… the hatred goes much deeper and broader.
The Palin Derangement Syndrome has been infamously on display from the moment she dared raise her head above the Alaskan tundra and the Left dispatched legions to America’s Outback to destroy her and her family. Even now as private citizen Palin, the media cannot treat her as anything but More Dangerous to The Country than Just About ANYONE!! Why else would Ass.Press feel it necessary to assign 11 “reporters” to comb through her new memoir of 432 pages and still equivocate on what they found when over 4,000 pages of medical nationalization legislation coming out of the House and Senate gets barely a once over? The mere existence of Palin’s tome has Andrew Sullivan so verklempt he can do little more than drool and retire to the fainting couch mumbling about Sarah’s uterus. When convicted felon Martha Stewart sniffs, “No I haven’t read Palin’s book and I would never ever listen to her” and still pronounces Palin a “dangerous” person, it is easy to see something more than hatred of Palin is at work.
Now the Palin-hate isn’t just on the illiberal Left. The fascinating, and revealing, hate comes from the Right. The latest oozing from Steve Chapman at Reason.com. He purports to “review” Palin’s book but descends into a screed containing some rather bizarre comparisons.
Her new memoir, Going Rogue, fills up 413 pages, but it has less policy heft than a student council speech. Where Reagan dove into the murk of arms control and Goldwater fathomed federal farm programs, Palin skims over the surface of a puddle.
Does Mr. Chapman ever reread what he writes before he hits the “publish” button? Palin has written a memoir, not a policy brief. Mr. Chapman waxes nostalgic over Barry Goldwater’s 1960 Conscience of a Conservative but doesn’t, or won’t, recall Goldwater’s thorough and humilitating defeat for President in 1964 by LBJ. He also refers to Reagan …
Between 1975 and 1979, after he had finished two terms as governor of California, he did some 1,000 radio commentaries, most of which he wrote himself. They were later collected in Reagan, In His Own Hand, which provides the texts of his handwritten manuscripts and proves that, far from being the “amiable dunce” of liberal mythology, he thought hard and clearly about the issues of his time.
… but that collection was published in 2001, not before Reagan’s election and certainly all those broadcasts had absolutely no affect on Reagan’s detractors who, to this day, still think he was stupid. Reagan really was “hated” for the same reason Palin is hated, and it has little to do with “hard thinking about the issues”.
Many of the commenters on Chapman’s thread underline and crystalize this Reagan/Palin hate.
It isn’t really about Sarah Palin. It is about the people who support her and identify with her. That is who Chapmen, Sullivan, Frum, et al. really can’t stand: “How dare those people, who cannot match our glorious, scintillating and obviously superior intellect even begin to think they have any real place in the body politic other than to vote as they are instructed to by us Conservative/Libertarian intellectuals?”
This is a very troubling evolution in American political ethos. Somewhere along the line, the government has grown large enough and complicated enough that some people actually believe the vast majority of American citizens cannot be trusted with governing.
Reagan wasn’t just hated because he was a conservative, but also for his “common touch.” Regardless of his success in Hollywood, Reagan never stopped being that young man from Dixon, Illinois who attended Eureka College. His sincere respect for regular folk was at the heart of the contempt and disdain aimed at him.
This is not to make any direct comparison between Palin and Reagan. By the time Reagan was elected President he had more than twenty-five more years of political and public experience. Who can really say how the next 25 years will shape, and be shaped by, Sarah Palin?
However, those people who are obsessively intent on destroying Palin by any means necessary are too threatened by her appeal to hoi polloi they disdain that they cannot take any chances. And for them the public destruction of Palin will serve as a lesson on what will be the order of the day to any one that dare follow in her footsteps.
Obama has clearly demonstrated that he is not any more “qualified” to be President than Palin. Does anyone seriously think Palin would have prostrated herself before the Saudi King or Japanese Emperor? Or refused to act on Gen. McChrystal’s recommendations? However, Obama’s faux-centrist populism in public with a “nudge-nudge, wink-wink” to parlor socialists in private excited the Left’s “intellectuals” and created envy in the Right’s D.C. cocktail party circuit.
“Intellectualism” with its concurrent conceit of superiority, has never held the public cachet in America as it has in Europe — to the everlasting enmity of American “intellectuals”. While the American revolution got rid of rule by Royal decree, American “intellectuals” fancy themselves the proper modern Royalty. Not satisfied when their inferiors refuse to listen to their appeal-to-authority arguments, they want authority in reality by which they can impose their ideologies and do it without the messiness of actually persuading hoi polloi.
Sarah Palin, agree with her or not, is a symbol of the non-political apolitical* American citizen who wants to live their life, go where their talent and ambition takes them, provide and protect their families and does not want to think every waking moment about a bloated, hostile central government poised to control their every waking behavior.
It comes down to power and the Palin-haters reveal their deep-seated conviction that “soccer moms” and everyone like them should have none. Even over their own lives.
Ever.
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* “apolitical” better labels my description of the person who really isn’t interested in the “inside baseball” working of politics and expects the Federal government to function as the Founding Fathers created it – protect citizens from foreign and domestic threats, secure enumerated rights and leave them alone to run their own lives.
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UPDATE: Any person, such as Matt Taibbi, who begins an ostensible “concern-trolling” article with
Just to get this out of the way, since the teabaggers have apparently re-discovered my site
and consistently refers to the millions of regular folk, that never in their lives had ever before come out for any political rally, with a gay-sex-practice-slang term automatically condemns himself as another one of those “correct thinking” people who don’t really believe in American Constitutional principles. Put on your tiara and smoking jacket, Matt. You earned it.
Comment by Snowcone on 11/24 @ 12:36 pm #
Non-political?
Wasn’t she that old guy’s running mate just last year?
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 12:38 pm #
Sorry to dive in with nits off the get go but what the hey, here goes anyhow. “…the non-political American citizen…” by definition, it seems to me, there is no such person. Second, say merely hoi polloi, since hoi is “the” in Greek.
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/24 @ 12:41 pm #
“Sarah Palin, agree with her or not, is a symbol of the non-political American citizen who wants to live their life, go where their talent and ambition takes them, provide and protect their families and does not want to think every waking moment about a bloated, hostile central government poised to control their every waking behavior.”
Well said Darleen, it encapsulates the situation nicely; Americans want leaders they can trust to remain true to the ideals of the Constitution, who they don’t have to watch every waking moment, and who won’t say one thing and then do another-like run as a centrist and then once in office reveal the most hard left President ever, one who seems intent on seeing the nation put in her place.
All the best
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 12:42 pm #
sdferr
non-political American citizen … there is no such person
Yes there is, sdferr. It’s the vast majority of citizens who don’t and who don’t WANT to pay attention to politics on a daily basis. They start getting interested maybe 6-8 months before an election.
They don’t want to have to think that any little thing they do from the minute they wake up to the time they go to bed is mere grist for DC politicos to regulate or criminalize.
Comment by Joe on 11/24 @ 12:43 pm #
I have defended Palin here many times, but I do not place Frum, Will and Krauthammer (Palin skeptics) in the same catagory as Andrew Sullivan (who went out in the noonday sun too long) on Palin.
While I very much disagree with Frum on his whole GOP-lite friendly position, his arguments on Palin are not much different than Charles Krauthammer’s, who I agree with on most issues but who also was skeptical of Palin as a Veep choice. Will falls somewhere inbetween those two.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 12:47 pm #
sdferr
I’ve see “the hoi polloi” often in writing, but I’ve fixed the nit for you.
and I understand — I’m amused at the phrase “The La Brea Tar Pits”
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 12:48 pm #
No, sorry to be disagreeable Darleen, but you are simply wrong on the theory, if nothing else. It may be that citizens don’t wish to pay full attention at all times and places, but that doesn’t remove from them their universal right as human beings, which right places them foresquarely in possession of their own political interests at all times, unalienably, as we say. So they are never properly considered as non-political. (On the hoi, we can follow VDH’s usage, I think.)
Comment by Canada Corner on 11/24 @ 12:50 pm #
Joe said: “Andrew Sullivan (who went out in the noonday sun too long)”. It’s not like just anybody can snivel and drool at the same time. It’s a gift and nobody can take it away from him.
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 12:52 pm #
“They don’t want to have to think that any little thing they do from the minute they wake up to the time they go to bed is mere grist for DC politicos to regulate or criminalize.”
See, were we to analyze that statement, we would ask, “why don’t they want to etc.” and the answer would be along the lines of some interference or other in the order of their lives. But what is the ordering of their lives if not politics and political contextualization?
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 12:56 pm #
sdferr
I think you’re grasping at nits and are way too close to “the personal is the political”. I use political here as must people understand it – being involved in politics, not as “I have political interests because I have rights.”
Really, sdferr, don’t you know people who just refuse to talk about the intricacies of The Road to The White House because it bores them silly? They’ll read up on candidates WHEN THOSE PEOPLE have declared their intent to run, but they will no more follow on a daily basis the minor-league tryouts and recruitments and talent scout reports on aspiring politicians then a person who watches the world series but doesn’t pay much attention to baseball the rest of the year.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 12:59 pm #
sdferr
Bottom line, our Federal government should NEVER BE so large or complicated that citizens should be FORCED to spend the majority of each day worrying about it.
The Founding Fathers never expected a full-time professional Political class. That way lays doom and we are seeing it now.
Comment by Squid on 11/24 @ 12:59 pm #
Is one allowed to describe oneself as apolitical, or would that warrant an entry on Sully’s Liar List?
Comment by Squid on 11/24 @ 1:00 pm #
I never realized so many Americans were hockey fans.
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/24 @ 1:01 pm #
sdferr,
I think Darleen is referring to folks who aren’t interested in politics and government, for whatever reason; people I often refer to as low information voters. Folks that may only vote in Presidential contests, and maybe even them not in every one. And it’s not always apathy driven, as some are so busy with mundane things that they don’t spare the time to be informed…
It’s always been the same. I’ve seen estimates that at the time of the American Revolution approxiamtaely 20% of the population were what we today call patriots, another 30% were “tories”, and the remaining 50% were generally apathetic, as long as they could count on their daily lives not being interrupted to often. We’re just lucky that those we call patriots were able to occasionally shake large amounts of the apathetic into action from time to time…
I mean, witness the vast number of eligible folks who never vote in each election…
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 1:02 pm #
Ah…. “apolitical”…. thank you, Squid. That is a better word for what I described. I will so update.
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 1:03 pm #
The conduct of political campaigns is one thing. The claim to possession of political right, another. But the very definition of what our system of Government stands for is precisely wrenching the possession of political right away from the Dukes and Kings who once claimed sole ownership of it, Hence it is too narrow to say the non-political citizen here. Whether people want to own up to their responsibilities or no, no one has the right or power, we say, to remove those responsibilities from them. It does finally amount to the difference between being ruled by “specialist experts” in the modern parlance on the one hand or the people wholly, on the other. Why else would a person like Palin herself step forward, at least under her own account?
Comment by Gulermo on 11/24 @ 1:06 pm #
#2 OT. Weren’t you the person that referenced that doing business with Walmart was doing business with the CHiComs? Here. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2009-11/24/content_9028469.htm From the link: Li, however, said the order came as no surprise as the US government is spending massively on infrastructure projects. Don’t say I not a giver. You’re welcome.
Comment by cranky-d on 11/24 @ 1:07 pm #
The horse is dead.
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 1:08 pm #
Y’all seem to think I don’t get what Darleen intended. Quite the contrary, actually. I get that without any difficulty at all. But I’m attempting to point out that it isn’t true taking all things in all. Even referring to people as “apolitical”, while a nice shorthand for people too busy with other important matters to pay close attention to their political interests doesn’t do full justice to the idea of what the founders understood a human being to be. And that matters why? Barack Obama, that’s why.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 1:10 pm #
Gulermo
Numbers changed on this thread.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 1:11 pm #
It does finally amount to the difference between being ruled by “specialist experts” in the modern parlance on the one hand or the people wholly, on the other. Why else would a person like Palin herself step forward, at least under her own account?
Does Palin want “to rule”? Or does/did she want to govern?
There IS a difference.
Comment by McGehee on 11/24 @ 1:12 pm #
I think I had the Palin-hate explained back in August.
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 1:13 pm #
Nice nit pick Darleen! ;-)
Though ruled by specialist or the people is the parallel, Palin falls under the latter!
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 1:16 pm #
sdferr
IF a constitutionally constricted government means anything, it means that elected officials are MANAGERS, not rulers.
As a supervisor/manager myself, I am successful because I am NOT a ruler.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/24 @ 1:16 pm #
What’s almost completely missing from the Palin kerfuffle is any sense of nuance and consideration … from both sides.
This is what happens when you thrust a young conservative populist from a outlier state right into the middle of the political arena at the height of the gladiatorial battle. She didn’t get as far as she did without smarts and drive and savvy. She’s proven to be an adept manager and tough negotiator as well as a faithful steward of her state’s finances. She was and is, demonstrably, every bit as qualified to be President as Barack Obama.
Which is … not that much.
The pure white hot hatred that she engenders has to be based, at least in part, on a combination of perception of threat and a deep, dark sneering of the common, fly over citizen. It’s almost like the child who covets a really special toy and finally receives it, only to find lots of other, albeit grimier kids, fascinated by another child’s home made slingshot. Having finally elected a “real intellectual” (you know, one with all of the leftist educational sheepskins and political activist pedigrees) the very idea that some plain, funny talkin’ moose hunter from the end of the world and, are you kidding me, Idaho State(?!) might even be considered against Teh Won is an affront of near mind raping proportions.
I’m not sold on Palin (the whole way she handled the resignation was wanting and I would like to hear her delve deeper into policy, both written and oral) but I don’t dismiss her simply because she covers the vast majority of policy positions that match my own and she’s pretty trustworthy in terms of those positions (Mitt Romney, hello?) We’ll see how she does in 2010 but those mentioned above (even my sainted Krauthammer) need to stop sneering and at least listen and watch because she’s here to stay and will have a significant impact on Republican politics for the foreseeable future.
Considering all of the the hand wringing and whining from the K Street centrists that may prove to be a good thing, me thinks. They should take a moment and contemplate the difference between “not yet qualified” and “not worthy.”
Great piece, Darleen. Bravo!
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 1:23 pm #
You seem to still be focused on elected officals though Darleen, where my actual phrase was “the people wholly”. That phrase isn’t intended to translate to rule by elected official. The people rule (as sovereign) electing officals to do the mundane practical business of governing, though subject to means of removal.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 1:23 pm #
sdferr
Are you old enough to remember L’il Abner by Al Capp?
Among all the characters was Senator Phogbound, a charicature of an always-campaigning, bloviating professional politico. Mostly ignored by others because he really had NO POWER over them.
But the Federal government has consistently moved towards the point where all other local governments are little more than administrative bodies for an all encompassing central rule.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 11/24 @ 1:26 pm #
Maybe it just seemed like in the past people that wanted to be left the hell alone and have the government stay away from them could pretty much have it. Not vote, not care ect. The people that wanted the government to do something, those people were the ones that had to get out to march or call their congressman. Nowdays you have to protest and call your congressman so they leave you alone and don’t make laws taking half your paycheck or throw you in jail cause you didn’t buy insurance.
Comment by MikeT on 11/24 @ 1:29 pm #
She fits the bill… perfectly.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 1:32 pm #
MikeT
Do you know your risible links reveal a great deal more about YOU than Palin?
My, what a moral cretin with delusions of superiority you are. And not an original thought of your own.
Now, any more bigotted cut-n-pastes from you and they will be deleted. Either argue in your own voice and on a good faith basis or fuck off.
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 1:33 pm #
I was more a Walt Kelly fan myself. As to:
I’ve no disagreement that political matters have “evolved” into a warped facsimile of the founders notions of liberty in action. Much of that warping consists of folks like meya here, pretending that Palin doesn’t pay attention to the proper things, hasn’t studied the proper things, doesn’t know her own interests; nor do the people Palin represents know their interests, because so very ignorant are they of the important things meya knows. It largely strikes me as a failure on the part of the intellectuals, if I were to pin the problem somewhere. They went off the ontological rails a couple of centuries ago chasing a phantasm and are only now beginning to rid their clan of the corruptions entailed in that excursion. Word (and Object) gets out slowly though, it seems.
Comment by EJ D on 11/24 @ 1:35 pm #
0/10 for trolling MikeT
Bill Ayers isn’t black and quoting stories from over a year ago as if they’re from today is fail.
You suck at posting, please stop.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/24 @ 1:36 pm #
MikeT is the perfect example of what I wrote above. He doesn’t care about qualifications. He’s more interested in setting up a faux intellectual test of worthiness skewed by overarching ideological “rightness.” All he has is variations on a narrative designed by others, a stack of 3 X 5 cards with easy grading talking points.
He perfectly reflects what most of us find to be the real problem with this current administration.
But then … I’m not worthy, I’m sure.
Comment by Sara (Pal2Pal) on 11/24 @ 1:44 pm #
The left along with the DC/NYC elites of both parties are not going to give up their license to play dirty politics easily. They have had a long run with their politics of personal destruction. They hate Sarah Palin because no matter what they throw at her, she comes back stronger than ever and with more supporters than before the various attacks. I’m sure it hasn’t escaped their attention that her book sold over 700,000 copies in the first week.
As Lorrie Byrd, who saw her yesterday at Ft. Bragg, says in a Wizbang piece, she oozes charisma, but more than that, “she connects with people” and they with her. This is a natural ability that even the most qualified with the most money (think Romney) can buy. She reaches more people with one click of the mouse than these so-called elites can reach in a year and they hate her even more for that. She is their demon, proof they aren’t really worth much at all and the asteroid has hit and the dinosaurs are gasping their last gasps for air.
Comment by Sara (Pal2Pal) on 11/24 @ 1:47 pm #
BTW, there was a time, when I worked for a Member of Congress and was much more tuned in to the day to day of policy, that I was mightily impressed if someone I knew got a published op-ed in the NYT or WaPo. Today, my reaction is, “is that the best you can do. What a loser.”
Comment by Mr. W on 11/24 @ 1:51 pm #
She was the only good decision that RINO McCain made during the campaign.
Anyone remember another good one?
Comment by Snowcone on 11/24 @ 1:53 pm #
What the people who are flipping out about the treatment of Palin should be asking themselves is what it means when it’s not just jerks like us but everybody piling on against Palin. For those of you who can’t connect the dots, I’ll tell you what it means. It means she’s been cut loose. It means that all five of the families have given the okay to this hit job, including even the mainstream Republican leaders. You teabaggers are in the process of being marginalized by your own ostensible party leaders in exactly the same way the anti-war crowd was abandoned by the Democratic party elders in the earlier part of this decade. Like the antiwar left, you have been deemed a threat to your own party’s “winnability.”
http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/11/23/yes-sarah-there-is-a-media-conspiracy/#more-1087
Comment by MikeT on 11/24 @ 1:54 pm #
Palin represents the know-nothing branch of the GOP. You want to go down that road, please do.
Struggling to complete an undergrad degree, changing schools so many times (possibly because of poor academic performance), never traveled outside of the US almost her entire adult life, and her claim to fame… runner up beauty queen. Not much there. Like Bush, she is a redneck hero and not too bright. But unlike Bush, she’s not well educated. (Otherwise known as white trash).
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 1:54 pm #
Not exactly during the campaign as such Mr. W, but McCain understood and began pressing for the so called surge in Iraq long before any other political type I can think of.
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 1:57 pm #
So we’re to assume you are well educated MikeT? On who’s say-so? How would we, skeptical creatures that we are, know how you would know what it means to be well educated at all? Could be you’re the pot calling the kettle black, seems to me.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/24 @ 1:59 pm #
MikeT is full of sneering and bigotry.
Nuance? Common Sense? Not so much.
Comment by Sara (Pal2Pal) on 11/24 @ 1:59 pm #
Oh, and one last thing regarding Reagan and Palin. When I was working in DC, I got a chance to meet President Reagan more than once. At one meeting, it was a big ticket fund raiser where he was the keynote speaker and guest of honor. There was a pre-meal cocktail party and I was tasked to be the meeter and greeter at the door. Once my duties were complete, I could mingle. At one point, I was off by myself just passively observing the room, when a voice behind me said, “Good crowd and your smile lights up this room.” I turned and there was Ronald Reagan, not only talking to me, a mere peon, not a big donor, and he was complementing me in a way that made me feel special amongst all those high-powered people there, including the VP Bush, James Baker, etc. He then said to me, “Just keep smiling, I want to see that smile while I give my speech so I know I’m connecting.” That is what Reagan and Palin have in common. Ronald Reagan made a young woman, there as a lowly volunteer, feel important and like she could contribute in ways that dollars would never do. All I had to do was smile at the President so he would know when I thought he was doing a good job. I floated around for the rest of the day. The ability to make voters feel that they count cannot be bought or learned.
Comment by Mr. W on 11/24 @ 2:03 pm #
You can tell the quality of a leader like Sarah Palin by the fact that she incurs the hatred of all the right people.
If Snowcone despises her she must be a great American.
Comment by brian on 11/24 @ 2:05 pm #
MikeT – perhaps you could enlighten us as to Obama’s academic performance? He’s certainly shown no interest in so doing – unlike his predecessors Clinton, Gore, and Kerry. Oh, and Bush.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/24 @ 2:08 pm #
Possibly, though, because she was abducted by aliens and had to relocate to where the aliens weren’t.
As long as we’re just completely making shit up, I mean.
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 2:09 pm #
I know of someone who didn’t attend college or university. Didn’t leave his city, an area the size of medium sized American city. He was no beauty queen though. He ended up being executed by his own polis for free-thinking, so to speak.
Then there was another fellow who didn’t go to college, joined a drama troupe and wrote plays instead. He did ok by himself. Even the queen put up with his needling. Thanks in no little part to stuff he learned from the first fellow I’ll bet.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 2:10 pm #
MikeT
Didn’t you spam that same unsupported smear before that she “struggled” to get her degree and your ONLY proof is because she went to several colleges?
Again, SHOW she struggled EARNING her degree rather than a person who had to work to pay her own way through college so USED the opportunity to attend several colleges in different parts of the country.
WHERE are the grades of upper-middle-class-privileged, private/prep-schooled, affirmative-action selected, never worked at any real job Obama?
Comment by Sara (Pal2Pal) on 11/24 @ 2:14 pm #
never traveled outside of the US
Except for trips to Kosovo, Kuwait, Germany and Canada, right? She had more experience to be Commander-in-Chief than the incompetent boob in the WH now. And she had her priorities right too. And do you think there is anyone serving with Bambi who comes anywhere close to her knowledge of energy issues and legislation? I doubt it. Have you seen any evidence that anyone in Bambi’s WH or admin. understands the small business owner as well as she does being one.
And if you bothered to read GOING ROGUE, you’d learn that she left her first college in Hawaii because it became clear to her after one semester that getting an education wasn’t a first priority for anyone going to school in that atmosphere of sun and sea. She then had to work waiting tables and other menial jobs (no wealthy Muslims or commies to fund her education) and she had to be talked into the beauty contest because it carried full ride scholarships to the winners. She won enough to pay for another year at Idaho, where she went after Hawaii. But even then she had to come back to Alaska and work to continue and it is to her credit that she didn’t give up. She worked hard to earn the money for college and get her degree. She didn’t have time to sit around snorting coke and smoking dope.
Comment by Mr. W on 11/24 @ 2:15 pm #
Obama’s transcipts from the time he was in school in NY (where not one person remembers ever seeing him, and no physical evidence supporting his having been there exists) cannot be viewed by mortals since they shine like the halo that surrounds his handsome face.
Comment by Pablo on 11/24 @ 2:16 pm #
St. Andrew via Althouse:
And it’s Sarah Palin? Does the acronym for One Big Ass Mistake, America mean nothing to you?
I’m gobsmacked.
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 11/24 @ 2:21 pm #
Why else would Ass.Press feel it necessary to assign 11 “reporters” to comb through her new memoir of 432 pages
Because there aren’t a lot of pictures? Maybe they think they’ll find Waldo faster? One to read the book and ten to decide what she meant by it? They’ve cut it into tiny strips and are pasting them together in alphabetical order? The AP could only afford one copy? One for each of SP’s imaginary children?
Comment by Snowcone on 11/24 @ 2:21 pm #
If Snowcone despises her she must be a great American.
I admire her ability to fleece rubes.
And I admire her part in handing Obama the presidency.
Can’t think of anything I despise about her other than her shoddy treatment of Levi.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/24 @ 2:23 pm #
MikeT: does this look familiar?
Lessons not learned?
Comment by geoffb on 11/24 @ 2:25 pm #
Perhaps another analogy to define non-political/apolitical.
The people as sovereign hire individuals to do the day to day management. Like a homeowner hiring a contractor to do a renovation or a maid to clean up the place.
The homeowner wants to hire someone who will do the task without detailed minute by minute supervision. There must be trust that they will do the job as needed. If they start doing a different project than the one hired for or doing a destructive job at the assigned task then watching over their every move becomes rapidly a much more demanding task than simply doing it yourself.
The apolitical want to have the hired help do as hired and not have to supervise them more than every two years at election time. When I have to train someone new to perform a job I have to work twice as hard until they get up to speed and I can trust them to do what is needed. If I can never trust them it is better not to have them at all. Being fooled by a fake resume is not conducive to trust
I hope this makes sense as I have to go to work now.
Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/24 @ 2:30 pm #
“Comment by MikeT on 11/24 @ 1:54 pm #
Palin represents the know-nothing branch of the GOP.”
But strangely enough, she knows ever so much more than Teh Won™.
You know, she actually has administrative experience, just as an example.
Where Teh Won™ is flopping around like a fish out of water.
Funny, that.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 2:31 pm #
snotty
thanks again for proving your basic immorality
you are at least very consistent in your wrongness.
Comment by Snowcone on 11/24 @ 2:32 pm #
Dobbs/Palin 2012, Darleen.
Comment by Snowcone's Rubber Sex Doll on 11/24 @ 2:32 pm #
You’re getting better! Now stop calling me “Mr. President”!
Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/24 @ 2:32 pm #
“Struggling to complete an undergrad degree, changing schools so many times (possibly because of poor academic performance), never traveled outside of the US almost her entire adult life, and her claim to fame… runner up beauty queen. Not much there. Like Bush, she is a redneck hero and not too bright. But unlike Bush, she’s not well educated. (Otherwise known as white trash).”
Darleen, you are a frikkin’ genius.
There’s your whole point rolled up into one little green booger of hate.
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 2:33 pm #
That seems about right geoffb, to me anyway. The one doing the hiring is still concerned that the job needing done gets done right because in the end they are still saddled with the responsibility for that job. So in that sense, we as political beings are still political even when we aren’t overtly behaving as such. The power still rests in our hands and ours alone. There isn’t any outside (benevolent) power we can turn to to take that responsibility for us nor would we want one taking it from us.
Comment by Snowcone's Rubber Sex Doll on 11/24 @ 2:33 pm #
I’m sure MikeT’s list of life’s accomplishments match those of the douche that makes love to me every hour.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/24 @ 2:35 pm #
I think the idea of Sarah Palin as a persecuted martyr really does resonate with a lot of people. She’s sort of an everyman for people who feel their little country’s been hijacked by a black marxist Chicago street trash piece of shit.
I’m not sure it’s helpful. If she didn’t provoke so much hatred she’d not have the horizons she enjoys today. It’s sort of her thing now.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/24 @ 2:37 pm #
It’s easy to forget that this isn’t really a particularly accomplished person in the scheme of things.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 2:37 pm #
LL
Yep, whenever people like Palin “forget their proper place”, the ones that merely mouth the preamble to the Constitution can’t help but reveal themselves.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 2:42 pm #
hf
Maybe you should read this again:
This isn’t about Palin’s accomplishments (and certainly, she was much more accomplished than Obama at election time) it is about why people find it necessary to make sure she NEVER has ANY public role whatsoever and by extension any person like her that even contemplates political office.
If they could, they’d dig up Jimmy Stewart and Frank Capra and shit on their corpses.
Comment by Joe on 11/24 @ 2:42 pm #
BJTxs makes an excellent point at #25.
I am not sure Sarah Palin is even running for office right now (I think she wants a say in public policy, but not necessarily to hold elected office at the moment). But I wish we could discuss the strengths and weaknesses of her positions rather than the hype.
And Darleen: “The Founding Fathers never expected a full-time professional Political class. That way lays doom and we are seeing it now.”
I am not so sure of that. What exactly did John Adams and Thomas Jefferson do after the signing of the Declaration of Independence other than politics (until they both eventually retired to their farms due to old age)?
The Founding Fathers understood that fiscal responsibility was critical for a nation to be great, prosperous, and free. Jacksonians got a bit populous, but even they recognized it. Whiggs/Republicans and Democrats followed that. But starting with FDR (or maybe Teddy), things have gradually moved in the wrong direction (even Reagan only slowed the slide rather than reversed the trend).
We need to get the fiscal house in order and expanding entitlements is not the way to do it.
Comment by Snowcone on 11/24 @ 2:48 pm #
you are at least very consistent in your wrongness.
Darleen,
Spewing hate-filled venom at the teenager you used as a prop in your failed vice presidential bid isn’t moral, it’s just childish.
Comment by B Moe on 11/24 @ 2:50 pm #
Interesting point, ‘feets. Is she hated because of who she is? Or is she who she is because she is hated?
Comment by happyfeet on 11/24 @ 2:50 pm #
If she wanted a public role maybe she…
Comment by happyfeet on 11/24 @ 2:52 pm #
There’s no way we’d be having all this Sarah Palin pda if she wasn’t so hated by all the right people I don’t think. She and Adam Lambert have the same agent I think.
Comment by Jim Ryan on 11/24 @ 2:56 pm #
Please keep hating her. It is a source of delight for her fans.
Your eyes bulging, your faces beet red, the veins popping out on your necks, the spasms of twee rage surging uncontrollably through every fiber of your bodies, the effete flailing gestures, and the mindless tirades sputtering from your mouths, the anguish, the torment – we love it!
The suffering of the wicked is good. To behold it is wholesome entertainment. Please don’t stop.
Comment by Squid on 11/24 @ 2:56 pm #
Struggling to complete an undergrad degree, changing schools so many times (possibly because of poor academic performance), never traveled outside of the US almost her entire adult life, and her claim to fame… runner up beauty queen. Not much there. Like Bush, she is a redneck hero and not too bright. But unlike Bush, she’s not well educated. (Otherwise known as white trash).
In a thread devoted to the proposition that people hate Palin precisely because she’s not part of the Beltway crowd, nor part of the Ivy-League intelligentsia, MikeT wanders in to let us know that he hates Palin precisely because she’s not part of the Beltway crowd, nor part of the Ive-League intelligentsia.
Thanks for sharing, Mike. I’m not sure it was strictly necessary, since Darleen has you pegged in the original article, but still, thanks for sharing.
Now, if I might inquire: given a choice between a “redneck hero” (as you so tactfully put it) and a blue-blooded scion of an ancient and politically powerful New England clan, which do you think the majority of Americans would identify with? What if it were a choice between a “redneck hero” and an empty suit who spent his whole life going through the motions to win the favor of politically powerful New England families?
Comment by Danger on 11/24 @ 2:57 pm #
“Interesting point, ‘feets. Is she hated because of who she is? Or is she who she is because she is hated?”
sdferr,
She is who she is because of who she loves and she is loved because of who HE is! Which pretty much applies to all of us.
Comment by Squid on 11/24 @ 2:58 pm #
Or, to put it in terms that you might more easily comprehend: would Americans identify with somebody who likes cheap yellow beer, pretzels, and country music, or would they identify with somebody who likes cabernet, arugula, and chamber music?
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 3:03 pm #
snotty
keep being wrong. It’s a nice anti-bellwether.
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 3:05 pm #
Hey Danger! [cowering sheepishly under my keyboard here] How come you’re picking on me (theologically speaking) man? Does my abjectly philistine agnosticism stick out that bad? [ducks, runs and hides behind the door for cover]
Comment by Neo on 11/24 @ 3:05 pm #
I loved the meme the other day about how “Reagan never went rogue”.
For those folks too young or with faulty memories, I have a name .. Richard Schultz Schweiker or Sen. Dick Schweiker (R-PA) .. and a year 1976.
If Reagan “adventure” with Schweiker isn’t “going rogue” then it just doesn’t exist.
Comment by Pablo on 11/24 @ 3:06 pm #
What does it mean, alphie?
Fail, I think.
Comment by Sara (Pal2Pal) on 11/24 @ 3:07 pm #
So the daughter of a science teacher and school administrator who knows how to be 100% self-sufficient when it comes to food, housing (she and Todd built their own home) and clothing and who worked her way through college earning a degree in Journalism, has been a small business owner, a city council member, a Mayor, an oil and gas regulator, a Governor and very popular VP candidate is “white trash?” Me thinks the writer who said that has some issues of his own to work out.
What in the world do you call an affirmative action, drug using, do nothing who never held a real job slacker? Oh, he is 1/2 black, so I guess you wouldn’t call him “white” trash. Shoot, he couldn’t even write his own book, his one and only claimed accomplishment. At least hers is compiled from her own journals and her own writing. And no she didn’t have a “ghost writer.” She had someone help her compile 40 years of journals.
Comment by Joe on 11/24 @ 3:09 pm #
They are not just after Sarah Palin…
Outrage, disgrace, and oh yeah, a day to live in infamy.
I am against true torture, but this is absolutely insane.
Comment by Snowcone on 11/24 @ 3:15 pm #
keep being wrong.
It occurs to me just how brittle the image Palin’s worshipers have of her is.
The clinical need to image that the people laughing at her actually hate or even fear her.
This will not end well.
Comment by Josh, graduate of the Creative use of elipses in order to change the point school of Maureen Dowd on 11/24 @ 3:16 pm #
Come on, happy, you can do it. Just one more nudge and you can finally just say the word on the tip of your tongue! I mean “black[sic] marxist [sic] Chicago street trash[sic] piece of shit” is just so entertainingly close.
You can do it, happyfeet, let your inner voice scream free of the boundaries of “political correctness” and just say the word, happy. Are you gonna let the hippes and Al Sharptons and all those other groups you hate so much keep you from saying what’s just…right…below…the surface?
If you can’t do it now, could let me know what it will take? I mean, I understand you are one of the regulars here, but how you get away with making clear racist statements is impressive. Use the word and they will follow you!
Offended at the use of “teabaggers” but call the president a “black…piece of shit” and we get crickets from Darleen. Classy place you got here
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 3:17 pm #
“When will all of the black commenters at PW rise up and say something about this type of overt hatred and racism?!”
I’m a black commenter at PW and I rise up to approve happyfeet’s message. It isn’t the least bit hateful or racist. Not one bit. Got it, stinkfinger? Not one bit.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 3:18 pm #
stinky
oh…you’re of the “if you criticize or mock President Obama, then you must be a racist” gang?
:::yawn::::
Comment by Danger on 11/24 @ 3:20 pm #
“How come you’re picking on me”
Sorry not meaning to pick on you sdferr, just trying to shine some light in the darkness. I think Mrs Palin has maintained an amazing level of optimism in extremely difficult circumstances.
I’m pretty sure “hate” has very little to do with who she is.
Comment by Snowcone's Brian Cell on 11/24 @ 3:21 pm #
Me produce this good thoughts:
“The clinical need to image”
Comment by Me shud write Brain Sell not Brian on 11/24 @ 3:23 pm #
Me smart snowcone. Might get job soon.
Comment by Pablo on 11/24 @ 3:23 pm #
We talked about this like a year ago. Black Marxist is both specific and accurate. Oh, and it is racism. As noted. Just not where you were looking for it, I think.
Comment by Pablo on 11/24 @ 3:24 pm #
You know who’s trash, though, is that Sarah Palin. Amirite?
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 3:24 pm #
Just kidding with you Mr Danger, I hope you know. ;-)
And I utterly agree, hate has nothing to do with Mrs. Palin so far as I can tell. She wants what’s better for a country she obviously loves and through all the vitriol rained down on her keeps her head focused on the better and not the worse.
Comment by McGehee on 11/24 @ 3:27 pm #
“Everybody”…?
All I see is a much larger set of jerks than you admit to seeing.
Comment by Snowcone on 11/24 @ 3:35 pm #
“if you criticize or mock President Obama, then you must be a racist
No, but calling Obama an “Uncle Tom” and a “Steppin Fetchit” is definitely an indicator.
Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/24 @ 3:36 pm #
“This will not end well.”
For the reactionary left.
Comment by Pablo on 11/24 @ 3:37 pm #
You load sixteen tons and what do you get?
Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/24 @ 3:38 pm #
“No, I’m part of the gang that thinks the “black street trash” sobriquet that your pal happyfeet routinely uses in reference to Obama may be a bit much.”
….becasue I a moron.
Comment by Pablo on 11/24 @ 3:38 pm #
Does that go for Michael Steele and Clarence Thomas too, snotty?
Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/24 @ 3:39 pm #
“No, but calling Obama an “Uncle Tom” and a “Steppin Fetchit” is definitely an indicator.”
Well you keep an eye open and let everyone here know when it happens, ‘mkay, you retarded marmoset?
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 3:40 pm #
No, I didn’t call Obama that, snotty.
Interesting how you need to lie. Maybe you should see someone about that.
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 3:44 pm #
“Somewhere along the line, the government has grown large enough and complicated enough that some people actually believe the vast majority of American citizens cannot be trusted with governing.”
Are those two propositions — 1) the government has grown large enough and complicated enough, and 2) some people actually believe the vast majority of American citizens cannot be trusted with governing — necessarily connected? Somehow, I don’t think so.
Comment by ronald maximus on 11/24 @ 3:49 pm #
Ah, Pablo, king of the simpleton equivalency. Let’s keep the eye on the ball. Happyfeet’s belief that “people” are shocked that the President’s a “black…piece of shit” happened here and not only evaded condemnation, but wins a defense from your besotted brain! KKKudos to you and happyfeet.
Well, as long as this gang of reactionaries got together to establish what is and isn’t, then who are a bunch of people on the outside to question it!
Comment by Danger on 11/24 @ 3:50 pm #
Sdferr,
Exactly, It must be infuriating to the left that they throw everything they have at her but she just shrugs it off. I find that daggum inspirational.
I don’t think she is currently the best option for President but she deserves a lot of credit for what she has accomplished and how she lives up to her principles.
Comment by Sara (Pal2Pal) on 11/24 @ 3:51 pm #
I had to run to the store and I come back to find the Obama lovers throwing racist around. Like anyone doesn’t know that Obama is a rabid black power racist who wears it like a badge of honor.
When all else is lost, end the conversation with a charge of racism. Typical. Sorry folks, that tactic is old and doesn’t work anymore. Never worked with me since my two beautiful black adoptees both think Palin is smart and hot and that Obama is an embarrassment to their race and to manhood in general.
I charge sexism.
Comment by Snowcone on 11/24 @ 3:51 pm #
No, I didn’t call Obama that, snotty.
“So how about it RD/meya, we don’t want the President of the USA to be an Uncle Tom, right?”
http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=15516#comment-813651
“Barry is being Steppin Fetchit to the foreigners…”
http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=15516#comment-813524
Comment by Jim in KC on 11/24 @ 3:52 pm #
Ellipsify much, maxima?
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 3:52 pm #
snotty
you’re as talented at reading comp as you are at morality
Comment by Squid on 11/24 @ 3:54 pm #
I think the best way to prove we’re not racist is to put a half-black puppet in the Oval Office. Never mind that the strings are pulled by a bunch of rich white guys. Never mind that he’s totally unqualified for the job. Never mind that he’ll undo generations of racial progress at the same time as he’s undoing generations of social, economic, and foreign policy progress.
Never mind any of that. The important thing is that you voted for a (half) black guy, and that absolves you of any sin or guilt.
But what do I know? I’m just some bigoted piece of white trash (got my Physics degree from a state school, dontcha know) who voted for Mike Rowe and Joe Paterno. Two white guys, ifyouknowwhatimeanandithinkthatyoudo.
Comment by Pablo on 11/24 @ 3:55 pm #
Try something other that “RACIST!!!!”, ronnie. You’ll look less like a dipshit that way.
Did you have an actual argument?
Comment by SPC Jack Klompus on 11/24 @ 3:56 pm #
Go Nittany Lions!
Comment by a lurker speaks on 11/24 @ 3:56 pm #
Why are people incapable of ignoring snowcone? His stupidity is hilarious but actually engaging him makes comment threads unreadable.
That is all. Back to lurking.
Comment by Danger on 11/24 @ 3:58 pm #
G’night all,
Keep firing 8^)
Comment by Squid on 11/24 @ 3:58 pm #
According to the Special Special Snowflake, disapproval of demeaning behavior is now classified as demeaning.
Up is down. Black is white. Hutch is Starsky.
Comment by SPC Jack Klompus on 11/24 @ 3:58 pm #
“The important thing is that you voted for a (half) black guy, and that absolves you of any sin or guilt.”
Plus you get to put all of those awesome bumper stickers on your car that let the world know what an awesome, progressive, caring, socially conscious citizen of the world you are!
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 4:01 pm #
lurker speaking, that arrived with all the conviction anyone could hope a Gary Burghoff might muster off-set, thanks.
Comment by Pablo on 11/24 @ 4:03 pm #
Sometimes it’s fun to drop an anvil on his head. A guilty pleasure, I know.
Comment by ronald maximus on 11/24 @ 4:04 pm #
Well, you certainly are and it ain’t helping you. Right now you look like King of the Dipshits.”
Now, my scatology is not as strong as this happyfeet fellow or yours, but does being King of the Dipshits mean you get to boss around the “black…piece of shit.” If so, could you tell him to tell him to stop blowing up innocent Pakistanis with his drone attacks?
If not, just own it. South Boston has a warm history of wonderful racism and you could always ride the bike around and receive the warmest regards.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/24 @ 4:07 pm #
Did you even read what I wrote Mr. maximus? I don’t think you read what I wrote. Or you don’t understand in your head.
I think you might could be stupid.
Comment by Pablo on 11/24 @ 4:08 pm #
Heh. This one just met ‘feets, right?
Comment by RIP Ford on 11/24 @ 4:09 pm #
Look Bunnies!!!
Comment by Pablo on 11/24 @ 4:13 pm #
Oh, dear. I’ve been slain. Dammit.
That’s your job, ronnie. We’re crazy people all riled up by dangerous people what are all in it for the money. He’s not gonna listen to we teabaggers. It’s on you, dude.
You couldn’t pay me enough to live in Boston. You from Southie, ron?
Comment by EJ D on 11/24 @ 4:15 pm #
No, I didn’t call Obama that, snotty.
“So how about it RD/meya, we don’t want the President of the USA to be an Uncle Tom, right?”
http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=15516#comment-813651
“Barry is being Steppin Fetchit to the foreigners…”
http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=15516#comment-813524
lol, you’re such an idiot
Comment by Mr. W on 11/24 @ 4:20 pm #
The trolls are in an especially bad mood since they discovered Barry was mor doofus than demi-god.
Deep inside, Snowcone knows I’m right.
Comment by Mr. W on 11/24 @ 4:22 pm #
The trolls are in an especially bad mood since they discovered Barry was more doofus than demi-god.
Deep inside, Snowcone knows I’m right.
I like it better w/o the phonetic spelling of ‘more’.
Comment by Salt Lick on 11/24 @ 4:23 pm #
Deep inside, Snowcone knows I’m right.
He’s getting all excited like Mr. Obama said. Somebody should tell him not to eat the yellow snow.
Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/24 @ 4:29 pm #
“Well, as long as this gang of reactionaries got together to establish what is and isn’t, then who are a bunch of people on the outside to question it!”
People lile you?
They’re morons.
Comment by Snowcone on 11/24 @ 4:29 pm #
you’re as talented at reading comp as you are at morality
“Barry is being Steppin Fetchit to the foreigners…”
Let’s hear some mental gymnastics explaining how you weren’t (honest!) calling our President a “Steppin Fetchit” in that post, Darleen.
Extra points if you stick the landing.
P.S. I would have gone with the standard “I was only joking” defense.
Comment by Mr. W on 11/24 @ 4:29 pm #
Pity the one known as Snowcone…
Imagine dropping enough political X to fuel a ‘Rock the Vote’ rave, but the next morning, instead of waking up next to the Malcolm Che Mandingo you thought you took home, you find Steve Urkel instead.
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 4:29 pm #
How on earth does Baracky being a black marxist Chicago street trash piece of shit hijacking our country for the sake of his idiotic vision of a grand and Utopian tomorrow become a notion that on account of Baracky’s blackish skin the next blackish skinned person one might encounter, say Condoleezza Rice for instance, has anything like the set of stupid political beliefs possessed by the black marxist Chicago street trash piece of shit Barack Obama? That’s what racism is supposed to do, isn’t it? Condemn people categorically on account of their phenotype?
Doesn’t make any sense at all to me.
Ms. Rice seems a wholly more capable scholar, a vastly more experienced foreign policy thinker, a lovely person who not only admires Johannes Brahms but can play his piano works well and if not perfectly competent in every endeavor she has set out to accomplish has certainly shown herself the better in most of them. Better than 99% of the nominally white people we might examine, which wouldn’t make the next nominally white lady incapable of achieving in her own life what Ms. Rice has achieved in hers.
But Baracky can hit a 25′ jumper Ms Rice might not.
It’s a lucky thing for us Obama hasn’t half the moxie that lady has or else we’d really be in trouble. ‘Course if he did have half her moxie he might not have ended up a black marxist Chicago street trash piece of shit either.
Comment by Mr. W on 11/24 @ 4:31 pm #
Obama is Urkel with an outside jumpshot.
Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/24 @ 4:34 pm #
P.S. I would have gone with the standard “I was only joking” defense.”
And you have no defense.
So why don’t you just FOAD, you irritating toad?
Comment by Mr. W on 11/24 @ 4:34 pm #
I, for one, welcome our new Alaskan overlords, and will miss the Democratic party.
And Barry is still a dork, Snowcone.
Comment by Mr. W on 11/24 @ 4:37 pm #
I was under the impression that Barry was going to eradicate the awful scrouge of racism from Palin threads just by being so goshdarn awesome!
And he is still a nerd, Snowcone.
Comment by B Moe on 11/24 @ 4:37 pm #
Snowcone has no deep inside.
Comment by SPC Jack Klompus on 11/24 @ 4:40 pm #
“Deep Inside Snowcone”
Didn’t John Holmes star in this post-Wonderland coke-addled epic?
Comment by Mr. W on 11/24 @ 4:41 pm #
B Moe,
He does so have a ‘deep inside’, and it aches with a longing for the Barry of his dreams, the one that the media told him he was getting, the one that now appears to be a first class dweeb.
And Snowcone knows I’m right, and it kills the Snowcone.
Comment by Mr. W on 11/24 @ 4:47 pm #
I hope David Axelrod adopts ‘Urkel With an Outside Jumpshot’ as his 2012 campaign slogan.
For teh accuracy, Snowcone…
Comment by Snowcone on 11/24 @ 4:48 pm #
Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was published 150 ago today!
Comment by ronald maximus on 11/24 @ 4:49 pm #
When we enumerate a list a bad qualities one has, why is skin color even a part of it?
Why, sdferr, even mention the color of skin? I didn’t call Pablo a teabagging, know nothing, retarded douchebag and then throw in the word “white,” because, although Pablo is an embarrassment to the white race (and the male gender and conservative movement and the human race), his “white”-ness is not related to the reason he’s a slimy reactionary Know Nothing.
On the contrary, Mr. Happyfeet apparently believes that Mr. Obama’s skin color should be listed on the bill of particulars against him.
black = ?
marxist = bad
Chicago street trash = bad
piece of shit = bad
Gee, not sure what word I would put to the right of “black” to stay consistent and all…
But, you know, that’s just proof and all. You guys ain’t into proof. You’re all into intent and gut feelings. And, rage. Oh, and finely, distilled, crystallized, diamond clarity victimhood. Rage and victimhood…a fine foundation for a political movement.
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 4:52 pm #
“Why even mention the color of skin?”
I wonder whether you’ve noticed ronald, that Obama himself can’t speak of himself (see his Berlin Wall commemoration remarks) without drawing the attention of one and all to his skin color? Is that what makes him so special, do you think?
Comment by Mr. W on 11/24 @ 4:53 pm #
Maximus,
Barry’s blackness just goes to prove that losers can be any color under the sun.
It’s uplifting in a ‘Revenge of the Nerds meets Che Guevera’ kind of way.
Comment by Mr. W on 11/24 @ 4:54 pm #
And Snowcone agrees with me and hates itself for it…
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 5:04 pm #
because, although Pablo is an embarrassment to the white race
What makes you think Pablo is white?
Oh, you just assumed.
Comment by Mr. W on 11/24 @ 5:06 pm #
My favorite part of the news is watching the evolution of Obama coverage.
First it was “Obama is brilliant!”
Then we got, “Obama is brilliant! So why did he pull that boneheaded move?”
A couple monts ago the meme was, “Why did he do that? Isn’t he supposed to be brilliant?”
Now we get, “Oh brilliant! This nitwit doofus is killing the goddamn Democrat Party!”
Et tu, Snowcone?
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/24 @ 5:07 pm #
Is anyone surprised that snowconeis a racist?
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 5:09 pm #
There is a funny difference in one fellow [Obama] insisting we make note of his skin color then when we do, another fellow [ronald] takes to assuming he knows what’s pertinent to make note of regarding yet another’s [Pablo] skin color, isn’t there SBP? Which of the two wins the prize as the better example of racist thinking? Hard to say.
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 5:09 pm #
Struggling to complete an undergrad degree
You still teaching at the extension campus of Lower Southeast Hillbilly State Community College, William?
I wonder what the parents of your students — or the students themselves; sinceit’s a community college, your students are more than likely paying their own way — would think about your contempt for non-Ivy schools.
By the way: you went to a trade school, William. A well-regarded one, true, but let’s not pretend that trade school makes you “educated” in any meaningful sense, because it doesn’t.
Comment by Jim in KC on 11/24 @ 5:11 pm #
Are you really that dense, ronald?
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 5:12 pm #
#152: I’d always assumed that Pablo was Latino, myself. I mean, everyone I’ve ever known with that name was Latino or Spanish.
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 5:14 pm #
“ronald” sounds a lot like Prof. Caricature. You know, the white “race expert” who teaches about racism in one of the whitest counties in the United States.
Less chance of an actual minority breaking into tears of laughter in his class that way, I suppose.
Comment by Pablo on 11/24 @ 5:16 pm #
Black Liberation Theology bad. It’s what those 20 years at Trinity were all about. You know, with the Rev. Hatey that isn’t the Rev. Hatey Barack Obama knew before he said there was no way he could throw him under the bus.
You could Google it.
Comment by Pablo on 11/24 @ 5:17 pm #
I think if you search for “Best speech EVAH!!!” you should be able to find it.
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 5:20 pm #
let’s not pretend that trade school makes you “educated” in any meaningful sense
So there’s no misunderstanding here: I’ve known plenty of smart tradespeople in my life (you can’t be an idiot and be a good plumber, or electrician, or carpenter — not gonna happen), including a fair number who were self-educated in unrelated fields. What I’m saying here is that William’s trade school experience didn’t, in itself make him an educated person. Might’ve made him a good guitar player. Didn’t do anything about his invincible ignorance in practically every other field of human knowledge.
Hey, I know: why don’t we put Slash from Guns ‘n Roses in charge of the Federal Reserve? I mean the guy kicks some serious ass!
Comment by Pablo on 11/24 @ 5:23 pm #
Oh. My Dad was Irish so I’m at least as white as Barack Obama.
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 5:25 pm #
Not nearly as white as “ronald”, I’ll bet, Pablo.
Nor am I, for that matter.
Comment by Fred Garvin on 11/24 @ 5:26 pm #
That’s not such a bad idea. Could he really be that much worse than Geithner?
(Although I might choose John Hiatt, myself.)
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 5:27 pm #
Hey, I know: why don’t we put Slash from Guns ‘n Roses in charge of the Federal Reserve?
Hell, he should count for Double Minority Points, being half black and half Jewish. If only he were gay, too.
Comment by Pablo on 11/24 @ 5:34 pm #
Oh, you know what happens when you put those Jooos in charge of money, don’t you, SBP?
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 5:36 pm #
True enough. Unless they’re good progressive Jooooooooos like Geithner, I guess.
Comment by newrouter on 11/24 @ 5:40 pm #
black = yes
marxist = yes
Chicago street trash = yes
piece of shit = yes
Comment by newrouter on 11/24 @ 5:42 pm #
paintywaist idiot = yes
nancyboy = yes
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Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/24 @ 5:55 pm #
Mark Knopfler
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Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/24 @ 5:56 pm #
“He hasn’t even been president for a year.”
And yet he has still achieved a -15 in the Rassmussen Presidential approval poll.
That takes some REAL fucking talent.
Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/24 @ 5:57 pm #
Oh, and RD?
You’re a moron.
Comment by geoffb on 11/24 @ 5:59 pm #
From the Left, the word “racist” already has “white skin color” welded on as a permanent attachment. You don’t need to add it as you consider it to be redundant.
Comment by newrouter on 11/24 @ 6:01 pm #
rd
get it right obama is a shithead
Comment by newrouter on 11/24 @ 6:02 pm #
i denounce myself shit is “colored”
Comment by geoffb on 11/24 @ 6:08 pm #
Reagan, the early rogue years.
Comment by JHo on 11/24 @ 6:08 pm #
Sure you want to stand behind that statement, Rilly? Are you?
Comment by newrouter on 11/24 @ 6:09 pm #
44% disapprove gallup
Comment by JHo on 11/24 @ 6:09 pm #
Pablo, you want do the honors on Rilly and polling?
Comment by happyfeet on 11/24 @ 6:17 pm #
actually Mr. maximus my point was that the siren call of the Sarah probably does work on a neo-tribalist level that’s not independent of race…
there’s just no getting around the way she transcends the antithesis of “marxist black guy” a lot over and above merely being a white capitalist chick…
that’s my feel anyway. It doesn’t mean that her fans are racist to say that she seems to have an a lot potent way of validating a certain sort of identity…
If you think this sort of political appeal is not in perfect consonance with what our little president man’s primary dynamic was in his endless campaign I’d like to hear why.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 6:21 pm #
I find it amazing that RD/meya has been deleted from this thread starting much earlier today and is deliberately ignoring the clue not to keep commenting.
It just goes out and finds new proxy IPs.
RD/meya – Go away, reprobate.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 6:25 pm #
MikeT, IP 67.177.170.201, Murfreesboro, TN, ISP Comcast can’t read either.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/24 @ 6:33 pm #
Ms. Palin represents an assault against ‘business as usual’.
Hence she must be destroyed.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/24 @ 6:34 pm #
I don’t think the Sarah one is an assault on business as usual. She has her face painted on a bus for Christ’s sake.
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 6:39 pm #
Murfreesboro huh? Though circumstantial merely, it just happens to be the location of MTSU itself. Funny, that.
Comment by newrouter on 11/24 @ 6:39 pm #
“I don’t think the Sarah one is an assault on business as usual. ”
yes it is an assault on the “lamestream media” just like andy b
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 6:41 pm #
MikeT, IP 67.177.170.201, Murfreesboro, TN
So it is Willie the racist skin flute player.
I really am wondering what his students — who are no doubt struggling to get an education (like Palin) and who don’t have the right mix of stupidity, Marxist politics, and melanin to get a free ride to Harvard (like Obama) — would think about his contempt.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/24 @ 6:42 pm #
Obama has clearly demonstrated that he is not any more “qualified” to be President than Palin.
Well… he hasn’t quit.
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 6:44 pm #
You mean other than every other job he’s ever had, hf?
What job has he ever stuck with for more than a year or two?
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 6:48 pm #
Someone want to look up where Idaho State is ranked in comparison to MTSU?
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 6:50 pm #
Soft despotism and the nanny state, a conversation worth the listening to at Uncommon Knowledge with P. Robinson and Paul Rahe, who’s new book is addressed.
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 6:50 pm #
MTSU has traditionally served a very diverse student body, in age, ability, background, and socio-economic status. The university has always had a large number of ‘first generation’ college students, and students who are self-supporting. The majority of the students in campus surveys traditionally comment that they work 20 hours or more while going to school.
So Willie’s students are dipshit working-class hicks, just like Palin.
Wonder if they know how he feels about ‘em?
Comment by happyfeet on 11/24 @ 6:51 pm #
I mean just he hasn’t quit the president job the way the Sarah one decided she didn’t want to be governor anymore. I wish he would cause he sucks ass. Maybe if I’m really really mean….
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 6:53 pm #
I mean just he hasn’t quit the president job
Oh, I wouldn’t count on that. In fact, I foresee a Nixonesque tearful wave from the doorway of a departing helicopter at some point in his future.
Comment by newrouter on 11/24 @ 6:55 pm #
“I mean just he hasn’t quit the president job the way the Sarah”
oh noes mr obmami he just sets up the suck and then kicks the cans down the road. enjoy mr obami’s wed night paaarty
Comment by alppuccino on 11/24 @ 6:59 pm #
Racism. That’s all you’ve got. So, out of pity, you can have it. Because the only reason Obama was elected is because he is black. Or, more accurately, resembles a black human. Early on, he was not black enough for the black people who were black enough. Black enough for what? Representing black people? Well, now that he’s president he’s black enough. So now we are supposed to believe that the black community believes that they will make people forget about slavery by bowing to other people. Or maybe he can golf the stain of slavery away. I know, he can ignore important decisions. It must be what all black people do, because now he represents the black community, when just 18 months ago he wasn’t black enough to understand what the struggle was. But now rich black people feed poor black people soup while wearing $500 bejeweled shoes.
Thank you RD, MikeT, meya, Ed, et al. I’m white and I buy things. And when I want it, I buy it, and I don’t care what color the person is on the other side of the transaction. But I guess now, it’s important to consider skin color where my money is concerned. Because if you can’t call a Marxist idiot piece of shit who’s black, a black Marxist idiot piece of shit, there must be some significance to his skin color. So there must be some significance to his skin color when I say “I’ll take one of those”. So if I order on line, I’ll ask if any black people will be touching the product. Because according to you idiots and your idiot leader, it matters. You trolls only buy from black people I trust. Because to not buy from black people is racist. Racists.
Comment by newrouter on 11/24 @ 7:00 pm #
quitting stupidity is good for the soul
Comment by newrouter on 11/24 @ 7:03 pm #
alp bravo
Comment by happyfeet on 11/24 @ 7:27 pm #
Barack Obama is tearing our little country apart.
Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/24 @ 7:32 pm #
“So Willie’s students are dipshit working-class hicks, just like Palin.
Wonder if they know how he feels about ‘em?”
He hates ‘em.
He coulda been a contender.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/24 @ 7:33 pm #
that doesn’t make any sense, meya… sales taxes are a local/state thing. You’re stupid.
Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/24 @ 7:36 pm #
“2) When you buy NASCAR paraphernalia from Walmart, you are tacitly subsidizing a Marxist government, but at least they aren’t black.”
Wait, didn’t you just say “1) Obama is black.”?
You mean O!bama ISN’T the government?
Who knew?
Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/24 @ 7:37 pm #
“You’re stupid.”
Wow, that mark is going to last a lifetime.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/24 @ 7:40 pm #
I’m caustic like that.
Hey. It’s almost Thanksgiving.
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 7:42 pm #
Hey, Rilly: has SFAG figured out yet that you’re not planning to ever get a job?
Comment by alppuccino on 11/24 @ 7:42 pm #
at least meya knew that I was talking about Obama. The thick crust might be penetrable after all.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/24 @ 7:46 pm #
Can Jeannine Aversa be more of a lying dirty socialist propaganda whore?
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 7:46 pm #
I can easily imagine Doctor Utopia coming up with some sort of “health reason” or suddenly deciding to “spend more time with his children” once he realizes that people just don’t love him any more.
It’ll bring back memories of being shoved off by his racist white mom on his racist white grandparents, who then outsourced his raising to the nearest person they could find. Sure, he was a Marxist pedophile, but at least he was the right color to serve as a role model, and we all know that’s what counts, right?
Comment by alppuccino on 11/24 @ 7:47 pm #
When you buy NASCAR paraphernalia from Walmart,
You buy your holistic treatments for your anal pustules in Harlem? Hyde Park? Do you trust the care of your genital warts to a black doctor RD? If not, you know….
Comment by JHo on 11/24 @ 7:48 pm #
Alp is tearing trolling lefto-racism apart.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 7:49 pm #
Oh, isn’t this fun, Scott EEEEK has decided to start libeling me.
Rather incoherently…and with those code words that if one is for Freedom and Liberty than by golly you MUST BE A RACIST (because, you know, equality of OUTCOME is the only measure of “fairness”)
My, you are a coward aren’t you Scott?
Comment by alppuccino on 11/24 @ 7:51 pm #
You’d think Rasmussen would be on the ball enough to get a frowny-face Obama to put next to those crappy numbers. Scott’s just phoning it in these days.
Comment by JHo on 11/24 @ 7:59 pm #
Vigorously supporting it, SQEK just threw equality under Obie’s bus. Seems to be a reoccurring theme.
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 8:00 pm #
I really wonder how many black people are in SEK’s neighborhood.
Or his department.
Certainly his alma mater isn’t going to win any prizes in that respect.
So, SEK: why DID you choose a school that has only 2% African Americans?
You sound an awful lot like Willie and Caricature, frankly. You’re all about DOING SOMETHING ABOUT THE OPPRESSION OF BLACK PEOPLE.
Just as long as they’re not in your neighborhood, or on your campus, right? There ARE limits, after all.
Comment by JD on 11/24 @ 8:03 pm #
Every leftist racism screaming-fest brings all of the lying dishonest mendoucheous fucking fuckers out from under their rocks. Ronaldo Maximus is another one of the sock-puppets as well. SEK and his band of angry haters what hate on his behalf can always be counted on to bring the douchenozzlery. RACISTS!!!! Denounced and condemned, bitches.
Comment by JD on 11/24 @ 8:11 pm #
The leftist twatwaffles are really ramping up the hatey angry hate. Barcky’s numbers must be dropping again.
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 8:11 pm #
I wonder if SEK, Caric, Willie et all even know any actual black people.
SEK’s Twitter profile says he lives in Corona, which has a median household income of $98,615.
Damn, that sure sounds like Compton to me, how about you?
It also has a 100% Republican representation at both the state and federal level.
Odd that such a staunch proponent of diversity would choose to live there.
Nothing available in Inglewood, SEK? How about Watts?
Dumbass.
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 8:13 pm #
“Et al”, that should say.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 8:14 pm #
Geez, SBP, that 2% in the school is higher than the 1.25% in the surrounding city of Irvine.
The city I live in is 6.5% Black, 26% Latino. The city where I work is 57% Latino and 19% Black. At work I am in the minority.
I actually live what Squeeker only demogogues about.
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 8:17 pm #
I really think he should be living in Inglewood, the “the sixth-most-liberal city in the United States, after Oakland, California, and just ahead of Newark, New Jersey” (both of which are earthly paradises, as we all know).
Fucking hypocrite.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 8:20 pm #
SBP
I wonder what Squeeker would say about the monochromatic middle-class neighborhood of Leimert Park, CA? Or upperclass Windsor Hills, CA?
Someone should make a law to break them up, right?
Comment by JHo on 11/24 @ 8:24 pm #
It’s not enough to be told what to think, Darleen, or even to be told what you think. You needa be told how to live as the consequence. SQEK can help.
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 8:24 pm #
I’ve got blacks, Koreans, lesbians, and gays as neighbors on my street. Good neighbors all. No Latinos at the moment, though there have been in the past and probably will be in the future.
But I’m a racist, dontcha know.
Caric, SEK, and Willie all live in areas so white that they’re practically transparent, but they’re not racist. Oh, no.
Comment by JHo on 11/24 @ 8:27 pm #
I think race-trolls have penances for that, SBP.
Comment by newrouter on 11/24 @ 8:27 pm #
i applaud detroit for its civic attitude
Comment by JHo on 11/24 @ 8:28 pm #
And I’m sure they have policy.
Comment by newrouter on 11/24 @ 8:28 pm #
i applaud baltimore for its civic attitude
Comment by newrouter on 11/24 @ 8:29 pm #
i applaud pittsburgh and cleveland for civic attitude
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 8:29 pm #
Robin of Berkeley’s take on Palin. It’s pretty harsh on her enemies, I must say.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 8:31 pm #
By virtue of living in So Cal, I live by and work with many Latinos. The neighbors behind me are from Argentina. My assistant at work is from Guatemala. I have a friend from Peru. My own grandsons have a Mexican grandmother.
But people being allowed to freely move about and live where they want? Little Saigon? Little Tokyo? Little Italy???? Oh no!! Disparate impact!! ELEVENTY!
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 8:31 pm #
I think SEK’s finest hour was when he called JD (who is actually married to and has children with someone of another race) “racist”.
That was a real thigh-slapper.
Comment by newrouter on 11/24 @ 8:31 pm #
i applaud demorats for making hell in every city of this cuntry. yo cindy
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 8:35 pm #
Yep.
Comment by newrouter on 11/24 @ 8:35 pm #
i need more ivy leaguers i tell ya. maybe more american idols
Comment by Plas Johnson on 11/24 @ 8:37 pm #
Do you know how many of you Palin supporters are ignorant assholes?
All of you are. I love watching you jump through hoops trying to defend the Alaskan quitter, the queen of fail.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 8:37 pm #
SBP
That’s because it is not enough to treat each individual AS an individual, to help them as an individual or hold them responsible as an individual and to regard their melanin-level as important as their eye-color…NO NO NO, you have to swallow the Leftcult dogma whole and unexamined to be authentically free from rascist taint.
Comment by JHo on 11/24 @ 8:38 pm #
From what?
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 8:39 pm #
Plas, meet hammer. Buh-bye.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 8:39 pm #
lord love the drive-by shitters like Plas
cause I can only feel pity
Comment by Mr. W on 11/24 @ 8:41 pm #
Leftists are happy to advocate for the poor…from a safe distance.
Note that the people from the movie The Blind Side who took a hulking black youth into their home were right-wing Christians, not Berkeley profs.
Berkeley people get the vapors when minorities intrude on their lilly white domain.
Leftists talk, Americans act.
Comment by Mr. W on 11/24 @ 8:44 pm #
PS: Obama is a nerd who is killing the Democrat party and all the trolls on this thread know it.
And it causes them to froth at the mouth.
Comment by JHo on 11/24 @ 8:47 pm #
Please itemize the planks in leftism’s platform, Tim. Go on.
Comment by newrouter on 11/24 @ 8:48 pm #
“I love watching you jump through hoops trying to defend the Alaskan quitter, the queen of fail.”
mr. obami how’s afghanistan these days. in need of “viagra in manchester uk” i’m sure
Comment by Mr. W on 11/24 @ 8:53 pm #
Based on ink and pixel-use metrics, Palin is the most powerful woman in America.
Re: her intellectual pedigree, ‘Death Panels’, anyone? She totally changed the dialogue on Barry’s signature issue with a facebook post.
Yeah, she’s an intellectual, and she frightens you folks on the left, and you hate her for it.
Comment by B Moe on 11/24 @ 8:55 pm #
65% white,27% black, 6% latino. My neighborhood is a little more latino than that, otherwise very representative. Very cool and laid back.
Comment by JHo on 11/24 @ 8:56 pm #
Please define intellectualism in the present context, Tim. Thanks.
Comment by B Moe on 11/24 @ 8:56 pm #
LOL! Says the serial cyber pest!
Comment by sdferr on 11/24 @ 9:00 pm #
Way OT
Neo-neocon wrote up a piece today called Obama’s on a roll — downhill, taking on his sliding poll numbers and public disappointment with his policies, his focus (or lack thereof on more salient matters) on health care they don’t want, and in particular the “Holder” decision to try KSM et al in NYC. She says:
Jen Rubin too touching on the unpopularity of the decision to put our enemies into civilian courts wonders aloud:
Me, I doubt the Congress will act to stop this nonsense and for the life of me, I can’t see Obama — no matter how bad the howling gets from whatever quarter — capable of reversing this awful decision for fear of the stupid light it puts him in. Can you?
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 9:01 pm #
“Tim”, I’d lay odds that you’re at least 20 points below the median IQ for this site. Maybe 30.
Comment by RIP Ford on 11/24 @ 9:01 pm #
“Why would we want to put smart people in charge?”
Wake me up when we finally get someone smart in charge, the current guy apparently couldn’t find his way out of a paper bag.
Comment by B Moe on 11/24 @ 9:01 pm #
From Tim’s link at 246:
Interesting research material Timmy.
Comment by Mr. W on 11/24 @ 9:01 pm #
An intellectual is someone who can tell you how great Cuba is compared with the United States, while the fact that, to date, no one has ever swam to Cuba never enters their mind.
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 9:03 pm #
Now, Mr. W…. people are leaving South Florida every day on rafts they’ve made out of trash bags they’ve stuffed with styrofoam peanuts. Haven’t you heard they have free health care in Cuba?
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 9:05 pm #
#248: Awww… isn’t that so kyoooot! Rilly isn’t allowed to smear his feces on the wall, so now he’s going to throw a tantrum.
How about holding your breath next, Rilly? Maybe for, say, 15 minutes or so?
Comment by B Moe on 11/24 @ 9:05 pm #
Timmy?
I think you might be on to something here. That reminds me of somebody, I just can’t think who.
Who does that remind you of, Timmy?
Comment by cynn on 11/24 @ 9:08 pm #
May I just say that is a fucking funny graphic. Darleen, if you did it I retract everything mean I ever said.
Comment by Mr. W on 11/24 @ 9:08 pm #
That black and white picture of Sarah Palin from the Miss Alaske contest is mind bending. You know the one, bare shoulders, looking at the camera.
Sigh…all that and an intellectual too? They have every right to hate Sarah since the light Mrs. Palin radiates makes their tired leftist tropes seem even more pathetic than usual.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 9:09 pm #
Tim, like “MikeT”, show up just to prove my point in the post.
Comment by newrouter on 11/24 @ 9:10 pm #
are there manchester viagra swiss cake rolls?
Comment by happyfeet on 11/24 @ 9:17 pm #
Hey is that a swiss cake roll in my pocket?
Comment by happyfeet on 11/24 @ 9:25 pm #
that’s not creepy
Comment by JD on 11/24 @ 9:26 pm #
Is there any evidence that “Tim” is not “willie the racist hilljack”?
Comment by newrouter on 11/24 @ 9:27 pm #
“Sarah Palin is intelligent enough to be President.”
asshat you just be qualified:
“No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”
Comment by happyfeet on 11/24 @ 9:34 pm #
The Barack Obama one thinks destroying cars creates wealth. He’s sort of a goddamn idiot.
We’re in big trouble here in our little country. Did you hear that the little president man’s car company what he stoled and gave to his illiterate UAW thug friends is gonna just shutter Saab? Losers. Idiots. Idiots and losers. It’s just incomprehensible how that dipshit thinks.
Hey JD Mr. Danger left a nice comment for you. here
Comment by B Moe on 11/24 @ 9:38 pm #
That was from Tim’s link. He is on your side, dipshit.
Comment by JD on 11/24 @ 9:38 pm #
Just say it. I know you want to. It is on the tip of your tongue. You obviously want to call him boy. I heard you say it.
What is it that ronnie minimus thought happfeet wanted to say?
Comment by B Moe on 11/24 @ 9:39 pm #
As was moron whose blog Tim was quoting.
Comment by B Moe on 11/24 @ 9:40 pm #
Christ, it is just no fun when the trolls are too fucking stupid to insult.
Comment by newrouter on 11/24 @ 9:47 pm #
Ronald Reagan – A Time for Choosing
Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/24 @ 10:03 pm #
“Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 8:39 pm #
lord love the drive-by shitters like Plas
cause I can only feel pity”
Not me. I only feel the backblast from his stupidity.
Comment by JD on 11/24 @ 10:04 pm #
Thanks for that, happyfeet. I would not have seen that.
Park City, UT is a great great great great town.
Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/24 @ 10:04 pm #
“Comment by Tim on 11/24 @ 8:45 pm #
“Intellectualism” with its concurrent conceit of superiority
You won’t have to worry about Palin in this regard.”
She’s much, much smarter than you, Timmah.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 10:05 pm #
cynn, the graphic is mine
Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/24 @ 10:06 pm #
“Comment by Tim on 11/24 @ 8:51 pm #
More power to the soccer moms! Screw the intellectuals.”
Marxism is the opiate of the intellectual.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/24 @ 10:11 pm #
you bet… I wish I had gotten out of town but work is … oppressive
Comment by happyfeet on 11/24 @ 10:14 pm #
So hey how bout that Sarah Palin?
I love her more.
No I love her more.
No for reals I love love love her more more more times infinity.
oh. Damn. You do love her more.
No I was just kidding we can both love her just the same.
Yes. Let’s do that.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 10:15 pm #
oh, look at that will you?
94.230.214.229
IP that “Tim” uses happens to be one of “thor’s” usual proxies.
who woulda thunk, since thor is as obsessive about Palin as Sully.
Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/24 @ 10:26 pm #
I wonder if thor ever got the professional help that I urged him to seek out.
Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/24 @ 10:28 pm #
I haven’t even read it yet, but had to share:
“Iowahawk Geographic: The Secret Life of Climate Researchers”
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/11/iowahawk-geographic-the-secret-life-of-climate-researchers.html
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 10:44 pm #
Here’s a simple IQ test:
Here’s another: come up with some new material.
Comment by calipygian on 11/24 @ 10:58 pm #
I promise I will stop using the racist term “tea bagger” and substitute the phrase “stupid fucking America hating cocksuckers”.
Feel better?
Comment by SBP on 11/24 @ 11:01 pm #
Feel better?
After trollhammering your latest sockpuppet? Yes, yes, I do.
Comment by Pablo on 11/24 @ 11:04 pm #
Have you seen how low a bar that is, Tim? Hell, you might be smart enough to be President.
Comment by Pablo on 11/24 @ 11:06 pm #
I haven’t seen anyone calling the Obama administration “teabaggers”, but that shoe your trying on does seem to fit. Do carry on.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/24 @ 11:11 pm #
happy thanksgivings, thor … I just googled callipygian (they have it as two ls) … which, that’s sort of just not really anywhere near what I was expecting that word to mean really.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 11:13 pm #
calipygian
what kind of derangement do you suffer from that you can consider people who ask that the American government follow the Constitution as “America hating”?
Oh.nevermind.
Comment by Darleen on 11/24 @ 11:53 pm #
ever see the movie Jesus Camp?
nothing more than an idol to the idle white christian redneck housewives
Good fucking God, the hits from the “We CANNOT allow certain Americans to vote!! They are not WORTHY” Leftcult just keep rolling in.
Thanks Trident for proving my point.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/24 @ 11:53 pm #
Have you heard of The Cat Empire? They’re Australian and not at all dour.
He be dancin’ like a monkey up a tree he says.
Comment by Trident AKA thor AKA HT and wants "teabagging" to be an olympic event because he wants to be a medaled catcher on 11/25 @ 12:09 am #
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20712.htm
True
Comment by Pablo on 11/25 @ 12:12 am #
Ah, that ridiculous principle of not killing one’s unborn children. Whatever would we do without “the truth” to show us the way?
You know, severely mentally disabled people can grow up to do big things.
Comment by Trident AKA thor AKA HT - all Sockpuppets of Sully's left testicle on 11/25 @ 12:17 am #
Pablo, do believe this country needs laws based on religion?
Comment by Pablo on 11/25 @ 12:17 am #
She’s got four? Zowie! I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone with 4 churches. One is enough.
Comment by geoffb on 11/25 @ 12:18 am #
Trident/the truth/Tim/thor appears to have the “t’s” be his bag.
Comment by Pablo on 11/25 @ 12:19 am #
No. Which is why we need to lose this ridiculous Cap & Tax scheme.
Comment by Darleen on 11/25 @ 12:19 am #
thor
I believe you promised someone you would never comment here again.
But then, I wouldn’t have put much trust into any promise from one as morally bankrupt as you.
FOAD, thor. Your nishi-ite hatred of “lesser-thans” and Sully-like sick obsession with Palin’s uterus is infamously well known.
Comment by Pablo on 11/25 @ 12:20 am #
Though you’re definitely too think to understand it, you’re absolutely right, snotty. Good boy.
Comment by Darleen on 11/25 @ 12:21 am #
snotty
Funny, but I don’t think “Al Gore” and “MoveOn.org” are Republicans.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/25 @ 12:23 am #
oh. abortion. On the one hand you have people who are for it and on the other hand some people are very much against it. But in the end they always come together in a spirit of mutual respect and find ways to accommodate everyone’s views. It’s a lot a distillation of our little country at its best.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/25 @ 12:23 am #
I just made that up.
Comment by Pablo on 11/25 @ 12:23 am #
I don’t think this one is thor. It’s just using a proxy and thor’s gone through a lot of them. This one’s not diseased enough. Yet. Then again, I could be mistaken.
Comment by Pablo on 11/25 @ 12:25 am #
See, even the trash talk is tame and lame. Unless thor is actually on his meds…
Comment by thor on 11/25 @ 12:27 am #
Isn’t Darleen a bit old to have her tits fixed? You know, like Carlin said, “all those who are against abortion are people you wouldn’t want to fuck in the first place”. so true
Comment by Darleen on 11/25 @ 12:28 am #
Pablo
oh, from the IPs it’s thor/HT/Jason/Tim et al. Nonsensical “smears” are a known M.O.
Comment by geoffb on 11/25 @ 12:28 am #
#295 does look like English is it’s second language.
Comment by Pablo on 11/25 @ 12:31 am #
A thor wannabe, maybe? How sad is that?
When I grow up, I’m gonna be pond scum!
Comment by Darleen on 11/25 @ 12:32 am #
Pablo
if it is a “wannabe”, what is the coincidence of stumbling across the same proxy IPs?
Comment by Pablo on 11/25 @ 12:35 am #
Yeah, I know Darleen. One of many proxy IP’s our departed ubertroll has used.
I’m just not feeling the lunacy. Again, it could be, perhaps his meds are in order. But it’s missing a certain signature.
Comment by Pablo on 11/25 @ 12:39 am #
Dar, how many proxies has thor used here? There are plenty of proxy server lists out there, and there are only so many servers. You could pick one at random and have decent odds of it being one he’s used. I know several of them have been posted here, and it could be one of those.
Or, maybe his shrink deserves a big raise.
Comment by geoffb on 11/25 @ 12:43 am #
Certainly much more thor like in those last two. Nasty, nasty, nasty and ugly.
Comment by geoffb on 11/25 @ 12:44 am #
Deleted thankfully.
Comment by Darleen on 11/25 @ 12:45 am #
Pablo
this last IP is 141.76.45.34
and the last “unapproved” comments are classic … slanders against my body. AFAIK what’s-his-psychosis is the only troll that stooped to that.
Comment by Pablo on 11/25 @ 1:21 am #
Don’t we all? ;-)
As for the proxy, Google turns it up all over the place. It seems popular. And our little psychopath is overwound as usual over at Dan’s. I dunno.
Comment by TehAss @ IP 94.230.214.239 on 11/25 @ 1:22 am #
Darleen, I think you need to suck thor’s dick.
Comment by RIP Ford on 11/25 @ 2:12 am #
How can you suck which is not there?
Comment by Rusty on 11/25 @ 7:11 am #
261.Comment by Tim on 11/24 @ 9:22 pm #
“Tim”, I’d lay odds that you’re at least 20 points below the median IQ for this site. Maybe 30.
Here’s a simple IQ test:
Sarah Palin is intelligent enough to be President.
True or False?
Have you taken it?
Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/25 @ 8:29 am #
Comment by thor on 11/25 @ 12:27 am #
No, no he hasn’t gotten the professional help I urged him to get.
Trackback by Acephalous on 11/25 @ 1:22 pm #
If you don’t take the shovels away from those racists, they’ll never quit digging….
Should you like more proof of the dynamic I described in the previous post, you can find it (and my substantial response to it) here….
Comment by McGehee on 11/25 @ 3:00 pm #
I see another brainless trackback.
Comment by B Moe on 11/25 @ 3:05 pm #
ROFLMFAO!
Comment by B Moe on 11/25 @ 3:07 pm #
I have a transgendered cat, Scott, does that make me cool enough to play with you guys?
Trackback by baldilocks on 11/25 @ 3:15 pm #
Shorts…
Stephen Green makes a sacrifice. Blackfive goes to the dogs. Obama is black. Velociman is not. Sarah Palin is scary….
Comment by Danger on 11/25 @ 3:19 pm #
I have to admit that was entertaining watching Happyfeet derail a thread at SEKs place.
Comment by Darleen on 11/25 @ 4:39 pm #
SQEK wonders aloud why I didn’t post my comments over there…but as everyone can see he diligently reads here to see what’s being said and if we noticed. That is why I took notice here.
And ya gotta love how he defends himself with cherry picking … poor baby is so kerfuffled he is now longer being coy but directly labeling me, you and everyone who dares show up at a Palin book signing a “racist”. He slams me for talking about where I work then puffs UCI’s student body is 75.5% non-white.
Sorry, SQEKer, last I looked the Left counts “Asians” as “white”. Certainly your own commentariat does since they think JD is a “racist”.
I work at a county institution that I won’t name for many reasons, not the least of which because of the sensitivity and confidentiality of it, even if I gave the address and you looked it up on Mapquest, it would not be listed … the “star” is almost three blocks from the actual institution.
Employees and others at my workplace number a total of about 350. MAYBE 20% is white.
And there is this interesting thing that SQEKer completely misses with his “OMIGAWD I see WHITE PEOPLE” hissyfit — how do you KNOW the person you’re looking at is “white” and not Latino?
What a leftcultist jerk.
Comment by B Moe on 11/25 @ 4:43 pm #
But his best friend is not only Black but gay!, Darleen.
Italics were his.
Comment by Darleen on 11/25 @ 4:51 pm #
B Moe
Oh, goody for him. #3′ daughter’s BFF from high school is gay. His mom tossed him out of the house when he came out his senior year. He came and lived with us for almost a year. (Thankfully they finally reconciled. Being estranged from a parent is not a happy thing.), but I’m still “Mom” to him and I love him like crazy.
#4 daughter was a founding member of her high school’s GSA. So SQEKer can take his Leftcult hairshirt and sit on it. He talks, I live.
Comment by SBP on 11/25 @ 5:03 pm #
But his best friend is not only Black but gay!
Ah, yes. “Some of my best friends are black.”
Where have I heard that one before?
Oh, yeah: from white bigots who don’t want to admit their bigotry.
Face it, SEK: you’re a pasty white liberal who crosses the street if he sees a black person approaching. I’ve got you taped, my friend.
Comment by SBP on 11/25 @ 5:31 pm #
BTW, SEK: living in a neighborhood full of liberal academics doesn’t get you any street cred, no matter what range of color they happen to be. A median income of $98K doesn’t really qualify as “the hood”, I’m sorry to say.
“But…. but… there’s a PAKISTANI on my street!”
Yeah, like, whatever, dude (sorry to plagiarize your trademarked bullet-proof rebuttal there, SEK, but it seemed to fit).
How many convenience store clerks in your neighborhood? How many people on welfare? How many ex-cons? How many crack houses?
But you know ALL ABOUT the daily lives of poor people. You’ve read about ‘em in books!
Dumbass.
Comment by BuddyPC on 11/25 @ 7:00 pm #
Pile on
38. Comment by MikeT on 11/24 @ 1:54 pm #
Palin represents t………blah blah blah……she’s not well educated. (Otherwise known as white trash).
Dr. Kissinger first met Mr. Habib in Vietnam in the mid 1960’s and recalled having been immediately impressed with his acumen and irreverence.
“I was taken to meet him by Ambassador Lodge,” Dr. Kissinger said in a telephone interview, referring to Henry Cabot Lodge, who was then United States Ambassador to Saigon. “And when I met him, he said, ‘I bet you are one of those Harvard smart alecs who knows everything.’ Then he told me to go to the provinces and ’see what was really going on.’ ”
….Then, according to those who attended, in a departure from his usual preoccupations with foreign affairs, he spoke at length about United States domestic issues, stressing the need for America to stand by its moral principles.
In fact, his diplomatic career started almost on a whim. According to his daughter, Phyllis, Mr. Habib had planned a career as a forest ranger. A graduate of the College of Forestry and Wildlife and Range Sciences at the UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, Mr. Habib was studying for his Ph.D. in agricultural economics at the University of California at Berkley when spotted a notice for a test to enter the State Department. “He decided to take the test,” said Ms. Habib.
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/27/world/philip-c-habib-a-leading-us-diplomat-dies-at-72.html
Trackback by Acephalous on 11/25 @ 7:37 pm #
You only notice I’m white because you’re a racist, Part II…
Instead of playing “Count the Non-White People!” with Sarah Palin’s photographs of her appearance at Fort Bragg, I will present some statistics about the base and surrounding community: White Non-Hispanic (52.9%) Black (25.2%) Hispanic (15.8%) Other…
Comment by BuddyPC on 11/25 @ 7:41 pm #
BTW, since edumacation, particularly of the finished credentialed variety, is such a prerequisite, HTF are George Clooney, Michael Moore, and Al Gore point men for almost all of the Left’s talking points?
Comment by SBP on 11/25 @ 8:00 pm #
#355: Translation: “I will now double down on the mendoucheous asshattery”.
Wake me up if you ever manage to find an authentic black person, SEK.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/25 @ 8:35 pm #
SBP, are you putting forth the notion that everyone in CA makes at least the median income? Because I’m not quite getting your point, there.
Comment by McGehee on 11/25 @ 8:38 pm #
I really do wish TrollHammer worked on trackbacks. You guys do realize they alone probably account for 90% of SUK’s traffic?
Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/25 @ 8:39 pm #
I mean, Scott lives on campus, IIRC. Dunno what on-campus housing is like at UCI, but at Purdue they weren’t exactly luxury digs.
Comment by JD on 11/25 @ 9:41 pm #
SEK lurvs him some minorities. He lurvs propping them up as props in his little mendoucheous arguments. Happyfeet drives Rich RACIST Puchalsky and Karl “I am not a pron-star” Steel bugfucknutz.
Comment by SBP on 11/25 @ 9:43 pm #
SBP, are you putting forth the notion that everyone in CA makes at least the median income?
Median household income for the United States as a whole: $50,233.
Median household income for California: $49,894
This ain’t the projects, even if he does have a Pockeeestawwwwwwwwwwwwneeeeeee neighbor.
Comment by Darleen on 11/25 @ 9:55 pm #
Slart
not to speak for SBP, but SQEKer’s libel against me and “my kind” is that we “support infrastructure that results in disparate outcomes.”
It is SQEKer’s claim that disparate outcomes is all the evidence needed to prove teh racism… so he chooses to work at a university where non-white or non-asian minorities are practically absent, certainly NOT in Leftist Approve Diversity ratios, so he is tacitly giving his support to an “structural inequality”…HIS definition of what makes a racist.
Ditto his choice of where he went to live. And he never did answer my challenge if his definition of “disparate outcome” applies to monochromatic and wealthy Windsor Hills (or Baldwin Hills). Certainly, they qualify as “structural inequality” in housing, too.
Personally, I could give a rats ass where SQEKer lives. People are free to take themselves to live where their bank accounts can land ‘em a place. Some pick areas for religious/culture reasons (Fairfax District, Leimert Park) or ethnic (Little Saigon, Chinatown, etc).
Little hairshirt SQEKer would have everyone believe I am teh racist because I don’t find anything wrong with the First Amendment’s right of association.
Let him live and by judged by his OWN criteria.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/25 @ 11:30 pm #
I’m not arguing anything along, or counter to those lines, Darleen. Just counter to the notion that because SEK lives in a certain area, he must make at least the median income, which seemed to be the conclusion SBP was arriving at.
Now, I too could question the company that he keeps, but that’d be behaving in a manner that you have already decried, wouldn’t it?
The Palin-is-a-racist argument isn’t one of his better ones, though; on that we agree. I just think it’s a mistake to engage him on that, because it grants the point some legitimacy. In that direction lies examination of contact lists, etc for the politically correct racial content.
Comment by SBP on 11/26 @ 12:20 am #
Just counter to the notion that because SEK lives in a certain area, he must make at least the median income, which seemed to be the conclusion SBP was arriving at.
Link to me saying that?
The point I was making is that this Champion of the Oppressed Minorities and TEH WORKING CLASS!!1!!111!! lives in an affluent, liberal academic bubble.
To be blunt: he’s talking out his ass about things he knows nothing about.
It’s funny how much the lifestyles of these HEROES OF TEH PROLETARIAT!11!!! resembles that of the classic nobility — little enclaves where you can find good wine, fine dining, orchestras, art galleries — all paid for by the tax money of the ignorant serfs (excuse me: “NASCAR fans”) they despise.
Comment by Prodigal on 11/26 @ 2:45 am #
The only derangement where Palin is concerned is that of herself and her supporters.
Comment by Rusty on 11/26 @ 6:53 am #
#346
Wow. That’s deep. Care to expand on that thesis?
Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/26 @ 10:09 am #
Well, that’s a slightly different point. I don’t know that UCI is particularly full of the fabulously well-to-do, though. It doesn’t sound Ivy League to me.
I think that’s just a baseless assertion, SBP. You know nothing about SEK’s background. For all you know, he grew up living in a poor, otherwise all-black neighborhood. Sure, it’d be funny and deliciously ironic if what you say is true, but those things don’t lead automatically to your painting an accurate picture of SEK.
Look: I disagree with a huge chunk of what SEK says about the Right side of the political landscape, but I think that’s just because he’s wrong, not because he’s a hypocrite.
Comment by Darleen on 11/26 @ 10:22 am #
Slart
an aside… the UC system in California is a ten-campus, taxpayer supported system that is close to equivalent of Ivy League. Certainly Berkeley and UCLA are the top two, UCIrvine is more medical oriented.
and while you certainly could be correct about SEK’s hypocrisy (no direct evidence), IMHO only someone that academically “knows” the melanin-enriched could blatantly call people who oppose a statist ideology “racist”.
Comment by B Moe on 11/26 @ 10:32 am #
I think Slart has a valid point, we need to be careful not to project stereotypes on to our opponents and create caricatures to argue with like they so often do to us. What SEK says provides plenty of ammunition by itself.
Comment by SBP on 11/26 @ 11:57 am #
For all you know, he grew up living in a poor, otherwise all-black neighborhood.
How much are you willing to wager on that?
Name a number.
Comment by SBP on 11/26 @ 12:09 pm #
we “support infrastructure that results in disparate outcomes.”
But, of course, living in a community with a median income of $98K when the gross per capita income for the world is about $5K doesn’t count as a “disparate outcome”. SEK’s neighbors DESERVE twenty times more than the average. That’s ’cause they’re SMART people who aren’t RACISTS!!!!!
Sorry, I know guys like SEK from in front. Too bad they spent more time on Marxist politics in grad school than they did on their substantive fields.
Comment by SBP on 11/26 @ 12:21 pm #
I mean, some might even discern the stench of hypocrisy in that 20x disparity.
Nope, nothing whatsoever hypocritical about that, or about calling people “racists” when you went to a school with almost no blacks, or about blathering about “diversity” when you live in an academic enclave that’s about as intellectually “diverse” as a column of army ants.
Slart told us so. I’ll just ignore those inconvenient facts, as I would someone farting in an elevator.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/26 @ 12:25 pm #
He’s from Louisiana.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/26 @ 12:25 pm #
Yes. That Louisiana.
Comment by SBP on 11/26 @ 12:29 pm #
So?
Comment by happyfeet on 11/26 @ 12:34 pm #
oh. Louisiana is a very dark place. Dark with ignorance and hate and poverty. It’s a thing.
Comment by SBP on 11/26 @ 12:37 pm #
David Duke is from Louisiana, too.
So is Ray Nagin.
I’m not sure how that’s supposed to exculpate SEK.
Comment by sdferr on 11/26 @ 12:57 pm #
So indeed. I know plenty of people from Louisiana and each and every one of them is different from each and every one of the others. None of them have the same experiences in life. They don’t share political outlooks or religious outlooks or skill sets or educational aptitudes or interests in activities or food or art or music or books or whathaveyou. Some of them are green. Some yellow. Some black. Some brown. Some pasty white doughboys. Some invisible even. One’s an architect. Another’s a builder. Another a business manager. Another a shrimpboat captain. Another a cook. Another a computer scientist and great bridge-player who worked shooting up rockets carrying astronauts. Another that guy’s wife, a homemaker and mother. A political boundary tells us not so much as we might wish it would. That said, I could give two shits about this Kaufman joker.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/26 @ 1:03 pm #
I wasn’t excupatating I was just saying he’s from Louisiana, which is very dark.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/26 @ 2:58 pm #
“For all you know” and “I’m quite certain that” have two distinct meanings. One is something you’d take wagers on; the other (the first one; hopefully I didn’t need to note that) just means that not only don’t WE know, WE have no way of finding out that’s not entirely stalkerish.
Oh, sure, you could say that African-Americans aren’t well represented there, but you can’t say that it’s a uniformly white-bread school.
Depends on whose ox is being gored, I imagine; with UCI being almost devoid of people who self-describe as black (or African-American if you prefer) you could point one finger, and then SEK could retort that you’re typically overlooking little brown folks, which only underscores your inherent racism.
Me, I think this whole issue of the racial makeup SEK’s school is just stupid. It’s not a conversation I’d want to participate in, from either end.
I think SEK’s argument regarding Palin is horseshit, too, but I think it’s deadequineflogging to bring it up with him because he just can’t/won’t see it that way. He’s predisposed to thinking that all Republicans are racists, just as many of his readers are. Kind of prejudiced, if you ask me.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/26 @ 2:59 pm #
It’s really an exercise in shitsmearing, and I try to stay away from those.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/26 @ 3:10 pm #
we should all sing Carin’s Mika song together all of us
Comment by sdferr on 11/26 @ 3:14 pm #
A funny for you hf, cribbed from Dave at AoS, thanks Dave.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/26 @ 3:25 pm #
that was fun I’m sort of sickly to where I can’t think of anything to add… I have a whole brand new box of lucky charms for thankfulness later…
Comment by sdferr on 11/26 @ 3:30 pm #
InFluenza? Or something else?
Comment by happyfeet on 11/26 @ 4:15 pm #
not sure but probably…. my first sickness since I quit smoking so it’s mostly fever and less coughing than before
Comment by JD on 11/26 @ 4:26 pm #
Prejudiced bigoted poofters, SEK and his band of angry haters what hate on his behalf are. Kind of sick, for people that fancy themselves to be educated thinkers. Turns out they are just pedestrian prejudiced bigots.
Get better, happyfeet.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/26 @ 4:46 pm #
thank you… I have lucky charms and carrot juice so I’m ahead of the game
Comment by Rusty on 11/26 @ 8:33 pm #
Push fluids and take some asprins also a shot of good whisky before you go to bed. Whisky is good for you, in moderation.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/26 @ 8:35 pm #
I need to some of that
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Comment by SBP on 11/27 @ 12:58 pm #
Slart, here’s the deal:
SEK discerns “racism” in the fact that there are few blacks at Palin events.
SEK voluntarily chose a school that has very few blacks.
Therefore, SEK is a big fucking mendacious hypocrite.
SEK should perhaps look into the fates of Robespierre, Trotsky, Ernst Rohm and spend some time reflecting on what might happen to him, should he ever do anything himself that his little Kiddie Koolaid Kult. But he won’t. He’s too stupid, intellectually dishonest, or brainwashed (pick one or more of the preceding) for that to ever occur to him.
I hope I’ve made myself clear, and I believe we’re done here.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/27 @ 9:03 pm #
You’re clear, all right. As I said, I absolutely think SEK’s argument is horseshit, which is completely consistent with thinking your counterargument is horseshit. Because they’re the same argument, really.
Of course, you’re pointing out hypocrisy, or something. I just happen to think the whole hypocrisy thing is a little overworn. Blame it on the tryptophan, if you like.
Comment by JD on 11/27 @ 11:08 pm #
Denying you are a racist is proof that you are a racist. SEK and Richie Puchalsky and Karl “CALL ME DOCTOR BITCH” Steel are your intellectual and moral betters. I know because they told me so.
Comment by SBP on 11/28 @ 2:09 pm #
Slart: their rules, not mine. More precisely, Mr. Alinsky’s rules.
Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules.
SEK’s attendance at a de facto segregated institution of higher learning would be subject to an automatic attack if it were one of his political enemies. Kettle, meet pot.
Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
I trust that the applicability of this one needs no explanation.
Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy.
I certainly got a good deal of amusement out of SEK’s weak-sauce rejoinders, e.g. “But…but…some of my best friends are Pocky-stawwwwwwneeeees” and “But…but…I went to school with actual Asians“.
These rules are designed to stifle debate, not promote it. Unfortunately for SEK and his crew of witchfinders, they aren’t really capable of anything else. They are Potemkin scholars, capable of nothing but catch-phrases and ad hominem attacks. I could write code to emulate them, I’m pretty sure.
By the way, it wouldn’t make a particle of difference even if SEK were black himself. That’d just make him a self-hating Uncle Tom sellout, you see. Vide Condoleeza Rice, Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, et al.
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