Hyperbole
By Johnny Roosh
…thy name is also Oprah.
Oprah filming in DC for inauguration week
“There are not even words to talk about what this night means,” Oprah told Access Hollywood that night. “Everybody keeps using the word historic — there’s never been a night like this on the planet earth… Nothing can compare to this.”
The morning Caveman discovered fire?
How about the day World War II ended?
The night Jesus was born?
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:15 pm
What is she talking about?
The first descendant of slaves sworn in as president?
Nope.
The first Harvard grad to be sworn in as president?
Nope.
The first millionaire to be sworn in as president?
Nope.
She must be referring to the fact that B. Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii.
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Uhhh, which Oprah are we talking about? This is one reason why my vote was for OMG BFF, or Barry. I think we’re talking about the real Oprah?
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:43 pm
As most of us know, Obama is decended from slave owners. Even though his skin has a dark hue to it, his family was on the other side of the barbed wire. And he was born in Indonesia (I think), but grew up in Hawaii.
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:49 pm
No, Obama was born in Hawaii, and spent part of his childhood in Indonesia. Sorry, Chuck, but that’s just a bunch of horsefeathers.
December 3rd, 2008 at 9:07 pm
I think his point was just that he wasn’t the offspring of slaves… Which is why Terry said:
The first descendant of slaves sworn in as president?
Nope.
I don’t think Chuck was trying to launch any black helicopters.
December 3rd, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Kenya. He was born in Kenya. And all I have to say about Oprah’s pronouncement is “Oh brother”. You’d think this was 1867 and that there hadn’t been how many black governors, Sec of States, Generals, etc. Good grief what an ass.
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Bigot.
December 4th, 2008 at 10:57 am
mefolkes, perhaps when and if he produces his actual birth certificate–the one signed by a doctor at the delivery–I’ll join you in saying it’s all “horsefathers.” However, the documents produced so far do not in fact prove his actual birth in Hawaii.
And as Chuck notes, his likely forebears were on the other side of the slavery equation for the most part. Doesn’t affect my view of him, but that is his heritage.
December 4th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Racism! Racism! RACISM!!!
Pure, unadulterated, unmitigated, unabashed, filthy racism.
Just ask Peev.
December 4th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Three black governors, three black senators since Reconstruction. The senators include Barack Obama, who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Christ on a cracker, Colleen, I’m pretty confident that you are the angriest and dumbest person I know of.
December 4th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
You’ve misquoted Colleen, AC… and interjected a false claim that you believe she’s angry.
I’m shocked, shocked!
lol
December 4th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Don’t know yourself very well then do you, clown?
December 4th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Five black senators:
Hiram R. Revels (R-Mississippi), 1870-71
Blanche K. Bruce (R-Mississippi), 1875-1881
Edward W. Brooke (R-Massachusetts), 1967-1979
Carol Moseley-Braun (D-Illinois), 1993-1999
Barack Obama (D-Illinois), 2005-2008
OH LOOK AT THOSE R’s!
December 4th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Four black Governors!
P.B.S. (“Pinckney Benton Stewart”) Pinchback of Louisiana, in 1872
Douglas Wilder of Virginia, in 1990
Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, in 2007
David Patterson of New York in 2008
December 4th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
AC, didn’t you make fun of someone quoting from Wikipedia a few months ago? You leftists & your projecting.
December 4th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Just in case any of the Mitchketeers is completely ignorant of American history, there was this deal after the Civil War called “Reconstruction.” It ran from the end of the conflict, in 1865, until 1877. Reconstruction ended as part of a corrupt bargain to resolve the disputed 1876 presidential election. Republicans agreed to withdraw federal troops from the South, setting the stage for Jim Crow and handing the presidency to Rutherford B. Hayes. African Americans elected to public office during Reconstruction benefitted from the votes of former slaves, whose voting rights were protected, if not fully guaranteed, and the fact that many Confederates were disenfranchised.
So while the many African-Americans elected to public office during Reconstruction were pioneers, they were elected in a very brief window of time that was unusually favorable to them. Like home run records in the steroid era, they come with a historical asterisk.
Hard to believe that any Mitchketeers are stupid enough not to know all this, but there you go.
December 4th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
So while the many African-Americans elected to public office during Reconstruction were pioneers, they were elected in a very brief window of time that was unusually favorable to them.
I think we just experienced another one of your windows then, only it’s not about race this time. It’s about entitlement and that window is also going to close, one way or another.
December 4th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
AC, I still can’t wrap my mind around the fact that you’d endorse Reconstruction, lament its end, yet still insist we have to withdraw our troops from Iraq and let the wolves into the fold again. That human rights are not determined by geography used to be a standard liberal belief.
The Civil War resulted in two hundred thousand dead Americans. The iraq War around 4K so far. No price to free the oppressed brown people of Iraq is so small that you will pay it.
December 4th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
And for those morons who like to make up their own reality…
You can blather your recollections of your 7th grade history class all you want, but I nailed you again ass wipe! It’s not that hard really, sort of like picking on the kids from the short bus.
OH, you must not have been talking to me because you’ve shunned me forever… I dun fergot.
December 4th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
And Angry Clown… my 7th grade math teacher told me that 1967 comes well after 1876.
December 4th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Oh yeah, & the first Grand Wizard of the KKK to serve as a Supreme Court justice was appointed by FDR.
It sucks, I know.
December 4th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
And the Jim Crow era was constructed by… DEMOCRATS. I know my history, & I didn’t get it 5 minutes ago from Wikipedia like certain leftist commenters
December 4th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Come on big guy! where’s the snarky comeback?
December 5th, 2008 at 10:13 am
You don’t have one! Pretending that you are “shunning” me when you so obviously are not, will not cover for you arrogance, ignorance, or general stupidity.