Recently, in relation to a post on Charles Johnson, Pam Geller, Michelle Malkin and related, people criticized Geller for speaking at a conference, saying that she should have been more cautious about accepting an invitation to an event where representatives of groups that may be . . . connected with? sympathized with? by neo-Nazi organizations would be present. I don’t want to rehash that whole thing, but I find that I’m not quite done laying my jackboots into cuntslapping Perez Hilton. So, to quote myself citing Wikipedia on the Miss USA Pageant:
Some of the most successful national pageants in the last decade have been Venezuela, USA, Puerto Rico, India, Mexico, and etc which command consistently high interest and television ratings in their respective countries.[6]Recent arrivals in the pageant include China (2002), Albania (2002), Vietnam (2004), Georgia (2004), Ethiopia (2004), Latvia (2005), Kazakhstan (2006), Tanzania (2007) and Kosovo (2008); there have also been efforts to revive strong national pageants in South Africa, Canada, Spain, Japan, Colombia; Latin America among other regions.
There are continually efforts to expand the pageant, but the participation of some countries such as Algeria has proven difficult due to cultural barriers to the swimsuit competition, while others such as Mozambique, Armenia and Nepal have balked at sending representatives due to the cost (in fact, of all the major international pageants, the franchise fee for Miss Universe is the most expensive). As of 2007, only four countries have been present at every Miss Universe since its inception in 1952: Canada, France, Germany, and the United States. Many European countries allow 17-year-old contestants to compete in their pageants, while Miss Universe’s minimum age is 18, so national titleholders often have to be replaced by their runners-up. Miss Universe also prohibits transsexual applicants and age fabrication.
I’m sure Perez will be springing his question on Miss China or Miss Tanzania, and lobbying hard for the transsexuals. Aw, hell, just let them compete in chadors and we’ll get to their inner beauty, by which I mean progressive orthodoxy, won’t we?
See the problem here? Why does Gossip Girl hate the trannies?
UPDATE: First the Easter Bunny, then Santa, and now this?
UPDATE x2: via Sarah W., Gossip Girl as Bettie Page
Pam better never accept an invite to talk to the UN.
Or the US Congress, come to think of it.
So Miss USA has been sharing a stage with Miss undenazified France for an uninterrupted fifty-plus years?
She’s banned from my blog. All of her!
I don’t think Geller actually spoke at the aforementioned conference, Dan. Not to make too much of the teapottempest that Charles has whipped up.
She hasn’t spoken YET, but she’s apparently accepted an invite to do so. But since extremists will be there, that will make her guilty of extremistm by association. This is not to in any way be confused with association with former Grand Kleagles like Arlen Specter joining the Senate Democratic Caucus, or association with former bombers like Barack Obama launching his political career from Chez Ayers-Dohrn .
Hi Mr. Dan… I thought this what was under the thing about hate crimes was kind of heartening…
They CAN be taught!
“She hasn’t spoken YET”
Well, oops.
What a victim Pam is.
There are bloggers doing some absolutely heroic stuff in the fight against our common enemy, like Rusty Shackelford and Internet Haganah’s Aaron Weisburd, and then there is Pam.
When she is not silly, she is boring.
So, do I need to leave the country lest I be associated with Teddy Kennedy, or is one state removed far enough to remain untainted? For odious Elliot, must I leave home, or is Syracuse far enough from Albany to spare me?
There are a whole bunch of members of Congress who associated with various convicted and unindicted felons like Cunningham, Kennedy, Reynolds and Murtha. There are journalist who worked for the same newspaper as Duranty and Blair.
It’s not a very useful tactic, is it?
Wow, mcgruder. That sure is some industrial-grade refusal to give the woman a break.
While we’re being honest: mcgruder is being a lot of a dick I think. In biblical times, a well-poisoner would not be suffered to live.
The enemy of my enema is my friend.
Perez Hilton should be a judge at this beauty pagent.
If he can handle the tropical heat!
Saddama LeBush
rob, she deserves it. Plus, the right wing blogosphere is tired. If we’re gonna hit some one’s blog, there should be a just touch of value added, no? The novelty, whether its the terror or the tits, is gone.
Slart, if Im a dick, well, the bar, its low for you. FWIW, I think youre posts are pretty good. Shame we cant be friends.
hell, Ive been called lots worse by people who earn a lot more than you, or more accurately, their lawyers.
There’s my trouble. All this time, my blog has been subtracting value.
I don’t know about the whole goddamn right-wing blogosphere, but I know I’m tired of people speaking for me without asking first.
McGhee,
i am sorry. Youre blog adds value, wish it were a stock.
Athens? My daughter almost went to school there. Now shes at Auburn.
Just saying.
Why, thank you. Usually I try to keep it coiled up, but sometimes it gets away from me.
It’s a shame that your standards of evidence are so poor. You haven’t presented a jot of evidence that she’s merited the nazi-sympathizer accusations that have been leveled against her. I’d tend to take that kind of thing rather personally. It’s well-poisoning, pure and simple.
As I’ve said, I don’t have much regard for Ms. Geller, but she hasn’t deserved what you’ve heaped on her.
Athens was a visit; I never would have bought Chinese-made tires if I hadn’t been 100 miles from home.
Auburn’s where the cops found a car I’d had stolen back in — was it 2002? Swiped it right out of the parking lot at work because I’d gone to a job in the company van. My insurance agent in Georgia had to stomp on some Alabama adjusters because they wanted to be in charge of the claim.
I’ve sometimes wondered why someone walking through a parking lot in Riverdale, Georgia would break a window to steal a car and take it to Auburn. Tuition too steep, couldn’t afford a bus ticket?
Slart, I dont think she is a Nazi sympathizer and thought I went to great lengths to make that very, very clear. If I failed, my bad. I think you see Im not accusing her of hiding any 4/20 tattoos on her body.
the dudes who invited her had yards of baggage that you can really easily google, if by baggage you are inclined to think that Euro-Ultra nationalist platforms are distasteful. I do; some dont. I have to acknowledge that they are the only groups in Europe willing to bring up issues like immigration, islamism, law and order and such. Still, these fights can be won without them, i’d wager. If not, then I’ll concede your point. I guess I just cant come around to seeing how anyone could see these people as the good guys with what is known about them.
with a little more work, she could have picked off that some of the lot closely affiliated on the street level with her Pro-Koln buds (who probably seemed benign and friendly to her), were vile scum. So could you. She didnt is all that matters.
I guess its all a question of habit and taste. Its my habit to be pretty meticulous about this stuff; she likely felt flattered and a sense of solidarity.
Its nice you stick up for her honor, I suppose. Perhaps she will take something away from all this and learn to think. If not, then she deserves what is shoveled her way.
Charles Johnson is still a dork though what has weird creationism fetishes and such.
Thanks for (re-?)clarifying, mcgruder. Consider all (or at least most) of my annoyance with you pulled back in.
Don’t get me started on Riverdale. Speaking of Due Diligence, anybody familiar with Hugh Hewitts new Fair Tax Fantasy book? Wellllll, I listened to his appearance on the Michale Medved show on the way home from my game yesterday, (7 innings 1 hour, 7 minutes, I’m a field nazi so to speak). It was hysterical. If anybody is familiar with the fair tax, suffice to say that it does not propose to eliminate any state income taxes, state sales taxes, social security taxes, or payroll taxes. It proposes to introduce in the place of the federal income tax, after repealing the federal tax amendments, and a lot of other stuff, blah, blah, blah.
Well, ole Hugh gets on there, and starts blasting Neal (Boortz) and John Linder. Michael chimes in that the fair tax proposes to eliminate the social security and payroll taxes. Well, I say to myself, self? That’s not true! Surely Michael is just ignorant of the facts, because he’s supported it in the past. So, I called…and got through! And I said to the screener, Hey, Michael just said that the Fair tax proposes to eliminate the social security and payroll (Federal) taxes. That is simply not true. He said, he’d pass it along then hung up. So much for that civilized debate Michael likes to push, in which some commie bastard moron calls up and says he likes Michael because he’s a nice guy, but is an evil republican then, Michael thanks him for pointing out that Michael is different from all the other eivil right wing talk show hosts.
Well, I toodle on down the road a little more, and after avoiding the fair tax book with banalities about swine flu, the take a couple of mechanical questions which Hugh blows, then either Michael or Hugh adds that the Fair Tax is a value added tax (Look it up, if you don’t understand). Once again, not true. I’m pissed, I call again, I point out the three fallacies and shit for brain phone screener calls up again. After a couple more insults on Neal, and a mention that Michael has never spoken to a businessman who supports it, I call again!
I unload on the screener, who finally puts me through. I get about 20 seconds, and manage to get out the fact that it’s not a VAT, that social security taxes are not eliminated as or payroll taxes. I’m immediately cut off, none of that quality Medved give and take, then Hugh says he didn’t say it was a VAT (Fair enough, it was probably Michael, who has obviously done zero research), That Social Security taxes were not eliminated (At no point when Medved was misrepresenting the Fair Tax did Hugh bother to correct him), and he said that payroll taxes were eliminated. I did not get a chance to ask Hugh if he understood that people who do not pay taxes, do not get a home interest deduction, which is what he believes apparently.
So, in conclusion, Hugh Hewitt, and Michael Medved are cocksuckers. And that whole intellectual debate thing? Not so much.
There are serious issues with the fair tax, but they’re not interested in those.
Slart, you gotta remember that mcgruder’s first allegiance is not to the truth or honesty, but to the Conventional Wisdom.
The right and good thing would be to get Boortz and Hewitt together and have them debate, rather than have them debate each other’s fanbase (for want of a better word. Not that there isn’t a better word, just that it would require more coffee).
Well, he seems to have backed off of the neo-nazi supporter assertion. I’ll take my issues with him one at a time, and this is really the first time I’ve engaged him on anything.
What’s with the mcgruder hate? I don’t want to perpetuate it, but I don’t get it. I said earlier that Pam’s site isn’t really my d-cup of tea. She’s in my reader, but I hardly link over there, because I don’t find most of it very compelling. She shouldn’t care what I think, though.
Mcgruder disagrees with some of the things that I say, but I don’t think it’s because he questions my motives. I think Charles’s fixation on this stuff is kind of weird and overblown. That’s all. And he treats his commenters like donald got treated on Medved’s show. I don’t understand why anyone would listen to it in the first place, but then I don’t listen to a lot of talk radio.
No hate here, but I have to wonder about this:
How do you propose to win a battle in a place without the only people in that place who care about your side of that battle? Who does the fighting?
I agree that more extremism isn’t the answer, but neither is an ideological purity test that reaches to six degrees of separation. What would Kevin Bacon do?
Slart, I don’t think Hugh wants any part of that. Otherwise they’d have talked it out before. Neal says he hasn’t, I know Neal personally, I used to do all his computer stuff, he’s pompous, but he’s honest.
I think the whole soiree with mcgruder pretty got kicked off in a big way by this remark, from the Geehardon thread:
Which sounds a lot like a statement that Geller is a closet neo-nazi.
If not, well, I think we’ve got that all cleared up.
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