I don’t know which scares me more, the true winger reaction or the possibility of a writer at Daily Dish musing about National Review’s thoughtful take on the issue:
Word has hit the net that the New US Civil Rights Commission has met, sans right wing cultural activists from the Bush Administration, and the reconstituted bipartisan Commission will not Print the Super Scary Black Panther investigation report.
General Stuck
it’s all part of Obama’s neo nazi/marxist plan to taint our bodily fluids with collectivism and replace hamburgers with fried chicken as our national fast food.
Kryptik
What this obviously means is that Obama threatened the true Americans on the panel with cement shoes to protect his racist Black Panther buddies, and we should be expecting the revolution soon.
Kryptik
@General Stuck:
Connotations aside, I’m down for that. Fried Chicken and biscuits over burgers and fries for me anyday.
Chyron HR
@General Stuck:
Fried chicken? His “gorilla” wife (ps you libs are the real racists) won’t like that.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
Word has hit the net that the editorial staff at National Review will give you a blow job is you don a Ronaldus Reaganus mask.
See? Right there. In writing and everything.
Pooh
LEAVE CONOR ALOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEE
Chris Wolf
The report is being delayed because the Commission wants it to include actual facts. It will be issued at a later date.
Mark S.
Really? I admit I haven’t been following this much, but shit, that’s pretty damn sleazy. I’m sure Broder has written extensively on this; I’ll just hunt through the WaPo archives and I’m sure a bunch of stuff will turn up.
DougJ®
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:
Is that really news?
Cat Lady
A writer at Daily Dish. Heh.
Can you let me know when wingtards don’t whine about something Obama does or doesn’t do? This has all gone way beyond stupid and old. kthx.
Zifnab25
Just thinking about the scary black panthers makes my liberties in danger! What ever shall we do?
Elia
This has been one of those days where I wonder why the fuck I read Andrew Sullivan, anyway.
Could this be more transparently about Andrew being pissed because he defended Obama as REALLY a moderate Republican and now McMegan and Bobo et al aren’t going to invite him to Aspen?
Roger Moore
@Mark S.:
If he did, I’m sure it’s to praise his centrism for appointing independents to the commission instead of just partisan Republicans and Democrats.
General Stuck
@Zifnab25:
Hop in the wingnut wayback machine to 1950, or 1850, depending on the prevailing winds of time.
Svensker
Whining? Won’t it be more like full on screeching clothes-rending and frothing?
JGabriel
DougJ(R):
I don’t think there will be much winger reaction. They’ll just ignore the story and move on, so as to downplay the revelation that the GOP was trying to stage-manage the whole thing from the start:
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Pooh
@Elia: this is, in many ways, worse – he basically heh indeeds Reynolds making the argument (apparently with a straight face) that since we’ve purposefully elected dolts to congress, we should encourage them to wield as broad an axe as possible.
Midnight Marauder
I am really, really going to enjoy the Republican/conservative freakout over this one.
Really.
dmsilev
@JGabriel: Look on the bright side. At least there weren’t any GOPpers dressed up as pimps.
That we know of, anyway.
dms
Elia
@Pooh: Ugh. I don’t even understand where he is on fiscal policy anymore. He spends his entire career cheer-leading Reagan, Thatcher and — during the worst of his spending initiatives — Bush II, then suddenly he’s always been an old fashioned Eisenhower Republican who wants across the board cuts and (he implies, by supporting Dodd-Frank, but without ever saying so explicitly) regulation of the financial sector? What?
JGabriel
@dmsilev: What I find particularly damning in that video is when the GOP lawyers start telling the guy to stop shooting.
Now, if you’re a GOP operative with a couple of scary black men on tape outside a voting center, why would you want to stop taping? After all, they might do something stupid and violent that you would want to capture on tape … Unless you’ve staged it yourself and you’re afraid that might get revealed.
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Villago Delenda Est
@Mark S.:
Dishonesty seems to be a required Republican trait nowadays.
I blame Nixon and Reagan for setting the example, decades ago.
The Commenter on BJ formerly known as arguingwithsignposts
Until Andrew “fuck you, you Tory fuckstick” Sullivan gathers his wits and allows comments, I will not give him any clicks. Fuck him and his little lord fontleroy Connor Friedersdorf. For all her wrongness, at least McMeghan allows comments. Sully is a privileged ass, as are – apparently – his minions.
ETA: This was all I needed to say about Sully. It stands.
Elia
All right last one because I know a lot of you hate talking about Sully:
It’s not so much that I’m bothered because I think he’s wrong about our current situation and what to do about it (though I do); it’s more that, for all the talk he’s had over the past 5 or so years about the modern conservative movement being perniciously opposed to reality, etc. etc. this entire crusade over slashing entitlements has NO connection to the fucking facts on the ground! It’s pure principle! What the fuck is the difference between his position and that of Paul Ryan other than the fact that Sully has the luxury of not running for reelection?
ETA: lol @ signposts basically writing the above…2 years ago. Shame on me, I guess.
Villago Delenda Est
@Elia:
The principle of course is that “proles need to starve so that I can properly enjoy my steak at Ruth’s.”
JGabriel
@Elia:
Sully says it with a plummy English accent, wheras Ryan looks and sounds like a wingnut Devo reject.
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Elia
@JGabriel: Yeah, I didn’t squeeze it in there, but I also think there’s a strong class bias going on w/r/t his revulsion at the right wing from about 2004-on. The enduring fact about the dude is that it’s always really just about Andrew Sullivan. First, the right-wing made him look bad by becoming even more defined by Southern populism than it was before; now it’s Obama who is making him look like he doesn’t deserve his Serious Person badge.
Villago Delenda Est
If you look at Sullivan as a sort of Brit Orthogonian (hat tip Rick Perlstein), but understand that he came to America because it was IMPOSSIBLE for him to break into the Franklins, which he desperately wanted to do, for one reason, and one reason only.
And it wasn’t his homosexuality.
It’s his ethnicity, which simply won’t fly in Brit Franklin circles.
Nellcote
Not to worry, Commisar Issa will get to the bottom of the whole NBPP scandal.
Tja
It’s like that trial scene from Blackadder IV – you know:
“George: Oh, right, yes, uhhhh, oh…..Uh, gentlemen, you
have heard all the evidence presented here today,
but in the end it is up to the conscience of your
hearts to decide, and I firmly belive, that like
me, you will conclude that Captain Blackadder is in
fact, totally and utterly, GUILTY.
…..of nothing more than trying to do his duty
under difficult circumstances.”
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
*Some restrictions apply. History of the United States of America (TM) does not include the history of non-whites, non-Christians, non-straights, non-males and we’re working on non-property owners. Mentioning systematic voter intimidation/disenfranchisement practices directed against non-whites and other non-people will prove you are a racist/some other kind of nasty bigot.
Redshirt
Meanwhile, at stately Beck Manor….
CUE THE CHALKBOARDS!
Steve
If you check the fine print, it’s not that they’ve decided not to print the report, it’s that they’ve delayed printing the report until the Democratic dissenter can get reappointed to the commission and have his dissenting opinion published as well. So on that level this is non-news.
Roger Moore
@Steve:
When has “it’s not really news” ever blocked the Right Wing Noise Machine? Their whole function is to blow non-news out of proportion. SSDD.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
@Redshirt: Quick! To the bat-shit cave!
El Cid
Clearly Republican USCRC vice-chair, American Enterprise Institute adjunct scholar and former Manhattan “Institute” scholar Abigail Thernstrom voted to delay the report for 30 days until a Democratic member was re-appointed because she is merely a tool of ACORN.
If the report is issued in 30 days versus right now, it will allow time for, what? Is there something about the Ides of march in this?
By the way, I don’t suppose that anyone might be curious as to the view of the actual New Black Panther “Party” on this matter. Because, why would you?
That last bit? Yeah. This is the country which spent something like 6 weeks covering whether or not Barack Obama was blowing up buildings with the Weather Underground because he sat on a Chicago nonprofit board when Bill Ayers was nominated by the mayor of Chicago to that same Annenberg-funded education reform effort in 1995.
Oh, I forgot (when I Googled to look up the dates) that it was George Stephanopoulos who promoted this we-never-landed-on-the-moon lunacy on the national stage by asking about it in the debate he moderated, after which it became an issue pressed by the McCain campaign. And this was based on the bullshit hype by Christopher Hitchens’ more constantly right wing brother Peter in the Daily Mail.
There’s your jerkwad coward press hack excuse — ‘hey, it was out there, we need to bring it up’. Guess Obama was lucky that the UK right wing press hadn’t charged him with spreading HIV around Chicago because there were a number of cases in the area where he did his stint as a (Sarah Palin screech still audible to me) community organizer.
What a pathetic excuse we have for news media.
Thankfully for the NBPP, the attention brought by the right wing TeaTard attack on this astoundingly over-hyped issue about this one guy has brought them solidarity support from all sorts of well-known black nationalist leaders and groups (Farrakhan, African Peoples Soshullist Party, and other weirdo sorts).
Of course, neither the NBPP nor the TeaTard Revolutionary Front care whether the NBPP has anything to do with the Black Panthers, as the NBPP can simply use the name and expect almost none who might follow them to know about any differences, and for the white right it’s good enough to have a group which sounds like former black radicals.
Redshirt
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen: Lol! Punny.
But seriously, I say bring it: Let’s pit progress versus ignorance in the Holy “Free Market” of Ideas, and see who wins.
Odds are, ignorance, but at least let’s go down fighting.
GregB
You mean the rightwingers weren’t jumping to the defense of the New Black Panther’s Second Amendment rights?
El Cid
@GregB: I was going to suggest that the NBPP hold protests in support of 2nd Amendment Rights and make sure to open carry weapons with every one of them complying with any law on the matter.
That would be fun.