Almost a tech fall but not quite. Too bad. Would have made the domination that much more complete.
I post this here for several reasons, first, because the people voting it down on YouTube are precisely the types who love them some Daily Show and believe they’ve cornered the market on contemporary humor (well, save for the redneck variety, which they sneer at); and secondly, because the disclaimer attached to it on YouTube speaks to a point I made in my first post today. To wit:
This video was made for comedic purposes only. No one is trying to portray themselves as a hero, it was just made for fun. Also, my deepest sympathies go out to all those affected by the Boston Marathon bombings and the aftermath that took place in the surrounding areas of Boston.
How sad is it in this day and age that in order to prove that you feel for the victims of Boston — and aren’t looking to necessarily prejudge a fucking terrorist who set a bomb next to an eight-year-old rooting on his Dad in a footrace — you have to in effect write up an oath of sorts.
To try to stave off the criticisms and accusations of racism, ultra-nationalism, etc., that you know both the left and the Muslim defense groups will throw at you.
It’s sad, frankly. And it shows just how pernicious is the political correctness — and the exploitation of same by would-be tyrants to chill your speech and control your actions — that has metastasized inside our body politic.
(h/t EBL; also, just now saw that Pablo had posted a link in another thread. So a retroactive h/t to him)
I agree with your comments Jeff. Nate’s disclaimer was unnecessary.
Fortunately there was no apology for prejudging or mocking Tsarnaev, Islam or Chechnya.
A disclaimer? Really? I shouldn’t say I’m surprised, but really?
These special snowflakes would have wet themselves if they knew the rhetoric during WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. Reading the novels set in the 40s, there are numerous mentions of Japan’s flag as “the filthy Rising Sun” and of course all of the unkind things said about the Nazis.
Well done, Nate!
Somewhat related, the WV teen who was suspended & arrested for his NRA t-shirt returned to school…wearing the same t-shirt. About 100 other students wore similar t’s as well. http://tinyurl.com/bmk6893
America, F*ck Yeah! Punch back twice as hard.
It was, in a sense, the opposite of this p.c. apologetic bullshit, the self-confident lack of fear that struck me pleasantly about Caroline Glick’s piece “Israel — The Happy Little Country” the other day. It was refreshing to see people leaving the grip of leftist horseshit and looking on the world with their own eyes.
sdferr, I agree about that Israel article. That is the healthy way to deal with this crap.
Just you wait. By the end of the week the “Dzhokhar as VICTIM” pieces will be popping up all over the place.
In an era when pundits and opinion makers can defend the latest atrocity committed in the name of Islam by invoking the fucking crusades, I will just assume that everything requires a disclaimer.
But seriously, two assholes blew up an entire neighborhood in Indiana this year, killed two innocent people and made God knows how many others homeless, but I don’t see anyone with “I stand with the Indianapolis suburbs” sharpied on their Trapper Keepers.
It’s my opinion that those two assholes picked the only Metro area in the US that’s as big a drama queen as the Middle East. I await the Ben Affleck directed love note to Massholes: “Marathon”, starring Matt Damon as the herah who fingahed tha bawmahs despite his seriahs woonts.
anyway… I’m in a bad mood. And if anyone from the Bahstan area wants to thank the rest of Americah for owah suppaht, how about you and yawah friends lean to drive.
Seriously? It’s already inspired public ridicule of Amanda Fucking Palmer.
To a person my liberal friends are Jester Class warriors. Free memes, I guess. So righteous.
It’s almost like bad religion.
Anyone who sees the pictures of Krystle Campbell painfully crying out her last breaths will not be inclined to harbor sympathy for the murderers.
Rush was on a roll today about Dzhokhar, being just “a typical kid.” No, the 8 year old victim was a “typical kid.” Dzhokhar was some 19 year old who went out intentionally to kill and maim people. Downgrading deviancy is what is going on in the media.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/04/23/liberals_ignore_the_elephant_in_the_room_wring_their_hands_over_where_and_how_these_normal_kids_were_radicalized