Well, damn. I think I owe you an apology, dear readers. As you probably know, I’ve been so focused on the Ni-CLANG! Event Horizon — When is it coming! Who will be the first to call President Obama that word? What happens after someone says it? Will fire rain from the sky? Will we all turn into nothing? — that I didn’t see it coming: The Wetback Event Horizon.
I was taken by surprise. I wasn’t prepared. I wouldn’t even know how to prepare. “Wetback” is so old-school, it’s almost delightfully charming!
But here we are: Jay Nordlinger at National Review Online is bringing “wetback” back.
Scott S.
It is going to be so much fun to watch Nordlinger get kicked out.
El Cid
Ahem.
IOW, don’t admit that our death squad friends are gleefully slaughtering the innocent in the name of being insufficiently obedient to the right wing & Western investors (“Communist”), so don’t give them refugee status — just call them some other name so we death squad dictators can still get their fucking money.
General Stuck
LOL. Yer on fire ABL :-)
Joseph Nobles
There should be a way to monetize the NiCLANG Event Horizon, since we know it’s coming. Maybe there could be a subscription service for white people that want to get the CLANG off their Ni-CLANG.
And with all that slushy PAC money floating around, Republican candidates would be able to afford bulk discounts.
stratplayer
Just like Mitt, Nordlinger has forgotten The First Rule of Holes. Keep on digging, Jay!
AT
Im hoping anonymous are working on hacking the Romney bot as we speak, with the first ni-clang programmed for the first debate. Would denounce atheism and believe in something then
Sloegin
Shorter Tomorrow’s National Review:
We apologise again for the fault in the articles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.
Narcissus
That’s always the way it is. It just slips out accidentally. It’s the same way I sometimes accidentally say a curse word in front of my family. But then I don’t use racist slurs so I don’t have to worry about one of those slipping out on thanksgiving.
Mark S.
Nerdlinger’s “clarification” is almost as disgusting as what he originally wrote.
Ufotofu9
Now this is funny.
I tried to post a comment on the NRO page where this article appears, and when I quoted his wetback comments verbatim, I received a message saying: “Your comment cannot be posted since it contains objectionable language (wetbacks). Please reword your comment.”
That’s my new definition of irony.
TooManyJens
From Nordlinger’s “clarification”:
Oh, neither do I. We know about NRO readers by now.
Jamie
Seems like we are all postmodern now. I had no idea that being a racist asshole was OK because, well, I’m a writer. For goodnesss’ sake.
I’m just going to assume that talking about white Southernern men is equally non controversial.
FoxinSocks
You know how in horror movies, some guy gets infected by the alien virus/bit by a zombie/taken over by a parasite and everyone’s standing there, staring at him in horror, because they know he’s a dead man walking?
And the poor schmuck, usually bleeding out of his eyes or with his arm falling off, goes, “What’s wrong? I’m fine, guys, really.”
That’s Jay Nordlinger’s situation right there. All the NRO columnists are looking on in horror and he’s asking them what the big deal is.
GxB
@Joseph Nobles: I find your
ideasinvestment concept intriguing and would like tosubscribe to your newsletterobtain a prospectus.Kerry Reid
He really needed to show his progressive cred there and go with “illegals” instead — AMRITE, Glenn Greenwald? Oh sorry — that was before Glenn thought anyone was reading him, so casual xenophobic epithets weren’t a problem.
Debbie(Aussie)
I had no idea what or to whom this word refered, had to wiki it. What a totally sad & bad bunch repugs are . I suppose out in the open is better, if it might change thIngs. I fear for you guys and then for us, for we are
nothing, if not, slaves to the fashions that come out of the US.