This matches, I believe, nearly the precise definition of irony. Were irony to be dressed in a rumpled suit and speaking with a sneer on its wrinkled puss. Or maybe it’s parody I’m thinking of. Or tragedy.
Pathos?
Meh, who can keep it all straight anymore:
The head of the county bureau of elections hasn’t encountered any suspected voter registration fraud, but allegations in other parts of Pennsylvania have sparked a lawsuit and a verbal exchange between a state official and the Republican Party.
The Pennsylvania Republican Party filed a lawsuit to assure the vote count is accurate – a move that Gov. Ed Rendell’s press secretary described as a “Jim Crow attitude.â€Â
Much as wishing to enforce existing immigration laws was depicted by many of our “liberal” betters as socially criminal (remember, this is precisely how Barack wants to influence the courts), here we have an example of wishing to prevent voter fraud is being cast as socially racist — leaving us with the surreal condition that best ways to avoid the charge of racism are 1) make sure you vote for a candidate based on his color; and 2) make sure you don’t interfere in any of the mechanisms put in place that might prevent the fraudulent election of a man based solely on his color — because any appeal to the law is by its very nature intended to disenfranchise those who are not allowed to vote. Which, too, is racist.
Or, to put it another way, in Obama’s post-racial world, the best way to avoid being labeled a racist is to act like a racist.
Irony. Parody. Tragedy. Pathos.
You tell me.
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(h/t Hot Air, where Ed Morrissey notes, “And, by the way, let’s remember which political party imposed Jim Crow, and kept it in place until the federal government forced an end to its practice.”
To which the obvious response is some half-realized, intellectually incoherent set of buzzwords sputtered about “Southern strategy” and “Dixiecrats”.
Robert Byrd’s Kleagle hood was out being starched and could not be reached for comment.)
“Deep Stupidity” wasn’t on your list of choices, so I get I will have to go with irony.
“And, by the way, let’s remember which political party imposed Jim Crow, and kept it in place until the federal government forced an end to its practice.â€Â
OOOO OOOO [hand in air] THE DEMOCRATS, TEACHER!
“…it wasn’t the GOP that opposed the Emancipation Proclamation. Nor was it the GOP that opposed the Thirteenth Amendment prohibiting slavery, the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteeing equal protection, or the Fifteenth Amendment guaranteeing voting rights. (In fact, Republicans voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act in greater percentages than did Democrats.)
Moreover, it wasn’t the Republican party that opposed Teddy Roosevelt’s anti-lynching legislation or that filibustered or otherwise opposed more than a dozen other anti-lynching provisions during the 20th century.
Republicans didn’t institutionalize Jim Crow, implement school segregation, or establish poll taxes and literacy tests to keep non-whites from voting. Bull Connor, George Wallace, Lester Maddox, and Orval Faubus weren’t Republicans.
It wasn’t a Republican who ordered the internment of Japanese-American citizens (or Italians or Germans) during World War II. Nor were Republicans behind the Chinese exclusion acts or licensing requirements that discriminated against non-white businesses and tradesmen.
-Peter Kirsanow
“Irony. Parody. Tragedy. Pathos.”
Less like irony and more like Doublethink.
3) make sure you don’t show a black man in the vicinity of any white wimmen.
OT, but I like this:
On American reporting on the Tet offensive in South VietNam in “The Big Story” by Peter Braestrup:
“Drama was perpetuated at the expense of information,”
Sounds familiar, eh?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120226056767646059.html
This is sheer nonsense. I remember distinctly FDR getting on TV in 1929 to denounce all those Republican Klansmen just before he sent the Green Berets to clear Hezbollah out of Lebanon.
Also occurring in Pennsylvania, testimony on ACORN’s voter registration fraud implicates Team Obama:
Wasn’t Pathos one of the Three Musketeers?
Not Pathos – Murthos.
The more corrupter Baracky’s community organizey thugs are the less people will have to feel like they have to treat him like a for real respectable president if he wins I think. That’s good cause already it’s hard for me to take him seriously as anything other than a dirty socialist what NPR decided should be president.
If Murtha wins his constituents really are fuckin idiots.
But I maybe should wait until I see his infomercial before I say that. Dazzle me, baracky.
I hope they interupt it for the Sham-Wow infomercial. Sham-Wow would never take any of that socialist bullshit.
You don’t need to wait to see if Murtha’s constituents will put him back in office one more time to know whether they are idiots or not. They have been compiling evidence to that effect for many years.
It is racist to …
Say Baracky’s middle name.
Point out that Rev. Wright was an America-hating asshat.
Even infer that Teh One might know Ayers.
Say Baracky is skinny.
Say Baracky is articulate.
Say Baracky is clean.
Say that he is a socialist.
Say that he is ignoring campaign finance laws.
Vote for anyone not named Baracky.
Enforce the laws.
Do anything other than submit to the will of Teh Messiah.
Since I haven’t seen JD around in a while, I’m preemptively denouncing this thread and everyone who comments herein.
Consider yourselves denounced.
And speak of the Debbil…
the best way to avoid being labeled a racist is to act like a racist.
That’s because you are using an outdated definition of “racism.”
Racism in the 20th century: Treating people differently based on the color of their skin.
Racism in the 21st century: NOT treating people differently based on the color of their skin.
‘The Pennsylvania Republican Party filed a lawsuit to assure the vote count is accurate – a move that Gov. Ed Rendell’s press secretary described as a “Jim Crow attitude.‒
I gather from the Jim Crow reference that the governor’s flack imputes inaccuracies and cheating to the African-American communities. Hey, he said it.
Cordially…
my Tourette’s medication just wore off .
~ twitch ~ shitfuckgoddamnfuckshitshitshitteringshitiestshitfuckgoddamn ~ twitch ~
LYNN SWANN – Black man – WAS THE REPUBLICAN GODDAMN NOMINEE FOR GOVERNOR in 2-Goddamnfucking-006.
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~ twitch ~
Ed Rendell’s Political Machine ground down the black man for political purposes.
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You said “Kleagle”(snickkker).
This post strikes me as vaguely racist. I didn’t really understand it, but I’m going to recommend for indictment and demotion to one of the harsher gulags.
dicentra,
I was meaning to ask you
Obama revealed as love child of Karl Marx and Rosa Luxembourg. Utah: McCain + 25.
Palin poses nude for Foreign Affairs. Utah: McCain + 25.
McCain shoots Larry King live on set. Misses. Utah: McCain + 25.
Obama endorsed by Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, Ronnie Reagan and Bill Buckley, via seance. Utah: McCain + 25.
Mississippi and Montana go blue, California asks for new color. Utah: McCain + 25.
I mean wtf?
What’s up with Utah?
Before you ask N O’Brain- No, he doesn’t speak English.
is it racist to buy a KFC bucket and get pissed off at those little “wingy” things? cuz I do..
then eat contents of said bucket and put eye-holes in it and put it on my head
-cuz I do..
then drive to the burger king and order a chicken sangy
and chat up the drive thru voice greasily
cuz i do…
just hope the fries are hot/and my change is correct
Or, to put it another way, in Obama’s post-racial world, the best way to avoid being labeled a racist is to act like a racist.
Racisim can only exist one way, much like sexism, or oppression,or any other “bad thing”. And if you are capable of believing that then go for the pancakes at Milliway’s.
“If you’ve done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliway’sâ€â€the Restaurant at the End of the Universe!”
See also: “Feminism”, as it applies to Sarah Palin.
#1 cranky-d:
Never discount the deep, yearning, desire for power over others. Then ‘deeply stupid’, or ‘irony’, or anything else becomes the Will to Power. Everything else – reality itself – is subservient to the Will.
You know, too many people read ‘If’ and don’t see the stanzas as metaphors, but rather as a guide to ‘how things actually work’.
#30 SBP:
Duly noted.
#6 N. O’Brain:
I read Braestrup’s book, and it was a big part of my term paper in senior English. The parts where the press was comparing Khe Sahn to Dien Bien Phu was very enlightening, because I could, even at 17, see the differences between the two locations and the composition of forces.
But the drama took precedence over understanding how the NVA was being placed into the meat-grinder – they couldn’t have been more so unless they all fixed bayonets and went over the top.
And I am not surprised that no one pointed that out to them at the time.
What’s up with Utah?
All the Commies kept going until they reached Sacramento.
sash:
What in Sam Hill is that jibber-jabber. I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Linky please? So I will know what exactly it is I’m ignoring.
Then, via Riverboat to San Francisco.
And that’s how Pelosi was born.
What in Sam Hill is that jibber-jabber. I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Linky please? So I will know what exactly it is I’m ignoring.
Your guess is as good as sashal’s!
Because I don’t watch political things on TV (not since Firing Line and Brinkley disappeared), I almost missed O!’s daily ‘cism:
The Obamamercial was scheduled at the same time as the first tipoff of the NBA on ESPN — which he and his people didn’t know, or they knew and didn’t care, or they did it on purpose to keep the brothers down (in the ratings).
The white-ass white motherfucker.
his people? get in line
or-ha-the fire-ing line
ode et to uuuuey
the back of david brooks head
is shiny
the din-din invite is tiny
is my watch on proper?
a three fork salute to the aborted
alaskan king crabs are cavorted
that’s just the start
a chill wind will fart…
bo diddley
“up ur house and home again”
alaskan king crab legs would be delish!
a horrid womyn-let’s dish!
Mossberg, sashal is marveling that the people of Utah would continue to vote for McCain despite (what sashal sees as) horrid things.
Of course, if Obama had used his half-hour tonight to give an impassioned tribute to Stalin against a background of red flags, sashal would have swooned over his true Americanism and wondered why anybody could fail to vote for the Messiah. It’s all in the attitude.
Regards,
Ric
say again/ thursdays child has far to go…
tuesdays child is full of grace!
get in there faces!/i’ve turned 5/[they could be lying]
nh/ turn red/let’s go-
they seek him here
they seek him there
‘cuz he’s a dedicated follower of ‘zonoes
Because of the Carnebetian Army !
All your semantics are belong to us.
“It’s Chinatown Jake, Chinatown”.
pageantry
the cock of the walk
What in Sam Hill is that jibber-jabber.
This is the only answer to jibber-jabber.
Isn’t it due to racism? Now, I’ll have to re-think the whole “fashioning-my-opinion-around-interviews-with-Charles-Barkley” thing. It doesn’t seem to be as reliable as I believed it to be. Go figure!
Guess I’ll have to go back to reading the NYT and LAT…oh wait!
Who did al Jezeera endorse for President? Anyone…anyone? Bueller?
Guess I’ll have to go back to reading the NYT and LAT…oh wait!
I left out the Chicago Sun Times!
I’m thinking I could make a good living selling mirrors with the word “Racist” etched in at the bottom.
How are they supposed to make the vote count “accurate” when a certain city in Pennsylvania has more registered voters than adults?
They care about alcohol, guns, sex offenders, drugs, and they really care to make sure you pay every nickel of taxes you owe. Why don’t we care half as much that only eligible voters may vote, once?
I don’t feel any particular obligation to abide by a fraud. I’m not sure about the rest of you chumps.
The question is, will Johnny Mac feel the need to abide by a fraud? For the good of the Country?
I love the whine of Republicans in the morning …
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