Or, “Curious George and the Ku Klux Klan T-Shirt.” Really.*
[* NOTE: This is an important posting, but it's a 5,000 word important posting, and I know that you might not have time to read it, so at LEAST skip down to the cute little monkey eating a banana, and read from there. You won't regret it, and it's relatively short.]
It’s a funny thing. Blind, unremitting hatred of Obama — like Mark Hemingway’s at National Review Online today — isn’t always racist hate. In this case, I’m pretty sure it’s not racially motivated at all: they don’t hate him because he’s black. They don’t notice that. No: they hate him because he’s a Democrat.
I wonder if they realize how much that attitude is not any improvement whatsoever. Just because you’re an equal opportunity hater doesn’t mean you’re not a hater. It just means you’re an ecumenical bigot.
It’s as insane as hating classes of people for their astrological sign.*
[* "Them damned Virgos! I'm a gonna kill 'em all. I'll get a poisoned white thread and put it on my black sweater and they'll all be dead in a week." Or, "How do you keep a Scorpio busy? Put 'em in a round room and tell 'em there's a secret in the corner." There. That ought to be enough to get you Signists started.]
But it’s real, nonetheless. Listen to this, and then I’ve got some revelations in this whole “Obama v Jews” phony meme that’s being pushed as a wedge issue that’ll knock your socks off.
Assuming that you wear socks.
Hemingway writes (and what a blotch on the writing name this little bigot is):
If the Obama campaign has this willing a patsy in Newsweek, willing to be spoonfed anything the campaign churns out, and this is all they can say to demonstrate he doesn’t have a Jewish problem, Obama must have a really big Jewish problem.
How’s that for circular reasoning?
The denial of a false story makes said false story REAL.
( Zowie. No fallacies there. Nosirree Bob.)
Because, interestingly, Hemingway spends 1,290 words on the three paragraphs in Newsweek (see Monday’s “NEWSWEEK Takes the (Jew) Bait“) and not a word on the blogswarm — that turns out to be a rightie HOAX,
That’s right, kids. In typical Rovian fashion, the so-called “anti-Semitic” piece that Little Green Footballs and Powerline (who collaborated on the Dan Rather hit in 2004) screamed and drummed up “mee-toos” for, was, uh, er a PLANT!
(Hat tip to American Power, written by Donald Douglas, “a pro-victory Associate Professor of Political Science teaching in Southern California”.) Douglas writes:
Monday, June 9, 2008
Anti-Semitism at Obama’s Official Page: The Gotcha Update
It turns out that there’s some funky subterraneanism in all the allegations of anti-Semitism at Barack Obama’s official campaign page. As I noted in my update on this today, the community blog for Jemaah Islamiyah for Obama host anti-Semitic statements, and this is the group responsible for some of the most destructive terrorist attacks early this decade.
Well, the post was planted, by Urban Grind:
For those of you not familiar with the Barack Obama website, individuals can put up blogs on there to support of their beloved candidate. And there have been plenty of controversial blogs on there, such as the New Black Panthers, for one. And there were two controversial blogs there, put up by Socialist for Obama. One was How The Jewish Lobby Works. The other one was The Israeli Connection to 9/11, which have recently been removed.
If it wasn’t for bloggers such as Pamela from Atlas Shrugs and Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs, among others, these blogs would most likely still be up there….
I made a page called Jemaa Islamiyah, and called myself Fatima. And sure enough, there was no message saying that my page would have to be approved by an administrator. It went up immediately. And this was back in March. I was surprised at the friendly welcoming comments I received. In fact, I even received an invitation from one guy to be a friend.
Just to refresh your memory, Jemaa Islamiyah was the group behind the Bali bombing. And just so you know, that page is still up on the Obama site.
Now some of you might think what I did was bad. And I can see your point.
But let me remind you that Barack Obama is running as President of the United States. So his people had damn well better know about Jemaa Islamiyah! So as I see it, the fact that “Fatima’s” page is still up there proves to me that the Obama people are either extremely ignorant, OR that they welcome support of terrorist organizations because they share that same hatred of America and the JOOOS. Neither one is a good sign….
Update: On the same day that I put up the Jemaa Islamiyah page, I also put up another blog called Al Qaeda for Obama using the name “Fatima” as well.
I completely forgot about this, until I found a comment at Little Green Footballs that the page was still up. Naturally, I assumed they would remove such a page, since I had trouble finding it after I posted it. But of course the Obama people left it up.
Urban Grind’s remarks are similar those I made this morning: Why would the Obama campaign tolerate hatred and terrorist views on its official page?
Now though, the allegation of anti-Semitism have become gotcha politics, with John Aravosis’ post unearthing John McCain’s comment boards for a variety of anti-Semitic views found there (and which I repudiate fully and unequivocally)….
Now, I specifically chose to quote Douglas, because Prof. Douglas and I are at antipodes, politically, and probably wouldn’t agree on anything. He continues in the next paragraph to scathingly attack Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake, for example.
So, in the matter of FACTS, there is no question that the blog posting that Little Green Footballs and Powerline jumped on, was a fraudulent “plant,” and gee? How come they knew where to find it?
Hmmm.
And where is the retraction of the dozens of Right Wing bloggers who jumped on this story on Sunday?
Crickets chirp under a waxing crescent moon in the silence of an evening in early June.
Let me tell you a story and then we’ll come back to the present:
«o»
Everybody knows about the First Ku Klux Klan. Formed immediately after the Civil War in the South, the idea of these white-sheeted riders (“because them darkies is a-feared of ghosts”) was to terrify the freed slaves into submission. That institutionalized social repression existed openly for a hundred years, and covertly to this day. Only slowly do things open up.
But the Klan itself, the Klan of Margaret Mitchell, the Klan of Nathan Bedford Forrest more or less disbanded at Forrest’s insistence. Or not. There is much mythology in the story. It’s easy to find a wealth of information on the subject.
Almost no one knows about the SECOND coming of the Klan. We always see these pictures, and ASSUME it’s the same Klan. Nope. T’isn’t. And don’t be deterred: the Klan is as much a mentality as it is an official business card (about which more in a minute) and a robe.
The caption states: “First parade in N[ew] E[ngland]
states of Ku Klux Klan. First daylight parade
in U.S.A. in Milo, Maine — [September 13, 1923]“
That is the second coming of the Klan: Super Patriots. Defenders of the American Way of Life. Seriously. The second coming of the Klan was an horrific mish-mosh of religion, patriotism and anti-foreigner fear and loathing. The Klan that Oregon talks about in periodic spasms was THAT Klan, and were busy hating Catholics, Jews and Asians. Blacks had been, formerly, explicitly outlawed in Oregon’s pre-Civil War constitution. But, when the “Klan” is brought up, it is generally in terms of charges and counter-charges of racism towards blacks, who weren’t actually AROUND in the Willamette Valley of Oregon in the hey-dey of the Second Klan.
This inability to distinguish TWO DIFFERENT organizations separated by a half-century leads to an unfortunate confusion of the two. It is the SECOND Klan, the Klan as Political Party in the 1920s that has the most relevance, and, eerily, its similarities with the modern “cult” of “conservatism.”*
[* Which is, itself not "conservative" at all, but EXTREMELY radical: it advocates a massive upheaval of governmental social institutions, and, in most part, their abolition. Whether they are correct or incorrect is immaterial, they are most assuredly NOT interested in preserving the status quo, which is PRECISELY what "conservative" means, as in "conservation," as in to "conserve our resources." A classical "conservative" RESISTS social change, which the modern so-called "conservative" does not.]
If you are confused, don’t be. Even the Anti Defamation League is confused between the old Klan and the new Klan:
The Ku Klux Klan first emerged following the Civil War as America’s first true terrorist group. Since its inception, the Ku Klux Klan has seen several cycles of growth and collapse, and in some of these cycles the Klan has been more extreme than in others. In all of its incarnations, however, the Klan has maintained its dual heritage of hate and violence.
At first, the Ku Klux Klan focused its anger and violence on African-Americans, on white Americans who stood up for them, and against the federal government which supported their rights. Subsequent incarnations of the Klan, which typically emerged in times of rapid social change, added more categories to its enemies list, including Jews, Catholics (less so after the 1970s), homosexuals, and different groups of immigrants.
In most of these cases, these perceived enemies were minority groups that came into direct economic competition with the lower- and working-class whites that formed the core constituency of the Klan in most of its incarnations.
The history is muddled here, but you will note that most interesting of modern code terms “working class whites” — that you just heard in the recent West Virginia and Indiana primaries — isn’t. It’s the same Venn diagram, a rare instance of words meaning the same thing in two different places that you’ll find in the current climate, where “facts” have become highly amenable to ideological reinterpretation.
It’s not at all the same Klan we’re talking about. From the “Information Please” folks, of Almanac fame.
Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan (kOO” klŭks klăn) [key], designation mainly given to two distinct secret societies that played a part in American history, although other less important groups have also used the name. The first Ku Klux Klan was an organization that thrived in the South during the Reconstruction period following the Civil War. The second was a nationwide organization that flourished after World War I. Subsequent groups calling themselves the Ku Klux Klan sprang up in much of the South after World War II and in response to civil-rights activity during the 1960s.
Sections in this article:The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2007, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
It is the SECOND Klan that explains so much about what’s happening today, and what we need to push back against:
… William J. Simmons, an ex-minister and promoter of fraternal orders, founded the second Ku Klux Klan in 1915; its first meeting was held in Stone Mountain, GA. The new Klan had a wider program, adding “white supremacy,” an intense anti-Catholicism, and anti-Semitic platform closely related to the Know-Nothing movement of the middle 19th century. As a result, its appeal spread rapidly throughout the North. It was an outlet for the militant patriotism stirred up by World War I, and it stressed fundamentalism in religion. Although it was nonpolitical, the Klan still controlled politics in many communities.
In 1922, 1924, and 1926 it elected many state officials and a number of Congressmen. Texas, Oklahoma, Indiana, Oregon, and Maine were principally under its influence. Its power in the Midwest was broken during that time that David C. Stephenson, a major Klan leader, was convicted of second-degree murder, and proof of corruption came out that led to the indictment of the governor of Indiana and the mayor of Indianapolis, both Klan supporters. The Klan frequently took extralegal extreme measures, especially against those whom it considered its enemies. At its peak in the mid-1920s, its membership was estimated at 4 million to 5 million. Though probably much smaller, the Klan declined with amazing speed to an estimated 30,000 by 1930.
The Klan spirit, however, was a factor in breaking the Democratic hold on the South in 1928, when Alfred E. Smith, a Roman Catholic, was that party’s presidential candidate. Its collapse thereafter was largely due to state laws against masks eliminating the secret aspect, to the bad publicity the organization received through its thugs and swindlers, and maybe from a declining interest. With the Depression, dues-paying membership of the Klan shrank to almost nothing. Meanwhile, many of its leaders had done extremely well financially from the dues and the sale of Klan paraphernalia. This trend continued during the Second World War and in 1944, the organization was disbanded….
Which comes to us from the African American Registry, “Your Source for African American History.”
THAT Klan was the Klan you see marching in Washington, D.C.
The Klan that was a thirty year movement based on the “Know-Nothing” Anti Masonic Party of the 1840s.
This is a periodic spasm in American history: fear of immigrants, intolerance of ALL “outsiders” and minorities, super-Patriotism, and Christian paranoia. Have you noticed how it’s become OK to hate Muslims JUST for being Muslims, which is religious bigotry? Michelle Malkin does it at least once a day, it seems. Same goes for LGF, which is BASED on hating “Jihadists” and Muslims.
And the insistence that only THEY are super-Patriots — ironic, given that Rupert Murdoch (who sells patriotic swill on three continents and believes none of it himself) shovels it to them, and Mark Steyn and Charles Krauthammer, both Canadians, are our USA Super-Patriotic cheerleaders — is absurd on the face of it.
Really, patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, and hating — whether Blacks, or Jews or Liberals — is the last refuge of the corrupt ideologue.
THAT is the Know-Nothing, Second Klan mentality. But, while the crosses still burn, they are rhetorical crosses burned into the mind in nearly all cases.
And now we’re back up to date.
«o»
Here’s the Honor Roll of Rightie Blogs that were in on Sunday’s blogswarm over the “planted” piece on the Obama website — pushing the “Obama v Jews” meme as a conscious attempt to drive a wedge between Democratic Party constituencies. Sure is amazing, all these Rightie blogs harping on the same fallacious point about a planted “dirty tricks” post on Sunday:
And on Monday, a lone piece appeared fromNEWSWEEK: three paragraphs by three writers, which Mark Hemingway of the National Review Online takes 1,209 words to attack, sneer, and otherwise continue to push the “Obama v Jews” meme today.
Well, if the Obama campaign says he’ll get Jewish voters, that’s good enough for Newsweek. No need to factcheck. It’s not like Obama lost the Jewish vote by 24 percent to Hillary in the Pennsylvania primary, which has one of the highest concentrations of Jewish voters of any state. (Oh, wait, that did happen. You just won’t read about it in Newsweek this week.)
If the Obama campaign has this willing a patsy in Newsweek, willing to be spoonfed anything the campaign churns out, and this is all they can say to demonstrate he doesn’t have a Jewish problem, Obama must have a really big Jewish problem.
Interesting circular reasoning. NEWSWEEK is carrying water for Obama. Or, perhaps NEWSWEEK noticed the intentional “Iago” campaign being waged to split the Black and jewish communities by sowing seeds of hate and fear. Kind of like Hemingway is pushing in HIS piece.*
[* To be fair, I noted yesterday that the NEWSWEEK piece -- all three paragraphs -- was more a cryptic rebuttal than a solid piece. One can be fairly sure it was a RESPONSE to the wholesale pushing of the phony meme. HW]
But rarely do you see these “Know Nothings” of the Second Coming of the Second KKK caught in such flat-footed deception. Rarely do you see them caught flat-footed, like the fellow sitting in the outhouse when the crane lifts the shed portion high into the air, pants around their ankles.
And the crickets chirp.
So, let this be a lesson to you. Where is the Leftie blog outrage? Where is the commentary? Where is the attack? The enemy forces have been routed from the field, and good military practice is to pursue and chop them to flinders.
No, instead we get the shameless Mark Hemingway of the National Review Online, dead Bill Buckley’s skeletal middle finger aimed at more than half his countrymen from beyond the grave. The haters have been trapped in the zeal and stupidity of their ideological bigotry, and even “conservatives” have been sickened by this. First an excerpt from a conservative blog, and THEN that Ku Klux Klan business card I promised to tell you about. From The Jed Report:
Sun Jun 8, 7:48 PM Pacific
LGF is crying wolf and it ticks me off
Like most Americans, I’ve got no tolerance for antisemitism, though the fact that I’m Jewish probably makes me more aware of it than most. So when the right-wing blog Little Green Footballs today claimed to have discovered a “shocking” amount of antisemitism on my.barackobama.com, I took notice. Here’s their post, with emphasis added:
Searching Obama’s Site for ‘Jewish Lobby’
A search of the official my.barackobama.com site for “Jewish Lobby” reveals an enormous amount of antisemitic hatred being posted. This is really shocking stuff, and shows beyond any doubt that this is no fluke.
There are hundreds, possibly thousands, of posts that refer to the “Jewish lobby” at the Obama site. I stopped looking at the results on page 10.
Alarmed by LGF’s allegation, I did exactly what they suggested: I followed their “Jewish Lobby” link and searched through the first 10 pages of results. Here’s what I found:
- There were one hundred posts (10 posts per page, 10 pages.) Not “hundreds,” not “thousands,” but one hundred.
- Only 9 of the 100 posts actually used the phrase “Jewish Lobby”
- Many of the remaining 91 posts were written by Jews in praise of Barack Obama. My favorite favorite one featured a pro-Obama video from Rabbi Samuel Gordon from Wilmette, Illinois.
The bottom-line here is that LGF lied bigtime. On its face, their claim that there were “hundreds” or “thousands” of posts was based on nothing but their own imagination; by their own admission, they had looked at just 10 pages worth of posts.
Moreover, it’s obvious they never looked at the search results — nine in ten of the posts did not even contain the term “Jewish Lobby.”
It is true that there have been isolated examples of anti-semitic postings on my.barackobama.com. There’s no defending those posts, though it’s worth noting it is unclear who actually made the posts, and the system adminstrators are good about taking them down once they become aware of them.
But LGF’s claim of widespread antisemitism is false, and as a Jew, LGF’s lie really ticks me off. By deliberately overstating the facts, they are making it harder to fight real examples of antisemitism.
The bloggers at LGF have become a delusional band of professional victimologists. There was a time when conservatives stood up against that kind of politics. What happened?
Ah yes. What happened indeed?
That’s from a CONSERVATIVE, in case you hadn’t read that carefully: “But LGF’s claim of widespread antisemitism is false, and as a Jew, LGF’s lie really ticks me off. By deliberately overstating the facts, they are making it harder to fight real examples of antisemitism.”
Which is exactly true. Crying “wolf” today ensures the wolves’ victory tomorrow. So, please don’t think I’m crying “wolf” because my tinfoil hat is ratcheted down too tight and chafes. I am crying “wolf” because there’s a real wolf here, and we need to make sure that said pack of wolves (and with apologies to real wolves for the analogy) DON’T GET AWAY WITH IT.
Now, Curious George and the T-Shirt Man in Arkansas. From the Washington Post:
The Curious George imagery in connection with Obama has already sparked outrage nationally. As the Chicago Tribune reported last month, the “Obama in ‘08″ Curious George t-shirts have prompted possible legal action by Houghton Mifflin, the publisher of the popular children’s book series.
The company, according to the Tribune, was considering action against a Marietta, Ga., bar owner who was selling “Obama in ‘08″ t-shirts depicting Curious George peeling a banana. “Houghton Mifflin Harcourt did not nor would we ever authorize or approve this use of the Curious George character, which we find offensive and utterly out of keeping with the values Curious George represents,” a spokesman for the publishing house told the Tribune.
And here is the old t-shirt from the website, SpringRiverTees.com:
click for the “censored” version
And, yeah, he knew he was infringing, because the T-shirt in the Washington Post piece, has a paper bag over his “Happy Hussein” T-shirt.
And, even though he pretends that he WASN’T stealing Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s “Curious George” character, he has this new, “funny” t-shirt to go with his new, “funny” rationalization:
Censored Harry
[Censored] $15.00This is my newest shirt. The powers that be have decided that the shirt I was selling too closely resembled another form of art work and I was required to take it off the website. I have now created this shirt to take it’s (sic) place. Feel free to contact me and let me know how you feel about this turn of events. This new shirt has a message all in itself (sic), and just remember, God Bless America!!!! This shirt comes in both white and black and sizes Adult small thru 4XL. Stay tuned for more designs to come out soon! If you are trying to find one of the origional (sic) Happy Harry Tshirts, then contact me at shirtdude@live.com for information. There is going to be a limited supply of them left, so contact me now!
And he’s STILL selling them!
You see? It’s not HIS fault that he can’t rip people off! The “powers that be” just THOUGHT he was being bad and “required” him “to take it off the website.” Poor Shirtdude. Poor abused American for not being allowed to use Curious George to mock Senator Barack Obama as a monkey! Why the T-shirt’s creator is a WHITE MARTYR!
We weep for him.
So, I wondered who this vicious prick was. Didn’t take long to find out (emphasis added to important stuff. You can just skim the rest):
Domain Name: SPRINGRIVERTEES.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
Whois Server: whois.tucows.com
Referral URL: http://domainhelp.opensrs.net
Name Server: NS1.RITTERNET.COM
Name Server: NS2.RITTERNET.COM
Status: ok
Updated Date: 20-may-2008
Creation Date: 20-may-2008
Expiration Date: 20-may-2009>>> Last update of whois database: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:37:18 EDT <<<
Registrant:
Spring River Tees
PO BOX 3666
Walnut Ridge, AR 72476
USDomain name: SPRINGRIVERTEES.COM
Administrative Contact:
Newcomb, Ken maps@maps-unlimited.com
PO BOX 3666
Walnut Ridge, AR 72476
US
870-886-5432
Technical Contact:
Number Administration, RitterNet hostmaster@ritternet.com
3300 One Place
Jonesboro, AR 72404
US
870.974.9100 Fax: 870.933.9145Registration Service Provider:
Ritter Communications, hostmaster@ritternet.com
870.974.9100
This company may be contacted for domain login/passwords,
DNS/Nameserver changes, and general domain support questions.Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
Record last updated on 20-May-2008.
Record expires on 20-May-2009.
Record created on 20-May-2008.
So, I checked to see who Newcomb, Ken at maps@maps-unlimited.com was. And Bingo!
WRAAF
P.O. Box 3666
Walnut Ridge, AR 72476
USDomain name: MAPS-UNLIMITED.COM
Administrative Contact:
Newcom, Ken wraaf@nex.net
P.O. Box 3666
Walnut Ridge, AR 72476
US
870-886-5432
Technical Contact:
Number Administration, RitterNet hostmaster@ritternet.com
3300 One Place
Jonesboro, AR 72404
US
870.974.9100 Fax: 870.933.9145Registration Service Provider:
Ritter Communications, hostmaster@ritternet.com
870.974.9100
This company may be contacted for domain login/passwords,
DNS/Nameserver changes, and general domain support questions.Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
Record last updated on 12-Sep-2007.
Record expires on 11-Oct-2008.
Record created on 11-Oct-2001.Registrar Domain Name Help Center:
http://domainhelp.tucows.comDomain servers in listed order:
GATEKEEPER.INET-DIRECT.COM
NS2.INET-DIRECT.COMWRAAF
P.O. Box 3666
Walnut Ridge, AR 72476
Now it’s Newcom, Ken wraaf@nex.net, but you can be pretty certain that it isn’t a typo. Same dude as “Newcomb, Ken.” (As in ‘Ken Nuke-Em‘).
Yup. Maps-Unlimited is an online hunting goods/maps & NASA posters store out of Arkansas. Ken Newcomb seems to be the propietor, and WRAAF (don’t know who that is) is his Post Office box — perhaps so his customers don’t come out to his house and short-sheet his bed. Who knows? But now comes the payoff.
While researching today’s story, I stumbled on this, a KKK business card from Nova Scotia, on The Wing Luke Asian Museum website:
Parminder Singh was harassed by a group of individuals in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1984, and then summarily handed this Ku Klux Klan card. The back of the card reads:
“There are thousands of organizations working for the interests of Blacks. How many groups stand up for the cultural values and ideas of the White Majority? Not many; as a result we are faced with reverse discrimination in jobs, promotions, and scholarships – busing for forced integration – high taxes for minority welfare – a high rate of brutal crime – gun-control – anti-White movies and TV programs – in short, a society oriented to the wishes of minorities. We of the Ku Klux Klan are unapologetically committed to the interests, ideas, and cultural values of the White Majority. We are determined to maintain and enrich our cultural and racial heritage.
We are growing fast and strong because we have never compromised the truth.”
And here is that back.
I bring it up because it sounded familiar as hell, somehow. But how?
And then I remembered where I’d seen it recently. On the back of the “Hussein” t-shirt from Arkansas:
Gee, that sure sounds familiar. Sounds like a rewrite (for space) of that 1984 Klan business card from NOVA SCOTIA, don’t it?
Here’s his “reasoning” from the same page:
Back Side of Hussein Tee Shirt. It has an important message that apparently got misinterputed (sic) by people who failed to really read it. It speaks out against racial discremination (sic) in all forms. If we are to truly to do away with it, then we need to do away with it by getting rid of the race designation in all groups and organizations. God Bless America, not God Damn America!! Stay tuned for more designs coming out soon!!!
It’s the Second coming of the Second Coming of the Ku Klux Klan — in spirit, anyway. Isn’t it interesting that these hate-filled bigots would try to split Blacks and Jews? Or, that they, who hate the Muslims (for being a different religion) would love the Jews, who are of a different religion? Really?
I don’t know how it could be more plainly put.
Now, the news has been reporting that “black people are offended,” and then the “cute” rejoinder from the seller of the t-shirts. (T’was a bar owner in Atlanta that kicked it off.) But, no: this is offensive, and clearly has its roots in Klan recruiting literature. Get it?
Please draw your own additional conclusions, but don’t doubt that this is underway, is coordinated, hateful and according to a plan; and that the Left, Democratic and Progressive communities are paying it scant heed.
Am I saying that Ken Nuke-Em is connected to the blog-swarm? No. What I am saying is that dirty, ugly tricks are being played, and all coming from a xenophobic, racist Klan (2nd Klan) mentality.
Ken Nuke-Em and Little Green Footballs are bookends on the same shelf, and Mein Kampf figures prominently somewhere in between, along with dog-eared copies of George Orwell’s masterpiece,1984 (which they mistook for an instruction manual) and Machaivelli’s The Prince.
Consider yourself clearly warned.
Oh, and no sooner has THAT issue been outed than we’re on to the NEXT trivial charge in the not so swift boating of the Rovian Spinners:
Jennifer Parker / Political Punch:
Obama’s Answer on the Johnson Conundrum — ABC News’ Sunlen Miller today asked Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, how he could “rail against Countrywide Financial Corp as an example of insiders and today’s economy while your VP search is headed by someone who got questionable loans from Countrywide?” …
You see, if ANYONE that Obama knows ever did ANYthing wrong, the pious bias of the rightie whiteys will come a’shinin’ through.
And the war? Domestic surveillance? The collapsing economy? The crumbling infrastructure?
Courage.
5 Comments
10 June 2008 at 6:40 pm
Since you’re lumping me in with the KKK, I thought I should point out that my post at protein wisdom dealt with the legit “Socialists for Obama” post and no others. So you might want to retract that bit of libel.
Mr. Williams replies: Considering the libel you dish out as a daily matter of course, you probably either ought to get a thicker skin, else adopt a different approach towards your fellow human beings. If the jackboot fits, wear it, Karl. Oh, and the spoof email address only adds to your extreme credibility in the field of manners and politesse.
11 June 2008 at 8:20 am
I saw reference to your site from C&L.
This is an impressive post with some excellent sleuthing. Yep, the back of tee and the Nova Scotia KKK text is the same..just reworded a bit. There’s no doubt in my mind about that. I ‘ll spread the word. thx!
17 June 2008 at 1:37 pm
Please check out the articles in the Batesville Guard http://67.192.58.30/?q=node/45896 and the Jonesboro Sun http://www.jonesborosun.com/archived_story.php?ID=33480 and you can complete your investigative work. I find it interesting how the story has been portrayed and how bent out of shape people are on this. 150 years of fighting for equality and we still can’t be equal in the way we are portrayed and poked fun at. The sembalance made was due to appearance, not race, and when i make my new shirt, with me and my big ears and resembalance to a monkey on it, with the same message on the back, will the message be heard?
Thanks for your time, Kelly Newcom
21 June 2008 at 1:38 pm
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