Daily Kos Week in Review: Hammering the Hermanator
This was the week when Kossacks discovered Herman Cain in a big way...and by "discovered" I mean "singled out for venomous condescension." Another Kossack asserted that cable-news coverage of Weinergate was designed not to inform and enlighten, but rather to sexually arouse the numerous "zombie[s]" in the audience.
As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.
Daily Kos Week in Review will return on June 26. Happy Father's Day!
Seneca Doane: Cain is the Republicans' favorite racist'
...Cain can get away with saying more racist things than [Gingrich] can, because white (i.e., almost all) Republicans think that because he's Black, he can't be racist, even if he's trotting out every vicious anti-Black stereotype in the book to the delight of white onlookers...
Hunter: Cain's GOP is the party of dumb answers
...[Herman] Cain [is] in the long line of Republicans that think what this country really needs is ridiculous, preschool-level rules able to be implemented by rote or by stupid people...
I'm not sure if America is governed by dumb people or not...well, let me rephrase that. I'm momentarily going to set aside the question of whether America is governed by dumb people or not. But it seems that most Republican leaders and presidential candidates are convinced that, at the least, Americans want dumb answers to all their problems. The problem with our laws? Too long! The problem with history? Too damn complicated! The problem with government? It does a bunch of stuff I don't have time to understand – like volcano monitoring!...
Mark Sumner: Republicans look abroad for inspiration
What nation represents the Conservative Republican ideal? Is it China, where a single party can clamp down hard on personal freedom while ignoring those bothersome safety and environmental regulations whenever it suits them? Maybe it's Somalia, the host nation for all free market all the time...
DemFromCT: Mitt, T-Paw aren't angry enough to suit the Tea Party
...[T]he GOP seems so confused about its future and divided about its vision. Without gay bashing, and with a rising Latino electorate, what have they got? They've got Mitt Romney, and Tim Pawlenty if he falters.
And that, when all is said and done, is the main reason the field is so weak. Slice it and dice it any way you want, neither Romney nor Pawlenty is going to fire up the evangelicals with their candidacy or satisfy the tea party by ripping out Obama's beating, living heart on TV and selling it for a profit on eBay. Anything short of that is going to be a dis-satisfier...
Vyan: Palin's Paul Revere comments were coded for her fans
...Palin...is on a deliberate Disinformation Campaign to play to her Militia Minded "2nd Amendment Remedies" Base. What she said...wasn't just a flub, it was actually what she believes or more importantly what she probably correctly understand that her supporters believe.
...[She] is really saying "I'm One Of YOU!" - not one of them - the Filthy Gun Hating, America-Hating Left!...
These [Palin supporters] are truly living in an Alternate Reality from our own - one where fertilized eggs are people, lower taxes rates mystically creates greater tax revenue, jobs only happen by the magic of the market, Government jobs don't count, the President is an Illegal Alien Nazi Muslim...
MinistryOfTruth: The media are biased...against Democrats
...If a Democrat is accused of a scandal, the media will demand that they resign immediately and pursue the story to the ends of the earth. If a Republicans is accused of a scandal, the media will report it for a few days and then forget, because Fox News, AM Radio and the rest of the right wing noise machine will simply NOT REPORT IT...
...The media has one set of rules for Democrats and another set of rules for Republicans. Republicans are allowed to lie about WMD's, torture, Death Panels, the cause of the deficit, anything and everything, including their sex scandals until the moment they get busted, and then the media gets bored and moves on, but Democrats aren't allowed to lie about their sex scandals, and the Democrats who do get caught are never EVER allowed to forget about it...
Alex Malecki: Weinergate is merely titillating trivia
...[T]he job of the modern press corp is NOT to explain, elucidate or help Americans understand any major issue. It is the job of the modern press corp to titillate viewers with the supposedly abnormal, immoral, bizarre nonpolitical behavior of those in the public eye so that each and every television zombie sitting in their Lazy-Boy can lean back, have more of the cable t.v. wash over them and then from their near horizontal position place their hands into their pants for a nice round of spank the monkey while they realize just how much better a person they are than most everyone else. Cable news has replaced the confessional and the priest is spilling the beans to the entire congregation.
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jeeez. where do you start
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 2:41pm.
jeeez. where do you start with this dreck??? These guys live in a parrallel universe - whacky liberal land. I like the comment about China - didn't Boy O'Barry say it would be EASIER for him to be President of China??? And also the statement about 'dumb answers'..............I guess the fact that Cain speaks his mind in a very understandable way makes him 'dumb'............and also 'racist', since he IS a REAL American 'black' man..................which is something that Boy O'Blunder can never claim to be, try and lie as he might.
Calling all libs
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 2:54pm.
These folks cant possibly believe much of this, can they?
I live for the day a libtard can coherently state their philosophy of Governing, and Economics. Been trying for years, but none of em know why they believe anything.
Dems
Submitted by ozarkian on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 2:51pm.
Exactly. The left "argues" by stating an emotionally-based opinion, backed up by no evidence. For instance, if I was going to say the left prefers China, I would point out Anita Dunn's love for Mao, Thomas Friedman's comments, and Obama's own about the Chinese system. But when the left says conservatives prefer China, they just say it...and stop. Like that's all they need to say. I find myself trying to debate with leftists, but ending up saying "Evidence! Where's the evidence! Give me examples, don't just spout off!" Like the every-popular "Palin's as dumb as a box of rocks." Ask why, and you get the Tina Fey comment. Meanwhile, I can rattle off her Alaskan accomplishments with the pipeline, transparency and big oil to back up my position. Duh.
How in the world do people (they're young,) get to the point where they believe with no evidence? I've had people argue about how islam is fine and dandy when they've never even heard of taquiyyah (sp?). It's like: We don't need no stinking evidence!.
The Kos kommies are scared of the Hermanator
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 2:55pm.
That's a good thing.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
The kommies are scared
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 2:56pm.
Of their own shadows
Dave, I don't know much about
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 3:07pm.
Dave, I don't know much about Cain, but why on earth would he say this???
Please tell me I'm missing something.....
I'm all for the energy
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 3:22pm.
I'm all for the energy independance, which I think we are capable of. As far as Iran goes - what the hell DO you do about it?? We've been going around the mulberry bush for years with these guys, and nothing's changed. My son just came back from a year in the Persian Gulf - running a cutter - and he's got a few comments about it - none of them too encouraging. But the less we need from these guys, the less we have to deal with them.
As an aside - O'Reilly really irritates me with his constant sanctemonious interupting..............
mb,
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 4:07pm.
I'm still chewing on that one.
I tried to watch that interview, but BOR's ceaseless interruptions became intolerable.
Like most all presidential candidates, Herman Cain is no foreign policy expert, but I know he is smart enough to put people around him who are - unlike Obama.
As I see it, if we don't get our financial house here in America in order PDQ, whatever happens in other parts of the world isn't going to matter, because we will not be able to afford to do anything about it, anyway.
I don't mean to sound panicky and hyperbolic here, but now that the Chinese have essentially cut up our credit cards (which got almost no mention in the media), and unless something unconventional and rather drastic takes place concerning our out-of-control government spending, I think a total financial collapse is imminent, and I'm not sure the next election is going to come about in time to prevent it, regardless of the outcome.
Should that happen, our Carriers, their support ships, missile armed cruisers and destroyers, as well as our subs, are going to wind up rusting hulks tied to a dock, just like what happened to the Soviet Navy.
I'm not even sure Herman Cain will be able to turn things around, as a lot will depend on the makeup of the congress, but I do know that he won't be shy about whipping out the veto pen and saying not just no, but Hell, No!
A RINO like Romney won't do that.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
I thought it was a little pathetic
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 4:34pm.
How BOR insist Cain have a anti Iran nuke policy, but never seems to mention Obama's. Bill can go fly a kite
Like most all presidential
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 4:40pm.
Like most all presidential candidates, Herman Cain is no foreign policy expert, but I know he is smart enough to put people around him who are - unlike Obama.
i agree with you on that, Dave. That's why God created "advisors."
OTOH, once he has all the info, I would trust him to make a good decision, something I couldn't do on a bet with the current golfer-in-chief.
I also didnt like the way
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 7:00pm.
BOR instantly poo-pood the idea with-out letting Cain elaborate. And notice BOR, made no comparisons to other Iran nuke strategy, oh wait, we dont have one do we? Unless it's appeasement
I happen to like Cain's idea, lets break em. Better to have them depleted of wealth then continue to make them help them achieve it.
It sounded as if Cain thinks
Submitted by stratman on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 4:32pm.
It sounded as if Cain thinks the Iranians won't cut back on public delineated monies in order to continue funneling money into their nuke program. They will.
Iran was building a nuclear program when oil was far less than $70/barrel. Now they have the equipment, materials and the reactor (thanks Communists and Europe for your help) to enrich on their own. Even a precipitous drop in oil prices will not stop them. The only thing that will stop them is force, whether internal, external or both.
The early campaign trail is the time to expose and then shore up weaknesses in positions and policies. We will see if Cain can surmount his weakness while continuing to showcase his strengths. The upcoming New Hampshire debate will be another break point for the candidates.
That was my thinking, strat.
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 4:44pm.
That was my thinking, strat. The Soviet Union is a good example.
His Thinking is That They Can't Cut Back.
Submitted by Avitar on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 8:01pm.
But if they start selling their finished weapons to third parties they won't stop. That is all we need.
No Sale
Submitted by stratman on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 8:17pm.
Iran will GIVE a nuke to Israel's or America's enemies.
Ayatollah Kakamamee once said he would sacrifice all of Iran for the destruction of Israel if it were Allah's will. There is no reason to believe today's ruling Mullahs think differently. Consider the tyrannical treatment of their own people.
Enmass We Speak Code - No Wonder Liberals Fear.
Submitted by Avitar on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 8:47pm.
Is there something complicated about volcano monitoring? I am sorry but after twenty-six years of submarine engineering it does seem all straight forward to me but Hunter seems to think so which is puzzling. Hunter also seems innocent of the long historical debates that conservatives are so prone to engage in. While Liberals are discussing Spiderman vs. Batman, we do discuss if Strom Thurmond had won the 1948 election and installed his daughter Essie Mae Washington to serve as first Lady which liberals would have died of a heart attack first. The current pole position is Edward R Murrow because of his smoking. The liberals just want to forget that Strom Thurmond’s eldest daughter is black.
Are they so underestimating us that they have arrived at a Br'er Rabbit situation where they believe that throwing us in the briar patch would be to their advantage? Seem odd but then they have repeated that there is no way to drill our way out of the energy crisis that they might be ignorant enough to believe it.
They really might not know that the United States had the finest education system in the world for a hundred years before the first teachers union. They could be ignorant enough to think that we can’t make the economy average between 7% and 9% growth per year. We do have to remember that not one in a hundred of these people have read the “Five Thousand Year Leap” perhaps not even one in a thousand.
If this isn't right out of
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 3:06pm.
If this isn't right out of Bizarro World, nothing is.
...If a Democrat is accused of a scandal, the media will demand that they resign immediately and pursue the story to the ends of the earth. If a Republicans is accused of a scandal, the media will report it for a few days and then forget, because Fox News, AM Radio and the rest of the right wing noise machine will simply NOT REPORT IT...
MB
Submitted by Model850 on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 5:37pm.
I wonder if that comment actually did come from the MinistryOfTruth, boy-who-would-be-king's new office of internet "cleansing?"
Yeah, I know, the clever little Kossack chose that name deliberately as a poke at we conspiracy theorizing right wing-nuts. Suuuuurrrre, he did.
We're seeing how the Left
Submitted by Van Halen on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 3:13pm.
We're seeing how the Left works again:
Above all, Liberalism!
Above that, Barack Obama!
For Liberalism, they set out to destroy Reagan, Bachmann, Palin, Clarence Thomas, and now Herman Cain (as well as many, many other women and blacks).
When it came to a Liberal who stood in the way of Barack Obama, they set out to destroy Hillary Clinton.
Above all, Liberalism!
Above that, Barack Obama!
Wishful Thinking
Submitted by Bill Brasky on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 3:21pm.
It amuses me to see/read all of the liberal media claims that the Republican field is impossibly weak. They are blind to the fact that their boy Obama has been exposed as an overwhelmed, incompetent, immature, arrogant failure. Every single one of the current Republican candidates is more qualified than Obama. If most of the votes in this election are cast based on the facts of our current situation, Obama loses to ANY Republican. A billion dollars can only buy so many of the ignorant and stupid vote.
Daily Kos must be the world's largest group therapy...
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 4:43pm.
...for dissociative disorder (e.g. schizophrenia, psychosis) patients ever.
Only someone completely detached from reality would make the claim that a Republican's indiscretions are ignored by the main stream media.
Wow. Just....wow. I know a few hundred psychiatrists who specialize in severe dissociative disorders who would love to have the pre-built schizophrenia patient base called the Daily Kos blogger list.
free publicity for a guy who thinks TARP
Submitted by lrgon on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 10:06pm.
was a wonderful thing and that nationalizing auto companies is nothing to get all wound up about.
It is so easy for the mainstream media and the lame stream blogoshere lefties to rattle some people's cages.
college kids
Submitted by ozarkian on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 5:55pm.
Doncha love how these kids (you can tell they are by the way they think and write) set themselves up as the Grand Protectorate of the Darker-Skinned Races? Who elected them to be saviour of the non-white population of America? They really think they are above the rest of us mortals -- and especially above the non-white population they are so eager to step in front of and protect (as if they were children). Such arrogance. Kids, don't take yourself so seriously. And if you want a real cause, start working to help stop the islamization of America, honor killings, third-world slavery, etc..
Liberalism is a Mental Illness
Submitted by speedy on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 6:16pm.
I mean, they have actually found the gene (dopamine receptor gene DRD4), but it only expresses if they are popular in High School. Make of that what you will...
My experience is that most liberals, in their actions, contradict their stated values.
Proclaiming themselves as champions of post-racism, they play the race card constantly. No one could accuse them of being colorblind, or of evaluating a person's actions and values independently of their skin color.
Proclaiming themselves the most intelligent people in the world, these intelligentsia when in power institute laws and regulations that almost invariably have the opposite effect than what was intended. Anyone who doubts this should refer to liberal statements in favor of the 'stimulus', and then look at the results. The truth is, the universities and colleges are packed to the brim with liberals, who then give each other honorary degrees and lofty sounding prizes to back up their claims. They view anybody not living on the East or the West coast as ignorant hillbillies. That in itself should tell you how truly ignorant they are; science tells us that some of those hillbillies are very smart guys.
Proclaiming that they would run the most transparent government ever and "drain the cesspool", they have run the most opaque, repressive, and constitution-trampling government that has ever existed. "We have to pass the bill so you can see what is in it." Right. And we have been treated to pictures of recursive weiners.
Contrast the treatment of Chris Lee and Anthony "Hacked" Weiner. Where is the swamp, and how deep is it?
Proclaiming themselves post-partisan...please. The attack dogs have been let off their leash for several years now. It continues to this day, with images of throwing granny off the cliff, as they gleefully ensure that any serious attempt to fix medicare before that check just doesn't come is doomed to failure. That cliff is the coming collapse of the system, and it is the liberals who are throwing her over the cliff...well, not really, they are just sitting her on the slope, pulling the brake lever off, and turning their back.
Liberals do not care about the truth. They do not think about the issues. They just parrot the line from the DNC mothership without engaging their brain. "We are using the term extreme to describe the Rs, the DNC told us so..." how many times, even after that revealing phone call, did we hear the word "extreme?"
And, anyone who disagrees, gets attacked. Extensively and comprehensively, using their media meat puppets. They attack the person, instead of engaging in an intellectual discussion of the issues. Look at Breitbart, now he won that war. But that is the exception. They have, pretty much effectively, painted Sarah Palin, who is pretty damn smart in my opinion, as not meeting their intellectual standards. It is the Big Lie, not in Russia, but here.
So when I read a list of vicious bile like what is expressed in the article above, I just have to hope that someday, they will get past the denial and get treatment for their mental illness.
Hate to agree with a LIberal...
Submitted by speedy on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 6:32pm.
But the only thing I disagree with in this quote is the word "Nazi."
"fertilized eggs are people, lower taxes rates mystically creates greater tax revenue, jobs only happen by the magic of the market, Government jobs don't count, the President is an Illegal Alien Nazi Muslim...