Thursday, November 06, 2014

FUN WITH WORDS.

I thought I'd seen some far-out iterations of the "liberals are the real racists/sexists" schtick, but Ann Althouse has pushed out the frontiers. Charlie Pierce did a fun election night round-up, full of lively insults ("James Lankford... a red-haired fanatic who believes that welfare causes school shootings.... Scott Walker, the goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries to manage their midwest subsidiary formerly known as the state of Wisconsin..."), and Althouse complains:
1. Why is "red-haired" considered acceptable as an insult?
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2. Why is it considered okay to call attention to what seems to be an eye disorder? Whether something is wrong with Scott Walker's eyes or not, the epithet "goggle-eyed" is disrespectful to all of the people who suffer from conditions like esotropia.
??

Eventually she explains, sort of:
(By the way, "escadrille" is how you say "squadron" or "small squadron" in French. I'll refrain from adding an anti-French kicker, given my attention to political correctness above.)
After running this through BabelFish, I have determined that she means you liberals are all into political correctness (yes you are libtards you like to kiss it and hug it), yet you yourself are being offensive to red-haired people plus squinting is a medical condition etc. Who's the real esotropia-ist now?

I see a bunch of people in the news calling for compromise between the camps, but it's hard to know how to even begin a conversation with people like this.

(She also thinks it's bad to make jokes about hayseeds for some reason. I'm sure glad no one ever told Paul Henning!)

314 comments:

  1. ColBatGuano3:47 PM

    You can't make me get out of the boat.

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  2. Derelict3:53 PM

    She also thinks it's bad to make jokes about hayseeds for some reason.

    I think Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy might like a few words with Our Lady of the Winebox.

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  3. susanoftexas3:56 PM

    Why is "box wine" considered an insult? There's nothing offensive about boxes. Elite liberals use boxes all the time to order their secret Alinsky manuals and liberal sex toys. And liberals also drink Chardonnay. So who is the real hypocrite, huh?

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  4. Derelict3:57 PM

    What is it with rightwing law professors that makes them so obtuse? I can only conclude it's a deliberate thing because nobody would make it out of even a community college if they were as dense as people like Althouse and Reynolds appear to be.

    I wonder if she'd have taken issue if Pierce had also used the word "tall" in his serial description of one of these polls? If she'd think he was somehow dissing a candidate for being tall, or making a slur against anyone more than 6-feet tall?

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  5. susanoftexas4:01 PM

    26-year old Ann: why is Randy Newman insulting short people on the radio?

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  6. tigrismus4:01 PM

    Apparently describing a red-haired man as red-haired is so far beyond the pale as to require comment, but "fanatic" is beyond dispute.

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  7. I think we are willing to stipulate that it was perhaps wrong to focus on Scott Walker's goggle-eyedness rather than his sniveling homonculeity and other lack of redeeming human, civic or leadership qualities.

    Having begged her forgiveness over this slip in the heat of electoral passion, I would hope that An Outhouse would be willing to focus on the substantive issue at hand and engage in a lengthy discussion of just what a wholesale fuckwad Scott Walker has been in selling off his state to his sleazy corporate masters at the expense of his constituents.

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  8. This morning, the trash men were collecting the piles of empty wine boxes behind her dwelling and shaking their heads.

    you liberals are all into political correctness (yes you are libtards you like to kiss it and hug it)


    As long as we don't marry it, right?

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  9. gocart mozart4:11 PM

    In related news, Col. Sanders is the real racist.



    http://newsone.com/3068466/mrs-obama-said-go-vote-these-right-wingers-heard-fried-chicken/

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  10. Not even with a gaff from the gaffer?
    ~

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  11. We're not wine snobs at chez Ubu here; we've found a fairly decent box wine which is drinkable and cheap. That said, being associated with Althouse is insult enough.

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  12. Derelict4:13 PM

    Really, it's all just more pearl-clutching from the fainting couch. Liberals can be described using any slur or pejorative, but tough-skinned conservatives must be offered deference and the utmost consideration at all times lest they suffer unduly. In many cases, their threshold of pain is so low that a hemorrhoid could put one into a coma.

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  13. ladies and gentlemen--and ann althouse-- i give you gordon klingenschmitt, disgraced military chapman, new state house representative from the 15th district of colorado--and no doubt, likely closeted queer--who thinks that gay discrimination is okay because only people going to heaven are entitled to equal protection under the law; that gay soldiers are too busy changing their own diapers to be effective in combat; teaching children about queer lifestyles is "mental rape"; that obamacare causes cancer; and last but not least, obama, and members of the obama administration, are possessed by demons.

    i'd say "lookism" is not the problem coming out of this cycle.

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  14. why has madonna singled out virgins?

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  15. obama, and members of the obama administration, are possessed by demons

    So then all we need is a herd of pigs (Congress should provide nicely) and a cliff, and we can dispense with the whole impeachment kabuki.

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  16. Ann Althouse is just plain weird. Clinton & The Blogger Breasts, & "Let's take a closer look at Bill's carrot and Hillary's onion ring." to note but two peculiarities. Or perversions. At least this one isn't (outwardly) about S-E-X.

    And she's a bottle blonde. (Is that more offensive/descriptive than calling someone red-haired? I hope so.)

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  17. So THAT'S why she switched to box wine from bottle.

    She kept drinking her peroxide by accident.

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  18. I would like to copy this comment & paste it chez Mme. Vin-en-boîite.

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  19. Susan of Texas4:29 PM

    The cliff would suffice.

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  20. Susan of Texas4:32 PM

    Why do they think science is weird?

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  21. mortimer20004:32 PM

    Charlie Pierce is clearly anti-oculist. Besides the goggle-eyed homunculus, he dubs Paul Ryan the Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver and Michele Bachmann The Girl With The Faraway Eyes. It's almost as bad as derogatorily calling someone "blue-eyed," which we (and Ann!) all know is the liberal's ocular racial slur for a white person.

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  22. Are you back again, Dennis honey?

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  23. mgmonklewis4:33 PM

    Their butthurt approaches "The Princess and the Pea" levels.

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  24. I'd strangle a Teabagger for some fried chicken right now.

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  25. Susan of Texas4:34 PM

    Oh no I meant for the Republicans!

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  26. mgmonklewis4:35 PM

    Why is David Bowie maligning "China Girls"?

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  27. mgmonklewis4:36 PM

    Whatever happened, it seems to have pickled her brain.

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  28. Helmut Monotreme4:39 PM

    Those who focus on his wholesale fuckwaddery are just trying to distract you from his odious mendacity!

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  29. Susan of Texas4:42 PM

    Wang Chung's fascist demands for everyone to have fun tonight are the last straw.

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  30. What has Van Morrison got against blue-eyed boys?

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  31. Odd how we're getting people posting under slightly altered names while their avatars don't show up.

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  32. I'm quite certain I saw the same red-haired, goggle-eyed hayseed at two different polling places Tuesday morning.

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  33. "WHITE" Christmas?

    What does Bing Crosby have against people of color?

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  34. edroso5:01 PM

    Mm hm.

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  35. Dirty White Boy is insulting to white boys and people who don't adhere to your norms about cleanliness.

    And what about the band name Foreigner? I'm surprised Liberals tolerate such a xenophobic name.

    And Hot Blooded is a clear slur against people with fevers and women experiencing elevated body temperatures due to hormonal levels.

    And arark, blaark, [falls into a butt of Malmsey]

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  36. L'il Abner5:17 PM

    Snuffy Smith says to Barney Google, "Should we cool this pie on the windowsill, is it hot?"....So then Barney says to Snuffy , "Of course it's hot, it's a red haired hair pie."

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  37. And Pierce sharpens his keyboard...

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  38. "Ok, Kids! And we have another letter here from our Happy Birthday Gu-gu-gu-gumdropper in Sector R. It's little Sally I. Chink, er, uh, Ching! And she's 12 years old today. Well, that's wonderful, Sally! You're going to start menstruating soon, huh? Don't you think you ought to be . . ."

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  39. What does Ronnie James Dio have against UNholy divers, I ask you?

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  40. Wholesale fuckwaddery, available at your local Sam's Club, one aisle over from the giant cans of jalapenos.

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  41. Gromet5:39 PM

    I'm going to call for poll questions. All the blah-eyes have to do to vote is answer a few basic questions about American history and culture: Explain what Malcolm X meant by "Plymouth Rock fell on us," Who was a bigger traitor -- Jefferson Davis or any black man ever, and Name just one member of Wu-Tang Clan.

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  42. Nothin' wrong w/ that! It's good for you.

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  43. Derelict5:43 PM

    I think someone needs to look into this.

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  44. "beyond the pale" Yup. Hee hee.

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  45. glennisw5:48 PM

    see to it.

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  46. glennisw5:49 PM

    What's all this about Soviet Jewry?

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  47. Brian Schlosser5:49 PM

    I see what you did there

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  48. glennisw5:49 PM

    Hers and Peggy Noonans

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  49. glennisw5:50 PM

    I don't like the optics.

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  50. Derelict5:51 PM

    Jeez--I blink and look at someone beating me to my comment!

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  51. Derelict5:52 PM

    We may have to put a lid on this before we all wind up with lashes.

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  52. Does ODB count, or does it have to be living members?

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  53. Lashed within an inch of your life.

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  54. glennisw5:57 PM

    Don't make me tear up.

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  55. Maybe that's the approach. "Why is Republican Party SO DEFENSIVE?" "How can they lead when they're always complaining about how people perceive them?"

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  56. Brian Schlosser6:00 PM

    I am sure that Charlie is humbled to have his scribblings critiqued by the esteemed Ms Althouse. I know I would be. Why, my tears would flowing freely down my cheeks

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  57. gocart mozart6:03 PM

    As a white person, I find that phrase offensive.

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  58. Shoulders shaking, sides heaving. Even bent double with remorse.

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  59. gocart mozart6:04 PM

    Teach your pupils well.

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  60. Soprano_semprelibera6:08 PM

    There you go, making all these cornea jokes.

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  61. gocart mozart6:09 PM

    Liberal use the term euthanasia all the time and it is a slur against Asian young people.

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  62. Jay B.6:12 PM

    Whether something is wrong with Scott Walker's eyes or not, the epithet "goggle-eyed" is disrespectful to all of the people who suffer from conditions like esotropia.

    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzbhbetwYFU>INPEACH GOV LEPETOMANE!!</a>


    Harumph!

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  63. Just being a good pupil.

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  64. Smurch6:16 PM

    Y'all's jokes are too high-brow for me.

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  65. Gaffi.
    http://bavatuesdays.com/files/2009/12/TRaider.jpg

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  66. Hemidemisemiquaver6:25 PM

    What's with all this vitreous humor?

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  67. Gromet6:47 PM

    If that is your point of confusion, you may vote.

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  68. Oh, that's the old leprechaun trick... that's easy!

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  69. davdoodles6:55 PM

    Oh goodness gracious. Really? We are back to chiding progressives about an alleged lack of "civility"?
    Well, I said it then and I'll say it again now: When conservatives start behaving in a civilised manner, I'll start acting in a 'civil' one.
    Until then they, and their faux outrage for the reptilian sensibilities of bizzarre-looking conservative shitheads can All.Get.Rooted.
    .

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  70. The fun I've missed by not installing Web Of Trust sooner and reading the site reviews:

    Guy Chapman 07/13/2013

    I don't trust

    Potentially illegal

    Misleading claims or unethical

    Alternative or controversial medicine

    This site doesn't have everything (it's notably missing any reality-based content, for example) but it is certainly an extensive collection of the usual mutually contradictory claims for refuted, questionable or downright bonkers alternative "cures" and it does contain a significant proportion of the expected conspiracist claptrap.

    Fortunately it is amateurishly laid out and wears it's tinfoil hat on its sleeve, so most people probably will not be taken in.

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  71. davdoodles7:07 PM

    As an offensive person, I find your comment entirely within the pale.
    .

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  72. Oh, wow:

    jammgor 05/11/2013
    I haven't rated

    Good site

    If you are open to alternatives in Medicine, you are right. Many hate the idea of "freedom to choose" your mode of treatment! Many of them swallow the Kool-aid that your Dr. is God. He/she is not. Good Drs have been driven to suicide by the Medical left.

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  73. redoubtagain7:10 PM

    Noticeably, "goggle-eyed homunculus" gets her in high dudgeon, while "hired by Koch Industries to manage their midwest subsidiary formerly known as the state of Wisconsin" --in which she lives, drinks and purports to teach law--gets passed over without comment.

    I hope for her sake she has the kind of tenure that will keep her employed when the state's higher education system disappears.

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  74. YNWA405157:14 PM

    "From the slums of Shaolin, Wu Tang Clan strikes again . . . The RZA, the GZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Inspectah Deck, Raekwon the Chef, U-God, Ghostface Killah and the M-E-T-H-O-D Man . . ."

    (also, too, Masta Killa and Cappadonna).

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  75. Boone's Farm would go out of business of that happened.

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  76. Ann Althouse - crock au vin

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  77. ColBatGuano7:30 PM

    Us sunburned Gingers cry foul!

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  78. "Herman's Hermits" - blatant liberal bigotry against people choosing to live a solitary lifestyle.

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  79. What if she doesn't want a pearl necklace?

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  80. GINGERS HAVE SOULS

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  81. M. Krebs7:40 PM

    Do NOT besmirch the hemorrhoid.

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  82. M. Krebs7:44 PM

    ... disgraced military chapman ...


    Freudian typo?

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  83. mortimer20007:48 PM

    This thread is positively epicanthic, but that's to be expected from paronomasians.

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  84. M. Krebs7:48 PM

    I was thinking about planting some black-eyed susans in the garden, but now I think it's much too politically incorrect.

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  85. work work work work

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  86. M. Krebs7:49 PM

    Say what?

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  87. tigrismus7:52 PM

    Yes, but whose?

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  88. Mary Ellen Sandahl7:52 PM

    And quickly, before Charlie ducts the issue

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  89. Eurasian used to be a poker term: "Eurasing or folding now?"

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  90. Why are they "Super"tramp? Being regular tramps isn't good enough for them?

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  91. He goes through Disqus IDs like Newt Gingrich goes thru wives.

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  92. PersonaAuGratin8:12 PM

    "Dr. Chaps"

    Pretty sure I've seen that guy at the Folsom Street Fair.

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  93. Too much vin, too little.............

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  94. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person8:24 PM

    (She also thinks it's bad to make jokes about hayseeds for some reason. I'm sure glad no one ever told Paul Henning!)

    Or Bernie Brillstein.

    Count me among the literally dozens of people who never knew Hee Haw had a 20 year long syndication life after it was cancelled. If I hadn't read it on the Internet, I would'na believed it...

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  95. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person8:31 PM

    the epithet "goggle-eyed" is disrespectful

    As a Nystagmoid (look it up), I agree. "Homunculus", however, is right on the money, (although, curiously, 4 out of 5 Homunculi disagree), and Wisconsin is indeed a subsidiary of Koch Industries, and we have the tape of the phone call to prove it. That's 2 out of 3, so we win, and also "shut up, dumb lady", as someone once said.

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  96. Socialist Cubone8:44 PM

    As someone who goes wall-eyed all the time on account of keratoconus, I would like to say: Fuck Scott Walker.
    I am #notyourshield

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  97. ohsopolite8:48 PM

    Rather arch, one might say.

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  98. In short mentioning things is bigotry. Better to remain silent then, I guess?

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  99. Beyond the Pale? What are you--antisemitic?

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  100. efgoldman8:56 PM

    As a short person, I can testify to a lot of heightism in the workplace.

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  101. tigrismus9:00 PM

    I just hate buckets SO MUCH.

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  102. BUKKIT?
    http://i.ytimg.com/vi/UTUurpYoTT4/hqdefault.jpg

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  103. a hemorrhoid could put one into a coma.Oh, nonsense. They're always wide awake during a Ted Cruz speech.

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  104. Relevant:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEFKFiXSx4

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  105. I think we are willing to stipulate that it was perhaps wrong to focus on Scott Walker's goggle-eyednessEh, speak for yourself.


    "Scott Walker, goggle-eyed homunculus ..."


    "Hey, that's offensive!"


    "Sorry; Scott Walker, goggle-eyed homunculus and corrupt shitweasel ..."

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  106. Another Kiwi9:21 PM

    Obviously "goggle eyed" is much worse than that N-word that her fellow travellers want to fling about with their faeces. That's why she never says anything about that.

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  107. But people can be goggle eyed without having it as a medical condition, surely? Is it also going to be considered to be bigoted to call someone a "blinking idiot?" Unfair to blinkers?

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  108. Why is "red-haired" considered acceptable as an insult?

    Whatta maroon! "Red-haired" is merely descriptive, "fanatic" is the insult. It's not like red-heads are a despised minority... I haven't seen Christina Hendricks or Karen Gillan on any bread lines lately.

    It's a sort of willful (?) obtuseness that right-wingers specialize in, the sort of intentional (?) misinterpretation that renders "nuke it from orbit" into a threat, or "Sasquatch is real" into an anti-semitic slur.


    I sure hope Mr Pierce focuses his razor wit on Our Lady of the Boxed Wine... it would be hilarious to see Meade try to match wits with him.

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  109. Can't match what you don't have. Meade and Our Lady are somewhat hobbled by reality.

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  110. Another Kiwi9:26 PM

    I think Mr. Pierce probably means it as a description of this dude when this dude gets all shouty about whatever they get all shouty about. Clouds that look like chickens, I dunno. Perhaps, in terms of prejudice, Althouse should remove the beam from her own eye (biblical reference there, two god points for me).

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  111. Another Kiwi9:30 PM

    Through a glass, snarkly.

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  112. Another Kiwi9:40 PM

    Holy fuckeroony, Republicans do crazy better than almost anyone. Speaking of which, Inhofe as head of Congressional Science Committee?
    IMPEACH GRAVITY!!

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  113. We need to put a lid on this.

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  114. Another Kiwi9:43 PM

    We only buy artisan fuckwaddery from a guy we know who grows it.

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  115. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person9:43 PM

    Odds are she had "...like a red-headed stepchild" in mind, and...well that's about it. Not like she really had anything to say about it, it just provided the twitch for what looks like a species of automatic writing...

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  116. Oh, a fuckwaddery elitist.

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  117. Another Kiwi9:48 PM

    Life's too short for wholesale fuckwaddery. You say "I know let's have fuckwad soup and chuck K-Mart fuckwaddery in it and it just tastes like semen.

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  118. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person9:50 PM

    He gets that thing to a razor edge, so I hope he types with gloves on...

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  119. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person9:53 PM

    Jeez, what a bunch of rod & coneheads...

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  120. Another Kiwi9:56 PM

    Why did that group call themselves The Small Faces? What's wrong with big faces.

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  121. But how will we stay focused and in contact?

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  122. Isn't the new term of art "shitgobblin?"

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  123. Don't get me started on the evils of black eyed peas.

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  124. She wasn't very upset with Liberal Fascism, either.

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  125. Next she is going to get angry on behalf of rented mules.

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  126. Tony Prost10:40 PM

    Everyone knows, Santa is white.

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  127. J Neo Marvin10:41 PM

    I always preferred "dead eyed cretin" myself.

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  128. Tony Prost10:44 PM

    Why do you need the fried chicken?

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  129. montag210:49 PM

    Althouse wants to cross lances with Charlie Pierce, eh? Because he calls the political feebs, fakes and fools by their proper names?

    Ol' Annie apparently doesn't realize just how outmatched she is, and that is a very bad starting point to be climbing onto the bull for the next ride.

    At this moment, perhaps the only thing she could do that would be even stupider would be to metaphorically piss on Matt Taibbi's pantsleg. I doubt that he'd be in the mood for her nattering.

    Talk about trying to fight waaaay above your weight.

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  130. Derelict10:54 PM

    She'll remove the beam from her own eye only after your eye gets de-moted.

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  131. billcinsd10:57 PM

    somebody phunk'd with your heart?

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  132. montag211:00 PM

    What I find amusing about this is that Pierce has been using that description of Walker steadily and without variance as a stock phrase for at least a couple of years, almost from the moment he started blogging at Esquire.

    And Ol' Annie just noticed?

    Gonna have to start referring to her as Swifty Outhouse.

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  133. montag211:13 PM

    Say what you will about ol' Doc Chaps, there's no doubt that he's going to liven up floor debate in the legislature. I'm imagining that the first time he gets up to speak, he will try to deliver a half-hour sermon on how gay people are undermining the earth's crust and are affecting the weather, and the second time he gets up to speak, there will be a hail of old vegetables.

    Even though he's running from Colorado Springs, which is fast becoming Religious Looney Central, I suspect that if he's reelected, it will only be for his entertainment value.

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  134. Who can afford boutique fuckwaddery in this economy?

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  135. i have a standing bet for dinner with someone on the hill that he's going to be caught cruising cheesman park.

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  136. Another Kiwi11:17 PM

    Indeed, these are hard times and many makers are going to go to the wall with the flood of cheap fuckwadsters that are heading to Washington.

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  137. She was looking around for a new meaningless grievance to distract from the fact that Scott Walker is a goggle eyed homunculus, shit weasel, orc style tool of Koch/Sauron and a very likely Presidential contender who is too short, even with lifts, to make a successful run for it.

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  138. Do you think Pierce stoops to conquer? And if he does what delicious nickname will he coin for her?

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  139. sysprog11:21 PM

    OH BS...these professional victims' will find ANYTHING to whine about. They were all 'up in arms' about Wendy Davis showing Abbott in a wheelchair when the POINT was that yes, he's in a wheelchair and he sued for MILLIONS to get that fancy wheelchair but he has worked every since making sure YOU don't get a fancy chair. They focus on the 'red haired victims' instead of the fact that Lankford is a dolt who lies to your face and evidently, enough sheep 'buy' it.

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  140. I don't work for free.

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  141. The good thing is that with the Internet you never have to pay for fuckwaddery if you don't want.

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  142. montag211:29 PM

    Truthfully, I doubt he will notice unless someone points it out to him. He's likely still trying to decompress from interviewing Joni Ernst.

    He's probably had his share of goofballs during the past week in Iowa and one more is barely worth notice.

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  143. realinterrobang11:32 PM

    Save Russian Jews!

    Get valuable prizes!

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  144. ... and then reelected.

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  145. realinterrobang11:35 PM

    I have strabismus and am similarly wall-eyed. And fuck Scott Walker with a dancing palm tree.

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  146. Gabriel Ratchet11:37 PM

    And I suppose the late, lamented Spy magazine's regular description of Donald Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian" is disrespectful to both people suffering from brachydactyly and to Gert Fröbe, Or something. Proving ... um, fuck if I know.

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  147. Hemidemisemiquaver11:38 PM

    Holy zygomatic arch, Batman!

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  148. And fuck Scott Walker with a dancing palm tree.Jeez, shouldn't they date a while first?

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  149. I haven't seen Christina Hendricks or Karen Gillan on any bread lines lately.[Dejectedly stops laying out trail of bread crumbs]

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  150. On behalf of?

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  151. Gabriel Ratchet11:54 PM

    I've often heard people complain about the phrase "assless chaps" on the grounds that if they had an ass, they wouldn't be chaps. I think we can all agree that "Dr Chaps" is not only not assless, he's instead nothing but.

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  152. Tehanu11:59 PM

    "Daddy? Where can I get a square deal in a Christian atmospher-- "

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  153. Another Kiwi12:15 AM

    God only knows what psychic damage has been done by the years of name calling that Shortnin Bread has endured.

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  154. badJim12:17 AM

    Didn't anyone warn you about the yellow snow?

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  155. montag212:39 AM

    Well, he will have to go through the Rev. Ted Haggard Rehabilitation Program first, though.

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  156. Mom's of the opinion he looks more like he's into children.

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  157. Frank told me to watch out for them huskies.

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  158. montag212:49 AM

    Oh, I think she's just saying that those mean ol' liberals won't play fair. Conservative politicians are people, too! So, it's not nice to discriminate on the basis of moral handicap.

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  159. PersonaAuGratin1:08 AM

    But at least he's open to immigration reform:

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  160. montag21:16 AM

    Althouse is wrong about that. In Walker's case, the reference is specific to him, because we all know what's wrong with his eyes.

    They're connected to his brain.

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  161. sigyn2:12 AM

    Is that a noun, adjective, or a description of what the dog's doing in the catbox?

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  162. trog696:17 AM

    He is a nothing butt.

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  163. Derelict7:30 AM

    Maybe just a smear campaign?

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  164. Lena Dunham8:38 AM

    Get in the van, little girl. Come on, I've got candy.

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  165. Lena Dunham8:40 AM

    I was just spelunking exploring, that's all.

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  166. Lena Dunham9:08 AM

    I still needed to periodically check for more marbles, that's all.

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  167. AngryWarthogBreath9:10 AM

    Ah, I just saw the bit about diaper changing. I mean, I used to think that the only two arguments people ever make about the terribleness of gay men are 1) "my conception of God who looks just like me doesn't like them", and 2) "they do butt stuff and that is icky". It is looking more and more like even 1 is actually "my conception of God who looks just like me thinks that they do butt stuff and that is icky".

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  168. mgmonklewis9:14 AM

    That would've been a Cheeto and Box Wine clusterfk, with a blizzard of empty Ho-Ho wrappers swirling around the fracas.

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  169. mgmonklewis9:19 AM

    https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/file2/publication/article/SAAMAG/40282/live/IMG

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  170. M. Krebs9:41 AM

    Or Wolcott. And he wasn't above giving Donald Douglass a wedgie.

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  171. Fake roy edroso9:44 AM

    I can't be arsed to even mention Mia Love or Tim Scott, because, you know, the narrative.

    Also my street cred.

    And my readers. Otherwise, I would.

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  172. He's a chapsless ass.

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  173. "Mmmmm, kitty roka!"

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  174. Halloween_Jack10:02 AM

    Wingnut-to-English translation: I have no effective counterargument, so I'll trot out another sock puppet and throw the GOP's latest tokens out because the afterglow from Tuesday is already fading.

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  175. Halloween_Jack10:06 AM

    Ol' Annie apparently doesn't realize just how outmatched she is


    I'm beginning to think that that's her shtick, simply because her commentariat eats it up. Otherwise, that level of disingenuousness would be permissible only in college freshmen or Tumblr users.

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  176. Halloween_Jack10:09 AM

    In all fairness, that really wasn't the best part of his career (Bowie has referred to it as his "Phil Collins period").

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  177. Fake roy edroso10:18 AM

    Tokens, Halloween?

    Another disingenuous white liberal who thinks its ok to tell blacks how to be black.

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  178. No more starbursts, I guess.

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  179. Oh, THIS one is good - not only 3 "Guest" upvotes, but an upvote from one of its other sockpuppets.

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  180. The Spanish war and other events in 1936-7 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it.

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  181. Upvoting yourself is like jerking off in public, but, yeah, I guess you're consistent there, aint'cha.

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  182. Fake roy edroso10:38 AM

    Pete,

    You seriously need to GAFL.

    Reach out to your new Senator and tell him how much you're looking forward to being one of his constituents.

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  183. Thank you for your comments, which we shall give due consideration.

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  184. BigHank5310:41 AM

    But oh God the ads you have to sit through to get your free fuckwaddery.

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  185. IT' S CALLED FREEDOM CAPITALISM YOU COMMIE

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  186. Bowie has referred to it as his "Phil Collins period"

    BURN.

    but, yeah, pretty much accurate.

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  187. Fake roy edroso10:53 AM

    Or better yet, stroll on diwn to Five Points and tell everyone that he's just another 'token', like your bud Halloween Jack just called him.

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  188. BigHank5310:55 AM

    Shit, someone's willing to pay for strangled teabaggers? Man, the amount of spec work I've wasted...

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  189. BigHank5310:58 AM

    When the main point of all your argumentation is boo-hoo, look how mean the world is to me it's sorta impossible to stop picking fights you're going to lose. Of course, everyone who drinks seriously needs a reason. Excuse. Whatever.

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  190. Thank you for your comments, which we shall give due consideration.

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  191. gocart mozart11:02 AM

    Love and Scott are just garden variety teabaggers who happen to be black. They shouldn't be supported based solely on the color of their skin because that would be kinda racist. In what other context do you think they should be mentioned?

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  192. gocart mozart11:12 AM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcaedYRy58I

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  193. gocart mozart11:14 AM

    The most racist (hairist?) product ever.

    http://c4.diapers.com/images/products/p/kft/kft-536_1z.jpg

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  194. but but but liberals should have voted for Mia Love because that's why we voted for Obama! Q.E.Derp.

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  195. "MADE WITH REAL GINGERS"


    O_0


    Soylent Ginger?

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