Andrew Breitbart on Hannity.
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related, kinda: over at the Pub, Dan points to fact check’s review of Obama’s press conference.
Andrew Breitbart on Hannity.
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related, kinda: over at the Pub, Dan points to fact check’s review of Obama’s press conference.
Look, you whipped our ass. Do you have to rub it in too?
I have been saying this for years: “Politically Correct” is Politically Communist. “Multicultural” is Multi-Communist.
You guys are gonna have to keep saying it. Because pretty soon I won’t be allowed to comment anywhere but here.
So when does the Proletariat rise up and smash the Bourgeoisie? And wouldn’t the first target be the University?
Yes, an internal audit shows that this message is spreading.
weird language thing… i can remember when i first heard the term politically correct, when i was in college the first time *cough* in the early 1980s. and at the time it was a playful, soft, sort of nerf like barb progressives used on each other when they saw someone getting overly freaky or obsessive about some pet issue. it wasn’t until after rush and bill maher (in reverse sorta) and a few others picked the term up and ran with it that it became sort of a doctrine. and so ugly in its heavy-handed enforcement outside of the little coterie where it originated. not blaming them. and not that those tendencies and that will to power didn’t predate the use of that particular (and catchy!) nomenclature. but when people in the media appropriated that term something changed. i wish i had the patience to tease it apart. FWIW
What else is cultural marxism is when you say hey you know what would be cool is if you paid my student loan and you work for Michelle Malkin and you still have your job the next day.
Bah. There aren’t any Marxists here, just con men using Marxist rhetoric. A good con can be based on anything complex enough.
Somebody on another thread quoted something about Lenin. Lenin’s great achievement was establishing the idea of the “Vanguard of the Proletariat”, the trained active revolutionaries who would actually accomplish the Revolution and then give power to the Bourgeoisie.
More or less contemporary with Marx there was the Fabian Society, composed almost exclusively of non-inheriting children of Privilege, third sons with no chance of being passed the family estates and the like. They had no intentions and no proposals to upset the established order, merely advertised that if they were given power instead of passing it to their elder brethren they’d be nice about it and pass some of that power on to the People.
So Lenin’s great achievement turns out to be expressing Fabian ideas and goals in Marxspeak. The result took hold in Europe, because Europeans have been for a long time what we are becoming — people who are willing to give power to anybody who’ll promise to take care of them and not require them to actually do much of anything.
The bunch we have now are soft Leninists, unwilling to get their hands dirty with messy bloody Revolution but perfectly convinced that they are the Vanguard. Marx would spit on them.
Using Marxspeak to describe what they are doing is a sort of second-order version of the mistake Jeff hollers about — it’s giving them credit for something they aren’t, and allowing them to pat themselves on the back for Getting it Right (or, rather, Left). They’re about as Marxist as the John Birch Society.
Regards,
Ric
Obama Mexicon? RACISTS!
POTUSTATO DAY?! I’M OUTRAGED!!!
You reckon there was a reason those old fellers who spoke English perfectly well all day wrote in that dead Latin language at night?
We have been, and will continue to do so.
Limbaugh ratings soar after “fail” controversy.
Rush thinks the strategy of demonizing him backfired on the Dems. I am sure some disagree, however.
St. Patrick drove the potatoes out of Ireland, you know, causing the Irish to emigrate in droves, causing the Chicago machine, causing Barack O’Bama. That’s fucking gratitude for you.
Joe,
We disagree, but we’re stupid.
One of those allegedly asleep-at-the-switch [Freddie Mac] board members was Chicago’s Rahm Emanuel—now chief of staff to President Barack Obama—who made at least $320,000 for a 14-month stint at Freddie Mac that required little effort. It helps to know the right people.
Perhaps there is something funny about this guy after all.
Gee…I guess if Breitbart says it, it must be true.
Drudge, Hannity and Breitbart: I hear they’re doing a 3 Stooges remake.
Can’t wait to hear Curley’s take on it.
‘Cause it’s teh ‘intent’ which counts.
‘cleo, why is there something absurd about you playing the authoritative card?
Oh, yeah. It’s because you don’t care about the truth. You are the weakest link. Goodbye.
Seems fitting that, tonight I decided to reset TrollHammer and rebuild my blacklist — and who shows up in the threads?
“It’s because you don’t care about the truth”
Your notion of ‘truth’ is the absurdum….touche’
the cast: pelosi, obama, reid.
Dan, check out Mickey Kaus’s site. You’ll see why Cleo is out. Going to be a busy night, eh Cleo?
I just reread 1984 and one of the things that struck me was that Winston Smith worked with a dude in the Ministry of Truth who prided himself on taking words out of the dictionary. He’d greet Winston and boast that he was able to delete X number of words that day, and wasn’t he happy?
If you remove a loaded term and replace it with a benign euphemism, you make it harder to tell the truth because the connotations and historicity have been stripped away. (Until the connotations re-accumulate on the word and they have to find a new euphemism.)
It’s all destructive whatever the case. “Terrorism” is a loaded term (whose meaning the Left has stretched out beyond recognition to include any act of war), so they have to use “man-caused disaster,” giving it the blameless connotation you would attach to a tsunami or a tornado.
Well done, moonbats. 1984 is a cautionary tale, not a how-to manual.
“If you remove a loaded term and replace it with a benign euphemism”
So you prefer ‘kike’ to ‘jew’ and ‘nigger’ to African American?
“Going to be a busy night, eh Cleo?”
It’s y’all who are busy at mischief. You just can’t stand to have a popular Democrat in the WH. Too bad you want the US to fail.
That strategy is of limited utility, however. Words generally come round to mean what they are used to describe. “Special” children, anyone?
“Retarded” was once the enlightened euphemism employed to replace other words considered cruel insults (idiots, morons, etc). People are at the rolling eyes stage of using “differently abled”.
“Undocumented man-made disaster worker” may similarly aquire a very negative connotation if it is used to describe enemy combatant terrorists.
“So you prefer ‘kike’ to ‘jew’ and ‘nigger’ to African American?”
Are you really this stupid?
This is Semen you’re talking to, Abe.
Yes, it really is that stupid.
I think Franco wasn’t so bad. You can tell because Spanish women remained pretty hot under Franco. You can’t say that for the East German broads (alleged broads). Plus, he fought Commies.
I really do love this TrollHammer app. Thank you SBP!
and you wanted iraq to fail?
You just can’t stand to have a popular Democrat in the WH
You know who else was popular? The Monkees. More popular than the Beatles, the Monkees were. Hey, hey, they were the Monkees.
Too busy singin’ to put anybody down.
Ironic, cleo, no?
Dicentra… remember the next step and ultimate goal of Newspeak. If there is no word for it, you can not think it.
This really is the nugget of what Jeff has been discussing. Heck… it is also the point that has most Americans upset at the pro gay marriage movement. Not the civil union, but the appropriation and redefinition of the word marriage.
“Hey, hey, they were the Monkees.”
Dat’s Raciss.
That;s stuck in my brain. Make it go away!
Yea, I’m really worried about his popularity sixty-days-in. Tool.
The kausfile item mentioned above is entertaining in it’s own right.
Makes me wonder about the behind the scenes emails of the “pragmatic Republicans”, though. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see how the sausage gets made on our side?
Twitter, as torturous as it is to actually read, shows the connections pretty clearly.
That;s stuck in my brain. Make it go away!
The screen is black
The type is white
Together they make his speech sound right.
The prez is black,
The speaker’s white
Together burn the Bill of Rights
A pitiful sight
Is it just me or does mygles rotate a little too closely to smeagol for its owner’s unkenning comfort?
And here we have a replay of the Clinton years yet again. Fuck what he does or if he commits felonies, if his poll numbers are up you got a winnahhhh!!!!!!
his poll numbers ain’t up. he don’t have billy jeff appeal.
Mr. Pink… look at the administration’s occupants. It really is the Clinton years again. They are pulling the strings at the moment.
Fluoride.
Cleo: Yeah screw you all meanies. I do not care about the Iraq war anymore or how Obama is continueing that war for oil and the killing of brown people. I do not care he lied to me about tax increases and the deficit. I do not care he is going to put your children, because I will never have any, in huge amounts of debt. Damn I do not even care he is snubbing our allies who have their troops dying with ours overseas. If his poll numbers stay up you guys lost!!!!!!
Planet of the Apes was popular when it first came out.
i wonder what O!’s poll numbers look like when the no dong lands in alaska?
Sad thing is I would take Bill Clinton over this ahole any day of the week. Shit I could see myself holding my nose less voting for Clinton than I did voting for McCain.
Yea, the “but, he’s so POPular” meme didn’t seem to apply to W when his approvals were in the 80s. But, this is leftwingers we’re talking about with those ever shifting goalposts and idiocy about how markets work.
Somehow I seriously doubt Cleo was in the popular click back in high school. I guess this is her chance to hang out with all the cool kids.
“Somehow I seriously doubt Cleo was in the popular click back in high school. I guess this is her chance to hang out with all the cool kids.”
Proggies never are popular as kids. Shallow, brain dead liberals can occupy any social strata but the lefty activist class is overwhelmingly wedgie bait. And still bitter about it.
Obama’s numbers are cratering. Badly.
Cleo, sweetie, African-American is the euphemism for “black” which was a euphemism for “negro,” none of which were coined as slurs. The euphemisms were not crafted to replace racial slurs, they were coined to provide a shibboleth: if you’re hip to the newest term, you’re OK, but if you’re not, you’re a racist.
Those other words you mentioned don’t get euphemised, they’re as ageless as the hatred behind them.
But thanks for the intellectual dishonesty. You knew exactly what I meant and yet you constructed a straw-man argument so that you could call me a racist.
Well done. Do you tell your mother that you do this? That you deliberately “misinterpret” someone else’s words simply because they disagree with you politically? Are you the person you dreamed you’d be or are you wrestling with the fact that you have no character left?
I love the smell of desperation in the morning…smells like…victory.
Comment by Semanticleo on 3/26 @ 5:32 pm #
#26 by Mz Cleo.
“If you remove a loaded term and replace it with a benign euphemismâ€
So you prefer ‘kike’ to ‘jew’ and ‘nigger’ to African American?
Jeesus. How the hell old are you? Grow the fuck up, already.
Planet of the Apes was popular when it first came out.
RACIST! Persecute! Persecute the heretic!
i hope the O! puts a “smart meter” on your ass to measure your brain activity
Where is the victory Cleo? Enlighten us about what is going on that is good for you? Seriously I am lost here.
cleo is pushing to boundary of totally useless. I prefer when our trolls are amusing.
“Are you the person you dreamed you’d be or are you wrestling with the fact that you have no character left?”
‘Wrestling’ implies great effort and energy depletion for the sake of the game. Why would I expend such effort if there were nothing to recoup. Your grasp of language has a hollow sound reminiscent of the empty gourd on Dr. Houses’ shoulders. Narcissism is DiCentra’s
ultimate achievement.
I just love TrollHammer.
who’s dr house then again who’s pat frey?
“‘Wrestling’ implies great effort and energy depletion for the sake of the game. Why would I expend such effort if there were nothing to recoup.”
Oh now I see what you think you have gained, the fruits of other peoples great effort and energy. Yes much better to sit on your ass instead of expending energy.
“I just love TrollHammer.”
Let me second that. It thins the field of idiots.
Can Cleo ban himself? How does that work?
cleo
if you triple the budget then claim you cut the budget in half is that logic one fry short of a happy meal?
“if you triple the budget then claim you cut the budget in half is that logic one fry short of a happy meal?”
That’s the classic liberal logic championed by RWR. I think Bush Sr. called it ‘Voodoo Economics’.
Cleo … wtf?
obama economics
cleo, you mendacious douchebag, baring your teeth because Jumbo-tron Obama is slipping?
BWHAHAHAHA!
It is an innate condition to the state of being Cleo. It is banned, therefore it is.
?
“Jumbo-tron Obama is slipping?”
Really? And your source is….Limbaugh?…Hannity?…..Breitbart?
Democrats
I’m mad…and that’s a fact
I found out…Democrats don’t help
Democrat think…they’re pretty smart
Shit on the ground…see in the dark.
They wander around like a crazy dog
Make a mistake in the parking lot
Always bumping into things
Always let you down down down down.
They’re never there when you need them
They never come when you call them
They’re never there when you need them
The never come when you call them down down down down.
I know the Democrats…are laughing at us
They don’t even know…what a joke is
I won’t follow…Democrats’ advice
I don’t care…if they’re laughing at us.
They’re never there when you need them
They never come when you call them
They’re never there when you need them
The never come when you call them down down down down.
They say they don’t need money
They’re living on nuts and berries
They say Democrats don’t worry
You know Democrats are hairy?
They think they know what’s best
They’re making a fool of us
They ought to be more careful
They’re setting a bad example
They have untroubled lives
They think everything’s nice
They like to laugh at people
They’re setting a bad example
(go ahead) laugh at me.
“It is banned, therefore it is.”
Classic liberal logic. “I fink, therefore I am jam
“(go ahead) laugh at me.”
Some say the definition of ‘sense of humor’ is the ability to laugh at oneself..
…and so Jeff, by refusing to ban Cleo, is essentially denying its existence. Hence its viciousness when it comments here.
(The vacuousness comes pre-packaged.)
Hey, Semen: did you show up for the ObamaJugend march last weekend?
I figure you must have, since the turnout was massive — a whole one person in my city.
He’s about as big a draw as Menudo or New Kids On The Bloc, Semen.
Rasmussen and Zogby both show Teleprompter Jesus cratering, and Gallup isn’t going to be able to keep up the lie much longer.
He’ll be in negative territory before Tax Day.
Count on it.
He stinks of FAIL, Semen. Just like you.
photographs at a public event
Goodness! I just realized that Semanticleo is Oelcitnames spelled backward.
TelePrompTer of Love! Say what?
TelePrompTer! Woo hoo hoo hoo!
TelePrompTer of Love! Say what?
TelePrompTer! Woo hoo hoo hoo!
You can’t mess up, I’m TelePrompTin’ you, baby!
You can’t mess up!
You like to read the TelePrompTer tellin’ you, child!
Promtin’ you is really wild!
TelePrompTer of Love! Say what?
TelePrompTer! Woo hoo hoo hoo!
TelePrompTer of Love! Say what?
TelePrompTer! Woo hoo hoo hoo!
You can’t mess up, I’m TelePrompTin’ you, baby!
You can’t mess up!
You like to read the TelePrompTer tellin’ you, child!
Promtin’ you is really wild!
I get it. You dullards are trying to bore me into leaving….
Oelcitnames, you recall, was Cratylus’ um, er “bottom.”
defending the indefensible is a tough job
“I get it. You dullards are trying to bore me into leaving….”
Is it working?
but then a hack like Semanticleo only does blow jobs
YOW!!!
You know who else had great poll numbers?
Hitler.
I’m sorry you guys don’t have other trolls to play with. Or maybe you do, I wouldn’t know.
TrollHammer™!!
You know who else had great poll numbers?
What about Saddam? 11 million to zero, baby!
Kim Jong Il did very well in the recent North Korean elections, too.
Robert Gabriel Mugabe. i denounce myself
Can’t we just skip over the whole Teleprompter President phase and skip right to the fully digital version.
I love Breitbart’s face, and his cri di coeur is so important.
I love the NET, but I really wish the Newspapers weren’t in the financial mess that they’re in. I haven’t read them for a long time because they’re so predictable and there’s so very little real reporting going on. They’re uninteresting and without any personality. I like to read Mencken to get a sense of what they could be like. Imagine Mencken at the hands of Jeff’s detractors? Their heads would explode.
Obama almost has to continue in campaign mode in order for his numbers to not tank precipitously. Rasmussen is showing him at at 48% for those who think he’s doing a good job handling the economy. Ditto for foreign affairs.
He’s insubstantial, and from the very beginning he seemed unable to really synthesize knowledge. That’s probably why he really needs his TelePrompTer. And that’s where Clinton excelled.
For all of Clinton’s defects he was still an American child.
My heart grows lonesome with the thought that the America I knew is dead.
What Breitbart speaks of ensnared Great Britain but good. It would be really good if we learned from their example.
Charles Murray’s recent address to the American Enterprise Institute touched on the need for America’s elites to fall in love with her again. He also said that as much as he worried about the problems caused by our balkinazation, every immigrant family he had encountered was “as American as apple pie.” I hope he’s right about that because if he is we then have a reserve upon which to draw.
I became a citizen of the US when I was 19 years old. My oath involved a renunciation of my allegiance to Italy. You know, and that hurt a little, but America, sins and all, has been one remarkable lover to me, and it makes me so sad to think we have a president who thinks it necessary to vivisect her. How else do you cure a congenital defect?
Everything was aligned against us in this election. Everything.
Murray’s address is worth the read Mary Louise? I’ve been holding off for some reason, though mostly just too much else has popped up to read recently. What say you?
Sd, it’s very much worth it.
Thanks, ML.
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I love reading comments from people that rarely post here that are actually worth reading. Thank you.
I’ll trade you back a pretty picture with not just one but two spacebubbles in’t. But get it quick, cause it’ll probably change in a couple of hours.
I caught a snippet of Glen Beck on the AM radio station on the way home today (he’s delayed in my area). He was saying that we, Americans, are entirely incorrect in our overview of right – left politics in America; that only those living in Europe are fighting right – left battles. America is more statism vs. anarchy; where statism is comprised of both the Democrats and Republicans, and both are moving in one direction, and the difference between the two parties is insignificant when you get right down to it. Our arguments should be with statism; with the erosion of our individual rights to the State, and the minimilization of our constitution. Empowering our government as the ‘solution’ to our problems is actually the entirety of the problem. Then I got home and turned off the radio.
That concept is still bugging me. If we are all sitting in a moving train that’s heading towards a long, dark, endless tunnel, does it really matter if we get there in the frontmost car or in the caboose? We’ll enter the darkness soon enough, unfortunately.
only if you think linearly
America is more statism vs. anarchy; where statism is comprised of both the Democrats and Republicans, and both are moving in one direction, and the difference between the two parties is insignificant when you get right down to it. Our arguments should be with statism; with the erosion of our individual rights to the State, and the minimilization of our constitution. Empowering our government as the ’solution’ to our problems is actually the entirety of the problem.
I think this is absolutely correct. The expansion of the West tells this tale beautifully.
Good Lord, how about the Donner Party? For goodness sake, think about what it took to make that journey, and to live through that hell. It’s gruesome, I know, but it speaks to a unique, American, indomitable spirit.
We are exceptional, or at least we were. And if we no longer believe we are, then I think it’s over for us. But, above all, we are an idea, and for those with children it’s imperative that you conserve and pass along a love for the Founding Fathers and principles and an appreciation for the eclectic culture that is America. Then they can pass it along, and when those first flights to another planet begin, it will be your children’s children, children who will board that Mayflower.
And for those of you who live near each other, maintain community. It’s really important
I don’t mean to depress with melancholy. I just can’t help it.
Hi Mr. Pink!
It’s all turns on people who are now children. Don’t think in terms of years but in terms of decades. Homeschool your children if possible in the right curriculum (you know which it is) or at least make sure you teach them liberty’s tradition somehow.
It’s all turns on the future children of people who are now children.
We’re going into the tunnel. Think in terms of second half of this century, something coming back to life. The conservative preserves what is precious and fragile. Bury it safely in your kids. Only hope at this point. It’s really a duty. At this point homeschooling is pretty close to a duty. Sorry to be a prig about that, but there it is. Impoverish yourself, if necessary, to homeschool your kids. No kids? Adopt some and homeschool them. It’s not only your duty to the future, it’s a precious gift to them.
Sd, thanks for the space bubbles.
So you’re like a guy I know who bought a bar so he’d always have one place where he wasn’t 86ed? ‘Course I don’t recall you ever puking on the bar and then passing out in the corner, but the night is still young..
Goodness! I just realized that Semanticleo is Oelcitnames spelled backward.
Speaking of backwards…
Who can stand these commies that call me a nazi?
Reading a Cleo-trolled post is a bit like reading Oedipus Rex. We know the story, we know how it’s going to end, yet we still sit there and watch an ego expand itself and then fail. Cleo’s posts are so un-engaging, so fingers-stuffed-in-the-ears-humming-Sousa that one wonders if they’re actually part of a graduate project in internet non-discussion. I mean, hell, Rasmussen’s been following Obama’s poll numbers like a nurse with a fever patient, but (s)he(?) remains in the bliss of January. It’s kind of awesome in a clinical kind of way.
“If you remove a loaded term and replace it with a benign euphemismâ€
So you prefer ‘kike’ to ‘jew’ and ‘nigger’ to African American?
The question is do you prefer Progressive to Useful Idiot?