Daily Kos Week in Review: Barking Up the Wrong Tree
The left often accuses the right of dog-whistle politics, but likening actual conservatives to actual dogs? Two Kossacks went there this past week. That plus the ongoing Herman Cain sexual-harassment tale and the new statue of Ronald Reagan at National Airport are among the grist for this edition of DKWIR.
As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.
chaunceydevega: Black conservatives = lapdogs
...The Right, who (re)discovered white victimology and grievance politics with the election of President Obama, and racism with their embrace of Herman Cain, have now deployed the "high tech lynching" oeuvre [sic]...
The history of African Americans is a plaything for the Right and black conservatives. They pretend that Dr. King would have supported them, that the Democratic Party is a plantation, and black people are zombies and brainwashed fools...Thus, the use of the phrase high tech lynching by conservatives, and their black lapdogs, is in no way a surprise...
Empty Vessel: Cain's now a martyr for self-pitying tea-partiers
...Let's start with the basics of teabaggers.
1. Their mother's milk is the sense of persecution. They really believe they are the persecuted minority--with the persecution mostly by LGBT folks, feminazis, and minorities who have been given "preferential treatment."
2. They firmly believe that they are not racists, sexists, etc., but rather the victims of of those things.
3. It is an unquestioned belief that Clarence Thomas received a "high tech lynching" in the whole Anita Hill accusations.
4. So...they will believe Herman Cain has been railroaded by "Barry Nobama"...
...For the first time, the teabaggers will view him as the same persecuted person they all feel they are. Cain just leaped into the Bachman and Palin level of teabag martyr...just at the moment when Bachman and Palin have fallen...
Something the Dog Said: The GOP is dumb and getting dumber
...This is a party that has gone out of its way to make intelligence and education negative factors to their base. The whole “who would you like to have a beer with?” question has been taken to its logical yet absurd extreme...
What is most amusing...is that even if the GOP crashes and burns this cycle they will not be able to escape the Curse of Palin. You see it is all based on being a believer who does not re-evaluate based on new evidence.
For those who suffer from the Curse there is only one path available, do the same thing only harder and more so. This will quickly lead the Republicans to the place where they really will be looking for a modern day Jethro Bodine to be their standard barer [sic]. Gods greater and lesser save the United States when we get to that point...
Mark E Andersen: Tear down this statue
...My family was not the only one who suffered at the hands of Ronald Reagan. Our country is littered with the figurative corpses of a dying labor movement. All of it was kicked off by Ronald Reagan; he is who the finger of blame should be pointed when we look at the gap between the wealthiest 1 percent and the rest of us. He gave us the despicable economic sleight of hand called trickle down economics...
Instead of building shrines for the cult of Reagan to worship we should be tearing monuments in his image and his name down because of the devastation he wrought across this once great nation.
MacDaffy: My dog, the Republican
...His favorite trick is "The External Threat." He'll raise the alarm bark, get the other two dogs riled up, scramble halfway toward the front door, and return to clean up whatever bones or chew toys might happen to be laying around and were previously being enjoyed by the others; it's like he learned it at George W. Bush's knee. No matter the day or the hour: Twig is always looking out for Number One. Just like your whole stinking, corrupt, degenerate, horror movie of a party...
There's a big difference between your party and Twig, though: Twig doesn't know any better. He may be a greedy, self-centered little asshole with no impulse control, but he plays his part in the pack 24/7 and he does it without malice and without injuring anyone...
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Black-maled
Submitted by Cactus Kurt on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 9:42pm.
Democrats have mastered victimology. Herman Cain's accusers are the cowardly "victims" that blackmailed, errr black-maled Mr. Cain because he allegedly looked at them cross-eyed.
Funny how Dems always spin racism as a conservative quality. Abraham Lincoln (R) freed the slaves. Republicans passed the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments giving blacks freedom, citizenship, and voting rights. It was Democrats that resegregated the South with Jim Crow. Only Democrats voted against the 1960 Civil Rights Act. etc. etc. etc.
Even funnier is how Republicans always "go there"
Submitted by Clevenative on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 11:21pm.
Sorry, but Abe Lincoln is rolling in his grave at the sight of today's Republican Party.
Gee, I'm surprised you forgot to mention that George Wallace was (originally a) a Democrat - and all the other pre-"Southern Strategy" reminders you folks like to use to make yourselves feel better about your lack of support for civil rights for nearly the past 50 years. Anyone who knows their history understands what caused the loss of those "southern Democrats" and the flipping of parties that happened as a result.
You're only kidding yourselves - but hey, whatever it takes to make you feel better about your un-Christlike demeaning of the downtrodden minorities and outright bigotry towards all things "not like you".
That's the real issue - not your handful of poster boy sell-outs that you use to try to make things appear different than they really are - or to feel better about yourselves. If you're ever going to regain support from the many true conservatives in those minorities, you'd better quit stereotyping their kind, treating them as beneath you, and blaming them for all the problems in the world.
"Masters of victimology"? How many times have I heard that Republican talking point as a lead-in to the accuser doing the exact same thing? Your post is just another example. The right's tendency to project their biggest and most blatant faults onto everyone else is simply astounding. Further proof you people live in an alternative universe!
Clevenative---
Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 11/08/2011 - 1:04am.
It would appear you stole your penultimate sentence from the conservative book on liberals; and without attribution.
That shows you have no class.
Your attempt to appear erudite by intimating a veiled revisionist history reference Republican contributions to Civil Rights, shows additionally that you either do not know the true political history behind the Civil Rights movement; that you are deliberately ignoring that history; or you have chosen to lie about it by way of implication.
MD
Really Purple Lips hater?
Submitted by Clevenative on Sun, 11/13/2011 - 12:45pm.
How about some examples of the "contributions" that Republicans have made in the name of Civil Rights and equality over the past 45 years? Ever since the start of their "Southern Strategy" they have fought tooth and nail to restrict or deny the rights to minorities and the poor - including women and gays. I'm sick of hearing about Abe Lincoln being a Republican or anything else that your once great party may have represented or done to advance the cause of human rights in ages past. I want to know what have they done for the cause lately???
In today's Republican Party the only "real Americans" are a wealthy landowners (and their indentured servants) - everyone else should be denied the right to even vote. How "elitist' is that?
If there is any revisionist history - it doesn't come from Democrats. I now live in the South and am reminded every day how Republicans continue to try to re-write history - even so far as including a re-write in textbooks used Virginia public schools that claimed slaves fought WITH the Confederacy. "The Civil War was not about slavery", blah blah blah. Recent remarks from Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann are just a couple of great examples of how much you people really know and understand about our history and the "intent" of our founding fathers. Most of you "states' rights" (hear the dog-whistle?) folks still believe The Articles of Confederation take precedence over the Constitution - and if you had it your way, you'd "take your country back"- right back to the 19th century.
You are the poster child for gubbermint ejumikashon
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 11/13/2011 - 12:56pm.
And just perhaps the most ignorant moron of a troll to have ever posted at NB.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Liberals restrict rights.
Submitted by ant on Sun, 11/13/2011 - 1:51pm.
Just because you're sick of hearing the truth doesn't change the truth. As for myself, and the other Republicans that I know personally, none of us are 'rich' landowners with indentured servants. (You might be thinking of Pelosi and her illegal alien grape-pickers). However, I do personally know some liberals who are non-thinking, self-centered, short-sighted, angry, illogical, cliche-speaking, emotional, stupid little trolls, that would like nothing better than to have their lives (and everybody else's) run by the stupid little trolls in government so......what's that tell ya?
Clevenative,---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 12:17am.
you are obviously a lib with liberal talking points tattooed all over your sorry ass.
What is worse, you apparently breathe, eat, and regurgitate this pap as if doing so were required for your survival.
A pathetic pos, you are - one who is too stupid to realize that the heyday of being a race card flicking bastard has passed.
And some slaves, though few in number, did fight with (for) the Confederacy, you putz.
MD
And now Jesse Jackons's gay harassment charge ....
Submitted by jmigyanka@msn.com on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 10:05pm.
..http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2011/09/20/jesse-jackson-charged-with-sexually-harassing-gay-staffer/?a_dgi=aolshare_facebook......
Even the most 'racist' Republicans, if there are any...
Submitted by Tailgunner on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 10:26pm.
...would be ashamed to publicly call any black person 'house ni**er', 'Uncle Tom', 'oreo', 'Aunt Jemima' or any of the many other noxious epithets available to racists.
Democrats AREN'T...as long as it's a conservative. That should say it all.
(Wonder what they say in private about their own minority constituents?)
CANDIDATE Obama: 'Yes, we CAN'.
PRESIDENT Obama: 'BECAUSE we CAN'.
Notice how absolutely everything on Kos is some variant of...
Submitted by Phryj1 on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 10:51pm.
...Republicans/conservatives are crazy, stupid, racist, Christian fascists, and/or anti-government extremists. Oh, and more often than not, they'll call us teabaggers.
So, where's that 'civil discourse' Obama asked for? Or is that yet another instance of rules for thee and not for me?
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
Wow...That's an angry bunch.
Submitted by NeoKong on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 11:11pm.
By this time next year their eyes will be bloodshot and have bags from lack of sleep.
They will be screaming at the mirror as they brush their teeth and will grip the steering wheel so hard their knuckles will be white as they mumble to themselves on the way to work.
I love it.
They deserve every angry sputtering fit of spittle flecked rage.
Bulletin: The liberal blog, Daily Kos, is STILL biased in favor
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 11:20pm.
of liberals and liberal viewpoints and against conservatives and conservative viewpoints, which bias is often displayed in an unseemly manner.
Thanks, NewsBusters!
Jer
actually...
Submitted by kata on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 12:12am.
much like the forays into Bill Maher's basement, I view these as merely uber left wing virtual weekend pinatas rather than an adventure into newsbusting.
Okay...I guess the troops deserve a few strips of red meat
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 12:29am.
to reward them for another week in the trenches. :-)
Jer
ah no...
Submitted by kata on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 12:39am.
this is more like... pixy stix.
Oh Mr. Anderson, or should we
Submitted by Kenny Bunkport on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 11:26pm.
Oh Mr. Anderson, or should we call you Neo (as in revisionist)?
Oh yes, things were so much better before Ronald Reagon took over. With the 14% prime interest rate, ALL mortgages were balloon mortgages. My parents had no idea how they were going to ever pay off their 16% mortgage (they got it locked in BEFORE it went up). Luckily, they were able to refinance under Reagan. But like these lib brain-dead Kos monkeys, they voted Democrat until they died.
Gas prices doubled from $.60/gal in 1976 to $1.20/gal in 1981. 10% inflation. The price of a mid-size car quadrupled under Jimmy O'Carter. A can of pop more than doubled from $.25 to $.60.
Unemployment up to 12%. 1981 was the year of no summer jobs. I went to summer school, because there was no point in being home. We were told that this (high inflation, high unemployment, high interest rates) might be the new norm (sound familiar?).
My parents knew that they were riding an inflation rocket from hell. They had no clue how it was going to end up. We all knew a crash was coming. All they could do was was ride it out and hope for a miracle. Unfortunately, my parents had so identified themselves as Democrats, they could never credit Reaganomics for the miracle that was handed to them.
I have a union friend, just retired with a nice pension, retirement health care, etc. A pretty fine golden parachute, if you will. But he still curses the greedy Republicans, curses Ronald Reagan, curses the business that enabled him to buy a nice house and send his kids to college. You can't talk rationally with the guy. He, like my parents, is so personally invested in being a Democrat, that it's like talking to a brick wall.
And as they are wont to do, the super-libs at Kos-Kids would have you believe that the world was so wonderful in pre-Reagan America before he screwed it up.
Much of The Inflation Was Built in By Carter
Submitted by Avitar on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 3:29am.
Remembering back to the Carter years Just as Global Warming and "Peak Oil" are today's Democrat Lies back then it was "Natural gas was running out in our lifetimes" and "we no longer had any landfills to put trash." The land fill line died when they opened a civil engineering text and it said plan landfills for twenty years. Since we had eleven years on the landfills we were several years ahead in that area. Jimmy Carter was willing to go on television about thirty two years ago and tell the country that we would be out of natural gas in just thirty years and that he was rationing the supplies. So now that we have run out after thirty years we now have a hundred year supply. The trick was that the Democrats under FDR had put price controls on the price of natural gas before WWII and never allowed the prices to raise from great depression levels. If you had natural gas because you hit it while drilling for oil you couldn't pipe it because the pipe cost too much you couldn't liquefy it because that cost more than the government would allow anyone to pay you. . Carter wanted rationing as a choke point. The industries that were building factories in the right-to-work states would need energy and Carter wanted to make sure that they didn't get any.
When Reagan came in to office the process of the industry fleeing the United States was already going at full blast so Reagan was able to get the price controls on natural gas lifted. He was never able to get the drilling in the western States restored and it was five years after he took office before capital for project where I was living in southern Indiana became available and then it was our money from Reagan's new IRAs. When Bush 41 came in to office and let the Democrats wreck the Savings and Loans and what corrupt eastern RINOS called the Junk Bond Market money for industry for "Fly over country disappeared into the Internet bubble and the housing bubbles on the coasts. It is always about unions and their kickbacks to Democrats and Rinos. .
Only libtards would call
Submitted by ant on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 11:26pm.
Only libtards would call their own dogs 'self-centered, greedy little assholes' and pray to 'Gods greater and lesser'. What a truly sick collective of Marxist little a-holes we have infecting society. When people actually think like these do, I truly believe they are of their Father, the prince of perversions, and we are nearing the end. Even public school couldn't have possibly infiltrated their little minds to be this successfully wholly corrupted.
Instead of building shrines
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 6:58am.
Instead of building shrines for the cult of Reagan to worship we should be tearing monuments in his image and his name down because of the devastation he wrought across this once great nation.
Way to go, Mr. Andersen....someone tried your idea.
In reverse??? Is it just me, or is that a dumb idea?
Hmmm...
Submitted by beauxdog on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 10:30am.
If you go to the first article by chaunceydevega... and hover your mouse over the photos of lynchings... you will see captions like...
1908_lynching_4hanging_2[1] by chaunceydevega, on Flickr
Does this mean that chauncey is confessing to the crime... or is he trying to take credit for a photo that is over a hundred years old?
I love hearing teabaggers defend their insanity
Submitted by Clevenative on Sun, 11/13/2011 - 12:58pm.
You folks should Google "psychological projection". Your worst traits are everyone else's - never yours.
Poor Cleve*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sun, 11/13/2011 - 1:19pm.
You have been a member of NB for almost 4 years. You should know better than to use terms like"psychological projection" when drsam will promptly step all over you. You have posted lib talking points but nothing of substance to back up your "opinions" which you try to pronounce as FACT. You have shown your education was based on revisionists history.
How sad it will be the day you learn that ALL that you have been taught is lies. I will pray for enlightenment to come to you soon.
I am simply shocked with your language.
Submitted by kata on Sun, 11/13/2011 - 7:59pm.
abashed, aghast, alarmed, anxious, appalled, apprehensive...
So, Cleve..........since you
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 11/13/2011 - 8:23pm.
So, Cleve..........since you seem to be so adamantly opposed to the TEA (Taxed Enough Allready) believers - enough so that you call them 'teabaggers' (and I can only figure that you KNOW the REAL meaning of that term), is it safe to say that you are all FOR more taxes, more borrowing, more spending, more printing, more rules, more regulations, more laws, more intrusions, more waste, more redundancy, more complexity, more wasted time, energy, and motion, and MORE EVERYTHING that comes with MORE GOVERNMENT???
Since this could be an accurate answer, I'm wondering what you do for a living, or for a life................