Cooke took it thus:
Tbogg chimed in:
Drawing this response:
Liberal Fascism has much to answer for: It has apparently bred a generation of wingnuts who think that if you make fun of them it's the Warsaw Ghetto all over again.
UPDATE. In comments, quoting Cooke on the harsh necessity of the extirpations ("But let’s recognize, as we do so, that the tears are real"), hellslittlestangel finds the verse I'm kicking myself for missing:
"I weep for you," the Walrus said:Spaghetti Lee has a good one too. D Johnston chooses to freestyle: "Kids, I know we're sending you back to a place that's a virtual war zone at this point, but I hope you'll accept my sympathy as a consolation prize. You think I want to do this? You think this gives me joy? Not a milliliter. But paperwork is an important part of life, and it's best that you learn it now before you enter into the business world..."
"I deeply sympathize."
With sobs and tears he sorted out
Those of the largest size...
"Moral imagination" is rich. Is that when a conservative imagines what it's like to have morality?
ReplyDeleteStill, my acquiescence in the removal of legal violators should in no way be taken as a lack of understanding that being forced to leave the United States is possibly the worst thing that will ever happen to them. Let’s send away those without papers, thereby making it clear to others that the policy is not up for debate. But let’s recognize, as we do so, that the tears are real.
ReplyDeleteKids, I know we're sending you back to a place that's a virtual war zone at this point, but I hope you'll accept my sympathy as a consolation prize. You think I want to do this? You think this gives me joy? Not a milliliter. But paperwork is an important part of life, and it's best that you learn it now before you enter into the business world. If I could work through the bureaucracy from my stable, affluent home country, there's no reason I can think of why you couldn't do the same.
But again, I'm terribly sorry about what you're going through. It's at least as bad as being cursed at on Twitter.
Non-approved source?
ReplyDeleteI guess Duke Energy doesn't count as an approver.
Lobsterback is underutilized. T-Bogg's just described the whole movement.
ReplyDeleteYep. Hundreds of children were so scared they made a journey that would have reduced a whiny, hyper-privileged, neoCon shitweasel to a smelly puddle after the first five miles, and yet somehow, once again, the whiny, hyper-priviledged, neoCon shitweasel is the real victim.
ReplyDeleteNo wonder they got so excited about the Weeping Bald Eagle. Something sobbing its eyes out is their kind of avatar.
But please don't credit Goldberg with starting this shit. The guy couldn't have an original idea if a giant copper wasp nabbed him, implanted a bunch of eggs full of original ideas in his abdomen and buried him in the side of a hill. These assholes have always been under attack by something, and they've always seen anything short of round the clock groveling as an attack.
But let’s recognize, as we do so, that the tears are real.
ReplyDelete"I weep for you," the Walrus said:
"I deeply sympathize."
With sobs and tears he sorted out
Those of the largest size,
Holding his pocket-handkerchief
Before his streaming eyes.
"O Oysters," said the Carpenter,
"You've had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?'
But answer came there none--
And this was scarcely odd, because
They'd eaten every one.
How exactly do the Charles C.W. Cookes of the world, the self-appointed protectors of dignity, decorum, and the art of being a gentlemen, who will haughtily declare any debate beneath them when it rises above the volume of afternoon tea in Buckingham Palace, circa 1882...how do these people square their huffy self-righteousness with the comment sections on their own articles?
ReplyDelete"A hatch opened up, and the aliens said,
ReplyDeleteWe're sorry to learn that you soon will be dead,
And though you may find this slightly macabre,
We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job."
The guy couldn't have an original idea if a giant copper wasp nabbed
ReplyDeletehim, implanted a bunch of eggs full of original ideas in his abdomen and
buried him in the side of a hill.
Maybe, maybe not. We can't be sure until someone tries it.
Oh, have you been down in that sewer today? Cooke's recent piece has stirred up a discussion on how they can win "the blacks" by making them hate Hispanics. They should realize that these illegals are going to take the shitty jobs that are the only jobs they can get! Don't call me racist, by the way!
ReplyDeleteYeah, conservatives have been whining about being oppressed and victimized since the high days of the Moral Majority. The only thing Goldberg added to the mix was an extra twist of Hitler.
ReplyDeleteYes, but that would mean there was at least one copper wasp large enough to subdue and lift a full grown man.
ReplyDeleteAnd that is 11,000,000 giant copper wasps too many.
Any relation to Duke Motors?
ReplyDeleteBut let’s recognize, as we do so, that the tears are real.
ReplyDeleteNot since William Hurt pretended to cry in Broadcast News have tears been so real.
It has apparently bred a generation of wingnuts who think that if you make fun of them it's the Warsaw Ghetto all over again.
ReplyDeleteFess up, Roy, the Kenyan Usurper has promised you a commandant's commission in an arugula mine!
You have to admit, "ovipositor" is a beautiful word. I am surprised it features in so few song lyrics.
ReplyDeleteHuffy self-righteousness, indeed; 'twas the shirt-tucking heard 'round the world.
ReplyDelete...a large and creaking welfare system continuing to obtain in the United States, the likelihood of the flow’s self-regulating is nowadays almost nil.
ReplyDeleteAnd he even managed to work in the zombie lie shibboleth about how all the illegals are sucking up that sweet and plentiful welfare we've got going here.
There's this parasite that gets into wasps and turns them into zombies. Kind of like how Fox News, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh get into wingnut brains and turns them into zombies.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking of the response to early abolition movements and moving up the timeline from there. Sure, sometimes they say "America" or "Tradition" or "The South" is under attack, but those are all synonyms for "Me."
ReplyDeleteWait... fucking with CW Cooke is a thing you can do on twitter? That... is like the first compelling use for twitter I have ever heard.
ReplyDeleteI would be a happy man if Fox changed its name to "Cordyceps Channel".
ReplyDeleteYou can fuck with lots of people on twitter, so yes, it does have a purpose.
ReplyDeleteAnd not dirty haiku? It's like I don't even know you!
ReplyDeleteIf I fell in love with you
ReplyDeletewould you ovipos'ter true
and help me
reproduce.
He may be a moron, but his florid bullshit is clocking in at 8 deciBuckleys.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't care. Not his problem.
ReplyDeleteIt really is kind of creepy, ain't it? There's a book called Waiting for the Galactic Bus (unless I mean the other one of the series), in which an aspiring neo-Nazi dictator has to appear contrite before an audience. So his campaign adviser tells him to tug on his nostril hairs to give himself that weepy look.
ReplyDeleteThat's the vibe I get from Crooke's declaration that the tears (his?) are real. Honest! Look, they're coming out of my eye and everything.
Or he could be Eddie from Absolutely Fabulous trying to convince Saffy that she really is crying. "Squish squish, Sweetie. Squish, squish."
I'm just not sure what the fuck he wants? For people to see him as a nice guy? Ha hahahaha ha.
Yes. And if you don't want to fuck with douchenoodles directly, you can watch other people fuck with them!
ReplyDeleteIt is also, in my weird opinion, 100% less dreadful than Facebook.
continuing to obtain in the United States.
ReplyDeleteI have myself used "to obtain" in that intransitive sense ("to be in force"), because I am also a pretentious pedant.
"Moral imagination"? What the hell does that even mean?
ReplyDeleteOh, right. It's a phrase pretentious dolts think sounds smart. Carry on.
I'm mildly amused by Cooke's tone, in that it does resemble that of a member of the House of Lords speechifying on the Irish circa 1845.
ReplyDeleteHe forgot to add, "and those with papers shall report to my mines on the morrow."
Surely David Byrne could make this happen.
ReplyDeleteSurely they prefer a dash of Hitler Bitters™ to a simple twist.
ReplyDeleteThe rough translation is "You bend over backwards to not call me an asshole and I find five new excuses to call you a baby killer."
ReplyDeleteI want to walk along a briny beach with this comment.
ReplyDeleteAre you surprised at my tears, Mr. Edroso? Strong men also cry. Strong men...also...cry.
ReplyDeleteI see I should've read the comments before unloading on that asinine phrase myself.
ReplyDeleteThat many deciBuckleys are enough to melt even the hardest heart of plastic.
ReplyDeleteOnly our versions of Upperclass Twit of the Year arrive in the Dukes of Hazzard's General Lee.
ReplyDeleteYou may find yourself
ReplyDeleteburied in a subterranean chamber!
And you may find yourself
being eaten alive by wasp larvae!
Now that Cooke's on Twitter, he produces Upper-Class Tweets of the Year.
ReplyDeletehow do these people square their huffy self-righteousness with the comment sections on their own articles?
ReplyDeleteThree words: selective fucking obliviousness.
So the moral, imaginative response to children undertaking epic journeys to escape crushing poverty and deadly violence is... send them right back to it, but feel bad doing so?
ReplyDeleteBut not feel quite so bad that one says anything disparaging about the right-wingers responsible for the crushing poverty and deadly violence.
ReplyDeleteThat's just a bridge too far.
So, anyone who (quite correctly) observes that Chuckles Cooke is shedding crodocodile tears about the powerless wetbacks he makes no secret of wanting to further vicimise, believes that "all other viewpoints are evil" and posesses a "chronic lack of moral imagination" (WeverTH that means).
ReplyDeletePresumably, Chuckles thinks the moral of the Emperor's New Clothes is that the little kid was uncivil for disrepecting the naked dude.
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"Moral imagination" is what they use when they fantasize about all the unauthorized sex everyone they don't like is having.
ReplyDeleteYou have to admit that the kid is not recorded as commenting on the clotheslessness of other members of society, i.e. he was singling out the Emperor for unfair persecution.
ReplyDeleteThat thing dangling off of Cooke is no pedant.
ReplyDelete...
ReplyDeleteYou know how the stereotypical abusive authority figure uses the cliche, "This hurts me more than it hurts you"? Now imagine if that abusive authority figure were Bertie Wooster.
ReplyDelete"... the self-appointed protectors of dignity, decorum, and the art of being a gentleman, who will haughtily declare any debate beneath them when it rises above the volume of afternoon tea in Buckingham Palace,
ReplyDeleteFunny how those butthurt simps who blubber about "incivility" from others are themselves almost invariably huge boosters for very fucking uncivilised behavior.
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I choose this comment.
ReplyDeleteI don't have anything particularly clever to say in response to this, but I did laugh a whole lot at it.
ReplyDeleteI'll admit it, I guess I'm lacking in moral imagination because I can't imagine Cooke as anything but a morally bankrupt jerk.
ReplyDeleteWhy do dingleberries suddenly come to mind?
ReplyDeleteThere is a clearly wounded sensibility in "[f]ollowed by the sort of language that, were it from a non-approved source, would be the inspiration for outrage," but, y'know, it's so fucking abstracted and vague, I don't have a clue what he means. Is he upset by "fucking?" Or "lobsterback?"
ReplyDeleteAnd why does that phrase sound as if it were lifted from one of Ignatius J. Reilly's journals?
Why do dingleberries suddenly come to mind?
ReplyDeleteEvery time you are near?
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you
DOES NOT SCAN.
I think he's upset by "TBogg". He's probably choking down Tums like they were Pez.
ReplyDeleteNot quite... It's to send them right back to it, but to pretend to feel bad doing so.
ReplyDeleteHe could be cribbing Glenn Beck's Vap-O-Rub trick.
ReplyDelete"I'don't hate to see the wolf that could carry off Norm"
ReplyDeleteAnd you may find yourself, not clicking Play because you just don't want to know.
ReplyDelete[Budum-dum--dum...]
My thoughts exactly. He probably doesn't read them, anymore, having done so once.
ReplyDeleteBut fuck you anyway for giving me THIS as an earworm at 7AM.
ReplyDeleteIt's worth noting that in all cases confronting conservatives, their choice of the moral thing to do is never the right thing to do. Indeed, in their world, questions of morality are always determined by the answer to "What course of action will cause the most suffering to the most people who are not like me?"
ReplyDeleteStupid person: Wow, I don't understand that but it sure sounds smart.
ReplyDeleteCharles CW Cooke (looking down nose): Thank you. Now go away but leave a cheque, though cash is preferred.
"Moral imagination"? What the hell does that even mean?
ReplyDeleteIt means your boss is someone who calls something he doesn't like "Liberal Fascism."
Randolph and Mortimer, again, trying to corner the market in frozen orange juice concentrate energy supply.
ReplyDeleteTop men. Top. Men.
ReplyDeleteThey laughed when I said I wanted to run a comedy club. Well, they're not laughing now. Because I mercilessly killed them all. In my moral imagination anyways.
ReplyDeleteWhy do dingleberries suddenly come to mind?
ReplyDeletewhen I contemplate the twin ivory mounds of your behind?
Just like I in the main, they long to obtain
Contiguity with your person.
Ironically, if he actually did run a comedy club named "That's Not Funny," that would have been pretty funny.
ReplyDeleteI would argue that their answer would actually be, "which course of action will keep the gravy train rolling and keep me from having to be aware of the suffering of the people we exploit?"
ReplyDeleteIt's the kind of imagination needed to imagine that denying refuge to children in need is moral.
ReplyDeleteNot even in Don Dixon's "Praying Mantis," which seems a shocking lapse.
ReplyDeleteIt's very difficult to answer that question without Godwinizing the discussion.
ReplyDeletethe rule of law must be valued to the extent that emotions are not
ReplyDeletepermitted to trump statutes
The statute being that the children should be allowed to stay until they can present their case for refugee status to a court? Well, it's nice to see we're all on the same page about not trumping that just because some people's emotions are running high.
Look, you have to admit that the whole "compassionate conservative" thing required some imagination to have come up with, since it was completely divorced from reality.
ReplyDeleteAdmittedly, that must require a great deal of imagination.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great thread.
ReplyDeleteConservatives should be proud that their beautiful country is such a beacon...
...which they've turned into a border guard's flashlight blinding the eyes of children. Bravo!
Cooke's attitude is the same "collateral damage" apologia we've heard ad nauseam: We only make other people suffer and die out of the purest of motives. You can't fault us because we are a good, exceptional people who go out of our way to minimize the harm that we keep on insisting we have a license to inflict. (For another version of this see plucky little Israel, Gazapalooza.)
The time Homer ate Pinchy his pet lobster, such buttery, salty tears.
ReplyDeleteThis is not new ground for C. Wanker Cooke. He wrote a long hit piece on Pope Francis in Time Magazine disguised as a "more in sorrow" assessment of his once-dear Catholic Church, to which he sadly waved goodbye as the NRO Cruise ship pulled away from the harbor. He argued that the popular new pope, while he seems cool and everything, is actually making it harder for the conservative bishops who do all of God's actual grunt work by irresponsibly preaching that God is love - but apparently failing to include the Creator's more important characteristic, which is that He is also an asshole and that sometimes, for instance, children need to suffer in order to get what is best for them.
ReplyDeleteI'm not even kidding.
He can't flatly contradict the teachings of Christ and apostles and still pretend to be a Christian so he engages in a whole lot of disclaiming in the manner of "Yeah yeah, sure sure, Love is great, BUT - the real important quality is suffering."
Oh and by the way, the whole scandal of priests abusing children was caused liberals and Vatican II spreading this false message of love so pffffffttttt!
We shall make them fight the Asians,
ReplyDeleteWe shall make them fight the Jews,
We shall make them fight Hispanics,
'Cos if they all fight us we'll lose.
Morporkia! Morporkia! Morpooor-
Sorry. I made a wrong turn during my Churchill riff.
Giant pickup trucks modified to spurt thick loads of black exhaust everywhere.
ReplyDeleteRoll Coal, you chaps!
Y'all can go right back to the whites who first set foot on this continent bitching about how the 'savages' that were already here had some opinions about sharing their land, game, fish, minerals, and labor. How dare those ignorant dusky-skinned folks not dig up gold for me! I have guns!
ReplyDeleteConservatives: we've had the same ideas for more than five hundred years. Sooner or later they've gotta work.
BUT - the real important quality is suffering.
ReplyDeleteFor other people...the right-wing credo.
~
The second book is The Snake Oil Wars, in which Barion is dragged off to face galactic justice, while Coyul leaves Yeshua and Judas in charge of Hell and takes over Heaven, where he's promptly put on trial by various deceased religious worthies.
ReplyDeleteTbogg wields a fine stiletto.
ReplyDeleteEh, just keep reading more of Cooke's oeuvre. Your screaming will get rid of that earworm in no time.
ReplyDeleteDivorced from reality is a mandatory requirement.
ReplyDelete"1980s: Tax cuts will raise government revenues."
"1990s: The GOP is all about government oversight."
"2002: Iraq is a mortal threat to the United States."
"2003: The Iraqi reconstruction will pay for itself."
And here we are, back to the GOP being all about government oversight again.
P.S. Funny thing: Of all people, Darth Cheney let the truth slip (of course, it was in a G.W. Bush Administration private meeting):
"You know, Paul, Reagan proved that deficits don't matter. We won the mid-term elections, this is our due."
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Yes, and this legal requirement was signed into law by the GW Bush administration in it's waning days. Not that this ever gets mentioned, because any and everything the rethugs are skreeing about is always Obama's fault, especially with an election coming up. Nor a graph shown of the estimates of illegal border crossings over the last 10 years, which show the current "crisis" to be a media shiny toy, rather than supported by the data.
ReplyDeleteReligious conservatives, of a certain stripe, have a lot of mental training in this field. There is a certain kind of conservative Christian who thinks its an indicator of the proof of his beliefs that they are so very objectionable. People will even say "I can't have made it up! Its too terrible! If it were up to me I wouldn't (stone you, prevent you from getting a divorce, force you into reparative therapy) but I'm not in charge. Believing in G-d means believign in something bigger and more mysterious and decidedly not human/humane."
ReplyDeleteWow, and you usually only see things expressed in milliBuckleys. That's one of those ridiculously outsized measures, like the farad.
ReplyDeleteCan't make an O without breaking a few Es, eh, Jeeves?
ReplyDeleteHey, that's exactly what *I* did!
ReplyDeleteNeocon mantra: If you aren't a cruel lying rich white man I'm here to make your life worse. Only cruel lying selfish rich white men matter. I'm a faux warrior that way.
ReplyDeleteSo true. About 30 years ago my wingnut dad worked in a very remote part of Mexico and met a little boy who he liked so much he wanted to adopt him. When he told us about him, he was so sad-eyed about the kid's life of poverty and what potential he had.
ReplyDeleteFast forward to today, and he's hating on these border crossing kids because Fox and Rush tell him to.
Not weird, IMO, though my own experience is the opposite.
ReplyDeleteFB varies pretty widely that way - I'm obsessive about pruning my friends list and discreetly unfollowing the family members who I can't pitch, and my feed is (estimated) over 99% non-horrible. I get the occasional bit of wingnuttery shared by someone who doesn't recognize that nativist dogwhistle in it, but that's about it.
Twitter, to me, is an incomprehensible stream of annoying clickbait.
Odd, isn't it, how those beliefs always manifest as something that other people need to do: No premarital sex, not be gay, not use birth control, not have equal rights, etc. You'd think that once in a while one of them would, in fact, give everything to the poor and follow ol' JC.
ReplyDeleteIt's not hard to recognize this particular framing as another example of "Look what you made me do! Why can't you follow some simple (god's) rules!"--the equivalent of having ABUSER tattooed on one's forehead.
Americans love to buy drugs.
ReplyDeleteAmericans love to sell guns.
Central America is fucked.
How dare Obama follow the LAW! IMPEACH NOW!
ReplyDeleteThanks. At least I got the right plot in the right book.
ReplyDeleteIt's Gateway Pundit - what can you expect other than hate?
ReplyDeleteBesides turn of phrase, maybe he also shares Ignatius' 'valve' troubles...
ReplyDeleteMaybe because their entire political philosophy sounds as if it were scribbled in crayon in a Big Chief notebook.
ReplyDeleteadded to the mix was an extra twist of Hitler
ReplyDeleteThat's how I like my bloody marys.
Or something else...indecency, perhaps.
ReplyDeleteDoes his overreach have no limits? I submit that it does not.
ReplyDeleteStupidity!
ReplyDeleteGr-r-r, stupid statutes!
ReplyDeleteFrank Luntz is still out there. Let's ask him.
ReplyDeleteHis big tears, for he wept well
ReplyDeleteTurned to millstones as they fell
And the little children who
Round his feet ran to and fro
Thinking every tear a gem
Had their brains dashed out by them.
--Percy Bysshe Shelley
There once was a man
ReplyDeletefrom Calcutta who never ate
oysters with butter
CURSE THE LIMITATIONS OF HAIKU!!!!!!
I don't get the whole "moral imagination" thing at all. The man is literally talking about deporting children to their deaths because of a fear that giving them refugee status might lead, in twenty or thirty years, to more Democratic voters. But the thing he finds worthy of considering under the heading of "moral imagination" is whether someone else thinks he's a shit head for holding these views?
ReplyDeleteBTW: lower in the twitter thread he out and out accuses Roy of only pretending to care about the children because he wants their hypothetical votes. How's that for a "lack of moral imagination"? The kind which can impute to an opponent only base motives?
These are real books? I thought you both were just riffing.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget Attorney General Lamarr.
ReplyDeleteIt's the Warsaw Ghetto, and they weren't allowed to choose sides.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a right turn, if you know what I mean.
ReplyDeleteActually I was reading over at the "I love Mars Church" site for renegades and apostates from the Church and I came across at least one guy who really suffered trying to live up to the masculinist ideology of Mars Church: he wasn't married and was sex obsessed and having no (as he saw it) legitimate way to express his sexuality he became (as he saw it) addicted to porn, abusive in his relationships with women,and even eventually went to a prostitute. Believing that all this was sinful --that he was a sinner--was a horrific experience for him. He spent at least as much time punishing himself as he did worrying about other people's sins. Possibly more. Within these churches and cults are as many masochistic followers as sadistic, double high authoritarian leaders.
ReplyDeleteCowardice and narcissistic self regard--BINGO!
ReplyDelete"Yo! I'm trying to manifest destiny over here!"
ReplyDeleteHmm, you may be onto something there. Cooke does show considerable tendency to bloat.
ReplyDeleteAh, I think it would be much more droll if they weren't so much self-inflicted but, rather, purchased.
ReplyDeleteRoy wants their votes? Edroso/TBogg 2024!
ReplyDeleteAll that can be said at this point is that, when Cheney finally gets his just reward, let us hope that Satan provides the world with cut-rate stadium seating.
ReplyDeleteWhile it was Marvin Olasky's phrase, I'm sure that Luntz would say that it is wonderfully alliterative and all BS-ey sounding.
ReplyDeleteWe also have an abnormal fondness for military dictators and right-wing thugs, and Central America has no shortage of those.
ReplyDeleteIt's long past time that some enterprising, ambitious PhD candidate did a dissertation on aberrant psychosexual tendencies in American foreign policy in Latin America.
The chapter on the School of the Americas would be a page-turner.
I don't get the whole "moral imagination" thing at all.
ReplyDeleteTo paraphrase a certain film, "it doesn't take much moral imagination, perhaps, but just of a certain kind."
Ah, well, Cooke is a person who read Swift's "A Modest Proposal,"
ReplyDeleteand thought, "bloody good idea, that."
One can't exhibit much moral imagination if one is by nature dull and unimaginative and tending toward meanness.
Duke Of Madness Motors.
ReplyDeleteI thought that was part of the recipe for the Tricky Dicky Screwdriver.
ReplyDeleteLater Cooke tweet:It's difficult for you to grasp that we don't all spend our days morally positioning ourselves on the Internet.
ReplyDeleteYou'd think, even with a memory this bad, the evidence presented by merely scrolling up would keep someone from typing in something so fatuous.
They really hate any kind of rebuttal.
ReplyDeleteHOW COME REALITY KEEPS REMARRYING THESE PEOPLE?
ReplyDeleteI mean, I hate to blame the victim and all, but there comes a time when you just have to wonder why reality keeps going back over and over after so many bitter divorces.
A little discussion of Ampulex Compressa here:
ReplyDeletehttp://bloggingheads.tv/videos/1311?in=16:19&out=24:55
Letting the days go byyyyyyy.....
ReplyDeleteIf emotions aren't permitted to trump statutes, I eagerly await Cooke's piece explaining why Hobby Lobby was wrongly decided. After all, the nonscientific imaginings of a CEO regarding what his imaginary friend thinks about something his company might be paying for seem decidedly in the realm of "emotions".
ReplyDeleteBy Parke Godwin, and criminally under-read.
ReplyDeleteRemember, technically nothing Cooke says is moral.
ReplyDeleteApparently he can't imagine feeling sympathy for children who are literally fleeing for their lives and pleading for our help.
ReplyDeleteEven if he can't feel sympathy, he should be able to imagine it at least.
Good poem, even though it doesn't rhyme.
ReplyDeleteReally sums it up.
Whenever I hear Rightwingers badmouth emotions, I want to remind them that hate, anger and fear are ALSO emotions.
ReplyDeleteCompare what all these rightwing xenophobes are saying today (the kids have deadly communicable diseases; they're all violent gang members; they're drug mules; they're going to tip the political balance by illegally voting for Democrats) to what the Nazis said about Jews in, for example, The Eternal Jew (the Jews carry deadly communicable diseases; they're subverting the banking system; they control everything through a vast conspiracy; they're out to wreck the political system).
ReplyDeleteGodwin be damned:Rightwing media is literally taking pages from Goebbels and applying all of it to American media.
Yeah, sure--but what about if you love other people suffering to the point of martyrdom? Doesn't that count for something?
ReplyDeleteWho is this GW Bush person? Never heard of him. Nope, not familiar with that name at all.
ReplyDeleteAs I understand it, there was President Ronald Reagan, then some other guy who might have been named Bush or something. Then that sex-crazed monster Clinton who almost got impeached. And then came Obama the communist ineffectual tyrant dictator. Right?
Right?
So is disgust, and yet they're working that one raw all the time. Thank heavens no one lets hate, anger, fear, or disgust trump statutes.
ReplyDeleteHey, there's already a stock image they can use as a new logo:
ReplyDeletehttp://cache4.asset-cache.net/gc/ttb007-head-with-satellite-dish-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=bKFT%2BCWT6IMLGIj58lLe8C0170xXBlAtT%2BoU2MfF1os%3D
I don't care about the Godwin thing. You're absolutely right.
ReplyDeleteWe will ignore for the present the usual corporate Republican stance that Hispanics are a necessary evil because blacks are too lazy and pampered with welfare to turn up every day at 6 a.m. to stand and gut chickens for 12 hours.
ReplyDeleteHow piss poor a job can the U.S. media have done for so many Americans to be so blazingly ignorant of what's been happening in Central America that makes thousands of families sacrifice so deeply to send a child north?
ReplyDeleteWhat fisherman feels guilty when a fish takes the bait?
ReplyDeleteTigrismus is such a romantic!
ReplyDeleteThe whore's oeuvres? Canapés for the KKK?
ReplyDeleteFeigning outrage at "lobsterback" isn't moral positioning, it's merely, uh, ethical placement
ReplyDeleteIsn't it more the case that after the first divorce, reality has been serially raped and discarded whenever there's been a chance encounter with the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives when it was out stalking values voters, and Ashcroft refused to prosecute?
ReplyDeletePiss poor?
ReplyDeleteThose ink-stained pompous assholes are well-paid to ignore anything and everything that might upset the plutocrats who own our media.
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THERE IS NO EMOTICON FOR WHAT I FEEL ABOUT RIGHT-WING EMOTIONS!
ReplyDelete~
I'm not sure that kind of imaginative thinking is exactly moral....
ReplyDeleteCooke fills me with inertia.
ReplyDeleteBy "just reward" about all I can come up with is for Cheney to have to deep-throat Satan eternally. And also, Satan's cock is barbed like a fish hook. Make that a LOT of fish hooks.
ReplyDeleteOf course he imputes base motives to his opponents, because those are the only types of motives in his personal experience.
ReplyDeleteEveryone knows that the most dangerous time for reality is when she has asked for a separation from these people. That's often when even a restraining order doesn't help.
ReplyDeleteCatch them all!
ReplyDeleteAnd we all know how the five-year-old and toddler voting blocs helped swing the last election.
ReplyDeleteRight. Isn't this Jim Hoft's island in the stream? And isn't Hoft universally acclaimed as The Stupidest Man on the Internet?
ReplyDeleteHe's got a face that screams "dumb motherfucker."
ReplyDeleteAnd that's before you get to any of the stupid and crazy shit he says.
Two great tastes that taste great together.
ReplyDeleteUnless you're allowed to whip them.
ReplyDeleteAlso Johnny Ejectomatic McCain's telling a white man that he couldn't pick spinach for $50 a day.
To review:
Blacks - Too lazy.
Whites - Too weak.
Hispanics - Juuuuust right (provided they have no rights and they and their children remain shadow people forever.)
Here now! They're also recycling good old all-American bigotry v. immigrants of all sorts, minorities and Jewish people.
ReplyDeleteMy country 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Except for you.
Land where our Glenn Beck cried,
ReplyDeleteLand of Bill O'Reilly's pride,
From Limbaugh's sweaty side
Let hatred ring!
Hoft is currently neck-and-neck with Ben Shapiro for that title. Little Ben is doing his damnedest to win, but Hoft will likely prevail, again.
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