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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Punditocracy puts the mockery in democracy. No argument there, but that's gonna stay around. People don't read between the rhetoric, they swallow it whole and wash it down with a refreshing Pepsi cola.
Xrandadu, you are in top shape today!
Paul in KY already took my line on your line re: "Soylent Whitey." Coffee was nearly expelled from both me and my husband when I read him that line.
Also, same reaction to: "You don't have to read the entirety of "War and Peace" to know it isn't about killer clowns."
I have no idea why I'm up so early (not a morning person), but you sure have started my day off right. Or should I say...left?
Thanks.
Madden's article, about six paragraphs down linked to Politico publishing Michelle Obama's thesis.
And Politico got it by asking the Obama campaign for a copy (Again, information gotten from Madden's article) which hardly speaks of hiding the information.
The thesis is available over on Politico in four PDFs.
Madden's article itself follows a fairly standard formula for debunking things - it presents the claim and then presents the facts that counter the claim. It is hardly chaotic.
They are advertising, they are agitprop. They are the staple of all elections. Stop being childish for God's sake or whatever molten deity you bow to.
I know, let's put a banner on the bottom of all TV ads that show a candidate shaking hands. And the banner must read "Professional Politician, closed course, do not attempt"
In particular thanks for calling that Kashmira clown or whoever that was about the Reverend Jim references. This person is as dumb as a post if they don't know that Jones' Commune retreat was really called Jomestown and not ...Jonesville?
But one word of adivice about the hammy Captian Kirk, the constant gardner of gung-ho garbage, he's a jerk, he's out of work, and he only lives for his own shit eating smirk.
but that might call for a coffee enema resulting in more spilled coffee. The Russians didn't have "killer clowns"; try America and John Wayne Gacy. As a matter of record, this clownish character was a Democrat.
Interesting that so many people should be swayed one way or another by the implication that Obama believes in a different imaginary man in the sky than they do… It would be nice if the debate were raised to a higher level, like, is Obama a Star Trek or a Star Wars man?
Surely that would tell you more about him than his opinions on a book written centuries ago to control a peasant population?
Personally, while I love both franchises, I'd have to say a Trekkie would make a better Prez than a Jedi.
It was Keith Ellison who took his oath of office on a Koran. Keith Ellison, KEITH ELLISON! Different man, different state, different house of Congress. But more or less the same skin color, and so the writers of viral e-mails are counting on their readers not to be able to tell any of "them" apart. Scams like this count on people to remember an actual incident, but to remember it vaguely, and not to know the name of the Muslim Congressman, so that when Karl Rove -- er, whoever planted this rumor -- pulls a switcheroo and substitutes Obama's name, the readers will be too credulous and lazy to look up the correct information. Instead, they'll say, "Oh yeah, I remember that. So that was Obama, was it?"
An earlier letter writer suggested that "racism" is the wrong term for bigotry against Muslims, since Islam is a religous faith rather than a religious group. Maybe so, but just as German anti-Semites deliberately blurred the line between the religion of Judaism and the Jewish "race" for many decades before Hitler, bigots who attack Obama are using "Muslim" as a code for swarthy-skinned outsider. And when people argue with a straight face that being the grandson of a Muslim makes him a Muslim under Sharia law, that argument is not similar to the one Hitler used to define "Jew." They are using THE SAME ARGUMENT.
They are advertising, they are agitprop.
Wait, so you have nothing against lying to sell your product? No problems with tobacco companies saying smoking cures cancer? But it's advertising!
They are the staple of all elections.
If you are a Republican and think "He did it too" is a legitimate means of establishing something's morality.
Stop being childish for God's sake or whatever molten deity you bow to.
So to call lying wrong is being childish? Not doing too much good for your cause here.
I know, let's put a banner on the bottom of all TV ads that show a candidate shaking hands. And the banner must read "Professional Politician, closed course, do not attempt"
Or we could just subject politicians and their mouthpieces to the same basic scrutiny that we would use on people in real life. Sources that lie to us in day to day life are discredited, and I don't see why we should make an exception just because some of those sources are Republican.
I would go with the Jedi. James T Kirk has soured me on the guys in the Klingon suits.
I've read Gorky. I read "My Universities" a few years ago and it was hilarious. Goky came of age in a port town called Kazan near the Black Sea, where according to Max, everybody was either accutely depressed, too much with the vodka, or abjectly suicidal. It was some brilliant black comedy.
Because I'm sure there will be soon. I just hope whoever writes it makes sure to get every detail correct.
I think the Republicans are saving this one for their knockout punch.
5designers5:
"I know Michele to be racist because of her words and actions."
Xrandadu:
"No you don't. You're just saying that because you, yourself, have made up your mind about something that you have no evidence for. You have absolutely nothing to go on here. This article pretty well debunks the idea that Michelle's college thesis is in any way racist. So what else do you have to go on? Almost everything cited as evidence for Michelle's "racism" has turned out to have no substance."
Michelle Obama:
"There was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the black community, I am obligated to this community and will utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit the black community first and foremost."
How is this not racist?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Salon headlines in your mailbox
