Archive for the ‘Post-racial America’ Category
Why We Fight
I followed a link from commenter Harlana to Little Green Footballs, where Charles Johnson reads Fox News discussion threads so you don’t have to. There are almost 5000 comments posted in the thread — these are from the first few pages. Notice that the racist bastards deliberately misspell their slurs or insert random spaces, so [...]
February 13, 2012
· 
Soonergrunt · 
162 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Crazification Factor, Don't Mourn, Organize, Election 2012, Flash Mob of Hate, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue, Post-racial America, Sociopaths
I’m Glad We Can Stop Pretending Otherwise
Ron Paul knew what was in his newsletters. End of story.
January 27, 2012
· John Cole · 111 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Post-racial America
It’s A Bit Too Late For That, Ruben
CNN’s Ruben Navarette is warning that the GOP might not do too well among Latino voters in 2012, which is a bit like, well, like Herman Cain warning that the GOP may not do too well with African-American voters like myself. But here’s his opening: On behalf of all those Latino voters who have figured [...]
January 27, 2012
· Zandar · 45 Comments
Posted in: Both Sides Do It!, Flash Mob of Hate, IOKIYAR, Our Failed Media Experiment, Post-racial America, The Brown Enemy Within, WTF?
If I Had Known It Was This Easy
Ever play those games where you state if you could only have one type of food for the rest of your life, it would be… For me, if I could only have one kid of food for the rest of my life, hands down it would be Mexican. Could eat it every single fucking day, [...]
January 27, 2012
· John Cole · 40 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Domestic Affairs, Post-racial America
He is a cartoon…
One of Robert Crumb’s underground comicbook characters was The Ruff Tuff Creampuff. He was a stand-in for bully politicians who always broke down and cried like a baby whenever they are called out on their bullshit. There are lots of politicians who could be walking doppelgangers for the Ruff Tuff Creampuff, but of our current [...]
January 26, 2012
· Dennis G. · 50 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Post-racial America
Can We Please Cut the Crap?
I love James Fallows, but this kind of irritated me: Here is a third alternative, the one I believe: that Newt Gingrich knows exactly what he is doing when he calls Obama the “food stamp” president, just as Ronald Reagan knew exactly what he was doing when talking about “welfare Cadillacs.” There are lots of [...]
January 21, 2012
· John Cole · 80 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Post-racial America
Let Lee decode the 2012 campaign for you…
Lee Atwater is the real architect of the modern Republican/wingnut election strategy. His work for Strom Thurmond, Ronald Reagan and Bush the Elder created the road map of code talking that is now the foundation of every Republican candidate for virtually any office. This strategy is rooted in the idea that working class white folks [...]
January 17, 2012
· Dennis G. · 159 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Post-racial America
Speaking of Losers
“Wait! What? You mean hanging a whites only sign on my pool is racist?”
January 12, 2012
· John Cole · 227 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Post-racial America
The Missing Link in Scary Tales of Young Bucks
Judging from the recent Gingrich and Santorum statements about the blahs, race-baiting is alive and well in the Republican Party. But, unlike the golden age of strapping young bucks with their welfare-financed t-bones, one of the key ingredients of Nixon-era racial fear mongering is absent: Twenty years ago, a reporter tallying crime stats for our newspaper’s weekly [...]
January 7, 2012
· mistermix · 53 Comments
Posted in: Post-racial America
Saving Newt From Himself
So apparently, a media analyst at the Politico has decided that Newt Gingrich is getting a bad rap for his remarks yesterday, and that “the interpretation has changed somewhat along the way.” You remember the remark that got a lot of attention: “And so I’m prepared, if the NAACP invites me, I’ll go to their [...]
January 6, 2012
· John Cole · 171 Comments
Posted in: DC Press Corpse, Election 2012, Our Failed Media Experiment, Post-racial America
Paint It Blah
This may be the most pathetic and feeble backtrack of a dog whistle ever: Iowa runner-up Rick Santorum said Thursday that he would be “a much bigger player” than expected in the New Hampshire primary and denied saying that he didn’t want “to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money.” Santorum [...]
January 5, 2012
· John Cole · 154 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Our Failed Media Experiment, Post-racial America
And Today’s Most Blatantly Racist GOP Statement of the Day
Comes from Newt: “I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps,” said Gingrich. The title of this post may be a touch misleading, because it is only 1:30 and there is still time for another candidate to take it to 11.
January 5, 2012
· John Cole · 188 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Post-racial America
On Paul
Since Paul is going to probably do well in the caucus today, we’ll just turn this over to TNC for the last word on Ron Paul. There are so many things in my opinion that disqualify Ron Paul for President (his anti-abortion views, his statements that we should not have fought Hitler, etc.), but for [...]
January 3, 2012
· John Cole · 95 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Excellent Links, Post-racial America
Yes, I do know that Sully is a waste of time, but…
...it’s almost wreck-on-the-highway fascinating to watch his Ron Paul fixation play out.* [Blogger’s note: I’m posting in even greater haste than usual, as the holidays impose (enable) family time…(yippee, actually). So apologies in advance for typos, grotesquely elongated sentences, convoluted language, and flabbiness or outright outrages of thought. In other words, as always, what follows [...]
December 23, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 125 Comments
Posted in: Glibertarianism, Post-racial America
You Just Can’t Make This Racist Sh*t Up: Fox News Owes Everybody a Great Big Honking Act of Contrition
Via TPM, and courtesy (sic!) of rightist media flack Brent Bozell and Fox News, this gem: “How long do you think Sean Hannity’s show would last if four times in one sentence, he made a comment about, say, the President of the United States, and said that he looked like a skinny, ghetto crackhead?” Bozell [...]
December 23, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 104 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment, Post-racial America, The Brown Enemy Within
