Wrights abusive language ]...] derogatory tone

Again, I'd really like specific examples of what Wright said that was so far beyond the pale. I haven't pored through his comments, so I don't know that there's not something horrible there... but nothing I have heard/read so far sounds like Professor Griff or anything... just more truth than some people feel comfortable with.

Which damn sure doesn't include ending the drug war.

Oh Aychy. You are, by your own proud acknowledgement, a gadfly. You make your points with a certain edge, bringing the drug war up in totally unrelated posts, and then striking an heroic pose, like you're the only one with the balls to mention it.

It's like a white rapper in the back of the orchestral choir, dissing the other singers 'cause they can't spit rhymes.

Kindly, brother... get over yourself.

This is obviously something that bugs you, just as reactions like yours also bug me. Come, let us reason together (or try to).

America is controlled by the rich. An overwhelming supermajority of those rich people are Caucasian. There is entrenched racism in this country. I mean, do you disagree with any of that?

I find it less outrageous than you seem to that a black man will sometimes talk about these facts with a degree of bitterness and asperity. It may indeed not be the best path to racial unity in this country. However, it's not for me to tell blacks how to react to the legacy of racism in this country.

When blacks are a numberical majority in this country, when they start locking huge pluralities of young white men up in this country, when things like Katrina happen only in majority-white cities... then I might start getting pissy about black "racism."

Right now it seems the better part of valour to STFU.

Your mileage may vary.

Other than committing the unforgiveable sin of discussing race relations in a tone less respectful than that of Bill Cosby, just what did Wright say that was so over the top.

Mouse farts. Cute.

the sole reason for the North American Union

AH! I always suspected you were one of those one-world types.

That is just the best line evar.

I think I will end every post with that... kind of like my own "Good night and good luck."

The Noble Lie once again engraved on the record, to tell future generations The Truth.

...The Rulers, Plato said, must tell the people of the city “The Noble Lie“--that the categories of Rules, Auxiliaries, Farmers, etc. was not due to circumstances within the people's control, upbringing, or education, but because of God's intervention. God, the Lie went, had put gold, silver, and iron into each person’s soul, and those metals determined where a person's station was in life...

Dear Mr. Sinnard,

If you could spell out exactly what it is you're trying to say, it would help enormously.

However, if merely heaping scorn on the rest of us works for you, carry on...

OK, now I finally get what you mean with this "Noble Lie" business. Seriously, dude, if you're going to cross-post, don't assume we're all following you around...

Yes, I think Obama was full of crap about that. And I have no excuse to make for it. I have not, personally, been making the argument that Barack Obama shits gold and every word out of him mouth is pure wisdom. I just don't think Jeremiah Wright is Hitler, either...

I'd happily wager that I could have waited until the thread was locked and no one else would have made this observation.

Aych, this is why you get so much pushback. It's not enough for you to make a valid, important observation. It's not enough for you to make a novel addition to the thread. You have to do it in such a way that somehow makes your novel observation somehow superior to everyone else's and not-so-subtly suggests that no one else is as moral, as virtuous, as clear-seeing as you.

It's not because of your politics.

It's because you're kind of an asshole about it.

I hope you're buying those talking points in bulk... if you're paying retail for each one you're definitely getting screwed.

* "(AIDS was) started by human beings to get after certain people they don't like." -- Bill Cosby, December 4, 1991 edition of The New York Post

* "A real-life Frankenstein started the disease. I believe AIDS has been man-made. AIDS was started by human beings - maybe even one person - in a Frankenstein sort of way to get certain people they didn't like.'" -- Bill Cosby, 1991, National Enquirer interview

And George Bush awarded this man the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

I call upon President Bush to denounce this evil anti-American race-baiting terror-loving modern-day Hitler forthwith!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Internet_dog.jpg

Link at sig.

We're bringing copy/paste trolls over from Swampland now.

Sorry, guys...

Stick that in your pipe, Mr. Greenwald!

Don't join in, here. If something is obviously this ugly, don't hitch your wagon to it.

Um... who're you talking to?

McCain's lack of foreign policy expertise is more than outweighed by his media expertise. He has known for a long time that winning the media primary is far more important than winning, say, Kansas.

Want to guess what the reaction would have been if Obama called Vladimir Putin "the President of Germany?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5ENwej0fpc

Sorry, but the article wasn't about "dismissing him out of hand as some kind of lunatic," it was about the media's willingness to give him a pass on a mjor gaffe.

Now, if you'd like to talk about Democratic strategy for November, that's fine. This is not DU, however - not everyone is necessarily single-mindedly focused on the November election...