Great moments in Birther commenting - own it, bitches
Maryscott O'Connor of My Left Wing leaves one for the ages on a Birther post:
Not your base? Oh, honey. All your base are belong to you. You OWN that base. It's melded to you like Senator Ensign's sticky, icky love residue. Like Mark Sanford's hot, sweet, cherry-flavoured Astroglide. Like the days-old wine at the bottom of the chalice on the altar at C Street, honey.
Live it. Love it. You and Sarah and Michelle Bachmann and all the crazy whackadoos shrieking about birth certificates and the Census teabags and socialism and how Al Franken can't POSSIBLY be a serious Senator because he USED to be a comedian (as if a freakin' racist damned certifiable MORON like Jefferson Beauregard Sessions the Third would ever be taken seriously as anything more than a goddamned Little League coach ANYWHERE but Ala-freakin'-Bama), never mind that Al Franken has written his own books that are actually funny WHILE being substantive and persuasive of their theses AND got a damned MATH degree from Harvard - and let's just return to the part about having WRITTEN HIS OWN BOOKS, which is an accomplishment he happens to share with President Barack Obama and one he doesn't share with many Republicans, who seem to prefer paying others to do their homework in REAL life as well as in college...
Yeah, "Tablesauce," you don't just have a problem with that freakazoid base from which you're rightly backing away so quickly... You've always had a major problem with the "normal" members of your Party. But oddly, you never really had a problem with that problem. Still don't, it seems - and hell, comparatively speaking, the snotheels like Shelby and McCain really don't SEEM all that bad; but they ARE, Blanche. They ARE. And the fact that THOSE douchebags didn't - and still DON'T - vociferously and immediately stand up to and cut OFF the mass madness of the "base" and take back, as it were, the Republican Party from the religious would-be theocrats is why the Republican Party is going the way of the do-do bird.
Just embrace the suck, buddyboy, because you guys are floatin' down the river to crazytown and you ain't never comin' back. Give our regards to the Whigs.
Well, now. I don't know that I'd really go that far...
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See, this is what I've come to believe about all this: There are two categories of these people, and they need to be viewed differently. First are those in power, those who ought to know better and ought to be held accountable and with whose behaviour we really SHOULD be outraged -- like the media douchebags like Lou Dobbs, who really OUGHT to be fired, run through a scathing gauntlet of shame and public disgust and put on display for all thoughtful people to pelt with rotten fruit...
Come on: 43 white men have been elected President before Obama and not one of them has had his citizenship questioned on a mass scale before Obama. Coincidence? I think not.
What I think? Racism. What I think? Racism on a mass scale; huge numbers of racist motherfuckers are grasping at the last possible straw they could find -- the ludicrous possibility in their tiny pea-sized minds that this scary black man was born in KENYA! yes, KENYA! And therefore he couldn't be the President! Yeah! yeah! He can't be the President, damn it! It's a vast left wing conspiracy to steal the Presidency! The nigger stole the White House!
Lest you think my use of the word "nigger" just a MITE radical, that my charge of racism on a mass scale a WEE overwrought... have you SEEN the waves of racism sweeping this country in the last six -- nay, eighteen months? Have you seen that viral email photo, the one with the watermelon patch in front of the White House? This one:
Look it up in Google. Try any number of word combinations. Look it up in Images, look it up in News. It was sent in email by politicians. Politicians, mind you, who are still in office. Now look up stories about politicians who've sent viral email racist jokes. And their staff -- who haven't been fired -- for sending racist emails. This shit is still going on. And that's just the non-violent stuff. Race-based crimes have risen in leaps and bounds. Don't get me started on the impassioned speeches made on the House floor by the (Republican, naturally) Congresspeople AGAINST hate-crimes legislation this year... AFTER race- and sexual-identiy-based crimes started rising after Obama's election.
So, no, I'm pretty sure my use of the word "nigger" wasn't off-base. And no, I'm pretty sure my calling this so-called "birther" movement "racism on a mass scale" isn't off-base. I am, in fact, pretty goddamned sure it is goddamned accurate. But you know what? Let the lawmakers deal with it. Let Congress and the police and those well-equipped do what they are paid and armed and ready to do when confronted with crimes of a racist nature. Because when it comes to this OTHER crap? This standing up in the middle of townhalls and screaming about Obama's birth certificate, demanding that everybody start pledging allegiance to the flag and the Republic for which it stands, this crapola about non-existent affidavits made by Obama's step-grandmother that he was born in a Kenyan hospital and that she witnessed it when SHE WITNESSED NO SUCH THING and there IS no such affidavit, for the love of god, G. Gordon Liddy, you sad old criminal, where the FUCK is your mind, somebody tell this man euthanasia is legal in Oregon...
But as for the rest of the people squawking about this "birther" nonsense -- the ones who DON'T have their own talk shows or radio microphones? Frankly I think everyone on the left needs to clam the fuck down about them.
These fruitcakes have lost their shit. Seriously. They've blown their gasket, and you know something? Instead of us going all medieval on their asses, we ought to be laughing up a storm at them. Like, giggling. Pointing and giggling. Because, when it comes right down to it, they are PA-THE-TIC. It's been a whole six freakin' months since they've been out of power, and they're all a-runnin' around like the proverbial chickens with their heads a-cut off, screamin' and a-shriekin' about birth certificates and teabags and socialized medicine and black men with bones in their noses, just making GIANT fools of themselves...
And the absolute WORST thing we can do is take these people the slightest bit seriously.
We really must follow Jon Stewart here. Just look at them like crazed, mad fools and shake our heads at the syphilitic whackadoodles and wonder aloud - who ARE these people?
Because to take them for serious people, as the bizarrely idiotic corporate media are doing, for heaven's sake, is to give them what they crave. Just as the wanton three year-old is wont to seek when flopping onto the floor of the supermarket, when desirous of that sugary cereal you have declared verboten.
No, dear. You CANNOT have your darling white man totems back. It is a new age and you are out of fashion.
Deal with it. Have a conniption if you must; we'll be over here at the grown-ups' table.
That's my feeling about it. Morons and crazy people, the lot of them; they do not deserve the level of outrage and serious response with which we've been responding. They deserve our laughter and mockery.
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