If Everybody Is Fabulous, Then Nobody . . . Etc., Etc.

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ABOVE: Michael Graham, The Blue Boy


If you were a graduate of Oral “Donate or God Will Kill Me” Roberts University, had been caught impersonating an INS officer, and had been fired from WMAL for being to much of a kook even for that station, then perhaps you might have more sense than to get tangled up in the Obama-Wright nonsense. But then you wouldn’t be Michael Graham:

Obama … admitted that he had in fact been in church for some comments that “could be considered controversial – just as I’m sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests or rabbis with which you strongly disagree.”

Uh, no.

As a graduate of Oral Roberts University who grew up attending church five times a week – including tent revivals, healing services and the handling of less-than-friendly reptiles – I can honestly say that I never attended a service where the minister preached race hatred, anti-Israel paranoia or used the phrase “ridin’ dirty” in a theological context.

Well, of course, Graham didn’t hear that because the only thing he heard the ministers say, at least when they weren’t speaking in tongues, was “Whoa, son, be careful, that there snake’s about to bite you!”

America is still a nation suffused with racism, Obama insisted. To paraphrase the Disney movie “The Incredibles,” “If everybody’s racist, then nobody is.”

Okay, Michael, I know that we’re dealing with a tag line in a cartoon, which means that it’s a concept that may well be considerably too complex for you to grasp, but you can’t just substitute any word for “special” in that sentence from the cartoon and still have it make make sense. If everyone is green, for example, then everyone is, well, green.

This is not the first time that Graham has bollixed up the line in question. In a hilarious column in which he flounces around over a Wikipedia entry that said he was gay (and what would ever have given anyone that idea?), he said this:

If everybody’s final Jeopardy answer is right, then nobody’s is.

If everybody thinks Michael Graham is a blithering idiot, then nobody thinks he’s a blithering idiot. Sadly, of course, no.


Note from the Sadly, No! midtown Manhattan law firm: “Michael Graham is not gay and never has been gay, notwithstanding that he looks exactly like Lindsey Graham after a second face lift.”

 

Comments: 43

 
 
 

If everybody’s gay, then nobody is. That’s why we need to enforce gay marriages on the entire country when Hussein X is installed as Black Caesar. To eradicate homosexuality, of course.

 
 

I would like to further point out that the guy uttering that line is the warped, homicidal badguy.

Not that I’m condemning this line of thought. In fact, I think he should take it further: survive for a month on his own in the wild, using only the hunting skills of Elmer Fudd, the marskmanship of Yosemite Sam, and the mechanical expertise demonstrated by Wile E. Coyote.

 
Chlamydia Champaigne
 

From Graham’s Wiki entry:

Graham has been involved in various controversies over his career.

* In July of 2005, Graham used Islam and terrorism as the basis for a multi-day discussion on his WMAL talk radio show.[8] A number of Graham’s comments prompted over one hundred complaints to the station and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued action alerts to its subscribers encouraging them to contact WMAL to urge that “Graham be reprimanded for his anti-Islam statements”[9], ultimately prompting WMAL to suspend him. After 28 days, WMAL elected to terminate Graham stating that he violated station policy and disregarded “management direction” to redress the situation. [10] The situation prompted angry editorials from Graham [11] as well as appearances on nationally televised news programs to discuss the firing.[12] [13]

* Graham attended a rally to protest the Real ID Act, sponsored by Casa de Maryland in May of 2005.[14] He was photographed in an INS shirt, and was blocked from entering the event even as he showed ABC Radio credentials, with officials citing public safety. An altercation ensued, and police were called, with a second altercation occurring following their arrival. After questioning, Graham was allowed to enter the event with his shirt turned inside out.[15]

* Graham was fired from his first commercial talk-radio job at WBT in Charlotte, North Carolina after comments he made on-air in the wake of the Columbine massacre in 1999[16].

* Graham drew criticism from blogs on the Left and the Right for comments about Bill and Hillary Clinton made on CNN Headline News’ Glenn Beck Show on June 20, 2007. Referring to a Clinton campaign ad based on the final episode of The Sopranos, Graham said “…didn’t you at some point want to see, like, Paulie Walnuts, somebody come in here and just whack them both right there? Wouldn’t that have been great?…Come on! Where’s “Big Pussy”? Come on! Let’s make it happen…I wanted that.”[17] Beck did not agree with Graham’s comments.

Michael Graham: too crazy even for Glenn Beck.

Also, usually when you keep losing jobs for the same fuck-up reason, you’re considered to have ‘a problem’.

 
 

America is still a nation suffused with racism, Obama insisted. To paraphrase the Disney movie “The Incredibles,” “If everybody’s racist, then nobody is.”

Ah, but when, in consequence of everybody being racist, nobody is, then everybody must be not-racist. But if everybody is not-racist, then nobody is?

Damn, maintaining a cartoon worldview is hard.

 
 

Wait — is this the Oral Roberts University under investigation for massive corruption and possible underage relations by Mrs. Oral Junior herself and whose president Richard Roberts had to resign because of the same?

 
 

…or used the phrase “ridin’ dirty” in a theological context.

You mean to tell me that the all-white male power structure that Graham has submitted his will to (no homosexual metaphors intended) has never uttered a Chamillionaire lyric as part of a sermon? Next you’ll be telling me that they don’t quote Ani Difranco or reference the witticisms of Graham Norton.

 
 

If everbody’s ridin’ dirty, then no one is.

If everyone’s a suuuuuuuuu-per genius, then no one is.

If everyone’s a varmint, then no one is.

 
 

Ugh, my pasty white fundie pastor used to make pop culture references all the time. Nothing worse than a failed vacuum cleaner salesman trying to connect with “today’s youth”

 
 

Wait — is this the Oral Roberts University under investigation for massive corruption and possible underage relations by Mrs. Oral Junior herself and whose president Richard Roberts had to resign because of the same?

Yeah, but Wright’s remarks are just so much worse then that, aren’t they?

 
 

The fact is, Wright is a racist and an America hater. Association with this man means that Barack HUSSEIN Obama should be disqualified from any public office. He is also a confessed drug dealer and has done illegal real estate deals.

 
 

Graham once wrote a column that basically blamed the Clintons and Democrats for people behaving badly at sports events. Mr. Graham wrote:

“Do any of these incidents, from the Carolina/Clemson fight to the Monday Night Football naughtiness really matter? Actually, yes. They matter to that slim (and shrinking) majority of Americans who share my unreasonable desire to live in a place where those advocating civility and common courtesy aren’t the bad guys, and where the foul-mouthed morons demanding 24-hour porn access on broadcast TV are.”

I think he wrote that a couple of years after he expressed, on national television, his desire to bludgeon Hillary Clinton with a tire iron.

 
 

If everybody is Gary Ruppert, then nobody is.

 
 

Factually speaking, John SIDNEY McCain is a traitor who gave top secret information to the Vietnamese soldiers who captured him, resulting in the death of brave American troops. He probably also had sex with them. His wife is a psychotic drug addicted slut who should not be allowed near the white house.

Real Americans who are literate enough to actually read the Constitution will not be fooled by this lying imposter and will overwhelmingly elect Barack Obama as President a 67-33 Democratic Senate, and a 70 vote Democratic majority in the House.

 
 

At least this Gary is an improvement.

 
 

I am a homosexual and I like it up my ass.

 
 

Then nobody likes it up my ass?

 
Arky "I Just Get These Headaches" The Blasphemer
 

Ugh, my pasty white fundie pastor used to make pop culture references all the time. Nothing worse than a failed vacuum cleaner salesman trying to connect with “today’s youth”

There’s a joke about sucking in here, but it’s Good Friday so I ain’t gonna go there.

 
 

Oh look, Muslims aren’t the only ones who <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/03/21/author.deported.ap/index.html” aren’t Christian enough to be allowed into the US.

 
 

It ate the end of my tag! I swears!

trying again

 
 

Im sure Graham didn’t disagree with any of the vile, racist, and ignorant statements his pastors have made.

 
 

While watching the NCAA tournament yesterday a female friend of mine inquired, “Do you think the student section at Oral Roberts just chants ‘Oral! Oral! Oral!’ at games?”

 
 

And occasionally it finds voice in the church on Sunday morning, in the pulpit and in the pews. The fact that so many people are surprised to hear that anger in some of Reverend Wright’s sermons simply reminds us of the old truism that the most segregated hour in American life occurs on Sunday morning. That anger is not always productive; indeed, all too often it distracts attention from solving real problems; it keeps us from squarely facing our own complicity in our condition, and prevents the African-American community from forging the alliances it needs to bring about real change. But the anger is real; it is powerful; and to simply wish it away, to condemn it without understanding its roots, only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races.

In fact, a similar anger exists within segments of the white community. Most working- and middle-class white Americans don’t feel that they have been particularly privileged by their race. Their experience is the immigrant experience – as far as they’re concerned, no one’s handed them anything, they’ve built it from scratch. They’ve worked hard all their lives, many times only to see their jobs shipped overseas or their pension dumped after a lifetime of labor. They are anxious about their futures, and feel their dreams slipping away; in an era of stagnant wages and global competition, opportunity comes to be seen as a zero sum game, in which your dreams come at my expense. So when they are told to bus their children to a school across town; when they hear that an African American is getting an advantage in landing a good job or a spot in a good college because of an injustice that they themselves never committed; when they’re told that their fears about crime in urban neighborhoods are somehow prejudiced, resentment builds over time.

Like the anger within the black community, these resentments aren’t always expressed in polite company. But they have helped shape the political landscape for at least a generation. Anger over welfare and affirmative action helped forge the Reagan Coalition. Politicians routinely exploited fears of crime for their own electoral ends. Talk show hosts and conservative commentators built entire careers unmasking bogus claims of racism while dismissing legitimate discussions of racial injustice and inequality as mere political correctness or reverse racism.

And Obama nails the dismount!

Are the Pig fucking Bigots still open for ridicule, Barack?

 
 

What? The fuck? “If everybody’s racist, then no one is”? You fucktard idiot. No. Christ. Too bad they didn’t teach English 101 at your Cult School for Morons.

 
 

But he looks so darn cute in that tutu! Nope, nothin’ gay there. Nope, not at all.

“If everybody’s a Liberal Fascist, then nobody is.” Hey, I can play that game too!

 
 

Note from the Sadly, No! midtown Manhattan law firm: “Michael Graham is not gay and never has been gay, notwithstanding that he looks exactly like Lindsey Graham after a second face lift.”

Funny, I think he looks like the distinctly gay host of “What Not To Wear”, Clinton Kelly.

 
 

Funny, I think he looks like the distinctly gay host of “What Not To Wear”, Clinton Kelly.

*slaps Jas across the cheek*

Take it BACK!

 
 

No, I’m kidding, I never even heard of the guy. But from your link he does appear to be attractive and interesting, more than I can say for Michael Graham.

Can we stop calling all of these viscious effete vile hypocrites gay? I’m not saying he isn’t gay, but God damn America, can’t we just categorize these types as their own seperate orientation?

 
 

…can’t we just categorize these types as their own seperate orientation?

Sure, but “Has Technically Heterosexual Sex While Thinking of The Commander-In-Chief’s Codpiece” doesn’t exactly fall trippingly from the tongue.

Oh, also? The Clemson/Carolina fight was TOTALLY the Cocks’ fault. My position on this matter is totally dispassionate, and has nothing to do with the Tiger paw on my diploma.

 
Arky "I Just Get These Headaches" The Blasphemer
 

Can we stop calling all of these viscious effete vile hypocrites gay? I’m not saying he isn’t gay, but God damn America, can’t we just categorize these types as their own seperate orientation?

Seconded.

I know it’s painful. I understand the vicarious shame you must feel. But you all need to make peace with the fact that 99.9% of the loonies are from your tribe. Perhaps .5% like to bone guys, but Strom Thurmond liked to bone black women and contrary to common wisdom when he was a lad (17th century) it didn’t rub off on him and turn him into a black guy or even cause him to want peace, kittens and candies for all African Americans.

By the same token (har!) Graham and his ilk clearly like to blow three-legged goats but that hardly makes him a crippled ungulate.

 
 

Jim said,

If everybody is Gary Ruppert, then nobody is.

Or…
Gary Ruppert is nobody.

I think I like that version best of all.

 
 

To be more clear, I totally support the idea of finding a different epithet for vicious, vile hypocrites of all stripes. The only obstacle is that I’m not too good at the epithetizin’, so someone else is going to have to do the heavy lifting on this one.

 
 

I am gary ruppert

 
 

To be more clear, I totally support the idea of finding a different epithet for vicious, vile hypocrites of all stripes. The only obstacle is that I’m not too good at the epithetizin’, so someone else is going to have to do the heavy lifting on this one.

Isn’t that what cobag is for?

 
 

Isn’t that what cobag is for?

No, a cobag is someone who deserves to be clocked in the head with a big bag of…

…oh. I see what you did there.

 
Arky "I Just Get These Headaches" The Blasphemer
 

Retrosexuals?

 
 

If Graham’s fundamentalism allowed him to have pop culture knowledge beyond Disney cartoons and included filthy Broadway shows, he would have found a perfect example of the notion he was mocking in the lyrics of “Avenue Q”:

“Everyone’s a little bit racist
It’s true.
But everyone is just about
As racist as you!
If we all could just admit
That we are racist a little bit,
And everyone stopped being
So PC
Maybe we could live in
Harmony!”

 
 

“He commutes to Boston daily by single-engine aircraft from the Provincetown, Massachusetts home he shares with his partner, a novelist.” –From the “Michael Graham” article on Wikipedia.org

Dude, that doesn’t directly at least say you’re gay, though the term partner implies it. Besides, it makes you a pilot! Isn’t that cool?

 
 

This is not the first time that Graham has bollixed

Is this an acceptable spelling? I always thought it was bollocked. Anyone feel free to correct me.

 
 

Is this an acceptable spelling?

Yes.

 
 

So much for original sin, I guess.

 
 

If everybody dislikes him, then nobody likes him. Someone needs to tell him. (Snakes included.)

 
 

Dammit, it’s bad enough we mo’s have to own up to the fact that people like Ernst Rohm and Roy Cohn and J. Edgar Hoover were on our team, but this fuckwit as well? No, simply…..no.

 
 

“When everyone is somebody, then no one is anybody.” — W.S. Gilbert, “The Gondoliers” [And he meant it. It’s the thesis of the anti-democratic operetta. Not that I agree with him.]

 
 

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