The Wrong Stuff, by Michael Davis – Straight No Chaser #213
April 8, 2011 Michael Davis 0 Comments
Soooooo, It may have come to pass that I may have been wrong about some stuff.
Me?
Wrong?
Yep.
I’m OK with that. I’ve said it a million times, I’ve been wrong before I’ll be wrong again.
We shall indeed see.
WHAT am I talking about?
You KNOW what I’m talkin bout Willis.
Whenever I write a rant it seems like a good idea at the time. I see something, I react to something and 95% of the time my reaction is right on.
But…there’s that 10%…wait a sec…95% plus 10 =105%…
Whenever I write a rant it seems like a good idea at the time. I see something, I react to something and 95% of the time my reaction is right on.
But there’s that 5%…sorry public school.
If within that 5% I say something stupid I’ll own up to it. If I say something wrong, I’ll correct it. If I misrepresent someone’s actions I apologize.
I expect the same from the other party but I’ve learned I have to be smart about that sort of thing. I mean- I can’t call my new girlfriend a gold digging cow just because my last one was. On the other hand, my new girlfriend should not expect me to give a fish about her ‘feelings’ just because her last boyfriend did.
On another front, Glenn Beck said The President of The United States was a racist with a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”
Finally it looks like his dumb ass and his hate speech will be put off the air. Lately Beck has also gone back to the ‘Obama was not born in this country’ bullshit. You would have thought that line of bullshit would have went the way of ‘Death Panels’ but Donald Thump is now using that as his rallying point for his (WTF????) Presidential bid.
Donald Thump is a serious contender in a GOP field that features more than one nut case.
I think that anyone who gives Thump, Palin, Bachman or any other race baiting, rich, elitist assholes their vote are idiots in the original sense of the word:
idiot |?id??t|
noun informal
A stupid person.
• A mentally handicapped person.
See: GOP
That about sums it up for me.
I could be wrong again. If I am I’ll own up to it, just as soon as the GOP produces those weapons of mass destruction and an IQ test for Palin and Trump that proves they are not idiots.
Vinnie Bartilucci
April 8, 2011 - 8:37 am
A recent poll put Trump as people’s second-favorite Republican Candidate behind Mitt Romney.
That is, in fact, GOOD news.
That Palin didn’t top the list HAS to be seen as a positive.
I don’t think Trump is a “serious” contender. I don’t he’s serious about running, just about getting his name in the papers, a job which he does professionally.
The Birther Thing simply will not go away, ever. It’s become as ingrained as “fact” in American culture as Fatty Arbuckle’s coca-cola bottle. The “I’m not going to grace that with an answer” line was the right way to go, but since the question would not go away, it just got bigger, and the fact THAT he didn’t answer (or more correctly, didn’t answer to their satisfaction), became part of the “evidence”. If he presents every piece of documentation they ask for, there will still be those who will claim forgery, or ask “Why did it TAKE so long to present the documents?” or any other dodge they can come up with. Millions of people, now and in the future, will mentally add that asterisk when they read about him, or do quotation fingers when they say “President”.
But I gotta say, I STILL don’t think it’s because he’s black. It’s beacuse he’s a Democrat. I absolutely think that the Republicans took advantage of many people’s non-deliberate fears as a tool to turn them against him, but it’s the party he’s a member of that makes them want to take him down, not his race. If they thought they could use this birther argument against anyone else, they’d try it.
And like the Birther thing, I know there are a lot of folks I’ll never convince to the contrary.
BTW, I like how the “related posts” tool searched for the word “wrong” in other posts, and had to go back as far as a year to find three examples.
Doug Abramson
April 8, 2011 - 9:05 am
The Birther thing really drives me nuts.He released the birth certificate that the State of Hawaii gave him. You know, the one that the mouth breathers insist isn’t real because it isn’t the “long form”. I don’t know what the fuck a long form birth certificate is. THE President’s birth certificate looks pretty much like the one I was issued by the County of San Diego, for the State of California thirty-none years ago this Sunday. His also looks a lot like the one’s that the County of San Diego issued my parents for the State on California in 7/44 and 2/45.Does that mean that we were born in Kenya too? Oh, and Vinnie, as for the motives of the Birthers, I have to disagree with you. The fact that he’s a Democrat is why the GOP’s elected assholes feed the rabid inbreds that believe the Birther crap. As for most of the Birthers themselves, it might be his name, it might be his skin color. but they believe this nonsense because they are stupid cracker, racist assholes!
R. Maheras
April 8, 2011 - 9:27 am
MOTU — You watch Glenn Beck?
For me, watching Glenn Beck is like eating liver: I can take it in small doses, but if I take in too much, my gag reflex — which is usually very difficult to trigger — kicks in.
R. Maheras
April 8, 2011 - 9:35 am
Vinnie — I think I said it here a while back, but Palin destroyed any chance she had at being a serious presidential nominee when she quit her governorship. That was her “Ross Perot” moment.
Bill Mulligan
April 8, 2011 - 10:20 am
I wouldn’t worry about being proven wrong. Saying that you feel that Republicans are idiots is no different than saying you feel that liberals are are fundamentally dishonest–it’s an opinion based on personal bias. Or any other unsupported feeling one might have about some huge, diverse group.
Now one could argue that these are not feelings at all but actual thoughts…but I would apply a stronger standard for that. At the least it should not be so easily disproven. All I have to do is find one GOP member whose intelligence is obvious to any impartial observer. Won’t be hard; I have deliberately not limited myself to friendships with one party and I value intelligence far above fealty to my own political views so I could probably find intelligent examples of everything from wild eyed anarchists to Chavez-supporting commies.
But why are you big on IQ tests–they are not infallible and certainly seem to have some inherent racial bias (unless one truly believes that African Americans are less intelligent than whites or Asians). How about we at least be allowed to check out all their school records? So far the president has chosen not to release his. Palin’s were nothing to brag about, though something always beats nothing.
At any rate, I’d put Trump’s chances of getting the nomination in the low single digits. Hey, why do you think Trump, Palin and Bachman are race-baiters? Not saying they aren’t, just wondering what each one did to earn that designation, one I would not apply lightly.
Mike Gold
April 8, 2011 - 10:27 am
Vinnie, I gotta disagree with you here. Trump for Palin is a wash in every regard. It’s quite possible Trump is a bigger whore and liar — Palin is simply deranged. He knows Obama’s birth records are on the legit; he just pulled a stunt worthy of Charlie Sheen. And yes, I’ve vote for Charlie before I’d vote for Palin or Trump. If he used the slogan “You already KNOW I’m an asshole!” he might even win.
Either Palin or Trump would be dangerous in office, but no where near as dangerous as the people who would vote for either. I firmly believe that if a Republican president were to be assassinated in office between 2013 and 2017, it will most likely happen by a person who has been affiliated with the Tea Baggers.
There’s no doubt in my mind that a fair degree of opposition to Obama comes from his being black. How many other Democrats have been accused of forging their birth certificate, being a Muslim, and being an African (I mean, he could have forged his birth certificate to hide his been Swedish)? Yeah, sure, all that is just a coincidence? No. It’s not. Doug phrased it more succinctly, but since he got there first I had to go for a bit of detail.
Russ is right on the money, in my opinion, about Sarah. However, when it comes to the obviously stupid clowns like Palin, Trump and Bachmann, there is an important lesson we must continuously learn: politics abhors a vacuum even more than nature, and he or she who fills it first has the high hole card. And yes, Trump is stupid. Two years ago, his three Atlantic City casinos filed for bankruptcy — for the third time!
Oh, and Russ: I could never stomach liver.
Bill Mulligan
April 8, 2011 - 12:31 pm
“How many other Democrats have been accused of forging their birth certificate, being a Muslim, and being an African (I mean, he could have forged his birth certificate to hide his been Swedish)?”
Could that MAYBE all have something to do with the fact that for the first time we had a president whose father was a foreign African Muslim? I mean, if Al Sharpton won the presidency I’m sure there would be all kinds of things said about him but I doubt that he’d be accused of forging his birth certificate, being a Muslim, and being an African citizen.
It’s enough that the charges are bogus and foolish, needlessly making the accuser racists as well just lets them off the hook. The story becomes yet another case of liberals crying racism when it ought to be conservatives grasping at straws. But hey, your call.
“I firmly believe that if a Republican president were to be assassinated in office between 2013 and 2017, it will most likely happen by a person who has been affiliated with the Tea Baggers.”
Well, so far we have had one guy go to jail for threatening Cantor and a teacher in Wisconsin is in trouble for threatening to bomb republicans and kill their families. So far, the violence does not seem terribly exclusive to the tea party gang. Quite the opposite. Of course, these were just threats; it may be that the far right actually carry out the bad while those on the far left are only good for talking smack. Though JFK would disagree.
MOTU
April 8, 2011 - 3:54 pm
Bill,
Regarding race baiting. The one incident that stands out to me is when Dr. Laura yelled, ‘Nigger’ on her radio talk show numerous times. The smart thing to do would have been to say nothing-what Palin did was tell Dr. Bitch, “Don’t retreat, reload.” At about a ZILLION Palin rallies someone shouted out, “Nigger” or “Kill Him” or some such racial slur and never did she renounce those remarks.
Never.
Regarding the other two, Chump and Bachnuts asking the first black President rather or not he was born in this country AFTER the CIA, FBI and God knows what other agencies have vetted him smacks to me as race baiting.
Vinnie Bartilucci
April 8, 2011 - 4:54 pm
Trump is as serious a candidate for President as he was for Mayor decades ago, and Howard Stern was for Governor. Trump will do anything to get his name in the paper, and this whole President thing is perfect for that. A couple of years before, he was shaving Vince McMahon’s head.
As Bill said, we’ve not had a Presidential candidate who’s had a childhood similar to Obama’s; If they thought they could get away with it on anyone else, they would have. Both sides are more than willing to take any blip or inconsistency and turn them into glaring sincs against man and God.
You don’t have to prove anything anymore, you just have to keep the suspicion alive. We’ve become such a nation of cynics, we’re willing to believe any story of coverups and chicanery COULD be true.
Reg
April 8, 2011 - 5:16 pm
Vinnie said…”But I gotta say, I STILL don’t think it’s because he’s black. It’s beacuse he’s a Democrat.”
Many great points laid out, but I respectfully disagree with this one. Obama’s ethnicity (to a VERY large measure) is exactly the primary obstruction.
Bill Mulligan
April 8, 2011 - 6:46 pm
Reg, how do you know that?
People have such short memories (or, conversely, I am getting so old that there are few left alive who CAN have these memories, sigh). I hear people talk about how Obama or Clinton were criticized to “an unprecedented extent” or some such hooey and I think back to “Hey hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?” Now someone puts crosshairs on a map and we get a collective case of the vapors. Nut up or shut up, is what I say to these politicians–it’s a dangerous world full of people who say hurtful words and, oh by the way, want to kill us.
God save us from these thin skinned whiners, one reason I would not vote for Obama. Anyone who gives a yellow rat’s ass what Rosie O’Donnel says about him is not anyone I want with his finger near the nuclear football.
MOTU- I’ll chalk up the “zillion” to artistic license but can you say for sure that such events happened and were heard by Palin? I mean, Obama managed to sleep through some of his own Pastor’s more, um, provocative statements, if he is to be believed and who am I to say otherwise? I’m sure some of this must be on tape if true and someone will point me to it. I know there is controversy on the “kill him” supposedly said at the Scranton speech-keith Olbermann, who was not there, says it happened. The Secret Service, which was there, said it didn’t. But they don’t have TV shows so why should I listen to them? Of course, neither does Keith. http://www.timesleader.com/news/breakingnews/Secret_Service_says_Kill_him_allegation_unfounded_.html
(and as a policy I don’t think a politician needs to publicly disavow everything some idiot does or says, just because they may get his or her vote. Someone just sent Republican Allen West a letter with white powder and claims that it was anthrax (it wasn’t). What responsibility to democrats have to condemn this act? None, unless it can be shown that the criminal was directly encouraged to do this by them. Ditto the woman in Wisconsin who threatened republicans and their families and the guy who threatened Addie Cantor and etc etc.)
MOTU
April 8, 2011 - 6:51 pm
The racist attacks on Obama are aimed at those people who believe ANYTHING they hear. It’s the ignorant Americans who the GOP targets.
We all remember that woman who stood up at a McCann rally and said that Obama was a Muslim. Imagine how many other people believe those things.
What’s funny about the GOP targeting the most ignorant Americans is this,more often than not, those people turn out to also be the poorest Americans who the GOP has NO intention of helping.
Mike Gold
April 8, 2011 - 6:55 pm
Reg, whereas I VERY much agree with you regarding the black factor — as I stated above — there’s certainly more going on here and in my mind the primary obstruction is the confluence of these phony issues.
For example, just as his being black is an issue, so is his NOT being “black.” He’s a mongrel. There’s all kinds of races and ethnicities going on inside him. That really bothers some people, the way some people (often the same people, I’ll bet) that can’t handle bisexuals. Even some guys who would give their left nut to get into a three-way. Getting back to my point: I truly believe the mixed race thing is an issue with some and disquieting to some others.
His roots. No, not Kenya. Not Hawaii. He’s the perceived product of the LOWER CLASS. Clinton, who certainly was from the lower class, had this same problem going big time.
His intelligence. GWB was kinda cuddly. Reagan was folksy. Even Clinton was sort of down-homey. But Obama, like Bush Senior and the previous two Democratic candidates and Carter and even Adlai Stevenson, comes off like those assholes who were able to coast through college while you were sweating bullets prepping for an exam.
Add it all up and there is a VERY powerful and even understandable yet certainly contemptible “he’s not one of ‘us'” factor going on for some folk. Some use it as a cover for their inability to confront (or abhor) their own racism. Others are the real thing — they are as uncomfortable with Barack Obama as they would be with a martian.
For better and for worse, the guy is unique.
MOTU
April 8, 2011 - 6:56 pm
Bill,
She can get away with not,’hearing’ the slurs. I believe she did but I cannot say for sure. That said-she MUST have heard ABOUT the slurs and stlll…nothing.
She certainly heard and responded to ‘Nigger’ when she told Dr. Laura not to ‘retreat’ but to ‘reload.’
THAT is race baiting 101.
MOTU
April 8, 2011 - 6:58 pm
Oh, BTW Bill, it was a Zillion rallies.
I heard it on Fox-it must be true
Bill Mulligan
April 8, 2011 - 7:11 pm
A zillion rallies and no videos? Democrats need to invest in some flip cams. You guys gonna let Breitbart get all the scoops? This is the multi media age, if you don’t have something you can put on you-tube you might as well be using one of those Fred Flintstone cameras where a bird chisels an image into a stone.
MOTU
April 8, 2011 - 8:56 pm
Bill,
No Video? Take your pick:
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=sarah+palin+racist+comments&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#q=sarah+palin+racist+comments&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&prmd=ivnso&source=lnms&tbm=vid&ei=cNifTdKQGtHViAKf9OT_Ag&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=3&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAg&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=28612e6901b99797
Or:
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=sarah+palin+racist+comments&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#q=sarah+palin+racist+comments&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&prmd=ivnso&source=lnms&ei=f9ifTezqHvTSiAKK5qyHAw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=1&ved=0CCsQ_AUoAA&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=7c9f4fa6ed867460
MOTU
April 8, 2011 - 9:01 pm
Bill,
Google: Sarah palin racist comments for more fun times and video.
Bill Mulligan
April 9, 2011 - 10:07 pm
Well, your second link already googled Sarah palin racist comments for me, so thanks. Looking at the first page I see 1- A story that claims a waitress heard her say something racist. 2- A story where a guy claims that 18 years ago he was hitting on a woman he now believes was Sarah Palin and she turned him down when he revealed he was black, which she apparently did not pick up on despite the fact that his photo does not exactly make him look like Anatole Broyard. At least this guy is willing to go on record and use his actual name, which gives it enough credibility to be considered minimal. 3- another story about the same guy. 4- keith Olberman really does not like her and says so. 5- A story from CBS news that reveals that her facebook page deletes racist comments left by other people. Shocking, I tells ya! 6- a story on Wonkette that repeats number 1. Still no last name for the waitress but if 2 sites say it happened it must be true! 7- I decide that this is unlikely to produce a recording of any of the zillions of rallies where people screamed “Kill him” and go back to surfing for good pictures of Maggie Cheung.
MOTU
April 10, 2011 - 12:03 am
Bill,
Dr. Laura: “NIGGER,NIGGER,NIGGER,NIGGER,NIGGER,NIGGER,NIGGER,NIGGER.”
Sarah Palin: “Don’t retreat, Reload.”
Me: Race baiting.
Google that.
Never mind here it is:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/18/sarah-palin-supports-dr-laura_n_687148.html
John Tebbel
April 10, 2011 - 6:05 am
One thing’s for sure, the uncurious, uneducated quitter/beauty queen has no idea of the racial drama that the folks in the lower 48 deal with every day. Can you say Cathie Black?
Mike Gold
April 10, 2011 - 6:37 am
John, you might want to reference Cathie Black.
John Tebbel
April 10, 2011 - 7:44 am
Cathie Black, now I almost feel sorry for her, is the recently fired Education czar here in NYC.
She was a social friend of our disconnected, plutocrat mayor and apparently was pretty good at Hearst publishing at a time when publishing has been on the rocks. The guy who hizzonor put in the job to begin with wasn’t an educator, so he figured his replacement wouldn’t need any actual education (or government) experience either.
Ms. Black turned out to be singularly unqualified for government work, once wondering if her subjects couldn’t practice more birth control to get the city out of the obligation (long neglected before her shift) of building schools. She could not, in the end, face down a crowd of people who did not depend on her for their paychecks and who, just saying, were mostly people of color. The black man who got the job last week looked great till it turned out he also, like all the Bloomberg education bosses, needs a waiver from the state because he doesn’t have the background for the job.
Of course anyone who does have a background in something as foolish and fruitless as public education is tainted to a take charge, take no prisoners, beep beep get out of my way to Bermuda, richest mayor ever in the history of the universe.
Government is in the hands of people who don’t believe in it and they are teaching this poisonous doctrine to everyone in the reach of their secretly financed advertising. Don’t forget to pledge allegiance.
And if I have to do everyone’s research around here, as well as being in charge of their neglected political education, I’m not going to be able to stir the grits.
Mike Gold
April 10, 2011 - 8:48 am
I could have bio-ed Ms. Black, but I was certain yours would be more entertaining. I would have focused on the IDEA of having an accomplished businessperson running an operation with high debt and diminishing financial resources held in thrall by parents who are too lazy to do their part in their own children’s education but think nothing of rallying against anybody who would dare to impose logic onto their anti-functional structure.
Ms. Black was refreshingly naive. I mean, that birth control crack is a hoot. C’mon. When was the last time you saw something so innocently stupid? Probably Mayor Bloomberg’s failure to attend the funeral of the first policeman who got killed after his administration took over from the biggest fucking crawling piece of laying shit ever to haunt Manhattan… and that’s saying a lot.
No, it’s much, much more fun to read your “eat the rich” rant. THAT I can identify with!
Reg
April 10, 2011 - 7:03 pm
Bill,
Definitely intended to address your question but a pretty demanding week precluded me from doing so. In the interim, Michael has provided some evidence supporting my contention that the more irrational followers of the BLP contingent are stoked by their internally framed bigotry, prejudice and racism in their rabid opposition to the President.
It’s the coded ‘he’s different from us’ that keeps those black flames stoked. That’s the whole strategy behind the ridiculous gobbledygook resurrected by the ‘Hairball’ and the Harpy.
Case in point.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/10/sarah-palin-donald-trump_n_847220.html
Steve Atkins
April 11, 2011 - 3:03 am
I didn’t know Obama was black.
I just thought he was a fan of the Conan comics.
Steve Atkins
April 11, 2011 - 3:07 am
@ Mike Gold – I think “The Biggest Fucking Crawling Piece Of Shit Ever To Haunt Manhattan” was a Roger Corman film.
John Tebbel
April 11, 2011 - 4:30 am
Thanks to Mike and Reg.
Mike Gold
April 11, 2011 - 8:51 am
Steve — Yeah, I’m waiting for it to come out on BluRay.
Reg
April 11, 2011 - 11:05 am
Dr. Gold, to your point, one would think that ‘Real Americans’ would WANT their president to be smart and represent the leadership qualities that would garner respect from our friends and enemies, right?
Unless of course, he’s one of them uppity, smarta** ni****’s.
MOTU
April 11, 2011 - 11:38 am
Reg,
That’s why I can’t be President!
That and the fact that as Master Of The Universe I was born in outer space.
MOTU
April 11, 2011 - 11:50 am
Anybody catch Cosby slamming Thump on the Today Show last Friday?
I think its time for the Donald to have a coke and a smile and shut the fuck up.
Reg
April 16, 2011 - 3:30 pm
Somewhat a dead equine by now, but I just couldn’t help providing Bill with this ‘two for the price of one’ evidence.
Tea Party and GOP hold hands to deliver this lovely commentary.
“Marilyn Davenport, a Tea Party activist and member of the Orange County Republican Party’s central committee, is drawing fire from people in her own party after circulating a racist email depicting President Barack Obama and his parents as chimpanzees. In the email: “Now you know why — No birth certificate.”
The OC Weekly broke the story and were able to reach Davenport for comment. Her response:
“Oh, come on! Everybody who knows me knows that I am not a racist. It was a joke. I have friends who are black. Besides, I only sent it to a few people–mostly people I didn’t think would be upset by it.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/16/marilyn-davenports-racist_n_850063.html
Gotta love her proverbial ‘friends’ declaration.
Reg
April 16, 2011 - 3:39 pm
Oh yeah.. meant to add that at least the OC TP’s and Repubs are equal opportunity lovers of humanity…
Schroeder also says that Davenport defended Newport Councilman Richard Nichols when he opposed installing grassy areas at a beach. His reason, according to the L.A. Times: “with grass we usually get Mexicans coming in there early in the morning and they claim it as theirs, and it becomes their personal, private grounds all day.”