If Doug Feith didn’t exist, Fox News would have the fucking stupidest commentators on the face of the Earth.
***Update***
Egads. I said a long time ago, and I’ll say it again, maybe the best thing that Obama could do for the race issue is expose the festering ids that would normally stay buried if a black guy wasn’t about to become President of the freaking United States. It’s like lancing a deep festering wound to let the pus out. Eventually the haters will have had their say, and Obama will still be President, and they won’t have anything more to add to the conversation. Then the best possible resolution will come to the American race discussion as far as I’m concerned: we’ll get tired of it and talk about something else.
Biology isn’t destiny. For chrissakes, there is more genetic diversity in sub-Saharan Africa than in the rest of the world combined. Lumping all black people into a single category reifies a phenomenon that doesn’t exist. It pre-validates the assumptions of morally reprehensible people who represent the tradition of intolerance and slavery. The only reason the category has any practical meaning is because every single American with African descent still gets followed around at Macy’s. In the same way that it will thrill me when we stop validating extremist neocon frames with words like ‘islamofascist,’ I dream of the day when a ‘national conversation on race’ doesn’t perpetuate the wrong side of the argument by taking what should be disputed points for granted at the outset.
Sirkowski
It’s the fault of black people for being so scary.
e_e
ThymeZone
I am convinced that for sheer stupidity, you really can’t beat the day in and day out peformance of Wolf Blitzer.
The Grand Panjandrum
Now we know why the stoopid, it burns.
If Fox News was filled with a bunch of volunteers working for the good of the cause I’d give them a break. Murdoch pays these people.
El Cid
I don’t remember seeing bin Laden doing that in any of his hip hop video releases.
TenguPhule
I raise you a Kudlow.
“When Obama speaks, markets go down.”
I kid you not. He may be the stupidest fucking person on Earth.
Frank
I noticed the other day that, when a Philadelphia Philly makes a good play and returns to the dugout, all the players do that fist thing with him.
Does this mean the Phillies should be sent to Gitmo? Inquiring minds want to know. (Pirates fans need not respond.)
1jpb
The wheels are coming off, another example:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0608/Great_moments_in_cable_TV.html
Rush also did this story (I like wingnut radio, it makes me feel smart to identify all the lies and manipulations; must be low self esteem that I pick such easy marks to listen to.) But the Fox version was especially silly, I actually saw it live (I like Fox for the same reason I like wingnut radio.)
Tim F.
Why the hell not? For what it’s worth, the Phillies should only be sent to Gitmo if the Yankees need someone to play there.
demimondian
Tim…I hate to go all evolutionist on you, but every American is…you know…like…human…right? So aren’t we all of African descent?
Perry Como
KLo has found a devastating internal memo outlining Barack Hussein Osama’s initial White House plans:
“Tell ’em to make sure they got their James Brown pass
And don’t be surprised if Ali is in the White House
Reverend Ike, Secretary of the Treasure
Richard Pryor, Minister of Education
Stevie Wonder, Secretary of FINE arts
And Miss Aretha Franklin, the First Lady”
slag
I heard that, instead of putting his hand on the Bible when he was being sworn into the senate, he actually did a “Hezbollah low five”.
Perry Como
This just in, from Barack HUSSEIN Osama Muhammed Obama’s upcoming DNC acceptance speech:
“That’s the way I am, Barack Hussein cannot be different
Never change my ways for the world or the government
If I was the president, then I would state facts
You leave it up to me, I paint the white house black
It ain’t no future in your frontin”
Cali Scribe
Yeah, you’ve really got to watch out for those terrorists:
http://www.supermanhomepage.com/images/superfriends/wonder-twins1.jpg
The Dude Abides
OMG! America’s gymnastics sweetheart Shawn Johnson is a Hezbollah terrorist!
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics;_ylt=At8QjPNqs4ewiGBQ6Knb_AgX47kF
Hopefully someone can quickly google cache this page so all can see for posterity…
The Dude Abides
ZOMG!!!! So is Tiger Woods!!!! Oh the humanity!!!!
http://tinyurl.com/3mw64y
Dug Jay
Another interesting dump of horseshit from academia’s latest moron.
The Dude Abides
Seriously, just about every single athlete under the age of 50 has done the fist bump, dap, or fist pound with a teammate or golf/tennis partner. Doesn’t matter if you’re black, white, Asian, European, Latin American, female, or male. It’s a jock thing…
priscianus jr
Much the same can be said of the category “white.” As far as I can tell, it means “not black.” And “hispanic” is not a whole lot more meaningful.
passerby
From one of the links:
HA!! that’s just plain funny stuff.
Obama, always dignified and confident(even when he’s shooting hoops), has a casual moment, initiated by his wife, as he steps up to the mic to become the first man of color to accept the nomination of a major political party for POTUS.
Perhaps the dap was slighty off decorum given the historic proportions of the occasion. Perhaps.
His bearing also served him well at the moment in the speech when he claimed that he would be the nominee. As the thunderous applause washed over him, we could see in his face that he was acutely aware of the moment and his place in it, but he held it together.
I was glad to be in the privacy of my home that I could let the tears of joy roll.
Dap schmap.
T
Tim F.
By all means Dug, share your thoughts in more detail. That is the point of this whole exercise.
Garrigus Carraig
Yes.
And I’m a Phillies fan.
And they’re in first.
jake
Fixed.
Rick Taylor
Given that our current President talks with his mouth full when talking to foreign heads of state, is prone to giving female heads of state unasked for unwelcome neck rubs, likes to give his finger to the camera when he thinks no one’s watching, is known to use some unimportant person’s sweater when he doesn’t have a cloth handy to clean his glasses, and recently congratulated the pope on his address saying, “Thank you your holiness, awesome speech,” and thinks it’s awesome to bump chests with graduating airforce cadets, I’m not terribly concerned about a little tap. Bush the simplistic cowboy who never stops making us all look stupid.
Doug H. (Fausto no more)
Truth. The closets are open and the armbands and bedsheets are falling out.
demimondian
Tim, I owe you an apology. Dug Jay is clearly sub-human.
b. hussein canuckistani
Looked to me like a touching moment of genuine pride and affection. A lot more appropriate than all those Republican Stepford Wives frozenly smiling in the background for their big occasions.
Krista
I thought it was great. It was so genuine, and it was just really emblematic of the great team those two make and the affection they have for each other.
Kevin
Absolutely 100% spot-on. I probably shouldn’t be, but I am amazed that anyone could think of it any other way.
OriGuy
OT, but the last open thread is pretty much moribund:
The Guardian has found racists in West Virginia! OMG!
Kevin
The Grauniad enjoy throwing stones from their own glass house; I suppose it sells papers to laugh at the clowns in the colonies.
Perhaps we should ask them about that awesome effort to sway the 2004 election?
Conservatively Liberal
I guess the conversion to McCain is going along fine at Hillaryis44:
They probably got a bug in the abacus.
For those of you who are looking for fun because you are bored, the ‘hard core Hill’ sites that are now going for McCain are targets we can open up on with both barrels (figuratively, please!) now. They are openly supporting McCain, and thus they are just as legit a target as any other Republican that is stirring up shit.
I keep an eye on them because it is interesting to try and figure out who is a so-called ‘real’ Democrat and who is the Republican ratfucker. They leave all kinds of clues around, usually mistakenly posting the info and then begging the admin to remove it once they realize it.
If you get bored, there is plenty of good hunting in Right Blogistan. If anything, you will find plenty of insane shit to laugh (or cry) at, you will develop the intolerant attitude I have for these scumbags, and you will enjoy pointing them out to others so they can point and laugh too.
If they are with McCain and raising hell online, they are a target. Lock and load people, it’s a turkey shoot.
Enlightened Layperson
Last week Obama was a snooty Ivy League elitist who looked down on ordinary Americans. This week he is ghetto scum. I guess our inner cities are being overrun with snooty Ivy League elitists.
Chuck Butcher
It’s been pretty funny reading the comments on Taylor Marsh and TalkLeft, from the sounds of it they’re going to lose a lot of traffic with their conversion to *gasp* Obama. Particularly poignant are the ones leaving to stay away from the gloating Obamabots or some such.
These site fomented this with their over the top rhetoric and tolerance of comments they knew to be factually wrong. Opinions are one thing, blatant untruths should be opposed by the blogger. Note, I didn’t say deleted, I said opposed.
Well, they ran their sites how they did, they’ll wonder why they can’t pull these people back from the edge after actively contributing. I’ve opposed Hillary from before she announced, but you won’t find me out on a fact or letting junk get by in comments. It is easier to keep some kind of an eye on my handful of commenters than on a mess like this one or theirs with 400 comments on a so what post.
Ron
Does this mean Howie Mandel is a terrorist too? I’ve wondered about him ever since he shaved his head.
Not to mention every player at every High School football game in the country.
Splitting Image
Obama’s campaign promises to help America’s beleaguered alcohol industry. Racist sickos are already making plans to drink themselves to death before he’s elected and they should start in earnest in September when it’s obvious he can’t be beaten.
It’s a little deal the Obamas have worked out with Cindy. Not sure if John is in on the plan or not.
reverend_lowdown
The bump and his campaign style in general, for that matter, are both refreshing and successful but let’s consider this in context. As Americans, we’ve just weathered through two terms of easily the worst, most destructive, corrupt and apathetic regime our country has ever experienced. Campaign style and ethnicity aside, how is he really different? Before I get blasted, let me say that I will vote for him over McCain, it’s an easy choice but something bothers me though. Where is the outcry over our trampled constitution? I know, if you want to win against a largely unpopular incumbent then your platform has to be about change. The “hey, I’m totally different than that guy” moniker…blah, blah…but is he really? Is he going to be somehow immune from the influence of the massively entrenched lobbyists? Is he going cast aside the newly grabbed powers of the executive? Is the “war on terror” a political impetus or outright lie that should be rejected? Sadly, I’m no optimist when it comes to presidents. He will fall under the sway of lobbyists because one doesn’t rise to that station without their explicit help. Giving up power, let’s be real, nobody does that. I don’t care if you are POTUS or some small town PTA chairperson, not many people would willingly yield control of anything they are responsible for (unless, of course, it’s a complete pain in the ass and expedient to do so). The “war on terror”, come on, this is classic hero vs villain shit, good vs. evil. Anyone remember the cold war? Politicians live for this shit. So I think that we can safely conclude that our current Middle Eastern xenophobia will continue until another worthy enemy is created. George Orwell, you saw it coming, too bad many of us didn’t. I’ll cast my vote but it won’t be for a much hyped change but rather for a slightly better choice of nuanced criminality.
jake
As ye reap so shall ye sow.
The Taylor Swamps and SquawkLefts of the world are prevented from pondering the consequences of their acts by huge egos, an addiction to drama and only the shallowest levels of introspection. If they’re asking themselves anything it’s “OMG, What’s wrong with these people?”
Boo hoo. Boo fucking hoo motherfucker.
Don’t be surprised if they backslide in attempt to win back their audiences.
cleek
i’m pretty sure McCain has that industry in his pocket.
PeterJ
For an example of the stupidity of FOX News and it’s employees, watch Bill Moyers getting ambushed by a Bill O’Reilly producer.
croatoan
To be fair, those occasions are sometimes press conferences after their husband was arrested trying to blow a cop in an airport bathroom, or trying to blow a cop in a park bathroom because he’s afraid of lightning and Negros, or banging hookers while dressed in diapers, or being so committed to family values that they have two families.
Carnacki
Tim, it’s just easier for people to scapegoat all of the racism in America on Appalachia and pretend it’s not an issue elsewhere.
jrg
We can expect to see a lot more of Fox news commentators and right-wing blogs express racial resentment towards Obama.
The reason for this is simple: if you’re an unaccomplished, pathetic, or contemptible person, you’re likely to use race as a measure of validity for your own existence. If all you’ve got to brag about is “Being White” (or Black, or whatever), chances are you don’t have much else to talk about.
Since Obama challenges these racial stereotypes, Obama is far scarier to the bigots than he would be if he reinforced the stereotypes.
Judging a man by his color is a mistake, and making a big deal out of a fist pound is just an attempt at race-baiting to the older, out-of-touch whites that make up Fox news’ demographic.
Conservatively Liberal
Race is front and center at Hillaryis44. The ‘infamous’ basil9 has this to say:
Not an unqualified male, but rather an ‘unqualified AA male’! Oh woe is we, it’s the ‘Big Black Attack’! The racism drips from posts like this, and this kind of asshole wants us to believe that they are not voting for Obama because he is unqualified, but the real reason is there for all to see. If people let Obama get away with this, next time it will be a hispanic, asian or heaven forbid, someone not white!
As a rule, I don’t like to wish ill will on people but these racist assholes are the exception to that rule. What I hope happens to them is unprintable, even here.
Shell Goddamnit
I dream of the day when a ‘national conversation on race’ doesn’t perpetuate the wrong side of the argument by taking what should be disputed points for granted at the outset
And vice versa – what should be taken for granted at the outset disputed.
You can’t convince some people that racism isn’t some distant memory – they believe at base that whatever problem remains is a black problem, not a white problem, and thus not their problem. You can’t convince some people that their success isn’t entirely due to their own wonderfulness and they won’t believe it has anything to do with having white skin. And these are not really ill-meaning people either, but they are let us say *unreliable* about race.
These are the people who keep me up at night. They are this season’s “swing” voters, I think. God help us all.
w vincentz
Just a note regarding racism in America.http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/08/9483/
Wouldn’t it be great if we could “judge others not by the color of their skin, but on the content of their character”.
And those that don’t see the ignorance of their deluded beliefs, and commit acts of hatred because of same, should rot in prison for maximum terms.
w vincentz
Pine View, (Frank)
Thanks for you musing. Yes, it’s the last refuge of a bankrupt ideology. I couldn’t agree more.
If you click on the link above (common dreams), you will see how recently these vile bastards killed for their delusions. Ten, repeat, TEN fucking years ago! They continued to think they could get away with their vile deeds.
Unfortunately, they’ll hang on to their visciousness as long as they can. Nice to see them “come out from under their rocks”. Then they’re no longer hidden, and we can deal with them for exactly what they are.
dick weathers
Whitey don’t know shit. They’s called respek knuckles.
Conservatively Liberal
A thread at Forumopolis where others are skewering the Hillaryis44 crowd and their racist rants, check this out.
They are having great fun quoting and commenting on the insane rantings over at His44, and some of the comments are pretty funny.
jenniebee
My suspicion runs the other way: it’s because so few of the Macy’s shoppers are aware of their African ancestry.
It’s faded from the national consciousness now, but there was a time when books like Passing, Kingsblood Royal and Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man could touch a nerve.
Just Dropping By
I am convinced that for sheer stupidity, you really can’t beat the day in and day out peformance of Wolf Blitzer.
I agree. There may be individuals who attain higher levels of stupidity on particular occasions (e.g., Chris Matthews), but Wolf Blitzer is the Cal Ripken of stupid.
Flowers
http://youtube.com/watch?v=O-_qN04yAcU
Seriously, Superbowl 2007. This has been in popular culture for so long, it’s not even the ‘new thing’ anymore.
I have no idea how no one else has noticed this.
Tiparillo
Bush the Elder does the Terrorist Fist Jab
It is the new dance craze sensation that is sweeping the nation
Extra Medium
Why is no one mentioning, the Superfly pat on the a$$ that Barack gave Michelle after the fist jab. Barack Obama for pimp of the year 2008. We need a pimp in the White House.