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This Woman Makes Me Wish I Was a Lesbian

by John Cole

Manic progressives (I’m talking to you, Keith). Watch and learn:

I think I need a cigarette.

Of course, flaming Obama probably is good for poutrage fundraising.

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July 21, 2010 11:53 pm Posted in: Assholes, Black Jimmy Carter, Blogospheric Navel-Gazing  47 Comments

47 Responses

  1. demimondian - July 22, 2010 | 12:00 am · Link

    I disagree with Maddow—not about the history, but about the substance. There’s a long history of this kind of propaganda, and it is always used to justify a mass murder. We’re seeing the beginnings of that: people going out to attack the ACLU and the Tides Foundation, a frequent topic of rants on Beck’s show.

    I wish Maddow had reminded her viewers of the radio shows in Burundi, or in Serbia, or in other places where large genocides took place. This is what the right-wing thugs do when they can’t win legitimately—they create an “enemy”, and they dehumanize that enemy, and they, eventually, kill that enemy.

  2. El Tiburon - July 22, 2010 | 12:02 am · Link

    Misery of trolling around on an IPad: can’t watch most videos especially if they are Flash. So assuming it is Rachel meadow?

  3. KG - July 22, 2010 | 12:05 am · Link

    I spend a lot of time in Long Beach, I have met more than a few women that make me wish I was a lesbian.

  4. BR - July 22, 2010 | 12:06 am · Link

    @demimondian:

    This is what the right-wing thugs do when they can’t win legitimately—they create an “enemy”, and they dehumanize that enemy, and they, eventually, kill that enemy.

    Maddow was just saying that it’s a political tactic, which it is. When they aren’t getting the results they want with the political tactic, their avid crazies take it to a whole new level.

  5. BR - July 22, 2010 | 12:09 am · Link

    It’s too bad that this eclipsed two important things that happened today:

    1. Obama signed the Wall Street reform bill.

    2. The Senate passed the unemployment extension.

  6. Violet - July 22, 2010 | 12:10 am · Link

    @El Tiburon:

    Rachel meadow?

    Somehow I read that as “Rachel Meow.” Lolz.

  7. BR - July 22, 2010 | 12:14 am · Link

    You know, I have to give Michael Moore a lot of credit, for something most folks probably forgot, but it’s on the topic Maddow covered tonight.

    In Bowling for Columbine, he spent probably a good 30 minutes of the film discussing how the media systematically creates a black bogeyman that America should be afraid of.

    I wish I had a clip of that.

  8. Hunter Gathers - July 22, 2010 | 12:15 am · Link

    @BR:

    It’s too bad that this eclipsed two important things that happened today:
    1. Obama signed the Wall Street reform bill.
    2. The Senate passed the unemployment extension.

    You think it was mere coincidence? I think not. The timing was deliberate. The target was never Sherrod, or the NAACP or the WH, or any of the others who got caught up in this. It was all about hijacking the MSM for a few days, to drown out any good news, to get the public focused on bullshit. Breitbart is a professional race baiter, and pros of his caliber always get the job done. Always.

  9. Brian J - July 22, 2010 | 12:17 am · Link

    Sherrod’s a lesbian?

  10. freelancer (itouch) - July 22, 2010 | 12:17 am · Link

    Her 3rd segment tonight deserves a Peabody. I hope Steve Doocy falls asleep tonight cradling a pistol, lips wrapped around the barrel, and wakes up in the morning weeping like a scorned schoolgirl.

  11. kdaug - July 22, 2010 | 12:21 am · Link

    @Hunter Gathers: Ding.

  12. Non-Existent Patricia - July 22, 2010 | 12:24 am · Link

    @demimondian:
    I’m not a historian (I don’t even play one on TV!) but this seems to be what plays to authoritan types. Find an under-represented minority and demonize them. Same song, different dance, as the kids say.

  13. shortstop - July 22, 2010 | 12:25 am · Link

    @Hunter Gathers:

    I think it was both.

  14. Mike in NC - July 22, 2010 | 12:25 am · Link

    Might be hot stuff for a gal who likes gals:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....40093.html

  15. DonBoy - July 22, 2010 | 12:28 am · Link

    I’m not a big fan of the “I question the timing” trope. When is it not a good time for the right wing to fling feces?

  16. freelancer (itouch) - July 22, 2010 | 12:29 am · Link

    @El Tiburon:

    I posted a YouTube clip of the first segment here.

    http://thegreatamericandesert......e-machine/

    I hope someone posts the 3rd segment soon. So great.

  17. Non-Existent Patricia - July 22, 2010 | 12:29 am · Link

    @Mike in NC:
    Hell, its probably not bad for a guy who likes gals who like gals.

  18. BR - July 22, 2010 | 12:29 am · Link

    @Non-Existent Patricia:

    Find an under-represented minority and demonize them. Same song, different dance, as the kids say.

    They’re just afraid that in about 30 years they’ll be minorities as well, as almost every state in the country will have no racial / ethnic majority.

  19. SIA - July 22, 2010 | 12:30 am · Link

    Reasonable, honest, smarter than anyone on TV, does her homework, and maintains a smile while lacerating the losers. Does everything Fred Astaire does, but backwards, and in…comfortable shoes.

  20. Mike Goetz - July 22, 2010 | 12:32 am · Link

    And so a new consensus forms: Only Obama has anything to be embarrassed about in this situation. Read the next installment of “Beyond Left and Right” at Huffington Post for details.

    Maybe Obama would be willing to fight more if he didn’t have a bunch of fairweather-friend bastards backing him up. He is always left on an island by his putative allies.

  21. Paul E. Dare - July 22, 2010 | 12:34 am · Link

    Makes you wish you were a lesbian, not was.

  22. Ron - July 22, 2010 | 12:34 am · Link

    Rachel is honestly one of the most amazing people I have seen on TV. I very rarely see her do what she did tonight to Fox News, but since they were such a big part of the story, it had to be told.

  23. Malron aka eclecticbrotha - July 22, 2010 | 12:37 am · Link

    @Mike Goetz: This, like a muhfugga:

    Maybe Obama would be willing to fight more if he didn’t have a bunch of fairweather-friend bastards backing him up. He is always left on an island by his putative allies.

    Obama’s presidency is often like watching “McHale’s Navy,” with him playing straight man while surrounded by a bunch of bumbling idiots. But, come to think of it, maybe its more appropriate to compare him to Rudolph being stranded on the Island of Misfit Toys. I dunno, its late and all my analogies are belong to suck right now.

  24. freelancer (itouch) - July 22, 2010 | 12:39 am · Link

    @Paul E. Dare:

    I wish I were a lesbian.

    Happy?

  25. drag0n - July 22, 2010 | 12:39 am · Link

    @Hunter Gathers:

    You think it was mere coincidence? I think not. The timing was deliberate. The target was never Sherrod, or the NAACP or the WH, or any of the others who got caught up in this. It was all about hijacking the MSM for a few days, to drown out any good news

    You got it. One of the nice things about Maddow’s piece is that she points out that the people pulling this stuff are not just racists, creeps or assholes.. they are pros.

  26. Liberty60 - July 22, 2010 | 12:40 am · Link

    Yeah, I was trying to find a word for straight-guy-crush-on-smart-lesbian, but it made my brain hurt.

    She is spot on with her analysis, that the real story here is the breathless rush to embrace the “white oppression” meme that get endlessly pushed on Wingnuttia media.

    It would be laughably silly except I noticed that was the exact strategy used by the Serbs in the Balkans, and the Hutus/ Tutsis in Rwanda, to justify their ethnic rage and slaughter.

    This is vile stuff, the underlying fear and rage boiling in the Tea Party crowd.

  27. Joe Buck - July 22, 2010 | 12:41 am · Link

    @Hunter Gathers: the target most emphatically was the NAACP. A few days ago, the NAACP called out the Tea Party for the racism in its ranks, and the wingnuts went crazy. Breitbart tried to do to the NAACP what he did to ACORN.

  28. MikeJ - July 22, 2010 | 12:41 am · Link

    @Paul E. Dare: You wouldn’t recognize the subjunctive if I gave you an example.

  29. TooManyJens - July 22, 2010 | 12:42 am · Link

    @freelancer (itouch): The podcast is up on the iTunes music store now.

  30. Non-Existent Patricia - July 22, 2010 | 12:43 am · Link

    @BR:
    Ah, but they’re planning ahead. They’re already “strengthening” voter registration laws and demonizing groups that mobilize minority voters. They see the demographic shift and are already working to disenfranchise certain groups

  31. FlipYrWhig - July 22, 2010 | 12:44 am · Link

    Is it just me, or is Laurence O’Donnell like the physical embodiment of the Huffington Post? They’re generally on the side of the angels but then every once in a while they spin off into accusations or innuendoes. And he’s picked up the Olbermann habit of asking questions that unwind for a long time until they’re likely to be longer than the interviewee’s responses. I don’t think I’ll be watching his MSNBC show.

  32. BR - July 22, 2010 | 12:49 am · Link

    @Non-Existent Patricia:

    Ah, but they’re planning ahead. They’re already “strengthening” voter registration laws and demonizing groups that mobilize minority voters. They see the demographic shift and are already working to disenfranchise certain groups

    Yeah, I remember a TPM story a week ago about some GOPer worried about how “they” are having babies here so in 30 years they’ll go on to threaten our way of life.

  33. Allison W. - July 22, 2010 | 12:53 am · Link

    “Beyond Left and Right”

    ugh. gag me. yes, ‘cause when the right agrees with you then you know you’re on to something.’ oh look, Obama makes us both mad so he must suck.

    geesh.

  34. freelancer (itouch) - July 22, 2010 | 12:56 am · Link

    @TooManyJens:

    And Cole has posted it upthread. I want YouTube, because I, too, wish to frontpage it on my own site, and WP is a bitch about video embeds.

    ETA: thanks though

  35. drag0n - July 22, 2010 | 12:57 am · Link

    If by segment 3 you guys are talking about the Fox segment. It is linked in the videos above. Here is another linky.

  36. Non-Existent Patricia - July 22, 2010 | 12:59 am · Link

    @BR:
    Right, the GOP platform is one state (Nevada?) actually contained a plank about amending the Constitution so that birth in the US did not grant automatic citizenship. How’s that for “framer’s intent”?

  37. Jager - July 22, 2010 | 1:16 am · Link

    John,

    Lay down, turn off the lights and listen to Prince’s :If I Were Your Girlfriend” 10-20 times with your eyes closed tight.

  38. Non-Existent Patricia - July 22, 2010 | 1:21 am · Link

    @Non-Existent Patricia:
    Upon perusal of the Great Gazoogle, it was a proposed plank of the Utah GOP. Don’t know if it passed (research is not my forte).

  39. Resident Firebagger - July 22, 2010 | 1:47 am · Link

    @Mike Goetz: Err, Obama and his administration cowardly threw a good person under the bus. How is this Jane Hamsher’s fault?...

  40. Mnemosyne - July 22, 2010 | 1:55 am · Link

    @Resident Firebagger:

    Where did he say it was Jane Hamsher’s fault? I don’t read the HuffPo, so is that her column’s name or something?

  41. Wile E. Quixote - July 22, 2010 | 1:56 am · Link

    @John Cole

    This Woman Makes Me Wish I Was a Lesbian

    Mmmmmmmmm, naked mopping John Cole lesbian.

  42. Morbo - July 22, 2010 | 2:05 am · Link

    FYWP, I’ve hit submit for this at least twice now.

  43. Triassic Sands - July 22, 2010 | 2:13 am · Link

    @Mike Goetz:

    And so a new consensus forms: Only Obama has anything to be embarrassed about in this situation.

    Sorry, but that goes beyond hyperbole. I’ve viewed and read a lot of responses today to this story and none that I came across said anything remotely like “only Obama has anything to be embarrassed about.”

    I believe your so-called consensus is imaginary. While the administration certainly has egg on its face from its response to Breitbart’s latest (and Gibbs seems to have accepted that the WH deserves criticism), the real consensus seems to be that the only one who comes out of this smelling like a rose is Ms. Sherrod herself. Breitbart, the media generally, FoxNews specifically, the White House, and Vilsack all look bad. Actually, in all the things I’ve read, Obama has been either a minor character or subsumed under the “White House,” which can mean a number of things from Obama himself, to the administration, to White House staff, etc. As much as you may want to believe it, I really don’t think Obama is a victim here.

  44. Lysana - July 22, 2010 | 2:18 am · Link

    @Morbo:

    FYWP, I’ve hit submit for this at least twice now.

    Agh! Beaten to the Loudon Wainwright. Great anime vid, too.

  45. Paul L. - July 22, 2010 | 9:29 am · Link

    Rachel has some experience with leaving out context.
    Rachel Maddow is a Dishonest Hack part 3

    Rachel Maddow repeated her ACORN deception from April 6, 2010 and dishonestly “edited” the CA AG report again to make it look like Vera reported O’Keefe and Giles to the police immediately instead of 9 Days later.

  46. 4jkb4ia - July 22, 2010 | 12:18 pm · Link

    It had to be said that TNC is not a “manic progressive”. See posts, “On Lacking All Conviction”.

  47. 4jkb4ia - July 22, 2010 | 12:31 pm · Link

    This video was a good accompaniment for the GM-China story, which it also has to be said that EW was on first.

    Also today we have the heartwarming story of GM buying a subprime lender.


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