Dave Weigel deconstructs a Drudge attack on First Lady Michelle Obama and the resulting racism, nonsense, etc. that follows. The march towards Whig level of relevance continues.
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Drudge was proven to be less than useless when the Economy fell and his “reporting” shrivelled like a raisin in the Sahara.
If he can’t blame it on Democrats, it’s not news to him…except the Economy was news, and he couldn’t figure out an angle.
Between bloggers who expose Drudge’s misinformation and Fox Nation (which does what Drudge does, only with a better wrapper and a bigger marketing budget) the guy will be put to pasture soon enough.
How frigging idiotic. There’s absolutely no reason to bring race into this.
A better comparison would be Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Rose Law Firm.
Mrs. Obama’s previous job was at a hospital. There, her greatest achievement was a plan that critics call little more than “patient dumping.”
She got a very, very substantial raise right after her husband steered a seven-figure earmark to the hospital.
And her duties were so important there that after she resigned, they chose to abolish the position instead of hiring someone new.
The unspoken truth: her job there was to be “Mrs. Senator.” And while the hospital could afford to keep on a “Mrs. Senator,” especially since “Mr. Senator” was steering plenty of federal dollars their way, they couldn’t afford a “Mrs. President” — plus the DC to Chicago commute was too much to ask.
There. No racism involved whatsoever. (Until Strowbridge finds some way to inject it, of course.)
J.
A better comparison would be Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Rose Law Firm.
Or Herb Moses and Fannie Mae.
Oh my. I can’t even imagine a scenario whereby if Laura Bush had joked that everyone should have a chief of staff and a set of personal assistants, that some liberal blogger wouldn’t slip up from his normal moral high standards and try to make light of it.
It’s almost unthinkable.
That’s pretty stupid indeed. I hate to see eye-roll stuff like this distract from the important issues.
The Drudge/ Jake Tapper/ Fox/ Clear Channel/ Politico axis of mouth-breathing
How frigging idiotic. There’s absolutely no reason to bring race into this.
Indeed, but that’s how the modern Republican party rolls. Just ask their leader, racist asshole Rush Limbaugh.
critics call little more than “patient dumping.”
Any sort of link…I hate when its “critics say” crap. Anyone can be a critic, no matter how sane.
I love how frustrated and whiny right-wingers get about examples of hypocrisy they invented to be outraged about hypocrisy instead of what’s actually happening.
That’s pretty stupid indeed. I hate to see eye-roll stuff like this distract from the important issues.
Quite right. Now, let’s get back to the topic of Presidential burger toppings.
Sorry about the lack of link for the patient dumping…
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/michelle_obamas_patientdumping_1.html
And oddly enough, David Axelrod was a key figure in the plan, too.
J.
Dennis, May 8, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Oh my. I can’t even imagine a scenario whereby if Laura Bush had joked that everyone should have a chief of staff and a set of personal assistants, that some liberal blogger wouldn’t slip up from his normal moral high standards and try to make light of it.
It’s almost unthinkable.
Think again…
“If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.”
GeeWhatADumba$$, Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000.
Funny how the Limbaugh Brigade around here seems to have missed that one…
J.G.Thayer: “How frigging idiotic. There’s absolutely no reason to bring race into this.”
It’s a direct result of…
The Southern Strategy.
If you have a political strategy that caters to racist assholes, you will attract racist assholes. That’s just how it works.
(Hey, the 30 seconds I spent preparing for Strowbridge’s invocation of racism paid off!)
No, Strowbridge, if you speak critically of a black person, you will have racists agreeing with you solely because the person you are criticizing is black. Or any other prejudice.
The question is how you will let that inevitability govern your actions. My solution is to say “fuck them” and say what I think, regardless of who might cheer me on for wrong reasons.
I don’t let the bigots and racists influence my conduct in the least. Nor do I allow race-baiting, hyperbolistic, frothing, lying assholes like you shape my actions.
J.
IF – most Americans were stupid, racist, uneducated, morons who are SO jealous of their $5.00 and hour income that they can’t see the wisdom in having millionaires pay 24% or 30% of their income so that America has some form of universal heath care and affordable education …. THEN … the Republicans would be riding high. Unfortunately for the Repugs only about 22% are presently that stupid.
They really have to stop embracing “stupid” as their raison d’etre.
American Thinker? Favored source for Rush and the site that pushed the theory that the economic downturn was a secret plot of Soros, Obama, and Alinsky to elect a Dem. That site? Next you’ll be telling me about the flouride in the wa– ARGHVER weioprj ;
So, Oliver, you wanna show an alternate interpretation of Mrs. O’s prize accomplishment?
J.
And you ain’t escaping the flouride THAT easily. Not only is it impregnated in every single comic DC publishes, but we’ve genetically altered dachshunds to exude it from their pores. You’re DOOMED, you fool!
J.
J.G.Thayer: “(Hey, the 30 seconds I spent preparing for Strowbridge’s invocation of racism paid off!)”
Hey J.G.Thayer, go fuck yourself. There was fucking racism there, so go fuck yourself.
There’s a reason you find so much racism in the GOP, and that’s because the GOP has spent so many years catering to the racist vote.
This isn’t about criticizing someone who happens to be black. This is about a history of attacking people because they are black. Or Latino. Or Gay.
“The question is how you will let that inevitability govern your actions. My solution is to say ‘fuck them’ and say what I think, regardless of who might cheer me on for wrong reasons.”
This isn’t an accident, you fucking idiot. THIS IS BY DESIGN.
How can you not fucking understand it? Are you truly this stupid? Or are you so fucking racist you don’t recognize it anymore?
“I don’t let the bigots and racists influence my conduct in the least.”
And when your political leaders cheer them on?
“Nor do I allow race-baiting, hyperbolistic, frothing, lying assholes like you shape my actions.”
Don’t let me shape you actions. As long as the GOP is filled with people like you, the Democrats will remain in power.
C.S. Stowbridge – well “fu*king” put.
Strowbridge:
The article Oliver links to clearly states that all the racism comes from the comments: “Hilarity, as seen in the comments of the Washington Post’s article, ensues.”
Drudge isn’t accused of being a racist. Not a single quote from Drudge is cited as racist. It’s the comments that is so appalling.
The message you seem to want to convey is that one shouldn’t criticize people if there’s a chance racists will use it as an opportunity to be assholes. (Consequently, giving assholes like you a chance to pipe up, too.)
You rejoice when you find some racism, because it fuels your need to scream and point and denounce whole swaths of people because of a few obscure assholes.
You want to raise these assholes from the obscurity of a newspaper’s comments section and make these nobodies the face and leadership of the entire group roughly called “those Strowbridge doesn’t like.”
Sorry, that doesn’t fit. No matter how much you howl and fret and swear and point and keep repeating the same old things.
Find a new tune.
J.
J.G.Thayer: “It’s the comments that is so appalling.”
And your point is… ?
“The message you seem to want to convey is that one shouldn’t criticize people if there’s a chance racists will use it as an opportunity to be assholes.”
I said nothing of the sort.
My message remains the same. By using the Southern Strategy as a political tool, the GOP is encouraging racism, which is why they find so many racist asshole among their ranks.
This racist outburst is just more evidence of that.
“You rejoice when you find some racism, because it fuels your need to scream and point and denounce whole swaths of people because of a few obscure assholes.”
A few obscure assholes?
THE SOUTHERN STRATEGY WAS AND IN MANY WAS STILL IS THE HEART OF THE GOP POLITICAL STRATEGY.
This isn’t a few obscure assholes, no matter how hard you try and pretend it is.
Hell, the runner up for the head of the RNC belonged to a WHITES ONLY COUNTRY CLUB. And I don’t mean he belonged to a WHITES ONLY COUNTRY CLUB back in the 1950s when it was common. I mean he had to quite his WHITES ONLY COUNTRY CLUB when he decided to run for the head of the RNC.
How are you not appalled by this? Why do you feel the need to defend this shit?
“Find a new tune.”
Go fuck yourself. I will stop talking about racism in the GOP when the GOP tries to stamp out racism, instead of using it to their political advantage.
It is quite amusing to see someone who has been using the same old tune ever since he started polluting o-dub’s comments section asking others to find a new tune. What’s that word again? Hyp-, hypocr-,… Republican’t! Yeah – that’s it…
…and yet you don’t complete the connections here, Strowbridge. You NEVER do.
You have this incredibly elaborate history of the “Southern Strategy” that you have written up, ready to cut and paste at the drop of a hat. (And around you, you’re always hearing hats drop.) But the point of Drudge’s link was an article criticizing Michelle Obama — in a non-racist way.
In the COMMENTS on that article, which are utterly irrelevant to Drudge’s link, some racist assholes acted like racist assholes.
But that doesn’t matter to Strowbridge, Fearless Fighter Of Racists. Because Drudge linked to the original article which drew those comments, Drudge is a RACIST!!!!!!! and needs to be condemned and whatnot.
Of course, Strowbridge will say I’m misrepresenting what he’s saying. So let’s just lay it on the table, then, Strowbridge:
What should the original article have done to avoid “RACISM!!!!”
What should Drudge have done to avoid RACISM!!!!!!”
What was their offense in this case? Should the newspaper not run an article critical of Michelle Obama? Should they have not allowed comments? Should they have censored the comments?
Should Drudge have not linked to the story?
I’m eagerly awaiting your spittle-flecked rehashing of your same old points over and over again, because I just didn’t get enough of them the first 479 times.
J.
Should the newspaper not run an article critical of Michelle Obama?
How, exactly, was the original article critical of Michelle Obama?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/michelle_obamas_patientdumping_1.html
Really, Jay (Tea)? The “American Thinker”? The blog with contributors Kyle-Ann “Scary black man” Shiver, Helen “Stupid negro kids”Cadogan, Randall “Math is hard” Hoven, among other “bright” political commentators? Yeah, I think I’ll pass.
I see Oliver posted a nice example, but I’d thought I’d contribute as well.
J.G.Thayer: “But that doesn’t matter to Strowbridge, Fearless Fighter Of Racists. Because Drudge linked to the original article which drew those comments, Drudge is a RACIST!!!!!!! and needs to be condemned and whatnot.”
Did I call Drudge racist here? Did I?
No, so stop your fucking lying.
Now, if you want to address what I wrote and not strawmen of your own construction, we can have an argument.
Until then… address what I wrote, or shut the fuck up.
My apologies, Strowbridge. I thought that was why you brought up racism in this article — as part of a broad brush of criticizing Drudge and the story.
Had I realized it was just another of your Tourettes-style sudden outbursts of “OMFG SOUTHERN STRATEGY FTW!” I would have ignored it. My apologies, again, for presuming it was relevant.
I’ll be more careful in the future in not assuming you’re actually addressing the topic at hand.
J.
Hey Jay Tea, you wanna explain why you’re characterizing the original article as “critical” of Michelle Obama?
Jg.Thayer: “Had I realized it was just another of your Tourettes-style sudden outbursts of ‘OMFG SOUTHERN STRATEGY FTW!’ I would have ignored it. My apologies, again, for presuming it was relevant.”
Translation: “Waaaaaaahhhhhhh!”
You don’t have to be a cry-baby just because your party is the party of racism. The Southern Strategy is alive and well in the GOP and that’s why you see so many racist outbursts from their members. As much as you want to pretend it is just a coincidence, it is not.
fafaroo: “Hey Jay Tea, you wanna explain why you’re characterizing the original article as ‘critical’ of Michelle Obama?”
I guess that’s a no. Fucking coward has run away from yet another debate instead of trying to justify his bullshit claims.