Solution? Have the “objective” media turn an empirical fact — William Ayers is not only a terrorist, but a proudly unrepentant one — into a “coded” message of racism.
Here’s the APs Douglass Daniel, “Analysis: Palin’s words carry racial tinge”:
By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is “palling around with terrorists” and doesn’t see the U.S. like other Americans, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin targeted key goals for a faltering campaign.
And though she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret.
[…]
“Our opponent … is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country,” Palin told a group of donors in Englewood, Colo. A deliberate attempt to smear Obama, McCain’s ticket-mate echoed the line at three separate events Saturday.
“This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America,” she said. “We see America as a force of good in this world. We see an America of exceptionalism.”
Her reference to Obama’s relationship with William Ayers, a member of the Vietnam-era Weather Underground, was exaggerated at best if not outright false. No evidence shows they were “pals” or even close when they worked on community boards years ago and Ayers hosted a political event for Obama early in his career.
No evidence? Well, Stanley Kurtz and Steve Diamond, two of the only journalists actually interested enough to look into the relationship, would beg to differ about the extent of Obama’s relationship with Ayers — though in this case, Mr Daniel appears to be playing a semantic game that he knows to be disingenuous, saving his faux outrage for the suggestion that Obama and Ayers are bestest “pals” (which he infers is a charge made by the colloquial “palling around,” with the Alaskan beauty queen suddenly held to lawyerly standards of linguistic precision), while ignoring the real thrust of Governor Palin’s attack: namely, Obama, we have found out, lied about the extent of his relationship with Ayers (Mr. Daniel appears unfazed by Senator Obama’s dishonesty); he has never given an account of his CAC activities, and Ayers’ role in those activities (and has in fact tried to keep Kurtz and other journalists from telling their stories, issuing “action alerts” directing supporters to try to shout down his critics).
That “no evidence shows they were “pals” or even close when they worked on community boards years ago and Ayers hosted a political event for Obama early in his career” is, therefore, a rhetorical dodge — one that really begs the question: what Mr Daniel intentionally brackets from his overview is the very real possibility that the lack of “evidence” of the kind that might convince him (others are indeed convinced, including a mutual friend of Ayers and Obama, and have repeatedly shown their work) is the result of a failure on the part of the mainstream press to investigate the connection with the same tenacity with which they went after Governor Palin’s tanning bed, or Bristol Palin’s baby daddy’s facebook page.
So what begins with a lack of professionalism on the part of the press — and the defensive rationalization that nearly always follows from those who know they’ve been called out for blatant favoritism and a willingness to carry water for their chosen One — quickly turns to the old Stanley Fish technique of projecting dark, coded “meanings” to what are, on their face, already straightforward accusations on the part of Palin (and, before her, McCain himself).
Here’s Daniel, following the race-baiting progressive playbook to bold-stroked perfection:
Obama, who was a child when the Weathermen were planting bombs, has denounced Ayers’ radical views and actions.
— well, unless you count his glowing endorsement of those radical views as put into action, including an endorsement of Ayers’ book on education (which is nothing if not in keeping with Ayers’ radical views about the US-as-villain-and-oppressor), and the funding he funneled, through CAC, to Ayers’-backed “educational” programs that eschewed thing like math and science for courses based around progressive and radical notions of “social justice” and the politicizing of curricula through the “small schools” initiative.
Other than that, though, yeah: consider Ayers and his radicalism denounced in the strongest terms! Mr Daniel again:
The larger purpose behind Palin’s broadside is to reintroduce the question of Obama’s associations. Millions of voters, many of them open to being swayed to one side or the other, are starting to pay attention to an election a month away.
For the McCain campaign, that makes Obama’s ties to Ayers as well as convicted felon Antoin “Tony” Rezko and the controversial minister Jeremiah Wright ripe for renewed criticism. And Palin brings a fresh voice to the argument.
[…]
Palin’s words avoid repulsing voters with overt racism. But is there another subtext for creating the false image of a black presidential nominee “palling around” with terrorists while assuring a predominantly white audience that he doesn’t see their America?
Note the rhetorical maneuver here: first, Mr Daniel repeats the charge that Obama’s relationship with Ayers creates a “false image” — seizing still on the semantic game of turning “palling” into a suggestion on Palin’s part that Ayers and Obama are practically lovers, rather than embracing the much more obvious interpretation that, colloquially speaking, Palin was calling Obama and Mr Ayers ideological fellow travelers who share certain progressive and radical beliefs, and who have in the past had a working relationship that has, as a matter of record, produced “education reform” projects that speak directly to those shared beliefs.
Then, doubling down on his intentional misreading, Mr Daniel takes the next step toward racial demagoguery:
In a post-Sept. 11 America, terrorists are envisioned as dark-skinned radical Muslims, not the homegrown anarchists of Ayers’ day 40 years ago. With Obama a relative unknown when he began his campaign, the Internet hummed with false e-mails about ties to radical Islam of a foreign-born candidate.
Whether intended or not by the McCain campaign, portraying Obama as “not like us” is another potential appeal to racism. It suggests that the Hawaiian-born Christian is, at heart, un-American.
[my emphasis]
There is so much sloppy thinking stuffed into these four sentences that I hardly know where to begin.
First, Mr Daniel suggests that Americans, when they hear the word “terrorist,” will envision “dark-skinned radical Muslim” — even when the terrorist in question, it was clear from the context, was Ayers himself, and that the word “domestic” was used as a qualifier in Governor Palin’s remarks. Translation: Americans are essentially racist at heart (forcing them to jump to conclusions that context should clearly disabuse them of), not to mention stupid, rendering them incapable of making distinctions between individuals, historical contexts, and types of terrorism.
Having turned use of the word “terrorist” into a de facto coded referent to dark-skinned Muslims (owing to the pliability of the tiny reptilian brains of conservatives), Mr Daniel then proceeds to connect Palin’s remarks yesterday to “internet rumors” that, he suggests, are buried deep in the racist hearts of the American people. Which is why the mention of “terrorist” is dangerous to Obama: it could convince Americans to turn their backs on what’s best for the country — Obama! — and instead vote for McCain/Palin out of fear that Obama, once elected, will decree we all follow Sharia law.
— Of course, the only people who seem to believe that do cover art for New York Magazine — or rather, they know that such is what the conservative cartoons they’ve constructed in their own minds believe.
Second, playing on that bigoted caricature of conservatives, Mr Daniel goes on to note that, “whether intended or not by the McCain campaign, portraying Obama as “not like us” is another potential appeal to racism” — though to arrive at that point he’s had first to bracket Palin’s use of “domestic” as a qualifier, ignore her use of the NYT and Chicago as indices to the referent, Mr Ayers, and cast her target audience as ignorant rubes looking for any excuse to allow their latent racism to rear its head.
Importantly, Mr Daniel is not even concerned with the intent: he is worried that the muddle-brained xenophobes who make up McCain Palin voters — along with (white) undecideds — will not be able to differentiate between Mr Ayers and “dark-skinned radical Muslims,” even if Governor Palin can.
This maneuver works on two levels: it distances itself from making a direct accusation of racism against McCain/Palin, and places the onus of “misinterpretation” on the kinds of people (non-Obama-committed whites) who populate the (latently) racist city of Englewood, CO.; and it makes the implied argument that those who don’t vote for Obama are likely failing to do so out of some sort of xenophobia or racialist mistrust.
Couldn’t possibly be his policies that these voters are disturbed by. Nor could it be that they question the judgment of a man who sung the praises of a radical education primer written by an unreconstructed domestic terrorist whose wife celebrated the Manson family slayings of pigs. After all, what sane person can vote against Hope and Change?
And of course, Mr Daniel, in his self-righteous pique, fails to mention that “portraying Obama as ‘not like us'” is — rather than “another potential appeal to racism” — another instance of Obama’s own racial demagoguery: after all, it is Obama who peppers his stump speeches with accusations that the ideological opponents he caricatures will be frightened that we don’t see anyone like him on our currency, or that he has a “funny name.”
I shouldn’t have to remind Mr Daniel that one doesn’t see many who look like Sarah Palin on our currency, either — and that she’s been drawn in the media as everything from a ditzy bimbo to a snowbilly trailerpark queen, a shallow Inuit-humper playing government in the great frozen kindergarten state of Alaska.
Because that kind of bigotry is acceptable — particularly when the target falls outside the establishment idea of who gets to be a “feminist”, and so who is member in good standing of a “protected” class.
Concludes Daniel:
Palin’s words raise questions about whether the last month of the campaign will feature a new focus by McCain’s camp on Obama’s associations with Ayers, Rezko and Wright.
Bringing up Wright would contradict McCain’s promise that Obama’s former pastor is was off-limits. McCain, the victim himself of racially-tinged smear campaign in 2000, has promised a new kind of politics.
But the fact is that allowing racism to creep into the discussion serves a purpose for McCain. As the fallout from Wright’s sermons showed earlier this year, forcing Obama to abandon issues to talk about race leads to unresolved arguments about America’s promise to treat all people equally.
Ah yes! Naming as your spiritual adviser a man whose Black Liberation Theology represents a political viewpoint is a way of distracting from the “issues” (evidently, “what is Obama’s political philosophy” is not a valid issue, unless and until he is nominated for the Supreme Court, I suppose); extrapolating from “BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY” a racial element is, itself, dangerously close to racist; and exploring a worldview in which Obama immersed himself — one that preaches the evil of Whitey and the danger of Jews — “leads to unresolved arguments about America’s promise to treat all people equally.”
Up is down. Black is white. Eva is Zsa-Zsa.
— Whereas exploring the pregnancy of the VP’s daughter? A necessary and perfectly legitimate exploration of her fitness as both a mother and a potential VP.
John McCain occasionally looks back on decisions with regret. He has apologized for opposing a holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr. He has apologized for refusing to call for the removal of a Confederate flag from South Carolina’s Capitol.
When the 2008 campaign is over McCain might regret appeals such as Palin’s perhaps more so if he wins.
Or perhaps he’ll be perfectly content that he didn’t run away from racial bullying and raised as a legitimate question of judgment and governing philosophy, the influence of those with whom Barack Obama has long surrounded himself.
After all, the willingness to take on race baiting and attempts to chill free speech is, to some of us, at least, still a sign of strength.
(h/t TerryH)
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update similar thoughts, from Jonah Goldberg:
The analysis falls apart according to its own logic since Daniel admits that the McCain campaign’s strategy is hardly different than Republican tactics of previous campaigns. Daniel more or less concedes this, but argues that because Obama is black, using these tactics against Obama is in effect racist.
The whole argument ultimately depends on the assumption that Americans are too stupid and racist to make any meaningful distinctions about anything.
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update 2: More from Darleen, who attended a Palin event yesterday and shares pics.
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update 3: Even more from Hot Air. Plus, the McCain campaign, and Palin in particular, fires back at the Obama campaign over questions of “smears” — refusing (thus far) to cave to PC pressure and racial demagoguery:
“The last four weeks of this election will be about whether the American people are willing to turn our economy and national security over to Barack Obama, a man with little record, questionable judgment, and ties to radical figures like unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers. Americans need to ask themselves if they’ve ever befriended an unrepentant terrorist, or had a convicted felon help them buy their house  because those aren’t smears, those are true facts about Barack Obama.†â€â€Tucker Bounds, spokesman McCain-Palin 2008
Get used to it. When Obama wins (and he almost certainly will), every criticism of him will be called “racist”. Every vote by any member of Congress will be called “racist”. And, of course, this will give the left the excuse to suppress speech. After all, we can’t allow “racists” to use the public airwaves (or the public internet).
It’s going to be a long 4 years. Unless it’s longer.
I’m just so happy to know that the AP is here to explain how bringing up Ayers is racist. Not everyone sees that angle right away. I’m sure it will start appearing in the action alerts. Also, someone gets bonus points for working into the story that McCain didn’t support MLK day.
It’s funny because it’s racist to bring up Ayers, but perfectly ok to call Palin a bimbo and a cunt.
#1
Whadayamean,’when he wins’, it’s happening now.
Isn’t Ayers a white man?
Trying to imagine anyone more whitebread than Bill Ayers.
Nope, can’t do it.
Pfleger.
If you question a black man’s associations, it’s racist. Because of the content of the character.
Um, I don’t recall an AP worry pieces on the trashing of Sarah Palin and what it means.
Jackin’ the Wordstalk.
AP provides us with a preview of how all Obama criticism will be characterized under an Obama adminstration…
Gov. Palin’s linkage of Barack Obama to unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers? Racist. Here is, in part, what AP editor Douglass Daniel wrote:
Palin’s words avoid repulsing voters with overt racism. But is there another subtext for cre…
Hey, Cynthia McKinney thinks Obama’s a Caucasian Candidate:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2008/09/18/ap-covers-biden-gaffe-taxes-citing-liberal-tax-policy-center
The only option Palin has is to double down and keep calling their bluffs. The facts are on her side.
Tell the American people Obama was so worried he tried to hide it and deny it. Now he knows all he can do is hope to minimize it.
She needs to take it one step further and call the media out – by name – and tell them to stop crying racism when the real issue is having radical terrorists as political associates and allies.
If they want to win this they need slug it out. Nobody except the hard left likes people like William Ayers. So long as his name, and his creedo, remain the target people will not be put off in the least.
Get in the ring.
Credo.
I thnk Creedo was the guy Han Solo killed in a bar on Tatooine
Took the family to the gun range for practice yesterday, clinging as we are. America has been made a more dangerous place by the appearance of Obama and his Nagin-sized bus collection loaded with Marxists, terrorists, thugs, celebrities, and assorted nitwits. Its a racist observation, and I condemn myself in advance, but 100% of the people at the gun range were caucasians, mostly families. All firing lanes were filled and a line of shooters were waiting to get on the range. I don’t know if fear of the Obama cult members and his Marxist crowd are fueling it, but gun and ammo sales were brisk yesterday. Not everyone is warm and fuzzy about the potential for racial violence from blacks around November 5th. Be armed or be harmed seems to be the wisdom of the day.
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Next we will have Palin’s call to “Drill, Baby, Drill” analyzed as a coded racist call to attach H. Rap Brown to Barack H. Obama.
Can’t the Associated Press afford editors?
JeffG
I’m beginning to suspect (based on what I say at the end of my Pub post) that the cries of “racism” of every criticism of Obama is aimed more that McCain campaign handlers than the public at large. It is an intimidation tactic to get the McCain campaign to “back off” direct criticism of either Obama or things like Democrat culpability in the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac/CRA debacle.
AND IT IS WORKING.
“Isn’t Ayers a white man?”
RACIST!!©
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I would like to point out the more offensive part of this story. It’s not that Obama’s campaign played the race card (because that’s just a monthly event). It’s that they called Palin a “FLUFFY BUNNY” in response.
Does no one see the ridiculousness of playing the race card, and AT THE SAME TIME slapping her with sexist remarks?
And the
MainstreamMedia. They can’t find a story with both hands, a map and a GPS, so they need that big neon sign flashing <<<RACIST!>>> to draw them to Teh Narrative™.I have no comment. (I don’t want to be called a racist.)
ushie: refusing to condemn racism is, itself, racist.
Greedo, that was. And Han may have been a RACIST© himself, having shot first.
Depending on whose narrative you ascribe to, anyway.
Bunny-cuda.
Scream real loud, scream racist. But you won’t be getting any toy or sugar smacks. It’s out of the store and back in the car, and home with you. I’ll leave the milk on aisle 3 and you get no dinner.
I had an argument with a friend some time ago that Carol in Oleanna was a con-artist in keeping with Mamet’s preferred genre. She had set up John so that no matter what he did, she could Dowdify a sexual assault into it in order to punish a member of the patriarchy. He was a mark the moment he agreed to let her in his office.
I think some in Obama’s camp and the media (redundancy) are trying to run the same kind of con, but they’re hamstrung by inept dinks like Daniel. The charge of racism is defanged if the act of a white lady calling a white guy a terrorist counts as racism. He might as well say “Palin’s accusations tinged with babyrape and satanism.”
I agree with Darleen. This is a shot across McCain’s bow to warn him what’s to come if he brings up Rev. Wright, Fannie Mae, etc. The Sunday morning news shows were also full of these hints.
FWIW, a Wikipedia article on “Show Boat” quotes a Douglass K. Daniel of Kansas State University as calling the play a “racially flawed story.” A footnote shows Douglass as having authored “They Just Keep Rolling Along: Images of Blacks in Film Versions of Show Boat”. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Minorities and Communication Division. Retrieved December 31, 2005.
A Douglass K. Daniel was an Assistant Professor of Journalism at Kansas State up to 2004, but then disappears from the faculty.
Earlier this year, a Douglass K. Daniel wrote an AP article on a study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.
And finally, he authored the infamous AP article on Tony Snow’s death which said, “With a quick-from-the-lip repartee, broadcaster’s good looks and a relentlessly bright outlook _ if not always a command of the facts…”
http://jackrabbitcafe.blogspot.com/2008/10/from-ap-bruce-springsteen-called-bush.html
First, Mr Daniel suggests that Americans, when they hear the word “terrorist,†will envision “dark-skinned radical Muslim 
Small quibble: I don’t think they are merely suggesting it, I would say they are working their asses off to ensure it.
Carin —
I’m sure it will start appearing in the action alerts. Also, someone gets bonus points for working into the story that McCain didn’t support MLK day.
It’s already in the pipeline — there was some of it on the swarm last night. I couldn’t make the connection — but now I get it. “Terrorist” = brown-skinned Muslim. Got it now.
Darleen —
I’m beginning to suspect (based on what I say at the end of my Pub post) that the cries of “racism†of every criticism of Obama is aimed more that McCain campaign handlers than the public at large. It is an intimidation tactic to get the McCain campaign to “back off†direct criticism of either Obama or things like Democrat culpability in the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac/CRA debacle.
I agree — I’ve read elsewhere that McCain won’t go after Wright, for that same reason. If he “backs off” on Ayers, he’s dead in the water, though. He’s obviously Obama’s Achilles heel, judging by the screeching the name evokes, and the fact that Ayers, never shy about expressing his opinions, is muzzled, sequestered and ignored by the media.
Trying to imagine anyone more whitebread than Bill Ayers.
Pat Boone has that one covered, SBP.
I’ve read elsewhere that McCain won’t go after Wright, for that same reason.
At some point McCain is going to have to say “Fuck it.” and go for broke.
Or lose, of course.
Pat Boone has that one covered, SBP.
Touche.
Everyone knows that AP is an in-the-tank outfit that has publicly acknowledged that they have encouraged their reporters to take a more activist, and less objective, bent in stories…
Effectively transforming what might have been called news pieces in to simply…stories
And that putz Daniel can’t resist an opportunity to write another “AmeriKKKa is a racist place” piece…
But the AP made a mistake. They wrote the wrong title. It should have been something like: “Prominent racial phobic AP reporter shows how to take anagram-like accusation by Palin and dial it into your identity politics decoder ring to reveal a racist statement designed to give hick-rubes an permission slip to vote against the post-partisan, post-racial, nation healing messiah”…
But I guess that would violate some kinda title story teasing rules, or somethin’…
I agree with Darleen. This is a shot across McCain’s bow to warn him what’s to come if he brings up Rev. Wright, Fannie Mae, etc. The Sunday morning news shows were also full of these hints.
Yep. The media has laid down the racism gauntlet and defined it, now if the campaign persists they will label it racists. Problem is, people of all stripes and colors do not like being labeled racist for simple factuals and legitimate criticism. That’s why Obama didn’t tell Pennsylvanians he thinks they are bitter, clingy, god gun hicks to their face but behind their backs.
At some point McCain is going to have to say “Fuck it.†and go for broke.
Yep. They’re going to play the card no matter what. Fuck it, go for broke.
McCain camp responds:
meow…
Too bad he can’t go the “fuck it, rocks fall and everyone dies” route.
That’s my personal favorite, but I’m not sure how effective it would be in a presidential campaign unless the rocks took out the entire opposing party.
Oh snap. Maverick teeth!
The irony of this is that the Left has required the holding of certain attitudes and political positions as de rigeur for being considered authentically black. On the advice of a communist poet, Barack Obama explicitly cultivated those characteristics in order to pursue his black identity. Yet now we are told we cannot question those attitudes and political positions because they are so intertwined with black identity.
What a fucking racket these guys are running.
Baldilocks, Miss Attila and I discussed a lot of this over margaritas after the rally. Baldilocks minces no words … McCain, et al, have got to stop being intimidated by the race card. They have to step up to the plate and say “NO! No reasonable person would say [fill in charge here] is racial, so KNOCK IT OFF. I won’t accept it. And I won’t stop saying what you are trying to label as “racist”.”
The campaign handlers either let loose McCain and Palin to push back hard against this mendacity or the election IS lost. It’s not like they can lose any MORE black votes and it is black conservatives like Baldilocks that would stand up and applaud such a thing.
I know she’s going to post on this subject soon. I’ll keep an eye out.
Jeffersonian
I would challenge any person to call Baldilocks an “inauthentic black” within her hearing.
Damn, I’d sell tickets!!
This is positively Orwellian. Daniel (like the NYT yesterday) casually tosses off the fact that “Ayers hosted a political event for Obama early in his career.” Doesn’t that mean ipso facto they were political allies? And especially that it occurred early in BO’s career, before he was even elected to office? At the time Ayers was a more prominent figure than Obama. It’s as if Clinton were saying “I did not have sex with that woman” while Monica’a head was in his lap.
McCain camp responds:
Bitchin’. It’s a good sailor that comes about after that shot across the bow.
There are alot of people out there, decent people, who are tired of the race card. At this point pushback against this PC monstrosity would only gain McCain votes.
45 & counting comments, and no sign of Semanticleo dropping by to change the subject to OT gibberish. What’s up with that?
Cordially…
I would challenge any person to call Baldilocks an “inauthentic black†within her hearing.
Why would I do that when I want her to have my babies?
You know, I’m generally fascinated by Jeff’s cutting and incisive analysis, but wow, that was an awful lot of words to say “these MSM goons are a bunch of liars.”
I guess the mechanisms matter, but the point that they’re a bunch of liars needs to be highlighted more often, because some fools still believe them.
Jackin’ the Wordstalk.
So, the usual Faux Liberal Metro’s response once even Viagra hath forsaken him? An obviously doomed attempt to locate some semlance of “that certain male part”?
[Nice one, Dan.]
Already seeing some revisions of weather underground and bill ayers on wikipedia. Still sussing it out, but it appears that some of the later [brinks robbery] acts are being …not buried exactly, but less-obviously associated with them.
Merovign@52: I take it in stride; Jeff iswas an academic (and my minor is in philosophy). I’m used to reading (and writing) dissections of this nature.
So is the liberal elite, actually, but their followers typically get hostile if confronted with such a dissection that does not explicitly agree with what is “true” to them… Not that they read it in full either way.
urthshu@54: Ohhhh Wikipedia.
This is why I use it as a link collection and nothing more unless I’m 100% certain there’s nothing political about what I’m researching…
Nice dress Mrs. Cleaver-and no…me and Wally don’t pal around much anymore-we’re just class-mates [eddie haskell]
Already seeing some revisions of weather underground and bill ayers on wikipedia. Still sussing it out, but it appears that some of the later [brinks robbery] acts are being …not buried exactly, but less-obviously associated with them.
Because the WU murdered a black police officer perchance?
I’ll go back to shorter posts.
Here, enjoy: “DEMOCRATS ARE LYING EVIL MEANIES! GO REPUBS!”
AP World
Obama, who was a child when the Weathermen were planting bombs, has denounced Ayers’ radical views and actions.
Bizarro World
Obama, who kicked off his political career in Ayers home, began denouncing Ayers’ radical views and actions during the Democratic primary, just as he denounced the radical views and words of his other two Chicago mentors – Jeremiah Wright and Michael Fleger.
Ha ha ha ha ha. Palin pointing out Obama’s work with Ayers is racist. Ha ha ha ha. That’s a good one. Now that there takes some mad contortion skillz. I’m impressed. I saw this chick in the circus bend backwards so far she stuck her head between her legs and looked forward. Freaky, that. She could have kissed her own bum. Douglass Daniel should look into circus work. He’d be a star!
Great analysis, Jeff. Excuse me, I must now close out the windows opened to follow all those links.
Merovign
If JeffG just say’s that, the Left will snort “he’s got NUTHIN” and merrily get back to planning the next bolshevism phase.
But it thoroughly frosts ’em that JeffG can do academic analysis and tie them up in knots. It is why they hate him so. Like Palin, JeffG is a particular threat to them. He’s the real deal and they can’t just dismiss him.
The question is not that Republicans are racists – they are not – but rather will the GOP take the usual road of absolute cowardice and let al-AP dictate the nature of the campaign? Will the McCain campaign buckle under the onslaught of our self-anointed moral and intellectual betters in the MSM?
I put the chances at 50-50.
It’s great, albeit way too late, that some Whites are finally starting to say this stuff OUT LOUD. I’ve been called a racist so many times (on “mainstream” sites like Hot Air, Michelle Malkin, AOS, etc) by scared-to death-of-being-called-a-racist whites that it’s comical. Barry IS a racist. That fact alone would have disqualified him long ago, but for the cowardice/ MTV mindset of most of today’s “conservatives”. ANYTHING to avoid the scarlet “R” huh? He’s not a racist, a man of horrific character. No! He just has a little problem with “judgement” every now and then! Great job out there. The hilarious part is that even though most of you avoided the obvious, in the attempt to not be proclaimed racist, the simple fact that you are not voting for the idiot makes you a racist in their eyes anyway. Oh yeah-wait til you see where race relations go after this fraud is elected…
I put the chances at 50-50.
See post #40. I’d put the chances at 25%…I think McCain is locked on target.
Ah, the racebaiters have arrived. They honestly think were all a bunch of closeted Klan.
It’s not about who said it, it’s about what they said.
ddaniel@ap.org is this hacks contact info
I’ll go back to shorter posts.
For God’s sake, no! I don’t want to just sit around and eat waffles.
[…] I’m sick of the race card being played whenever someone criticizes Barack Obama. Making the Ayers connection is hardly a racist ploy, but that’s what we’re being told by the AP today. There is literally no argument you can make against this man that will not be countered by cries of racism. […]
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Hey, my snark used to work on this site.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Jeff,
I just want to say that, since I have been coming to your blog, this ranks among the best pieces you have ever done.
You turned ol’ what’s his name into a pile of scallops.
(Daniels, after going back to the top of the page)
Well done.
Well done, indeed.
@71: :c I’m sorry, I went into literalism mode.
“Ayers hosted a political event for Obama early in his career.”
Oh please. It’s “Ayers once held a coffee” for O. Like it wasn’t even a real date, they were just meeting informally – and Obama just a flavor of the coffee week.
Seems when Paul Simon was singing “Me and Julio down by the schoolyard” “Me” was Ayers and “Julio” was Obama.
I denounce him… I mean really.
When the radicals priests came to get me released we were all on the cover of Newsweek?
Who knew?
Just when I was starting to be proud of America then this racist crap comes out about Obama back when Obama was just a child. Frickin prescient jewracist Simon
I’m burning my 8Tracks
“Comment by ThomasD on 10/5 @ 1:54 pm #
Ah, the racebaiters have arrived. They honestly think were all a bunch of closeted Klan.”
Execept, of course, for the fact that the Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic party.
Comment by JayC on 10/5 @ 11:50 am #
It’s going to be a long 4 years. Unless it’s longer.
Longer. Eight to ten years, by Obastard’s own count.
Comment by Darleen on 10/5 @ 1:16 pm #
Baldilocks, Miss Attila and I discussed a lot of this over margaritas after the rally. Baldilocks minces no words … McCain, et al, have got to stop being intimidated by the race card. They have to step up to the plate and say “NO! No reasonable person would say [fill in charge here] is racial, so KNOCK IT OFF. I won’t accept it. And I won’t stop saying what you are trying to label as “racistâ€Â.â€Â
Absolutely right. If McCain wants to win this thing and prevent the dawning of a new sort of passive-aggresive Liberal Fascism, he has got to get ruthless. Me, I ain’t holding my breath.
Ayers was and is one of the most vile and worthless men on the planet, and he picked O special to help usher in “change” – the first business to cross liberty off the list of values held dear, and fought for dearly,by Americans.
I just wish the right hadn’t worked so hard to destroy America, the Constitution, our military, our laws, and our freedoms. But I admit I’m enjoying watching you self-destruct in your typical red-faced screaming tirades of blaming everyone but your own last seven years at the helm of power that has bankrupted the U.S. financially, morally, and our prestige internationally. About time the adults took away the keys. Hey, good luck in the financial depression you guys set in motion. The rest of us will be packing heat, too.
rofl@79.
Just rofl.
We will see in the next few days if McCain is still in the game.
If they aggressively pursue this offensive, they will keep Obama on the defensive, and will gain credibility in the public by virtue of the importance the campaign places on the subject.
If they drop it soon, they will only verify the lefts contention in their mind, that it is merely desperate flailings (and racist) of a dishonorable man and his attack pig.
Can’t back out now team McCain.
79 is such copypasta, intellectually if not in fact.
…mm, pasta.
Comment by skeptical on 10/5 @ 2:55 pm #
Oh, good, I was like all worried that the troll infestation had stopped.
Good to see that Jeff still has clueless idiots posting here.
“The rest of us will be packing heat, too.”
What, you carry around a can of sterno?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!!
Hey Pellegri, d’ya think “packing heat” has anything to do with those chemical hand warmers people use on camping trips? Are those things environmentally friendly?
jinx
Great minds think alike.
I don’t think so, Sdferr. Not if you break them open.
I do want to know how many kilocalories of heat our roving pastabot is packing, however!
Does it hurt to be this stupid? Because it certainly seems like it must.
Man, it’s still here. I need to go CP my response to Semanticleo. BRB.
I grow tired of these trolls soliloquizing on Jeff’s blog; their comments, most often, having NOTHING to do with the post. I’m looking at you #79. It’s as if these people get- off seeing their fake name and sage words pixelated.
Notice they are also cleverly “redefining” the name field to be part of the comment. PoMo!
Anyway:
I’m beginning to think you talk in pure nonsense so you can’t ever be called on being idiots. You do realize this only works when the audience is impressed with your fake profundity, right? Or, in this case, fake sense of intellectual superiority.
As a lifetime Republican and concerned Christian, I am saddened that…
Oh sweet fuck-all on steroids. Can’t everyone just surrender to the power of O? Let us sing like the little children of Venice, California. Ignore the funny taste, it’s just Kool-Aid.
You know, though, this troll infestation is making our regular trolls look smart by comparison. We didn’t know how good we had it!
Here, lefties:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v210/Matty_G_Fresh/?action=view¤t=TheFace.jpg
HAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAA!!!
The usual trolls had always seemed sort of constipated Carin, not regular really.
actually, it might be fun to see if hot-house lefties try to own guns… the losses by accidently shooting themselves will remove some dead-end defective genes from the gene pool.
I grow tired of these trolls soliloquizing on Jeff’s blog; their comments, most often, having NOTHING to do with the post
Speaking of the original post, does anyone have thoughts about whether in the future the new Obastard Empire will finally drop its mask? In other words, at what point will these post-modern fascists feel free to dispense with the obfuscation and merely issue commands and “official” points of view, as in the former Soviet Union? Perhaps the fiction of kidnapping the meaning of words is too necessary for maintaining control. Or is it? Can they ever afford to say “Well, we think you’re racist, but even if we didn’t it doesn’t matter. Because we control the levers of State, now.”
I suspect they can’t afford to dispense with the doublethink, lest we proles realize the nature of the game. But I do wonder, sometimes. Hubris and cunning… which is stronger? Can they work against each other?
Scallops. Pasta.
Now I want me some pie.
Again:
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GO … a rough task list after coronation
1. Reinstitute the Fairness doctrine
a) use the FCC to send threatening letters to each and every radio station that carries conservative talk shows
b) use the DOJ to send threatening letters
2. Get Pelosi and Reid to pass legislation that all boards of radio media companies must include “community representation” for each locality
3. Get Pelosi and Reid to pass legislation to break up Murdoch media holdings
4. Get FCC and DOJ to threaten FoxNews
5. Get Pelosi and Reid to pass legislation making discrimination/argument/criticism against same-sex marriage illegal and part of hate-crime laws.
6. After #5 get the IRS to investigate and/or threaten all conservative Christian or conservative Jewish congregations with loss of tax status if any pastor/priest/rabbi makes a sermon/newsletter against SSM.
…and that is just in the first month.
Any idea to whom this is directed? To what it refers?
Does not a single lefty lurking or commenting here have anything to say about the analysis?
Is it that they don’t care, provided this kind of thing is being deployed for their aims? Or that they are simply too stupid to understand the ramifications?
#100, Comment by Darleen on 10/5 @ 3:28 pm
Yes, I think you have it. Precise, incremental, and eminently realistic. This is where the new Fascism begins, and those who think fear about an Obastard administration is unwarranted should ask themselves if there is anything in Darleen’s list that looks like overreaching. Seriously. Think about this:
3. Get Pelosi and Reid to pass legislation to break up Murdoch media holdings
Will the MSM report this as anything but anti-trust efforts in the name of Reform?
Or this:
5. Get Pelosi and Reid to pass legislation making discrimination/argument/criticism against same-sex marriage illegal and part of hate-crime laws.
Ditto, all in the name of equality and civil rights. You don’t want us to think you are homophobic, do you?
Save Darleen’s list. Intrade should run a market on these points, because this is exactly how tyranny will creep, like cancer, into American society.
Part of me thinks, Darleen, that all this socialist BS they keep hinting at is simply a ruse to get the liberal progressives to vote for ’em. I have no doubt that Obama is a prog at heart, but I think he seeks power more than he desires to achieve a socialist utopia. I think once they get in power, those progs who really thought he was gonna get things done are going to be really disappointed how he is really not about change, but more like the same old stuff we’ve seen before.
Not that he can’t do damage; Supreme Court and Health care changes will be affected. Even if he doesn’t get what he wants, I think he’ll do some damage tinkering with health care.
Honestly, you just have to look at Michigan and see what the future will be. It isn’t pretty.
JeffG
They don’t care because they are fantasizing their seizure of power will be complete and dissenters will be reeducated or shot.
I was equally bewildered, Jeff. It’s sad when we can’t even figure out what they’re trying to say.
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Comment by Carin on 10/5 @ 11:53 am #
“It’s funny because it’s racist to bring up Ayers, but perfectly ok to call Palin a bimbo and a cunt.”
Your sense of humor is similar to John’s.
George
There is not one point on my list that hasn’t already been discussed by the Left or is already in force somewhere (Look to Canada to see a form of #5)
Or that they are simply too stupid to understand the
ramificationsoriginal post?Fixed that for you Jeff. Based on comments from last night, I think most of ’em can’t even make it past the title. To speak their language, think bumper stickers.
The vast majority of the recent infestation aren’t stupid, they are the political equivalent of the Hari Krishnas hanging out at the airport handing out literature.
They are a cult, pure and simple. I even think most of the trolls know the truth, approve of it, and view as an enemy anyone that doesn’t approve.
This is warfare. Ideological for sure, but the consequences to the country are are very serious stuff.
I hope our side doesn’t blink.
Carin,
I would add the Left has also discussed actually prosecuting former Administration officials for “alleged crimes” even though we are referring to legal acts in office… payback for the Iraq war. I remember hearing even Biden Plugmaster make remarks to this effect. This is one sure way to turn us into a banana republic. When the new Administration becomes a legalized witch hunt against any outgoing Administration, say goodbye to civil society.
Oops, I meant to address Darleen. Sorry.
John …. Adams?
John … Belushi?
I’m lost here Chad. I suppose I should have used the word “Ironic” but Alanis Morrisrette kinda ruined that for me.
George, I don’t think they will do that either. Another ruse to get support from the whole BUSH IS A CRIMINAL crowd.
Now, don’t mistake me. I think an Obama administration would be disastrous.
Sorry Carin, not John Adams or John Belushi.
George, I don’t think they will do that either. Another ruse to get support from the whole BUSH IS A CRIMINAL crowd.
I think it will largely depend on how obliged Obastard is to the hard left fringe, and how much taste for blood the new, improved, ultra left wing Congress will be. Obastard may be more in love with the seat of power than the exercise of it… which sets up a vacuum aching to be filled. I can easily see a fat staff of Special Prosecutors sent to give anal exams… uh, I mean sent to “investigate” all of the “troublesome and legally questionable” actions of the Bush Administration. Actual prosecution may not be in the offing, but endless legal harassment may be the ultimate terror weapon of the Obastard Empire. In centuries past, civil warfare was real warfare with projectiles and cutting tools. Modern civil warfare is much subtler in substance, but more monstrous in conception.
Brokaw, Blitzer, and Stephanopolos all mentioned (and explained) Charles Keating in response to the Ayres attack. Mentioned that Obama was 8 years old when the Weathermen were active and McCain was 48 when he did Keating’s business for him. Steve Chapman wanted to explore Mac’s ties to G Gordon Liddy NOW. Hm-mm…
Todd Palin has opened the door to his ties to the secessionist AIP- how much more anti-American can one get? Todd needs to be reminded even Clinton couldn’t get out of subpeonaes claiming exec priv. Jail is a real possibility.
And let’s not forget “Troopergate”, which is taking quite the toll on Mrs Sarah up yonder. Her “maverick” image is going to tatters.
Goldberg, as ever, is too generous, taking as “argument” what’s only a memetic hive-shaking, an effort to seal off a logically damaged area of discourse from argument, from facts, with a citable, name-brand shibboleth.
Daniel doesn’t think what he says — no functional non-schizoid could — and his rhetorical bluff’s success “ultimately depends” on adressing it as if it’s an argument, when it’s not. The only reason to do so is fear.
Even Jonah needs, socially and professionally, too be seen as “serious.” (Fuck-lot of good it does him, outside the circuit.) It’s a fatal weakness, never to feel free to say “That’s some bullshit. Fucker’s not civilized, running around shouting ‘BOO!’ at everybody. Screw that goon. Next.”
(Since you’ve been wondering: It’s your comparative lack of this weakness that makes PJM et al not love you, Jeff.)
You know, the stupid just never ends. Bravo Rebecca.
Hippie guns are just as ugly as they are
I just wish the right hadn’t worked so hard to destroy America, the Constitution, our military, our laws, and our freedoms. But I admit I’m enjoying watching you self-destruct in your typical red-faced screaming tirades of blaming everyone but your own last seven years at the helm of power that has bankrupted the U.S. financially, morally, and our prestige internationally.
+ The “right” hasn’t been “at the helm of power” the last seven years. George W. Bush isn’t conservative.
+ The “helm of power” isn’t supposed to be Washington, D.C., in the first place. Your paradigm is showing. The incoherence of your post is manifest in that single phrase, “helm of power.” It’s the left, not the right, that intuitively sees Washington in general — and the presidency in particular — as the place where “power” is wielded, where “leaders” “lead” America and Americans. Anybody who buys into such a dynamic — like the people you say have spent seven years bankrupting America — is by definition not conservative.
+ History didn’t start in 2001.
+ You’re myopic.
+ Generally speaking, “we” are not fans of McCain. We’re foes of Obama, and of what he represents. He is what you hate about the last seven years, except worse.
+ You’re a leftie. Stop talking about “freedoms.” You don’t understand them, and indeed are their greatest enemy.
I will give Ayers, like the Devil, his due however: He sure as Hell can pick ’em.
[…] by the demagogery they are engaging in now. They will do whatever it takes to get Obama elected, truth be damned. They will lie, mislead, obfuscate, embargo, misdirect, and engage in the worst sort of character […]
“Mac’s ties to G Gordon Liddy NOW.”
Mac’s close to the G-Man? How very scary.
Darleen —
I can agree up to #3 — after that, they lose interest, for the time being.
There are much bigger fi$h to fry. Iran’s economy is crumbling, and Bush has blocked efforts for a gas pipeline through Pakistan; energy’s the game and there’s Venezuela, Cuba and Indonesia waiting with bated breath for the cash. Add carbon credit trading/sequestering, alternative fuels and such and we have the agenda for the first two years.
It’s about the money. Buy more blankets.
I don’t comment that often here, but do read… It seems unusually bifurcated. One segment is filled with commentary backed up with on-point argument, provocative or otherwise. The other segment consists of primarily non-sequiturs, one-line dismissals, or cut-and-paste troll droppings. We proudly invite one segment to visit plenty of .ru or .sy or .kp domains and indulge.
Rebecca, how old was Obama when he chose to form a working relationship with Ayres to implement A’s radical agenda into the schools of Chicago? It seems you are ignorant, and willfully so, of that close working relationship they shared and the radical agenda they sponsored.
Obama chose to associate with this man and further his goals. IMO, It should worry you more why Ayres picked out Obama as a sort of protege. But you want to believe.
Ayres never regretted a minute of his past. He has never claimed mistake, quite the opposite. But Obama thought A was cool beans. Lie to me if you must, but don’t lie to yourself.
Racism! Is there anything that magic word can’t do?
I think Liddy is cool.
Does that make me a bad person?
Darleen, If we are headed in the empty-headed direction of English socialism and nannystatism, this will be the “change” in free speech:
Read this blurb from a UK mail reader, and weep.
Also, I saw Ted Nugent on Glen Beck yesterday.
Ted is one of my heroes now.
Read this blurb from a UK mail reader, and weep.
The really sad part is that the webmaster considered that comment worthy of posting on the site, instead of considering it the sentiment of a fool or a knave.
Beccy repeats the Left Cult lies…Like AIP being an anti-American SUCCESSIONIST group
and the Tasergate (Lefties like to call it “troopergate”, showing how much they loves them the racist, child abusers as long as they child that is abused is the kid of a rethugglikkkan) point is a particular give away
Beccy parked whatever brains she had somewhere out of the country while she spams Obama Cult talking points.
ignorant slut
“successionist”?
Like, they believe in monarchy? WTF?
oh my gawd urthshu
But not, of course, the illegality. of it. Jesus. I can’t believe how stupid these people have become.
By the way Jeff, if you can find that interview with Beck(sorry, goggle-fu limited), Ted has some answers to your question arising from despair.
Thing is, I *can* believe how stupid they’ve become. And I’m a-skeered for reals.
“To speak their language, think bumper stickers.”
“All extremists should be taken out and shot.â€Â
“100,000 lemmings can’t be wrong.â€Â
“Laugh alone and the world thinks you’re an idiot.”
“Sometimes I wake up grumpy; other times I let her sleep”
“I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather….
…Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car….”
bumper stickers are the answer!
Also, I saw Ted Nugent on Glen Beck yesterday.
I met Ted at a Friends of the NRA dinner years ago…he’s like that all the time. I can’t even imagine him on drugs.
I believe this is the appropriate response to our recent “guests” like Becky.
http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/10/05/palin-counters-ap-slam-the-associated-press-is-wrong/
You just have to wonder what Frank Davis, Jerry Wright, Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko, et alia saw in Barack Obama. Surely not someone hostile to their causes.
Not only Stanley Kurtz and Steve Diamond, but John Batchelor is is asking all the right questions as well: http://www.johnbatchelorshow.com/whats_news_tonight/election_october_us_2008/blog:5026,11806,575
I think it’s pretty simple why Ayers picked Obama.
He was looking for an angry, unguided person of color who possessed adequate communication skills, a clean criminal record, and a CV that when combined with the race card would provide substantial cover for an unabashedly Gramscian socialist political agenda.
Annenberg was primarily aimed at subverting U.S. culture via infiltration of public schools. Secondary objective was seeing what it took to get the attention of media and the public at large.
Dispensing money to old terrorist buddies and to fringe Left activist organizations under the guise of “improving public ed” and then arriving at the end of 150 million dollars worth of abject failure with ZERO negative repercussions for anyone involved must have convinced Ayers and whoever else is running this scam that the water is fine…
Ayers is seeing his life’s work and dream realized. I don’t think it should be that hard to figure out for anyone with a passing familiarity with the history and culture of the nihilist Left in America.
McCain can crush if he denies them the race card and just loops Obama’s gaffes, platitudes, and past associations.
I’ve been a goddamned unrepentant racist my entire political life. I was informed of this fact the first time I questioned a black classmate about Jesse Jackson’s bona fides, and nothing has changed since. So don’t let them define the field.
I’ve only been called a racist by thor and nishi. That totally lacks street cred.
Call me a RACISTS but I sortof like the human race.
“Secondary objective was seeing what it took to get the attention of media and the public at large.”
Grrr. That’s not what I meant to say. It would be more precise to characterize the lack of condemnation for the failure as an unlooked-for but encouraging event.
And let me be clear: Ayers didn’t pick Obama out of the herd of aspiring machine hacks in order to groom him for the presidency.
But I’m sure he’s beyond pretty thrilled that that’s how things have worked out.
“But I’m sure he’s beyond pretty thrilled that that’s how things have worked out.”
The Chicago thing worries me. Daley machine, leftist run a muck,Alinsky, Obama, Hillary. I just wonder if in the end that we slide to a banana republic. Oh good we can shop there too.
I hate khaki. There, I said it.
I hate overpaying for it even more.
Baldilocks is black? AND she’s a she?
Dang. To think that I was only interested in her brains…
Not only Stanley Kurtz and Steve Diamond, but John Batchelor is is asking all the right questions as well: http://www.johnbatchelorshow.com/whats_news_tonight/election_october_us_2008/blog:5026,11806,575
Excellent link, Jim, but don’t count on any NYT reporter asking Obama any of these questions. It’s just not that easy to do so from the bottom of a Wasilla Denny’s dumpster.
New here. I found this site through a link at AoSHQ and certainly enjoyed the troll fest last night.
As a “concerned liberal” I am alone in my circle of family and friends in my belief that Obama will be very bad for our country. So, I lurk on websites like this so I don’t feel so lonely.
Anyway, I was reading one of my usual “leaning so far left we’re in danger of tipping over” sites this morning where they had posted a link to Palin’s comments. And, lo and behold not soon after posting it, I began reading there almost the exact same comments as the CNN trolls defecated here yesterday. I had to laugh because at that site they were preaching to the choir.
The “truth squad” is out in force this weekend ensuring that any website that posts a link to what Palin said yesterday is dutifully informed of her nefarious ties. I am in awe, and also very afraid, of the control Obama has over his followers.
When the new Administration becomes a legalized witch hunt against any outgoing Administration, say goodbye to civil society
It’s called reinventing the Rubicon.
Not that the trolls have a clue as to what that means.
This conversation may become real to more people if a lot of folks start using the phrase: “Timothy McVeigh wannabe William Ayers.” Just because the asshole was more inept than McVeigh does not make him a better person.
““Timothy McVeigh wannabe William Ayers.†”
Mohamed Atta wannabe Bill Ayers
Baldilocks is black? AND she’s a she?
Also gorgeous.
It’s called reinventing the Rubicon.
Exactly correct, my friend.
Not that the trolls have a clue as to what that means.
Most of them probably don’t even know that Rome was a republic before becoming an empire.
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But, But, BUT..!! O!’s latest campaign ad — which has been running every 15 minutes all day — says his health plan will reduce costs and cover preexisting conditions! By which I take it that he really does think we’re stupid. It might work for awhile but how long would it be before we have to bail out the medical insurance industry? Or is that the whole point?
I really hope that McCain/Palin do spend the next month making sure everyone knows the real Obama. And that everyone knows why we haven’t found out about the real Obama until now — in so doing we’d also get a pretty good look at the real media.
Just how ugly can the media get? Let’s find out! Will more of them go completely around the bend? I’d count on it. The Olbermann schtick must play pretty well with some on the far left, but I can’t imagine it actually wins anyone over, so let ’em have at it. All McCain has to do is keep rattling the cage and the monkeys will perform predictably.
Oh.. monkeys. I denounce myself. But I’m makin’ popcorn and opening a fresh beer, this could get real interesting.
Bingo!
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“You just have to wonder what Frank Davis, Jerry Wright, Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko, et alia saw in Barack Obama. “
Clean, articulate, squishy, soft, clay.
Here’s an interview with Bill Ayers in Revolution #63, Oct. 1 2006, (h/t Jonah Goldberg, NRO).
Bingo!
Cloward-Piven Strategy.
“says his health plan will reduce costs and cover preexisting conditions!”
One of two ways.
Cuban method.
Everybody gets free aspirin, and that’s all.
Gulag method.
All doctors and hospitals and hospital employees become state property.
Sadly, Obama is a very bright guy and he could be a very good president. But you’re known by the company you keep and his supporters tell me he’s gone over to the dark side.
Oh.. darkside! Now I have to double denounce myself.
Yes, I’m beginning to suspect there’s a method to this madness. First the government screws with you unmercifully, pushing you to financial ruin. Then they bail you out and then they own your ass. Could they be that Machiavellian? I think most of them are just useful idiots like Frank and Pelosi, but could there be a few who know exactly what they’re doing? That’s almost scarier than assuming that they have no clue what they’re bringing about here.
[…] Update: Jeff Goldstein decodes the coding of the coded language. Trust me. Or else, you know: Read the whole thing. […]
Oh yeah, the Cloward-Piven thingy, excellent point. I guess I just never got past the part about ‘Americans waiting with baited breath’ because I didn’t see what eating sushi had to do with it.
I’m betting on the gulag method if we let these idjits get away with it. Either way it devolves to “take two aspirin and we’ll get to you in six months — if you’re still alive”.
FREE HEALTHCARE FOR ALL!!
I am tired of waiting in the emergency room for hours when ever I get heartburn.
Here’s an interview with Bill Ayers in Revolution #63, Oct. 1 2006, (h/t Jonah Goldberg, NRO).
Ayers doesn’t take to criticism well, does he? And the academy is right wing? I suppose it is if you’re out on the far left wing tip.
Ha! One of our local media personalities actually wrote an OpEd complaining that he’d been feeling constipated so he went to the emergency room and asked them to give him an enema. But they didn’t treat it like an emergency, they kept him waiting for hours while they dealt with actual injured and sick people, most of whom weren’t even white like him (Yes, he’s a real live racist, such do exist although they’re thankfully becoming more rare all the time). Oh the inhumanity!
And there’s the problem with government health care. If it comes about, the injured and sick will wait while the doctor is off treating some constipated commissar.
There’s also the problem with accusations of racism. A genuine racist is an ugly thing, but when everyone’s a racist then nobody’s really a racist. Just like the Dems have proven that when everyone’s a sexist it’s okay to be a sexist. When someone starts giving me that ‘if you don’t vote for Obama you’re a racist’ crap I ask them if they voted for Hillary. If they say ‘no’ I ask if that makes them a sexist? Ever pull a carp out of the water? Their mouths do that ‘carp gasping for air’ thing every time.
Nonono. The gulag is not a method. The gulag is a consequence.
Consider Amy, on the other (CNN) thread. Amy writes well and coherently; she no doubt considers herself liberal (in the original sense), tolerant and generous. She really sees a future of “green” renewable energy, and will vote for the candidate she believes is headed that way. And, if you read through the rest of her posts, she is utterly uninformed, innumerate, and unaware of any of the effects of scale. The plans she endorses therefore won’t work. When they do not, she will be ready and willing to enthusiastically endorse blaming, according to the people she supports — reactionaries! obstructionists! wreckers! And, while she would never never never try to suppress good people who merely disagree with her, the people she listens to will carefully explain that these are villains, hardly better than axe murderers (if they are), not merely disagreeable but actively dangerous. They must be removed from Society if it is to survive…
They have Plans. The plans are detailed and careful, and are brimful of the milk of human kindness; they mean only good for everyone. The plans won’t work, because they are utterly divorced from the realities of economics, human nature, and elementary physics — but they don’t believe that. They’re Plans! They’re Kind! They have to work! It is only fitting that the carpers and critics who are blocking the Plan be gotten out of the way…
And, of course, one of the realities of human nature is that there are people prepared to volunteer to be prison guards. When the Kind People are forced by necessity to resort to gulags, there will be no shortage of staff. But the gulags were never in the plans; disabuse yourself of the notion, because claiming they are destroys your credibility. They should be in the Plan, because they represent a sizable diversion of resources that all by itself reduces the Plan’s viability, but they aren’t. They’re merely inevitable.
Regards,
Ric
To me it is indeed a consequence, for most, like Amy, but it is part of the Plan. For those who wrote the Plan it is a method, one that works. The name of the Plan is “Water Empires, How to Build and Maintain Them”.
I forgot to add.
Slaves are a necessary part, essential even.
“Slaves are a necessary part, essential even.”
Nonono.
“Victims are a necssary part, essential even.
They’ll never be called slaves. Because for the utopia to come, there will always be those incapable of making it on their own, and they will in turn require the presence of the benevolent, gracious, providers.
Not masters. NEVER masters. And if you forget, well, somebody is going to have to work the Alberta tar sands or ANWR in February, so you just better smile and do what you are told…
I’ve often harped on what an ignorance of history could cost.
I have to admit, actually seeing the process of payment in action is pretty daunting.
We’ve got a month to marshal enough nation wide awareness to vote out the maximum number of congressmen possible, regardless of party. I’m not shooting for a solution or even an improvement here. It is my contention that if we damage the existing power/obligation relationships there enough, it will have an effect similar to applying a tourniquet to the nation’s wounds.
Given our electoral choices, and what we know about each, I am afraid that that is the highest mark we can aim for.
I wish I had a candidate. Damn it.
They’ll never be called slaves.
I suspect they’ll be called “citizens” or “taxpayers”, just as the CMFIC will still be called “President”.
Every time I write something the ghost of NatE Dred shows up.
So 80’s.
:-)
“They’ll never be called slaves.”
Whatever the name,
a slave is a slave
just the same.
Mis-Fit to be President?
John McCain is fought in an unjust war in Asia and suffered terribly
as a POW in a tragic situation, yes, but that does make one a “war
hero”? Not everyone thinks so.
Look, I like John McCain as a human
being. He means well. I always admired him as a U.S. senator. But the
truth must be told. He is not a WWII war
hero. He fought in an unjust war against innocent Vietnamese
men, women and children. Is that what America calls a
war hero? Not in my book, and not in the
Good Book either!
Senator McCain, as candidate for the presidency of the USA in the
upcoming elections, criticizes his
opponents in the race as being “me first, country second”, and
continues to harp on his own sleazy, unpatriotic and hypocritical
“Country First” slogan. McCain puts his own individual privilege and
wealth first: seven homes and 13 cars. Let’s not
even talk about Sarah Palin here. She’s an innocent in all this.
McCain used her.
The man is a fine, upstanding American, but he has shown himself with
this slogan that he is not presidential
timber. It’s a sad day in
American history when a good, but misguided man like this says he
wants to be president.
These are not only my own thoughts. Many Ameicans share them.
It needs to be said, in all due respect: John McCain is not
presidential timber. He does not want to be president of all the
people, just his people. That’s wrong, and McCain should apologize for
his unAmerican behavior in this campaign. Good man, wrong campaign.
Says one blogger online: “Of all the groundless cant in which McCain’s
candidacy is grounded, none’s more offensive to me than the ‘hero’
tag. Actually, offensive doesn’t begin to capture it. Although we’re
often told about his five and a half years as
a POW in Vietnam, what Americans never hear is what matters most: an
honest explanation of how, specifically, he wound up in that North
Vietnamese prison in the first place.”
This blogger goes on: “There are two salient facts: (1) McCain
participated in Operation Rolling Thunder, which killed at least
100,000 North Vietnamese, and (2) He helped attack a power plant in
the middle of Hanoi.”
He adds: “The plant had previously been off-limits to
American bombers for fear of collateral damage. To my mind, the bottom
line in this matter is very, very simple: it’s not okay to help kill
vast numbers of people who have done nothing wrong to you, and it’s
not okay to destroy their infrastructure. Not even if bad people
command you to do those things — it’s not okay. And let’s be clear:
John McCain was no 18-year-old draftee. He was a man of 31, and he was
part of America’s permanent officer class. (His father and grandfather
were four-star admirals.) That officer class helped devise the living
hell that America inflicted on Southeast Asia.”
What a pathetic, mean, cruel, vindictive campaign
McCain and Palin are waging! They need to be called out on this: Mr
McCain and Ms Palin, you both represent the worst in American
politics, not the best. You are good, decent Americans, yes, but you
are vindictive and mean and misguided as politicians. Shame on you for
attacking Senator Obama with outright lies and disinformation. John,
you know better! Sadly, Sarah does not.
How incompetent do you have to be to screw up copying and pasting?
And the original was in some alternate form of English before the incompetent cut ‘n paste.
EEllen,
You want to talk about it, or just cut, paste, and disappear back into your smug existence?
Well, EEllen, the Viet-Cong I came across were busy deliberately murdering women and children in order to force their political system on the country. Not collateral casualties, but targeting them specifically. Because they were either neutral or related to government officials. But I guess that was ok with you, nothing wrong with the hell they inflicted on Southeast Asia.
SBP,
If the update to TH doesn’t get out by tomorrow I’m going to just put that thread in a text editor and cut out everything except the Obamabots.
Heck, a few more like last night and it could be a book.
Updated now, geoffb.
Let me know if it works for you.
Thank you again, I will let you know.
Everyone with more than two brain cells to rub together knows how deeply in the tank the press is for Obama specifically and the left in general. What everyone doesn’t know is how the press can be forced to report on Obama and his record and his policies objectively. This might work:
This is a call to all, decent America loving employees of all the usual suspect press organs – the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, PBS, Boston Globe, Chicago Sun Times, L.A. Times, USA Today, etc…, we all know which usual suspects of which I speak. The time has come for you to prove your love of country and countrymen and fire the first shot against the forces of subversion in our land that, if they have their way, would subjugate the rest of us and our posterity to nothing more than grist for the Statist mills they would control.
You memory will be honored in the history of this great nation alongside such giants as Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, and Adams. And you don’t even have to pledge your estates to the cause. All you have to do is your job. All you have to do is a little investigative journalism. All you have to do is expose the backroom scheming that is taking place in editorial meetings all over this country every day. All you have to do is secretly tape (audio or video, either works, but video is the most damning) what goes on in these meetings and at your workplace – what topics are discussed, what is said about these topics, who is doing the talking, how they plan to lie about, spin, or flat out deliberately ignore stories damaging to the left – then either forward this evidence to any of the dozens of blogs who have been knocking their brains out trying to inform the public with the actual truth, or post the video or audio yourself online.
Are you tired of biting your tongue whenever obvious lies are printed or broadcast by your employer? Are you fed up with having to defend the rag you work for, especially knowing that the attacks against them are legitimate and deserve mass communication? Then do something about it, damn it! Use the same tools being used against you and your own freedoms. Hell, there may even be a Pulitzer in it for you. And if appealing to your patriotism doesn’t seal the deal and money would tip it in, maybe some far-sighted entrepreneur would be willing to sponsor an “X-pose the Press X Prize” or be willing to pay a respectable sum for any and all videos or audio tapes that pull down the curtains of corruption the press hides behind. If we take down enough high profile traitors, all of the rest of the vermin will scurry for the shadows afraid to take the chance that they will be next.
[…] Jeff Goldstein does the heavy lifting of shredding the writers ridiculous assertions. I recommend you read his whole post. […]
MEDIA BIAS ROBS AMERICANS OF THE TRUTH
… NOW, AP IS UNFARILY PLAYING THE RACE CARD …
The media’s continual bias in favor of Obama is not only disgusing, it’s against everything that America, a Free Press, and Freedom of Speech stands for. To suggest that there is no media bias in favor of Obama not only robs Americans of the truth, it insults the intelligence of the American people.
TALK IS CHEAP … CHECK OBAMA’S RECORD !!!
A candidate’s track record, and associations are always a legitimate issue when running for President. Let’s take a look at the qualifications, judgement, and experience of Obama, who is running for President. Obama had 25 years to fulfill the potential he displayed as a rising start at Harvard Law School … and, how did he live up to that potential? … He chose to align himself with anti-American racist, Jeremiah Wright for TWENTY YEARS … along with Ferrahkan, Rezko, Ayers, and others. As a community organizer, he registered thousands of voters in Chicago … then, when he ran for the state legislature, he took away their votes, by disqualifying his opponent (a black woman) on a technicality. As a U.S. Senator, he voted present 160 times … he never called a meeting on the Afghanistan committee he chaired (although he NOW says we must shift all our military from Iraq to Afghanistan). He claimed Foreign Policy experience from a 9 day whirlwind photo op to 6 countries. And, he spent almost half of his tenure neglecting his responsibilities as a U.S. Senator, so he could run for President. Senator McCain served America honorably for 22 years in the military. He proved his love for America, as well as his honor, integrity and character, by refusing early release as a P.O.W., even while being tortured. He served America as a ‘contributing’ U.S. Senator, working across the aisle, for 20 years. If Obama’s Twentyfive year track record shows he lacks judgement, and can’t be trusted, who cares what he says about Health Care and the Economy! What Obama never learned is Character. He simply can’t be trusted … ask Jeremiah Wright, a friend of 20 years, who Obama betrayed for personal ambition … and, you Obama supporters really think he won’t betray you If he gets elected??? If he gets elected, you Obama supporters will be facing a HUGE disillusionment !!!
That’s a good plan fed up.
I wished I worked at the newspaper so I could do it.
SBP,
Installed, worked.
I can now use it to eliminate the text.
One difference is that the text lines
(TrollHammer this poster)(Reset TrollHammer)
are in very small text.
Yeah, that was something people had asked for.
Is it too small for you to read?
Great, now we’re getting copy-paste bots from the other side.
That is the text on the web page. When copied into Wordpad they are normal size.
No it’s ok and besides in Firefox ctrl+ makes everything bigger.
And thank you once again. I get the feeling we are going to need this for the next month, and how.
RTO kinda likes him, too.
No offense, but you are a racist, and I think Lisa called you one as well.
Comment by ThomasD on 10/5 @ 6:27 pm #
“It’s called reinventing the Rubicon.”
So…there won’t be any flutes this time, huh?
No offense, but you are a racist, and I think Lisa called you one as well.
Extra scoop of offense, but you lie when the truth would sound better.
Too much copypasta in this thread now.
Oh thor. You continue to hollow out any remaining meaning from “no offense”.
hi, Pellegri! hadn’t had a chance to say it’s nice to see you back. just don’t be crossin’ your arms too much. ;D
Hi maggie! :D It’s good to be back.
oh, not with thor around. He’d probably get excited and I’m not sure what happens when he’s excited but I think it can’t be good.
Carin brought it up, did she not? Yes, Carin is that dumb; one can only assume she is.
You don’t even know the post that Carin or I are referencing, do you? I really don’t want to waste the necessary time to dig it up, but I will if you really want to go that way. I’d prefer to just give Carin a pass, but she did bring it up, didn’t she.
Keep it up, nutter.
like you don’t have time to waste? really?
There is a term for what Danial is doing, its call “Water Buffaloing”
Even in context, that reply makes no sense.
I’d add a second sentence explaining why but I’m trying a return to the minimalist “nudge nudge, wink wink” style of–
…shit.
[…] Patterico is sick of Any Argument Against Barack Obama Is By Definition Racist: I’m sick of the race card being played whenever someone criticizes Barack Obama. Making the Ayers connection is hardly a racist ploy, but that’s what we’re being told by the AP today. There is literally no argument you can make against this man that will not be countered by cries of racism. […]
If it all goes wrong – I wonder if they’ll let us have a computer on the ‘net in the gulag.
“Comment by thor on 10/5 @ 11:41 pm #
Comment by Carin on 10/5 @ 5:38 pm #
I’ve only been called a racist by thor and nishi. That totally lacks street cred.
No offense, but you are a racist, and I think Lisa called you one as well.”
And if I called you intelligent, it wouldn’t mean you are.
#210
Only those of us in the first circle. For the rest it’s going to be digging canals to nowhere, or seeing how much electricity a man on a bicycle can generate. Fun stuff!
Comment by N. O’Brain on 10/6 @ 5:07 am #
And if I called you intelligent, it wouldn’t mean you are.
Before you start whining like a scalded dingo, you also might want to ask dear Carin of her little racist diatribe. I suspect you’re a dumbass, honestly I do, but you might surprise me and end up calling Carin out for her little story if you actually knew what we were talking about.
Carin’s was one of the stupidest comments I’ve ever read here on PW, and that she was serious was the head shaker. But go ahead and attack me like a trained circus seal you are, like the dumbass you are, Pee’Brain.
HEY CARIN.
What did you say that was so racist?
thor: The dumbest? Given you’re here to educate the poor racist proles, that’s pretty impressive.
But nobody can be white, Republican… and racist!
No such fuckin’ thing! David Duke’s a Democrat, ahuhahuh!
“Given!”… !!!1!1!!11!Elevanty!11!!!!11 Waaaaaaah!
[…] Goldstein is unimpressed with the media’s declaration that all criticism of Obama (but not, say, Clarence Thomas or […]
Stop criticizing black people. Trust all blacks and all blacks will be trustworthy. It’s the same with whites.
But watch the Irish.
Irish? Spit! Nothing but anti-social poets!
With desperate persons like Mr. Daniel, everything becomes an appeal to racism because he said so! So there!
You contradict me? Racist!
You give me a “funny look”? Racist!
You cut me off in traffic? Racist!
It rained during my camping trip? Racist!
Racist! is the new “two-year-old’s temper tantrum”.
Aye!
Data Point:
Here in central Utah we’ve got KSL, a media business wholly owned by the LDS church. They do radio and TV, with the “50,000 watt blowtorch” of the crossroads of the west AM simulcasting on FM as well, and TV for one of the alphabets, don’t remember which one. They shifted their radio feed from CBS a few years ago after undergoing bruising audience loss from people who complained about bias and outright falsehood from the network.
Now they have ABC newsfeeds, but not on every hour.
This morning they covered the Palin rallys by asserting that she was “attempting” to show a relationship between a former sixties radical (named ONCE) who was now a “leading, respected professor of education” in Chi.
Then they spent about twice as long describing the wholly negative adds running by the McCain campaign. Then played soundbites from two O! operatives who explained why McCain was bad people, and closed with a paragraph from the One himself, on the same thing. McCain Saying Bad, BAD things – DO NOT LISTEN TO THE McCAIN!
And this is the “conservative” flagship in Utah.
Is there any Romney-backlash in there?
I think we have gotten to the point where any criticism of Rev. Wright is racist as well.
Tmj
Many small, local papers cover local events – high school sports, city council meetings, police blotter, etc, with their own reporters. But the front page national and international stories are all AP or Reuters feeds.
Thus, Left Advocacy Journalism, as fully evidenced by Daniel, are disseminated and unopposed into the smallest corners of the nation, even in so-called “conservative” enclaves.
What did I say? Honestly it doesn’t matter. Truth is what thor and nishi say it is.
That’s why a lot of people just banhammer them.
But, I’ll clue you in. I’m so racist that I lived the majority of my life (by choice) in a city with an 85% black population. I even, gulp, VOTED for black politicians. I shudder at the memory of talking with my neighbors and pretending they were just like white folks.
And, sorry thor, Lisa did NOT call me racist. I don’t think she’s authentically black enough for thor, though.
Liar.
I think we have gotten to the point where any criticism of Rev. Wright is racist as well.
insert name here enriches himself by selling salvation to poor people.
insert name here enriches himself by gaming the system in order to pay less taxes.
Tell us that little story again, you know, how blacks are so lazy that every single one of ’em coloreds your husband hired to thems menial jobs – not one of worked out! Hired to fire all’m lazy niggers!
All of ’em, lazy as and black as buffalo!
Especially that hungry darkie that one’m time knocked on your back door!
The conclusion of such a generalized homily’s implications is what is referred to as being racist.
I’m going to wager quite a few persons of African decent could work you, Carin, are you husband’s white ass into the ground. But I’m just playing the odds, meaning you might be hardworking and a racist too.
I’m gonna pretend I have TrollHammer. I don’t know if it will work on my mac …
Carin, it’ll work fine on the Mac if you use Firefox.
What you think’n thar, pelligre? You thinks old thor iz’m too stupid to know’ems what’s racist’n whats’not?
C’mon, gimme some of the cutesy lingua struttin’ and some of thams italics.
I don’t hate Carin, but I’m not so far wingered politically that I’m afraid to tell her when she’s lost her head, that it’s racist to imply a whole race of people are lazy. It’s howz I’was’a raised I supposed.
Trader Joe’s had buffalo burgers back in stock, but no punkin ice creams. The helpful guy he looked on the computer and he said he saw no punkin ice creams on the horizon, but to check back in November. You bet I will I told him.
More information here, Carin.
This pretending is HARD.
Get ya some dumb-trickle from Spies, Carin. He’s the dumbest fuck here. And he’m like to trickle.
What did I say? Honestly it doesn’t matter.
Exactly, Carin. Did it matter whether Henry VIII’s wives were really guilty of anything? Or Thomas Moore? Emmett Till?
I use Safari. I could put it on the other computer though. I’d get relief (about) half the time.
Find the thread and link it, Carin, if you want to dispute it.
Notice Lisa doesn’t come around much anymore?
Lisa bailed when McCain pulled ahead in the polls I noticed. I thought that was interesting but I didn’t really explore that at the time cause I think she’s a nice lady. But in some way for me that’s a sort of placeholder for the nebulous influence of the polling propaganda the AP and NPR and Pew are so committed to and invested in.
That’s funny, because I’m re-reading the Margaret George book about Henry the VII right now, and I just finished the Bolyne books by that other popular author. Fictionalized, but fun.
And, I will lower myself to respond a bit. I have no generalized opinion about the work habits of blacks. I do have an opinion about the work habits of the metro Detroit urban population which is a result of years and years of democrat (and union) policies.
Yea, Lisa thought I was so racist, she hung around my blog for a while.
I can’t work any harder than I do I mean my God I don’t even think that I love you.
I stoled that from Wham! I did.
She emails me sometimes. Encourages me to keep certain of the hick-wingers in line.
A very articulate lady she is.
Add another “I” to my comment up there. Henry the 8th I meant.
Why don’t you drop a link like you’ve threatened to, hammer boy? It’s your accusation.
Maybe hammerboi is probably too busy trying to explain to Daddy why he lost all that money on euros.
Remember last week, when hammerboi was bloviating about buying euros?
Too bad I’ve got him trollhammered, so I won’t get the benefit of whatever Hot Tip that thor, CFJ (Certified Financial Jeenius) is touting this week.
I guess I’ll just have to miss out.
Heh.
Nope, link-beggar, don’t think I will. Carin can link it if she wants.
Everyone says stupid things sometimes and I’m going to leave it at that. I didn’t bring it up, Carin did.
C’mon Pablo, show me some money. You wanted some of that Obama action, but then you got scared. You want some action on the link? Hmm? I’ll post it for a $25 gift certificate to Cracker Barrel.
You know thorazine, (bet y’all wondered where he got that, dincha?) that Leftist “fuck it all up and exploit the fear” only works if you need to WIN a majority.
It took two years of Clinton to motivate an end of history electorate to rein that erratic fuck and his socialist wife right the hell in. Well, here we are at two years in the Pelosi & Reid show.
How you DOIN’, America, TODAY?
If IQ was methane, the left in this country coulndn’t offend an old ladies’ garden tea. Truly.
I’m on the road, going to see if I can convince a five point bull elk to stand side on in the bed of my tiny little truck. Y’all have a fine one.
I merely relayed ONE story that I found interesting. The fact that my husband, despite having a warehouse in metro detroit, has never had long-term black employees. They have rarely applied, and when they do they 1) haven’t shown up for the interview or 2) Quit after working one day.
I’m sorry I didn’t qualify the tale with the entire facts of the case, or expound upon my full theory regarding why it is so. Doesn’t make me a racist.
Duuuh, it’s Spies. Better hope I pay my taxes this so you gets your welfare checks on time.
I got stopped out of the EUR/USD a long time ago, but not on the Euro/JPY contract. Jesus, more cap gains!
I went long some Australian and New Zealand currency last night and it looks like I’ll get stopped out of those two positions as well, but not my Yen, Pie-boi, and I added more of it. I’m moving up my stops. Fuckin’ Yen, whooohoo.
Check out that graph of the Yen versus the Euro, and then moan like a porn star.
Whatever. Sarah Palin, woohoo, White Power!
Y’know, thor, I think you’re going to have lots of opportunities to fulminate about “racism” in the near future. I won’t go so far as to say you’re generating them, but you’re definitely complicit.
You have made it abundantly clear that you’re ahead of the MSM on this one: not just criticism, but any failure of absolute yes-massa deference short of nose-in-the-rug proskynesis to the Obamassiah can only and entirely derive from racism. What you may not realize, and the dolts in the Press certainly do not, is that that attitude amounts to a blank check — if it’s “I’m not voting for ObamRACISTRACISTRACIST” at every turn, other expressions are pretty well free. If you’re sitting in the electric chair waiting for the switch to be pulled, there’s no particular reason not to confess to other crimes; this is especially true if you’re being executed for shoplifting.
Perversely, this may ultimately have a good result. It is a fact that we do need to have a discussion of racism, which definitely exists and is a problem in society; but part of that discussion needs to be, for instance, questioning whether or not teaching young black men to be defiant, uncooperative, and violent as a condition of “true blackness” really does them any good. Carin’s phraseology may be infelicitous, at least in your eyes, but the effect she notes is the common experience of employers everywhere: black employees in general and with many exceptions do not achieve, and tend strongly to be disruptive. This is clearly NOT a case of “cannot”. The doctor I would most cheerfully trust my life to is blacker than Obama, for instance. But “do not” is near-universal experience, and the Lisas and Dr. L–s suffer more for it than the supposed beneficiaries of the attitude profit.
So go ahead. Perhaps if you trivialize racism sufficiently — by insisting that OJ Simpson had a right to murder his wife ’cause he’s black and she was white, by attributing any questioning of Franklin Raines’s competence or Barack Obama’s qualifications for office as “racist” — you will clear the field for the discussion we need. Doing it that way ends up being disruptive, negative, and destructive, but it appears we are not allowed any constructive discussion of the subject, and at least this will allow some discussion.
Regards,
Ric
“Comment by thor on 10/6 @ 6:07 am #
But nobody can be white, Republican… and racist!
No such fuckin’ thing! David Duke’s a Democrat, ahuhahuh!”
Slavery was a specifically an institution of the Democratic Party.
Franklin Raines executed the plan the Democrats gave him with frightening competence I think.
“Comment by thor on 10/6 @ 6:07 am #
But nobody can be white, Republican… and racist!
No such fuckin’ thing! David Duke’s a Democrat, ahuhahuh!â€Â
Eugene “Bull” O’Connor (the poster boy of American racism) was a Democrat.
Their tendencies to disrupt! Ohnoes! Not like the we-s!
And of those White disrupters! Do you know how bad they make you look?
O.J. Simpson ain’t no better or worse than John Wayne Gacy, and you believe Gacy had a right to kill little boys! (Don’t be putting words in my mouth, you ridiculous, given to exaggeration, person you!)
Barack Obama is smarter than you, Ric; he even writes better prose. That’s but just one of the reasons I support him over the White Power ticket. He’s the superior candidate, regardless of color, so get over it.
Baracky isn’t smarter than Ric I don’t think. Baracky thinks we don’t need to drill our oil but what we should so is make windmills. That’s just stupid. I mean retarded stupid not just every day stupid.
what we should *do* I mean … also he wants to steal all the oil company’s monies what all the pension funds are invested in. That’s only smart if you want old people more and more dependent on the government.
*companies’* I mean. This is me going to make a cup of coffee.
That’s just stupid. I mean retarded stupid not just every day stupid.
Gotta disagree with you there, ‘feets.
I don’t think Baracky actually believes that crap about the windmills. His base does.
They’re the ones who are retarded. He is evil and manipulative.
Carin wrote:
This pretending is HARD.
Just realize that thor is a pathetic ronery wittle man and all of his insults and screeches are just miserable cries for attention. Makes it easier to ignore the little twit.
Baracky is evil and also opportunistic. Who else is like that are rapists.
As I’ve said before, I love it when people make my point in an attempt to refute it. John Wayne Gacy was executed, and is currently enjoying whatever attentions the demons of Hell lavish on such people; OJ is alive, well, and rich, despite having been convicted of another, separate crime — and if you don’t realize that his acquittal occurred because he’s black you didn’t pay attention to the statements of the jurors afterward.
Barack Obama may very well be smarter than I am, but there’s no evidence of that — in fact, the continual dismissal of any questioning of it as “RACIST!!!11!!ELEVENTY!!!” calls it into question. If he is smart, he can survive questioning. If he isn’t, such questioning needs to be avoided. Which effect is currently visible? Did you imagine that “Sarah won’t do interviews” could be kept asymmetrical forever?
Regards,
Ric
“Comment by thor on 10/6 @ 6:07 am #
But nobody can be white, Republican… and racist!
No such fuckin’ thing! David Duke’s a Democrat, ahuhahuh!â€Â
The poll tax was a Democratic institution.
“Comment by thor on 10/6 @ 6:07 am #
But nobody can be white, Republican… and racist!
No such fuckin’ thing! David Duke’s a Democrat, ahuhahuh!â€Â
Jim Crow laws were instituted by Democrats
John Wayne Gacy was executed, and is currently enjoying whatever attentions the demons of Hell lavish on such people
Gacy was also a staunch Chicago Democrat, very active in the party.
Regardless of what Team McCain says, Palin’s zeroing in on Wright.
” White Power ticket. He’s the superior candidate, regardless of color, so get over it.”
Ok, I knew Thor was a sexist, but now a racist? And again, Ric paws the retarded seal before eating it.
because McCain has forbidden his campaign from using that as an attack
As I noted in the earlier post, regardless of what Team McCain says, Palin is now zeroing in on Wright.
Arrrrg. Wrong post! I’m gonna go have a lie down.
For pure entertainment, go back the the video of Stephenopolous asking Obama about Ayres. Watch how, after George says the name “Ayers”, Obama starts blinking like he’s got a piece of rice under his eyelid. It’s hilarious.
The lying muscles must be in the eyelids and Barack was getting them nice and loose for his answer.
to
thor, I’m just contentedly watching you dissolve into mush under criticism.
And periodically poking you to see what happens. Science degree, makes me inclined to do that.
(PS: It’s racist to talk about blacks negatively in a conversation specifically about black workers? Calling in white counterexamples is beyond the scope of the discussion.)
When I kick you in the crouch I know what happens.
PS. Yes it is, no doubt about it, ya hick-stoopid drooler.
crotch, ooppsy!
You are so terribad at this. :D
My opinion of the sheer stupidity of what you said hasn’t changed.
Can anybody point out the important word in this sentence? I will give you a hint:
My opinion of the sheer stupidity of what you said hasn’t changed.
Everyone says stupid things sometimes and I’m going to leave it at that.
Would that it were so.
[…] the press, which is so far up BHO’s ass that to them the whole world is one large colon, has branded her attack as “racist.” And so it’s begun, right? The attempts at chilling the debate has reached this point and now […]
ACCEPTING CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ASSOCIATES OF KNOWN TERRORISTS?
The Ayers-Weber-McCain connection. Truth? Guilt by Association? We report. YOU Decide!
Arnold R. “Arnie” Weber is a Chicago Annenberg Board Member and Chicago “insider”. He was a part of the Nixon White House. Arnie Weber has held other Washington “insider” jobs too. He is a LONGTIME REPUBLICAN DONOR. But get this: Arnie Weber was a BOARD MEMBER of the infamous **CHICAGO ANNNENBERG CHALLENGE** organization, which was founded by known “TERRORIST” Bill Ayers!
Sarah Palin was using “guilt by association”. This, however, is a two way street but Gov. Palin may not understand this.
NEW INFORMATION SHOWS THAT JOHN MCCAIN HAS ACCEPTED “TAINTED” CAMPAIGN MONEY FROM ARNIE WEBER, AN ASSOCIATE OF BILL AYERS.
Arnie Weber has given the maximum legal amount of $1,500 to the McCain campaign in 2008. He probably would have given more if allowed by law. In 2008, Arnie Weber made two separate donations of $1,000 and $500 to McCain’s presidential campaign run by EX-LOBBYIST AND WASHINGTON INSIDER RICK DAVIS.
I demand that Senator McCain denounce this man, Arnie Weber, and his associations to “terrorists” (as defined by his vice-president, Sarah Palin). I call on Senator McCain to reject these tainted donations. John McCain should then investigate how such a thing could possibly happen inside HIS OWN CAMPAIGN before seeking to cast stones at Senator Obama. McCain’s campaign CEO, RICK DAVIS, needs to explain to the AMERICAN VOTERS his reasons for accepting this dirty money. Are they really that desperate to win this election? Doesn’t John McCain still believe in the honor that he felt when defending this country against the enemy in Vietnam where he served as a prisoner of war for years?
THE “LIBERAL MEDIA” SHOULD ASK JOHN MCCAIN WHY HE ACCEPTED THIS TAINTED CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THIS “TERRORIST” ASSOCIATE. Incredible as it may sound, Arnie Weber doesn’t even DENY that he ASSOCIATED FOR YEARS with a “KNOWN TERRORIST”.
This is probably because he hasn’t been asked.
Now for the reality check: It turns out that these types of “facts” are simply BASELESS SMEAR ATTACKS WITH NO MERIT! Yes. It is true. Attacks like this are meant to distract the uninformed voters near the end of an election. We don’t hear about them very often because most candidates have too much integrity to run them. They know that winning an election based on lies is unacceptable. Besides, people want to talk about REAL issues affecting REAL lives, not play a game of “6 degrees of Kevin Bacon”.
Random associations are EASY to find. For instance, it turns out that you can trace Obama’s FAMILY TREE to both George W. Bush (10th cousins once removed) and Dick Cheney (eighth cousins). Yep! They are legally RELATIVES. This is yet another useless “fact” for Trivial Pursuit lovers, but it is not worthy of any media time in this national election for the greatest country on God’s green earth.
If you want some more guilt by association, here is something to find out for yourself. Who said this? Who supports this guy and his political party? “The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government. And I won’t be buried under their damn flag.”
Guilt by association is an attack on voters and on the electoral process. Voters need to learn about the issues. Governor Palin should apologize for raising this STUPID guilt by association tactic against Senator Obama. And if she REALLY believes what she is saying, she REALLY should demand that they return “Arnie” Weber’s campaign donations. Seriously. To do anything short of that would be blatant hypocrisy.
“Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don’t have much of a vision for the future or you’re not ready to articulate it.” [John McCain – The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer – 2/21/2000]
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