I’m sure some focus-group weasel will force them to take this down soon, but for the time being, this is actually the title of Michael Steele’s official blog at the GOP website:
WOOOOOORD!!! You down with GOP? Yeah you know me!
UPDATE: It occurs to me that if he’s going to remake the Republican Party in a hip-hop image, Steele needs a hip-hop name. My nomination: Filibusta Rhymes.
Did I miss something? Some Rubicon crossed, some tipping point? When did it become okay for mainstream* wingnuts to be straight-up, unapologetic racists?
It’s not that this sort of thing hasn’t been seen before — fr’example this — but for the most part, out-and-out racism, until very recently, has really not been a staple of more civilized rightblogger discourse**. It’s generally been left to obscure nutcases to be so uncouth as to compare the Obama administration to the Planet of the Apes.
But in the wake of Peacegate, or whatever we’re calling it, we’ve already had Red State’s Eric Erickson describe the award as ‘affirmative action’ … and now this:
Really? A coon? Is this where we’re at now? Because this sort of stuff isn’t coded speech, it’s not a dog whistle or faux-irony … it’s flat-out, no-apologies, bottom-of-the-barrel, peckerwood racism. Coming from a supposedly mainstream, ‘mugged-by-reality’ class of political commentator.
There’s nothing really funny about this to me … maybe I’ll have something better tomorrow.
*Some here may disagree, but my impression has been that American decorum of recent vintage suggests that while Stormfront commenters et. al. have been naked racists, your garden variety wingnutosphere regular at least pretends at a basic level of civility on matters of race.
**The caveat is the anti-Arab/Muslim racism which has been a stock-in-trade for some time on the Right.
Thomas L. Friedman, Teh New York Times
The Peace (Keepers) Prize
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UPDATE: In which we assist the Mustache in refining his message …
All that said, I hope Mr. Obama will take this instinct a step further when he travels to Oslo on Dec. 10 for the peace prize ceremony. Here is the speech I hope he will give:
‘Let me begin by thanking the Nobel committee for awarding me this prize, the highest award to which any statesman can aspire. As I said on the day it was announced, “I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who’ve been honored by this prize.” Therefore, upon reflection, I cannot accept this award on my behalf at all.
‘But I will accept it on behalf of the most important peacekeepers in the world for the last century — the munitions, vehicles and nuclear stockpile of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.
‘I will accept this award on behalf of our clusterbombs and drone planes, and for the intercontinental ballistic missiles that will rain down on your countries if you fuck with us.
‘I accept this award on behalf of severed limbs and splattered guts and also on behalf of human torsos ripped in half by heavy caliber artillery.
‘I accept it for stinking corpses piled up on the desert sands but also for necklaces made out of human ears in the thickest jungle. I accept it for the screams of the tortured in secret prisons and for naked human pyramids and poisoned water supplies and butchered livestock.
‘I accept this award not just for the arms and legs blown off by landmines to date, but for future human misery that will some day be caused by the unexploded ordnance still laying in wait in agricultural land throughout the world.
‘I accept it not just for the atomic devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but also for the looming threat of truly planetary annihilation posed by a global thermonuclear exchange.
‘I accept this award for mustard gas and white phosphorus and napalm, and for the simple but effective act of clubbing people to death with rifle butts.
‘So, in conclusion, will there be sammiches?’
(This illustration is dedicated, with heartfelt love and affection,
to Doug Watts)*
Shorter Robert “Bill Bob” Stacy McCain, The Racist McCain
First of all, Patrick Lanzo isn’t originally from Paulding County, Ga., and . . .
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*Cf.
[Thx, Dylan!]
ABOVE: Claudia Rosett
Shorter Claudia Rosett, The Cleverly-Titled Rosett Report
What Price for Obama’s Nobel Prize?
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While I don’t think Obama deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize, I applaud the committee for giving it to him just to see the hilarious reaction it’s produced here at home. Many, many stupid things have been said about this story already today, but it’ll be tough to top Erick “The Dim” Erickson:
I did not realize the Nobel Peace Prize had an affirmative action quota for it, but that is the only thing I can think of for this news.
There are some days — think the day the Mark Foley scandal broke, or when Arlen Spector switched parties or where Obama gave his speech to the Muslim world — where I truly love reading right-wing blogs. This is one of those days.
UPDATE: VIVA EL RUSHBO!!!
Limbaugh: ‘Greater embarrassment’ than losing Olympics
Conservatives pounced on the the Nobel Prize committee’s decision to award President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, with talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh calling it a “greater embarrassment” than losing the Olympics.
“This fully exposes the illusion that is Barack Obama,” Limbaugh told POLITICO in an e-mail. “And with this ‘award’ the elites of the world are urging Obama, THE MAN OF PEACE, to not do the surge in Afghanistan, not take action against Iran and its nuclear program and to basically continue his intentions to emasculate the United States.”
Limbaugh continued: “They love a weakened, neutered U.S, and this is their way of promoting that concept. I think God has a great sense of humor, too.”
The Israeli far-right said similar things about Yitzhak Rabin when he won in ’94, I’m sure. And the old Russian hardliners probably felt the same way about Gorbachev. Wingnuts around the world, no matter their nationality, all view winning the Nobel Peace Prize as a national stain. Would be sad if not so funny, etc.
UPDATE II: Via Dragon-King Wangchuck, we have the incomparable Bill Kristol:
We could note that, if the
SwedesNorwegians wanted to give the Nobel Peace Prize to an American, it would have been been better to give it to Sen. John McCain for having the guts to push through the surge in Iraq, which has brought relative peace to that country.
Giving the Nobel Peace Prize to someone for advocating war? Priceless.
D. Aristophanes adds: Prognosticatin’ Pipes weighs in:
My prediction: The absurdity of the prize decision will harm Obama politically in the United States …
At this point, I think they believe that winning the election ‘harmed Obama politically in the United States’. Also, the Dodgers win over the Cards last night harmed their chances of going to the NLCS.
Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, notes that Obama “won’t be receiving any awards from Americans for job creation, fiscal responsibility, or backing up rhetoric with concrete action.” Expert to hear much more along those lines.
Really? We can expect that? You must have some kind of crystal ball that reveals the blindingly obvious! Thanks for sharing, Crackie!
Slightly Shorter Jonah “The Whale” Goldberg, America’s Shittiest Website™
Now There’s An Idea
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Other than Hank Kissinger and (maybe) Mother Teresa, have conservatives ever liked any Nobel Peace Prize Laureate?
Teh Internets owes teh Sadlies $19717.3. This is true.
Meanwhile, did you also know that God speaks through earthquakes? And not just any old earthquakes, but ‘multitudinous earthquakes’? And not just any multitudinous earthquakes but ‘present-tense quakes’ that move mountains out of their sockets?
‘Included in the End Times signs are earthquakes,’ reports J. Grant Swank, ‘such as the Earth is experiencing today.’ And also several times in the past, we might add, but plate tectonics is probably just a tool of the Devil.
At any rate, per Swank, earthquakes mark the Second Coming of Jesus, whose ‘holy blood was shed from seven body fountains.’ Counting the legionnaire’s spear wound, the crown of thorns, spikes in each hand and one through the ankles, that still leaves two ‘body fountains,’ so we’re assuming a bloody lip and anal discharge.
Whatever the case, it’s pretty creepy, so we want our $19717.3 up front, no questions asked.
Of equal importance, this oldie but goody:
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Barack Hussein Obama was stunned in delivering his speech before Congress. When he promised that illegal aliens would not get a penny of his healthcare, someone cried out loudly ‘Liar.’
Everyone heard the word. Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden looked stunned. Pelosi turned to Biden. Biden lowered his head. Pelosi then scanned to her left trying to decipher who yelped the key term.
Biden then stunned Pelosi. Pelosi cradled his head. Biden gulped the key term. Pelosi straightened her perm. Biden glanced to his right and Pelosi put up a fight. Biden then went to bed. Pelosi showered instead. Kool-Aid is red and pencils are made out of lead.
The Associated Press reported the interruption but did not mention the identity of the town crier.
UPDATE: Still no idea who it was.
I know who that was who gave forth.
Woe Jilson, Mongresscan from Couth Sarolina? Close?
It was the patriot who represents every American who knows the truth. Obama is indeed a liar.
So it was, like, Everywingnut or the collective voice of two million teabaggers crying out in rage or something?
He is so for he is Marxist Muslim. Allah permits Muslims to lie in order to further Islam World Rule. It is a virtue to lie. It makes points for the hereafter. It makes Allah’s heart happy.
Whereas denying health care to poor people makes Jesus’ heart happy. And makes touchdowns for the theretofore. Crucial difference, and you go straight to Hell if you don’t know it.
Obama is surrounded by “czar” liars. He was mentored by Jeremiah Wright liar. He was tutored by liar Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam mouthpiece.
Jeremiah Wright should get business cards printed up that say ‘Jeremiah Wright liar’ — no comma. They’re only for people who tell the truth. And hate immigrants, which is the same thing.
What can be expected by an individual who will not produce his actual birth certificate, for instance, when there is such a clamor for just that document.
What can be expected by such an individual is that many more batshit crazy demands will probably come his way.
Scores believe he lies when stating he was born in the U.S.
Scores? Really? And to think, it only takes a bushel of people to pass a Constitutional amendment, give or take a peck. Obama’s presidency is effectively over!
Then show us the certificate, Obama. He refuses. Why? Because Obama lies.
This is also why he is evil and also why he lies.
A left-of-left Congressman, more leftist than Ted Kennedy, Obama has survived in liberalism’s colony by lying.
And by forming an alliance with Biden to vote off Hillary. And winning the Immunity Idol for three straight weeks.
He claims to be Christian, for example, while tramping all over biblical ethics. One cannot be a Christian while applauding abortion. One cannot be a Christian while sanctioning sodomy.
Further, Obama as ‘Christian’ does not know his Bible when telling inquirers during the presidential campaign to read the Sermon on the Mount to find out what Christ said about endorsing homosexual lifestyles. There is nothing whatsoever in Matthew 5-7 that refers to homosexuality.
Which absolutely wasn’t Obama’s point in bringing that up.
Obama played ‘Christian’ during the campaign by sponsoring gospel concerts in the Bible belt. Obama is Muslim; there is no way he agrees with the redemption message sung at those testimonial festivities.
Obama lies. He is not Christian.
A tip for encountering Obama and his identical non-lying twin at a fork in the road, where one path leads to civilization and the other to certain death in the trackless desert — ask either twin: ‘If I were to ask your brother, would he tell me that the path on the right leads to civilization?’ If the answer is ‘no,’ then take that path, if it is ‘yes,’ then take the other path.
Via Digby, it seems that Associated Press pollsters have found a true example of the modern wingnut id:
Republicans remain solidly against the congressional health care plans, with four out of five opposed. However, even 13 percent say they support the bills in Congress, a contrast with the mood of GOP lawmakers, who are all but unanimously opposed.
[…]Andrew Newcomb, 28, who works in sales and lives near Destin, Fla., said he doesn’t think taxpayers should have to take on the costs of covering the uninsured.
“I don’t want my tax money to pay for some pill-popper to fake some injury and go to the hospital when I don’t ever go to the hospital,” said Newcomb, adding he can afford to go to the doctor and pay $60 for a checkup.
You know… aw man. Words do fail me sometimes. This is one of them.
