To the couple of examples of borderline insanity Darleen points out below, you can add Bob Herbert hallucinating racism in a McCain ad (dog whistle for the hearing impaired), and Alter and Olbermann subsequently co-hallucinating phalluses and miscegenation after dropping a couple tabs of dementia. Much more of this and we’ll see these guys spontaneously deconstruct on live television. (h/t Hot Air Headlines)
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I am physically incapable of watching a segment with Olberdouche and Herbert.
Initially, all of this BS is jarring. You sit back and wonder how any person could be that damn stoopid. Then, after reflection, it is clear that this type of BS would emanate from the Left no matter what.
Watch here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiPAz8494Vs&feature=related
There are not three phallic symbols. All were shots of the same thing … Barry’s We Are The World speech in front of a crowd of stoned Germans seeking free beer.
And if anyone was dealing in phallic symbols, maybe we should accuse Barry of playing into the “coded” stereotype of black male “assets” by choosing to make the speech in front of it. Just like his “crotch shot” on the airplane that had the female reporters fanning themselves.
Didn’t Herbert mis-identify one as the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
Have there ever been any scientific studies as to the deleterious effects upon one’s IQ when appearing for any length of time in an echo chamber?
Clearly. CLEARLY!!
JesusIntentionalism wept.PS: As noted, the word “uppity” never appeared in any Republican ad. In the space of about a minute it went from “implied” to “obvious.”
Un-freakin-believable. I need Lisa to come by and tell me why I shouldn’t be alternately depressed and pissed off.
As for the phallic stuff, we see ourselves everywhere.
This is all reminding me of the fevered “Paul is dead” stuff of 1969.
BJ, we’ve stumbled on a new expression, I think: “Shut uppity.”
I don’t want to leap to conclusions so I’ll calm down and ask this question:
Are they suggesting that the Republicans deliberately included the image of the memorial in the background of Obama’s speech WHICH WAS A LOCATION PICKED BY OBAMA’S PEOPLE AND FEATURED ON HIS OWN CAMPAIGN FILMS AS A CODED MANDINGO PHALLIC SYMBOL???!!!???
Oh, crap! Now there are chunks of my hair all over my desk.
JD
They are ALL the Victory column. Herbert is a lying asshole.
“Just stick to the Phallics, ma’am.”
BJT @ #9
Looks like we came to the same conclusion (my #3)
heh. :)
When you say that McCain has “tied” Obama, can this mean anything other than…
I’m still everlastingly flummoxed by Alter saying “clearly,” Darleen. Yeesh, professional journalist my ass. Maybe I need to get an Italian Ice or some such and “chill.”
Fuckin’ racists
Had he been a little more arrogant and picked the Brandenburg Gate he wouldn’t
have this problem. You know If King had run for President say in 1968; and
the Republican had run an add showing the Washington Monument in the background; would the Herbert of the day; Carl Rowan, have said that is a ‘phallic symbol.
I sent this to ace a while back, but it’s grist for the Intentionalism mill – here’s an Official Barack Obama Campaign photo featuring a black man physically dominating a white guy while a white chick gazes longingly at Barack’s crotch.
http://origin.barackobama.com/photos/index.php?set=On_the_Trail&image=2
Oh.My.
Or it’s just a photo at a supporter’s rally.
The issue, if there’s one to be found, isn’t the photo, it’s the campaign’s *decision* to post the photo uncropped on Barack’s Official Site.
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Would not real “racism” be giving people preferential treatment in hiring and in college admissions based solely on the color of their skin?
If, somehow, McCain is able to actually win in November, I think the level of unhingement will reach new levels.
So is their premise that the ad is gonna scare conservatives with the idea that Obama is gonna frolic with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton?
You are now leaving The Age of Reason
Now entering The Age of Waaaaah!
Would not real “racism†be giving people preferential treatment in hiring and in college admissions based solely on the color of their skin?
You would say something like that wouldn’t you, Mr. “Pink”?
In defense of Carl Rowan, he may have been a race baiting twerp, he may have been a knee-jerking (illegal gun using) doofus, he may have been many discreditable things, but he was never as purely stupid as Boob Herbert who all on his lonesome constitutes the bottom of the dumb barrel.
Yeah I know, I should learn to keep my mouth shut since I am a typical bitter clinging white person.
I brought up McCain’s slight lead and the libs in the office (most everyone but me..) all went tight lipped… I definitely see a Scanners Head Popping moment coming..
“::sputter::sputter::..but you see that ad? They put pictures of O! with the white women.. and giant penises! Practically called him Mandingo ! No, they didnt actually say it.. but you just know what they mean! Racists! Raaaaaaccccccists ::sputter::”
It’s too rich.. McCain doesn’t even need to campaign.. They’re talking themselves out of a win…
Carin,
PESTS is going to look like a hangnail in comparison. Violence is likely.
I’d assert Obama’s supporters have his race in mind, and it matters to them a lot, but to his opponents it does not signify anything important, except to that extent he makes race an issue himself, and his associates by proxy.
I say Rowan, because he was the chief black antagonist to King, when he started
the ‘US were like the worst of the Nazis”
jag in Vietnam. But you’re right, Rowan was a cold war liberal back them; he wouldn’t actually cheer for the enemy until way after Tet.
No defense of Rowan’s politics was on offer. Boob Herbert is genuinely unintelligent (like a stone) where Rowan had perhaps half-a-brain. Still, it was good fun to watch C. Krauthammer misuse Rowan and Totenburg, pounding them into the ground to their gape mouthed astonishment, one 20lb sledge stroke after another.
I thought of Carl Rowan the other day when a real estate agent approached from the house next door and interrupted my yard mowing to ask, “I wanted to ask someone about the abandoned house next door and was wondering if these people [pointing to MY house] were home.” She thought I was “the help.”
It reminded me of the time someone stopped Rowan’s mowing to ask “How much do you get to mow this lawn?” and he said, “The white woman who lives here let’s me fuck her.” Gracious fellow, but kinda bitter and clingy.
Miscegenation…..an outrageous quantum leap of racial sensitivity.
But, I never SAID the black guy wanted to screw your sister, I just mentioned he LIKED her. What’s yer problema?
Plausible Denialists make their bones on innuendo which can be interpreted according to the mindset. Just an example of one who
REGULARLY hides in the thicket of weasel words is Glenn Reynolds.
It is all about the so called innocent phrase which timbers on SUGGESTION.
I don’t know anyone who is proud to be a racist, do you? If you have
pride in your ideology you shout it from the rooftops. But I do see a lot of shit which propagates the ugly notions which keep us tied up
in the past. Some people have an agenda which benefits from keeping those fires stoked. Some here do not engage in that type of rhetoric.
They deserve credit for that.
That unintelligible garble of words Semen just puked was a copy and paste from another thread.
I put that screed into babelfish and it translated to “People who claim to suffer from PRE traumatic stress disorder are idiots”.
You already pasted that same shit on another thread yesterday, cleo. Might be time to update the clipboard.
Fucking idiot.
Well, I coulda’ changed a few words around, but the point would be missed.
So, a big thanks to BMoe and JD for calling attention to the rehashing
of old posts akin to my re-posted comment.
BTW; I think my point needs repeating, ad infinitum.
Well, I coulda’ changed a few words around, but the point would be missed.
How many monitors and keyboards did that little pearl fuck up?
Can you spell boring?
Let’s nominate Kerrey, he’s a vet. It would be un-American to vote against him.
Let’s nominate Obama, he’s black. It would be racist to vote against him.
If you’re into superficial, it makes sense. Like cleo’s #31.
You had a point?
Perhaps if you tried to make the point? In English?
I think what you’re doing is trying to defend the idea that the claims of “coded racist images and words” are correct, but that’s so ridiculous that I can’t believe it could even come from someone who advocates the return of involuntary servitude.
Thats quite a stretch. The video has Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. I live in the south and “OH NOES! TEH BLACK IS AFTER OUR TRAMPS!” is not an issue.
BMoe – There are sparks shooting from my monitor.
KKKleo – Regurgitating things, repeatedly, does not give them any more weight, or make them any less incomprehensible.
Racist
Sure leo, to those who believe in the conspiracy everything is proof of it.
Cleo can you take your Zoloft please? Seriously I am begging you.
The point those ads make is that Obama is born to lead like Britney Spears.
He’s an embarrassing, eating-disordered fuckwit who surrounds himself with a crowd of self-serving yes-men.
An is inexplicably worshipped as if he were a pretty pretty princess dealing with the likes of Camilla Parker Bowles.
True or false, that’s what the ad is meant to imply, that’s what it is trying to persuade us into noticing.
It’s all about underserved adulation and a sense of entitlement that could be dangeous to others.
We can safely add SarahW to the racist column.
Semen writes:
If you have pride in your ideology you shout it from the rooftops.
And yet it is the left who always lie about what their true beliefs are (see Obama “moving” to the Center and denying all of the far left rhetoric he used in the primary). It is the left who always lie about “true facts” in trying to make their “arugments”. It is the left who can never actually argue a point but consistenly change what they are arguing and move the goalposts.
So, Cleo – doesn’t that make you question your own ideology? The fact that it is made up almost entirely of lies? Like every leftist you project – you accuse the right of doing the things you do. YOu claim to “know” our motiviation when we speak and therefore you can find the “code words” in everything we say. But the reality is, it is the left who lies about their positions in every election. It is the left who lies in every argument. So, maybe you should go to your lefty brethren and preach that sermon, where it would actually reach the people engaging in the behavior that you allegedly find so terrible.
It never matters what a conservative says, the left will always find a secret (racist/ homophobic / sexist) code in it – it is a self fulfilling prophesy. If they believe in their hearts that we are racists, then of course when you can’t find explicit racism, etc. in what we say it must mean that we are speaking in code.
The sad thing is, people like semen actually think they are smart or clever becaue they can see through the “code”. They don’t realize that they suffer from insance paranoia and projection. Moreover, if they had an argument to make, they would debate us on teh argument. B/c they spend all of their time trying to censor our arguments (b/c it’s all secret “code”), they have admitted that they have no arugment to make – admitted that we are correct – but they don’t care b/c it hurts their feelings.
This whole claim of “code” words is akin to every other avenue the left has been traveling for the last 30 years – attempting to censor anyone who disagrees with them.
They can’t win with arguments, so they have to try and shut down the other side’s speech. It’s what they always do – from stealing college newspapers that have articles they don’t like, to shouting down speakers they disagree with, to imposing “speech codes” and other Nazi nonsense in the name of “diversity” or “political correctness”, to calling for the “fairness doctrine” to try and shut down Rush Limbaugh and other radio hosts.
You know they realize that their ideas and philosophy sucks by the fact that they don’t try to persuade anyone with a rational argument, but instead try to bully everyone to shut up – either through outright censorship, or through tactics such as calling anyone who dares disagree with them a racist or homophobe.
I have almost no respect for any leftist. I can respect individually someone I know who is a leftist, but the problem is, such individuals that I know don’t ever call out other people on his “team” for their tactics/antics above. Thus, they are condoning or even (through contributions to groups like Moveon) actively helping such tactics/antics.
I can’t respect that. The left are truly becoming more and more fascist every day.
Even if you could prove that this conservative or that conservative was in fact racist – then what?
the left seems to believe that accusing someone of racism (or even if it were true) that such ends the argument.
However, that would not end the argument. Just b/c the messenger was racist, would not mean the policy proposal or idea presented was wrong.
If Jonas Salk was a proven racist, would the polio vaccine not work? No, the vaccine would still work. In the same vein, if some republican was proven racist, would that mean lower taxes and less regulation did not work? No. But the left seems to think that is what it means.
Just as the road to hell is paved with good intentions (see the disasterous results of almost all lefty programs in the U.S.) the opposite can be true. A good idea can be held by a bad person. The fact that the person is bad does not invalidate the idea.
The left does not understand this – they think if they just scream “racism” loud enough, that is akin to persuasive argument.
huh?: “So is their premise that the ad is gonna scare conservatives with the idea that Obama is gonna frolic with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton?”
Apparently, white folk are supposed to be outraged that two lasses who, if caught in bed with German Shepherds (no, not the kind with lederhosen….) would only engender the mildest of suprise, are used in the same 30 second bit as the Obamessiah. The “phallic symbols” in the background of the shot are part of the setting that this idiot all but demanded. And somehow it’s the fault of the “white debbil” that Obama is an empty suit.
*head-desk*
Semanticleo: “Miscegenation…..an outrageous quantum leap of racial sensitivity.”
Uh-huh… now pull the other leg — I spit coins.
If the best comeback that can be made to the thesis that Obama is an empty suit is to scream “RACIST” in the same tone of voice that Hattie McDaniel used in “Gone with the Wind,” then the Obama campaign has a real problem, because y’all have *NOTHING* in the arsenal than lazy invective and ill-aimed insult. Obama put discussing his lack of experience and his youth on the same level as discussing his race –face it, Semanticleo, he’s trying to use his race as both bludgeon and bracer against any sort of questioning. Obama is an empty suit and getting emptier by the week.
Reminder: in one of their ridiculous “there aren’t enough lefties on television” ‘studies’ from a while back, the unquestionably esteemed and Sullivan-esque respected (it’s the calm reflection) Media Matters listed Alter as a moderate. You think I’m joking, don’t you?
I checked into that, RW. It was a typo for ‘maladroit’.
– Guys and Gals….this is not a time to agonize over the Lefts “capturing of teh Narrativeâ„¢”. G_d gave us Progressives for our amusement, self torture is completely optional.
– Its a time to just sit back and watch the “futility based community” self emolate. What you are witnessing is the inevitable snake eating its tail result of discordant intentionalism, taken to its insane extreme.
– As Bo Jangles campaign sinks slowly in the West, if you listen carefully you can hear the screeches of the brain dead natives as a group, repeating over and over in a chant, “racist….racist….racist….racist…”, on and on to the beat of jungle drums, as their boat nears Skull island, and the home of the dreaded giant ape, all captured foe posterity in the unforgettable film “King Wrong”……
– This time the setting for the showdown will be in the Western reaches of a mysterious elevated area known as the “Denver”, and will feature gangs of angry screeching chickens.
– The main plot line will involve the inevitable sacrificial white woman, the focus of beast rape fantasies, taking the role of Fay Raye a hopeful of the old school of bleeding hearts of perpetual grief, seeking to vanquish the Monster by breaking its heart.
– Throngs of wildly screeching Amazon woman tribes, pink adorned native pygmy whores, and groups of every sort of disfigured and mentally ill urban jungle males and females will gather to torment and challenge the beast for days on end, as he stands chained to the podium on the great stage. Lunatic after lunatic will take turns, Beast lovers with beast haters. to sing or damn the Beasts praises, all for naught, as the thumbs up, thumbs down voting, ends in a tie once again, after more than a week of total mind numbing surreal insanity.
– The final griping, heart stopping scene will place the Monster on the Sears tower, where the White Bread has fled, with the Beast flailing at the circling fighter jets, as he grasps for the heroine, finally falling to his death on Whacker drive, brought down, not by the mighty airforce of the evil McChimpyBushitler war mongers, but explained in that infanouse closing line: “No, no….t’wasn’t the planes that brought him down….’twas Ugly that killed the Beast.”
BBH: I want the TV rights for the SCIFI channel.
Man, all this discussion of race and politics and I get read “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” for Thursday’s class… Good thing my professor stays away from most political discussions. Last week when one of my classmates tried to talk about Ron Paul, the prof declared it was time for a break.
I think I have the one lefty English professor who doesn’t ram his philosophy down his student’s throats. At least not explicitly.
When all is said and done .. and the historians get around to a post mortem of this election, I fully expect them to write that the “race card” interchange between Campaign McCain and Campaign Obama was the single most pivotal moment of the campaign.
People of all colors are tired of being “racial victims” .. tired of being proclaimed a racist for just about anything.
Up until the other day, Obama had successfully run under the banner of “blacks are racial victims” .. but once he was caught using the “club of racial injustice” for his own purposes, he no longer espoused the “hope and change” a victim class but rather a victimizer. Non-black guilt was supplanted by outrage.
They won’t take it unless it involves a giant snake.
When O! loses, it’s going to be ugly. Verrrry ugly.
And urine. Don’t forget the urine.
Egad, intention has become suggestion. And Cleo’s dishonest assertion includes the phallic timbers.
Cleo, yopu are a trespasser, a charlaten, and a thief. A dishonest bastard.
A liberal.
Well, Geezer, in Teh New and Improved Narrative™ the listener’s conclusion as to the suggestion of meaning rises to the same rank as the intention of the speaker.
I’m glad I could clear this up for you and hope that you will develop a taste for fish eye soup and burlap smocks.