• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓
  • ←
  • →

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Let there be snark.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Let me file that under fuck it.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

We still have time to mess this up!

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

Mobile Menu

  • Seattle Meet-up Post
  • 2025 Activism
  • Targeted Political Fundraising
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • COVID-19
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • 2025 Activism
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • Targeted Fundraising!
You are here: Home / Is it because he is brown?

Is it because he is brown?

by DougJ|  February 25, 20097:22 pm| 73 Comments

This post is in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Clown Shoes

FacebookTweetEmail

Ann Althouse, via Sully, on criticism of Bobby Jindal:

Expressed by Josh Marshall (“absolutely cringeworthy”), Andrew Sullivan (“Jindal’s entrance reminded one of Mr Burns gamboling toward a table of ointments”), and others.

Why are all these people so confident that they are not manifesting racism? There’s just something about this man that doesn’t seem right, that you don’t care to examine exactly what it is, but you know it deep down in your gut somehow. Seriously. How do you know this is not racism?

ADDED: Andrew Sullivan proffers an answer to my question: “Maybe because there is not a trace of evidence of any kind that we are. Unless comparing Jindal to Kenneth the Page or Mr Burns taps unknown wells of racist hate in my heart. I mean, seriously.” I think deeper reflection is needed. Why the urge to paint him as a white white man? Where did that come from? Of course, there are unknown wells inside us all. When you have an instinctive response to a person of another race, why not seek knowledge?

Is it some stereotype that Indian-Americans are like “white white” people? I thought the stereotype was that they drove cabs, owned 7-11’s, and made their kids win spelling bees. This is so dumb on so many levels. It reminds me a bit of this exchange on Ali G:

Andy Rooney: Ok, that’s enough.I can’t do this. I can’t do this.
Ali G: Why not?
Andy Rooney: It’s not going good.
Ali G: Is it because I is black?
Andy Rooney: You’re black?
Ali G: For real.
Andy Rooney: Who’s black?
Ali G: Yo, I is.

FacebookTweetEmail
Previous Post: « The Next Nexter Right
Next Post: And While I Am Chucking Out Advice »

Reader Interactions

73Comments

  1. 1.

    AhabTRuler

    February 25, 2009 at 7:27 pm

    Who the hell is Andy Runey?

    And I still think the best clip is the one with the Mr. Rogers music.

  2. 2.

    joe from Lowell

    February 25, 2009 at 7:33 pm

    Ann Althouse is the rather creative individual who saw the Hillary Clinton "3AM ads," noticed that the little boy was wearing jammies that read "Nighty night," noticed that the jammies were wrinkled in one location in one shot so that only the first three letters of "Nighty night" were visible, and proclaimed that the Clinton campaign was engaging in subliminal racism.

  3. 3.

    joe from Lowell

    February 25, 2009 at 7:34 pm

    You think I’m kidding. You think I just made that up.

    I wish I was that creative, but I’m not.

    That actually happened.

  4. 4.

    DougJ

    February 25, 2009 at 7:35 pm

    @joe

    Oh my God.

  5. 5.

    Bubblegum Tate

    February 25, 2009 at 7:36 pm

    The title of this post is a Syl Johnson reference, yes?

  6. 6.

    DougJ

    February 25, 2009 at 7:38 pm

    The title of this post is a Syl Johnson reference, yes?

    No, it’s just a reference to Ali G asking “Is it because I is black?”

  7. 7.

    jenniebee

    February 25, 2009 at 7:41 pm

    I think Ann Althouse needs to seek knowledge vis a vis her instinctive reactions to wine and big tits.

  8. 8.

    John Cole

    February 25, 2009 at 7:41 pm

    You do know that if you mock Althouse, it will never end. Best to just ignore her. I am serious.

  9. 9.

    Andrew

    February 25, 2009 at 7:43 pm

    Jesus. She needs to lay off the wine blogging for a little while.

  10. 10.

    Ben JB

    February 25, 2009 at 7:44 pm

    That’s pretty magnificently dumb–I like how Ann paints people’s reactions as "instinctive," as if lib/dems were showing their true colors before they got their PC masks back in place. Or when she notes that we all must be feeling that there’s "something" about him that gets to us.

    I’ll tell you what that "something" is, Ann–it’s his politics.

  11. 11.

    Bubblegum Tate

    February 25, 2009 at 7:45 pm

    @DougJ:

    Ah, I see. At any rate, Syl Johnson’s "Is It Because I’m Black?" is phenomenal.

  12. 12.

    bago

    February 25, 2009 at 7:47 pm

    Is it coz I is a volcano?

  13. 13.

    Ash Can

    February 25, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    I suppose I should have seen the "RACISM!1!11"::flail:: counterpoint to the Sarah Palin "SEXISM!1!11"::flail:: coming a mile away.

  14. 14.

    Graeme

    February 25, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    I’ve long thought Althouse was a moron, but… The only person I’ve seen refer to Jindal as brown was an Indian friend of mine on Facebook. He said he was an embarrassment to brown people everywhere, and some of his brown friends agreed. I told him he should think how I feel, being white, after 8 years of W…

    The reason people are interested is because Jindal was touted as the great GOP hope. Everyone was interested how he’d fare, and he fell just as flat as anyone else they’ve thrown at the public.

    Look: I’d love to see the GOP recover, because I’m not all that comfortable voting Donk. But right now the Donks are so vastly superior to the GOP that it’s not even worth discussing.

    Not unlike Ann Althouse.

  15. 15.

    bobbo

    February 25, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    This is just so Althouse. "Sure, you think you’re not racist, but isn’t the very fact that you think that you’re not racist proof that you are, in fact, racist? After all, people who are insane think they are sane. Think about it."

  16. 16.

    aimai

    February 25, 2009 at 7:54 pm

    Still, one has to marvel at la althouse’s ability to always, always, come up with a new take on crazy. Discovering it is racist to fail to make racist jokes, or to discover that it is racist to compare a non white person to two white people, is a piece of performance art in and of itself.

    aimai

  17. 17.

    DougJ

    February 25, 2009 at 7:57 pm

    Still, one has to marvel at la althouse’s ability to always, always, come up with a new take on crazy.

    I have to agree. There’s a real genius to it.

  18. 18.

    TR

    February 25, 2009 at 8:00 pm

    I’m still convinced Althouse is Doug J pulling an elaborate prank.

    No one could seriously be that fucking stupid in real life.

  19. 19.

    srv

    February 25, 2009 at 8:01 pm

    I thought the stereotype was that they drove cabs, owned 7-11’s, and made their kids win spelling bees.

    Come Again! ?

  20. 20.

    Dennis-SGMM

    February 25, 2009 at 8:01 pm

    Piyush Bobby Jindal
    Barack Obama

  21. 21.

    BethanyAnne

    February 25, 2009 at 8:02 pm

    @bago: Someone linked to a motivational poster site on an earlier thread. I kept browsing around there, and ran across this. Perfect :-)

  22. 22.

    The Other Steve

    February 25, 2009 at 8:06 pm

    You do know that if you mock Althouse, it will never end. Best to just ignore her. I am serious.

    Bring on the Noise!

  23. 23.

    bago

    February 25, 2009 at 8:09 pm

    Wow, Tom Delay just told David Brooks to stop calling himself a conservative.

    @BethanyAnne: Government small enough to be drowned by a hurricane.

  24. 24.

    bvac

    February 25, 2009 at 8:14 pm

    Chris Matthews said the Republican party "outsourced their speech" in giving it to Jindal.

    He meant that they gave it to a governor and not anyone remotely close to the beltway, but fuck, it was pretty funny.

  25. 25.

    John Cole

    February 25, 2009 at 8:14 pm

    @DougJ: Did you see Brick Oven Bill earlier today? He was en fuego:

    Robert is to William. Bob is to Bill. Bobby is to Billy. This is why I do not go by Billy.

    Previous reference has been made to a period of time when the household budget was augmented by work as a lounge act at a small Chinese restaurant. At this job I witnessed a fight between a lesbian with no front teeth and a very large woman, who ended up getting her shirt and bra ripped off.

    This was spectacular to witness and it is entirely possible that it has affected my psyche. I apologize for the inappropriate comment.

    Top that.

  26. 26.

    Wile E. Quixote

    February 25, 2009 at 8:17 pm

    @Althouse

    Where did that come from? Of course, there are unknown wells inside us all.

    I agree, Ann Althouse has proven, time and again, that there are unknown wells of stupidity that lie deep within her. Just when you think we’ve found the last of the stupid wells she comes up with something like her contention that Jose Padilla was blindfolded because there was a fear that he might communicate to terrorists by blinking in code or her contention that there was a subtly coded racist message on the PJs the little boy was wearing in the ‘3 AM’ ads.

    That’s not an instinctual response on my part. After reading her blog I’m convinced that the only reason she’s managed to achieve anything in her life is because of all of the men who saw little starbursts when they interviewed and hired her, not because of any intellectual ability or rhetorical skill she might possess.

  27. 27.

    Woodrowfan

    February 25, 2009 at 8:22 pm

    Ann is proof that alcoholism can lead to brain damage.

  28. 28.

    DougJ

    February 25, 2009 at 8:23 pm

    Previous reference has been made to a period of time when the household budget was augmented by work as a lounge act at a small Chinese restaurant. At this job I witnessed a fight between a lesbian with no front teeth and a very large woman, who ended up getting her shirt and bra ripped off.

    Well, I think we all know who BOB is at this point.

  29. 29.

    DougJ

    February 25, 2009 at 8:24 pm

    Ann is proof that alcoholism can lead to brain damage.

    That’s a risk I’m willing to take.

  30. 30.

    Dennis-SGMM

    February 25, 2009 at 8:25 pm

    @John Cole:
    DR. EVIL:
    Very well, where should I begin? My
    father was a relentlessly self-
    improving boulangerie owner from
    Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy
    and a penchant for buggery. My mother
    was a fifteen-year-old French
    prostitute named Chloe with webbed
    feet. My father would womanize, he
    would drink, he would make outrageous
    claims, like he invented the question
    mark. Sometimes he would accuse
    chestnuts of being lazy. A sort of
    general malaise that only the genius
    possess and the insane lament. My
    childhood was typical.

  31. 31.

    Shygetz

    February 25, 2009 at 8:26 pm

    You could really shorten this entire post, DougJ. Witness:

    Dear Ann,

    Race baiting…ur doin it rong.

    Sincerely,

    People who voted for a black man named Barack Obama.

  32. 32.

    gwangung

    February 25, 2009 at 8:28 pm

    When I heard this, my reaction was

    "What do you mean WE, white woman?"

  33. 33.

    John Cole

    February 25, 2009 at 8:29 pm

    WIle E. – I edited your comment because of the vulgar and sexist nature of it. This is not the first time I have had to do it. Knock it off. You can comment, but there are lines.

  34. 34.

    QDC

    February 25, 2009 at 8:34 pm

    @bvac:

    Chris Matthews said the Republican party "outsourced their speech" in giving it to Jindal.

    Okay, now that is how you do implicit racial bias. Thanks for showing us how it’s done Chris!

  35. 35.

    Incertus

    February 25, 2009 at 8:36 pm

    @QDC: Chris Matthews–proving again that there is no foot too big to fit into his piehole.

  36. 36.

    Farley

    February 25, 2009 at 8:40 pm

    @Shygetz: Barack HUSSEIN Obama.

  37. 37.

    John Harrold

    February 25, 2009 at 8:41 pm

    I was talking to some of my Indian co-workers, and they both had bad things to say about Jindal’s speech. One of them couldn’t even sit through the entire things. I told them they were just just Uncle Tom Hindus.

  38. 38.

    kth

    February 25, 2009 at 8:45 pm

    How do you know this is not racism?

    Try to imagine Althouse applying such a finely-grained standard to, say, the NY Post cartoonist with the dead chimp cartoon. Quite impossible.

  39. 39.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    February 25, 2009 at 8:45 pm

    @DougJ:

    Well, I think we all know who BOB is at this point.

    The Lesbian with no front teeth?

  40. 40.

    Mazacote Yorquest

    February 25, 2009 at 8:49 pm

    Let’s not forget– Ann had a major, wine-box draining thing for Sanjaya. Vlogged all about it, while drinking. Methinks there are wells in her own psyche that are crying out for introspection.

    And by the way, in responding to Andrew how can she be so sure she isn’t homophobic? I mean, it’s all about self-knowledge, right?

  41. 41.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    February 25, 2009 at 8:51 pm

    Of course, there are unknown wells inside us all.

    Ms. Althouse’s unknown well happens to be filled with an unknown quantity of booze.

  42. 42.

    Jay Severin Has A Small Pen1s

    February 25, 2009 at 8:52 pm

    The new Jindal video:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYfjq3ZYZbA

  43. 43.

    JWW

    February 25, 2009 at 9:03 pm

    You gotta love Ali G. Why? He brings out the truth with a con act. The tears fall when people tell the truth, and don’t know it.

  44. 44.

    DougJ

    February 25, 2009 at 9:11 pm

    I was talking to some of my Indian co-workers, and they both had bad things to say about Jindal’s speech. One of them couldn’t even sit through the entire things. I told them they were just just Uncle Tom Hindus.

    My Indian friends don’t like Bobby Jindal. Then again, like the vast majority of non-white people, they are Democrats.

    But it could also be that they are racist against other Indians and they just don’t know it.

  45. 45.

    LaDonne

    February 25, 2009 at 9:16 pm

    I once made the mistake of commenting on her blog. It was a post about Australians eating cats as a way of reducing their number. She accused me of "catism" or something like that.

  46. 46.

    Xanthippas

    February 25, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    That’s not an instinctual response on my part. After reading her blog I’m convinced that the only reason she’s managed to achieve anything in her life is because of all of the men who saw little starbursts when they interviewed and hired her, not because of any intellectual ability or rhetorical skill she might possess.

    Believe it or not, she’s well regarded in her field, or so I was told by a professor at my law school (who probably-I guess-does not know about her blogging exploits.) This is the thing that puzzles me about some people, that they can be such experts in a field that would seem to require some amount of brains and logical thinking, but then so obviously stupid in other respects. Maybe the medium brings her down.

  47. 47.

    YellowJournalism

    February 25, 2009 at 9:35 pm

    The only thing that I think people are going overboard on is making fun of Jindal for going by the name of Bobby. Most Indians that I know have their formal, usually traditional Indian name that is on their birth certificate and then they have their family nickname, which is often an English name. It’s a practice that’s even common in India. My husband is East Indian, and for years he went by a very "white" or "English" name because his parents called him that. His friends and family still call him by that name, even though anyone who met him after a certain year call him by a shortened version of his traditional Indian name.

    Basically, Jindal goes by Bobby probably because that’s who he knows himself to be. To go by Piyush would probably be a bigger headache than most people realize. And Bobby is a pretty common nickname to have. In fact, I think we have three or four relatives who go by Bob or Bobby whose names have absolutely no realation to a Bob or Bobby-type sound.

    But he’s still a tool who makes Kenneth the Page sound wisened and intelligent. And no, it’s not racist to say such a thing.

  48. 48.

    AnneLaurie

    February 25, 2009 at 10:07 pm

    Still, one has to marvel at la althouse’s ability to always, always, come up with a new take on crazy.

    Not ‘crazy’ per se, but neurotic. Althouse’s blogging career (don’t know anything about her non-intertoobz credentials) charts a pretty skillful course of Higher Victimology, aka WATBism as an artform. When her old reliable ‘teh Clintons r sexists’ spiel started to draw more mockery than earnest attention, she switched to ‘Hilary haterz is durty pr0nbois’. When the "true" PUMA ran lockstep over the cliff into sheer ratfvcking irrelevancy, she switched to finding ‘racist undertones’ in kiddy pajamas and failing to call Gov. Jindal ‘black’. The professional Rethuglican mouthpieces would do well to study Althouse’s seemingly effortless blame-shifting performances, because she’s the political-blogger equivalent of a figure skater whose airy ‘ice ballet’ conceals a genius level of hard work & practice.

  49. 49.

    Wile E. Quixote

    February 25, 2009 at 10:08 pm

    @John Cole.

    John Cole
    WIle E. – I edited your comment because of the vulgar and sexist nature of it. This is not the first time I have had to do it. Knock it off. You can comment, but there are lines.

    Sorry, it was probably caused by the psychic trauma I suffered one night at this Chinese restaurant. Not only was the food terrible, but this lesbian with no teeth started fighting with a very large woman, who ended up getting her bra and shirt ripped off. That was bad enough, but then the lounge act started, which was apparently some sort of performance art piece about squirrels, railroad electrification and shale oil. I’m not sure if it was the lounge act, or the excessive quantities of MSG in the food that caused me to have a seizure and black out. All I know is that when I came to I was up in a clock tower on a hot afternoon holding a rifle and I could hear screams and sirens in the distance.

  50. 50.

    gnomedad

    February 25, 2009 at 10:38 pm

    All this after Rush called Obama "the affirmative action candidate". Republicans trying to play the race card = comedy gold.

  51. 51.

    Phoebe

    February 25, 2009 at 11:18 pm

    When I read that Althouse thing, the first thing I thought of was, "no, you’re racist, for shoehorning his race into a conversation that has nothing at all to do with it, and also implying that his race might be what is making us think he is a creepy moron."

    If I said "John Yoo’s legal theories justifying torture are pure garbage" and then, some white woman said to me, "Are you sure you’re not racist?" How is that not a dis to all Asians?

  52. 52.

    Bret

    February 25, 2009 at 11:27 pm

    I knew the delivery of Jindal’s speech reminded me of another. Must be something in that Louisiana water. (Heck, I lived there and trust me – do really didn’t want to know what was in the water!)

  53. 53.

    Cain

    February 26, 2009 at 12:03 am

    I always thought people thought indians were some kind of super smart folks or something. Certainly I got that impression even though I’m dumb as an ox, people seem to think I’m smart. I knew it was because of my race.

    Fucking racism.

    cain

  54. 54.

    Mike in NC

    February 26, 2009 at 12:04 am

    @Wile E. Quixote

    All I know is that when I came to I was up in a clock tower on a hot afternoon holding a rifle and I could hear screams and sirens in the distance.

    Holy shit, that was a hilarious comeback.

  55. 55.

    Mike in NC

    February 26, 2009 at 12:12 am

    @ Bret

    I knew the delivery of Jindal’s speech reminded me of another. Must be something in that Louisiana water. (Heck, I lived there and trust me – do really didn’t want to know what was in the water!)

    We spent a week in New Orleans about ten years ago and it was a frickin’ nightmare. What a hellhole. Not to say we don’t despise Dubya and his asshat crony Brown who was running FEMA at the time of Katrina. I worked at FEMA a couple of years ago and it’s still a clusterfuck.

  56. 56.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    February 26, 2009 at 12:16 am

    @Cain: You’ve always seemed pretty dumb to me, Cain. Hope that makes you feel better.

  57. 57.

    Cain

    February 26, 2009 at 12:23 am

    @DougJ:

    My Indian friends don’t like Bobby Jindal. Then again, like the vast majority of non-white people, they are Democrats.

    I don’t either. Traitorous asshole, turned his back on the only true religion on this planet and went for some crappy ass pagan religion.

    cain

  58. 58.

    Cain

    February 26, 2009 at 12:30 am

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    @Cain: You’ve always seemed pretty dumb to me, Cain. Hope that makes you feel better.

    It does. I thank you. It’s about time someone recognized my potential.

    cain

  59. 59.

    Cain

    February 26, 2009 at 12:36 am

    @YellowJournalism:

    Basically, Jindal goes by Bobby probably because that’s who he knows himself to be. To go by Piyush would probably be a bigger headache than most people realize. And

    Shit, piyush is easy. They might call it "PIE-yoosh" or something. Try having a name like "Sriram". I love the deer in the headlights look when people read my name. I’ve shortened it down to "sri". People inserts all kinds of consonants into that word. K sounds, z sounds.. It’s like they just give up and it’s open season with whatever their mouth can generate in terms of sound.

    Best nickname I ever had was ‘Bill’. See, that’s easy. You can’t go wrong with "Bill". Fuckhead would like the one though, the nickname "Reekum Sawyer of the 5th Dimension" I was a bit of a space cadet in high school… :-)

    cain

  60. 60.

    AnneLaurie

    February 26, 2009 at 1:33 am

    I love the deer in the headlights look when people read my name. I’ve shortened it down to "sri". People inserts all kinds of consonants into that word. K sounds, z sounds.. It’s like they just give up and it’s open season with whatever their mouth can generate in terms of sound.

    Heck, Cain, if it’s any consolation, most people can’t pronounce simple ‘Murkin names right, either. Experience leads me to expect approximately 60% of those seeing/hearing me introduce myself for the first time to call me "Annie", another 10% to use "Ann-Marie", and a few to go with "Laurie-Ann". My last name has 2 syllables and 5 letters, and it’s widely used as both a first and last name, but a significant number of otherwise literate Americans *still* can’t figure out how to pronounce or spell it.

    Which didn’t keep me from re-naming our wild-boy rescue dog Zevon, after the songwriter. People just cannot hear those syllables, for some reason. They ask, "What’s your dog’s name?" and I say "Zee-vahn". They say, "Huh?" and I repeat "Zevon, ZEE-VAHN" a little louder. They think about it for a minute and come back with, "Dehvin?"

  61. 61.

    Mike Toreno

    February 26, 2009 at 1:36 am

    If there are stereotypes about how Indians are supposed to move, wouldn’t they come out of Bollywood, and wouldn’t those relate to the fact that there are so many dance numbers in Bollywood pictures, so that Indians would be expected to be confident and assured in their movements? That ain’t Jindal.

  62. 62.

    Cain

    February 26, 2009 at 2:04 am

    @Mike Toreno:

    If there are stereotypes about how Indians are supposed to move, wouldn’t they come out of Bollywood, and wouldn’t those relate to the fact that there are so many dance numbers in Bollywood pictures, so that Indians would be expected to be confident and assured in their movements? That ain’t Jindal.

    From the number of times I keep bumping into things, it ain’t me either. I do break out into song though. :-)

    cain

  63. 63.

    Cain

    February 26, 2009 at 2:06 am

    Which didn’t keep me from re-naming our wild-boy rescue dog Zevon, after the songwriter. People just cannot hear those syllables, for some reason. They ask, "What’s your dog’s name?" and I say "Zee-vahn". They say, "Huh?" and I repeat "Zevon, ZEE-VAHN" a little louder. They think about it for a minute and come back with, "Dehvin?"

    Jeez, that’s really crazy. Seriously. You’re name sounds fairly easy to understand as well as Zevon.

    cain

  64. 64.

    bob h

    February 26, 2009 at 8:13 am

    My physical reaction to Jindal has nothing to do with his color, but rather with a scruffy, unkempt quality that he has about him. He looks like he would fit in somewhere in "Slumdog Millionaire". He does not have the handsome, wholesome look of Obama.

  65. 65.

    gil mann

    February 26, 2009 at 10:00 am

    My physical reaction to Jindal has nothing to do with his color, but rather with a scruffy, unkempt quality that he has about him

    Jesus, compared to what, Jude Law as the gigolo-bot in A.I.?

    I do think it’s pretty obnoxious the way some libs are making fun of the name change. You can’t possibly look at this guy without having some sympathy for his younger self—he would’ve had to put up with a lot of bullshit as a kid no matter where he grew up, and he grew up in the south. Plus, who wants a name that doubles as onomatopaiea* anyway? No offense, Israelis.

    And the outsourcing jokes are too hacky to be offensive. It’s like a Malkin ping-pong ball reference, a way to concede the argument right at the outset via spectacular lameness.

  66. 66.

    gil mann

    February 26, 2009 at 10:03 am

    *holy shit, I actually spelled it right

  67. 67.

    Emma Anne

    February 26, 2009 at 10:06 am

    @John Cole:

    May I just say that I like that one of the few lines you have for commenters is vulgar sexism? You are a mensch.

  68. 68.

    YellowJournalism

    February 26, 2009 at 10:15 am

    From the number of times I keep bumping into things, it ain’t me either. I do break out into song though. :-)

    Yes, but do you hide behind trees or swing your lover around the desert while doing so?

    My physical reaction to Jindal has nothing to do with his color, but rather with a scruffy, unkempt quality that he has about him

    Jesus, compared to what, Jude Law as the gigolo-bot in A.I.?

    I think it was something along the lines of wanting to brush his bangs away from his forehead and straighten his tie a little bit.

  69. 69.

    SFAW

    February 26, 2009 at 1:05 pm

    onomatopaiea
    .
    .
    holy shit, I actually spelled it right

    It’s onomatopoiea

    Another one like that, and we’ll make you intern for Jonah, so straighten up and fly right!

  70. 70.

    Mr Furious

    February 26, 2009 at 1:12 pm

    Ann Althouse never met a pair of pajamas or a carton of orange juice that didn’t have devious psychological implications.

  71. 71.

    SFAW

    February 26, 2009 at 2:55 pm

    Re: Althouse and pajamas:

    "The President is a N-***clang!!!***"
    "What did he say?"
    "I think he said he said the President is near"

  72. 72.

    gil mann

    February 26, 2009 at 8:32 pm

    SFAW, that’s funny, because I typed it into Google to spellcheck, but the extra "o" must’ve snuck in somehow, since I didn’t get a "did you mean…?" So I did get it right, but only via typo.

    That fucker’s my nemesis. Right up there with "phoenetically" in the realm of words that, by virtue of their meaning, have no damn business being so hard to spell.

    I’m sorry, is the interning-for-Goldberg thing supposed to be some kind of threat? It might be if I were ambitious or some shit, but nah, I think I can handle connecting bad things to other, unrelated bad things. That job would be like the path of least resistance slathered with laxative.

  73. 73.

    SFAW

    February 26, 2009 at 10:55 pm

    gil –

    Everybody’s got an excuse these days. I guess I should be glad you didn’t write "The dog ate my spell check".

    As far as the Jonah thing goes: rather than a threat, think of it as a cost-saving measure. It’s like having a PFL, but without the expensive (or even the cheap) surgery. Be the first one on your block!

Comments are closed.

Primary Sidebar

On The Road - Winter Wren - North of Quebec City (part 2 of 3) - Cap Tourmente and on the way to Tadoussac 4
Image by Winter Wren (5/16/25)

Recent Comments

  • prostratedragon on Open Thread: Oh, Really? (May 17, 2025 @ 5:22am)
  • prostratedragon on Totally Out of the Loop Open Thread (May 17, 2025 @ 4:54am)
  • Baud on Open Thread: Oh, Really? (May 17, 2025 @ 4:51am)
  • montanareddog on Open Thread: Oh, Really? (May 17, 2025 @ 4:45am)
  • oklahomo on Open Thread: Oh, Really? (May 17, 2025 @ 4:07am)

PA Supreme Court At Risk

Donate

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year
View by Past Author

Featuring

Medium Cool
Artists in Our Midst
Authors in Our Midst
War in Ukraine
Donate to Razom for Ukraine

🎈Keep Balloon Juice Ad Free

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal

Meetups

Upcoming Ohio Meetup May 17
5/11 Post about the May 17 Ohio Meetup

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Submit Photos to On the Road
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Links)
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Posts)
Fix Nyms with Apostrophes

Hands Off! – Denver, San Diego & Austin

Social Media

Balloon Juice
WaterGirl
TaMara
John Cole
DougJ (aka NYT Pitchbot)
Betty Cracker
Tom Levenson
David Anderson
Major Major Major Major
DougJ NYT Pitchbot
mistermix

Keeping Track

Legal Challenges (Lawfare)
Republicans Fleeing Town Halls (TPM)
21 Letters (to Borrow or Steal)
Search Donations from a Brand

PA Supreme Court At Risk

Donate

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2025 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!