John Scalzie presents:
I keep forgetting to add Scalzi to the permanent links. This time I will not, and I still remember how much I love this Scalzi post about Huckabee’s ridiculous covenant marriage nonsense.
Yeah, This
by John Cole| 50 Comments
This post is in: Election 2008, Excellent Links, Media
Genine
That post is awesome!
I busted a gut on that one!
wasabi gasp
When Obama becomes prez, its gonna be very strange having a news network throwing out racist jabs at our president. That is, assuming they continue to do so. Which, I assume they will.
Joshua Norton
They’ve already circled the wagons. They found a way to recycle the surplus of Chimpy W. Bush dolls.
Not too offensive, if you’re a two bit cracker.
The Other Steve
They can’t seem to help themselves. I see Republican campaign advisors across the country going “Oh shit, no, don’t do… oh crap…” to themselves.
Joshua Norton
So if Michelle is a “baby mama” can we dub Cindy a “ho”?
nightjar
Before it’s over, the word republican will be the longest 4 letter word in history.
Garrigus Carraig
O RLY? ‘Cuz I can’t see that at all.
Gemina13
Let’s see:
1) Belittle Michelle Obama. Check!
2) Piss off blacks with carefree racism. Check!
3) Ensure that Faux Noise will be considered a legitimate news source around the time that Hell freezes over, global warming notwithstanding. Check, check, check!
If Roger Ailes had a brain or ethical bone in his body, he’d be sobbing helplessly over his professional legacy right now.
Mike P
No need to call Cindy a ho since her husband already called her a cunt.
Cain
Maybe us Dems should simply start giving 5 dollars every time there’s a bunch of crap like this. Then someone push a story that everytime Fox makes a flub like that Obama’s fundraising triples.
Fuck Fox.. thank god I don’t have cable.
cain
Johnny Pez
I wonder if Obama still thinks his decision to appear on Fox News a couple months back was a good idea.
incontrolados
Tonight in southeast Texas: Grumpy old white man makes a statement.
Rome Again
Well, perhaps if I was an elitist snob I could do that, but I don’t have that much money, do you? I’m sure that would rack up at least an extra 1,000 a month to my expenses.
rawshark
Poor McCain. He’s going to lose a presidential election to a black man and he’s old enough to have owned slaves.
Notorious P.A.T.
This is funny too, from the above-linked page
grandpajohn
And so it begins which is why I put my self in the same boat as several of the commenters on that thread and refuse to watch either Faux or CNN who is only slightly better than Faux
mellowjohn
So if Michelle is a “baby mama” can we dub Cindy a “ho”?
i still prefer “junkie thief,” myself.
jake
Yea verily, that was a thing of beauty. Next up: Pat B. will again explain that it weren’t for European colonists ungrateful people like the Michelle Obama would be running around Jigabooland with a bone through her nose.
I’m unplugging my irony meter now so it doesn’t take out the block when those those “The GOP loves black people,” ads start running on Focks News.
Soy latte + monitor + keyboard.
ploeg
It’s odd that Fox would seek to remind people that Obama is black. If, as JC says, it would be unnecessary to remind people that John McCain is an irascible old coot, it would be that much less necessary to remind people that Obama is black. It gains you no more racist votes and pisses off everybody else.
My only surprise is that they haven’t rerun the Jesse Helms “Hands” commercial yet. They’ve practically set the table for that one.
over_educated
The upshot of these attacks is that it is bringing back the women voters. I have a die-hard Clinton fan friend who was considering not voting for Obama, but the Michelle Obama attacks have her so enraged she is considering volunteering for Obama’s campaign! (LOL that didn’t take long).
Karmakin
Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, and Fox News gotta attack.
And Obama is black is all that they have. They’re not going to push the Wright thing too much because that pendulum swings both ways. And what else is there? Nothing…fun, that’s for certain.
PaulW
Dear BrightHouse Networks:
Please remove FOX News from my cable service.
I would like that channel removed from my service because:
1) The channel has a history of being incorrect and ill-informed;
2) The channel has, within the last week and a half, gone out of its way to insult people;
3) The channel does not contribute in any positive way to the national dialog.
If you do not remove FOX News from my service within the next 2-4 weeks, I will have no choice but to cancel my service with you altogether. I’d prefer to keep my ESPN and my SciFi and my Cartoon Network, but I feel strongly enough about getting FOX News off the air that I am willing to drop my favorite channels.
Signed.
Lee
That is a brilliant rant.
The trout, knitting comment is great but I think my favorite is this section.
Otto Man
Lots of goodness there, but the lead up to this clincher was my favorite:
The Grand Panjandrum
Yea, that was favorite as well. I immediately pictured BillO having lunch with Al Sharpton just going on about how all the nice colored folks was using utensils to eat and having well-mannered conversation. Well golly, knock me the fuck over with a feather.
PK
Even as a propaganda republican channel fox news sucks. Who can they possibly appeal to with this kind of stuff. They already have the racist vote. Do they think that independents and pissed off Hillary voters will look at this and go “Michelle Obama Black Ho- I have to vote John McCain”.
Republicans used to be better than this. Their racism use to be much more subtle. This is the party which succeeded in putting a racist black guy on the supreme court for goodness sakes!
But as in every other area republicans have become completely inept and incompetent. Next thing you know fox news anchors will start reading the news in white hoods.
Dork
I see you’re gettin yer material by lifting it straight off the GOS front page…again.
4tehlulz
Forty years of the Southern Strategy tends to do this to a party.
qwerty42
You’d almost think the Democrats seeded the “conservative” movement with moles to make them appear as ridiculous and hateful (and stupid) as possible. As though they wanted a crazy, scorched earth policy to mark the collapse of the movement.
More seriously, at Bloggingheads Eric Alterman commented on the “unconservative conservatives”. I believe John has remarked on this himself.
John Cole
Actually, someone brought it up in the comments.
Zifnab
Not to be cliche, but if you go and check out the Democrats 60 years ago, you’ll notice they were worse.
Sherrell
John,
Do you watch Verdict with Dan Abrams. Last night during a panel interview Dan raised the question of should the RNC go negative (cause no one saw this coming) and Pat Buchanan claimed of course it is because he unknown and “exotic.” I think we just found the GOP code word for black
cleek
when i hear the word “exotic”, i think of two things: exciting vacations in far-off places, and food i haven’t tried. i am not afraid of either. though if i was a metathesiophobic conservative douchebag, i suppose i would be.
4tehlulz
Yes they were; so?
Bedlam UK
I just cant believe a ‘News’ Network would run a byline like that. Ok, I’ve been brought up on BBC News, but it was stunning to imagine that image on a couple of million tv’s in US without the Broadcasting standards jumping all over that.
I know that people in Europe can stereotype americans as lazy, but damn, to merge Jerry Springer and 24hour News into one program to avoid housewives the effort of changing channels.. surely thats going too far.
Don
Indeed. And sometime around, oh, 1964, they suddenly all left the party, most becoming Republicans. I wonder why? I mean, a bunch of party defections all in the same year? Pretty unusual. Just one of life’s great mysteries, I guess.
PaulW
Instead of yapping, people, do something about it. Get FOX News off your cable service. Now.
CrazyNewfie
I had heard Scalzi wrote a blog, but never bothered to check it out. I should start reading it.
For sci-fi fans, his series starting with “Old man’s war” is fantastic. Was recently introduced to it by a friend, and enjoyed it very much. The sequels are excellent as well.
Zifnab
Well, yeah. I just thought it was interesting to note. The party of the South inevitably becomes the party of religious zealotry and racial/sexual/cultural bigotry. Democrat, Republican. That’s not your problem. It’s the freak’n Southerners. George Bush was just your average Conneticut cokehead with dreams of becoming baseball commissioner before he moved down to Texas to run for Governor. Dick Cheney was your run-of-the-mill draft dodging Yale drop-out before he became CEO of Houston-based Halliburton.
Clearly the problem isn’t the politicians, it’s the South itself. Something in the water or the soil that drives people into power-mad xenophobic hyper-deistic fits of war-mongering rage and stupidity.
I mean, the problem is pretty clear. The South. The solution should be equally clear and consistent with American practice in regards to rogue states. Carpet bomb everything south of the Mason-Dixion line. It’s the only way.
GrandCamel
I can’t get rid of this mental image of seeing the FOX news anchors after the camera goes off…
Anchor: When we return. Michelle Obama, is his baby mamma merely crazy or does she actually hate America? Also we have more pictures to show of Barrack from his trip to Kenya.
Producer: OK, cut to commercial.
Anchor: Are we off the air now?
Producer: Yup! here’s your pillow.
Anchor: Thanks!
*Anchor plants face into pillow*
Anchor: *muffled* C*ON!! JUNGLE BUNNY!! N*GGER!!
Anchor: Phew! That was a close one today.
pablo
I was listening to NPR but then I thought, “but I’m not listening to NPR, so why lie?” But then I realized that the lesson was about someting more than it seems. So I watched Fox, and got this Macaca moment!
Jess
Well, 60 years ago pretty much everyone was. Some people made an effort to progress, and others didn’t. I’m glad to be a part of a group of people trying to move forward to a better place.
I’ve been reading Tavris and Aronson’s book “Mistakes were made, but not by me,” which I believe someone at BJuice recommended. It goes into the psychology of denial and crazy devotion to insane positions.
Based on Tavris and Aronson’s argument, racism in the South and a lot of current white resentment is fed by the knowledge, deep down inside, that the South and white America were evil in their treatment of blacks, and since no one wants to see themselves as evil, then the solution for some weak-minded sorts is to convince themselves that blacks deserved that treatment because they are subhuman, violent, stupid, etc. Or that it’s the whites that are somehow the victim in the deal (see Ferraro). It seems crazy from the outside, but makes sense as a pathological attempt to overcome cognitive dissonance.
Check out the book–it’s a great read!
daryljhusseinfontaine
I think of stripper poles and g-strings, which in turn leads to
dirty, dirty thoughtsearnest contemplation of the plight of working class women and gender pay inequality.Bob UK
@ CrazyNewfie Says:
For sci-fi fans, his series starting with “Old man’s war” is fantastic.
I didn’t realise its that Scalzi. Thats an Excellent book that i recommend. Have to go read his blogs now :)
JoyceH
There’s an easy way for FAUX to establish their “Fair and Balanced” cred. The next time they do a piece on Cindy McCain, the chyron at the bottom of the screen could call her whatever the rodeo slang is for ‘drug-addicted homewrecker’.
Phoenix Woman
Roger Ailes used to chair the RNC back in the 1970s. He was then hired by Jack Welch to rebuild the NBC news division to Welch’s exact specifications. This was well before Rupert Murdoch was even thinking of starting a cable news network.
So, no, Roger Ailes has no shame or ethical bones, and his brains have been put to evil use.
barrisj
Ah, yes, the initial wave of attacks to “niggerize” the Obamas, and, whereas one cannot racially attack the (black) candidate without drawing obloquy from even the most racially insensitive of political observers and members of the public, nothing says one cannot use the (black) spouse as a surrogate. So, get ready for “he’s a black man, but she’s a nigger” slur-mongering, bet on it.
David Hunt
I believe the term for that is “Cindy McCain.”
Raznor
Cindy McCain is by no means a ho. Cindy McCain is John’s sugar daddy.
YellowJournalism
If John McCain can’t call his wife a cunt, then who can???
And Raznor, that’s sugar momma.