07.30.09
Posted in America, Big Media, Election of 2010, Eminently Occidental, Obama Administration, racism, stupidity at 5:44 pm by Toby Petzold
I think it’s great that the President of the United States is comfortable enough in his own skin to share a beer with a couple of guys out on the lawn of his house.
But what brought him there is ridiculous, although entirely predictable: pride, arrogance, and a kind of narcissism that deserves to be examined and laughed at —for the good of the Republic.
I have zero respect for anyone who cannot see the cultish element in Obama’s support. The post-racial post-American anti-Bush makes monkeys out of men: poor little nothings (often employed as “journalists”) who are too afraid of being stigmatized as racists for making even the most basic kind of criticisms of him that one must expect of the fourth estate. How will these Democrats be held accountable if the people on the TV and the editorial boards are too afraid of false accusations? For that matter, how can we expect cops to do their jobs if we assume that they are authoritarian bullies bent on oppressing minorities? That’s what the President did. And he was wrong.
So has he now apologized to James Crowley? I doubt it.
Pride goeth before a fall.
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07.27.09
Posted in Big Media, Obama Administration, Unexplained Mysteries, racism, stupidity at 9:51 pm by Toby Petzold
Why has Obama found himself inviting Cambridge (Mass.) police sergeant James Crowley and Br’er Rabbit to share some beer with him in the White House? Because he is an egotistical bastard who made a huge blunder that he cannot bring himself to apologize for. So, instead, he raises the stakes beyond all proportion (much like interjecting himself, as the President of the United States, into a local police matter involving a personal friend for no apparent reason except to race-hustle) and is now stuck with the consequences of his ridiculous pride.
And all this is going on while his party’s plans for socialized medicine are completely tanking. Where the hell is he? Off to make another goddamned stump speech? What a tedious man!
Oh, and the “teachable moment” you’re hoping to have actually happened as soon as you opened your mouth about race, Barry —and when you insulted a good man’s professional integrity in a very public way. There’s a lot of lessons I learned in that “moment.” Even Juan Williams had to say that you can’t have a teachable moment “based on a lie,” so what is even the premise of this meeting? Sounds like Crowley’s really up against it. I just hope he gets out of it without getting messy.
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07.22.09
Posted in America, Big Media, Election of 2010, Eminently Occidental, Obama Administration at 7:29 pm by Toby Petzold
He’s not sweating, really. He’s effervescing —like the insubstantial clown and stain on the American People’s judgement that he is: into the ether and between the threads.
Tapper’s question was great and also had thorns.
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Posted in America, Big Media, Election of 2010, Obama Administration at 7:14 pm by Toby Petzold
I like how that boy from the AP gulped as he went in for the last clause of his inquiry.
That means he’s scared shitless, but deems the effort worthy of his own terror. They still make such reporters, right?
We shall see.
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07.17.09
Posted in America, Big Media, History, Texas at 10:05 pm by Toby Petzold
Hook ‘em, Uncle Walter.
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06.25.09
Posted in America, Big Media, Eminently Occidental, comedy at 5:02 pm by Toby Petzold
I actually have my TV on CNN right now: if the diseased freak Michael Jackson actually is dying, I want to get my breathless, celebrity-obsessed bullshit straight from the horse’s ass.
That’s Wolf Blitzer, baby.
Fucking garbagemen, all of you.
UPDATE: That may have been the stupidest mixed metaphor I’ve committed in days. Carry on.
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06.12.09
Posted in America, Big Media, Republicans, comedy, personal, stupidity at 8:55 pm by Toby Petzold
When I was a kid, I enjoyed the hell out of David Letterman. He had a huge influence on mine and my brothers’ senses of humor.
But I stopped watching him a very long time ago because he turned into a miserable prick who enjoys hurting people’s feelings and humiliating them. I even remember the moment I vowed to stop watching him. One night —maybe 15 years ago?— he had on an old gentleman farmer who had brought a collection of vegetables he had grown that resembled famous faces. A potentially cute little segment that Letterman turned into a vicious attack on this old man’s dignity. Dolly Parton was a guest and I believe she even remained for that part of the program. I very much doubt the grand dame of Sevier County, Tennessee appreciated Letterman’s assholishness, although I don’t remember her reaction for a fact. (Maybe I should write her and ask if she recalls that night. I’ve seen her on a lot of programs lately and she’s as charming as ever.)
Anyway, this joke Letterman made about what is essentially the rape of Sarah Palin’s 14 year-old daughter the other night was stupid, mean, and unfunny. He should be a man and make a full and unambiguous apology. But no one is going to make him because he has bought the good opinion of asshole liberals everywhere with his gratuituous swipes at Republicans. He’s insulated against criticism because of his politics. That’s a bad thing for our culture and for women, in case you were wondering.
(Yeah, I know I’ve written this same post before, but Letterman’s a jerk who deserves for his mistreatment of that old man to be remembered forever. And now he can be remembered as someone who likes to make cracks about young girls being raped.)
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05.28.09
Posted in America, Big Media, Eminently Occidental, History, Obama Administration at 10:21 pm by Toby Petzold
I just listened to the whole of Sonia Sotomayor’s now-famous remarks at Duke Law School in 2005 and can reliably inform you that they are not taken out of context.
First, I must say that this video (at the link above) is my first extended acquaintance with Sotomayor of any kind. I find her to be suitably cerebral, although she protests too much that she is less engaged than her colleagues, even if more intellectually sloppy.
Second, the soundbite that Big Media took from her complete answer is quite fair. She was comparing and contrasting the roles of district and circuit courts when she committed her Kinsleyan gaffe: she blurted out the truth. But she does elaborate. And she does see her job as policy-making or “developing the law,” as she puts it. Is that a necessary evil of the higher courts? Probably, although sound law is its own arbiter. But there’s no question that she relishes the opportunity to make her justiceship a vehicle for “social progress,” either.
Third, it will take a whole hell of a lot more than remarks like these to stay her from her appointment, so back to the drawing boards, you fading patriarchical oppressors! That whitey tape’s gotta be out there somewhere!
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05.04.09
Posted in Big Media, Islamofascism, Obama Administration at 8:54 pm by Toby Petzold
The virtual simultaneity of attacks at different points is perhaps the best known tactic of the al-Qaedist mass murderers. It worked in the East African embassy bombings during the Clinton Administration and again in the atrocities of 11 September 2001. The rationale is clear: destroy and confuse and create the sense that the next terror could come from anywhere.
On a domestic political level, Barack Obama has certainly succeeded in adopting this same tactic as a means of distraction and division. You can get more evil done if Big Media is chumming up the waters. Obama’s Administration is so emphatically wrong and offensive in so many ways all at once that it cannot be but deliberate. Which also means that Obama thinks so little of this country that he would foment —and countenance in others— as much discord as possible at such a particularly vulnerable time. Remember all of the friendly advice he got just weeks into his regime about not freaking the markets out with all his Depression-tinted rhetoric? Well, who said that freaking the markets out wasn’t his purpose in fact? Barack Obama’s Socialist America was a nightmare turning into a reality long before his inauguration. The inevitability of his ascension and all the anti-capitalist and pro-statist degeneracy it has come to entail showed up on our doorsteps seven or eight months ago, friend —burning and full of shit.
You ready for the stamp act yet?
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04.27.09
Posted in America, Big Media, Bush Administration, Democrats, Election of 2010, History, Islamofascism, Obama Administration, moonbats, stupidity, treason at 10:25 pm by Toby Petzold
Yesterday, Bob Schieffer asked partisan hack/United States Senator Pat Leahy whether he would seek to subpoena Cheney et al to testify before these truth and reconciliation committees that the brownshirts are demanding —and Leahy said no. Huh? Right there at the very end of his remarks in the most matter of fact way. It was rewindable.
Isn’t the whole point of a show trial to make the defeated party or enemy of the (present) state squirm for the cameras and the bloodlust of the New Totalitarians? I guess Leahy figures he can achieve much of what he wants in political and propaganda terms whether the former Vice President is there in the flesh to defend himself or not.
But if demanding accountability —the biggest whore among words ever, it turns out— is so terribly important, then how can Leahy and these other politicizers of national security now pull their punches thrown at Cheney? How could they fail —after making it their stock in trade for years— to demand Donald Rumsfeld’s head in the most public forum possible? If there were crimes committed, it would be a moral failure of the Democratic Party —would it not?— if they did not use the power they now have to deliver justice to their enemies.
You know, the enemies that succeeded in keeping our country safe from a further terrorist attack for more than seven years.
Always remember: when a Democrat speaks out against the so-called torture perpetrated at the behest of the Bush Administration, he is demanding that mass murderers themselves be protected against the fear of death. In the context of historical fact, that is exactly what Democrats are doing. They are upset because Khalid Sheik Mohammed was caused to fear for his life! We made the man who plotted to murder thousands of Americans believe he was being drowned! That is the state of the post-American mind: we must defend our enemies against ourselves in the interest of the world’s “good will.”
Despicable nonsense.
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