Lee Atwater on the crushing weight of political correctness and how it put a crimp in Republican Party messaging efforts:
You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.
As always, necessity is the mother of invention. And hate springs eternal. And so on.
So in 2009, you say stuff like “where’s your birth certificate”? to the black guy with the funny name – no surprise that Andrew “Bell Curve” Sullivan and Lou “Dirty Meckscuns” Dobbs* are all over it. Pure coincidence, I’m sure. Though to be fair to Andy, he usually shows the same zeal if there’s misogyny* to partake in.
But thanks to liberahomohollywood brainwashing all our kids into war-averse wishy-washy fags, in 2009 instead of saying spic (or not), you have to harp on that uppity “wise Latina” who is obviously stupid and hot-blooded (she’s PUERTO RICAN!11!@!! fercryinoutloud) and who only graduated at the top of her class at Princeton because of affirmative action – which doesn’t actually affect grades (and wasn’t she privileged to be born in the South Bronx housing projects!).
You could also suggest that Obama’s a secret Muslim, or couch the same accusation in terms of faux concern for what Muslims might do if they deem Obama a deserter of the faith. Not that he’s a Muslim. Just sayin’.
But why stop there ye timid little hatemongers? Go for the gold and accuse Barack Obama of hating white people. Or being racist himself. Or, for those extra special industrious little Michelle Malkin Overachievers™, all of the above.
The stuffed monkey effigies, though, are more than a little passe. More 1968 than 2009. Get with the program.
(* edited as per secondH)
UPDATE: I believe this only reinforces the notion that Obama is a “banana eating jungle monkey” racist.
July 30, 2009 at 8:34 am
misogyny, BTW, and I think the surname “Dobbs” is missing in the same paragraph.
Other than that, OK.
July 30, 2009 at 9:18 am
Hey Theeds: wanna buy your nebie monkey-hominid post-fetal thingie the best US Savings Bonds ever! Order a case of those Obamonkey dolls.
Give young born-of-Theeds-seed one to chew until he’s tired of it or it mysteriously disappears then reappears from the cat’s ass. For the vintage street-reals. Almost better if it goes through the cat. Future DNA testing can then reveal, at least on freeper brainpodcasts*, Obama was 1/2 black/1/2 cat (which explains the White House puppy promise problem).
Keep the rest in a cool dark closet in a tightly sealed bag, along with 50 or so spend party-helium balloons.
When young Theeds-thing,Jr. turns of age, they will cash in nicely for that hydroestrogen hovercar Theeds, Jr. will incessantly whine for.
*think of it. future brain-to-brain networking can conclusively prove, via Sons of the Reptublicants 2022 braainframes, that the pooling together of inferior minds produces increasingly inferior collective consciousness in direct proportion to per capita ratios.
But think of the market for neointernet cognitive sewage systems. Collectives like that will, by definition, require adequate braindrains.
July 30, 2009 at 9:33 am
Roy Blunt, on the birthers, caught on video:
http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/30/roy-blunt-on-the-birthers-unedited/
July 30, 2009 at 9:55 am
I get the feeling that they’re trying to recreate the glory days of the Clinton administration. (Whitewater! Vince Foster! Jennifer Flowers!) It’s like a really bad sequel. The original scriptwriters have retired, and all they could find was a couple of guys who used to write for A.L.F.
July 30, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Hey now, Jerry Stahl wrote for ALF and he’s a pretty good writer. I’d say someone like the gossip item writer for White Power Monthly.
July 30, 2009 at 10:36 am
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July 30, 2009 at 10:48 am
Thanks for getting that written down Lee.
July 30, 2009 at 11:05 am
This is about dividing and conquering the working poor and middle class. You have a minority that has successfully divided the interests of the majority. Total shell game action, three card monty level, David Blaine, magic.
July 30, 2009 at 11:08 am
Then you have Steele and the Log Cabin GOP. It’s so hilarious. SpiderhasAflyBringoutThegimp.
July 30, 2009 at 11:10 am
This whole health care debate is so fucked up that people are just making up there own fantasy in the congress of their mind’s and then projecting that onto reality, because they’re too lazy to browse Congressional Quarterly or a newspaper, or any one of the billion outlets. Democracy is terrible.
July 30, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Democracy is terrible when it is left in the care of snake-handling, god bothering, barely one generation away from the hills and outdoor plumbing-using, Creation Museum-attending morons, which is the game plan of the elites who run the repug party.
I am delighted, though, that they seem to have lost control of their ‘What’s the Matter with’ Kansans and other believers in gay reparative therapy, faith healing, angels, the superiority of white folk and a universe that is only 6,000 years old.
July 30, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Universal College/Public Technical Schoolz. Pre K-12 Personal Finance and Civics on par with Math and English.
July 30, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Now you’re talking.
July 30, 2009 at 1:03 pm
It will take ten years for the States to dig themselves out of their holes unless they raise revenues from the top 5% and Close Corporate loopholes. We need SCOTUS legal campaign finance reform such that money is replaced by any other credit or device that justly reflects the will of an educated people that protects the interests of the economic majority instead of just the wealthy.
July 30, 2009 at 2:06 pm
I read and I feel like home. Thanks to the creators for the good life!.
July 30, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Aw, man. I came here looking for The Grampa “Get off my lawn you dirty fucking hippy” Institute, but it’s just you guys.
(BTW A.S., you misspelled “hippie.”)
July 30, 2009 at 5:20 pm
gramps
Cosby Kids Offa Mah Lawn!
Dirty Hippys!!!
July 31, 2009 at 11:32 am
Ah yes, the heady 1960′s, historicologically speaking the Republicans were just a bunch of racists back then and still are today… I give you proof: (disclaimer; I am not an Harvard educated studyer of historicology ‘n stuff so this can’t REALLY be damning evidence…) You might acutally have to read the whole thing to find it…
http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.DYK-GOP
Juicy quote:
‘The executive mansion’s first film presentation depicted, according to Griffith, the Ku Klux Klan’s heroic, post-Civil War struggle against the menace of emancipated blacks, portrayed by white actors in black face.’