For me, this guy — a (now) former CFO and an “academic” — is the poster child for the enforced conformity and thought policing that is the hallmark of progressive activism. May he live in permanent infamy.
Whereas the Chick-fil-a drive-thru employee? Was the epitome of class, grace, and professionalism.
This video should be an objective correlative for the 2012 election season.
To me the best part is when he realizes that all he’s done is be obnoxious, his immediate go to qualifier instead of, oh, “I respect that you’re just trying to do your job,” or “I apologize, I just feel strongly about this,” is “But I’m not gay myself. I mean, those ass munchers are gross. Just, you know, any cause worth being a dick over is enough for me. That’s all the dick I need.”
heh.
Oh, and by the way, discount that you just met me and I was a huge cock to you with no provocation. I’m really a nice guy!
I love that you finally posted a link to this! I saw this last night and couldn’t believe this toad.
Bitch set him up!
a “lecturer” just like baracky
Mr. Smith is an Adjunct Lecturer at Eller College in Arizona and he also is the CFO of Vante, a catheter manufacturing company.
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I just did something purposeful?
I didn’t get through the whole thing. The driving douche should have been asked to define “hate.” He’d have tied himself in knots trying not to admit that he defines hate as “speech or positions with which he disagrees.”
It would also be amusing to tell the driving douche that he supports hate groups also.
ot another primary to watch
In the aftermath of Ted Cruz’s impressive victory in the Texas Senate primary on Tuesday, many conservatives are shifting their attention to the Wolverine state where another battle is brewing between the Tea Party and the establishment. Indeed, Tuesday’s Republican Senate primary there featuring former congressman Pete Hoekstra and attorney and philanthropist Clark Durant is starting to receive national attention.
Hoekstra, who represented Michigan in Congress between 1993 and 2011 has the endorsement of Governor Rick Snyder and much of the Republican party establishment. In fairness, Hoekstra has decent conservative credentials. As a U.S congressman, his lifetime American Conservative Union Score was 91. Hoekstra has also been endorsed by both Rick Santorum and Senator Pat Toomey (R., Pa.).
However, many conservatives see something unique in Durant’s candidacy. Durant is well-known in philanthropic circles for serving as the co-founder and CEO of Detroit’s Cornerstone schools which have provided a low-cost, quality education to thousands of children in the Detroit metro area. Durant also served as the vice president of Hillsdale College and worked in the Reagan administration as chairman of the Legal Services Corporation. Durant has been endorsed by a number of conservative heavyweights including Senator Mike Lee (R., Utah), Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.), former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson, and Steve Forbes. Today, the Tea Party Express is also going to announce their support for Durant’s campaign.
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Maybe he can look for a new job with purpose.
I love the faux-candidness, too. “I may just say a few words, too. Let’s see.” As he has the camera set up and running, and then aimed at the drive-thru woman.
Tool box. I hope he gets canned as a lecturer, too, and the only person who’ll give him a job going forward is the local Chick-fil-a.
Because nothing says intellectual superiority like slumming it over into fried chicken land and acosting a drive thru window minimum wager.
I mean, from the superior intellectual’s point of view. Did this happen in Murfreesboro?
Ah, no.
He is desperately trying to get YouTube to block use of his video.
A moment on the lips, an eternity on the intarwebz.
ot but related
Sheldon Adelson is the target out outrageous smear and innuendo for his crime of lavishly supporting the cause of Israel’s survival and conservative politicians. The campaign fundraising arm of Congressional Democrats bungled their smear so badly, they have had to grovel and retract what they alleged about Adelson in press releases. Anna Palmer and John Bresnahan write in Politico:
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee issued a public apology Thursday afternoon to billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson for charging that the Republican mega donor was tied to the Chinese mob and a prostitution ring.
“In press statements issued on June 29 and July 2, 2012, the DCCC made unsubstantiated allegations that attacked Sheldon Adelson, a supporter of the opposing party. This was wrong. The statements were untrue and unfair and we retract them,” the DCCC wrote. “The DCCC extends its sincere apology to Mr. Adelson and his family for any injury we have caused.”
The statement is an attempt by the Democratic party committee to try and make a potential defamation lawsuit go away.
So we have it on the record that official Democrat arms make false charges about their enemies.
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“He is desperately trying to get YouTube to block use of his video.”
Well, that’s what Daily Motion is for… >:)
Treacher @ DC has been all over this guy.
Too bad for him. Yes, he maintains the copyright. However, it’s now part of a public issue, and “fair use” applies.
And anyone want to bet this wasn’t the first time his employer had issues with him? You don’t fire executives for being douches, even massive, public douches. Heck, they manufacture medical equipment; firing a left-wing douche king CAN’T put them in good with the Obamacare bureaucrats.
This just makes me want to go the Chick-Fil-A again. In fact I think I will. I think my nugget levels are a tad low.
Communication in the modern political world is all about getting or sending a message you either pretend not to have received or even to have sent. In the latest installment of the Chick-fil-A saga the Los Angeles Times reports that gay activists are going to hold “kiss-ins” at the restaurant outlets, the better to emphasize how families are “being hurt by the company’s political and social activism against gays and lesbians”.
“We are encouraging those of us who support LGBT rights and LGBT equality to show up at their local Chick-fil-A tomorrow and kiss someone of the same sex,” said Carly McGehee, a New York-based political activist who started the idea for the kiss-in.
Gee, and here I was thinking that the point of the kiss-ins was to drive family business away from the fast food outlet. Tell me, do you have the decoder?
The world will keep going on that basis until one day everyone gets tired of the charade and pulls out the cheat sheet they’ve had all along. We most all of us know the truth, or can at least make a guess: the problem is facing it.
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As long as it’s a willing participant, go for it.
Of course, I brought home Subway sandwiches tonight.
I do wonder how they’d react if you had a video camera running and loudly cheered every time two chicks kissed. Really frat-boy it up.
Ha!
Heh, Rob. I’m sure you and a few buddies could make a stab at this.
I doubt there will be any “kiss-ins” around here — and me and my 30, 40-something compatriots probably couldn’t pull off the frat-boy act.
An opportunity missed. Call your nephews who are either in college or at least old enough to impersonate frat boys.
Crawford says August 2, 2012 at 6:39 pm
I do wonder how they’d react if you had a video camera running and loudly cheered every time two chicks kissed. Really frat-boy it up.
ha ha ha … that would be great.
But, i imagine that many of the folks showing up to do this … well, you’re really going to have to ACT excited, IYKWIMAITTYD.
Think Rosie O’Donnel.
It takes real courage to berate a teenage girl working a drive-thru window.
As for the kiss in business, CFA supporters should buy them all tasty sammiches.
Ya know, my son who just graduated college is in Pittsburgh. Nr, where are the Chick-Fil-As there? He’s in Mt. Lebanon so I can send him and his buddies to one of them.
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Restaurant Locator
– Well, that was special *chuckle*
– Chick kis A Chick A?
– Yeh that would really kill business for them. As in “We’re gonna need a bigger fryer!”
Thanks, nr.
Thing is, the Chick-fil-A folks will continue to serve the kissers same as anyone, but the kissers will never acknowledge the kindness.
I dunno, dicentra. I suspect the “kiss-in” folks will refuse to actually purchase anything, but will take up a booth and gross out the other patrons. When asked to leave, they’ll make a scene of it, as if they’re being asked to leave because they’re gay rather than because of the PDA and they’re taking up space that could be used by paying customers.
It would be funny if CFA gave them free nuggets and some tea or something, though. “This way you’re customers instead of trespassers. Have a nice day!”
You’ve always been able to learn a great deal about people by how they treat wait staff.
What a sweet young person. You could see her adrenaline start to pump just after the idiot’s “hate” attack, yet she controlled herself magnificently. Bravo, you do yourself tremendous honor young lady.
And the Pink Klan has filed charges against Chik-Fil-A in Illinois.
They’ll likely win, regardless of the evidence (or lack thereof) they bring. Illinois used their “Civil Unions and Religious Liberty Protection Act” against Catholic charities, so I imagine the state’s dedication to anti-Christian action is stronger than their dedication to the rule of law.
I wonder how many of the same folks raising hell about Chik Fil A were all for the Ground Zero Mosque?
Maybe they could change it to Chik Hallal in northern cities.
If we had any balls left as a nation every fast food restaurant in Illinois would close its doors tomorrow and tell the whole state to go fuck itself.
– Maybe its just my imagination, but I had an experience just thiis morning that might suggest that companies are watching the Chicky thing closely and are trying not to get on te wrong side in the hateful wars.
– I had an issue with an improper charge on one of my accounts at my bank and I went in early as soon as they opened to take care of it quickly.
– The first guy I talked to started with the double talk and I asked to see a higher up who continued trying to treat me like a 12 year old, and as I begin to show irritation and raise my voice after a few outright insults “that I had to this and I had to that, all of which I’d done over 2 months ago, she suddenly said ” this conversation is over”, at which point I replied “thats not all thats over”
– I went to a teller and pulled out every cent, and as I was completeing the transaction the original dude appeared next to me and informed me “he had found a solution and would I just give him another chance to explain”.
– I kept the money and listened to him and they had “discovered a way” mysteriously out of nowhere of a way to equitably solve the problem.
– While I was going through the process with him ‘Miss higher up insulting person’ showed up and profusely apologized.
– Maybe we should all be grateful for Mr. Chick fil A.
– Teo asides. The people I normally deal with were all busy or not at work as yet.
– I was not acting like a dick. When someone starts with the “you should have done this”, or some such thing and I carefully explain I did all that, and they persist, I see red. I don’t think anyone has patience with that sort of ass covering bullshit.
They’re just speeding up the civil war, Crawford. When the people tell them to fuck off, we’ll find out just how much of an impotent bunch of poseurs they really are.
The secret to defeating the left is calling their bluff and refusing to be shamed — and you can do that because you know, and you must know, that there are millions out there like you who will have your back.
Crawford
Really? I didn’t see any bats or german shepherd dogs at my local store checking the sexual identity card.
This is lawfare. Is Brett Kimberlin advising them now?
“I was not acting like a dick. When someone starts with the “you should have done this”, or some such thing and I carefully explain I did all that, and they persist, I see red. I don’t think anyone has patience with that sort of ass covering bullshit.”
havel power of the powerless
This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies: government by bureaucracy is called popular government; the working class is enslaved in the name of the work ing class; the complete degradation of the individual is presented as his ultimate liberation; depriving people of in formation is called making it available; the use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power, and the arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code; the repression of culture is called its development; the expansion of imperial intluence is presented as support for the oppressed; the lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom; farcical elections become the highest form of democracy; banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views; military occupation becomes fraternal assistance. Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.
Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence, or get along well with those who work with them. For this reason, however, they must live within a lie.
The fuck? In a legal document? You know what? Whiny, butthurt LGBT people are unacceptable. STFU. And sue me.
Further, someone seems to have confused Chick-fil-A with Dan Cathy. Are they possibly that stupid? I’m keeping an open mind.
When I got my dinner last night and was crossing the parking lot a car slowed down behind me and the guy rolled down his window to shout at me “Hey! Your chicken is a fag!”
Which stunned me a moment too long and he sped off before I could ask him what the hell that was supposed to mean?
Yes. This is why they’ve been so desperate to stifle Limbaugh since he went national. Remember the strongest reaction to Limbaugh wasn’t to parrot him, but rather “finally! someone saying what I’ve been thinking!”
And the Internet as well — there are active campaigns to destroy even the least conservative venue. They’ll send in mobys to plant things they can use to smear the community; they’ll cut-and-paste pages and pages of worthless BS to disrupt the discussion; they’ll head in to abuse the regulars, start fights, and drive people away.
And the Tea Parties! Oh, man! Community and activism and political savvy?! It must be destroyed at all costs!
The longings for the days of the Big Three news networks are really longings for when conservatives couldn’t connect with one another. They think they can abuse us back into isolation; it worked in the 70s, didn’t it?
Unfortunately for them, the sins they want to shame us with are ones we’ve not committed.
Pride goeth before a pratfall: UA Statement Regarding Former Adjunct Lecturer Adam Smith
We’ve let it work for the jihadis.
Yes, they are.
Perhaps he was British and believed it was smoked chicken?
Faggot chicken or no, I’ll bet it was tasty.
“I do wonder how they’d react if you had a video camera running and loudly cheered every time two chicks kissed. Really frat-boy it up.”
And each time two dudes kissed have the frat boys get quiet, kind of look away and say ‘eww’ or ‘gross’ just barely loud enough for the kissers to almost not hear. Make a grossed out face and look away. Ham it up.
You know it would piss off the Lavender Mafia royally.
– There are always people Dar that will pounce on this sort of bullshit to try to capitalixe and get face time for their own pet prejudices.
– The Left is trying to use the old Marxian trick of stirring up the tiny percentahe of true nutbags and use their unrepresentative actions to paint the Tea party with. Witmess the capricious kneejerk attemps to attach any nut case that comes along to the party. Its obvious what they are trying to do.
– Its all they’ve got. Fuck them.
you should read havel. these aholes are 1970’s commies. battle back as he defined them.
– The best way to ‘battle’ them is to remove them from any power, both national and local, and while you are at it make sure any pols that are running for office in the future see clearly its over for the Progressive movement.
– If certain demographics decide to force the issue, let them. The sooner its settled the better.
If you ever see a rooster on top of another one, in furious motion, they’re not having sex. They’re trying to disembowel each other.
Oh, another sign that things have changed — last year I went to the local (*snort*) “Dick’s Sporting Goods” while looking for a Mini-14. “Nope, sorry. Corporate policy not to carry semi-automatic center-fire rifles within so many miles of a metropolitan area.”
WTF? Oh, well. No business for them.
Tonight, I stop in and find they have a dozen AR variants, accessories for same, and all in calibers larger than .22LR. I suspect Wal*Mart getting back into the gun business made corporate change their policy.
And they had the 10/22 takedown I was looking for.
An inherent aspect of fascist economies was economic dirigisme,[4] meaning an economy where the government exerts strong directive influence, and effectively controls production and allocation of resources. In general, apart from the nationalizations of some industries, fascist economies were based on private property and private initiative, but these were contingent upon service to the state.[5] …
Once in power, fascists usually adopted whatever economic program they believed to be most suitable for their political goals. … Stanley Payne argues that while fascist movements defended the principle of private property … a common aim of all fascist movements was elimination of the autonomy [of private businesses].
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from the above link donald writes:
Of course there are “Totalists” on the Right, too. IMO, Rick Santorum isn’t far from it.
really harry reid, effin’ prove it you idiot.
Yeah, newrouter, I nearly couldn’t unroll my eyes after reading that.
– One of my distant cousins on my mothers side was old “give me liberty or give me death” hisself.
– So it doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to devine where my loyalties lay.
– I doubt the Left has any notion of the hornets nest they’ve stirred up.
– Or then again maybe they know they have the perverbial Tiger by the tail and don’t know what to do to escape getting eaten.
More tigers? Now I want pacakes tomorrow.
– * snort * . We’ll have to go easy on the Tiger references. :)
I nearly couldn’t unroll my eyes after reading that.
anti santorum is code for: pro gay marriage
Almost True
August 2, 2012 – 3:48 pm – by Richard Fernandez
RE @Pablo 8:17…I wonder if UofA recalls the last adjunct professor that caused ’em a bit of public butt-hurt ?
This by, wait for it …
George Will
whoa
George Will should stick to talking about the Red Sox.
leigh
Will is actually waxing enthusiastic about Cruz AND Tea Party.
I’d say that was pretty damned good
I wonder how many pounds of Gaia-murdering CO2 his car emitted while waiting to have his precious moment berating a minimum-wage-earning, justifiably perplexed employee?
– To little too late Will. You already screwed yourself as a squishy into the Progressive wall of “helpfulness”.
– Interestingly enough, 1912 was the same year of the IWW attacks on the small sleepy town of San Diego. Another time when the misfits of society, under the leadership of one Emma Goldman, the so called “mother of American Socialism”, thought the country needed “transforming”.
– She ended up in exile in Canada where she died, alone and forgotten.
What BBH said. Will was having a stopped clock moment.
To little too late Will.
Aw, BBH, I’m a believer in redemption.
You’re a better gal than me Darleen.
– Darleen. In the old days he would have been branded a ‘carpet bagger’, and shunned for his attempts to mediate things that were totally against the Republic.
– Not a question of redemption really, a question of trust. You dare not turn your back on a squishy. Even if their motives are good they indirectly support the enemy. It really is a form of cowardice, born of fear.
– And I used to sort of like Will.
– Everyone should send the good rev Wright an email congratulating him for being right on at least one thing.
“The Chick-fil-A’s are indeed coming home to roost!”
BTW, hubby and I are planning to visit ChickFilA tomorrow to see if any kissers show up.
We’re planning to annoy them with kindness. Buy them a drink or waffle fries, hand it over to them with a smile and let them know we just gave money to CFA in their name.
– * Ouch *. You are a sweetheart Darleen, but I think theres a few thorns under those rose leaves. :)
Gabby Douglas after her gold medal win in gymnastics
Goodness, which progressive asshole will whine that she should’ve shut her big mouth?
– Yahoo, in the usual deep penetrating seriousness of the ZOMG crowd, had a piece on her hair today, and all the B;ack ladies picking at her for her lack of “doo”.
– Ah the feckessness of youth.
@Darleen: Bring one of those tablet-sized whiteboard pads and give them ratings.
“2.6. Really, you two are just phoning it in, aren’t you? Show some genuine affection and not just rubbing your lips together hoping it’ll freak the mundanes. Sheesh!”
Well I just had Chick-Fil-A two days in a row. I think I’m going to lay off for a week as I’m a little sick of it now. I think I’ll give that Texidelphia place another go again tomorrow. I enjoyed the cheese steak last time I ate there.
– So then, will Harry’s bullshit manufactured fued with Romney be enough to deflect the CBO’s upcoming bomb drop on Jug ears.
– Stay tuned sports fans.
– Romney just told Reid to put up or shut up. and Reid is toughing it out saying he has the goods.
– The timing of all this is precious.
Youtube was blocked at work, so I could only see this until now.
“Always tastes best when it’s full of hate.” -well, then you shouldn’t have ordered just a water, twit.
I’ve had jackasses like this on the phone at my help desk job. No, no political stuff, just…. incredible douchebaggedness and wondering why their problems weren’t solved instantly because they’re important and therefore it must happen.
“I just can’t stand the hate.” -then stop, twit.
Way to go Rachel. Yes, she deserved better, though not what the twit presumed.
Doesn’t matter, it was purposeful! Truth to power!
[…] don’t know how you live with yourself and work here. I just did something really good. I feel purposeful. I’m really a nice […]
Appropriate that for as big a pussy & asshole as this guy is his catheter manufacturing company fired him.
As for the kiss-ins, you’re telling me I get Chick-fil-a nuggets, waffle fries, and lesbians making out? Cout me in!
I didn’t need to see the whole thing. I could tell he was a tool by those glasses. I wonder why the leftwing douchebags always wear those style of glasses.
He’s making the right noises, but it doesn’t necessarily mean anything except, possibly, to him.
Patrick,
Back in my days on the help desk, we told the caller this was an “ID Ten T” issue and that someone would get back to them asap. Amazingly, they never figured it out (id10t)!
Steph, at my shop we told them it was a PEBCAK error.
Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard.
Heh. I hadn’t heard that one, SDN.
Back in my car fixer days we used to speak of the steering wheel/brake pedal linkage. Heh.
Back on topic, poor widdle Adam Smith is amazed to find that the internet hates preening douchebags and so does his former employer.
“I’m a nice guy, by the way… totally heterosexual. Not a gay in me, I just can’t stand the hate.”
“Really? And here I had you down as a run-of-the-mill liberal cock-sucker.”
I have to give him the side-eye, too for mentioning his special needs adopted kids. Most people who adopt don’t say that. He’s looking for props for his do-gooding. “See? I adopted these kids no one else wanted! Because I’m a touchy-feely guy who cares more than you!”
Jeff, correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t University of Arizona where the Frischole used to work? Obviously their reach has continued to exceed their grasp….
The University of Arizona has long been voted the #1 party school in the country. Needless to say, they are not revered for their scholastic merit.
Dumb girls I went to high school with, went to UA to score an MRS degree.
Unfortunately, even if our customers never figure out “ID10T” or “PEBKAC” our bosses will.
Though stupid customers are easier to deal with than tools like this.
What a dipstick. At least a couple of quarts low.
The non-apology, apology video.
This guy needs to stay off of you-tube for a while.
Advice for Mr. Smith:
Stop being a cam-whore. Move on. The world is not all about you. You are not riding a tide of inevitable history at all. You are not fighting Nazis. What you are doing is calling people like Rachel the equivalent of NAzi collaborators. This makes you look like a hysterical clueless asshole.
Think about why your smug, obnoxious, vainglorious attempt at heroism was not widely celebrated. You were a bully and you sings-onged a bunch of threatening nonsense at a stranger who was trying to serve you and aline of people food. Think about why that is ineffective and change your actions in future accordingly. You can still hold your opinions. Just don’t express yourself like some self important douche bag who can do and say whatever he wants because less than 1/4 of the country thinks you are right.
Learn to see past your own childish contempt for the other side. Try to understand your opponents and find the value and dignity in their position. If you can’t then you are not smart enough for an advocacy role. You’ll never impress people by being a judgmental, one sided, childish, taunting little asshole. NEVER.
in fact, you are setting the LGBT agenda back by acting like a twerp. You are courting the backlash you complain about. Until you know how to comport yourself as an admirable respectful adult you will NEVER be worth a shit at suasion tactics. A man who behaves shamefully himself will not be able to successfully shame others no matter how grandiose he thinks his message allows him to be.
Grow up before you make a career of shouting down other grownups. They won’t put up with your nonsense. They won’t back down. They won’t cringe. They don’t care if you sit-in with a bunch of high school twerps who weren’t even born yet when sitting in was a real form of protest. They won’t care if you don’t like them, when they KNOW that they don’t like or admire you.
GROW. Don’t declare yourself grown. That won’t even impress the other twerps on your side. Grow. For real. Or give up. Stop acting like a little fascist apparatchik who wields authority. You don’t.
Adam Smith you are so DUMB!!!
In the event that you don’t recognize Antoine Dodson, some background here and his breakout moment here.