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Who, John Kerry?
Not enough sweat and sparklies.
I am unconvinced.
He could be fumbling underground for a monogrammed PEZ Lightning bolt dispenser, though. Get his arms free, that would be the clincher. Or, some kind of horse nearby.
He can’t the one they’ve been waiting for; no ears.
He’s certainly left-leaning.
Okay, so the white folks have their “bitter guns and butter” or “disgruntled religious klingons clingers” or whatever they were fucking highly offended about. And now black people can get equally fucking offened about curious, banana-eating monkeys (the guy neglected to put a bone through the monkey’s nose and put a spear in the hand unoccupied by a banana…I deduct points for that).
I know that white people have a long history of calling black people apes, monkeys, gorillas in the mist, etc. However, Bush has been called a chimp for as long as he has been a public figure. But, I doubt even I would have called him a chimp if he were black (though he really does look like one) just because that would be quite gauche. However, I am neither offended nor surprised about this monkey business. I don’t know what to think (so I have elected to giggle instead).
Oy, this election is going to be too damned funny. I can’t wait for the “I was using porch-monkey in a purely ironic post-racial way.” So delightful!
The Easter Island picture is exquisite! I can totally see the resemblance. (O’Brain, it could be Kerry too).
I think people in general have a long history of calling each other monkeys. We are of the same family, so I don’t see what the big deal is. But don’t get me started on spear chuckers.
Porch monkey? Its cool, we’re taking it back.
Or is it this Spear Chucker, Pablo?
God help me… but when I look at that big stone head I can’t help but see the look on Obama’s face when the reporter interrupted his waffle… Does that make me a racist?
Amanda’s book reminded me of this, actually.
PORCH MONKEY 4 LIFE !!!
Lisa – slight difference in that on the one hand you have the actual candidate saying stupid insulting things about a group of people and on the other you have some idiot with a t-shirt.
As it stands right now, I’d rather vote for the giant easter island head than for any of the actual candidates.
the left is doing some of their own Obama “racial imagery” of their own
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/14/hillary-on-situation-room-cnn-1-pm-est/
Clerks 2 take on Racial Slurs is to funny not to share..
Porch Monkey
Hahaahaha! It cant be saved, Randall!
According to Wright, alligators, crocodiles, and piranha swam through New Orleans in the wake of Katrina.
Nothing about the frickin’ sharks with frickin’ laser beams, however.
Oh Jeffersonian.
>sigh
(O’Brain, it could be Kerry too).
Put Kerry’s picture up there and it’ll be a “Separated At Birth?” moment.
Pretty soon the only way they’ll be able to avoid offending anybody is to go off an live alone in a cave. I hear it’s pretty easy.
Um, I’ve got somebody from GEICO on line three. He sounds pissed.
I’ll take your word for it, Lisa…he doesn’t do a thing for me.
I think that’s the healthiest reaction anyone can have.
#19: LMAO!!!
The horror!…The horror!..
What’s that? Wrong Kurtz?
/sorry
I loves me some trunk monkey.
Tsk9,
WHY AREN’T YOU ENTIRELY IN THE TANK FOR OBAMA? FUCKING 10%ERS!
I loved the guy in the video clip who thinks we should ask Martin Luther King what he thinks about the shirt.
My guess would be “BRAAAAAIIINNNNS.”
I hate to stand up for the bad guys, or gals in the case of Ms. A. but was the cover of her book racist because there are no dark skinned natives in the jungle or what? The title is it’s a jungle out there and a pulp fiction jungle scene is depicted…sorry just don’t get the racism here. Now, if we’re talking hypocrasy because it would definitely be racist if the same book was written by Ann Coulter, well I get the problem there.
….don’t forget how the Irish were depicted during the Great Wave.
Uh, let’s try that again.
I quit. Just trust me, out there all over the nets, there are really cool pictures depicting Irish immigrants as ape-like.
Really. It’s just that my PC-fu sucks.
So Obama is a Messiah incarnate, pretty cool that, eh. Chicks probably dig that.
Porch monkey is racist? How about yard ape? Rug rat?
Here you go, Cowboy.
And don’t forget Magilla Gorilla.
I have seen many queries about the appropriate non-human primate imagery to use when referring to black Americans. If you are wondering what jungle-animal/primitive savage characterization you could wittily use on the locals should you nip down to South Central Los Angeles, West Baltimore, or South East DC for a game of pick-up basketball with the fellas, here is the rundown:
Yard Ape: Asking to be tutored in the Way of the Fist.
Porch Monkey: Begging to be slapped like a runaway Russian whore.
Anything pithily invoking a gorilla: Ass whipping will shortly commence upon verbalization.
Spear Chuckers: Have your health insurance card ready.
Thank you for your inquiries.
How about “Coconut Gumby”?
So, I guess “ghetto goblins” is right out?
Seriously, I have only heard those terms used in the context of someone’s, usually a friend’s, children. The progression goes rug rat, porch monkey, yard ape. I can’t recall ever hearing them in a racial context, are they really ever used that way?
Quite frankly, I think they’re considered unacceptable only because they refer to primates.
Anything using “orangutan” should be okay because that species is from Asia — but you can’t count on geographical hair-splitting in a day and age when “niggardly” is a racial slur.
B Moe: Rugrat is definitely a fond little euphamism for kids. I have never heard that one used in a racist context either. But porch monkey and yard ape are definitely commonly used to refer to black folks (porch monkey is a favorite in Baltimore – the white guys sitting on their porches drinking beer in Dundalk like to refer to the black guys sitting on the porch drinking beer in Cherry Hill as porch monkeys).
Articulate is offensive and racist as well. Just ask O-Dub, King of the Twinkies. Also, spear carrier. And, inexperienced. And, Kyoto.
McGehee: Don’t remind me of that painful chapter in Anals of American Stupidity. That wound is not yet healed. I have to take a Xanax whenever I think of it (and restrain myself from seeking out and beating the former mayor who indulged those fuckwits by firing the poor, well-spoken man). Did you ever read Roth’s “The Human Stain”? The event that sets the narrative rolling is an English professor wondering out loud about two students who had yet to show up for class: “Are they wraiths? Perhaps spooks?” Turns out the absent students were black. You can guess at the absurdity that ensues. It was a fantastic book – and obviously portentous.
Oops, I meant “Annals”. But I suppose the the Assholes of American Stupidity is just as appropriate.
#41: O-dub is very articulate. And yes, he has been photographed carrying a spear. And he should chase your screaming ass down the street with that very sharp item for calling him King of the Twinkies.
;-)
Lisa – I was going to call him the posterboy for liposuction and gastric by-pass.
That’s a big poster.
#45: Wait..I thought you were referring to Obama when you said O-dub but he is not a fattypigfatty. Who are we talking about here? Gore? Kennedy? Jonah Goldberg?
Oliver Willis, Lisa. O-Dub. Like silly putty to stupid.
http://www.oliverwillis.com/
Dan – Don’t you just feel icky even typing that combination of letters? Racist.
Lisa – If you have not become acquainted with the Superman of Teh Stooopid, I highly recommend you do so. Actually, it will give you a little insight into some of your fellow travelers, Media Matters, Soros groupies in general, and fat stoopid people in particular.
I’ve heard my brother use “yard ape” to refer generically to kids, with the connotation of jumping and running around and swinging from tree branches — something he and I and our friends had been known to do when we were kids. Although our circle of friends was what some today would called Teh Diverse™, most of our friends were of the same race as us.
Of course, as I am often told, “anecdote” is not the proper singular of “data.”
Heh. In the context of the comment, I for some reason just read that as “Thank you for your injuries.”
#49-50: Ohhhhhhhhhh. I know who he is. Once someone linked to him on some issue. I can’t remember what the item was, but I was turned off by the hysterical leap in logic that he took. I am sure I was probably in agreement in principle. But I find it tedious and uneccessary to abandon reason and caper around like a fool because you believe you are right. I had the same experience with that crazy bastard over at Americablog. I mock Jonah Goldberg for his Adventures in Logical Fuckery (Nazis were healthnuts; liberals are healthnuts = liberals are Nazis) so I can’t very stomach it when Aravosis or Willis does the old “Mussolini had a floppy-eared dog; Bush has a floppy-eared dog = Bush is a fascist” trick.
#52: hee hee.
I suspected that a reasonable Left-Lib such as yourself (I never thought I would admit that such a thing existed) would like The Prince of Pork Rinds, The King of Kandy Korn, the Lord of Lard, and the Titan of Twinkies.
Lisa: #35 caused me to snort so violently that I cleared my sinuses and silenced my headache.
The cleanup, however, will take hours. ;-)
This has been one of the funniest threads in quite some time. Thanks to you all and, especially, Ouroboros for the Porch Monkey Clerks II clip. Hee-Larious!
Now where did I put the bleach?
#56: BJ always happy to be of service. I agree with you. This has been a ridiculously funny thread.
It’s always nice to have an appreciative audience, Lisa.
How can one NOT appreciate such an exquisite turn of phrase such as “The Prince of Pork Rinds”? I have been chuckling at that for at least a couple of hours.
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