Blacks And Hillbillies

I'm just glad it was not a thoughtful and sensitive righty who wrote this:

And the level of paranoia and stupidity in some areas of the Middle East eclipses that in Harlem or West Virginia.

I guess that answers the rhetorical question asked about Bill O'Reilly's visit to a Harlem restaurant:

"And I couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship," - Bill O'Reilly, on a Harlem restaurant. What was he expecting?

I guess he was expecting paranoia and stupidity, right?  Baffling.

Well, since this is coming from an Obama supporter, the "elitist" tag fits snugly.

EVEN PARANOIDS HAVE REAL ADDRESSES... Just what is the defense of this - that there are real paranoids in Harlem and West Virginia, and stupid people, too?  Who can doubt it?  But I would never single out those two areas as the pinnacles of paranoia and kookery in America without even entertaining nominating speeches in favor of California or the Upper West Side.

STRETCHING AND STRAINING:  How about a defense such as "The Clintons are headquartered in Harlem and campaigning in West Virginia, so really this was a swipe at them"?  Right.  Of course, it makes no sense in context, but someone might buy it. 

Comments

[ParseThis]

All I can say is that you hicks might want to shitcan the 'Obama is apostate' sideshow. If word spreads Hamas might have to switch its endorsement over to McCain. Then what are you going to do? Side with Hamas? You'll find yourself in the tricky position of having to send someone like Ali Jawad to Paris to meet with Hamas representatives to negotiate something possibly like an arms-for-video deal to clarify Quranic teachings and throw McCain under the pickup. Better to reinforce the successes of The Protocols of the Secret Muslim and hope your like-minded Islamic counterparts are reading the same emails.

[JB]

"Better to reinforce the successes of The Protocols of the Secret Muslim and hope your like-minded Islamic counterparts are reading the same emails."

He seems to be doing a find job of that himself with his "constant sore" low information signal.

Real subtle, Barry. Disease metaphors. We get it. Sounds real familiar, don't it?

[ParseThis]

Disease metaphors. We get it. Sounds real familiar, don't it?

Don't it.

[JB]

Sure, PT. Michael Savage and fans = US Senator/Pres. nominee. Bill Ayers = Tom Coburn. Aggressive bum = scared granma.

It's all the same, right?

[JB]

Er, Rev. Wright = scared granma.

I can see why you love Obama. Same talent for false equivalences.

[MikeO]

Q: When is a disease metaphor not just a metaphor?

A: When it is analysis by a board-certified psychiatrist.

DSM-V is due out in 2011. All the lefties should hustle-up on mailing-in their head shots because I hear that this edition is going to read more like a yearbook.

[sbw]

addressing paranoia and stupidity

Please doublespace your essays in your exam bluebooks: The proper quest for philosophy is to figure out whether 80% of the people are a**holes 100% of the time or 100% of the people are a**holes 80% of the time.

[Rick Ballard]

Parsnip insists that Obama is not apostate? I suppose I could consider that to be potentially true. I'd prefer to have a ruling from an ayatollah based upon shariah though. With BHO "testifying" to his renunciation of Mohammad.

[kim]

Doesn't he have to be denounced to the court, Rick?
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[Rick Ballard]

Kim,

I don't think that's correct. An ayatollah may act as prosecutor, judge, jury and order execution independent of "formal" accusation. I believe that Rushdie's "case" provides evidence to that assertion. The fatwa against him was issued based solely upon the existence of the book and interpretation of its intent by the judge[s].

I'm no expert though - the problem is that should an "expert" show up, how do you know that they're not engaging in Taquiya? The giving of false testimony in defense of islam is an essential tenet and within sharia, so a muslim's "word" on anything relating to islam was be taken with a salt mine (vide the good Rev. Wright's wiggles on Farrakhan as an example).

[clarice]

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTEwNDliNzFjMGJmYjRiZDY0YmJjY2M0ZWQ4ZDZmOWM=>Trumpet Obama: Cover Man [Stanley Kurtz]

Better get busy and head over to BizzyBlog, where proprietor, Tom Blumer, has posted pictures of no less than three issues of Jeremiah Wright’s Trumpet Newsmagazine with Barack Obama on the cover. In "Jeremiah Wright’s ‘Trumpet,’" I noted that Obama may have been on more than one cover. Now we know it’s true. And with the original church newspaper stretching back to well before Obama joined Trinity UCC, no doubt he’s appeared in many more than just three issues. I’m still working on this story. Thanks to BizzyBlog for the boost.

[kim]

There has to have been witness to the affirmation.
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[JB]

Speaking of Uncle Jerry, anybody know when his book is supposed to come out?

[Tom Maguire]

Well, if a picture is worth a thousand words...

Back on my current obsession, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge - one history of the group said that opening night was a big civic photo-op at Washintton Irving school with the Mayor and other luminaries. Ambassador Annenberg's daughter presented a poster-sized check for $49.2 million, and no dounbt flashbulbs clicked.

So, is there a photo of Barack (chairman) with Bill Ayers (leader of the grant-getting group)? Ayers had an op-ed in a Chicago paper the day before the ceremony extolling the program), so his involvement was hardly secret.

And would such a photo hurt Obama (Obama and Ayers!) or help (Ayers and the Mayor; hey, what's Barack supposed to do, walk away?)

Well - I am sure it exists, but I can't it in the two big Chicago paper archives. Maybe a society rag, or some mag focused on education, or back at the Annenberg foundation itself. I welcome assistance.

[kim]

I'd like to know what his cure for public schools is. Charter schools? The failure of public education, particularly in blue urban areas, is a disgrace, and a sign of the failure of progressivism. Now, can Ayers and his like be blamed for some of this? There is a bad disease in publicly funded education. Like I just figured out, yesterday.
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[PeterUK]

No picture of Obama and Ayers,but a good one of ">http://www.aaenvironment.com/Pictures/Obama1Small.jpg&imgrefurl=http://stuckinmiddle.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/barack-obama-for-the-little-guy-or-big-oil/&h=285&w=400&sz=27&hl=en&start=141&um=1&tbnid=DSTvtoR8FE9zoM:&tbnh=88&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dobama%2Bayers%26start%3D140%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3DGGFB,GGFB:2006-38,GGFB:en%26sa%3DN"> Obama and Business

[Rick Ballard]

"The failure of public education, particularly in blue urban areas, is a disgrace, and a sign of the failure of progressivism."

Backwards, no? Progressives are interested in indoctrination, not (and never) education. When young Festus and Gertrude come home with tears in their eyes, rattling their tincups for pennies to save the polar bears from global warming, the progressives applaud. Actual education would kinda ruin the "future", as viewed through the progressive utopian lens.

"Ignorant and emotional" = "barefoot and pregnant" - the progressive ideal.

[Dusty]

Sometimes I wonder if Andy ever leaves his apartment.

[bubarooni]

i think this story pretty much makes it official:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24588813/

vote for obama or you are a racist. the only possible reason you can have to oppose him is you are a bigot. it's time for change and them thar idiots in indiana, pennsylvania, west bygod virginie, kentucky and ohio had better lighten up, progressivize themselves and get with the program. the ground rules for the general election have now been set.

don't you fergit it come november either.

[RichatUF]

Tom;

re: 12:04 PM

Doing a little looking seems to point to the magazine Education Weekly (David Hoff did a profile on BHO in Mar 07) or Chicago Catalyst. Hope this helps.

[RichatUF]

oops...its called Education Week

[PeterUK]

"rattling their tincups for pennies to save the polar bears from global warming, the progressives applaud."

The polar bears welcome global warming,they don't want to be white.

[JB]

"vote for obama or you are a racist."

They're preparing the ground for Nov. 5th.

"Barry was a carpy candidate" would be an inconvenient truth.

[vnjagvet]

bubba:

That story will play well with those who need to be convinced.

"You're Racist, yeah, that's the ticket".

It might play in Peoria, but it won't in Pennsylvania.

[vnjagvet]

How one man in Georgia is handling this, (Hat Tip today's AJC):

Marietta tavern owner Mike Norman says the T-shirts he's peddling, featuring cartoon chimp Curious George peeling a banana, with "Obama in '08" scrolled underneath,, are "cute." But to a coalition of critics, the shirts are an insulting exploitation of racial stereotypes from generations past.

"It's time to put an end to this," said Rich Pellegrino, a Mableton resident and director of the Cobb-Cherokee Immigrant Alliance. It was among the organizations gathering outside of Mulligan's Bar and Grill Tuesday afternoon to protest the "racist and highly offensive" shirts.

"There's no place for these views, not in this day and age," he said.

Just down the street from Marietta's famous Big Chicken, Mulligan's has carved a provocative niche in an increasingly multicultural area, thanks to its owner's ultra-conservative political views. If you live in Marietta, it's impossible not to know what's on Norman's mind, as he posts his views on signs in front of Mulligan's.

Among his recent musings: "I wish Hillary had married OJ," "No habla espanol — and never will" and the standard "I.N.S. Agents eat free."

"I'm saying out loud what everyone in this town whispers," Norman said.

[bubarooni]

oh dear!

looks like some very serious progressivizing needs to by done. can't be stopping change and all that you know

when oh when will those reeducation camps be open?