Blogosphere Invited To Pull Its Head Out Of Its Collective Ass

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I would like to cordially invite the Greater Blogosphere to grow the fuck up and pull its head out of its collective ass. See the monkeys capering at Memeorandum.

The latest tempest in a teapot involves an alleged sleight to “small town” America. Naturally, the fuckwits doing the “interpreting” either can’t read English or, more likely, don’t care to. There are plenty of jobs at Faux Nooz™ for hateful imbeciles* like that.

[* Cal Thomas springs to mind. Is there anyone outside of a John Birch Society convention who would hire that Nazi Poltroon were Faux Nooz™ not in existence? The guy LOOKS like a caricature of a right wing nut. Who knew cartoons could slander? It's like this country is being run by hateful dweebs from high school who spent all their time writing "pet peeve" columns for the high school newspaper, or masturbating in the darkroom to pictures of Anita Bryant. Check them out: George Will? A geek. Charles Krauthammer? A grotesque. Mark Steyn? Ditto. Jonah Goldberg? Bill Kristol? Butt Plug Bob, the Confederate Wanker? Michael Goldfarb? Newt Gingrich? EVERY grotesque at Newsbusters? Ditto the heads of one and all. Who let these EVIL DWEEBS into the Control Room? And what's that sticky stuff they got on the buttons and levers? On second thought, don't answer that. I just ate breakfast.]

Joe Gandelman at The Moderate Voice writes:

It follows a pattern of American politics — one Americans will see often in the coming months until election day. But it’s a pattern that requires a candidate unguarded enough to set the damaging reaction in motion. And Obama — in what will sure go down as an Amateur Hour moment — did just that.

Here’s how the pattern works:

(a) Candidate opens mouth and firmly inserts puts foot (sic) inside of it by making an oversimplistic comment about something he believes but can’t be verified or uses a stereotype that others can point to and use against him or her. He/she gives opponents an opening to expand on it and characterize it in the most damaging way.

(b) The controversy is jumped on by the news media and weblogs (many of which are allied with specific candidates) and starts to dominate the news — and political — cycle. News cycles are now nearly instantaneous and in a continuous loop….the news report…the blog report…the reaction stories…the talk show feedback…the candidate’s supporting and opposing blog reaction posts (which usually say what you’d expect them to say on a given issue). And it continues on until the story (or candidate) fades away and a new one appears.

(c) Said candidate takes foot out of mouth and responds but if he/she doesn’t give in totally to politically motivated critics demands to apologize or retract it the way they insist it be done (to inflict maximum damage on said candidate) it will continue to be used against them until the media gets bored or it shows it’s not registering in the polls.

Except, seemingly — like most of the media circus — Joe doesn’t seem to have bothered reading what Obama said. He merely noted the reaction and the “soundbite” twisting of what Obama said.

Sorry kiddies: English is my FIRST language. Parse for yourselves.

Obama’s Actual Remarks in San Francisco

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The entire blogosphere seems to have its panties in a bunch over the obligatory mischaracterization of a sound bite. Before you jump in your hatemobile and rev up the engine, it might behoove you to read what Senator Obama ACTUALLY said.

Via Mark Halperin’s page at TIME Magazine:

Transcript of Obama’s Remarks at San Francisco Fundraiser Sunday

OBAMA: So, it depends on where you are, but I think it’s fair to say that the places where we are going to have to do the most work are the places where people are most cynical about government. The people are mis-appre…they’re misunderstanding why the demographics in our, in this contest have broken out as they are. Because everybody just ascribes it to ‘white working-class don’t wanna work — don’t wanna vote for the black guy.’ That’s…there were intimations of that in an article in the Sunday New York Times today - kind of implies that it’s sort of a race thing.

Here’s how it is: in a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long. They feel so betrayed by government that when they hear a pitch that is premised on not being cynical about government, then a part of them just doesn’t buy it. And when it’s delivered by — it’s true that when it’s delivered by a 46-year-old black man named Barack Obama, then that adds another layer of skepticism.

But — so the questions you’re most likely to get about me, ‘Well, what is this guy going to do for me? What is the concrete thing?’ What they wanna hear is so we’ll give you talking points about what we’re proposing — to close tax loopholes, uh you know uh roll back the tax cuts for the top 1%, Obama’s gonna give tax breaks to uh middle-class folks and we’re gonna provide healthcare for every American.

But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Um, now these are in some communities, you know. I think what you’ll find is, is that people of every background — there are gonna be a mix of people, you can go in the toughest neighborhoods, you know working-class lunch-pail folks, you’ll find Obama enthusiasts. And you can go into places where you think I’d be very strong and people will just be skeptical. The important thing is that you show up and you’re doing what you’re doing.

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Now, if you use your head for something other than a hatstand, I don’t have to say anything else. If you HAVE, in fact, drunk the Kool-aid, then fuck you and fuck the snake you slithered in on. You’re the reason this country’s in the crapper, and I look forward to pissing on your grave.

Dear fucking jeebus kahriiiiiist! Don’t you bastards have anything better to do? Is this just going to be about character assassination? NO WONDER the kids hate you. Hell, I hate you, too.

Either calm down or just go off somewhere and die and let the decent human beings get on with the really serious, tough business of living. Go jerk off to old copies of Reader’s Digest.

And remember, when this petty, moronic, hateful bullshit drives us collectively to Civil War, I got dibs on Rush. Got it?

Good.

Courage.

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Note: Coming soon, his vorpal sword, the PODCAST!

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