An outtake I didn't have time to explain to Voice readers, but which you late-show hipsters will understand: Betsy Woodruff at National Review:
Here’s a weird CPAC moment: I’m sitting in a hallway in the Gaylord Convention Center with Cynthia Yockey...Holy shit, I thought, Cynthia Yockey -- the second craziest lesbian in conservatism next to Robin of Berkeley! I remember Yockey telling readers ""Why Newt’s lesbian sister is a good reason for gays to vote for him." But now listen to her:
“People are courteous,” says Yockey, “but there is no courteous way to say, ‘You don’t deserve to be equal because you’re gay.’ That is intrinsically offensive.”When you've lost Cynthia Yockey, the time is near when all you'll have left is Bruce Carroll.
I must confess I had to read this column with unusual care to distinguish the actual quotations from the sarcastic paraphrases, eg: " In short, I like my black people black ..." Likewise, it's pretty incredible that that photo of Palin is NOT Photoshopped.
ReplyDeleteAre You Sick and Tired of Being Called a Racist and You Know You're Not One?
ReplyDeleteThe power of a conservative person's resistance to self-reflection and self-improvement is truly a thing to behold.
CPAC 2013: Big Gulps, Small Minds
ReplyDeleteIt's not so much that the party is incapable of introspection. It's not and never has been.
ReplyDeleteIt's that the fundamental controls of the party of been taken over entirely by the Teahadists. Dick Armey saw them as a way to grift a million small donors AND settle some old scores with Karl Rove. But neither understood that the Teahadists would take control of the primaries, and thus the entire party.
Now, Rove can raise tens of millions, but the party will increasing only be able to field lunatics.
One other remarkable thing about the race panel at CPAC: I have not seen ANY mainstream media coverage even mentioning it.
I wonder how many times you have to be called a racist before you just get sick and tired of it. If only David Duke had been there to answer that question.
ReplyDeleteAnd would you believe that those Big Gulps cost more than they used to? An unprecedented occurrence that is no doubt Obama's fault, somehow. Because spending. And death panels.
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Words fail...the CPAC is simply an awful media circus show. Hyenas yelping around for several days. But they are symptomatic of the ongoing degradation of American democracy.
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So glad to see that attention is being given to Bruce Carroll's decision to "explore" a potential run for Lindsay Graham's Senate seat.
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering if the campaign slogan will be something like, "why vote for a closeted homo when you can vote for someone openly gay?"
Ken Thomas had an AP article yesterday that followed the horse race for 2016, but had nothing about the race panel. The LA Times had nothing more recent than Friday. At least they don't have that loathsome Andrew Malcom fellow to blather about how bad Obama is doing these days.
ReplyDeleteThe teahadists?
ReplyDeleteThey're nothing more than rebranded goopers, driven mad by a black man in the White House. And they wouldn't amount to anything more than an ant fart in a stiff breeze if it weren't for all the Koch Brothers money that went into the effort.
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In short, I like my black people black and my conservatives true conservatives.
ReplyDeleteBecause we all know that if bi-racial people just identified as white, they would face no prejudice or discrimination whatsoever!
ReplyDeleteIn short, I like my black people black and my conservatives true conservatives.
ReplyDeleteI take it Some Guy also likes his beer cold, his TV loud and his homosexuals flaming.
Right? In South Carolina, no less. Wouldn't be a treat to see them chew each other up and make Colbert the First Brother of SC. His writers would never have had it so easy before.
ReplyDeleteFlaming while tied to a stake, for preference.
ReplyDeleteAs for the panel on race, about all I can say about it is: "Hey, all you New Black Panthers and junkies and Cadillac-drivin' welfare cheats and vote-frauding ACORN moochers! Don't you realize that the GOP is the party of Lincoln?"
ReplyDeleteNo one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition the Southern Strategy....
CPAC pretty rapidly became a parody of itself, and that tendency has only been amplified over the years. That Atlas Buggs and Oily Taintz are having a catfight over Obama is bone-stupid proof of that. That Rand Paul gets the straw vote for doing a bad imitation of Jefferson Smith is just after-the-denouement confirmation. That Scary Sarah gets a standing-O for sucking down colored high-fructose corn syrup is just belaboring the obvious.
Still, I'm much mystified about the tendency of the Washington media to see CPAC as a big news event, in the same way that small-town weekly newspapers treat the circus coming to town. In a town with much bigger circuses happening 24/7, CPAC has never struck me as much more than a shabby carnival with cheap rides and a tawdry freak show tent. [Just humming David Bromberg's "Sharon" and imagining Ann Coulter in the title role.]
in america, there are no second acts - there's cpac!
ReplyDeleteAnd his air hot.
ReplyDeleteI hope Chris Christie knows how lucky he was this year. If he weren't disinvited this year, he'd have to have his picture - many pictures - taken with this aggregation of assholes. On top of that would be the expectation that he'd make a speech, and you know the kind of speech CPAC demands. Tee-rust me, if the man wants to be reelected in November, staying in Trenton is the best thing that could happen to him.
ReplyDeleteThankfully, Christie's electoral fortunes are very far down on my list of things about which to be worried. But, yes, being snubbed by CPAC is a bit like being told by snake-handlers that one is insufficiently trusting in the divine.
ReplyDeleteAnother little tidbit from Buford T. Pigfucker:
ReplyDeleteAt one point, a woman challenged him on the Republican Party’s roots, to
which Terry responded, “I didn’t know the legacy of the Republican
Party included women correcting men in public.”
I know it's kind of gross and stupid, but sometimes you really do have to watch the money shot. That's good until at least 2016, as is that derptastic pic of Sarah Palin, not only brandishing a Big Gulp in defiance of Fox News giving her the bootMichael Bloomberg, but wearing what appears to be, at least from the front, a black hoodie. Neither sugar water size restrictions (although, as smarty-pants like us know, actual 7-11 Big Gulps were never part of the proposed ban nor CPAC dress codes could stop her from making a boob joke! I don't think that it was just the likes of GOProud getting the cold shoulder that gave even Cindy Yockey pause.
I'm convinced it's generational. Twenty years ago, in the early 1990s, right wingers changed from complaining about the liberal media (which they did in the 1970s and 1980s) to building their own alternative media (Fox News, Limbaugh and his 100 imitators, Drudge/Breitbart, etc.). This gave them a magnificent propraganda ecosystem and it was widely successful in gulling the rubes. But now, 20 years later, a whole generation of conservative activists and businessmen and leaders have come of age immersed in that bubble, not understanding that it's propaganda. They honestly believe that Fox is telling the real truth, unlke those liberal liars at the NYT and the WP and CNN, and these people are now moving into decision-making positions in the conservative movement and Republican politics.
ReplyDeleteA whole generation has grown up in cloud-cuckoo-land, and it's beginning to seriously degrade Republican political decision-making. That's the takeover you're describing and it's really kind of amazing. What little ability the GOP had for introspection and self-criticism is evaporating like a puddle after a summer shower.
""It's like when bi-racial people say they're black just because one of their parents is black."
ReplyDeleteYa know? In fact they're mulatto, not black. Possibly quadroon or octoroon. They're just trying to stick it to white people by driving down their market value by pretending to be blacker than they really are. Wait, did I say that last part out loud?
I've seen that photo of Sarah Palin several times now, and I still think that it's really Dana Carvey.
ReplyDelete"What will happen when they actually start throwing stones at us?"
ReplyDelete"Then we shall be gay Republicans in the shade"
CPAC seemed more petty and paranoid this year than usual, if that's possible. Less rah-rah and fist-pumping and more ego-fueled infighting, claim-staking and territory-marking. Doesn't bode well.
ReplyDeleteFor our friend Ben Carson, since he seems to riding on a crest of goodwill at the moment. There is a long, long list of Great Black Conservative Hopes who were supposed to be the anti-Obama, because obviously all you need to beat a black guy is another black guy. Alan Keyes is the obvious example, but consider Mia Love. By merely running for congress, she managed to get conservatives talking about her the way a hipster talks about all the bands he listens to that you've never heard of. She managed to get a spot at the RNC that year. Really, her only problem was that she ended losing, to Jim Matheson, by 768 votes. Now, far be it from me to indulge in political stereotypes about the good people of Utah, but given how Scott Terry and friends just graciously showed us just how racist the bottom of the GOP's barrel can be, I don't think it's a stretch to assume that there were a couple hundred Scott Terrys around to work their magic. 768 votes might not be enough of a margin to mean anything, but this is a district that Mitt won about 80-20.
Basically, GOP, your failure to win the Black vote (and your rapidly crumbling share of other minority votes) is not because you haven't found a great black hope. It's not a messaging or marketing issue either. It's because of people in your party, people like Scott Terry that you've spent the last few decades welcoming with open arms. That's one discussion you're never going to hear at CPAC.
I'll also confess, I thought Palin's joke was, well, humanizing, if not a belly-laugher. Politics is a stodgy business and it could use more jokes in general, even if they do have to come from Sarah Palin and don't particularly make much sense (If you want more bullets, dear, put the rifle in the holster, not the rack.)
ReplyDeleteYes, the quadroons and mulattos are committing affirmative action fraud!
ReplyDeleteI mean, Halle Berry and Rashida Jones and Thandie Newton make us sick, right guys? ... guys?
ReplyDelete"Resisting government-set wages (like the one Albany is about to hike)
ReplyDeleteand letting employers pay what they can afford would make it easier for
them to hire young black workers starting up the career ladder."
Nothing says "career ladder" quite like $4.63/hour.
obviously all you need to beat a black guy is another black guy
ReplyDeleteThe only thing that stops a bad guy with melanin is a good guy with melanin.
"Keep, Jewish man, your pompous health!" cries she
ReplyDeleteWith silent lips. "Give me your diabetic, your bland,
Your fuddled massives yearning to drink free,
The wretched refuse of your vacuous heartland.
Send these, the toothless, caries-lost to me,
I lift my Big Gulp never to be banned!"
David Bromberg ...
ReplyDeleteI don't really have the heart to bash Cynthia Yockey. Her partner died after a long crippling illness (MS, I think) and now all she has is her father who's in his 90s and also in poor health. It's just sad to read her blog. Here's what I don't understand: not only is she gay, the people she loves most have been sick for years and she's broke because of this. And yet she identifies with Republicans. Do you think anyone in the GOP gives a damn about her?
ReplyDelete"... fuddled massives...."
ReplyDeleteGawd, it's humbling to be in the presence of greatness.
I read that as "come of RAGE" and you know what, it works just as well.
ReplyDeleteImagine being one of those old hard-headed Republican organisational men now. Approaching your dotage, too frail to wade back into the fray, and realising that your decisions 20 and 30 years ago have utterly destroyed the party you put your life into.
ReplyDeleteIt's not often one can genuinely take pleasure in the destruction of somebody else's dreams.
This reminds me of a scene in Gentleman's Agreement in which the Einstein like Jewish Character tells Gregory Peck (the reporter) and his girlfriend that he's planning a little experiment. He's going to tell everyone he's not Jewish, even start a movement of people who are definitively not Jewish, and see if the other Non jews let him join their clubs and live in their neighborhoods.
ReplyDeleteUp until I had my tits bobbed because they were, you know, medical freak big, I'd been making boob jokes for decades. And, obviously, I still do. Not to mention every person I've known longer than three days, and every man I've met, made boob jokes at me for those same decades. And my partner's repertoire of melon jokes is second only to mine and maybe Jim Carrey's. So I consider myself something of an expert on the subject. And aside from CPAC reminding me why I just can't stand the sound of that woman's voice even without a migraine, her delivery was horrible. I don't think I've ever heard anyone sober tell that awkward a knocker joke.
ReplyDelete"I do not believe that the country is ready for a senator-- or a president, for that matter-- who tells 'boob jokes'."
ReplyDeleteYid, PLEASE... don'tcha remember the 2008 Pug convention that introduced Palin, after which conventioneers were carrying signs saying "Our vice presidential candidate is hotter than yours"? Or when any suggestion that Palin dressed like a MILFy librarian was met by "You liberals just can't handle a REAL woman?" I'm thinking that Yid's tastes run more to "Pull my finger" jokes...
Its not surprising, but it is, like, some form of dramatic irony or something cool like that, that they continually throw up a "good black guy" to innoculate them against charges of racism but the little bitty avatars of those guys, off in rooms like the Frederick Douglass Republican, still get hit with the same flying spittle and rage filled racism that ordinary black people come in for. Its almost like class and who introduces you (the financial power of your actual protector) have something to do with the way white people treat black people when they think no one important is looking.
ReplyDeleteI particularly love how ungrammatical and semantically incoherent that line is.
ReplyDeleteIt was funny, in the way that a dirty wink at the right time is funny. I wonder when I've seen a dirty wink used at a political speech before?
ReplyDeleteFoster: (Living in New York City, I know both conservatives who are closeted gays and gays who are closeted conservatives...)
ReplyDeleteOh, I bet you do, Daniel. I just bet you do. (Living in the Rest of the Country, I understand you can see 'em in the Big City just walking on the sidewalks, bold as day.)
“People are courteous,” says Yockey, “but there is no courteous way to say, ‘You don’t deserve to be equal because you’re gay.’ That is intrinsically offensive.”
Unlike, say, "You don't have the net worth for medical care," though even here a big, shit-eating grin works wonders.
Cynthia Yockey = That poor, poor, woman who is just scraping by without getting any kind of help from, say, Medicare (for her 97 year old father) or Medicaid (for herself) or disability (for herself) and yet seems to have infinite amounts of medical care and a CPAP machine.
ReplyDeleteAnd why is that? Because I have floundered since my late teens with sleep disorders, although I didn’t find out they were killing me until March of 2003 when I Googled “depression daytime sleeping,” and every result came up “obstructive sleep apnea.” When I was diagnosed the next month, my doctor said my condition was so advanced that I was dying. My apneas were very long and I was close to that tipping point where the blood oxygen/CO2 feedback mechanism tells the brain to stop sending the signals to breathe. My weight had climbed to 217 pounds — sleep apnea gives you ferocious cravings for sugar and salt. My body felt like lead and my joints and muscles were wracked with pain. I had headaches almost every day. My resting heart rate was in the 120′s, irregular, and just walking from one room to another made it jump to the 160′s and 170′s. The road to recovery looked so very long and shrouded in darkness. I felt hopeless and frightened out of my wits. But my life partner, my parents and my cats all needed me. I could not shirk that duty. So I clawed my way back to life and gave my life partner and my mother excellent care until they died in December 2004 and April 2006, respectively.However, in February 2004, despite using my CPAP respirator whenever I slept, I was still being overpowered by daytime sleepiness and needed long naps every day. My sleep doctor had me do a sleep study followed by a multiple sleep latency test and diagnosed me with idiopathic hypersomnia. I was unable to tolerate the medications for this condition. With no cure or treatment I could stand, I realized I had a disability and would have to adapt my life to cope with it. I knew my overwhelming sleepiness would get me fired from practically any job, and my resumé of caregiving and computer consulting wasn’t competitive, so I resolved to create my own job as a writer so I could work around the naps. But I was unable to pull this off because of another symptom of idiopathic hypersomnia: you never feel like you are really awake. This was costly because I bought courses to learn how to make money creating information products to sell online, but I didn’t have the energy and clarity to put all the pieces together.
Still not awake enough to figure out how to work meth into that (something about making that Big Gulp a Mountain Dew).
ReplyDeletePosted too soon. I wanted to say that I agreed with the previous poster that this poor woman's life has been horrendous and isn't getting any better. No wonder she falls in love with CPAC and any random blogger who shows her kindness. Her life has been a disaster and its not getting better. She needs a handsome prince to save her and every plausible GOP rogue fits the bill. I am truly sorry for the pain she is going through. Her life sounds disasterous.
ReplyDeleteOr, what El Hajj-Malik El Shabazz said.
ReplyDeleteCNN? They're my go-to guys for coverage of crap-filled cruise ships, but other than that...
ReplyDeleteI think that they give a damn about her to the degree that she's a useful tool for them, although that's not enough for her to get one of those nice sinecures that might keep her from having to bleg in order to afford to travel to CPAC. Her philosophy, as laid out here, seems to boil down to "haters gonna hate, so let's build a libertarian paradise so that we can revive the separate-but-theoretically-equal gay ghetto."
ReplyDeleteAnd there are a lot of gay people, particularly conservative gays, who agree with on that; Kevin DuJan, for example, when he's not fawning over conservative homophobic women like Palin, expresses a lot of nostalgia for his formerly lily-white (or close to it) gayborhood in Chicago. Yockey is so much against the anti-hate movement that she can't even type out those four letters and writes it in as "rhymes-with-late". She is, in fact, exactly the kind of queer that the GOP wants, although they'd prefer that she use the back entrance.
CPAC is the hep 'n' happenin' place to be for Goldwater-era timetraveling Observers.
ReplyDeleteI know a few of these old operatives; obviously they are appalled, but there is little recognition of the fact they are reaping what was so carefully sowed. Some are hard at work though. The problem is, Mitt Romney was their best idea, and some are even hopeful for Newt.
ReplyDeleteI just a look at that photo of Palin several of you mentioned. Holy shit. She looks like Jim Carrey in drag, mugging furiously for his latest zany comedy!
ReplyDeleteAs a side note, in the Voice article Roy quotes someone named Lauri Bohanan, who confirms that conservatives are never good at comedy - Bohanan's retelling of the joke reverses the delivery, thus burying the punchline.
ReplyDeleteThe mammary joke might indeed be considered humanizing, even if it, uh, fell flat. Reading yet another teleprompter joke off of a teleprompter, however, was comedy gold.
ReplyDeleteElect Sarah Palin president, and she'd bring the price of Big Gulps back down by opening our national parks to HFCS drilling.
ReplyDeleteGee, with the currency of statements like this one from the NY Post...
ReplyDelete...letting employers pay what they can afford would make it easier for them to hire young black workers starting up the career ladder.
or this from RedState...
I like my black people black
the Mississippi Legislature is probably re-considering finally ratifying the 13th Amendment last month(!).
Of course that's not so very far off given the role that government subsidies play in creating HFCS.
ReplyDeleteI just don't think the party of personal responsibility takes personal responsibility for any of its choices, individually or collectively. So I doubt it suffers from any sense of guilt or shame.
ReplyDeleteMickey Kaus' column at The Daily Caller
ReplyDeleteWait, seriously?
The Towson White Student Union is like a parody of everything I loathed growing up in the South:
ReplyDelete"The virtue of white Christian womanhood is under attack at Towson University by degenerate criminals seeking to rob our women of their God given innocence."
"Organized Satanic forces have destroyed the God-ordained monarchies of Europe and the empires of our people that gave civilization and Christ to those who were lost across the entire globe"
OK, except for the pro-monarchy part. Now that's what I call a Lost Cause!
Wait, did they fire Andrew Malcolm? Or did they just disconnect his computer from the internet?
ReplyDeleteThe link isn't working for me. Can you check it?
ReplyDeleteSo openly-gay Bruce Carrol may run against Lindsay Graham? There's a joke in there somewhere, but I can't decide if it's about evolution, closets, or what.
ReplyDeleteWait, isn'tthis a parody?
ReplyDelete"A dozen male members recently went to the local Saint Pius X Latin Mass and then to the local shooting range together and practiced tactical firearms training while fifteen of our female members have already been enrolled in self defense classes. All donations received in the month of March will be used to outfit our members with self defense items such as pepper spray to allow us to patrol the campus and be protected against criminals while at Towson University.
...
As close to two dozen of us prepare to head to the Conservative Political Action Conference labeled as independent, Towson College Republicans, Campaign for Liberty supporters, and other conservative organizations we will do our best to engage the issue of preservation of the European-American population and a strong stance against immigration. We will not surrender! Viva la Muerte! -Towson White Student Union Executive Board"
Viva la Muerte???
Anyone can have a bad photo taken, though I agree she looks like she is either drunk, drugged, or about to have some kind of stroke. However I, personally, considered her a very good looking woman during her first campaign and she really looks like she is starving herself to death at this point. I'd feel sorry for her if she weren't such a terrible person. And I do feel sorry for her, actually, anyway. I'm practicing my compassion.
ReplyDeleteSomebody cut it down from "Are You Sick and Tired of Being Called a Racist and You Know You're Not One, Or at Least No More Than Everybody Else Is, Really?"
ReplyDeleteWait--white suprematists who are Catholic? Isn't that, like, not how it works? Or does that explain the yes-we're-pussies pepper spray? Don't real patriots patrol heavy? My mind is going, Dave, I can feel it.
ReplyDeleteYou can give them all the time in the world and they'll never realize, either.
ReplyDeleteHe left in October of 2011, AFAIK he still writes for Investors Business Daily, home of the loony and the free............
ReplyDeletehttp://www.laobserved.com/archive/2011/09/andrew_malcolms_blog_leav.php
Lucky thing they didn't go with the African Pope and that people of Italian descent are currently considered white.
ReplyDeletePanel next door: "And Anyway, How Is It Racist To Point Out The Truth That Our PC Society Won't Admit?"
ReplyDeleteHa, yes. (I think the minimal change to make it make sense is just to replace "and" with "when," but I'm a geek like that.)
ReplyDeleteSomehow I'm reminded of the Real Conservative columnist they had on Democratic Underground years and years ago - Bob Boudelang? - who kept saying "so stop saying that."
You even skipped over Mitch McConnell's dick-impalement talking about Hillary Clinton as a Golden Girl, while they have hot blooded young men like Marco Rubio, who looks like a particularly unmemorable accountant. Clinton, who will carry Kentucky if she decides to run, is the most admired person in America just about. And Betty White is still cooler than Paul Ryan. And, naturally, McConnell is older than Hilary.
ReplyDeleteThey really have the golden touch, don't they?
You're missing the greatest schadenfreude of all. There is one reason, and one reason only, that Hillary Clinton is going to be president from 2016-2024, and that is the Myth that the rightwing created out of her. I'm absolutely convinced that she would have quickly faded into obscurity if she weren't turned into a giant by Limbaugh and company.
ReplyDeleteI think the thing that really freaks the RNC out at this point is realizing that absent the Democrats putting up another black guy a whole lot of centrists/independents (as those terms are understood by Americans to mean right wing/jingoist/racist normal old people) are going to end up staying home or voting dem. The complete mental breakdown caused by Barack and Michelle in the white house is going to recede when Obama steps down and if the Dems go with an anodyne white person--or Hillary--its all over.
ReplyDeleteOne of their main cultural tropes has been that Obama "favored" black people because everyone always "favors" their own race. What to do when the Dems go back to nominating a white person? Its not hard for the RNC to make the argument that liberals want to please their new black overlord welfare queens or what have you--but the underlying subliminal message has always been that people favor their own. Some not insignificant part of the right wing voting base will shave itself off and go back to voting dem on that basis.
I know another of those old operatives, who's about 70 now, a longtime local Republican stalwart. He returned from a caucus meeting a couple of weeks ago, smug that he'd helped block the "Bible-thumpers." That's about his only concern though -- he was aghast when our moderate Repub senator was defeated in the primary by a Christian Rightist -- but he still considers Obama a socialist/fascists, fumes about Paul Krugman, relies on NRO, the WSJ Op-Ed page and the Daily Caller for much of his news, and is casually but discreetly racist. But that's okay as long as you're not a Bible-thumping "yahoo." I believe he thinks he's a moderate, which he might be given the current party alignments.
ReplyDeleteLiving in New York City, I know both conservatives who are closeted gays and gays who are closeted conservatives...
ReplyDeleteAnd when they meet? Its magic, in a dark, stuffy kind of way.
Its in the names, both guys have "gay" names.
ReplyDelete"Organized Satanic forces have destroyed the God-ordained monarchies of Europe and the empires of our people that gave civilization and Christ to those who were lost across the entire globe"
ReplyDeleteMaryland Carlists. I hate Maryland Carlists.
It's got an extra quote mark at the end, strip that off and you're there.
ReplyDelete"Are You Sick and Tired of Being Called a Racist and You Know You're Not
ReplyDeleteOne, Or at Least No More Than Everybody Else Is, Really?"
Oh, I see you've read the original lyrics for "How Soon Is Now."
Nah. If by some chance those old-timers lived to see the quasi-feudal hellscape that is the endpoint of their policies, they'd just blame it on Earl Warren, as usual.
ReplyDeletestrip that off and you're there.
ReplyDeleteIYKWIMAITYD.
They also say that they're black so white people don't freak out. Plus there's the one drop rule that might still be on the books in some States.
ReplyDeleteDamn you, Lena Horne!
ReplyDeleteIt's like a dew-kissed spring morning in a men's room at CPAC.
ReplyDelete"The only black people at Republican gatherings are either speakers or bus boys." -- Some Guy on the Internet
ReplyDeleteAt least they are more modern minded than the Maryland Merovingians.
ReplyDeletehe was aghast when our moderate Repub senator was defeated in the primary by a Christian Rightist
ReplyDeleteI'm sure he was. Too bad that's part of what the Tea Party has created. The moderates do not have the turn-out forces to overcome the Teahadists. So all the old-line Republicans can do is rage against their own machine.
This is how you know you're winning, when you can justify your misogynistic comments on a woman's looks merely by saying she's a terrible person, and still get up-votes for it from other enlightened liberals.
ReplyDeleteLetting people pay what they can afford? In any other instance they'd say if someone can't afford something, they shouldn't have it. I guess it's OK from the top down rather than the bottom up.
ReplyDeleteKatholic Ku Klux Klan
ReplyDeleteTime for a "friendly" visit from some neighbors.
Aww. Didn't get a calendar this year?
ReplyDeleteViva la Muerte???
ReplyDeletePhalangist sloganeering? Perhaps they rejected Nazi salutes as too heavy-handed.
Actually, we know we're winning when a conservative comes to snivel about the comments.
ReplyDeletethey'd prefer that she use the back entrance
ReplyDeleteOoo-er.
letting employers pay what they can afford would make it easier for them to hire young black workers starting up the career ladder
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like something a defender of the Atlantic Trade might say.
And nothing says hypocrisy like enlightened liberals using the images of transvestites to note how how ugly conservatives are for looking just like them.
ReplyDeletePoe's Law!
They're only demanding a restoration of Bourbon. Who can argue with that?
ReplyDeleteLikewise, it's pretty incredible that that photo of Palin is NOT Photoshopped.
ReplyDeleteI said elsewhere that her face looks like she's either got a botched Botox job or a whole lotta rum in that Coke.
By merely running for congress, she managed to get conservatives talking about her the way a hipster talks about all the bands he listens to that you've never heard of.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I just doff my hat and gaze at another commenter's phrase in awe. This is one of those times.
OMG, I knew she looked familiar!
ReplyDeleteI hear Marco Rubio's seething over Sarah's success with the Big Gulp. "Dammit, I did it first and did it with just water!"
ReplyDeleteFor those who are not Towson students it seems hard to fathom that every single day black predators prey upon the majority white Towson University student body.
ReplyDeleteI am seriously wondering if the author of this entry is the same guy who spammed Roy a few months ago with those selected outtakes from Toronto crime statistics.
The Atlantic Trade as in slavery, or as in, The Atlantic asking freelance writers to work for free?
ReplyDeleteDennis is ass-hurt that we'd engage in any kind of mockery about Sarah the Intellectual.
ReplyDeleteThe joke is that, like Alvin Greene coming out of nowhere to run against Jim DeMint, some people might take this seriously enough to split the vote against Graham, which is the whole point of Gape Hatriot running in the first place. (I wonder if it's a particularly Southern tradition for joke candidates to run specifically to split the opposition vote; I saw this happen more than once in Memphis when I lived there.)
ReplyDeleteBy all means, continue to whine that anyone who criticizes Palin for any reason is "misogynist" while she uses one of the few remaining public platforms available to her to make titty jokes about herself. That'll help you and your buds get the women's vote back.
ReplyDeleteEponysterical, as they say in MetaFilter.
ReplyDeleteIts misogynistic to say that I thought she was a very good looking woman? I didn't say I thought she was a good politician even though she was good looking (condescending) or a bad politician because she was good looking (condescending) and I certainly did not say she looked like a man, or a man in drag. That was some other liberal. I said I thought she was looking too thin for her frame. And that I felt sorry for her. Was that misogynistic? Really? I think you are stretching the term there.
ReplyDeleteI hope there a panel on the theme "Are You Sick and Tired of Being Called a Homophobe and You Know You're Courteous?"
ReplyDeleteNot to mention "Are You Sick and Tired of Hearing about the Dunning-Kruger Effect and You Know You're Smart?"
Surely you don't expect Dennis to read your comments before shitting his pants over them?
ReplyDelete"And nothing says hypocrisy like enlightened liberals using the images of transvestites to note how how ugly conservatives are for looking just like them."
ReplyDeleteThanks for your drive-by transphobia!
I'm assuming that the definition of 'prey upon' has been expanded to include things like 'ask questions about the Civil War in history class' and 'play that awful hip-hop music real loud in their cars.'
ReplyDeleteThat was a terrible post, aimai. Absolute diarrhea.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, you're being totally disingenuous to say now that you once thought she was a good-looking woman. It's like saying in 2008 that you once like John McCain, when you know you would've never voted for him over John Kerry. You just think it sounds honest to say that John McCain was so much better once upon a time, unlike now (2008). You likely never said in 2008 that Sarah Palin was a knockout or anything close to what you're admitting now. The compliment always comes past tense, and yes, it was condescending.
And you're also being disingenuous to say you weren't the one to make the transphobic comment. No, you didn't say what John D. said, that Palin looked like Carrey in drag, but you one-upped that comment, in effect agreeing with it. In response to him likening Palin to a transvestite, you said this "Anyone can have a bad photo taken, though I agree she looks like she is
either drunk, drugged, or about to have some kind of stroke." You're in effect saying transvestites look either drunk, drugged or like they're about to have a stroke. Otherwise, why did you preface it with "I agree".
Just man up and admit you were wrong and be done with it. Liberals can never do that. "What, me, misogynistic? Transphobic? Huh? I never!"
What's convoluted about that? Palin looks like JIm Carrey in drag. A transvestite gets the shit beaten out of him/her because people like you, aimai and John D.think it's funny to bash them for being ugly, ugly like Sarah Palin or whoever you want to run down by using their images, and you think that's convoluted logic to stigmatize them that way. You're kind of an idiot, you know that.
ReplyDeleteAnd their pants all down around their bottoms, plus: obamaphones.
ReplyDeleteok, I'll just back away slowly. But I actually have always thought that Palin was a very good looking woman. I thought so when she first ran and I thought so until quite recently. She's not a disembodied political asterisk, you know. She's a real person.
ReplyDeleteRight, you've always thought she was a looker.....except for right now, since she hoisted a Big Gulp up to her mouth and took a sip of it at the CPAC Convention. Now she's 'either drunk, drugged, or about to have some kind of stroke'. You say that not even with tongue in cheek. Do you seriously think any of those three things? Or starving herself to death?
ReplyDeleteaimai, seriously, do you truly believe any of those things, and you're not being disingenuous in the least?
oh gak, they're baby old skool catholic neo traditionalists with a Franco-and-Isabella fetish....so why are they at a secular colllege instead of christendom or steubenville??
ReplyDelete(heres where Viva la muerte comes from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mill%C3%A1n_Astray
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ReplyDelete"We'd", DA?
ReplyDeleteYou haven't posted one word about Sarah Palin here on this thread, so it's kind of funny that you'd hide behind the collective "We" in this case.
I'm talking about those of us in the Soros Sekret Service, my good man, do try to keep up. We're dedicated to make Ms. Palin look ridiculous by any means possible, so, yes, the word "We" is appropriate in this case, cowboi.
ReplyDeleteNonsensical drivel.
ReplyDeleteIf you haven't said a word about it prior to the post, the "We" is not appropriate. It's just you lacking the confidence to speak on your own, and seeking comfort in the crowd.
Ah, another episode of "rules I just pulled out of my ass", Denny Boo-Boo?
ReplyDeleteIt's just you lacking the confidence to speak on your own, and seeking comfort in the crowd.
I'm sorry I lack your MOTU confidence. Perhaps your butthurt will go away after a few rounds of golf today.
Try not to whine too much, Denny Boo-Boo, with the stock market climbing these days, people are likely to mistake it for something else considering your line of work.
DA, no one plays a few rounds of golf in a day. No one. Two rounds, maybe, if you plan it right, but no one plays a few rounds. You don't even have to be intelligent to know that, yet simple things escape you. That's the lack of confidence thing I'm talking about, and it's why you always fall back to your copy and paste strategy when you want to be included in the gang here.
ReplyDeleteJust keep on saying "We".
DA, no one plays a few rounds of golf in a day. No one.
ReplyDeleteFunny, I found an ad for an offer if you book three rounds, Dennis:
Book at least 3 rounds of golf at Heather Glen, Shaftesbury Glen, and Possum Trot, and you’ll receive free Pre-Booked afternoon replays at each of the three courses.
http://www.glensgolfgroup.com/free-replay-golf-package/
No one. Two rounds, maybe, if you plan it right, but no one plays a few rounds.
There's even a three rounds of golf offer in Williamsburg, VA of all places:
The Solstice Survival is a 54-hole, one-day, individual net and gross stroke-play tournament at several of the region’s best courses. It is competitive golf from sunup to sundown, a day of patience and shadowed golfers perseverance, a day of endurance and elation. With
a loyal following, the Solstice Survival sells out every year.
http://williamsburgsrealestate.com/2012/02/18/three-rounds-of-golf-in-a-day-royal-new-kent/
There's even a website for golfers who aren't satified with a mere round of golf a day:
What You Need to Know about Excessive Golf Use:
Most adults who golf, golf in moderation and are at low risk for developing problems related to their golfing. However, all golfers, including low-risk golfers, should be aware of the health risks associated with excessive golf consumption. We provide you with the following information and advice about the risks of golfing. If you feel you are a binge golfer and it is impacting your personal, professional, and social life please seek professional help immediately.
Reccomendations to Patients for Low-risk Golfing:
Advise those patients who currently "golf to golf" to do so in
moderation.
Moderate golfing is defined as follows:
Men - no more than two rounds of golf per day.
Women - no more than one round of golf per day.
Over 65 - no more than one round of golf per day
Advise patients to abstain from golf under certain conditions:
When excessive golfing is causing sleep deprivation.
When you start to fib as to your whereabouts or sneak out of work to golf or to avoid family obligations.
When you try to hide the telltale signs of binge golfing:
When the hand you wear your golf glove on is noticeably lighter than your other hand.
Destroying stacks of score cards before returning home.
When after 36 holes you whip around the clubhouse to see if you can fit in another 9 or 18.
Lack of interest in food, sex, or spending time with friends who do not golf.
When pregnant or considering pregnancy.
When taking a medication that interact with golf.
http://www.binge-golfers.com/diagnosis.html
You don't even have to be intelligent to know that, yet simple things escape you.
That's true, I've never caught a conservative yet.
That's the lack of confidence thing I'm talking about, and it's why
you always fall back to your copy and paste strategy when you want to be
included in the gang here.
Poor Denny Boo-Boo, nobody gives a rats' ass about your whining about me copypasting and all that.
You're the one with the lack of confidence, with your amusing but failed attempts to denegrate my postings here and there.
Have a good life, cowboi, and I'm hope that Bible Spice gives you loads of starburts in the years to come, even when you can't.
The first link is not an offer contingent on playing three rounds in one day. Those three Myrtle Beach courses aren't conveniently close enough to play three rounds in a day. The second link is for the Summer Solstice. Today is not the Solstice. Your last copy and paste job is just garbage that has nothing to do with anything.
ReplyDeleteEven with the aid of Google, you still don't take the time to read what you've just copied and pasted. You just take the first three entries and post those without using your brain. That's worse than being a moron, DA.
The first link is not an offer contingent on playing three rounds in one day.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't say you can't, Dennis, now does it?
Those three Myrtle Beach courses aren't conveniently close enough to play three rounds in a day.
Who drives these days, Denny Boo-Boo? I'm sure a MOTU like you would take a helicopter and write it off as a business expense.
The second link is an event set up for playing golf all day on one course, to be held on a few select days on or around the Summer Solstice.
Gee, that was already in the ad, why are you repeating it back to me?
Today is not the Solstice, nor anywhere close to it,
Glad you're here to tell me that, Denny Boo-Boo
And yes, I can't come up with copypasta garbage as good as your own original productions here, Denny Boo-Boo.
Even with the aid of Google, you still don't take the time to read what you've just copied and pasted.
Just like you couldn't take the time to read what aimai wrote, and assumed that she agreed that your precious Raggedy Sarah of Alaska looked like Jim Carrey in drag( I would disagree, Carrey has a better bone structure than the Quitbull.) But I digress.
Have a nice life, Denny Boo-Boo.
You are the only person alive who would end your blog post with "But I digress." Most people would realize they had gone off track from the main point, say 'but I digress' and then go back to the main point. Just like when you idiotically say 'go play a few rounds of golf today' without knowing what the hell you're talking about, just now you say 'but I digress' as the end of your post, again not having the first clue how the phrase is used, you just heard it on a blog post and thought it might sound cool. You end with "But I digress" as if you're letting the world know you're a complete idiot, and there's really no other point you want to make other than that.
ReplyDelete"It doesn't say you can't, Dennis, now does it?"
ReplyDeleteNo, idiot, it doesn't. Because it doesn't have to tell people something anyone who's ever played the game would just know. Do the math, Google the locations of the golf course in Myrtle Beach, and let us know if it would be possible this time of year, or any time of year. 8:00 tee time in a resort area with minimum 5hr rounds, and travel in between the three courses, assuming you could even get the exact tee time you wanted and still get there on time. DA: "Hey, it could be done."
Glad your here to explain it away, Denny Boo-Boo.
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