well, here we are. horribly enough, this article exists. http://t.co/7Zr9bws4VG
— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) December 2, 2014
… as committed at Tucker Carlson’s Vanity Project:
… The WaPo reporter appears to be part black and feels most comfortable with people who have dark skin. His mother and grandmother, however, are white. A brief perusal of his mother’s Facebook page shows that Wesley looks nothing like his caucasian mother and more closely resembles his dark-skinned father…
Also, if you believe Charles C. “No, the other Charles” Johnson, Lowrey was once ticketed for speeding and the officer guessed his race as “White, Caucasian, Asiatic Indian, and Arab.” Who are ya gonna believe, a DFH reporter or an anonymous LEO?
Villago Delenda Est
The continued existence of Fucker Carlson is a blight on the universe.
Baud
I wonder if Wesley Lowrey is even his real name.
He’s probably a chick too.
John Cole +0
Wow.
Suzanne
@Villago Delenda Est: Have I told you lately that I love you?
Sometimes I feel like I need a cigarette after reading your comments. In a good way.
Villago Delenda Est
@Suzanne: I envy Mr. Suzanne.
p.a.
It’s so obvious Tucker Carlson is a liberal plant to discredit conservatism. No one is that stupid without trying to be.
The Bobs
Want to get even madder Cole?
http://m.deseretnews.com/article/865616697/Darrien-Hunts-mother-charged-in-confrontation-with-police.html?pg=all&ref=http%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FkEIu2eu4MI%3Fref%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FkEIu2eu4MI
Brian R.
I thought Tucker Carlson was at the bottom of the barrel, but holy shit, he actually found a way to tunnel through the floor.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Charles C. Johnson looks like he could be Pudge Carlson’s not/smarter younger brother. Luke Russert could be the missing link between them. I wonder if CCJ is also a dopey trust fund baby who thinks he made on merit.
I wonder who, if anyone, actually reads the Daily Caller. Having been fired by every cable network at least once, Tucker is now a B-list substitute for the Fox Morning Zoo Croo, no? Can’t imagine he has a lot of appeal for Scoot-a-round Wheezers who think that Hasselbeck girl is just a peach! I would think his smug, aging prepster persona would remind them of the boss’s kid they hated when they had to clean up after him all through his summer job.
Starfish
@John Cole +0: You mentioned gamer gate the other day, and one of the gamer gators made a list of social justice warriors to block. AngryBlackLady and I made the list!
Starfish
Zandar made the list too.
srv
You know, if that Henry Louis Gates Jr. show did Tucker’s DNA, he’d probably find something non-white.
So it’s perfectly OK for Tucker to ask questions like this.
Mike E
@srv: Well, we’re all African, technically. Too.
rikyrah
GOP readies Obama immigration response: No shutdown, but a nod to conservatives
Late Tuesday, Rep. Paul C. Broun (R-Ga.) called for Boehner to not invite Obama to deliver the State of the Union address next year. Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.) suggested that the budgets for White House operations, including for Air Force One, should be decreased. Other conservatives have mentioned censuring the president, impeaching him or suing the administration over its immigration actions.
“I’d rather defund Air Force One,” Huelskamp said. “Congress took a 19 percent cut on its budgets — we should do the same for the White House.” On the State of the Union, he added: “In the spirit of George Washington, he could send it to us in writing. It’d save some time.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-readies-obama-immigration-response-no-shutdown-but-a-nod-to-conservatives/2014/12/02/46e7c2ee-7a5b-11e4-b821-503cc7efed9e_story.html
lamh36
Open thread eh…well I just wanted to say, Damn you Hallmark. They finally got me watching Christmas movies. I’ve watched this damn “Nine Lives of Christmas” with Superman dude and Wonder Woman looking girl, like 3X already! And everytime I watch it, I sincerely think about getting a cat! But, ugh…i don’t wanna end up as some lonely cat lady.
I know, I know, sacrilege here at BJ, but still ….I don’t wanna be that old lady, who been single all her life who dies and no one notices for days and when they do, she’s been eaten by her cats…
rikyrah
you know..
some folks need to quit
srv
@lamh36: Now that would be a Hallmark movie I’d watch.
Anne Laurie
@srv:
Fix’d.
RaflW
I refuse to go look at Carlson’s absurd web site.
But I sit here and I think: What. The. F*ck. Difference. Does. It. Make? Tell us, Tucker, will Lowery be a different reporter if he’s one or the other?
Or, oh, he’s multiracial and, g*d knows, that’s hard for linear thinker/mouthbreather idiots like Carlson to grasp.
I just can’t stand this shit one bit. Gaaaaah.
FlipYrWhig
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
A lot of Spaulding Smails in Tucker Carlson…
lamh36
@srv: ha. ya know I’d watch it too, but it wouldn’t be a Hallmark movie unless there was a cute kid, an adorable pet of some kind, and a couple falling in love in 3 days after a “meet cute” involving some sort of mistaken identify.
So with my luck, it’ll be set at my funeral, and these 2 young people meet at my wake when I decreed in my will that my cats go to them or something. Either way, I’m dead and eaten by cats!
lamh36
@efgoldman: exactly right.
CrustyDem
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
This gives Chuckie the Red far too much credit. He’s the moral and intellectual equivalent of the rancid debris left behind when a sick dog rubs his butt on a shag carpet. Combined with his shockingly oversized ego, he’s a perfect poster boy for today’s right-wing journalism.
Hal
If this is true, how on earth did she have a child with a black man? People from different races can’t have children, right? Like Vulcans and Klingons.
SiubhanDuinne
@rikyrah:
What’s so stupid about this (well, of course, besides the palpable STUPID) is that Paul C. Broun will not even be a member of the United States Congress after January 3, 2015. But I guess anything for one last Christmas-cheery peace-and-goodwilly “fuck you, Near,” right?
Violet
Wow. Tucker Carlson is a terrible person.
Violet
@rikyrah:
This is hilarious. They think it’s like taking away the President’s allowance because he misbehaved. What a bunch of complete idiots.
Amir Khalid
I’m five foot nine, like Wesley Lowrey. I wish I were (ETA: only) 145lbs too. Sigh.
So, is the Daily Caller doubting Lowery’s blackness or Lowery’s whiteness? For the life of me, I don’t see how Lowery is trying to pass off as anything but what he is: the son of a woman and a man.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Who has has-beeniers? The holiday rotation romances or Scifi channel’s comic-book-guys-get-stoned-and-think-of-a-horror-movie series? “Night of the Wombaroo: The Killer Hybrid from Down Under”, starring Erin Moran, Ron Pallilo (Yeah, I know, they’d probably be playing the grandparents at this point, but I can’t think of any more recent has-beens)
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Hal: Ahem: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright_%28Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation%29
Amir Khalid
@Hal:
Or Vulcans and Earthlings, which of course means that Spock is lying about his ancestry.
Doug r
When we asked white people to start a dialogue about race I guess this is the kind of crap we should expect.
KG
@rikyrah: actually, someone should point out that Washington gave his SOTU’s in person. It was Jefferson who started with written reports, and we haven’t regularly done that since 1913.
Also, completely unrelated, but was watching the midseason finale of Sleepy Hollow last night. Best line of the night, after riding on the back of a motorcycle, Icabod says, “I WANT one of these when we are done with this mission”. This show has become a guilty pleasure
scav
I suppose all of this matters if one sits at the right table during second lunch at middle school. . . Do they fold all these oeuvres up into little footballs and flick them across the newsroom while giggling?
Mike in NC
Wingnuts are absolutely obsessed with the melanin thing, aren’t they?
lamh36
Historic first again…Obama first President to sit for 3D portrait.
NotMax
In a better world, using the words “Tucker Carlson” in any post would constitute a class B felony.
Boots Day
What makes this so special is that the State of the Union is actually listed in the constitution as one of the president’s duties.
You know, that same constitution that the GOP is always vowing to uphold. The one they say Obama is always violating.
Mike in NC
@KG: Indeed one of the few guilty pleasures on the otherwise dismal TV lineup. Great cast and good writing despite the pretty silly story lines.
Filmed in Wilmington, NC but it will probably have to move due to the asshole GOP legislature which decided to drastically cut funding for film incentives in this increasingly backward state. Kickbacks would have made a difference, I’d guess.
lamh36
I mean are all of Ferguson’s elected officials…ugh…
– Ferguson mayor: Holder made up mind about Ferguson PD before trip to St. Louis — -VIDEO–
http://www.kmov.com/special-coverage-001/Ferguson-mayor-Holder-made-up-mind-about-Ferguson-PD-before-trip-to-St-Louis-284537791.html
jl
IMHO, that short article was a true masterpiece, a masterpiece of the highest order, of obnoxious silly and malicious, and incoherent, drivel. Also, pointless, except to die hard bigots who, I dunno, think it is a good use of their time to wonder and worry if a ‘dark skinned’ or swarthy person of any race might have a ‘shadow in their past’ or is maybe not really truly ‘white’ because A-rab or Sikh or some such.
Glad Tucker and his crew know enough to play to their strengths in journamalism.
I’ll eagerly await their phrenological analysis of prominent reporters head’s for more insight into… something… whatever it is…
rikyrah
@KG:
I love Sleepy Hollow.
I hate Katrina and think she is an utter failure, but I love Sleepy Hollow. The only use she will ever have is when she betrays Ichabod and he walks in on her and Headless doing the dirty deed, so that Ichabod can wash his hands of her.
Medusa vs. Headless last week was an instant classic.
jl
The nitwit who posted a KKK ‘I’m dreaming of a white Christmas’ pic might find the article very relevant (to something, not sure what it could be) and interesting.
Texas School Board Member Sorry For KKK ‘White Christmas’ Facebook Post
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/hooks-school-board-kkk-christmas-facebook
At least the Texas schoolboard nitwit is willing to say that he is sorry. Tucker and his crew are sorry also, regardless of whether they will issue a statement, but probably ‘sorry’ in a different sense of the word.
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh36:
That whole video explanation is fascinating. What an incredibly cool technology!
RobertDSC (Quad Intel Mac)
I’m a very recent convert to the music of Johnny Cash and I have but one set of songs: The Very Best Of Johnny Cash: Man In Black. And I can’t stop listening to it. I don’t know why.
Redshift
@Violet: It fits with the rest of their view of government – they think government services are giveaways Democrats use to “bribe” people to vote for them.
rikyrah
@RobertDSC (Quad Intel Mac):
because he was the real deal. his voice just grabs you.
Felonius Monk
I always thought that Tucker Carlson was a George Will bowel movement gone awry.
wasabi gasp
Wesley should steal Tucker’s bicycle.
lamh36
@rikyrah: @KG:
my coworkers and I were talking about Sleepy Hollow this morning.
the consensus is, nobody likes Katrina. the shows ratings have been going down and a lot of people are attributing it to having too much focus on the Crane family dynamic and way too much Katrina on screen time. also too, we see less of the central foursome that made last season so great.
Abby is no ones side kick and yet this season so far they’ve been seemingly making her too much of a side note in place of the crappy acting and storyline involving Katrina. also too there is like NO chemistry between Ichabod and Katrina.
maybe they’ve changed writers, but they need to tighten up some of the issues with the whole Katrina bits
NotMax
@lamh36
FOX preparing flashing red graphic “Obama Busted at White House!” as we speak.
KG
@rikyrah: the character is clumsily written, and has been a bit too much of deux de machina for my liking, I get the logic behind her story arch
beltane
@jl: I sometimes visit the 23andMe forums where there always seems to be someone posting things like “My grandma is part-Cherokee because she has brown eyes” or attributing dark hair to a possible Jewish ancestor living in the 1600s. There’s a whole lot of stupid people out there who assume that any white person who is not blonde-haired and blue eyes is like a can of white paint that’s been tainted with black pigment.
PhilbertDesanex
@SiubhanDuinne: Hell if they are going to be this way about the state of the union, feed the address to a goose and send it airmail!
MomSense
@lamh36:
Ha!!
SiubhanDuinne
In more news of bigots in Georgia (but I repeat myself), the city of Kennesaw — why yes, that is the “gun in every household” town — has voted down a two-year lease for a strip mall mosque. So fucking petty.
http://www.mdjonline.com/view/full_story/26177671/article-Kennesaw-City-Council-denies-mosque-in-shopping-center
(Sorry for the uglynk; I’m having embedding problems.)
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: Maybe this will help.
max
@NotMax: FOX preparing flashing red graphic “Obama Busted at White House!” as we speak.
Dig this. Kathleen Parker:
That’s right, Rev. Al killed Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, with the microphone!
Sean Hannity (& etc), as a good journalist, just innocently pointed that out.
max
[‘These 80’s flashbacks are getting really intense. I would like them to stop now.’]
Omnes Omnibus
@max: Sometimes one wonders – Is Parker really that dumb? And always the answer is yes.
beltane
@max: Oh, I get it, Al Sharpton has an agenda, unlike…Kathleen Parker.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Ever watch Little Mosque on the Prairie, a Canadian TV show which ran for 6 seasons?
Above average sitcom with some quite good acting. Not at all an unpleasant way to harmlessly pass a half hour now and again.
lamh36
So um yeah…I’m going to see Dave Chappelle at the Saenger theatre in NOLA on Dec 11!
Whut!!!!!!
Now let’s hope he don’t cancel. I got “event insurance” just in case. I bought two tickets and if I can’t get another family member to go with me then the I can get it refunded through “event insurance” or take the hit, the tickets were actually pretty good prices, so I won’t be hurting.
He had on show for 7pm that was sold out already, so they added a 10pm show. I’m just gonna have to schedule a late day at work on that day! Let’s hope he doesn’t cancel that show.
It’s shaping up to be a good December. My sister also got me tickets to the Dirty Dancing broadway show touring company!!!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
To be fair, Kathleen Parker was absolutely scathing on Hannity’s coverage of the “border crisis” last summer, like when he rode around on the Rio Grande in a gun boat with Rick Perry. I didn’t read that column, I’m not even sure it exists, but I’m sure it’s out there, somewhere, because KP is one of your thoughtful conservatives. No cheap demagoguery from her.
(Not saying that situation wasn’t crisis, just not the one in Sean’s paranoid, “Mommy, there’s a monster in my closet!” fever dreams. Scroll down to see Sean with his cap turned backwards, to show he’s a dude, bro.)
lamh36
If you gots the twitter machine, Lisa Bloom is calling out Joe Scar for his punk ass rant about Mike Brown on MOnday.
Of course Joe won’t have Lisa on his show, cause he like his women like his co-host, mainly quiet and simpering like Mika. You challenge him and/or make him look silly on his show and you will never been seen with him again.
Anyone else notice Scarborough NEVER works with Maddow anymore? Even when there is election coverage, if Tweety is doing a special Hardball, then Killer Joe will be on it, but Maddow anchoring and Joe is a no-show!
I said on twitter thatn Killer Joe is MSNBC’s version of KKKlanity and he surrounds himself with MSNBC versions of Alan Colmes.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
I’ve seen the first two or three seasons of LMOTP. When it was in first run, I tried hard to bring the show’s creator, Zarqa Nawaz, to Atlanta — we had thoughts of doing an academic-cultural event that would have included several prominent Canadian Muslim women as panelists. Alas, the project eventually came to naught, but I did enjoy the series. One of these days I’ll get hold of the seasons I missed and treat myself to a nice long filmic Saskatchewanathon (naturally, Corner Gas is in there too!)
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: love it. BTW, I re-tweeted a tweet a few days ago from the Time’s twiter account where they complimented the song and video. So they obvious heard the influence too.
opiejeanne
@Baud: I didn’t get the memo. Why do we care what color this guy is
SatanicPanic
@max: can we get a moratorium on old white people lecturing everyone? I know they love the sound of their voice, but can they just shut the fuck up for a while. Like, 40 years or so?
opiejeanne
@lamh36: That was pretty cool.
I laughed at his, “what do I do with my face???” moment when he first sat down in the chair and faced the cameras.
MJ
@srv: Er, the Black delegation would strongly reject any efforts to reassign Tucker Carlson to our team in any new rounds of the 2014 racial draft.
*Gratuitous (Dave) Chappelle Show reference
Petorado
So in the new post-racial America, media outlets are checking into other media-types backgrounds looking to see who might be an octoroon. Will we ever leave the 1860’s?
jl
I was reading a review article by a famous population geneticist, Cavalli-Sforza, on the genetic history of the human races. The articles is almost ten years old, so not sure how many conclusions have held up over time. (edit: this was a few months ago, so not sure I can find the reference now).
Anyway, after making the point, several times, that if you run human genetic data through standard algorithms for detecting subspecies and races (as like, for animals) humans invariably come out ONE subspecies, ONE ‘variety’, ONE race.. Unlike bugs and deer, and buffalo and skunks, and such like.
Then Cavalli-Sforza made the point that, by other measures, there is much less genetic diversity among different races of humans than other animals that we consider one or several very closely related species. I find that hard to believe, since different kinds of people look a lot different to me than, say, different kinds of goats. But I will venture to guess that Cavalli-Sforza knows that science behind that statement a lot better than I do, so I will go along with him.
Then he discussed several hypotheses about the origins of what we humans deem to be different human races, and gave favorable judgments on the idea that the ‘white’ race may be the most truly mongrel of all, with evidence that the current whiteys are a mongrelized mixed of an ancient East Asian population mixed with more a recent group coming straight out of Africa. (edit: maybe with a tad of Neanderthal mixed in).
But of course it is more complicated than that, because the East Asians themselves may be mix of an archaic group with currently deemed ‘white’ characteristics that at one time way long ago headed straight into East Asia.
But, if people here want to make the heathens rage, they can trot out the ‘current so-called whites are the true mongrels’ hypothesis. See how that goes over.
Anyway, all this obsession with so-called races is total scientific nonsense. Tucker and Sullivan and other innumerate pundits can obsess over it all they want, it won’t change the truth.
jl
@Petorado: I think Jefferson once did some kind of BS pseudo-scientific analysis of how much you had to dilute the ‘shadow in the past’ to purge the blood…. and one came out as white as the driven snow. Should send that to Tucker and Sullivan, and tell them to not get too carried away with the octoroon-i-snooping into the colleagues (though calling the person Tucker’s bunch investigated a colleague of Tucker may be an insult, in which case I apologize.)
J
@Petorado: Indeed or perhaps the word we’re looking for is ‘Mischling’.
jl
Looking the pic of the investigated journalist again, he looks a little like Aasif Mandvi, IMHO. Any connection there would be interesting unlike Tuckers mish mash of nonsense. Where was THAT guy when Mandvi tried to make Gov. Scott pee in the cup? Enquiring minds want to know, dammit.
Mnemosyne
@beltane:
One of G’s cousins is biracial (dad was black, mom was white/Latina). His wife is white, and their first son is … blonde and blue-eyed.
I love genetics. It never comes out the way you expect.
KG
@Mnemosyne: back in the Jim Crow era, Latin families in Texas were sometimes in an interesting spot where one child would be considered “colored” while another would be “white”.
wasabi gasp
OMD – Genetic Engineering
Hal
@Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant): haha. Nice name. I’ve watched every episode of TNG and completely forgot about that one. Worf’s wife was half human but that was only possible with medical assistance. I guess romulans would be heartier stock than humans.
Alison
@Mnemosyne: I love that stuff too – I find it sort of fascinating how sometimes you have kids who look like mini versions of one of their parents, and sometimes they barely look related.
Or with siblings, too – I had a friend who looked so much like her brother that even though they were two years apart, people often thought they were twins. But my friend Gen has two boys who you’d never guess were brothers – one has her dark hair and eyes and a little of her Spanish/Chinese heritage in his features, and the younger one is a super white, blond haired blue-eyed tiny copy of his Dad.
sm*t cl*de
I swear, Americans spend more time agonising over the finer points of race classification and non-Whiteness than South Africans ever did.
Fred
But seriously, do ya think he’s, you know, like, black? I mean the guy could be…black and that would mean…um…well it’s like important, isn’t it?
SRW1
It never gets old.
Sherparick
@efgoldman: Darrien Hunt’s father was African American. He was apparently waiting for a ride with the replica sword when calls came in and the cops responded. What happen is ambiguous. ( However, I wonder, much like the Crawford case in Ohio, if a clearly white dude was hanging around with a replica sword, would anyone have noticed?)
Sherparick
Apparently Tucker and the Daily Caller have discovered the scandal of “miscegenation!!!” That apparently there are millions of mixed-race people!!. In fact, the President himself appears to have a white mother and white grandparents!!!! Gee, what a waste of oxygen Tucker and his crew of trolls are. He and Congressman Peter King are my nominees for “trolls” of the week.
Sherparick
@jl: Most of the right wing “public intellectuals” and scientists mal-practicing outside their area of specialty (see James Watson) really don’t know much about evolutionary biology and paleo-anthropology. The essential facts is sometimes between 200,000 to 120,000 years ago the brains of a group of archaic human beings in Africa reached a ability with language that outstripped the others. From this group we are all extended. During the consequent migrations, evolution continued to work (genetic drift, environmental conditions, sexual selection), so we get a wide a variety of humans, with human beings closes to the source of migration (Africa) having the greatest genetic diversity. http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/are-there-human-races/ and http://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2011/09/23/aboriginal-dna-sheds-light-on-early-humans-experts-respond/
(Reading comments and responses, it is always a good idea to remember that the data here is still very thin on this subject,with lots of arguments going back and forth, but African origin homo sapiens sapiens is pretty much a settled scientific fact and that the we are all descendants of very small group over the last 100,000 years, give or take 30,000. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck
lol
@Fred:
It means he has a conflict of interest anytime he writes about race.
Unlike white people who are known for their impartiality on these matters.
Sondra
Well here we go again. They will start talking about ” bounties” on the heads of reporters they don’t like. The wackos will start shooting and they will respond with “who me?”outrage…and then claim they are the real victims when the rest of us point out that they used their free speech to incite violence and that there are consequences for that.
Or there shoud be consquences, but there won’t be.
Kathleen
@MJ: I’m sure this thread is dead but I could not resist my gratitude for this reference. One of the most brilliant sketches ever.
Villago Delenda Est
@Mike in NC: The melanin thing rules their world.