Drinking a haughty toddy after a hard day’s superiority
The Boston Globe, gathering up its skirts as if to stomp through the icky mud, gets into High Dudgeon today (or is that “toady”?):
Biden should apologize for “back in chains” remark
EDITORIAL | EDITORIAL
The Boston Globe
August 17, 2012When Vice President Joe Biden warned a Virginia rally of hundreds of African Americans that Republican efforts to loosen bank regulations meant “They’re going to put y’all back in chains,” Stephanie Cutter, Team Obama’s deputy campaign manager, said the president would have “no problem with those comments.”
But imagine if Republican Paul Ryan uttered comments like that. Mitt Romney’s pick for vice president would be pilloried for racial insensitivity — and so would Romney. In the fight for civility and substance over pointless hyperbole, Biden may not be the worst offender. But he’s an offender nonetheless, and he should apologize.
Really? Somehow The Globe can parse Biden’s comments (which have clear and identifiable historical bases NOT in racial commentary) only according to the spin put on their interpretation by the Romney campaign?
Deep thoughts …
And there’s the idiocy. When someone who HATES YOUR GUTS and with every reason in the world to misconstrue your words, AND with a clear track record of intentionally doing same, you accept THEIR interpretation as correct, and viciously turn on the speaker, without bothering to ask HIM what he meant, there is something WRONG with you. Something desperately, stupidly, brain-addled and propaganda-mesmerized WRONG with you.
And, thus, Biden becomes the “villain” in this horseshit contest, with not a word about the serpents playing Iago.
Ask Othello how that one turned out, won’t you, anonymous Boston Globe “moral” arbiters? Or didn’t you get around to reading it while scribbling poisoned pen letters in college?
Where is all this high-toned moralizing every day when Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and the rest of the scurvy crew infect the airwaves of Boston for three hours? Where then, this “high minded” cry for civility?
Well, I guess it’s because Biden might actually listen to you, and not bitch-slap your pretentious Little Lord Fauntleroy act back into the playpen, where it belongs.
Oh, whoopsie!
Somebody needs to apologize, but it ain’t Joe Biden. (And catch up, fools. The Snark Express left that one back at the last bus stop.)
“Imputation” and “interpretation” are different words for a reason.
Courage.
Loved this one…and why doesn’t anyone (if not EVERYone) cry foul when Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and the rest of the scurvy crew infect the airwaves every single day!
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Joe would have to work overtime to catch up with the Rightie’s as far as Gaffe’s.I personnelly believe they owe Presdent Obama an apology for all the Insinuation’s about Birth certificate,Now thats an Insult for Real!
Hart, everyone’s missing some important facts:
Republicans widely supported the abusive, essentially slave labor policies used in the American territory of the Mariana Islands.
Republican LEADER Tom DeLay wanted the slave labor like policies of the Mariana Islands to be imported to the rest of the United States.
Republicans are also currently trying to steal another election, this time by disenfranchising millions of Americans, most of who are African Americans.
Stealing elections by denying Americans the vote is fairly characterized as “chaining” Americans.
The Boston Globe’s shameful editorial condemning a fair turn of phrase is itself condemnable.
Don’t try telling your Republican friends, who think the GOPpers just have good intentions, about that Marianas Islands thing, unless you want to see an adult go LALALALALAL I can’t HEEEEEEAR you! and stick their fingers in their ears like they were an adult baby. Which, actually, they kind of are, I guess.
Great catch Hart, I’m very happy that you picked up on this story as everyone else is just running with the republican spin. I have no doubt that Joe really meant what he said to sound just like it sounded, Joe isn’t dumb, but uses his mischievous sense of humor to make his point, that if the chains are removed from the banks, in effect, it places the chains back on the people, and his audience there happened to be mostly black Americans who would more easily understand the context of the statement. Kind of similar to what Lily Tomlin said about winning the rat race, you’re still a rat. White people should be concerned about this too, because, even though we didn’t come here in chains, many did come here as indentured servants, which in effect was a type of slavery itself, and the top republicans and their sponsors would like to see the entire population enslaved. Destroying the middle class is part of the process of doing just that. Every bit of mud they can sling and get to stick on Joe means they’ve created a little more doubt on the Obama-Biden ticket.