Tracy Eberly Indicts Another Culture Wholesale!
By Mitch Berg
But this time he’s got numbers – scary numbers – about black American society:
It’s hard to argue with the numbers. The disintegration of the black family that was accelerated by welfare, has stunted a generations of Americans. This is why we fight so hard to stop the social programs that ruin lives, communities and families.
And the numbers come from that noted O’Reilly-esque tool The Economist.
November 29th, 2007 at 11:58 am
Of course you aren’t interested, Cathcart. You’re all big when it comes to abusive pile-ons, not so much when it comes to discussing facts. It’s why Angryclown so rarely rouses himself to provide any of the facts that so amply support his many wise pronouncements. The effort is always wasted. You’re all just too stupid.
November 29th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
not so much when it comes to discussing facts
Wait – you’re about “facts” now?
I thought you were all about chain-yankage?
I get so confused.
November 29th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
abusive pile-ons
Don’t you usually pay premium for those?
November 29th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
How dare you people destroy the beauty of my 100th comment!
I’m like Monk in this regard. Now we have to get to 200 comments to assuage my OCD.
November 29th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
105.
November 29th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
106.
November 29th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
107.
November 29th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
108.
November 29th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
109.
November 29th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
Mitch said: “I thought you were all about chain-yankage?”
Facts are one of many tools that Angryclown uses in the recreational mocking of your commenters. But they were all “ooh, give us facts, give us facts!” So Angryclown did and they all went away.
November 29th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
110.
November 29th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Screw this. If you people are just going to mess with this thread, I’m out.
November 29th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Racist.
November 29th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
This article just describes the GOP candidates as declining a debate at racially-focused forums. Move along.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/29/AR2006012900642_pf.html
November 29th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
And this article is a typical uncritical look at another one of those “studies” that supposedly ties voting patters to psychology:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/29/AR2006012900642_pf.html
Reporters are really awful on this sort of thing; they look at the “PhD” following an author’s name & think the “study” was sent down from mount Olympus. The article does contain this minor attempt at balance:
Brian Jones, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, said he disagreed with the study’s conclusions but that it was difficult to offer a detailed critique, as the research had not yet been published and he could not review the methodology. He also questioned whether the researchers themselves had implicit biases — against Republicans — noting that Nosek and Harvard psychologist Mahzarin Banaji had given campaign contributions to Democrats.
The big story here is that a Post reporter was taken in by a press release.
The field of psychology & politics is a mine field. If people vote the way they do because they have certain personality traits, that would hold true for liberals as well as conservatives. If “informed votes” are really the result of a psychological tic, why bother to have elections at all?
November 29th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
And I’m not sure what the point of this campaign was:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1smE1Es-8QA
Is it possible that a race-focused viewer can find something objectionable in it?
November 29th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
It looks like the clown has liberal dyslexia — he can’t tell an opinion piece from a news article.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010263
November 29th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Terry scoffed: “This article just describes the GOP candidates as declining a debate at racially-focused forums. ”
The Republicans have debated at least a dozen times so far. But when PBS hosts a debate at a black college, somehow all the top candidates have “conflicts.”
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/special/forums/transcript.html
Conflicts between the debate audience and the conservative white racists who make up a big part of the primary electorate, in other words.
“When you reject every black invitation and every brown invitation you receive, is that a scheduling issue or is it a pattern?” [debate moderator Tavis Smiley asked. “I don’t believe anybody should be elected president of the United States if they think along the way they can ignore people of color. That’s just not the America we live in.”
November 29th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
A confused Terry brayed: “It looks like the clown has liberal dyslexia — he can’t tell an opinion piece from a news article.”
Yes, it’s an opinion piece, you hopelessly slow jackass. An opinion piece in which the conservative Wall Street Journal calls out you wingnuts for the racism at the heart of all your paranoid immigration whining.
“Like most voters, Hispanics care about more issues than immigration. But also like most voters, they take pride in their cultural identity and will reject candidates who send a message of hostility to their very presence in America. They know that when Tom Tancredo calls for an immigration “time out,” he’s not talking about the Irish. He means no more Mexicans, Hondurans or other Hispanics. If the GOP wants to be deserted by Hispanics for the next few election cycles, that sort of talk should do the trick.”
November 29th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Reaganism/racism:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,399921,00.html
Stuff everybody already knows.
November 29th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
This article is a book review by Ralph Reed. Hardly dispositive.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_13_54/ai_87869083
What’s more, the review lists four reasons the South switched to the GOP, the voting rights act was just one of them. Hardly a reason to characterize the GOP as the racist party. You could just as easily characterize the Democrats the party of America-hating pinkos.
November 29th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
The Democrats undoubtedly have a bigger proportion of America-hating pinkos. But everybody knows, you guys have the racists.
November 29th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Clown, your just rambling. Neither the Washington Post nor time Magazine is the arbiter of truth. The Jack White
It is necessary, for some on the left, to consider themselves morally superior to their political adversaries. Tacky and not helpful.
I think you guys would improve your electoral prospects if instead of spending so much effort trying to paint conservatives as racists you’d try to figure out why it was you lost the blue collar vote & became the party of latte-sipping, alpaca wearing volvo drivers.
November 29th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
We’re working on 200, Yoss . . . in the meantime to satisfy your OCD impulse you should get a writing pen and click it exactly 1000 times, no more, no less.
November 29th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
But everybody knows, you guys have the racists.
According to…a clown.
Doh – I guess that makes me “clownist”.
November 29th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
We’re working on 200, Yoss
Keep cranking ’em out, guys!
My CPM numbers should be dynomite this month!
November 29th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Terry blathered: “Neither the Washington Post nor time Magazine is the arbiter of truth.”
Yeah, that’s why Angryclown isn’t working real hard here. Books, news articles, opinion pieces, studies – you won’t let any of those things get in the way of any of your more cherished self-delusions.
Still, your party is rejected by about 90 percent of African Americans. Not much you can do to argue with that number. Pretty shameful. Black people are as rational as anybody – the vast majority realizes that Republicans are out to screw ’em.
November 29th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
Still, your party is rejected by about 90 percent of African Americans.
And you connect this to racism on the word of what? Your buddy Al Sharpton?
Look – I’m the first to say that the GOP, especially in my district (MN4) needs to speak more, and more effectively, across ethnic lines. In my district, the GOP essentially ceases to exist south of County Road C (which is sorta the southern edge of hard-core suburbia).
And yet – as I’ve said for years and years – the GOP SHOULD be a natural choice for blacks (since they are the main victims of the collapse of the education system), Hispanics (since the Dems piddle on Catholicism and use the Latino vote as a ripe suck), Asians (since they are so heavily invested in entrepreneurship and education), immigrants (since the GOP is the only thing standing in the way of the US becoming just like one of the third-world hellholes they came here to escape).
That we’re not is a shame. It’s also a failure of vision and communication (and, as the story of Brett Schundler shows, an utterly surmountable one, although the Republican involved would have to be a lot brighter than the 4th CD’s leadership is). And to call it racism – or even the product of racists in the party – is just as knee-jerk.
But feel free to keep arguing about it. My kids’ college fund thanks you.
November 29th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
“Screw ’em”? They’re 12.5% of the population, their voter turn out rate is just over 50%, and they got no money. There’s nothing there to ‘screw”.
Why do you (and the WSJ editorial board) want to lower the wages of low-skilled blacks by flooding the country with cheap foreign labor? Racist! How can you live with yourself!
November 29th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
There are always voices within the Republican Party calling for greater inclusiveness. But when the chips are down, you go with your base. And your base is made up of a huge number of racist southern white guys. One day maybe some Republican, like HHH in ’48, will take a principled stand against the racism in his party. Let Angryclown know when that happens, ‘kay?
November 29th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Mitch-
I no longer live in the metro area (or any metro area, thank God!), but let me play devil’s advocate to your last comment.
Even whites who live in urban areas tend to vote democratic. To attract the black urban vote Republicans would have to overcome two layers of resistance. And black turnout is about 80% of white turnout nationwide.
The same thing goes for hispanics, but their turnout is a bit more than half of white turnout.
I’m using the figures from here:
http://www.eagleton.rutgers.edu/News-Research/NewVoters/Ethnicity_tbls.html#table1
Given that the GOP has limited resources, is it really wise to spend them on making a play for the urban black/hispanic vote when they might get more votes by spending the same money in the suburbs and out-state?
November 29th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Terry revealed; “I no longer live in the metro area (or any metro area, thank God!)”
Too many of those “ethnic” types playing their “urban” music, eh Terry?
November 29th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Clown, every party plays to its base. The idea that “your base is made up of a huge number of racist southern white guys.” seems to have it’s origin within the clown brain; if you’d read the articles you’ve linked to you would see that the Republicans picked up the southern vote for a variety of reasons, mostly because — ta da! They are more conservative than Democrats.
David Duke is persona non grata in GOP circles. You can’t say the same for Sharpton.
November 29th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
I live in this zip code:
http://www.zipskinny.com/index.php?zip=96785
November 29th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
And I love ethnic music, clown! Unless you consider hillbilly yodeling to be mainstream pop.
November 29th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Terry explained: “Republicans picked up the southern vote for a variety of reasons, mostly because — ta da! They are more conservative than Democrats.”
Specially on those racial issues.
And: “I live in this zip code:
http://www.zipskinny.com/index.php?zip=96785”
I can see where you derive your unerring sense of Minnesota politics.
November 29th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Oh and Terry, get the stick out of your ass, call off the Lads and stop bitching every time Magnum tries to have a little fun.
November 29th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
I love Magnum PI!
November 29th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
If you like Hawaii 5-0, we can be friends.
November 29th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
I used to think Hawaii 5-0 was the coolest! Then I saw this picture:
http://www.lileks.com/institute/publicity/lord.html
Damn you, Lileks, Damn you to Hell!
November 29th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Angryclown knew that Jack Lord was a painter, which softens the blow somewhat. Though that is a truly unfortunate picture, I agree. Angryclown must assume that the picture is a fake, created by Wo Fat.
November 29th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Or by Doctor No, as payback for the days when Jack Lord ran the CIA (as Felix Leiter). Wo Fat and Doctor No are, of course, colleagues in the Secret Brotherhood of Inscrutable Asian Crime Lords, the fact that Doctor No was played by a “Joseph Wiseman” notwithstanding.
November 29th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Yawn. Did Krusty ever present the racism in the GOP platform? Anything? Anything at all?
Didn’t think so.
November 29th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
And the actor who played Wo Fat in Five-O (who also played Dr. Yen Lo, the brainwashing doc in The Manchurian Candidate), was born in New Jersey of Anglo and North African parents. Khigh Dheigh, born Kenneth Dickerson, according to Wikipedia.
November 29th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
James Hong, who played supernatural evil asian crime lord David Lo Pan in Big trouble in Little China (and a hundred other inscrutable asians in other films), is a Minnesota native and an honest-to-God pake’. There’s more sincerity in the Midwest than in New Jersey & environs.
Since we have to drive this thread to 199 counts satisfy Yoss’ OCD, I want to get back on the “all republicans are racists” track (or was it just all white Republican southerners and every conservative who comments on Mitch’s blog?).
November 29th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Truth be told I don’t know what the record is for comments on a single thread, but I think it’s close to 200.
That was back when Doug and AC both pitched in, of course.
November 29th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Yeah, but you have to deduct
108
109
110
November 29th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
Doug tended to fly off the handle on when discussing certain subjects, “Like acid and oil on a madman’s face his reason tends to fly away.”
Let’s see you source that lyric without using google.
Here’s a hint: another song on the same LP had these lyrics:
That’s 148. If Yoss’s OCD makes him deduct 108,109,110 he’s on his own.
November 29th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Oops! Should have cut the line “Here’s a hint: another song on the same LP had these lyrics:”
No hints, that would make it too easy.
November 30th, 2007 at 8:29 am
Quitting at 150? And I had such high hopes… 😉