Neglect’s better than Compassionate Conservatism.
My $0.02: Who the hell are the Rs gonna nominate? It seems to me that in a crowded field, Sarah! can win the nom. And, the way things are going, the R nom is gonna be very valuable. If it wasn’t so serious, it would be fun to just sit back with the popcorn and beer……
It will still be fun to watch the nomination process. It will be like watching a demolition derby where the winner gets to run us over afterwards.
Who the hell are the Rs gonna nominate?
It’s Romney’s turn. I don’t think Palin will run (altho this stupid series that the Discovery Channel is running next month might alter the landscape for her, I doubt it). Pawlenty has way too much catching up to do, and while there are some dark horses, I just don’t see them raising the kind of money Mitt will commit.
the 2012 Republican ticket!
Needs moar pedophile.
As a pessimistic Dem, meaning a Dem who expects Obama to lose, I hope Romney is their nominee. I’ll believe it when I see it, though. The Southern base is very skeptical of Mitt, you know, the Mormon thing.
Stay classy, Teabaggers!
“the 2012 Republican ticket”
Is that Biggus Dickus and Hugh Jerection?
It’s Romney’s turn
Yep.
Me too. If you’re looking for an empty suit to project your policies into he’s the guy.
Our old friend, Anne Applebaum, blames the victims. Again.
*sigh*
a Dem who expects Obama to lose,
You’re kidding, right? For all his triangulating as an executive, he’s still a hell of politician. Remember, Mitt’s a Mormon – the evangelicals still feel queasy about it.
If you’re looking for an empty suit to project your policies into he’s the guy.
With sacred underwear!
en the Dems this past Congress, I’d take a close look at the Hot Dog candidate. What are his positions? Is he kosher? What’s his take on Grey Poupon? Can he compromise with arugula? Will he execute his duties with relish? Can he get some mustard on the bills he passes?
As someone who likes the menz, all I want to know is: is he beefy?
And what’s with the hamsters around here, is Seb hogging all the adderall?
If you’re looking for an empty suit to
projectdistract from your lack of policies into he’s the guy.Fixed!
There was a time when the super-rich wouldn’t have wanted an incompetent manager of the USA’s powerful nation-state such as Sarah Palin, for the risk of imminent instability.
Now, they’ve seen that even complete economic collapse lets them get away with zero fucking drawbacks, so, fuck it! Put the clown in who will do exactly what we say! Who gives a shit how long the country lasts? I’ll get my billions right now, thank you!
another Campaign slogan of Hot Dog 2012:
Garuanteed: Not Halal!
As someone who likes the menz, all I want to know is: is he beefy?
Beefy? Just look at those buns!
Tis amusing to me that “backseat = back of bus = RACISM!!!” is a logical reasoning that flies in the conservative world
The most amusing thing to me is that crazy race-baiting linkage occurs right before the guy complains of Obama’s “lunatic racial slurs.” Dude, you’re soaking in it.
Confederate flag bumper sticker with “If I had known this, I’d have picked my own cotton.”
Ever since Blacky McBlackington got elected I’ve become even more angry at the outrage that my forebears treated human beings like property?
My my my. The Wankee is all sensitive and stuff. I guess we need to be more politically correct.
Now, they’ve seen that even complete economic collapse lets them get away with zero fucking drawbacks, so, fuck it! Put the clown in who will do exactly what we say! Who gives a shit how long the country lasts? I’ll get my billions right now, thank you!
The key is this: Once in a while, allow a smart, eager-to-get-along candidate to win so that businesses can be bailed out and messes can cleaned (more or less).
He or she can be demonized later by the super-rich at their leisure.
…and messes can be cleaned up (more or less).
Back to typing school for me.
From Actor’s teabagger link: ” He is the only Muslim member of congress. He supports the Counsel for American Islamic Relations, HAMAS and has helped congress send millions of tax dollars to terrorists in Gaza.
(Note: This is actually not accurate. Rep. Andre Carson is also Muslim.)”
Really, there is nothing more about that statement that is inaccurate than the number of Muslims in Congress? Because let’s just say I have a hunch.
He looks like he should be a character in some skinhead version of the Village People…
Prussian Lavender.
has helped congress send millions of tax dollars to terrorists in Gaza.
I believe someone pointed out elsewhere that this is referring to a vote that gave aid to Israel, that was then used in Gaza. Ellison along with almost everyone else in Congress voted for it.
Really, there is nothing more about that statement that is inaccurate than the number of Muslims in Congress? Because let’s just say I have a hunch.
Well, he does support CAIR. He did visit Gaza, which in the
titseyes of Atlass means he’s secretly Hamas. And he has asked for humanitarian aid for Gazans.Of course, Ellison is not Muslim by birth, but by Nation of Islam affiliation.
You know, like that Muhammad Ali feller everyone hates…
He looks like he should be a character in some skinhead version of the Village People…
Prussian Lavender.
This made me laugh.
Beefy? Just look at those buns!
There’s a “catsup” joke in here somewhere, but I’ll be damned if I can figure it out…
Prussian Lavender.
Golf clap!
There’s a “catsup” joke in here somewhere, but I’ll be damned if I can figure it out…
Please try to ketchup.
Prussian Lavender.
This made me laugh.
Me too.
There’s a “catsup” joke in here somewhere, but I’ll be damned if I can figure it out…
Please try to ketchup.
I was thinking something a little more tasteless.
I personally feel, and this might just be me, if the GOP does carry it next week (grid forbid) they’ll be all “WOOT REVOLUTION WOOT” like they were in ’94, which exuberance will lead to the running of Caribou Whiney for Preznit. At which point I will vote for Hot Dog as a write-in candidate.
I could be wrong, though. I hope.
I was thinking something a little more tasteless.
“Please try to margarine” doesn’t make sense.
And he has asked for humanitarian aid for Gazans.
HOW DARE HE SEND AID TO TERRORISTS BLART BLART
I’d take a close look at the Hot Dog candidate. What are his positions? Is he kosher? What’s his take on Grey Poupon? Can he compromise with arugula? Will he execute his duties with relish? Can he get some mustard on the bills he passes?
After some consideration, I’d say he’s likely to get a chili reception.
I love me some Joy Behar.
Now I want a hot dog.
Please try to ketchup.
If only I wasn’t in a pickle.
After some consideration, I’d say he’s likely to get a chili reception.
He’ll need to pepper his speeches with red meat for the masses, to be sure.
Now I want a hot dog.
*sipping herbal tea quietly*
And people say I have no filter…
I personally feel, and this might just be me, if the GOP does carry it next week (grid forbid) they’ll be all “WOOT REVOLUTION WOOT” like they were in ’94, which exuberance will lead to the running of Caribou Whiney for Preznit. At which point I will vote for Hot Dog as a write-in candidate.
FWIW I heard somebody on NPR say the other day that Obama’s approval rating with voters is higher than Reagan’s was at this point in his first term.
Tig,
This.
He’ll need to pepper his speeches with red meat for the masses, to be sure.
Truly a salt-of-the-earth candidate.
FWIW I heard somebody on NPR say the other day that Obama’s approval rating with voters is higher than Reagan’s was at this point in his first term.
Yes, but that fails to account for the all-important fact that Reagan was, you know, not a Kenyan.
Truly a salt-of-the-earth candidate.
I never sausage a speaker.
He’ll need to pepper his speeches with red meat for the masses, to be sure.
And he’d better be ready for some intense grilling from the MSM.
*sipping herbal tea quietly*
And people say I have no filter…
I just noticed you were a little dehydrated and could stand to have some herbal tea, is all.
Oh lord. Is it thyme for puns again?
Oh lord. Is it thyme for puns again?
I’d sage so.
And he’d better be ready for some intense grilling from the MSM.
They will rake him over the coals until they can smoke out his positions, true.
Damn you, Sadlynauts, you damned dirty apes! I’m still about 9 days behind on my comment reading. Just popped in hear to drop this gem I found about the Juan Williams kerfuffle (which I’m so damned sick of.) By a Mr. Coates of The Atlantic:
“Finally, it must be said–in the broader context–that Juan Williams simply isn’t Shirley Sherrod. Juan Williams’ father, to my knowledge, was not murdered by anti-American Islamic radicals. Juan Williams did not grow up watching his mother face down the Al’Qaeda on the front porch. Juan Williams did not have his entire life absorbed by the fight against Islamic terror. Juan Williams makes a career amicably discussing bigotry with bigots. Shirley Sherrod made a career, and a life, of confronting bigotry–perhaps most admirably, her own. “
I never sausage a speaker.
However his opponents have labeled him a weenie.
However his opponents have labeled him a weenie.
Especially Michael “Savage” Weiner.
To his credit, he is a frank politician.
By a Mr. Coates of The Atlantic:
Ta-Nehisi Coates, to be specific.
Oh, I think I’m on the wrong pun track. There’s not much of a link between thyme and hot dogs.
To his credit, he is a frank politician.
I must admit defeat on that one. It’s too perfect to follow up with. I’d ruin the beauty. Well played, sir! Martini?
(I’m such a brat)
They will rake him over the coals until they can smoke out his positions, true.
But they’ll never keep him from being the wiener.
But they’ll never keep him from being the wiener.
Baseball been berry berry good to heem.
I must admit defeat on that one. It’s too perfect to follow up with. I’d ruin the beauty. Well played, sir! Martini?
Most kind. Though I admit, it’s nice to savor the victory.
Though I admit, it’s nice to savor the victory
One can only hope he’ll avoid load up on pork after he’s elected.
One can only hope he’ll avoid load up on pork after he’s elected.
That would be a turn for the wurst.
Whale Chowder – was it you I was arguing with re Clinton and Kosovo the other day? ‘Cause I have some crow to eat.
I’d like to dispense of this bullshit meme that Shirley Sherrod was truly dealing with bigotry.
Her job was at a nonprofit which did not include providing legal advice to a farmer going into bankruptcy. Yes, the white farmer Sooner. She referred him to an attorney.
Later, when nothing was being done by the attorney for him, that is when she completely went out of her way and totally out of the parameters of her job to deal with the attorneys and make them do something.
She had a moment when to herself she thought about not wanting to do much to help this guy. And then she did, as far as what her job was. Which did not include giving legal help for bankruptcy. Because she was not a lawyer. And her nonprofit didn’t do that. So she referred him to an attorney.
And then when Sooner let her know that weeks passed and nothing had been done, she went far beyond any of her job responsibilities to get him to another attorney and made sure he did his job.
If I went to a black librarian and asked him or her to be vaccinated, and that librarian thought silently in his / her mind that maybe I was being a jerk and he / she didn’t want to go out of the way to do too much for me, and then referred me to the local clinic, is this really “bigoted”?
What, that librarian was just supposed to make sure the clinic took care of me properly? Suddenly that’s their job, in order to prove they’re not bigoted?
To his credit, he is a frank politician.
While his opponent lived life high on the hog, he came from a more diverse background. He does have strong backing though, he is USDA choice.
I’ve labored long and hard
For bread,
For honor and for riches,
But on my toes too long
You’ve tread
You fine-haired sons of bitches.
—- Black Bart
I’d say you hit that one out of the Ball Park.
Or, perhaps, Mikey would have decried the socialism of public transit systems and argued for private bus transport that could send black riders to the back of the bus as much as they wanted to because that’s freedom and shut up that’s why.
When a right-winger says this: “Mr. Obama is at it again…”
What he really means is this: “That uppity n___ doesn’t know his place.”
Okay, I’ll admit. It was me. I really wanted Carl Castle’s voice on my home answering machine!
Eat shit and die, WP!! I am not posting too fast. You’re just a piece of crap!
I believe someone pointed out elsewhere that this is referring to a vote that gave aid to Israel, that was then used in Gaza. Ellison along with almost everyone else in Congress voted for it.
Okay, if that aid money went through Israel, then it’s a good bet none of that money made it into any Palestinian hands. The only people less likely than Hamas to receive Israeli money are the victims it’s actually meant for.
But let’s take the wingnuts and their Very Serious News Organizations at their word. Why is the money we’re giving the Israelis ending up in Hamas’ bank accounts? That’s rather an egregious way to spend taxpayers’ hard-earned money, isn’t it? Shouldn’t we be investigating the money we give Israel to make sure that kind of thing doesn’t happen? Maybe even stop giving them money until that little problem’s been taken care of?
Fucking logic. How does it work?
Goddamnit, I’ve checked out a couple of rightie blogs where they think that this stomping is just A-OK. What a bunch of bottom-dwellers.
BTW, Tintin:
ABOVE: Confederate Yankee Bob Owens on patrol for Black Blart*
fixched your caption for you.
Goddamnit, I’ve checked out a couple of rightie blogs where they think that this stomping is just A-OK. What a bunch of bottom-dwellers.
“She made me do it!”
FAUX News seems kind of cool with it, too.
Well, at least they identified the guy and have him into the justice system’s hands.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101026/ap_on_el_se/us_kentucky_senate_scuffle
I love it;
He’s apologizing that it “appeared” overly forceful, and by saying “sorry it came to that,” implies that indeed, “she made me do it.” As for the concern about Paul’s safety, that seems safely disregardable. He’d warned the cops about the woman and they’d told him it wasn’t their job – which means they looked at her and saw a zealous activist who happened to be on the other side, not a threat.
Nope, the guy just wanted to beat the shit out of someone. Love the name “Profitt,” also – could hardly have chosen a better one.
Run for your lives. La Reconquista arrives.
Pere: Don’t think it was me. However, I’m willing to accept your crow-eating on behalf of the group. That’s just the kind of guy I am.
As to the head-stomper, I sincerely hope he gets a taste of his own medicine when the authoritahs come to take him away.
And regarding the hot dog candidate, Oberto he won’t get far.
‘I apologize if in any way my actions were interpreted, however inaccurately, by others as offensive. I am greatly sorry for any degree of inconvenience that my actions may have created for me.’
The new census is expected to show a nearly 45% increase in the number of Hispanic Americans since 2000, to a total of 50 million.
That is OUTSTANDING.
Having been a census worker last spring, I take some small pride in having participated in the recording that fact.
In addition, that number is very likely underestimated – there’s always people too afraid to give that kind of information to the government, and a disproportionate number of them are Hispanic (both illegals and people who’re suspicious of authorities that seem to treat all Latinos as such). Still, 45% is friggin sweet. Give them another couple decades like that and the GOP’s really going to be up shit creek.
Profitt said the fight never would have occurred if police officers had intervened earlier.
“A friend of mine went up to three policeman before Rand got there, and told them about the girl who was standing there with that wig on and that she was getting ready to do something,” Profitt said. “The policemen looked at him and said that’s not our job.”
Sadly, nut job, looking like you might begin protesting while wig-wearing is not actually a crime, while wrestling someone to the ground and standing on her head is.
Sorry if I’m repeating anyone else, but 100+ comments? I’ll read them with the next glass of bourbon.
That’s pretty good there MikeM, but it’s only Tuesday – I’m sure Bobo Wens can work hisself up into a frothy lather and come out with something more bigoted and ignorant than saying a black man is relegating Whitey to the “back of the bus”. I mean take a look at last week’s winner.
Despite a foreward that starts with:
The fact that a number of Tea Party founders/organizers/members are also founders/organizers/members of racist groups – that Tea Party rallies are infected with racist, anti-semitic and hateful signage and paraphenalia, that a fundamental tenet of Tea Party ideology as a “Real America vs. Everyone Else” style Nationalism with eliminationist garnish, that plus several other revelations about the nearly uniformly white Tea Party movement as described in this report means that the NAACP are the real racists.
When you’re flagging your own posts for their extraordinary ignorant and racist content, you gotta be careful because Bobo Wens.has set a pretty high bar for that type of behaviour.
We know the majority of Tea Party supporters are sincere, principled people of good will.
*snerk*
On second thought, yeah, they’re sincere, principled people.
Only their sincerity and principles embody the worst of American right-wing paranoia and thuggishness.
Well, at least they identified the guy and have him into the justice system’s hands.
There’s a picture of Tim Profitt at the blog Blue Bluegrass that could be put in the dictionary next to the word DERP.
(Tintin might find it useful for ‘shopping purposes.)
Sadly, nut job, looking like you might begin protesting while wig-wearing is not actually a crime, while wrestling someone to the ground and standing on her head is.
Now, if she’d been dressed as a fake ho with a fake pimp, and carrying a video camera, she’d be lauded as a hero, right?
I can’t begin to tell you how liberating it was to finally quit giving a shit about what happens to the Democrats. Sure, on the one hand its really piss-poor the way Biden and the Boy Emperor are dissing us, but what do you expect? These are Democrats we’re talking about here, y’know. I become flat-out ecstatic every time I hear either of these two — not to mention the likes of Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann and Ed “I Know No-THING!” Schultz blustering and kvetching and pleading for us to come out and vote for their miserable-assed party, because I know that every time they do this, they’re showing us just how truly weak, ineffectual and entirely unworthy of our support they are.
“You can ride with us if you want, but you’ve got to sit in the backseat […]”
I prefer riding in the back. Driving is boring and limits what else I can do. A competent driver up front is preferable. I think the way we chose the driver was reasonably good and fair. Note, too, that rich folks ride in the backs of limousines. Who doesn’t want to be like them?
Confederate Yankees could devote their full attention to race-baiting from the back seat. Conservative senators could devote their full attention to obstructionism and stuff like that.
After slumming in the Yahho news comment section where the people seem to be 35% pro fascist and assault, it occurs to me that instead of firing Juan Williams and thus violating his sacred 1st Am right to work for NPR. NPR should have just hired some goons to stomp on his head. Wingnuts would then say he had it coming: If they were intellectually honest that is. (snerk)
You can ride with us if you want, but you’ve got to sit in the backseat.
the Yahho news comment section where the people seem to be 35% pro fascist and assault
Well, it’s not called Yahoo News for nothing.
Susan and her brother, Charles the grinning boy said,
October 27, 2010 at 2:31
You can ride with us if you want, but you’ve got to sit in the backseat.
Appreciative chuckle.
Huh?
Crap, hope I didn’t blow the hamsters up w/ a tag fail.
You have to tag-fail in just the right way. Wanna see?
Sharron Angle is giving Bobo Wens (and the KKK) a run for their bigot money.
(The extra r is for extra racist.)
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I thought MB was on Hiatt-us.
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Sharron Angle is giving Bobo Wens (and the KKK) a run for their bigot money.
HARRY REID KICKED A PUPPY.
AN AMERICAN PUPPY.
You’d be surprised how fast a man can get to his supplies & back to the urban bunker when danger calls.
Plus which:
Hiatt-us Hernia
The hiatt-us hernia is one of the most misunderstood and maligned conditions in medicine. People blame this hernia for much more than it ever does. …
Worked that time.
The fact is, Hitler would have appluaded how our Liberal brethern our making Conservatives in the Heart Land look bad for suporting traditional values like patriotics.
From TPM. Full text above, good picture though.
And how, exactly, is Ernst Röhm there a “former” volunteer? Can you fire a volunteer? How do we know he’s not licking envelopes for Rat Piss right now anyway?
.
Mom’s worried about you, Gary.
Tim] Profitt explained that he used his foot to try and keep her down because he can’t bend over because of back problems.
Aw. My heart bleeds.
Hopefully the beds at the jail are nice and comfy so he doesn’t have to worry about his back.
Asshole.
…Who better to sniff out the evils of racism than someone who chooses to call himself a Confederate and who decorates his website with the Confederate flag?…
Everyone knows that the War of Northern Aggression was fought to protect African Americans. The North was going to take away African American’s God given right to work in exchange for food, board, and the right to bear their master’s children, and so the Confederacy rose up and said “No. Let this Confederate flag and these tea bags symbolize our commitment to protecting our African Americans from the North.” Yup, that’s why they call it the Tea Bagger party. There’s a fine documentary about this subject by a grateful African American– Confederate States of America, the Movie.
Along these same lines…
“I do see racism in practice from time to time, but not often. Mostly I see it in the following places: (1) I hear it from blacks, directed at white people; (2) I hear it from progressives, directed at black conservatives; and (3) occasionally, I hear subtle racism in Democratic party campaign ads directed at their own voters. Take note of #3, because what it says is that not only is most of the racism in America to be found in the Democratic party, but it says that the Democrats know it’s there.”
http://208.115.218.98/~plumbbob/?p=7673#comments
That is fucking beautiful. ‘I had to stomp on her head because my back hurts.’
That is a fucking achievement. That right there is an explanation of sheer beauty, a doublespeak which I will certainly not soon forget.
Still waiting for Obama to threaten to turn the car around if these GOP brats don’t STFU.
Yeeeaaaah, Unless they nominate, like, a hot dog, I’m not going to feel safe.
I like hotdogs. Maybe that would be my first national Republican vote. But only if the hotdog supports rural electrification.
Ed “I Know No-THING!” Schultz
This is actually kinda funny.
Also.
Joy Behar rulez, bitchez!
Confederate Yankees could devote their full attention to race-baiting from the back seat. Conservative senators could devote their full attention to obstructionism and stuff like that.
Plus they could argue and complain about the other “looking out my window!”
**sigh**
Did I brakt it agin?
Yeah, you brownshirt shiteater fuck. That chick looked extremely dangerous with her sign and complete lack of defensive struggle.
This Profitt guy is a complete shit and needs to fucking die. I think I have a nasty old tennis shoe i can use on his scumbag fucking face if he’s into that “eye for an eye” bullshit that fucks like him like to prattle on about.
Oh yeah, and APPEARED overly forceful? Yeah, it appeared that you’re fucking scumbag nazi, actually. You aren’t a bit sorry about that, I’m sure.
Time of death, 20:01 PST.
Rest in pieces, thread.
The Celtics beating the Heat proves the Democrats have a good chance in the upcoming elections. Don’t ask me how though, because I only caught the last like two minutes.
I’m not quite dead yet.
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I’m not quite dead yet.
But you’re not getting better.
T-shirt smartassery here:
http://imvotingteaparty.com/
How many TPers will miss the joke?
Did Proffit scuff his shoes while curbstomping? I think that women should apologize to him for that.
T-shirt smartassery here:
http://imvotingteaparty.com/
My name is thread, and I support this massage.
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The fact is, Hitler would have appluaded how our Liberal brethern our making Conservatives in the Heart Land look bad for suporting traditional values like patriotics.
Equipped with my super secret Rosetta stone that allows me to decipher even the most complex messages emanating from alien life forms, I am proud to say I cracked the meaning of this very puzzling (at first) posting. In plain English, this means:
Me and Stalin are going to take over the world and be praised by grateful masses for centuries to come.
Well, it’s likely that even in non cryptic form, this message will get the men in white to take Gary back to his padded cell.
Hey, for some cases this is not too far off if you don’t mind,.
Newhaven firefighters says you don’t have the glass ceiling just for white guys. Public sector unions ( read : AFSCME ) do that and they do political vetting , too. Their applications of the merit system is criminal.
I’ve seen it.
“Did Proffit scuff his shoes while curbstomping? I think that women should apologize to him for that.”
Yes. All women. The nerve of you all. The man has a bad back, you fucking harpies.
Ugh I cant even snark about this. Proffit (and Rand Paul) are indescribably vile.
***
Now, I like me some 2nd Amendment as much as the next guy, but one does have to wonder how the possible outcome of the situation in question might have differed if those Paultard thugs had actually been armed.
It’s too often the motherfuckers least able to be trusted with guns that scream loudest about needing to have them strapped to their foreheads 24/7.
Of course, if you watch the video, cockmonkey seems to be able to bend over just fine. What do you think the odds are he’s getting disability for that “back problem”?
If she hadn’t have been out of the kitchen…
actor212 said, October 26, 2010 at 20:51
And of course they were. And still are. Racism is a tool used by the boss class to split the working class.
Doesn’t mean they’re not stupid fuckwits though.
Victim was on Olberman. Says she will sue the bastards. Good on her. She may be able to include Randy McHitler IMHO since the thug was an employee. Not sure about KY tort law. Duh, its Kentucky, nevermind.
It’s too often the motherfuckers least able to be trusted with guns that scream loudest about needing to have them strapped to their foreheads 24/7.
Or, in the words of my cousin who was raised in New York and currently lives in North Carolina; “Now that I live in a red state, I’d feel a lot better if I had a gun.”
TBogg has the lowdown on Joe Miller. Go. See. Now. Run.
And of course they were. And still are. Racism is a tool used by the boss class to split the working class.
Except it’s kind of a one-way street. You don’t see minorities screaming about how upwards trends in their living standards would also benefit whitey, or about how they’d rather stay in a shittastic situation than improve it in a way that also helps whitey.
So it’s a “split,” but only the people on the native side of the split are making it happen, really.
T-shirt smartassery here:
http://imvotingteaparty.com/
How many TPers will miss the joke?
All of them.
(my favorite is “Obama wants the Government to take over Social Security”)
Paul’s spokesman on the curb-stomping:
“We can disagree on issues, and I don’t know what preceded the incident, but physical violence by a man against a woman must never be tolerated,” Conway said in a statement.
Unless it’s the rape scene in The Fountainhead, of course.
Me love me free speech.
Paul’s spokesman on the curb-stomping:
MSNBC has a Febreze commercial before the Olbermann clip. How adequate to “set & refresh” a bit before watching such stinky behavior.
The “Mordor” one is probably the funniest thing on The Intertubes.
It’s Happy Fun Blame the Victim Time!
Today on his radio show, Rush Limbaugh also shifted the blame onto Valle and MoveOn, asking “What if somebody from MoveOn had tried to move through the crowd and give something to President Obama? What would the Secret Service have done?”
And what does the the Secret Service do when Teabaggers show up at political events with guns? Jack-shit. Someone needs to work on his analogies.
Paul himself today appeared on Fox News, saying, “I don’t want anybody to be involved in things that aren’t civil.”
Except “rights”, hess his blart.
Oh. From the comments thread at the Media Matters link:
You have a woman, wearing a wig, running through the crowd trying to get to a candidate. At that point, no one knows if she has a gun, a knife, or what her intentions are. She was there looking for trouble and she found it. I saw the video….now lets see the medical reports. Lets see any medical proof of her injuries.
I am not a ditto head. I have not listened to Rush in months, but he is right on this one. If someone had done this at an Obama rally they would have gotten this…and much more.
Yeah! She might have had a… um, a cardboard sign! And a WIG! A WIG, PEOPLE!
“She made me do it!”
She fell down right in front of me, after I grabbed her arm and yanked it nearly out of its socket! What was I supposed to do? Her head was such a tempting target!
“What if somebody from MoveOn had tried to move through the crowd and give something to President Obama? What would the Secret Service have done?”
As trained security personnel, they would–
Oh wait…Paul’s protectors were a FUCKING MOB OF ANGRY ASSHATS!
“Did Proffit scuff his shoes while curbstomping? I think that women should apologize to him for that.”
Oh teh funnie joke.
Kentucky Stomper Wants An Apology From Woman He Assaulted
Kentucky Stomper Wants An Apology From Woman He Assaulted
I would never have imagined Harry Whittington would set Republican policy…
Poor Mr Profitt of Doom, he was forced to stomp on Valle’s head because his bad back would not allow him to bend over far enough to give her a proper punch in the face. He should be asking for an apology from the guys who threw her down to the ground to begin with where he couldn’t reach her properly. I’m currently giving even odds that we will someday find out that he hurt his back beating up his girlfriend.
Why Teabaggers might be immortal
Oh wait…Paul’s protectors were a FUCKING MOB OF ANGRY ASSHATS!
But she had a wig!
A wig of terror!
The attacked was planned by Paultards?
Unpossible!
A wig of terror!
Channeling Burt Reynolds is not a crime.
Is anyone else kinda expecting Congress to pass a bill outlawing MoveOn now?
To quote my hilarious-ass self: “When fascism comes to America, it will be wearing a ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ button and bad facial hair.” I suppose we could add “and will have a bad back” somewhere in there.
DeLay jury selected. African Americans excluded by non-racist DeLay attorney for non-racist DeLay.
Is anyone else kinda expecting Congress to pass a bill outlawing MoveOn now?
Well………..
I wouldn’t be surprised, anyway.
“and will have a bad back”
I blame the obesity crisis.
I wonder how these people expect to pick themselves up by the bootstraps if they can’t bend oveer to tie them…
I blame the obesity crisis.
I wonder how these people expect to pick themselves up by the bootstraps if they can’t bend oveer to tie them…
I have to say that I didn’t predict that American brownshirts would come in the form of the pre-diabetic and floppy-gutted.
re: Profitt
It’s interesting to see the righteous indignation here. Of course it was Lauren Valle’s fault and apparently, she should apologize. Because Stompin’ Tim (apologies to Tom Connors and his fans) is and always was convinced of the absolute rightness of his actions.
Which is hard to reconcile with his running like a scared ninny immediately after the event and disappearing for a whole day.
It’s hard to argue that you were behaving appropriately and were not comitting any wrongs if you flee the scene before authorities arrive. That’s actually a real honest-to-goodness legal concept which I believe is called Weaselus Guiltia.
It’s interesting. He had to be called off giving her a more severe stomping. Whoever that was, good on you. It’s pretty clear that Profitt didn’t give a shit if Lauren Valle was seriously injured or not. Or if he did care, he was leaning on the spitting out blood and teeth side of things.
But he did recognize – shortly after the adrenaline rush of committing violence against a much smaller, defenseless and non-resisting target – he fled the scene. It wasn’t until he had time enough to convince himself later on of his inherent rightness that he outed himself.
It’s an interesting view into the Tea Party mindset. That even though they act like sociopaths, it requires conscious effort on their part to dehumanize their targets. That the ones that behave like inhuman monsters need to work themselves up to it. That they are actually scared little children who aspire to be the big badass who don’t give a shit about anyone except themselves.
But then again, I am an optimist. Maybe they are mentally damaged and incapable of recognizing other human beings as anything other than their own personal playthings.
“I wonder how these people expect to pick themselves up by the bootstraps if they can’t bend oveer to tie them…”
Medicaid-paid motorized vehicles double as motorized lounge chairs. QED.
It’s an interesting view into the Tea Party mindset. That even though they act like sociopaths, it requires conscious effort on their part to dehumanize their targets.
I’d argue just the opposite, at least in Proffit’s case: it took an act of will to humanize her, and only then in the context of the consequences of his act of viciousness.
In other words, her humanity was not based on his internal filter but on how others including law enforcement would view his actions.
Damn you Scott for beating me to the Profitt demands apology link.
*sigh* I guess I could try shorter comments.
In other words, her humanity was not based on his internal filter but on how others including law enforcement would view his actions.
Like I said above. He’s not sorry he stomped on a woman’s head. He’s sorry that it “appeared forceful.”
*sigh* I guess I could try shorter comments.
Every once in a blue moon, that occurs to me. Then another teabagger does or says something outrageous and I need to rant.
Like I said above. He’s not sorry he stomped on a woman’s head. He’s sorry that it “appeared forceful.>Like I said above. He’s not sorry he stomped on a woman’s head. He’s sorry that it “appeared forceful.”
He’s a sociopath. He’s just upset he got into trubz.
If there wasn’t video of it, he wouldn’t have even come forward in the first place.
I wonder how these people expect to pick themselves up by the bootstraps if they can’t bend oveer to tie them…
Conveniently disenfranchised and poorly (or non) paid minority shoelace-tying workers.
Damn you Scott for beating me to the Profitt demands apology link.
FLAWLESS VICTORY
In other words, her humanity was not based on his internal filter but on how others including law enforcement would view his actions.
You may be right. Like I said, I’m optimistic. But I’d like to point out that the optimistic and charitable view of Tim Profitt’s actions is that there was a moment of remorse – of recognize wrong-doing at physically assaulting a restrained and non-resisting woman – and that is seen as a weakness that must be expunged. And it took all of a day to do it.
Question: is there ANYTHING a Teabagger could do that would earn te ire of other Teabaggers? It seems to me that if a curbstomp won’t do it, nothing will.
I’m so angry I honestly don’t know what to do with myself.
If there wasn’t video of it, he wouldn’t have even come forward in the first place.
I dunno. I think the cops might have come up with him.
Question: is there ANYTHING a Teabagger could do that would earn te ire of other Teabaggers?
“Y’know, that Obamacare may not be as bad as I thought…”
Right. Unspeakable cruelty’s ok…but doing something perceived as liberal is unforgivable.
I dunno. I think the cops might have come up with him.
Sure, but he’d have spent his time trying to say she was lying and explaining it away, and he probably would’ve gotten the backing of at least some witnesses.
Maybe I’m weird, but the most disturbing thing to me about all of this is that she’s a woman, and a young, small-ish woman at that. I thought that at least some conservatives had at least enough basic decency to know that a man assaulting a woman is not OKAY EVER.
Evil fuckers.
I thought that at least some conservatives had at least enough basic decency to know that a man assaulting a woman is not OKAY EVER.
First, there are. Those are the folks who would have ratted Proffit out, I’m sure.
Second, which part of “barefoot and pregnant” needs explaining?
Question: is there ANYTHING a Teabagger could do that would earn te ire of other Teabaggers? It seems to me that if a curbstomp won’t do it, nothing will.
Actually, Tim probably has earned the ire of at least some Tea Party people. Not because of the curb-stomp, but because he got caught. Rand’s campaign has “severed ties” to the guy because he’s making the Movement look bad. What with the whole Personality Cult nature of the Beck-Palin-Paul-ORLY masses, reflecting badly on one of the superstars of the movement that has got to be an unforgivable sin.
Then again, considering the strength of the “Us versus Them” nature of the Tea Parties, he’s probably forgiven because they’ve redirected all of their frustration and hate back at the curb-stomped woman and the lie-beral media for editting out her legions of demonic Soros-cyborgs and Islamoatheist suicide bombers.
did y’all see this? Good stuff.
Then again, considering the strength of the “Us versus Them” nature of the Tea Parties, he’s probably forgiven because they’ve redirected all of their frustration and hate back at the curb-stomped woman and the lie-beral media for editting out her legions of demonic Soros-cyborgs and Islamoatheist suicide bombers.
I’m waiting for the “check the kerning on the sign” charge.
“What if somebody from MoveOn had tried to move through the crowd and give something to President Obama? What would the Secret Service have done?”
Wow, that takes false equivalences in speculative fiction to a whole new level.
Kentucky Stomper Wants An Apology From Woman He Assaulted
Did he twist his ankle while stomping on her head? Worker’s comp!
“What if somebody from MoveOn had tried to move through the crowd and give something to President Obama? What would the Secret Service have done?”
Well, they didn’t curbstomp the guy who threw his book at Obama.
They also didn’t curbstomp the teabaggers who were waving their guns around at rallies, which is looking more and more like a serious error…
First, there are. Those are the folks who would have ratted Proffit out, I’m sure.
You’re right. I generalized because I’m pissed. I will say that it still surprises me that there’s ANYONE who defends the motherfucker.
Second, which part of “barefoot and pregnant” needs explaining?
I guess head-stomping preserves the reproductive organs.
Jonah Goldberg weighs in on the Constitution. It seems the only thing Congress is allowed to do is build post offices and a military. One wonders why the The Founders thought we even needed elections in that case.
Question: is there ANYTHING a Teabagger could do that would earn te ire of other Teabaggers? It seems to me that if a curbstomp won’t do it, nothing will.
Maybe an actual death. They do say Oklahoma City went a long way towards killing the milita movement’s image.
OTOH, nothing they justify would surprise me anymore.
Jonah Goldberg weighs in on the Constitution.
I see what you do there.
Can I just say that Jon Stewart’s rally could not be more perfectly timed?
The heroic tea party security apparatus has intercepted and neutralized a MoveOn thug before she could successfully get to Rand Paul and ask him a question. Do you know how bad it could have been if that thug hadn’t been thrown down and stomped? why she might have made it all the way to the candidate. She probably had a loaded question! Rand Paul might have had to answer a question, people! Do you know how close it almost was? We all remember that talk show appearance where Rand Paul had to heroically defend segregation. Did you want that to happen again? We dodged a bullet here people, but stay frosty, they might have more people with more signs or worse, more loaded questions!
The heroic tea party security apparatus has intercepted and neutralized a MoveOn thug before she could successfully get to Rand Paul and ask him a question.
She was actually going to hand him an award for being Employee Of The Month of the RepubliCon party.
I see what you do there.
The Constitution is like Jonah’s kid brother; he only notices it when he feels like holding something down to fart on its head.
Maybe an actual death. They do say Oklahoma City went a long way towards killing the militia movement’s image.
I think the reaction to the OKC bombing was what scared off the militias — it was universally enraged, and it was on every channel.
It would not be the same today. A similar bombing would be initially denounced by Fox News on the assumption that it was done by Teh Dirty Mooslams, but when it became clear that teabaggers were behind it, the network would become a 24/7 excuse train for why it was okay, why the kids in the nursery were asking for it, why it was all a dirty Obama plot, and why it was probably really done by Teh Dirty Mooslams anyway. The rest of the media would soon start following their lead, because they wouldn’t want to anger the Real Americans.
The teabaggers aren’t going to be backing down this time. They really think they’re going to win.
the network would become a 24/7 excuse train for why it was okay, why the kids in the nursery were asking for it, why it was all a dirty Obama plot, and why it was probably really done by Teh Dirty Mooslams anyway.
This.
But she had a wig!
This had to happen and I also think “why a wig?” is the most important question to ask here. I buy into the D narrative as much as I buy into the R narrative. Over-reach on the part of the Ds and Move-On is the real story here, rubes. The wig seems anomalous in any narrative. “Bad hair day?”
Is anyone else kinda expecting Congress to pass a bill outlawing MoveOn now?
You’re a sucker if you think that would ever happen. There may be innocent actors in the drama, but the Ds, and Rs, and MoveOn and their wig-wearing lackeys aren’t among them.
This had to happen and I also think “why a wig?” is the most important question to ask here. I buy into the D narrative as much as I buy into the R narrative. Over-reach on the part of the Ds and Move-On is the real story here, rubes. The wig seems anomalous in any narrative. “Bad hair day?”
You’re a sucker if you think that would ever happen. There may be innocent actors in the drama, but the Ds, and Rs, and MoveOn and their wig-wearing lackeys aren’t among them.
Either this is profundity beyond my ken, or the Malfunctioning Glenn Reynolds Robot has spawned.
You’re a sucker if you think that would ever happen. There may be innocent actors in the drama, but the Ds, and Rs, and MoveOn and their wig-wearing lackeys aren’t among them.
The Shorter actually makes more sense than the linked post itself.
Wait for it: It’s now MORE important than EVAH to tap ANWR!
The Shorter actually makes more sense than the linked post itself.
Here’s what’s hilarious about that post: MoveOn has been front and center complaining about the Dems inability to pass a progressive agenda, yet somehow their “agents” are in cahoots with not only the Dems but the GOP, too…
Here’s what’s hilarious about that post: MoveOn has been front and center complaining about the Dems inability to pass a progressive agenda, yet somehow their “agents” are in cahoots with not only the Dems but the GOP, too…
Geez and MoveOn is such a threat to the union, what with all of their campaigning and recommending that elected officials, actually do some governating and shit. Do the girl scouts make these losers piss their pants with fear too?
Here’s what’s hilarious about that post: MoveOn has been front and center complaining about the Dems inability to pass a progressive agenda, yet somehow their “agents” are in cahoots with not only the Dems but the GOP, too…
The awesomeness of conspiracy theories is that anything illogical about them is just part of the conspiracy.
Do the girl scouts make these losers piss their pants with fear too?
Only the really butch ones
The awesomeness of conspiracy theories is that anything illogical about them is just part of the conspiracy.
I noticed that with the Truthers. It seemed like the more you came up with discrepancies in their stories, the more it was all part of the plot. And so were you.
*sigh*
She’s hot and she’s smart…
Why were they always bugging me for money, then? Hussein was the guy with all the palaces!
“45 percent of NPR listeners were Saddam Hussein,” he interrupted.
Y’know, not even in context does that make sense.
Always. Trust. The. Shorter.™
Dear MSN:
Thank you for the obituary before the patient actually gets on the table.
Love, Pere
P.S. ESADIAF
Thank you for the obituary before the patient actually gets on the table.
It’s a trick. They’re hoping the patient will read it and jump on the autopsy table.
“45 percent of NPR listeners were Saddam Hussein,” he interrupted.
Uday really had a thing going for Nina Totenberg, okay? sheesh
Uday really had a thing going for Nina Totenberg, okay? sheesh
And I swear I heard Usay on “Wait Wait” one week.
“45 percent of NPR listeners were Saddam Hussein,” he interrupted.
And 75 percent of Fox News watchers are Adolf Hitler.
re: actor’s Olivia Wilde link. Read some of the NY daily news comments at the link. Some of these people are profoundly stupid. They think we are scared of Palin. Trig has read these comments and dismissed them as hopeless.
Read some of the NY daily news comments at the link. Some of these people are profoundly stupid.
Smed, there are precisely two reasons to read the NY Daily News. They have a decent sports section, and the Voice Of The People.
Lest you think NYC is some oasis of intellect (you know, because of people like me)…it ain’t.
the network would become a 24/7 excuse train for why it was okay, why the kids in the nursery were asking for it, why it was all a dirty Obama plot, and why it was probably really done by Teh Dirty Mooslams anyway
You left out the altered video footage showing CNN co-sponsoring their rallies.
There was already a Texas Teabagger caught red-handed with a backpack full of pipe-bombs back in April – & the “liberal” media barely mentioned it. Mustn’t disparage the noble patriots of teh War Scooter Klan or you’ll make Baby Ayn Rand cry!
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Because Stompin’ Tim (apologies to Tom Connors and his fans) is and always was convinced of the absolute rightness of his actions.
I don’t know how many of you here have read Aldous Huxley’s The Devils of Loudun, but it has several passages that are increasingly relevant to the current situation (besides being a fascinating document about an alleged case of possession and sorcery):
“Partisan loyalty is socially disastrous; but for individuals it can be richly rewarding– more rewarding, in many ways, than even concupiscence or avarice. Whoremongers and money-grubbers find it hard to feel very proud of their activities. But partisanship is a complex passion which permits those who indulge in it to make the best of both worlds. Because they do these things for the sake of a group which is, by definition, good and even sacred, they can admire themselves and loathe their neighbors, they can seek power and money, can enjoy the pleasures of aggression and cruelty, not merely without feeling guilty, but with a positive glow of conscious virtue. Loyalty to their group transforms these pleasant vices into acts of heroism. Partisans are aware of themselves, not as sinners or criminals, but as altruists and idealists. And with certain qualifications, this is in fact what they are. The only trouble is that their altruism is merely egoism at one remove, and that the ideal, for which they are really in many cases to lay down their lives, is nothing but the rationalization of corporate interests and party passions.”
I know Obama will lose in 2012. Thanks to HAMP, I hope he will lose. There is simply no way a decent human being can reward a man who uses a government program that ostensibly exists to help troubled homeowners to instead help bankers steal those people’s homes.
It’s a crime, and it’s a sin, and I wish to god the Republicans would impeach him for it.
I’m hoping they nominate huckabee. All politicians are shitbags who support criminals, but the Republicans big money boys had to be scared of him for a reason. He’ll be racist and sexist and probably a little fascist, but the economy is too dire to give a shit about anything but breaking the stranglehold corporations have on this country. I really, really doubt that huckabee will do that, but I really, really doubted that Obama would either, and I still voted for him.