Halfrican presidential candidate’s appearance compared to . . . Curious George!!!1!! on Rush Limbaugh!!!1!! right-wing noise machine by child of winger!!!1!!
ABC News’ Tahman Bradley
ReportsSqueals: Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh issued an on-air apology to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., today after a caller said her daughter thought the Democratic presidential frontrunner looked like the cartoon character Curious George, a monkey.Limbaugh, who laughed at the caller’s comments, later apologized explaining he didn’t know anything about Curious George.
UPDATE: How to be the biggest hypocrite in the world
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Jeff’s update: Carin touched on this already in the comments when she pointed to the Yahoo answer page, but just so there’s no mistake, similar defenses of a (soft) double standard are beginning to pop up in the comments section of places like Shakespeare’s Sister. To wit, here’s Dean, explaining why it’s okay to draw comparisons between Bush and chimps, but not Obama and Curious George:
[...] in the case of Bush, the comparison is not just about color, but is about an overall attitude to get into things he shouldn’t and screw them up, lash out at things he doesn’t understand, etc. Of course, in the wild, the Bush chimp wouldn’t last long, most likely.
Of course, such an argument requires that we leave aside just about every single actual comparison “in the case of Bush,” the overwhelming majority of which use the kinds of visuals Dan attached to the original post. You know, to make it clear that the “comparison” is not in any way visually-motivated, but is rather a comment on Bush’s character and intelligence. Yup.
Whereas, say, SNL using a white actor to portray Barry O…is…uh…a comment on…
Oh, fuck it. RACISTS!
But wait, here’s more, from JJohnson:
As Dean said; for Bush, its a notation of his personality and actions.In the case of Obama, its a racist smear.
For example: if Obama were in office, and were (to give a random example), extremely stubborn, it might be OK to call him an “Ass” in the sense of a Donkey. Cause you’d be refering to him as an individual doing something bad.
Saying he “looks like a monkey” however is an old and oft repeated racist smear against blacks.
See how that works? Its one thing to smack a person around based on things they’ve done etc… its quite another to attack them purely on appearance; especially when its a racially based attack.
Oh. Well then. Perhaps the comparison being made between Curious George and Obama has to do with their both being so full of energy, optimism, and an indominably adventurous spirit! True progressives, willing to risk stirring up trouble amid the status quo, all for the promise of hope and change!
I mean, so long as we’re dealing with such a precocious 12-year-old, might we not conclude that she is, at least potentially, one of the good ones?
Doubtful, sure, given her parentage. But still. Certainly people can break free from the Establishment prison that inscribes them, no? I mean, did Woodstock — with its naked flower children slapping their muddy junk up against anything that moved, all in the name of FIGHTING THE POWERS — teach us nothing?
Finally, here’s chinoga, delivering a death blow to the equivalency argument the wingnuts are relying upon to cover up their inner lynchers. BECAUSE OF THE HYPOCRISY!:
Also, Bush actually does look like a chimp. But Obama looks nothing like Curious George. Interestingly, I have known one other person who looked startlingly like a chimp, and that man also was white.But seriously, if there was a long and ugly history of using comparisons to apes and monkeys to make white people seem less than human and possessing inferior mental capabilities, it would be wrong to compare Bush to a chimp. But there isn’t, so he’s fair game. Similarly, if someone wanted to say Obama looked like, I don’t know, a donkey, it would be an odd comment, but not a racist one because it would not have any connection to a sordid history of pseudoscientific endeavors whose sole aim was to justify the oppression and dehumanization of an entire class of people.
— To which I responded thus:
I wonder if the 12-year-old girl knew of this “long and ugly history of using comparisons to apes and monkeys” to make black people “seem less than human and possessing inferior mental capabilities”?Probably. I mean, Mom listens to Rush, right? Poor child probably imbibed HATE with her mother’s milk.
Seriously. Maybe when Obama’s president he can start a program, or at least set up some reeducation camps.
You know, for the greater good.
YES WE CAN!
Comment by Dale on 3/4 @ 11:48 am #
I was listening during that segment. I was wondering how long it would take.
I’m glad he apologized, although he did nothing wrong. But does that make Tony Rezko the man in the yellow hat…??
Comment by Jeff G. on 3/4 @ 11:49 am #
Does he?
I mean, it ain’t braggin’ if you really done it, and it ain’t a conspiracy if they’re really out to get you. So how is it racism if a racially unaware child notes a resemblance between two “characters” she’s met on the tv and in books?
Hell, I still think Jerry Rice looks like Judd Nelson, and that Steve Martin looks like Evander Hollyfield.
Comment by jdm on 3/4 @ 11:57 am #
An outrage opportunity? Thanks, Dan.
I’m outraged.
Boy, do I feel better.
Well, except for my outrage.
Comment by Carin on 3/4 @ 11:59 am #
Obviously, this issue is beyond our pay grade. What we need, is a black person to come along and explain to us why it’s perfectly OK to compare Bush to a chimp but it’s teh outrage to compare the Obama to one.
Comment by Dale on 3/4 @ 12:02 pm #
And if you go to the comments at Dan’s link, that’s what’s wrong with our country.
Typical of the left: I never listen to him, but Rush is evil incarnate.
Typical of the right: Go back to Russia you pinko liberals.
Rush is an entertainer on primarily political topics. He uses callers to get some of his points across. Sometimes they veer off of what he expects them to say, and he has to deal with the consequences.
But it’s all part of teh hatred!
Comment by LiveFromFortLivingRoom on 3/4 @ 12:06 pm #
Well as we all know Rush Limbaugh is a conservative, so therefore he is a racist and has horrible intentions. The people that compare President Bush to a monkey are liberal, and thus have good intentions and are not racists. What’s the problem I thought that was clear?
Comment by Scrapiron on 3/4 @ 12:10 pm #
Wouldn’t that make liberals their own worst enemies. The believe we came from the monkey, so there would be some indication of who has evolved the most.
Comment by MayBee on 3/4 @ 12:11 pm #
Is it racist if I say Melissa McEwan looks like Ari?
Comment by Carin on 3/4 @ 12:14 pm #
Google Search for Bush +Chimp. Over 2 million served!
Of course, Yahoo has already tried to answer this question.
See, Chimpy Bush is ok because it’s truthy. Calling Obama “Curious George” is racist.
Comment by LiveFromFortLivingRoom on 3/4 @ 12:20 pm #
What if the little girl was only referring to the 50% of Obama that is white as Curious George? Would she still be racist then?
Comment by Merovign on 3/4 @ 12:31 pm #
“Yahoo Answers,” is like Wikipedia without sneer review. It’s a CAS (Crap Amplification System).
Comment by LionDude on 3/4 @ 12:33 pm #
To expand on JG’s point, I think my best friend’s mom (white) looks like former Dallas Mavericks/Detroit Pistons star Mark Aguirre.
No, I’ve never told my friend this.
Comment by Carin on 3/4 @ 12:33 pm #
Yet, Merovign, what else explains the vast use of Chimpy for the last 6+ years if a large collection of liberals did not think just as those yahoo answers indicate?
Comment by Alec Leamas on 3/4 @ 12:41 pm #
Dan,
Why is there a picture of a heavy girl with Down syndrome when I click the “How to be the biggest hypocrite in the world” link?
Comment by kelly on 3/4 @ 12:42 pm #
Stupid me. I was guessing Shakespeare’s sister would be a lot wittier. Alas. It’s almost like she’s angry or something.
Comment by Steve M. on 3/4 @ 12:50 pm #
Thanks for the hits, schmuck.
Comment by mojo on 3/4 @ 12:54 pm #
Quit apologizing to this dipstick, already. It’s part of his whole “Mr. Clean” schtick, so don’t play into it.
Screw him if he can’t take a freakin’ joke.
Go on – Cry for me, bitch!
Comment by Jeff G. on 3/4 @ 12:55 pm #
Wow. Steve M’s a little whore.
Oops. MISOGYNIST!11!
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/4 @ 1:01 pm #
SteveM–
You can’t say that to me, racist. I’m Irish.
Comment by JD on 3/4 @ 1:03 pm #
Knuckle draggin’ mouth breathin’ sexist homophobic RACISTS !!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Comment by Cave Bear on 3/4 @ 1:10 pm #
Well, I warned you all yesterday that this would happen…:)
Comment by Ted Nugent's Soul Patch on 3/4 @ 1:10 pm #
“Thanks for the hits, schmuck.”
Steve, it’s the internet. Nobody gives a shit.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 3/4 @ 1:15 pm #
Hmm…
I just googled Bush + Chimp and got 9,440 hits.
How could that BE?
Comment by Old Dad on 3/4 @ 1:17 pm #
I caught the apology segment yesterday. Rush was clearly spoofing. He’s usually a lot better at it, but then again, he said he was sicker than a dog.
Was that doggist?
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/4 @ 1:18 pm #
I’m only half Irish. Can I play, too?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 3/4 @ 1:21 pm #
But I used advanced search………….
Comment by N. O'Brain on 3/4 @ 1:22 pm #
Canineist.
Which also means that you hate teeth.
Comment by Steve M. on 3/4 @ 1:24 pm #
I wonder if the 12-year-old girl knew of this “long and ugly history of using comparisons to apes and monkeys†to make black people “seem less than human and possessing inferior mental capabilities”?
Excuse me, but the daughter didn’t share this little observation with millions of listeners on a highly rated national radio show. Her racist mother did.
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/4 @ 1:27 pm #
Yeah, but you know what? The daughter must be stupid because she’s 12 and she bethought herself of Curious George. Right?
Comment by Old Dad on 3/4 @ 1:27 pm #
Did ya ever hear the one about the two incisors that walked into a gay bar? ends with–you help me find my keys and we’ll drive out of here.
Comment by Steve M. on 3/4 @ 1:28 pm #
You can’t say that to me, racist. I’m Irish.
So I assume I can make all the drunk jokes I want about you and your entire family, right? As long as anyone anywhere on the planet calls any non-Irish person a drunk, I can say your mother’s a big fat drunk and it’s not an ethnic slur. That is what you’re arguing, isn’t it?
Comment by Jeff G. on 3/4 @ 1:30 pm #
Her racist mother noted that her daughter thought Obama looked like Curious George. So again, the question becomes, does he? And is a 12-year-old girl allowed to make such observations? Or should she be sent to a reeducation camp post haste, where she can be taught that only whites can be compared to monkeys, because liberals think that any reference to a monkey is potentially racist given the right variables — an argument that requires of them, at least on some level, a belief that blacks need to be protected against such statements, even when made innocuously?
Comment by MayBee on 3/4 @ 1:31 pm #
Perhaps you could post a picture of Curious George, so we can compare in our own minds. I mean, he does kinda have the ear thing going.
Comment by kelly on 3/4 @ 1:34 pm #
What color of skin does this mother possess, Steve?
Hey, Steve, didya know that BO’s mother was white? Crazy, huh?
Comment by Jeff G. on 3/4 @ 1:36 pm #
You can make drunk jokes if you want, Steve M. It’s only an ethnic slur if you intend it as such.
Really. Don’t make me go all linguistical on your shit here.
What you seem to be assuming is that the mother of this girl thought the observation interesting for its “racist” component (and was willing to deliver what she knew to be an overtly racist observation to millions of people) — rather than for some other reason, not the least of which might be a genuine belief in the resemblance.
I wonder. Could the kid vote, might she not cast her ballot for Curious George instead of John McCain? And if so, would you refuse to accept the vote because it was cast for the “wrong” reasons? — which somehow aren’t the wrong reasons when a black candidate courts the black vote based on his or her blackness?
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/4 @ 1:37 pm #
hahaha!
this things do…best please me..
which befall preposterously!
Comment by kelly on 3/4 @ 1:38 pm #
I mean, really, what if the caller was of similar melanin quotient as Barry? Is she still a racist? Are all those rap/hip-hop stars calling everybody “niggaz” racist as well? Is there a handbook?
Comment by Al Maviva on 3/4 @ 1:39 pm #
There is only one possible solution to this national outrage.
Fire Don Imus again! Immediately!
Comment by BJTexs on 3/4 @ 1:39 pm #
I dunno, guys and girls, SteveM and Melissa seem very sure of themselves and their ability to feel the racism.
In other news, Mike Nifong was reinstated as a Durham prosecuter and renewed his pledge to prosecute the “mysogynistic, elitist, sexist tools of the patriarchy” for the sexual assault of a stripper.
Finally shocking pink colored flying pigs were heard to be farting the Obama campaign song. In G flat.
Comment by Ric Locke on 3/4 @ 1:40 pm #
Bah. It just underlines the fact that leftoids can lift their commentary straight from the September, 1952 issue of the KKK’s national newsletter[1], complete with endorsement of the “one drop” doctrine, so long as they change a noun here and there, and are further entitled to go ballistic when anybody criticizes that.
“Racist” doesn’t strictly work. “Bigot” fits like a glove, though.
Regards,
Ric
[1]Which is, of course, handy, right there in the archives.
Comment by MayBee on 3/4 @ 1:40 pm #
I like this picture of Curious George.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 3/4 @ 1:41 pm #
Oh, fer crissake. It’s official — it’s now “racist” to not give a rip about someone’s color.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/4 @ 1:42 pm #
of course GW looks like a chimp!
of course O looks like Curious George!
we share 99% of our genome.
oh lord wat fooles thyse mortals be
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/4 @ 1:44 pm #
Linkbusted, MayBee.
Curious George’s face is pink. Would it be racist to liken my kids to Curious George, since his face is really more of a Caucasian shade?
All hypothetical, of course. My kids are really Asian.
Comment by B Moe on 3/4 @ 1:44 pm #
But Obama looks nothing like Curious George.
His ears are apparently like his middle name, so off limits his fans can’t even see them.
Comment by LionDude on 3/4 @ 1:45 pm #
My wife’s Irish and I’m offended. I got in a fight with a guy who said she looked like a potato. You may not know, but potatoes are sometimes used to demean the Irish. I’m not sure he knew that, though, but I gave him a corned beef knuckle sandwich anyway.
Bottom line: my wife does not look like a potato. I think she looks like Debra Messing.
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/4 @ 1:46 pm #
You can call my mom a drunk, I guess. She has the occasional glass of wine. It would be more accurate to call me a drunk, though.
May I call you a stupid son of a bitch?
Comment by MayBee on 3/4 @ 1:46 pm #
Hm. My link works for me.
Here
http://www.worth1000.com/entries/207000/207071EKMj_w.jpg
Comment by LiveFromFortLivingRoom on 3/4 @ 1:50 pm #
So let me get this straight, I can call white people anything I want and it is not racist. Yet if I say some of the same things I have said about white people to a black person, then it is racist. On top of that people get to assign me motives and emotions based on their own stereotypes. I am getting lost here someone help me.
Comment by Carin on 3/4 @ 1:51 pm #
I suppose we gotta hear (again) about “the inherent racism” of Curious George.
Was the monkey drawn to look like black people and thus THAT is why the girl saw a similarity? If nothing else, the little girl isn’t so-much a racist, as is the fact that the cartoonist drew the monkey to LOOK like black people, and thus that is why the girl noticed the comparison.
Really, racial whiners should see this as a victory of sorts. They have been vindicated.
Comment by Lou on 3/4 @ 1:52 pm #
Obama is a white trash on his mothers side. is that ok
Comment by BJTexs on 3/4 @ 1:52 pm #
Normally I’d wail about my brownish Portuguese ancestry and race bait SteveM right back atcha, but JD says that as the progeny of a self mutilating capitalist pig expoiter of the brownish, I’m only allowed to mewl in a corner and play with my pocket watch.
mewl
Comment by Steve M. on 3/4 @ 1:52 pm #
May I call you a stupid son of a bitch?
Sure. Feel better? now
Well, that was fun, but I’ve got better things to do. Besides, with all the phony chest-beating and faux-macho insult-slinging, it’s just so 2002 in here. I just know someone’s going say “idiotarian” any minute.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/4 @ 1:52 pm #
oh….i lurved little black sambo.
this tigers turnin into a pool of melted butter.
so delicious.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 3/4 @ 1:53 pm #
“I am getting lost here someone help me.”
Nope, you got it exactly right.
Go back and read some of the comments at ss after I twitted them for their stupidity.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/4 @ 1:54 pm #
Curious George doesn’t look much like a monkey at all. He doesn’t even look like a chimp.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 3/4 @ 1:54 pm #
“I just know someone’s going say “idiotarian†any minute.”
You’re too low on the evolutionary scale.
Comment by steveaz on 3/4 @ 1:55 pm #
Steve,
There is a small chance that the Mother has a much higher motive than the one you attribute to her.
Perhaps she’s trying to rescue Curious George from PC obscurity. By purposefully naming this particular favorite story-book character, she has inserted Curious George, the cute, non-racial chimpanzee, directly into our nation’s pre-election discourse.
And cleverly, too. Because, if “Curious George,” the name, has become a racial slur, any damage it inflicts on Barry O’ results in a direct increase in C. George’s name recognition and standing.
Curious George for President, anyone?
Comment by LiveFromFortLivingRoom on 3/4 @ 1:55 pm #
As a white person can I still watch old Disney or Bugs Bunny cartoons even though they have blatant racial undertones?
Comment by happyfeet on 3/4 @ 1:55 pm #
Obama I think evokes Curious George at least as much as he evokes JFK, who is not only a pasty cracker but also a dead pasty cracker. That would be my contribution to this discussion anyway.
Comment by BJTexs on 3/4 @ 1:57 pm #
You take that back! YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!!!
sobs … it’s not fair… sniff
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/4 @ 2:00 pm #
I wouldn’t vote for Curious George, because he’s…well…black.
/SteveM
Comment by LiveFromFortLivingRoom on 3/4 @ 2:00 pm #
How about I just try to break it down Big Bird and Cookie Monster style and just admit that every white person is racist until he or she proves otherwise by being a Democrat. Is that clean and articulate enough?
Comment by Rob Crawford on 3/4 @ 2:01 pm #
Curious George wouldn’t be eligible for the office — he’s a naturalized citizen, not natural-born.
Comment by Al Maviva on 3/4 @ 2:01 pm #
Live, congratulations. You just passed the Critical Race Theory 301 Intro Grad Seminar. I’m a little bummed you didn’t express guilt over your colonialist oppression and your patriarchal hegemony over teh wimmins, but maybe you had to save some of that for Advanced Critical Theory 405: I’m A White Male and I’m Wrong, Even When I’m Right.
And I’m still considering boycotting “Medium” and Chardonnay until David Brock can get Imus fired over this.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/4 @ 2:02 pm #
i lurvs u feets.
can i plz bear bear ur neurolinguistically enhanced childrun?
Comment by SoCal Dave on 3/4 @ 2:04 pm #
Well, that was fun, but I’ve got better things to do.
Damn right you do. That “any criticism of Obama made by a non-black is just racism” meme isn’t going to sell itself, you know. Chop chop!
Comment by alppuccino on 3/4 @ 2:04 pm #
I think Obama looks more like Huggy Bear. You know, always wearing some wild hat, and always on the make for a quick score.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/4 @ 2:06 pm #
ok. maybe after lunch.
Comment by Jeff G. on 3/4 @ 2:06 pm #
Did I miss the “phony chest-beating and faux-macho insult-slinging”? After Steve M opened up by calling us schmucks, I mean?
Comment by Pablo on 3/4 @ 2:07 pm #
Actually, there is, and it’s generally directed at men, like George Bush.
Comment by BJTexs on 3/4 @ 2:07 pm #
Al: I’m working my way to Double Secret Super Advanced Race Theory: “White Devil All Ya’s: Perpetual Apologies and Virtual Reparations Are Not Enough.”
The sackcloth and ash is included with the class fee.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/4 @ 2:11 pm #
u forgettin the hair shirts, bjtex.
Comment by Hey, Lefty DouchNipples... on 3/4 @ 2:12 pm #
I thought you enlightened Lefties, unlike us knuckledraggers, believed in Evolution. Aren’t we all from apes, huh? If so, THEN WHAT IS THE FUCKING PROBLEM?
Comment by B Moe on 3/4 @ 2:13 pm #
http://www.lucieclaire.com/productimages/thumbs/t_720.jpg
It’s the ears. And the surprising appearance from out of nowhere.
Comment by JD on 3/4 @ 2:13 pm #
You people are only acting like racists today because you are tired of being homophobic misogynists. Anyone else you plan on oppressing ?
Oh, and fuck steve m.
Comment by Education Guy on 3/4 @ 2:17 pm #
Bush = individual, so criticism based on comparisons to monkey’s is ok. Plus he’s white, and like totally evil and stuff.
Obama = group, so comparisons to looking like Curious George is akin to comparing all members of his group to monkeys. Plus, he’s black and full of goodness and light. RACIST!
To be fair, this is not an unfamiliar tactic used by the left during elections, only this time they get to yell racist a bit more.
Comment by Al Maviva on 3/4 @ 2:17 pm #
But seriously, if there was a long and ugly history of using comparisons to apes and monkeys to make white people seem less than human and possessing inferior mental capabilities…
Actually, the traditional British establishment portrayal of Irish Catholics was as subhuman monkey-men for a good 150 years or so. Line drawings (linotype?) from the 19th and early 20th century Fleet Street press are just about enough to give a modern GWOT’er sympathy for the Republican cause.
Comment by BJTexs on 3/4 @ 2:19 pm #
Comments on Identity Genius’ post — 8
I smell an INSTALANCH!!!!! Really, wandering around the tubes as a snarling, barely read political parody is no way to go through life, boy.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 3/4 @ 2:19 pm #
I’m going to oppress my couch this evening. Then my mattress.
Comment by alppuccino on 3/4 @ 2:20 pm #
Actually, the traditional British establishment portrayal of Irish Catholics was as subhuman monkey-men for a good 150 years or so.
But SteveM didn’t know this so he must be a big dumb ape. Unless he’s black, then he’s just a dipshit.
Comment by alppuccino on 3/4 @ 2:22 pm #
Obama is articulate though. oops
Comment by Rob Crawford on 3/4 @ 2:23 pm #
FECESIST!!!
Comment by slackjawedyokel on 3/4 @ 2:23 pm #
As a white person can I still watch old Disney or Bugs Bunny cartoons even though they have blatant racial undertones?
Yeah, but just try to find “Song of the South” on DVD!
Br’er Rabbitist.
Comment by BJTexs on 3/4 @ 2:24 pm #
I’m going to oppress oppressive oppressors.
BECAUSE OF THE OPPRESSION!!
Comment by Mikey NTH on 3/4 @ 2:24 pm #
“Anyone else you plan on oppressing?”
Yoopers. Why? Because they need it.
Comment by LiveFromFortLivingRoom on 3/4 @ 2:25 pm #
I went over there and looked at the comments and even made a few myself. I have a question though after reading them. Why do some of these people see nothing wrong with comparing anyone to their right with Nazi’s, white supremists, and using words like ReichWing? Isn’t that racist and bigoted toward white Republicans?
Comment by sashal on 3/4 @ 2:26 pm #
and Putin looks like a Golum. And I never apologized for saying this out loud.
Obama does look like m… and so does George.
And I look like s… myself lately….
Comment by Jim in KC on 3/4 @ 2:26 pm #
“Apes don’t read philosopy.”
“Yes, they do, Otto, they just don’t understand it.”
Comment by Rob Crawford on 3/4 @ 2:27 pm #
Use-way et-nay.
Comment by MayBee on 3/4 @ 2:27 pm #
but is about an overall attitude to get into things he shouldn’t and screw them up, lash out at things he doesn’t understand, etc.
Because that’s a perfectly legitimate criticism, I suppose.
If someone were to criticize Obama for getting into the Rezko mess because he didn’t understand, would calling him Curious George be ok then?
Comment by BJTexs on 3/4 @ 2:29 pm #
George O’Kennedy Renek, Yellow
Comment by BJTexs on 3/4 @ 2:30 pm #
Frack! Reznek
Preview was my friend.
Comment by SoCal Dave on 3/4 @ 2:30 pm #
I reposted Jeff G’s comment #32 over at Steve M’s blog and asked him to respond.
Here is his answer:
It’s really a Godwin’s Law question, isn’t it? “Reeducation camps” = commie/Stalinist/totalitarian, which isn’t saying NaziNaziHitlerHitler but is the next best thing, wouldn’t you say, Dave-o?
Seriously.
Comment by The Dread Pundit bluto on 3/4 @ 2:35 pm #
Curious George has much smaller ears.
Comment by JD on 3/4 @ 2:36 pm #
Do not click on MayBee’s links. Your eyes will bleed.
phony chest-beating and faux-macho insult-slinging,
There is not chest beating or faux macho-ness going on here, caric-lite. We are just pointing our that you are a disingenuous, race baiting fucking loonwaffle of the highest order. Now, join caric, IJS, and timmah, and fuck off.
BJ – Quit mewling and let him have it.
Comment by Karl on 3/4 @ 2:38 pm #
via World Entertainment News Network:
RACIST!!!
Comment by N. O'Brain on 3/4 @ 2:43 pm #
“U.S. presidential hopeful BARACK OBAMA wants WILL SMITH to portray him if a movie is ever made about his life – because they both have big ears.”
OTOIST!
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/4 @ 2:44 pm #
Do dipshits have a preference for Fritos Scoops, or Tostitos Scoops?
Just wondering; thinking about sending Steve M a Sorry You Were A Retard On The Internet gift basket.
Comment by Education Guy on 3/4 @ 2:45 pm #
The comparison is ridiculous in any case, as Obama is much, much taller than CG; speaks in clear, understandable English; wears pants; and doesn’t throw his feces. Plus, no tail.
Comment by Karl on 3/4 @ 2:50 pm #
FWIW, I think I just saw Robert Johnson wearing this.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/4 @ 2:51 pm #
maroons.
human beta-globlulin differs in LESS THEN 6 CODONS FROM GORILLA BETA-GLOBULIN!
Comment by Karl on 3/4 @ 2:52 pm #
ARTICULIST!!!
Comment by BJTexs on 3/4 @ 2:53 pm #
More from the kindly SteveM:
Wait a minute! Chuckie … is that you?
In one fell swoop Steve channels Amanda, Kos and any number of other thin skinned, superior, faux brave lefties who can’t be bothered to engage in an actual debate. Rather you go to someone else’s site, engage in name calling, call the commentators “faux outrage insult slingers,” then run back to your hole in the wall site and engage in virtual chest thumping like an Under Armour commercial (THIS IS MY HOUSE! I DEFEND THIS HOUSE!!)
Well done, Identity Politics Man!
The good news is that the comments on his post are up to 13!!! (Half of which are “trolls” whose questions cannot be answered.) Not even PW can make swamp gas smell like roses, apparantly.
Comment by baldilocks on 3/4 @ 2:54 pm #
Halfrican
I resemble that remark.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/4 @ 2:54 pm #
obviously, curious george is a gorilla hybrid.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 3/4 @ 2:54 pm #
I believe their position is that it’s impossible to be bigoted against white men. Either that, or they simply have never bothered to examine their own prejudices.
Which is why I call lefties “bigot” when they spout bigoted crap.
Comment by JD on 3/4 @ 2:54 pm #
Slarti – He would wear it as a sign of pride. Steve M, if you are still reading this, and I know you are – you really should be embarassed about now. Are you? Sadly, no.
Comment by kelly on 3/4 @ 2:55 pm #
I’ll pitch in for the gift basket, Slart. Be sure to include some quality chocolate truffles and tube of K-Y jelly ‘cuz I think Steve’s looking forward to a little “me” time tonight after standing up to the merciless assault of phony chest-beating and faux-macho insult-slinging.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 3/4 @ 3:01 pm #
Where do I buy the racist colored glasses the left wears?
Comment by BJTexs on 3/4 @ 3:02 pm #
I dunno kelly. I think SteveM WILL DEFEND HIS HOUSE!! HOLLA!!!!!
Make sure the gift basket includes a list of ten questions and a brace of smellong salts.
Comment by Education Guy on 3/4 @ 3:04 pm #
My understanding is that many monkey species are fairly rabid masturbators and aren’t all that concerned with things like family lines and such when choosing sex partners. I went looking for quotes about that, but what I found wasmuch better
I would never accuse Obama of being articulate, nor of being a rabid masturbator. Because that would be wrong.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 3/4 @ 3:04 pm #
I’m having flashback to the bongo drum campaign ad.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/4 @ 3:05 pm #
can anyone else ackowledge a morbid fixation with coulters adam’s apple?
plz?
Comment by William Teach on 3/4 @ 3:05 pm #
He does kinda look like Curious George, in a childlike, whimsical fashion.
Of course, I think CG actually has a better grasp of the issues, with clear cut action plans.
I wonder what outrage of the day the lefties will have tomorrow?
Comment by JD on 3/4 @ 3:05 pm #
THIS IS MY HOUSE! WE MUST DEFEND THIS HOUSE!! – I love that commercial.
I figured if I let a little time pass, Steve M would be less of mendoucheous asshat. Sadly, no.
Comment by JD on 3/4 @ 3:06 pm #
Articulate? Are you fucking kidding me? Oliver Willis and Steve M in one day … good Allah, my head. It speens.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/4 @ 3:09 pm #
JD, Allah the compassionate, the caring, will give u solace.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/4 @ 3:17 pm #
This is a nice example of how casual apologies are this spring. Mix and match effortlessly, really. Perfect for an active weekend or stepping out on the town straight from the office. Outrage? Hah! Outrageous comfort!
Comment by JD on 3/4 @ 3:20 pm #
Allah, PBUH can do nothing for the headaches that douchenozzles like Steve M create, nishi. But thanx for caring.
Pingback by Hot Air » Blog Archive » Nutroots accuse Hillary of darkening footage of Obama to make him look “blacker” on 3/4 @ 3:25 pm #
[...] Answer: Nothing, but the left’s chomping at the bit to demagogue the hell out of the GOP on all matters racial in the general election, so Hillary will have to do for now. Or, of course, Rush Limbaugh, who committed the impardonable sin of waiting a few minutes to apologize for a caller’s comparison of a presidential candidate to a monkey. Ahem. [...]
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/4 @ 3:27 pm #
well….Allah is busy a lot.
i personally recommend a water glass of jackdaniels with 800mg of ibuprofen.
Comment by hindmost on 3/4 @ 3:32 pm #
Is there a Godwin’s Law corollary for charges of “Racist!!!11111!!!” ?
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/4 @ 3:37 pm #
hindmost, u know that is the safe strategy.
Comment by Stiv on 3/4 @ 3:38 pm #
Tempest in a teapot. It’s the ears. And even Obama has commented about his own ears (ref. Will Smith having the same type).
Comment by William Teach on 3/4 @ 3:39 pm #
BTW, I do not remember any lefty pitching a fit when Pat Oliphant was caricturing Condi Rice as Bush’s house negro. Matter of fact, they were laughing at the cartoons. They would show up at the DU constantly. I saw they at Kos and other sites, as well.
Comment by BJTexs on 3/4 @ 3:43 pm #
William: Condi lack authenticity … and changytudinous hopefullness.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/4 @ 3:46 pm #
No enemies from the left, Teach. Get with the program.
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No, No, The Obamessiah Campaign Is Truly Colorblind
Or, is it? There is a new website out there, as heard on CNN, called ColorOfChange, changing the color of democracy.
We are asking 250,000 people — African-Americans and concerned allies of any race — to make a commitment.
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Comment by alppuccino on 3/4 @ 3:50 pm #
How do the cartoonists draw Obama? Do they make him look like Hasselhoff?
Comment by twolaneflash on 3/4 @ 3:54 pm #
Only white people can be racist. Obama is a white people. Obama is a racist. He still looks like a primate.
Comment by BJTexs on 3/4 @ 4:05 pm #
Ha, ha, SteveM is getting pissy with SoCalDave. I can just see him shaking his widdle fists, Chuckie style:
Now up to 15 big comments!!! I MUST DEFEND THID HOOOOOUUUUUUUSE!!!
Comment by psycho... on 3/4 @ 4:10 pm #
So does everybody.
CREATIONIST!
Comment by Ralph Phelan on 3/4 @ 4:11 pm #
Comparing Barack Hussein (whoops, not supposed remember he has a middle name) “Yes we Can” Obama to Curious George is just wrong.
Clearly he’s Bob the Builder.
Comment by Jeff G. on 3/4 @ 4:19 pm #
I was saving that one, Ralph.
Comment by Drumwaster on 3/4 @ 4:25 pm #
Isn’t expecting someone to be racist because of the color of their skin…racist?
Comment by William Teach on 3/4 @ 4:34 pm #
Baracks new middle name should be “Mary.”
Comment by Jeff G. on 3/4 @ 4:43 pm #
In case this doesn’t show up over at SteveM’s place…
Comment by skyler on 3/4 @ 4:48 pm #
It’s completely unacceptable to call a black person a monkey. It was an insult used against black people for too long. It’s not racist to say it against a white person. Just like it’s not right to call a Jewish person big nose or crooked nose or Italians oily or Asians squinty-eyed, but it wouldn’t be racist to say those remarks about a black person.
Rush got it, and he, sorta whiningly, apologized. Fair enough.
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Ear-y
We have a presidential candidate who talks about bombing our allies, who talks about cozying up to our enemies, who advocates tucking tail and running from a mission, who pretends to be against trade with two other allies just for
Comment by Rusty on 3/4 @ 5:05 pm #
But Skyler he does look like Curious George, and a little bit like Ozzie Nelson. Which, I guess, is better than looking like Ozzie Osborne.
Comment by Cave Bear on 3/4 @ 5:05 pm #
“Rush got it, and he, sorta whiningly, apologized. Fair enough.”
Yeah, he got it. Because, as I predicted here yesterday, he knew that the usual suspects in the LSM and the lefty moonbat douchenozzle community would be out in force screaming “RACIST! RACIST!” in his general direction today. And so they were.
Comment by JD on 3/4 @ 5:09 pm #
skyler – You are every bit as dense as Steve M, just nicer.
Comment by Jeff G. on 3/4 @ 5:16 pm #
He wasn’t called a monkey. A 12-year-old girl thought he looked like a specific, cartoon character, who is himself a stylized representation of a monkey.
There’s a difference.
And of course, maybe it was the white half of Obama that looked to this girl like Curious George. After all, according to the commenters at SS, whites look more like monkeys than do blacks, in the aggregate.
Pingback by Don’t you people have noses to pick or toenails to trim or something? | Cold Fury on 3/4 @ 5:37 pm #
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Pingback by BREAKING: More Obama racism, this time from Reuters! on 3/4 @ 5:57 pm #
[...] why is it red and white and shiny, anyway? Is that supposed to invoke, like, baboon imagery? Mulattoism? Is it intended to make white men feel insignificant, and to make white [...]
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 3/4 @ 6:06 pm #
LOL! Skyler whiffs. Right after an obviously well thought out and well “articulated” comment by Jeff, comes skyler’s 4th grade explanation of what constitutes a racist comment. Damn, skyler, timing is everything and your’s was pretty bad.
Comment by Alec Leamas on 3/4 @ 6:23 pm #
“Comment by Dan Collins on 3/4 @ 1:01 pm #
SteveM–
You can’t say that to me, racist. I’m Irish.”
‘Tis true. Here’s the proof:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl9EoJWVYB8&feature=related
Comment by LiveFromFortLivingRoom on 3/4 @ 6:42 pm #
Obama looks like a black McCaulley Culkin.
Comment by guinsPen on 3/4 @ 7:10 pm #
We’d be toast if mom and dad had named him Simeon.
Comment by Merovign on 3/4 @ 7:17 pm #
Much belated reply to Carin:
You act as if there’s a disconnect between what “a large collection of liberals” think on the one hand and crap on the other.
This isn’t a “new thing” because of Obama, this is classic American politics – the left can get away with anything, and the right had better not open their mouths or they’ll get slammed in the press.
And that goes for 12-year-olds as well.
Comment by guinsPen on 3/4 @ 8:11 pm #
@ #150
Or would the two names cancel each other out and we could say them both?
Comment by guinsPen on 3/4 @ 8:47 pm #
But we still wouldn’t be allowed to string together the words Chicago Democrat Machine Ward Heeler.
Oops.
Comment by Al Sharpton on 3/4 @ 10:19 pm #
I can see it, Curious George is bright yellow, Obama is high yella.
Comment by daleyrocks on 3/4 @ 11:28 pm #
I don’t know what about this kerfuffle brought the following to mind:
“Angelo Rulli is an organ grinder historian. We’re listening to one of the antique instrument he demonstrates around the country. He says that while the music was supposed to be the real draw, the organ grinder’s monkey was a necessary tool of the trade.
“The monkey was a matter of economics. Because the monkey has an opposable thumb it could hold a cup, and by holding a cup, the monkey could go out into the crowd and bang people on the knees and collect money while the grinder was plying his trade.”
The monkey may have collected the cash, but it wasn’t necessarily for the reason you’d think.
“The irony of the grinder and the music that was played is that as often as not, they were paid to get out of the neighborhood….because it was for the most part terrible music. Ultimately, over the years, all of the major cities in America imposed laws- very, very strictly enforced laws- as to the hours that a grinder could be on streets.”"
Maybe liberal ideas are the equivalent of the organ grinding music.
Comment by lee on 3/4 @ 11:35 pm #
I like where you’re going with this daleyrocks.
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