If You've Lost The Rolling Stone...

Writing in the Rolling Stone, Tim Dickinson pummels Obama's handling of the Gulf oil spill; the Captain provides the Cliff notes.

As a stray thought, we have spent months reading about the racist Tea Partiers, and for months it has seemed obvious that come the fall, desperate Dems would start screaming that everyone opposed to them was racist.  That strategy would not be intended to change minds, but it might rally the base a bit.  On the heels of the Gulf debacle (and the perceived civil liberties debacle), the race card will be a lot harder to play. 

As a second stray thought, if Obama had any jobs, jobs, jobs strategy at all it was to hope that Stimulus One and the passage of time would be enough to get the economy back on track.  Now it is June, the election is a mere five month away, and nothing Congress does will have a notable economic impact before 2011.  Obama focused like a laser beam on passing his historic health care bill, and we await the consequences.

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[Jackalot]

I will remember it.

[Janet]

If You've Lost The Rolling Stone... you haven't lost much.

[Danube of Thought]

The greasy Mark Halperin of Time has now gone on record as saying the Drudge headline "Obama Goes Street--Kick Ass" was subtle racism. It was a below-the-radar message of the kind that only one as clever and manipulative as Matt Drudge can use to arouse the base motives of the knuckle-dragging white racists who, he seems to believe, are to be found just about everywhere.

Thank God we have a moral colossus like Halperin to alert us to the lurking subliminal dangers that might tempt us.

[bgates]

On the heels of the Gulf debacle (and the perceived civil liberties debacle), the race card will be a lot harder to play.

I have a hard time seeing what the Gulf has to do with racial demagoguery. I'm not saying Obama can deal with both at once, but I know which one he'll focus on.

That "perceived civil liberties" link is awesome, by the way - the ACLU saying they're "disgusted" by the President, but then saying "that's not an ad hominem".

[Ignatz]

--I have a hard time seeing what the Gulf has to do with racial demagoguery.--

Really? Blacks and Asians have a long history of anatagonism.(Rodney King riots anyone?) So obviously the Army Corpse of Engineer's footdragging regarding wetlands protection was predicated upon Gov Jindal's race, n'est pas?
That's no bigger stretch than Bush fictionally leaving NO to drown because of the presence of blacks.

[daddy]

"On the heels of the Gulf debacle (and the perceived civil liberties debacle), the race card will be a lot harder to play."

BS.

Don't kid yourself---this guy and his aiders and abettors will play the race card at the drop of a hat if they believe it will harm their enemies and enhance their chances of attaining and maintaining power. And when they do the MSM cheerleaders will glibly report it 24/7 as factually true, just as they have the non-existant racial taunts at Pelosi and the Black Congressmen exiting the Senate in front of a million cameras and recorders that captured not a single syllable of racism.

Today Dennis Miller resorted to asking black listeners to his Radio Show to call up and refute Sarah Silverman's charge that he's a racist since he appears on FOX News. This is how idiotic it's become.

[Captain Hate]

Why does anybody care what comes out of the feeble excuse for a brain of Sarah Silverman?

[daddy]

Captain,

My guess is because Dennis Miller knows that so-cool comedic business better than anyone else, plus the malleability of the minds of her target audience, and he feels he needs to go after her and shove it right up her ass.
He did it humorously and wittily as you would expect, but maybe its also that Breitbart thing about going back at these guys and their lies full bore to win converts for the side of good. Thats my guess. Me, I don't give a darn about her, but I have no problem with Dennis Miller going after her, especially when he has the brains and comedic riffs and soapbox to publicly paint her as the idiot she is.

Regardless, it was decent radio, not whining at all, but calling BS on her start to finish.

[Ditto Obama.]

The race card is a joker, not trumps.
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[Captain Hate]

daddy, mine was more a rhetorical question but your points are well taken. Miller is particularly good at skewering the dumbasses which probably has some impact on the "undecideds". I'm sure there's a witless core of her and Maher's supporters, who in previous times would've yukked it up to Andrew Dice Clay, who are impervious to intelligence.

[narciso]

I find her an insufferable harpie, but her part in the "Great Schlep" that was done to get Jewish grandparents to vote for Obama,
was one of the more revolting parts

[Jane]

The greasy Mark Halperin of Time has now gone on record as saying the Drudge headline "Obama Goes Street--Kick Ass" was subtle racism. It was a below-the-radar message of the kind that only one as clever and manipulative as Matt Drudge can use to arouse the base motives of the knuckle-dragging white racists who, he seems to believe, are to be found just about everywhere.

DOT,

Don't forget the parting shot against the Tea party (not everyone is a racist, but then you have the tea party)

I had smoke coming out of my ears.

[narciso]

I like Mark Davis version better, "Urkel goes Jayzee" we know the 'cut of Mark's jib' don't we, how he found something negative about every candidate, often unsourced, except Obama,

[Pagar]

"and we await the consequences."

"The More we learn, the worse it gets".

Yet, no one seems to be serious about repealing the Obamacare fiasco.

[daddy]

Jane,

Watched O'Reilly last night interviewing Mark Halperin of Time. It angers me that O'Riley didn't go right for the throat when Halperin concocted his idiotic "Drudge is a racist meme'. "

That moron Halperin is as stupid as our resident trolls. Simply another disingenuous pontificating idiot pushing a non-existant racist meme, and all O'Reilly can say is that he personally doesn't see it. Angers the crap out of me that he lets him get away with it without counterattacking that lie, but I chalk it up as simply another bit of evidence that the Obamites will play the race card whenever and wherever they have the opportunity, as there is no downside whatever since the media wakes up everyday having just fallen off a brand new turnip truck.

MSM delende est.

Did I spell that correctly Elliott?

[Captain Hate]

It angers me that O'Riley didn't go right for the throat when Halperin concocted his idiotic "Drudge is a racist meme'. "

The highest praise you can give BOR is that he gets higher ratings than Bathtub Boy and thus irritates that idiot. Other than that he's completely useless and borderline retarded when it comes to economic issues, on which Cavuto belittles him continually to the point that you wonder why he keeps getting invited on.

[Jane]

It angers me that O'Riley didn't go right for the throat when Halperin concocted his idiotic "Drudge is a racist meme'. "

In the words of Laura Ingraham, when it comes to Obama, O'Reilly has become the "spin zone".

For some reason that Halperin dig at the Tea Partiers - to keep the BS flowing really really pissed me off.

Capn' he's uselsss on a lot more than economic issues. He's a pompous unprepared ass. (So why do you watch him, Jane? Because my TV is stuck on play)

Sorry about the swearing. I couldn't think of any other words.

[daddy]

Captain,

You and Jane are exactly where my mind is at regarding BOR.

And on his idiotic diatribes against the Oil companies I'd like to slit him open and feed him to the dogs.

But thats just me:)

G'nite.

[laura]

Jane,
I couldn't agree more about O'Reilly. I just can't decide if his ignorance is wilfull or if he is really that stupid. The part that makes him an ass is his "listen to me, okay? Because I'm Bill O'Reilly and I call em as I see, em, no spin here" shtick.

Actually, I have decided he must be that stupid; he just doesn't know it.

[hit and run]

Jane:
Sorry about the swearing. I couldn't think of any other words.

I Blame Obama For The Coarsening Of Our Culture And Our Political Dialogue

[Jane]

I just can't decide if his ignorance is wilfull or if he is really that stupid.

I think he is unprepared. His staff does the work, he read the teleprompter and relies on his reputation to carry the day.

And given his reputation with me, it does.

[jimmyk]

I just can't decide if his ignorance is wilfull or if he is really that stupid.

How about both? He is stupid, but at the same time, he's so sensitive to the claim that he's a right-winger and biased that he won't go after someone like Halpern.

[centralcal]

I agree with bits and pieces of all of you on BOR - his is a special "blend" of pomposity, ignorance (sometimes willful), and opinion, all for one express purpose: RATINGS.

Nothing much trumps ratings, for Bill.

[laura]

Well, we know foundational principles aren't his driving motivation.

[macphisto]

not to be pedantic about it, TM, but the name of the magazine is Rolling Stone, usage equivalent to e.g. Time, Newsweek. "the Rolling Stone" is, of course, Keith Richards.

[Rob Crawford]

And "The Rolling Stones" is the name of a family spaceship.