Growing up, I remember my parents never letting us have vegetables with our meat. They were children of wolves. pic.twitter.com/mIls9X8rQQ
— Hermione Manger (@OhNoSheTwitnt) December 7, 2015
Erick Erickson’s family was living in Dubai when he was of an age that his parents could veto his food choices. His pretense that they were simple Godly illiterates who didn’t understand that ‘Asia’ isn’t a country doesn’t reflect well on him or them — as if he cared whose reputation he defamed in his attempts to gin up a little more attention from the rubes.
Lol https://t.co/3J215ZUzk4 pic.twitter.com/1QqO0DhUnP
— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) December 9, 2015
Is there anything these RWNJs won’t lie about, no matter how small?
SFAW
No.
Hope this helps.
redshirt
As if facts matter. Or the truth.
All that matters is spin.
Percysowner
Nope and when called out they will throw their mother under the bus and hint that she’s senile to cover their behinds.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
Frankly, that’s one of those stories you tell your friends to make your parents look stupid (My mom thinks all Asian people are the same! She said we couldn’t have Chinese food on Pearl Harbor Day!) so I’m not surprised he’s embarrassed he got caught at it. Hopefully it will make for an awkward holiday at the Erickson house.
NotMax
Size queen query?
Or simply rhetorical?
:)
NotMax
As (seemingly) no front pager has thought to do so –
Happy Chanukah!
Latkes and gelt rock.
redshirt
The modern republican party is the greatest collection of post-modernists the world has ever seen. Nothing matters except what matters, based on the spin.
scav
Ah, the hoooolllllleeee baaybbeee jebus being used as a conversational deflector and shiny object. Quick! Wave the Jebus! The little bit she let slip that the words coming out of his mouth are so nonsensical that they must be made up by those nefarious and dire others was a giggle.
Petorado
For the folks on the right, it’s all about the narrative. And the narrative defines a person’s purity to the cause.
redshirt
Also too, growing up, I remember my father was Zeus and my mother was a swan.
Xenos
Does the twerp realize that he was living in Asia at the time?
I don’t even know where to start with some people.
Ruckus
How come Erick the stupid doesn’t mention about the time he stuck his tongue in a light socket?
Inquiring minds want to know.
east is east
He first put it out as–hey, I’m from an old fashioned family who are so patriotic we were always prohibited from eating “Asian” food on Pearl Harbor Day. Now that his mother has said, not so didn’t happen…Erick son of Erick responded that his mother has forgotten, she is 73 after all. But he has updated it. It did happen once 27 years ago (as opposed to the “never allowed”) and he and his siblings laughed about mom’s mistaking the Chinese for the Japanese. It only happened once though. But he tweeted in 2012 that his mother had reminded him not to eat that Asian food on Dec. 7. and now he has posted about his mother’s Crime Against Humanity to try to figure some bullshit way out to cover his lying ass. How about not trying to demagogue in the first place loser.
Mike in NC
My dad enlisted in the army a few months after the Pearl Harbor attack. He was sent to New Guinea and the Philippines with the 24th Infantry Division, where he ate so many pineapples and coconuts that he avoided them in later life. Shitbird Erickson is simply a dumbass moron.
Anne Laurie
@NotMax: As the Idiot Oppostion would say: You lie!
In retaliation:
NotMax
@redshirt
Ms Swan?
:)
NotMax
@Anne Laurie
And what’s a festive holiday without snappy music?
Latke Recipe
Chanukah Lights
Those Were the Nights (with Jewkulele, even. :) )
mdblanche
Erickson looks like he’s never boycotted a meal in his life.
RaflW
I’m not one who goes in for bible-bashing, but for a wide swath of the country that believes it to be the inerrant word of g-d, despite its many many contradictions, uses of parables to sort of point at things, etc, what does it matter if Ewick son of Ewick makes shit up? What he means is a deeper truth, y’know?
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@NotMax:
There’s always “Sevivon,” aka the other Dreidel song, which I’m probably spelling disastrously wrong. I blame Lin-Manuel — he brought it up on Twitter.
Ruckus
@RaflW:
Ewick’s problem isn’t that his meaning has (and it really doesn’t, as you pointed out) some sort of deeper truth, it’s that it’s buried under so much shit that even if you managed to dig it out and clean it up, the job is so disgusting that the big take away would be, why would anyone bother.
Bartolo Fink
I’m too afraid to click the link because I’ll be crushed if his mother’s name isn’t Ericka Ericksdottir.
mclaren
@redshirt:
When I was a kid, my Dad got so angry about his children’s power, and had been warned by Gaia, the mother earth, that one of his children would overthrow him, that he decided to eat them. He ate all but me because Rhea hid me as a baby and gave Dad a rock instead. Later, when I grew up, I fed Dad a mixture of mustard and wine and made him throw up his children. The reason they all survived in my Dad’s stomach was because they were gods and goddesses, so they were immortal.
And you think Erick Erickson had it bad as a kid!
different-church-lady
It’s not a lie if you
believeremember it.Nancy
I went to the link at Wikipedia to learn that Erickson’s parents wouldn’t let him eat Asian children on December 7. I hope no one edits that sentence; it was so pleasing.
J R in WV
@mclaren:
Nice fairy tale! Almost as weird as putting a baby in a basket and sending it down the Nile river, where baby is adopted by all-powerful king. Same class of myth…
Keith P.
I like EE’s response that “At least the reporter got witnessed”, since his mom went all “Have you accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your Persona Savior?” on him. It made me think of the “WITNESS ME!” scene from Fury Road. Although in the Erickson family, I like to imagine that they use silly string instead of silver spray paint.
Sherparick
@Keith P.: The whole story is hoot! First, he gets dimed out by his mother. Then he goes all conservative martyr to the MSM and actually doubles down on his (apparent?) stupidity. The rubes who are his audience may like it.
Tsukune
Can we just assume that Erick bin Erickson’s mom hates Erick? After all, she did inflict the name “Erick Erickson” on him.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
I recall dad complaining that mom slept in a bed full of snakes and she told me Zesus was my real father.
Ewik
When I was a kid my mom wouldn’t let me wear pants until I was 5 because she was a big fan of Porky Pig.
Cheap Jim, formerly Cheap Jim
@Tsukune: Well, it could have been a “Major Major Major” thing, where the father told the exhausted mother that, in accordance with her wishes, he had named the child Caleb.
g
The current Wikipedia article about Erick son of Erick has this nugget of info:
Erickson’s parents refused to let his family eat Asian children on December 7th, the anniversary of the Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Navy.
Hilarious!
Citizen_X
My dad had us all go out in the yard and festively kill Japanese beetles on December 7th. Oh, those fond Pearl Harbor Day memories!
maya
No Sauerbraten for you on May 7th, Lusitania Day, Erick.