Lawrence O’Donnell and The Last Word vs. Herman Cain — PWNT.

Lawrence made Herman Cain look like the jackass that he is.

 If you missed The Last Word last night, you really must watch Lawrence O’Donnell’s take-down of Herman Cain (after the jump).

It was a thing of beauty.

At the outset, I agree with Nicholas Wilbur:   This man doesn’t stand a chance at being elected, nor do I think he thinks he stands a chance at being elected.

First, calling black Americans “brainwashed” for refusing to consider an alternative to Barack Obama is not a way to win the hearts and minds of black people.  Essentially, he called black folks too stupid to realize the glory that is Herman Cain.  To that, I say “pfffft!”  I can only assume he buys into the “Lincoln was a Republican and freed the slaves, the Democrats are the real racists” line of crap.

Second, Herman Cain’s 999 plan is a load of hogwash—an analysis suggests that the plan would cause the largest deficit since World War II and would increase taxes for most Americans:

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Lindsey Graham (R-Smelling Salts): It’s hard out there for a white southerner

::cue tiny violins::

The story that Alex Haley wouldn’t want you to know about:

GOP presidential candidate Gov. Rick Perry (TX) has faced severe backlash this week as the result of stories that he had opposed a campaign to remove the Confederate battle flag from statehouses across the South and that he had hosted family and friends at a West Texas hunting camp that once read “Niggerhead” on its entrance gate. Yesterday on Mike Gallagher’s radio show, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) defended Perry. “Rick Perry is not a racist,” Graham said, saying the Texas governor is the victim of an “intimidation” campaign. “You know if you’re a southern white guy, it is part of your life,” Graham complained. (read more)

Render unto me a break, guy.

[via Think Progress]

[cross-posted at Angry Black Lady Chronicles]

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Gene Lyons of Salon.com cavalierly dismisses racism and calls Melissa Harris-Perry a fool [Updated!]

Re-heally.

Yesterday, founder of Salon.com, David Talbot announced that, after six years, he would be returning as CEO of the online magazine:

“In these increasingly hard times, Salon is dedicating itself to an American revival. Our editorial mission will become more explicitly and aggressively populist. We will be publishing more investigative pieces, exposing the shadow dance of power. And both Democratic and Republican targets will be fair game, since both parties are increasingly under the control of the same corporate forces.
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It’s time to start our own country.¹

Today, Gene Lyons led the charge for Salon’s “new populism” by going all in against Professor Melissa Harris-Perry, and by extension, the scores of black people who agree with her [images of the Lyons article are below; links to Professor Harris Perry’s article are here (“Black President, Double Standard: Why White Liberals Are Abandoning Obama“) and here (“The Epistemology of Race Talk“)]:

This just in: Not all the fools are Republicans. Recently, one Melissa Harris-Perry, a Tulane professor who moonlights on MSNBC political talk shows, wrote an article for the Nation titled “Black President, Double Standard: Why White Liberals Are Abandoning Obama.”

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My Post at The Grio: “Walsh uses race to distract GOP base from wealth gap”

I have a new post up at The Grio:

In an interview with Brent Bozell of the conservative Media Research Center this week, Congressman Joe Walsh (Republican of Illinois) invoked President Obama’s race in an attempt to explain what he views as the media’s refusal to expose the “dishonesty” in President Obama’s deficit reduction plan; the dishonesty being, of course, the president’s recently-stated policy—the so-called “Buffett Rule” that millionaires should not pay a lower tax rate than those in the middle class.

Walsh has a history of disrespectful behavior toward, and of making insensitive racial remarks about, President Obama. He recently claimed that Obama was elected only because he was an articulate black man and appeased “white liberal guilt.”

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[via The Grio]

[cross-posted at Angry Black Lady Chronicles]

[As of yesterday, I’m officially on the roster of paid contributors at The Grio. ::toots horn:: I’m pretty jazzed—like “jazz hands” jazzed. Now let’s see if I turn in my W9 in a timely fashion, or if I procrastinate until the end of time as is my nature. -ABLxx]

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What Michael Moore said in response and what he should have said in response.

Digging deeper.

 Michael Moore posted a blurb on his blog which I can only assume is meant to explain his/Bill Maher’s comment that he voted for the black guy and got the white guy, but which fails miserably on that count:

I was asked about Obama and how I felt about the job he’s doing. Here’s the transcript:

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Derp and Fail. [Updated!]

So let me get this straight: A blogger who regularly traffics in perceived racial slights and calls herself Angry Black Lady is shocked, SHOCKED that she elicits racially-tinged and/or racist comments. And she wants everybody to knock it off. Except for her.

This is a big reason why I always skip over any post with her name attached to it. But I guess that makes me a hater too.

I guess the ban will commence in 3…2…1…

On reading this, the umpteenth example of a race-baiting post by the non-ironically named Angry Black Lady, I have to conclude that Angry Black Lady really hates being black. Sorry, no two ways around it.

You’re the daughter of a mixed-race couple? Then you’re not really an angry Black lady, are you? You’re an angry biracial lady, and I think you owe all true angry black ladies an apology. You’re certainly in no position to be demanding an apology on behalf of a racial group to which you don’t actually belong except if one accepts the sketchy standards of racist slaveholders.

By the way, it is fucking funny.

I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again:

I have a pituitary tumor, hence the “Angry.”

I’m black, hence the “Black.”

I have a vagina, hence the “Lady.”

Also, what Michael Moore said was racist.  Full stop.  It’s not up for debate.

Also, too, there’s a difference between “being a racist” and “saying racist shit.”

Here’s your 500 comment thread.

(One of these days I’m going to just write “Black” in a post and see how many idiotic comments I can elicit. THere’s got to be a way I can make money off the derp, I just haven’t figured it out yet.)

UPDATE: TNC agrees with me:

Via Angry Black Lady, I know Michael Moore and Bill Maher think this is a great line:

I went into the polls voting for the black guy, and what I got was the white guy…

But it really isn’t. Let’s just say—it’s racist, and Michael Moore would do well to stop repeating it. It really is no better than the Kenyan anti-colonial bit, and in fact is good deal worse. I said this yesterday on twitter, but it would be as if my Jewish accountant messed up my taxes and I said, “Dude, you’re Jewish, what the hell?”

In fact, I’d be getting exactly what I deserved. If you paid more attention to Obama’s skin color, than to his speeches, the voluminous amounts of journalism noting his moderation, his two books which are, themselves, exercises in moderation, than you have chosen to be ignorant.

You are now being punished for that ignorance. No one should feel sorry for you. Try not being racist.

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Michael Moore quotes Bill Maher on President Obama: “I voted for the black guy and what we got was the white guy.” [Updated!]

Enough with the racist bullshit coming from the left.  ENOUGH.

Here comes Michael Moore with his “I’m so disappointed coulda-shoulda-woulda armchair quarterbacking” bullshit, with a skosh of racism:

So, the black part of Obama is the gangster part, and there’s some internal struggle going on and the white side is winning?

I’m sick of this shit. I’m the daughter of a mixed-race couple, and I cannot even express how much this infuriates me.

I’m sure I’ll have more to say about this, but for now I have only one question: What the fuck?

It’s not a joke.  AND IT’S NOT FUCKING FUNNY.

You owe black people and President Obama an apology, Mr. Moore.

UPDATE: I’m embarrassed for some of you.  I truly am.   Some of you have lost the plot entirely.  For those who have taken issue with my using the word “gangsta,” Bill Maher (who Moore quoted) has used that term to describe President Obama on TV and Moore’s presence. I’m not just making this shit up. Bill Maher has done this repeatedly, both in the context of “Woo! Obama! (see video below) and “Boo! Obama! (see this post)”  Criticize his policies.  Lay off the racial shit.  Why is that so hard to understand?

That’s a rhetorical question.

Unsurprisingly, I don’t need to post this update at my blog, which is where I’ll be because this comment section is absurd.

[cross-posted at ABLC]

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ZOMG! ScheduleGate!! President Obama is a Cave-Dwelling Cave Meister!

This is Obama’s Katrina.

 For those of you who aren’t aware, Obama caved BIG-TIME yesterday… or something.

See, he wanted to address Congress about his jobs plan on September 7, which is Congress’s first day back from summer recess. (You remember jobs, right?  Most of you probably don’t have one because Congress refuses to do its job and come up with a plan to put Americans back to work.)

John Boehner, in an unprecedented yet unsurprising move, sent a letter to Administration saying, “No”—after initially offering no objection to the Obama administration’s chosen date:

[A]s the Majority Leader announced more than a month ago, the House will not be in session until Wednesday, September 7, with votes at 6:30 that evening. With the significant amount of time – typically more than three hours – that is required to allow for a security sweep of the House Chamber before receiving a President, it is my recommendation that your address be held on the following evening, when we can ensure there will be no parliamentary or logistical impediments that might detract from your remarks.

Despite the fact that the date was floated to the GOP and the GOP didn’t object, the White House pushed the address back a day because getting into a slapfight with Boehner would have only served to make everyone—not just the GOP, but also the Administration—look like asshats.

He pushed back the date by a whole day? The horror! The horror!

Delaying the address definitely proves that Obama caves on everything, and this is why he’s going to lose in 2012. Voters will remember the Day the Address Got Delayed By A Day, and voters will view it as Obama being a wimp (as Markos called him) or petty and incompetent (as Jon Walker of FDL called him) or so weak that he doesn’t even realize he’s being weak (as Cenk Ugyur called him).

What the hell is wrong with these people?

Every single Professional Left blog has front-page posts claiming that Obama is a wimp, a cavemeister, naive, petty, or incompetent:

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Rick Perry’s Jeremiah Wright: White People Gave Black People Rights; Civil Rights Leaders Deserve No Credit

When my head stops exploding, I’ll let you know.

Rick Perry planned to skip last weekend’s celebration and unveiling of the new MLK memorial in Washington, D.C. (No surprise there.)

Instead, Perry headed to Fredericksburg, Texas to attend a “call to action” retreat/fundraiser, where he was slated to hobknob with religious nutbag and self-styled historian David Barton.

From Joy-Ann Reid at The Grio:

Barton was among a group of Texas conservatives who in 2010 sought to revise that state’s textbooks to promote their view that the notion of a constitutional separation of church and state is a myth, and that students should be taught a version of American history that blends theology with themes of a constant clash of civilizations between Christians and Muslims.

According to a Washington Monthly article in January 2010, Barton, the former head of the Texas Republican Party, and Peter Marshall, who the article described as “a Massachusetts-based preacher who has argued that California wildfires and Hurricane Katrina were God’s punishment for tolerating gays,” had even more ideas in mind when they testified before the Texas Education Assembly. Per the Washington Monthly:

Barton and Peter Marshall initially tried to purge the standards of key figures of the civil rights era, such as César Chávez and Thurgood Marshall, though they were forced to back down amid a deafening public uproar. They have since resorted to a more subtle tack; while they concede that people like Martin Luther King Jr. deserve a place in history, they argue that they shouldn’t be given credit for advancing the rights of minorities.

As Barton put it, “Only majorities can expand political rights in America’s constitutional society.” Ergo, any rights people of color have were handed to them by whites—in his view, mostly white Republican men.

(read the rest)

I watched Joy Reid make an excellent point on Al Sharpton’s show, and that is (in my words): If right-wing nutbags are going to keep pounding the Jeremiah Wright/”Goddamn America!” drum (and you know they will, even though they can’t explain how Barack Obama is simultaneously a secret Muslim and an America-hating Christian), then Democrats need to make sure that Rick Perry is held accountable for the racist and utterly absurd views of his BFF, David Barton.

This is your Republican party, people.

Drink it in.  Let the crazy wash over you.

My head is still exploding.

[via The Grio]

[cross-posted at ABLC]

[Well gee whiz, gentlemen. This here black lady is somewhat touched by the “ZOMG! ABL COME BACK!” posts. And of course I can never resist the opportunity to PISS OFF the TROLLS with my OBNOXIOUS FORMATTING and ever-looming threat of closed threads AND BUTTHURT. So here’s a post on Rick Perry that seems to have gotten some traction at ABLC (and yer damn right I just created a new category, John Cole!) Yes, yes, I know… it’s an old post. “SEE?! SHE DOESN’T EVEN RESPECT THE JUICE TO WRITE SOMETHING ORIGINAL!” they cried. And ABL laughed because trolls are hilarious. She also to stopped talking about herself in the third person because frankly, it’s weird. Oh, and for the record, I’m not a lesbian (not that there’s anything wrong with it), I’m not bipolar (duh and/or hello! I have a fucking brain tumor in my head!) and I fracking love They Might Be Giants. Who said black people don’t have little birdhice in their souls? What are you, racist or somethin’? Dang! I trust everyone is doing swimmingly. As for me, I am cross-posting at the Grio, and I’m actually getting paid for my next post (on Maxine Waters’ Jobs Townhall in Crenshaw tomorrow) which is awesome because no one’s ever paid me to write anything before. So that gets a big fat “huzzah!” Um, what else. I guess that’s it. Eat your peas, people. -ABLxx]

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Doug Lamborn (R-Co): Tar Baby? Really?

Perfunctory Outrage

THis is one of those posts that I’m jotting off quickly simply because not writing it means I’ve become immune to the racist bullshit being spewed hither and yon.  

I meant to write about this nonsense 5 hours ago, but I couldn’t muster up the energy.  So I went to a bar run by a couple of French chaps and had some damn fine fajitas, and now, I’m fortified with beer.  So here goes:

Doug Lamborn (R-CO) is opposed to Obama and everything he does.  Lamborn wants to stay as far away from Obama as possible.  Lamborn doesn’t even want to touch Obama because Obama is like a tar baby, and if Lamborn touches Obama, Lamborn will get stuck or get cooties or some horrifying combination of the two:

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Arkansas High School Prevented Black Female Student From Being Valedictorian

Now THIS is some racist bullshit.

A high school in Arkansas would not permit a black female student with the highest GPA in her high school to be valedictorian of her graduating class, and appointed a white student with a lower GPA to serve as the black student’s co-valedictorian.

I wish I was kidding.   And yes, it is 2011.

When I first read this article, I figured it must be a joke.  I thought it was more life-imitates-The Onion theater.   It couldn’t possibly be serious, I thought, because: (a) it’s fucking ridiculous; (b) the high school is in Pine Bluff, which is less than an hour from Little Rock; and© the young woman’s name is Kimberly Wymberly (my apologies, you brilliant beautiful young woman, but I can’t let “Kimberly Wymberly” slide without comment.)

But nope! It’s not a joke.  It’s shameful and all involved should be fired.

Despite being told by school counselor’s that she had the highest GPA, Kimberly was not permitted to serve as valedictorian alone.  The girl’s mother claims to have overheard school personnel fretting about letting the Kimberly be the sole valedictorian for fear of causing “a big mess.”

That’s right. School personnel turned what would have been the proudest moment of Kimberly’s young life into sheer humiliation. And, to add insult to injury, when Kimberly’s mother showed up at a school board meeting to protest the decision, the school superintendent would not let her speak because she had filled out the wrong form—the ‘public comments” form instead of the “public participation” form.

Unfortunately, this is not a hoax:

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Jane Hamsher Calls Obama Supporters “Dumb Motherfuckers.”

Hey, it’s better than Joan Walsh’s favorite term: Obamalovers

Keep your eye on Firedoglake, people. That ship is sinking fast. Jane Hamsher is suffering stage 5 Obama Derangement Syndrome. It’s so bad that she is now ignoring what Democratic aides have reported regarding Obama’s meeting with Cantor, and is sucking the milk from Cantor’s teat:

For the record I don’t think it’s a big deal if Obama has to take sole responsibility for raising the debt limit. But he does.

It undermines his intention to run in 2012 as the “fiscally responsible” guy who closed the deficit, and that’s why he is cussing mad. Well, that and the fact that he has to undergo ritual humiliation at the hands of the GOP every 2 months to get what he wants.

The irony is that the Obamabots are so out of touch with who Obama is and what he wants they don’t realize that by cheering for the McConnell deal, and his prowess in making McConnell “blink,” it amounts to twisting the knife for him. It makes it impossible for him to reject the deal the end — which empowers the GOP to hold out.

Cantor offered a temporary extension three times last night, and by both Democratic and GOP accounts, that’s what made Obama snap. He wouldn’t be rejecting it “even if it brings my presidency down,” and taking his case to the American people, if he thought he had scored some big victory.

You gotta feel sorry for the guy. His most ardent supporters are the dumbest motherfuckers in the world, and they don’t realize he thinks they are digging his political grave.

At this point, Jane Hamsher is a parody of herself. She spews whatever brain jizz happens to be coagulating in her mind directly into the faces of her sycophants, and they lap that shit up like their only dream in life is to play the role of Hamsher PermaFluffer. I mean, it’s downright comical.

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Shorter Bachmann: “Sure slavery sucked, but at least black kids had two parents back then.”

Whtpplbtrppn

Michele Bachmann signed a conservative pledge called “The Marriage Vow – A Declaration of Dependence upon Marriage and Family.” That pledge contained the following dumbass-edness:

Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President.

Yep. WTF, is right.

From Jack and Jill Politics:

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David Duke Considering a Presidential Run; Sales of White Sheets Skyrocket

“This racism is killing me inside.”

David Duke is thinking about maybe sort of running for president.  He’s “exploring” the option.

Good for him, I say!  It’s about time a Serious Racist decided to make a run for the presidency:

A former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and Republican executive-committee chairman in his district until 2000, Duke has a significant following online. His videos go viral. This month, he’s launching a tour of 25 states to explore how much support he can garner for a potential presidential bid. He hasn’t considered running for serious office since the early ‘90s, when he won nearly 40 percent of the vote in his bid for Louisiana governor. But like many “white civil rights advocates,” as he describes himself to The Daily Beast, 2012 is already shaping up to be a pivotal year.

Former (and current) Neo Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members, neo-Confederates, and other representatives of the many wings of the “white nationalist” movement are starting to file paperwork and print campaign literature for offices large and small, pointing to rising unemployment, four years with an African-American president, and rampant illegal immigration as part of a growing mound of evidence that white people need to take a stand.

Duke says that “thousands of Tea Party activists have urged him to run for President,” so who is he to deny his fans the joy of seeing him extol the virtues of segregation right to that stupid Kenyan Usurper’s face?

Here’s a video Duke made last year in which he lays out his platform:

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Tea Partiers in Kentucky Celebrate Independence Day by Wearing “Yup, I’m a Racist” T-Shirts

[I just sat down to write a post about these dumbasses in their dumbass t-shirts but had a sense that I’d covered this ground before. Turns out, I have. Soooooo, here it is. When idiots get some new material, I’ll write some new material. Also, Dave Weigel? Journalism fail. Then again, folks figured out you were a hack when you posted dick pics to Twitter during WeinerMadness 2011. Is there no one left who take journalism seriously?  Don’t look at me.  I’m just a blogger. -ABLxx 7/5/11]

Stupid is as stupid does, asshats.

At a fourth of July celebration in Lexington Kentucky yesterday, white folks were wearing t-shirts that had “Yup, I’m a racist” emblazoned on the front. A reporter at the Louisville Independent Examiner interviewed some of these asshats, and wouldn’t you know, they’re all idiots.

Look, I understand that people have valid differences of opinion when it comes to government.  Small versus big.  Regulation vs. deregulation.  Low taxes vs. high taxes.  I GET IT.

But here’s what you need to understand: From what I can tell, a lot of these Tea Party people do not know what the hell they are talking about.  They just don’t.  These are the same people who were screaming about healthcare reform, and Obamacare out of one side of their mouths, while screaming  “keep the government out of Medicare!” out of the other.  These are not people who are using their noggins, is what I’m saying.

Ask your average Tea Partier what the hell it is they want, and you won’t get an answer.  They just “want their country back,” or they “want their rights back,” or they “want the government to stop taking away their rights.”  So what’s the deal?  Did somebody steal America?  Can you please give it back to these asshats so they will STFU.

As for the “we want our rights back” crap, just replace the word “rights” with “guns.”  That’s what this is really about, isn’t it?  What rights have been stolen from you?  Oh, none.

The truth is, Obama isn’t taking away anybody’s rights.  You may disagree with his spending policies, and you may disagree with his social policies, and you may disagree with his foreign policy.  But you cannot say that he is taking your rights away.  Taxes for everyone but the hella rich are lower under Obama than they were under Bush.  And really… with the guns?  For Biebs’ sake, you’re allowed to carry guns in national fucking parks!  The Supreme Court just affirmed everyone’s right to keep guns in their houses and blow people’s heads off for practically no reason at all!  “I don’t like your face!  And neither does my AK-47!  ::rat-a-tat-tat::”

So seriously?  Shut the hell up about Obama wanting to take your rights away.  You don’t know what you’e talking about.  And you’re stupid “Yup, I’m a racist” t-shirt is going to end up on the back of some black hipster in Silverlake, and everyone will “ooh and aah” at the irony of it all.  Your stupidity is only making the hipsters stronger.  So just fucking quit it, won’t you?

Check out the video after the jump.  At the 1:30 marker, the woman being interviewed, who doesn’t have a clue as to what she’s talking about—not one clue—because she is probably a member of Fox Nation, says that Pakistanis are coming across the border in Arizona.

Fucking Pakistanis.  Crossing the border.  Into Mexico.

Go ahead and marinate on that for a minute.

[video after the jump]

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