No, really. The following was emanated at Breitbart’s Big Stupid websites.
In the early stages of the Shirley Sherrod controversy, the media began to craft the narrative Shirley Sherrod was the embodiment of the term “post-racial.” Then on July 22nd on Anderson Cooper 360, this happened:
SHIRLEY SHERROD: I think he [BREITBART] would like to get us stuck back in the times of slavery. That’s where I think he would like to see all black people end up again. And that’s why…
COOPER: You think — you think he’s racist?
SHERROD: … I think he’s so vicious. Yes, I do.
Why, she as good as lynched Andrew Breitbart. And now his career is in ruins, he has been fired, his party has turned against him, the media won’t take him seriously, he is a pariah, these are all the inevitable horrific consequences of being called a racist on National Teevee.
Or, you know, not.
Anyway, AC apologized for his Racial Thought Crime. You can see the abjection at the video linked in the, uh, link. And then he very helpfully assigned a young black reporter to Take Seriously all sorts of ridiculous horseshit from the Wingnuttosphere, thus proving once more that Liberals Control Teh Media with a Cheesecloth Fist.
Anyway, I’ve already said this as well as I could, in another context, so permit me to quote myself in public:
Can we just pause for a moment and consider what black people feel, or if that makes anyone uncomfy, what Shirley Sherrod is likely to be feeling here? “I grew up with members of my family murdered by white people and their system, and this made me distrust white people and their system, and then I had an epiphany about how some white people need help through the system, and because I said that, I got called a racist, my reputation got pissed on, I got fired, and now if I dare to say white people and their system are unfair, I’m the oppressor?”
Meh. Meh. Meh. Meh. GAH.
In 2010, all the MSM deference is to the feelings of shitheaded palefaces like those predisposed to fall for Breitbartian race-baiting bullshit.
A post-racial society, my pasty Celtic posterior. A post racist-society, I’d settle for.



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SaTHERSday Night Fever!
Ain’t no fucking Post-racial America and there never will be as long as there are people like Brietbart, Limbaugh, Beck, and the rest of the rightwing fear mongers.
Mod: Is it just me or is the whole page here all catawhompus?
the page is catawhompus and we are fixing
I notice. Thanks.
and its fixed by the wonderful backstage crew
hip hip hurray
glad Chelsea had her big day……..to ruin cystic pustule limpballs
Hooray indeed!
ya know i believe i was the first to call pustule…LIMPBALLS…can that be looked up?
and AC Cooper is of late INSISTING Liberal blogs do it too…FU PRETTYBOY
saTHERSday nite live!
Thanks to Suz & all the backstage crew, who view my posts as an air traffic controller views an approaching Hindenberg…
More than fairly, I haten to add…
Anderson Cooper can take his false equivalencies and stick them up his nose.
anybody home?
in the Vanderbilt powder room………g
sorry that one got by me… refresh and spam be gone
think… McNasty was invited to the nuptuals
Anderson Cooper exists to comfort the wicked and chastise the virtuous. It is why he was hired.
he aint the sharpest knife in the drawer….all that wasted schooling like W
Just another of the abundant pretty news mannequins.
chocolate time out
I knew there had to be a purpose, but I was completely indifferent as to what it might be.
he is a puff pastry
I thought he was hired to appeal to the ladies.
Aloha, Thers…!
*aargh* Not more Breitbart farts…! The odor lingers far too long…! 8-(
who wanteth a piece?
http://ahdeshmukh.com/project/Images/chocolatecake.jpg
Well, perhaps, but to do that job, they could just use him as a door stop in the studio rather than actually letting him speak.
oh yummy
So, what now, AC360 was supposed to
defend Breitbartchallenge Ms. Sherrod? Just how was he supposed to do that? “Gee, you don’t really believe that, do you? Are you sure? Really?” Or what?here this comes with it
https://mybrc.com.au/SiteCollectionImages/MB_Glass_of_milk.jpg
You know what’s irritating? Every time one of those BP “look what wonderful humanitarians we are” ads comes up, a big blob of saliva suddenly materializes on my screen. And then my mouth gets really dry.
thank ye kindly
so many eves,you can speak/type for moi…bravo
be right back,going for a nibble
COOPER: You think — you think he’s racist?
Priceless!
It was not the racist who fired Sherrod of course. That was done by the Obama Administration which does not want to appear to defend a darky.
***MODNOTE: lets be real careful with terms that could be interpreted as being racist in and of themselves***
i love to click those ads knowing that bp has to pay money to fdl for each click.
Indeed, that is what he is always supposed to do when a winger gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar and his pants down. Of course any sentient human being also believes exactly what Sherrod does.
Meetup in RWC, Ca on 8-7… So far only 3 RSV P’s… sheesh I thought pups liked getting together… OH well if there are not more Pups we will have to cancel for a second time… sigh Pups You are in charge!!
RSVP @ nahanter at the google mail place…
Shouldn’t the virtuous already be chaste? Theoretically, anyway?
Yeah, he won’t tho…
You are confusing repression with virtue.
Nah, it’s just that Anderson claims he lost the key to this chastity belt he made me wear… Bastard!
Why do y’all hate rich, white men so durn much ?!!
Thers !
i would love to be there,but im 3,000 miles away
Because they are evil rapacious assholes.
sigh…
because they LOVE DEM SELVES sooooooooooo much…………g
LOL … that would explain his permanent squint.
*sigh* i wudda thought more norcal pups would be able to attend a meetup
Would calling this post ‘thoughtful’ get me in the soup with the host?
Thanks, Thers
That’s one reason I’d never be a nudist, the resulting squinting epidemic…
Well, I could take the rap for a bit of fire-on-fire racism back in the day if one were so inclined – but I’m a foreign cave-being and your ways startle and frighten me. Besides which, I’m not a drunken Right-wing rich shit-disturber trying to monkey wrench the country for cheap jollies, so…
;>)
just read a study,that said 75%of Murkans DONT! believe in evolution
the media has done its job…teh well
teehee
No. I love soup!
Btw, Thers… I fervently hope the staff of the OED pick up this new phrase; ‘Tittle Tattle’… For obvious reasons…! ;-)
I read something today asking Can we put the Sherrod racial debate behind us?
NO! No we can’t. We can’t just keep looking away. We have to deal with this.
Smooches to Bazzie!
And the schools have not done theirs at all. One reason so few believe in evolution is that it is rarely taught in the public schools for fear of stirring up controversy.
Shorter AC: Gosh, I’m SO sorry I didn’t put my brain in gear before engaging my mouth. Why, my best friends are African American.
And funny how this phony mea culpa from AC just happened after the announcement of a lawsuit against Breitbart. Naw, just a coincidence, I’m sure.
Yo DB, I replied to your comment over at Marcy’s place …
Nah gonna happen.
hes right here… scritches to Bob the wonder bird
More important to pander to the parents’ superstitions than educate their kids.
merrily we role along!………spit
I actually think it is more the teachers’ fear that the Talibangelicals will burn them at the stake. That and the fact that far too many public school teachers are Talibangelicals themselves.
Ha!
and how can the parents be so obtuse?
I see they’ve released he new remastered DVD set of Fawlty Towers. It’s pretty cheap compared to other series box sets. Of course, there are only the 12 episodes.
I’m skeptical that the number is that high. Who did the study?
I hope you are counting me as an RSVP.
frightening!
I don’t think the number who believe in it has been above 35% for 15-20 years.
There were lots of fundies in the ’50s and ’60s but with the Soviets matching us in nuclear armament and kicking our asses (for a time) in the space race people decided it was alright for the youngin’s to learn them some o’ that sciencey stuff.
Not many vowels left, eh…? ;-)
A-yep.
And you don’t even have to teach them about human evolution when they get to college. Trust me, it ain’t pretty.
Superpower doesn’t mean what it used to. Now apparently it simply refers to the right to be willfully ignorant.
Anderson Cooper has long been suspected of having teh gay so you know, he has to be very serious and very serious people don’t accuse conservatives of racism. Heck no! Only dirty f*cking hippies do that.
They’ll probably still let you in, Petro – You’re polite and well-behaved….whereas I probably wouldn’t make it past the first state line without *edited in moderation* of the head on general principles. And rightly so, may such a fate befall all outlander infidel scum who trifle with AMERICA, BABY! (burp)
;>)
(MODNOTE: lets not go there please)
Much more importantly, the fundies were largely marginalized in American society and mostly apolitical. It was only when the Republicans began courting “social conservatives” that they became politicized like they are today.
i read it wrong but over 60 % were clueless
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/35785/britons_and_canadians_side_with_evolution_not_americans
regrets!
Well, that and blowing up countries and shit on a whim.
LOL !!!
Have you made any new masterpiece(s) lately ?
An inevitable result of Nixon’s Southern strategy?
Dad was a pathologist………strictly the scientific method at our house…g
Keeping the world
safeprofitable for capitalists.That is pretty much in keeping with every other poll on the topic for the past 15-20 years.
Still, uggggh. This is what comes of pandering to religious kooks.
that splains it
Nope – burnt out and too much life to dream.
;>)
Not necessarily inevitable (they could have just stuck with the racial bigots and not gone for the religious ones as well), but a direct result.
Dayam, I’m gonna email Homeland Security and bitch about their lax enforcement north of the border…! Ya’ll are some mighty suspicious characters, if ya ask me…!
Never fear, your crack “Minutemen” are there to protect Murkan soil agin the Canucks …
Might want to keep a low profile there, snowbird. ;-)
Maddening and true.
and too much huffing
I call the way this gets covered “reverse issue coverage”
If you want to talk about the importance of free speech you need to have your speech crushed. If the want the media to see white racism you find someone who is not a white racist to illustrate it.
Think about John Kerry. They wanted to deflect from a war coward so they found a war hero and worked to make him a war coward. You would think it wouldn’t work, but they know how to turn a positive into a negative.
The tactic is credited to Rove but others use it, not always consciously, but the rw media know how to play it.
Breitbart might not have known about Sherrod’s history, he might have gotten “unlucky” to find a real hero and total non -racist when he found someone who fits the John Kerry mold of being a war hero who can be called a coward.
I was accused of trying to silence talk radio hosts when they shut down my blog. It was the irony as much as anything that helped my story. I used it to my advantage and as a way to shut up the critics. When they said , “but you tried to silence the hosts” I could say ,”No. I just wanted to defund them but they DID silence me.”
I’m sure experts in communication theory and political science will explain this method in years to come and use an academic name. For my part I want to understand how and why it works and use it against the right.
One trick I use is to not accuse them of being bad things but of being good things! So to use reverse projection on someone who is uncompassionate I accuse them of having compassion and say they are a friend to liberals. They will try to prove they aren’t. “I am NOT a liberal! I’m not compassionate!”
Thank you for the clip of Malcolm.
And a little Rage in his and Martin’s honor.
Although ya try to discredit
ya still never edit
the needle i’ll thread it
radically poetic
standing with the fury that they had in ’66
and like E-double im mad
still knee-deep in the systems shit
Networks at work, keepin people calm
ya know the murdered X
then tried to blame it on islam
he turned the power to the have-nots
and then came the shot
Rage Against the Machine-Wake Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUfaJ8RqfOg
Do your duty and report any suspicious Canuck ne’er-do-wells practicing amateur astronomy without a license that you don’t like the look of, citizen. You’ll get a merit badge and a tax cut.
;>)
The two go together. I you believe someof the shit the fundies do, you will believe anything. Even that tax cuts for the rich will make everyone wealthy and raise federal revenues.
You soiled your merkin?
You should never buy something that has to be dry cleaned that you intend to wear on something damp… :)
Are you asking DHS to crack down on the internets, since these characters seem to only sneak in via the tubes. :)
So that’s why they call it The Land of The Free !
pretty pissed at BHO for calling out Rangel,but not Vitter,Shelby or Ensign…he always disapoints
Easy breezy, dude! :)
thats why they send $$$$$$$$ to Pat on da teebee
Guys, be kind to your friendly neighborhood mod.
This post deliberately pushes an envelope that needs pushing. Just watch where the attack actually is…
That’s right – tie the tubes and keep the riffraff out of the discourse. It’s the only way to protect the children’s ice cream.
;>)
*heh* Watch out this star gazer will soon be talking to Space Command live each night…! ;-)
glad that new kevlar/nomex suit came in…. *sigh* i blame lurk’s chocolates for the need for a new modsuit
You forgot to read the fine print. That only applies to white conservative religious fanatics. Everybody else has to pay, especially those suspiciously dusky hued, polytheistical, contortionist furriners.
Hey, I’m cool with it. Not my house after all…Not that there’s anything but ghosts in my house now, anyway.
boo
;>)
The Mafia modeled their protection rackets on the Church’s afterlife insurance scheme. “Nice soul you got there. Be a shame to see anything BAD happen to a soul like that…”
Did you stock up on the new and improved, extra heavy duty TrollBeGone?
In space, no one can hear you eat ice cream, Tuttle. Put that in your super-duper galactic radiophone and ‘spoke’ it.
;>)
The attack is where it has always been, the conservative culture of intolerance which feeds on hate and fear to protect the rich and powerful.
better.. i got the new and improved troll-zapper…. that way i don’t have to deal with that foul aftersmell. also picked up some wingnut scrub
i did not know that
we are so screwed…its so deep
LOL! Does the zapper totally vaporize them, or does it leave an ashy residue?
divide and conquer…the other
It has worked for the American elite for a couple of centuries.
Just my hypothesis.
Western civilization has no better example of how to conduct a shakedown than that demonstrated throughout history by the Vatican. These Protestant crime syndicates are just johnny-come-latelys.
its late,morpheus calls…love yall…niters
yah, square root & conquer! Or something….
g’nite sadly
Night!
Vatican bank=well healed……smooches
G’nite sadly. Hugs to Bazzie and the other critters.
Vatican bank=Medicis
some ash but not too bad… easily cleaned up so it is very popular with the mods
Glad to hear it. Some of the economy models leave a fair bit of ash to clean up and it can be tedious.
How is DrSmoke (if I remember correctly Smoke is your kitteh’s name)?
and me, most probably!
Ms Dr. Smoke is being fat and sassy as usual. She is currently taking a tongue bath by the corner of my desk and wondering if I ever intend to go to bed tonight.
Time to do the dishes and then drag my tired carcass to bed. Splendid evening to all.
Nighters. Give Bob a peck for me.
g’nite rat
Lottsa folkies being chastened these day. From within and without. Power and all that.
Glad to hear she’s fat and sassy. Bob says that’s how pets should be. Spoil her good! :)
Think I will toddle off as well. Take care all.
g’nite dr dick
Nighters all
Peaceful and sweet dreams to you, my friend.
g’nite thers
Wingnut scrub *with moisturizer*! Envious sigh…
well, a lady must keep her hands soft and supple yanno
Aloha, Sleepers…! *g*
Arghhhh, I made the mistake of following your link this morning before coffee. What an amazing act and the comments are even more scary, if possible.
Whenever I start to think that all people can be reasoned with and have even a kind of remote understanding of the history of this country, this kind of thing slaps me in the face. I’m not a nihilist for nothing.
Let me know when Anderson Cooper apologizes for being a Closet Queen.
I too would be happy with a “post-racist society”. Sadly, what we have is a neo-racist society.
Yes to both spocko and Spurious. Also hijean but that is all for now… Sure hope more RSVP soon…
Methinks not-so-bright Andrew Breitbart, or even-less-bright Tucker Carlson — who travel in gods know whatever circles “socially” — have photos of the Vanderbilt heir. You know, Andy Cooper pics. Pics he wouldn’t want mummykins to see all over Breitbart’s as-yet-unlaunched site, BigGayBottomsforLatinoMen.
The kind of photos you forget a trick has in his phone when you throw him out the next morning for trying to figure out the combination of the safe tucked behind the Tom of Finland signed litho in your dressing room. Ask me how I know this!
Now really, Teddy, do you honestly think Gloria (who has been surrounded by gay men all her life, plus her husband was bi) doesn’t know Anderson’s as gay as IKEA on Superbowl Sunday?
Ah, but knowing a secret and seeing it in print are two different things. Time to play the game.
;>)