On Twitter, I challenged Buzz Feed's Ben Smith, who had claimed Obama always spoke 'incredibly' about race, to apprise me as to what specific insights and memorable sentences he recalls from any Obama utterance, whether on race or any other subject. As of this 6 o'clock deadline, he has yet to respond to me.3-D chess match won!
UPDATE. On the sub-theme of rightblogger sorrow at the scarcity of violent Trayvon rally incidents they could attribute to race war, Breitbart.com is reduced to the level of Lestat in the swamp, feasting on sub-optimal nutrition sources:
PROTESTERS NONE TOO PLEASED TO SEE BREITBART'S BRANDON DARBY COVERING TRAYVON RALLY
Brandon Darby gets verbally attacked at a July 21,2013 Trayvon rally organized by the New Black Panther Party and Quanell X. The Occupy contingent recognized Darby while he was on assignment for Breitbart News.The best from the comments: "What I find hilarious is that the white 'protesters' have to explain who the Breitbart reporter is to blacks..." That is hilarious, but not how he thinks.
For some reason, the phrase 'black overclass' reminds me of 'oscillation overthruster'.
ReplyDeleteLiberal ignores me on Twitter, ergo conservatives win again.
ReplyDeleteTell me more, John bigbootes.
ReplyDeletePlease don't mistake Ben Smith for any kind of liberal. More like "less-insane conservative ignores me..."
ReplyDeleteI challenged Ace of Spades to apprise me as to what specific insights and memorable sentences he recalls from any Bush utterance, whether on race or any other subject. As of 2005 he has yet to respond to me.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if "Conservative Treehouse" has a sign on it saying, "No icky gurlz."
ReplyDeleteAnd has Ace of Spades even wondered if his moniker has ever created racial confusion on the Internet Speedway?
Does Ben Shapiro realize, ever, that he has no writing chops, whatsoever?
But, this "Scared Monkeys" guy really takes the cake, and then smears it all over him. "All he can do is attack his own racism and past to Trayvon Martin like a leach." ??? Wha'? Speed kills, folks.
"Michael Savage gives a Negro caller a piece of his mind," which leads me to believe that was the last piece Savage had on hand.
I have to say that Roy does nail pretty much the entire whiteblogger schtick when he says, "This is a classic example of the Rightblogger First Amendment Fallacy, whereby they think the Bill of Rights, in addition to allowing them to say stuff like this, also protects them from being laughed at for it." It's one of the reasons why they're always so happy to see the speech rights of their detractors abridged.
I do think, though, that this is not the beginnings of a White People's Party (the conservatives--whether modern Republican or traditional Jim Crow Southern Democrat--have always been that). This looks a lot more like an Internet white people's drum circle chanting that the real crime is against them, that they're the victims, or, more specifically, the real victims of a racism perpetrated on them by the election of a black Democratic President. The rest is just set-dressing.
That's Big-boo-TAY! TAY! TAY!
ReplyDelete"Does Ben Shapiro realize, ever, that he has no writing chops, whatsoever?"
ReplyDeleteOf course not! A pathological lack of introspection is the first requirement for a rightblogger. I think Jonah Goldberg proved that years ago with his "Oh, I won't be signing up to fight--I have family!" bit; he still fancies he has any moral authority to lecture others.
Reading these gibbering hyenas always brings back fond memories of post-Thanksgiving dinner conversations with my right-wing, asshole (is that redundant?) relatives. It's such a refreshing diversion from the sanctimony that precedes the fine repast. Good times, good times...
ReplyDelete"Address my point!!!"
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone ever respond to ace? Sadly, no.
ReplyDeleteAnd has Ace of Spades even wondered if his moniker has ever created racial confusion on the Internet Speedway?
ReplyDeleteI doubt it, but I'm sure Lemmy doesn't like to be seen as a guy who thinks vulvae are disgusting.
Yet another case of "Heads I win, tails you lose".
ReplyDeleteMark Levin: "will be fires, emotional, to pile on with [Al] Sharpton, pile on with all of them..."
ReplyDeleteYou know, I don't even, ATKS.
In fairness, Doughy could have just as well said, "I won't be fighting because I'm fat and stupid," and it wouldn't have changed a thing. But, yeah, your point taken.
ReplyDeleteNow is the time to recall that Coulter and Derbyshire weren't fired from the National Review for being racists, they were fired for going too far. It looks like they were really just a little ahead of their time.
ReplyDeleteThat one guy reminds me of a character from Carl Hiaasen's Lucky You, a white supremacist who can beat up a black woman but can't bring himself to say the n-word (the one time his parents beat him as a child) so he's reduced to ranting about "Negroes"; a chickenshit motherfucker without even the courage of his racist convictions.
ReplyDeleteAmazingly, ignoring Ace of Spades on twitter is probably the best career move Ben Smith has ever made.
ReplyDeletethere are monkeyboys in the comments...there are monkeyboys in the comments....
ReplyDeleteIt's touching that Jeffrey Lord and Rush Limbaugh are now so supportive of gay rights that they think that stalking with an armed pistol is appropriate guy-on-guy courtship. Baby's taking some big steps (off the edge of the table.)
ReplyDeleteWhat Ace wants is Madmax shit: Thunderdrone: You know the law, two dickheads enter, one dickhead leaves.
ReplyDelete"All he can do is attack his own racism and past to Trayvon Martin like a leach." ???
ReplyDeleteThe 'net has made copy editing obsolete, but not unnecessary.
I had to wonder for a moment if he meant Robin Leach.
ReplyDeleteThis is white racism in its basic form: a black teenager gets shot for no reason, his killer walks, and somehow it's black people's fault. Not the fault of the white/Hispanic shooter (I don't care which one he identifies as, he's still a massive racist either way), not the fault of the cops who clearly didn't give a shit about this kid getting shot (they didn't want to find or notify his relatives, or open a criminal investigation on THE GUY WHO JUST SHOT A TEENAGER), it's all the fault of black people, for objecting and getting upset about it.
ReplyDeleteIt boils down to various white conservatives saying "how dare black people get upset when we treat them as a criminal class and assume their lives are worth less than non-black lives!"
But, but, it's not their goddamned planet!
ReplyDeleteWell, in truth, I'm pretty sure they've been saying that--in a million different ways and in a thousand different frequencies--since, oh, about 1861.
ReplyDeleteThunderdrone.
ReplyDeleteThat's, mmm, droll on a couple of levels.
Shorter all of these assholes: "The Polish army shot first!"
ReplyDeleteI clicked on that link to Pat Buchanan's quotes:
ReplyDelete"Back then, black and white lived apart, went to different schools and
churches, played on different playgrounds, and went to different
restaurants, bars, theaters, and soda fountains. But we shared a country
and a culture. We were one nation. We were Americans."
Does he even read his own stuff? Just wondering.how you can "share" a country and a culture with people you not only have no contact with, but are legally forbidden to have contact with.
"By whipping up mobs that are already out of control... Obama appears to
ReplyDeletebe setting up a row of dominos that will inevitably fall when one of
the sociopathic punks he so openly identifies with attacks someone with a
gun who defends himself."
Yes, when the next poor innocent man with a gun is FORCED to shoot somebody dead, it will be Obama's fault.
And don't forget the joker!
ReplyDelete"I clicked on that link to Pat Buchanan's quotes...."
ReplyDeleteYour bravery is noted.
Buchanan has been pumping out this drivel since he was Nixon's speechwriter (and if that occupation doesn't place one on the seventh or eighth ring of Hell, nothing will). He's always been a commentator solidly encased in the belief that by saying a thing, that thing, no matter how fraudulent or ridiculous, becomes true. Being utterly thrilled to death with himself and his opinions has also helped him perpetuate his particular brand of fraud. (Well, there has to be a reason why someone as unattractive and homely and downright mean and bigoted as Buchanan gets on television as frequently as he does.)
What? No "Eat the Rich"?
ReplyDeleteAlso "attack blah blah blah to"? Did he mean attach because that fits with the homonym "leach" Fundamentally fucked there, dude.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what he meant. I don't read Skreeeeee, so I can't translate.
ReplyDelete"Oh my God, I was wrong. It was Earth all along..."
ReplyDeleteI was shocked to learn that Chicago has no business and no people. Which is weird cuz it seems like a pretty bustling metropolis.
ReplyDeleteWait on - the guy with the gun has to start the fight then start shooting when he realizes his victim is actually beating the shit out of him.
ReplyDeletethanks for giving that information.
ReplyDeleteBarrymore, Expectations
Anti-Aging, Chiropractor
It is the conservative hatred of entire metro areas which makes them so awesome and patriotic
ReplyDeleteNo no no, neither of them leave.
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Wow. The only useful thing about the Zimmerman trial is that the racists feel free to come to daylight. Like devout Christian, successful porn author and totally not racist Francis W. Porretto, who believes the race war is here and says stuff like this for comic effect.
ReplyDeleteThough the great majority of American Negroes are decent and law-abiding, a large percentage has internalized the notion that they possess certain exemptions from the law and extra privileges under it. Tragically, among the decent and law-abiding are many -- perhaps a majority thereof -- who are moved to protect the lawbreakers simply because of their shared race. If you ever hear a Negro talk about "The Man," you're in the presence of one such.
That Bill Whittle video vileness (also linked approvingly by the porn author!) is almost too stupidly racist to believe ...[dramatic Whittle pause here].. almost. Did you know that that Arizona fruit juice cocktail -- not what the liberal MSM kept calling innocent "iced tea" -- when mixed with Skittles and Robitussin DM can actually create codeine? And that's what Trayvon was trying to make, and that's why he's dead. All the facts are on right-wing blogs, people!
Somewhere, in an alternate universe Lt General J. Goldberg, (Medal of Honor, DsC, VC, Croix de Guerre,etc) the most decorated veteran of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars weeps.
ReplyDeleteWell, let them laugh while they can.
ReplyDeleteSince the 15th century, actually, but why be picky?
ReplyDeleteI believe it was The Stupidest Man on the Internet (Jim Hoft) who first floated the idea that Trayvon was planning to make Purple Drank with his skittles and Arizona. Just as important to the talking point - apparently, codeine makes you "psychotic" and possessed of abnormal strength. Pre-emptively, of course, because Trayvon and Zimmerman encountered one another before the manufacture and consumption of Purple Drank. Right.
ReplyDeleteI keep smearing my shit on the dining room table and still everyone ignores me. I don't get it.
ReplyDeleteI suppose we could probably do a review back to near pre-history, but, I was thinking particularly about our own current crop of mental defectives and the date they believe the natural order of things turned upside-down on them.
ReplyDeletePurple Drank is grape soda and any cough syrup containing codeine, which is available over-the-counter in pretty much one state that I know of: North Carolina. I know this shit, and I'm as white as England's royal family.
ReplyDeleteBoeing's corporate headquarters and the Board of Trade totally don't count because Oprah.
ReplyDeleteYou misspelled 'Oogah'.
ReplyDeleteUh, the needs of comedy would not be served if one linked to "Eat the Rich" to make fun of a guy named "Ace of Spades".
ReplyDeleteWell, it is Jim Hoft, fer chrissakes. We'd wonder if he'd had a stroke or something if he started to make sense--and wasn't behaving as if the Dickhead of the Year award was within his grasp (although he always loses out to James Taranto or Rush Limbaugh).
ReplyDeleteAs for codeine making one psychotic, well, I'm sure that Hoft's extensive post-grad research in molecular biology serves him well. It just makes me sleepy.
Protip: throw in a Jolly Rancher for that all-important garnish. Uh, that's what the intertubes tell me, anyway.
ReplyDelete"the fact that the maker of the excuses is himself partly of white lineage makes the remarks inexcusable."
ReplyDeleteOh, lordy, they're going to take away the POTUS' honky card, go to DEFCON 1.
No, they both leave. "That racist Tina Turner character made us come in here. She's black, and just wants to see us in combat for her own sick amusement. Are you okay? Let's go."
ReplyDeleteWell, that's because you're still making something more valuable than your average rightblogger.
ReplyDeleteThis looks a lot more like an Internet white people's drum circle chanting that the real crime is against them, that they're the victims, or, more specifically, the real victims of a racism perpetrated on them by the election of a black Democratic President.
ReplyDeleteOne could almost say that they're aflame with indignation at such a thing.
"... on assignment for Breitbart News."
ReplyDeleteWhy, that almost makes it sound like young Brandon Darby is a reporter, instead of the FBI's most notable publicly-reviled snitch.
That's what The Great Dictator said
ReplyDelete"Back then, black and white lived apart, went to different schools and
ReplyDeletechurches, played on different playgrounds, and went to different
restaurants, bars, theaters, and soda fountains. But we shared a country and a culture. We were one nation. We were Americans."
Some of us were slaves, and some of us were owners. But together, we formed a single economy. Everyone did his or her job, and at the end of the day, we all took our pants off one leg at a time, happy and proud to have contributed to the American experiment. to the extent that we had pants."
"We don't need another Negro!"
ReplyDeleteBrandon Darby is Whitey Bulger?
ReplyDeleteNah, just whitey.
ReplyDeleteI dunno, most of those guys are pretty bulgy, too.
ReplyDeleteIf I say yes, will he disappear for 16 years?
ReplyDeleteI am so endlessly fascinated by the ancient things that rightwingers cling to in the era of space stations and iPads. "Lineage" is one -- I also love when they speak of "soil." I remember this one clear as yesterday: "It's not that the Dixie Chicks criticized America -- we all do that -- it's that they did it on foreign soil." Huh? Who cares? What are you, twelve? But all these limits are imposed in their minds on what people can say and when. Yeah, I'll call it: they're clingers.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to admit that it has been somewhat difficult to keep my head unexploded these last coupla weeks.
ReplyDeleteBeing a cynics cynic, has been helpful, but Jeebus H, between the SCROTUS' evisceration of the VRA and the nation-wide explosions of the septic system that is our national "original sin" in the aftermath of the "Martin Trial" it has been a struggle.
It is almost as if someone figured out how to power the Electric Oogah-Boogaloo with its own Nuclear Power Plant.
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And everyone else too. It's like virus in Serenity. 99.9% of the population dies, but .1% becomes the Reavers.
ReplyDeleteIt's this obsession with obscure rules and pointless distinctions that leads me to believe that there are people out there who try to cope with their feelings of powerlessness or inadequacy by pretending that there are cheat codes for life--what RPG players call "rule lawyering". It leads to believing that you don't need to pay taxes because courtroom flags have gold fringes on them, which automagically converts them to martial law courts. Or something.
ReplyDeleteWhy is the word "protesters" in scare quotes?
ReplyDelete"News." Now that's a word that should be in scare quotes.
ReplyDeleteHe is too a reporter. That's why he sports a fedora with a "Press" card in the band.
ReplyDeleteAh, he's that guy.
ReplyDeletePROTESTERS NONE TOO PLEASED TO SEE BREITBART'S BRANDON DARBY COVERING TRAYVON RALLY
ReplyDeleteWell, Darby's used to that reaction.
Interesting comparison. I am familiar with these RPG rules lawyers. There's a big difference between people who play those games because it can be a fun way to hang out with friends vs. rulesy types who play to "win" (when RPGs are not meant to have winners or losers). I have found that people who play to win tend to be either people with astonishingly literal minds OR people who are massively unhappy in career & romance and are seeking an outlet where they get to be the hero for once. Neither type has a generous sense of humor, and I guess yeah, you can make it a metaphor: Some people think we only get to walk the Earth for a little while, so let's make it a fun visit. Other people are trying to win.
ReplyDeleteA ratfucking illiterate is unwanted at a protest? Darby Crash!
ReplyDeleteI had to go a long way for that, I know. But you know ladies and germs....
Well, rules lawyers tend to do very well in online MMORPGs, which tend to emphasize individual accomplishments (even in group activities, like raids which can take up to 25 players to pull off, only one person gets the really good drops); they don't do as well in, and can seriously disrupt or even ruin, tabletop RPGs in which the group has to work together, to one extent or another, for mutual benefit. (At worst, if you die, they can leave you to rot instead of having you revived.) To make it explicit and relevant, rules lawyers are pure libertarians.
ReplyDeleteSomething tells me that Mr. Hoft finally read the copy on the back of his VHS copy of Reefer Madness.
ReplyDeleteTo the extent we had pants...Or could get them over the shackles.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he thinks that black and white Americans were like roommates who worked two different shifts and had totally different schedules. Or his thoughts could be more, what's the word, Buchananesque.
ReplyDeleteYou know he's gotta be serious if he share's Matt Drudge's costumer.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of concrete, does anyone at these rallies mention that Martin bashed Zimmerman's head on the concrete?" Althouse is a professor of law.
ReplyDelete.....
Pres Obama Jesse Jackson Al Sharpton. Watch first ten min of O Reilly when it reruns in two hrs he puts a real challenge to u
Charles Grassley is a United States Senator.
I miss you in the usual haunts, dear.
ReplyDelete:)
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Yes, and as grape soda = Arizona iced tea and Jolly Ranchers = skittles, ergo Trayvon was a doper. It's a good thing Trayvon wasn't carrying a Coca-cola, otherwise they'd be slapping him with a DUI for drinking rum and Coke.
ReplyDeleteI think we've lost sight of the inherent racism in the beginning moments of this story. Guy shoots black kid dead, and everyone stands around looking at the corpse as though it were nothing. They didn't even bother to figure out who he was. And the guy who did it gets questioned like maybe he knocked down a stop sign or damaged public property. This story began with an incredible example of racism, where a seventeen year old kid - a mother's child - lies dead on the lawn and everyone says, ho-hum, let's get rid of the mess.
ReplyDeleteAlvin Toffler Johnson is right!
ReplyDeleteRoy, my head exploded all over my brand-new gabardine suit when I read your quote from Jeffrey Lord accusing Trayvon of committing an anti-gay hate crime against Zimmerman. I'm sending you the dry-cleaning bill.
ReplyDeleteArrest and prosecution of the dead is the newest frontier in law enforcement.
ReplyDeleteHis white half had better keep his guard up lest his black half mug him.
ReplyDeleteI was there this past April and if that's the case, Chicago is the greatest Potemkin Village ever constructed.
ReplyDeleteHuh. This might be why I never got into MMORPGs. About 10 years ago a friend pressed me to join a Star Wars one -- he said "You can do whatever you want in this universe!" I thought, Okay, cool. I want to be a storm trooper! Work my way up through the ranks by proving my loyalty and efficiency to my superior officers! Crack down on rebel scum and bring order to the galaxy! See if I can get assigned to a Star Destroyer -- or better yet (though they seem kind of vulnerable to single-ship attacks) a Death Star! I was pretty psyched at the idea of walking its halls, lunching in its mess, treating it like my home -- and playing at a world of tight hierarchy and cooperation while following (highly questionable imperial) orders (without question).
ReplyDeleteUhhh... I only bothered for 2 days. Because you couldn't be a storm trooper. You could only do "whatever you want" as long as that meant running around amassing wealth and trying to protect it from other players, who who'd try to steal it. Zzzz.
But I think you nailed it -- an MMORPG is a libertarian dream. Thanks, I'd rather be a storm trooper.
Ace Goldberg! What a guy!
ReplyDeleteWell, it's good to see you here, UNE. Plus, I see you're headlining at S,N--exciting! Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteHe did have a fedora with a card that said PULL in the band
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