Quote of the Day (GOP Minority Outreach Edition). From the Right Reverend and All Powerful Living God Sun Myung Moon’s Washington Times, an editorial on Obama’s totally unprecedented rather ordinary bows before foreign dignitaries. It sure does finish with a flourish:
But Mr. Obama, unlike his predecessors, likely knows no better, and many of those around him, true children of the grungy ’60s, are contemptuous of custom. Cutting America down to size is what attracts them to “hope” for “change.” It’s no fault of the president that he has no natural instinct or blood impulse for what the America of “the 57 states” is about. He was sired by a Kenyan father, born to a mother attracted to men of the Third World and reared by grandparents in Hawaii, a paradise far from the American mainstream.
Sired: Like a thoroughbred? Either way, he ended up with a diluted “blood impulse.” Fuckall if I know what that means, but apparently Sun Myung Moon’s got it. By virtue of fuckall if I know.
Men of the Third World: I think I bought that calendar last year. Pretty damn mandingtastic IIRC , but then I’m a child of true children of grunge (c: Grandgrungechild?).
Hawaii: Foreign apparently. Couldn’t even make a list of 57 states. Must be all those dusky third world types lazing about in their unabashed immoral lassitude. Upside: Sounds like an idea for another calendar.
November 17, 2009 at 10:36 am
I think that’s a reference to the 57 possible states of American ketchup.
November 18, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Or the north shore of Lake Erie.
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November 17, 2009 at 11:13 am
Blut und Boden
November 17, 2009 at 11:22 am
Crap
November 17, 2009 at 11:23 am
Adding: What’d they rip that right from the playbook? At least he translated the German to English.
November 17, 2009 at 12:09 pm
But Mr. Obama, unlike his predecessors, likely knows no better, and many of those around him, true children of the grungy ’60s, are contemptuous of custom.
Such as the custom of using traditional forms of respect when meeting ceremonial heads of state on their own turf? You know, like when George W. Bush bowed to Pope Benedict XLIV* not all that long ago? I’m pretty sure Tom Tomorrow meant his strip on “the world began in January 2009″ to be a joke, but no one clued Wes in.
*Wait, that’s the next Super Bowl. But the point still stands.
November 17, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Wow. Look what a little Googling of Wesley Pruden turns up.
November 17, 2009 at 12:31 pm
i.e., Washington Times editor emeritus Wesley Pruden.
November 17, 2009 at 12:33 pm
well, that splains some things
November 17, 2009 at 6:50 pm
May I add Sun Myung Moon and Sun Myung Moon?
November 17, 2009 at 7:01 pm
“attracted to men of the Third World ”
That’s some subtle code right there.
November 18, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Look we ALL KNOW the girls in college who went after men of swarthy persuasions. We called them ‘walking Care packages’ and ‘International Piece Ambassador’s’ and whatnot. I knew a pretty good looking womnan who only ‘dated’ guys who were under 5′.
After all, out-mating is a very succesful strategy for the women who AREN’T cheerleaders.
Anyhow Wes is just jealous. Sad, pathetic, typical.
November 17, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Moon himself, of course, is Norwegian.
November 17, 2009 at 8:50 pm
born to a mother attracted to men of the Third World
As opposed to Mrs. Moon, who married a norwegian.
November 18, 2009 at 7:03 am
“It’s no fault of the president that he has no natural instinct or blood impulse for what the America of “the 57 states” is about.”
No natural instinct?Maybe this explains why The Sons of Soul Train didn’t endorse Obama?
In the racially sanitized Confederate Reich, only white people will be allowed to be hip.
For you Slovenian readers puzzling through Babelfish to understand what Warren Pruden (a name pulled from the same discount dignitary shelf as Kenmeer Livermaile) meant by “blood impulse”: discernible blood pressure.
America’s current president has no pulse. Probably a zombie. But even as a zombie, a good nigrah knows to scrape his foot and bow. He’s a thrillah dillah, I tell you.
November 18, 2009 at 8:40 am
The Republicans have 57 Channels And Nothing (Going) On…
November 18, 2009 at 3:56 pm
People who say there aren’t 57 states forget to count Guam, American Samoa, D.C., Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Grumpy and Dopey.
November 18, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Maybe he’s including Israel and Iraq.
November 18, 2009 at 6:28 pm
The two missing states are the Welfare State and the State of denial.
November 19, 2009 at 6:50 am
I thought it was Euphoria, just about where Humboldt Co. Califorina used to be.
November 19, 2009 at 3:19 pm
It’s still there but they’re too stoned to find it.
November 20, 2009 at 10:02 am
I always thought you were supposed to blow the dog whistle, rather than stab people in the eye with it.