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The Mask Slips Sometimes

October 30th, 2008 Conservatives Racism 27 Comments

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Conservative blogger Dan Riehl:

Anyone watch the afro-mercial last night?

Yeah, really.

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27 Responses to “The Mask Slips Sometimes”

1. Duros Hussein 62 says:

   October 30, 2008 at 11:02 am

   Stay classy, Asshat.
2. Nimrod Gently says:

   October 30, 2008 at 11:04 am

   What.
3. anotherbozo says:

   October 30, 2008 at 11:05 am

   Well, I liked one of the responses:

   “Afromercial? Seriously?

   I take it you missed it because your white hood was obscuring your vision.”

   But debatable whether to even bother with these neanderbloggers.
4. mike in dc says:

   October 30, 2008 at 11:12 am

   Perhaps we should have a contest to see who can dig up the most racist wingnut response to an Obama landslide next week.
5. Steve LaBonne says:

   October 30, 2008 at 11:12 am

   Only “sometimes”? That’s generous…
6. ed says:

   October 30, 2008 at 11:29 am

   Your modern Republican party. Classy.
7. myrtle parker says:

   October 30, 2008 at 11:29 am

   Check out his pathetic excuse. He’s not racist, he just blames black people for the overuse of hyphens in this country. I kid you not!
8. PD100 says:

   October 30, 2008 at 11:34 am

   Dan Riehl is just bitter.

   Then again, if I looked like the love child of Tor Johnson and Joan Rivers with a case of hyperpituitarism, I might be bitter too.
9. Sean D. Martin says:

   October 30, 2008 at 11:57 am

   Looks like he’s run from his words already. Whatever post you originally linked to, it’s now been replaced by a reply to your blog here.
10. Sean D. Martin says:

    October 30, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    Then again, if I looked like the love child of Tor Johnson and Joan Rivers with a case of hyperpituitarism, I might be bitter too.

    Please don’t stoop the that level. There is certainly enough to criticize Riehl for without acting like a four-year-old or a right winger.
11. Parthenon says:

    October 30, 2008 at 12:03 pm

    Post election I intend to visit right-wing blogs for at least half my comedy intake.
12. silly one says:

    October 30, 2008 at 12:04 pm

    I think you missed the point that dan was trying to make. But, then again, your rapid response played right to the point.
13. Athenae says:

    October 30, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    The point Dan was trying to make? What point would that be, exactly?

    I love the response: I HAD TO BE A RACIST BECAUSE LIBERALS ARE MEEEEEN.

    Playground logic.

    A.
14. PG says:

    October 30, 2008 at 12:28 pm

    If Dan was trying to make a point, his efforts were so weak that the onus is not on anyone else to strive to understand it.

    1) He refers to the Left’s obsession with hyphenated identities, yet doesn’t provide any example of someone using the word “afro-mercial.” That’s Riehl’s construction. Why is he attaching “afro” to a standard noun and claiming that it’s a reference to the Left’s identity politics?

    2) Talking about an informercial made by Obama as an example of the Left’s identity politics is especially ludicrous, given that Obama depicted only one member of the African side of his family (his father, in the context of talking about how his father’s absence affected him) and otherwise was giving the bio of his Kansas grandpa (fought in Patton’s Army), grandma (Rosie the Riveter) and mom (despite Tom Shales’s stupidity, the one who woke him up before dawn to study). This is “identity politics”?

    3) It’s Riehl, not the majority of Obama’s supporters, who is obsessed with Obama’s African blood. Why does he feel the need to assign his problems to his opponents? Own them, admit them, deal with them.
15. Duros Hussein 62 says:

    October 30, 2008 at 12:28 pm

    I think you missed the point that dan was trying to make.

    Ok, I’ll bet. Which point was that? That he’s a total douche or just an asshole?
16. jr says:

    October 30, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    stormfront blood pumps through the body of every conservative
17. PT Dennis says:

    October 30, 2008 at 1:37 pm

    Well, with his logic, the Census bureau is the most racist organization for always having to break all those labels. Dan Riehl looks Riehl racist and a Riehl tool.
18. Quaker in a Basement says:

    October 30, 2008 at 4:28 pm

    Right Dan-o. Until The Left came along with their fancy elitist hyphens, we were all just Americans. Nobody ever even noticed that some people were different, much less marginalized or ostracized them.

    American society spends 300 years sending the message to black folks: “You’re not one of us!” Not a problem, right Dan? That’s all over with now.

    Tool.
19. Southern Quaker says:

    October 30, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    yep, that’s right, there were no St Patrick Day Parades, no Columbus Day Parades, no Swedish meatball festivals… in fact no cultural identity of any sort except ‘Murican was recognized until those damned leftist decided to get into the act.
20. Randy Brown says:

    October 30, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    Parthenon:
    Post election I intend to visit right-wing blogs for at least half my comedy intake.

    I’m gonna check out the Usenet group “alt flame [n-words]“. Those two-bit redneck wanna-bes will be in full blossom.

    jr:
    stormfront blood pumps through the body of every conservative

    Not necessarily. Far from all conservatives are racist. However, racists tend to gravitate to conservative parties.
21. C.S.Strowbridge says:

    October 30, 2008 at 5:49 pm

    “Perhaps we should have a contest to see who can dig up the most racist wingnut response to an Obama landslide next week.”

    If there is a landslide, I’m hoping the right-wingers will just shut up and sulk.
22. PG says:

    October 30, 2008 at 5:57 pm

    Speaking of conservatives letting it all hang out there, while the LGF lizards seem to have gone back under their rocks, here’s another “it’s OK for conservatives to compare what they don’t like to Nazism”: taking away same-sex couples’ right to way will be like stopping Hitler’s rise to power in Germany.
23. PG says:

    October 30, 2008 at 5:58 pm

    Sorry, that should be “right to marry”
24. daniel rotter says:

    October 30, 2008 at 8:09 pm

    PG, with that link, I have officially given up on being able to differentiate between what is real and what is parody anymore.
25. Svlad Jelly says:

    October 30, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    There’s one hyphenated-American group Dan likes to talk about quite a lot: un-americans
26. meg says:

    October 31, 2008 at 11:47 am

    Funny, sad, kinda scary. So many rightwingers are running around basically asking, “Can’t you see that he’s BLACK?” Yes, we see. We see. I’m looking forward to a President Obama, that’s my hope and prayer.
27. Heather says:

    November 2, 2008 at 7:58 pm

    Thanks so much for your blog. I just found it through Mother Jones and I’m glad. Obama/Biden peace justice opportunity ‘08 (I’m praying)!