FDR Had A Secret Japanese-Detection Ray?
By Mitch Berg
I’d say “I’m not hungry right now”, but then someone on the left would try to link me to the murder of any waitresses that turned up dead in the next few weeks.
Oh, speaking of which – someone named “MNBearBud” over at Minnesota Tragedy of Spirochaetal Paresis “Progressive” Project apparently apparently believes that conservatives should answer on command, like puppies, even the most demented accsations:
Michele can talk about being opposed to gay rights, but when it comes to questions about the murdered census worker, she avoids an answer.
No, MNBearBud. She ignores a stupid question.
She quotes from “ThinkProgress”, a leftyblog that is to blogs what Rachel Maddow is to cable TV or M”P”P is to Minnesota – a screeching, simple-minded, demented production that even lowest common denominators with a modicum of self-respect find insulting:
The Washington Independent’s Dave Weigel attended the conference and attempted to catch up with Bachmann to ask her about the murdered Census worker in Kentucky, but she evaded his question:
“After the speech, Bachmann had only a few minutes to sign autographs and collect a stack of CDs and books from fans who’d followed her into the lobby. I caught up to her as she headed outside and asked if she had any response to the murder of a Kentucky census worker, having noticed that the Census, a constant target for Bachmann, did not figure into her speech. Bachmann recoiled a little at the question and turned to enter her limo. “
“Thank you so much!” she said. “
As I noted last week, Weigel is usually a pretty intelligent commentator on the right. But asking her about her feelings about a murder with whom her only association is the slanderous free-association of a pack of (I’ll be charitable) hacks, and which is increasingly unlikely to have been a political statement at all, is like asking the M”P”P’s Grace Kelly what she’s going to do with her MacArthur grant. It’s just not relevant, and frankly nothing she needs to comment about at all.
Over the summer, Bachmann waged a high-profile, wildly-dishonest campaign against the Census, going so far as to claim that the data collected had been used to round up and intern Japanese-Americans in the 1940s.
Er, really, MNBearBud/”Think”Progress?
Um, how do you “think” the government found the Japanese-American citizens?
Do you think they drove down the street in a truck, looking for people with high math scores?
Question, MNBearBud: how does government gather demographic data?
Question for the M”P”P at large; How many tests did you have to flunk to get accepted as writers for Minnesota’s most embarassing blog – history and IQ, both, or either one of them?
UPDATE: I got a bit of feedback from a rather overwrought, solipsistic and confused person who, despite himself, did make one valid point. My original take on this story mixed a serious point about the census and the myopia of Rep. Bachmann’s detractors with a rather childish jibe at the M”P”P writer involved. I’ll cop to it. I’ve fixed the latter, to better focus on the former.
September 28th, 2009 at 9:14 am
After eight years paranoia from the left about the patriot act and warrantless wiretaps, we are now supposed to trust the government.
I bet MNBareButt is certain that it was Joe McCarthy that put the japanese in internment camps.
September 28th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Bachmann was correct about the use of census data to put Japanese Americans in prison camps.
I would suggest strongly that had it not been census data, other information would have been used, and that the census did not significantly further that decision. NOT using census data, the government acted out of fear, and would have accomplished that goal anyway.
What I take issue with is in making her very paranoid protestations about the Census, the salient point Bachmann failed to acknowledge was that those decisions have resulted in much more restricted use of Census data. The pattern of court cases post WW II prohibiting that data from being accessed in similar ways is definitive.
Bachmann once again cherry-picked a single fact, took it out of context so as to completely misrepresent its significance, and used it to mislead.
Given her utterly flawed statements on the Census, and on re-education camps, and other stupidities, I agree that Bachmann has contributed to unfounded fears, fears that – if it is an anti-government motivated death – very well could have contributed to the death of Mr. Sparkman. I sincerely hope this causes Ms. Bachmann to reconsider her views, and to be more objective and accurate in her statements.
While it is remotely possible that Mr. Sparkman stripped naked, wrote ‘Fed’ on his own chest in magic marker (presumably using a mirror? so he would get the letters correct?) and that he then somehow duct-taped his wrists together and his ankles, after taping his Census Bureau ID to his neck, and managed to hang or asphyxiate himself to death. It is remotely possible that this was an accident, not a murder or a suicide.
But is it LIKELY? Hardly.
This is looking more like a murder all the time, as details emerge. What is not clear is if this was an ordinary criminal matter that has a tangential government bias included, or if it was a fundamentally anti-government, anti-census death.
It is possible that there is some other reason that someone wanted Sparkman dead, although not likely given the information about him that has surfaced so far. The Census bureau / fed thing could be an attempt at a red herring.
But at the moment, it is not the most reasonable explanation, no matter how those who have supported these statements try to twist it.
September 28th, 2009 at 10:30 am
What is not clear is if this was an ordinary criminal matter that has a tangential government bias included, or if it was a fundamentally anti-government, anti-census death.
Right.
But that’s not how the mob of chattering apes in the leftysphere have been covering it!
September 28th, 2009 at 10:31 am
MNtakesituptheBUTT probably thought the Bushies were involved in 9/11 and I would hazard a guess to say that he/she was/is a troother. And DG, they haven’t found the guy but I’d be willing to bet that they were about as stable as the guy that killed Tiller and the pro-life guy. People will murder, that is the drawback to having a free society.
September 28th, 2009 at 10:32 am
The local law was quoted in news stories as having known that that area was full of meth labs and speculating that this guy might have been killed for the same reason that Revenuers were killed by moonshiners during Prohibition.
People still doubt that Sarah Palin’s “death panels” criticism derailed Obama’s health care plans. To suggest that speeches by a much-less-well-known Minnesota Congresswoman so inflamed and impassioned the hill people of Kentucky as to incite them to murder a federal agent is to attribute astounding power to Ms. Bachmann’s eloquence.
Seems unlikely. I’m going with the stumbled-upon-a-drug-lab-and-died-for-it theory.
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September 28th, 2009 at 10:35 am
meth labs, that makes sense. Kind of funny how this is the first time I’m hearing this, no wonder journalism is dying. Or more accurately, commiting suicide.
September 28th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Dog Gone, if you read Bachmann’s words, you will see that she invoked the internment of the Japanese as an example of a time when the government used census data improperly. Whether the data could have been gotten another way is immaterial.
It is absolutely true that the more information the government has, the greater the chance that the information will be abused. The planned survey questions can be found here:
http://2010.census.gov/2010census/pdf/2010ACSnotebook.pdf
September 28th, 2009 at 11:09 am
Kind of funny how this is the first time I’m hearing this,
You needed to read SiTD more carefully last week!
September 28th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Looks like the huffers have picked this one up:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/27/bachmann-refuses-to-answe_n_301238.html
For a glimpse of the dishonesty and disregard for the truth over in liberal-land, check out this quote:
Bachmann, who has proclaimed that she will not fill out her Census forms and suggested that the survey could lead to internment camps, did not bring up the issue at the conservative How to Take Back America Conference in St. Louis.
Bachmann did not suggest that the census could lead to internment camps, she stated that census data had, in the past, been used to ID populations that were actually sent to FDR’s internment camps.
September 28th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Ok, Mitch you made your point, sorry I don’t read EVERY post you put up.
September 28th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Terry you know the left’s motto, “Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.”
September 28th, 2009 at 11:24 am
“You needed to read SiTD more carefully last week! ”
Or read the comments more carefully
September 28th, 2009 at 11:31 am
“that census data had, in the past, been used to ID populations ”
Not just populations, but actual names and locations….
“A new study of U.S. Department of Commerce documents now shows that the Census Bureau complied with an August 4, 1943, request by Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau for the names and locations of all people of Japanese ancestry in the Washington, D.C., area, according to historian Margo Anderson of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and statistician William Seltzer of Fordham University in New York City.”
http://tinyurl.com/ybbm4on
September 28th, 2009 at 11:34 am
sorry I don’t read EVERY post you put up.
Lesson learned?
🙂
September 28th, 2009 at 11:41 am
“I agree that Bachmann has contributed to unfounded fears, fears that…” – DG
*fade to scene… Dog Gone and Peevee trembling in FEAR!!!!!*
September 28th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
MoN-
I remember that FDR had to change venues for a big conference because of Morgenthau. The original conference site was a hotel that had a policy against renting rooms to Jews. Morgenthau is, however, credited with bringing the plight of European Jews to FDR’s attention.
Ironic, isn’t it?
September 28th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
KR wrote: “K-Rod Says:
September 28th, 2009 at 11:41 am
“I agree that Bachmann has contributed to unfounded fears, fears that…” – DG
*fade to scene… Dog Gone and Peevee trembling in FEAR!!!!!* ”
KR, what you seem to fail to grasp in your repeated use of that phrase is the only people in fear are those who believe Bachmann, Steele, and others of similar views who promote inaccurate information.
That does NOT include either Pen or myself.
If instead your intention is to cause me to tremble in fear by simply repeating that phrase over and over and over – which is kinda creepy – then…….
still NO. LOL. (But other than that, I do miss you KR. )
September 28th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Terry Says:
September 28th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Dog Gone, if you read Bachmann’s words, you will see that she invoked the internment of the Japanese as an example of a time when the government used census data improperly. Whether the data could have been gotten another way is immaterial.
It is absolutely true that the more information the government has, the greater the chance that the information will be abused. The planned survey questions can be found here:
http://2010.census.gov/2010census/pdf/2010ACSnotebook.pdf >>
I would argue with you Terry that the court decisions, including the supreme court decisions relating to the use of census information directly relating to the interment from WWII refutes that assertion.
Further, I find it a bit disingenuous that Bachmann NOW seems to have a problem when she does not appear – that I can find – to have made a single comment or objection when the Census Bureau submitted the report to congress, well over a year ago, seeking responses from congress.
That report, (available on scribd.com) itemized what questions were asked and why, who would get that data, and including what questions were new and what questions were being discontinued – and why. In thta format, the questions make pretty good sense.
Further, Bachmann has only come lately to the anti-census party because of insisting that ACORN was going to be stealing people’s confidential data. ACORN, which admittedly has had their problems, was only responsible for providing publicity about the census to the people they served. NOT for collecting census data. More misinformation from Bachmann. And further, Census enumerators / ‘takers’ are vetted by the feds – mostly the FBI. More misinformation from Bachmann. Perhaps most significant is the facts that there have not been significant problems with census data being misappropriated, and there are some really wopping big penalties for doing so, while there appears to be little or no benefit to most of the information other than to the agencies generating the questions.
As this fear mongering with mis-information and dis-information has been consistently and repeatedly in conjunction with fund raising efforts, it can be argued pretty plausibly that this is intentional and calculated. Not an ‘oops!’ So, again, shame on Bachmann, all the more so given the extensive coverage her comments have received in the mass media.
September 28th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Yet YOU are the one that continues to blather on and on and on about FEAR.
Maybe there are others that are full of FEAR, but you seem to be the one that continues to prattle on and on about fear. If there are any readers of this blog that are in fear as Dog Gone claims, please step up and tell us why you are in such fear.
DG, you claim to not be in fear, yet you can’t stop repeating, over and over and over, that those you disagree with are fear-mongering.
I can spot that Liberal Fascist tactic a mile away.
And what about Obama’s fear-mongering tactics? *crickets*
Seek help on your obsession.
DG, the only thing you have to fear is your own obsession of “fear”.
Bwwwwwwaaaaaahahahahahahahaha
September 28th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
I fear the tag left open
September 28th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
tags left open
September 28th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Angryclown is very much in favor of far-right wackos boycotting the Census. Also, don’t vote. That’s just a trick the Democrats use to take away your guns.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Ben wrote:
“And DG, they haven’t found the guy but I’d be willing to bet that they were about as stable as the guy that killed Tiller and the pro-life guy. People will murder, that is the drawback to having a free society. ”
I hope they catch whoever was responsible. Not quite sure I follow your other comment; are you positing that murders DON’T happen in closed or less free societies? I had thought it was an unfortunate but very human crime that afflicted all societies…..not just ours.
KR wrote:
” but you seem to be the one that continues to prattle on and on about fear.
DG, you claim to not be in fear, yet you can’t stop repeating, over and over and over, that those you disagree with are fear-mongering.”
KR, if I might point out that inevitably you are the one who initiates those comments, so your statement is imprecise, and wrong. There are many people with whom I may respectfully disagree, but who I don’t believe promulgate false information to cause people to be afraid and therefore donate money.
My exchange here with Terry would seem a case in point, an exchange of factual information supporting differing, even conflicting viewpoints.
AC writes:
“angryclown Says:
September 28th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Angryclown is very much in favor of far-right wackos boycotting the Census.”
The problem with that AC is that there are quite a few states where not cooperating with the census will alter the number of representatives a state has in congress, and the numbers for the electoral college.
Minnesota IS one of those states which could be adversely affected in that way, so Bachmann is advocating a position that is a disservice to her own constituents. Before endorsing Bachmann’s viewpoint, individuals might want to see if their state would be adversely affected as well.
September 28th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
“was only responsible for providing publicity about the census to the people they served. NOT for collecting census data.”
There are two methods that ACORN workers could have negatively impact 2010 census data.
1. Through establishing and staffing Questionnaire Assistance Centers, ACORN members could encourage people to falsify their census forms (we’ve got video that shows ACORN workers doing similar)
2. Through the Be Counted program, false Be Counted forms could be fraudulently filled out by ACORN workers, much like they filled out false voter registrations.
September 28th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
“KR, if I might point out that inevitably you are the one who initiates those comments,…”
Er, ahh, ummm, you had the second comment in this thread, it was you that initiated the FEAR comment and I can quote you:
“Bachmann has contributed to unfounded fears, fears…”
You, DG, are the one that goes on and on and on about FEAR.
Unless you can point to others in this discussion that have claimed FEAR, you are alone in your accusations of fear-mongering. Therefore, it is logical to take you at your word that YOU are in FEAR. I simply added a bit of imaginative flair… BTW, it has already been show that Peevee is too much of a coward to call Bachmann and discuss the issues…
*fade to scene… DG and Peevee trembling in fear while listening to Bachmann…*
Bwwwwwaaaaaaaahahahahahahahaha
September 28th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
KR, read the list of comments again, beginning with this one:
Terry Says:
September 28th, 2009 at 9:14 am
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Unlike Bachmann, Terry supports his statements with facts that hold up under examination. I still disagree with him from time to time, although he sometimes persuades me. However this statement does seem to disagree with trusting the current administration specifically, and government generally, as was further supported by his subsequent comments.
Bachmann may frighten her faithful followers but that would NOT be Pen or I.
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Not at all, Pen did call the last time she was on Mitch’s show – have the cell phone records to prove it – but waited and waited, and never got to speak with her. Pen is no coward, and certainly he is not afraid of Bachmann.
September 28th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
“And certainly he is not afraid of Bachmann.” As far as Sarah Palin, well, that`s another story.
September 28th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
I started at the first comment in this thread; the word “fear” showed up in the second comment, yes, DG, you had the second comment; you initiated the fear discussion.
Bachmann may be a huge turn on for many male supporters and opponents. Many female opponents might be jealous of her looks, brains, and success. Some Bachmann supporters might be in fear of dark parking lots… and lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Are you a Bachmann supporter that is filled with fear, DG? Then how can you make such a claim? If you continue to make such claims of “fear” then we will take your word that it is YOU that are frightened.
DG, the fact remains that YOU are the one making accusations of fear-mongering. For that we shall consider it is YOU that are in FEAR unless someone in this discussion joins you in the allegations of scary Michelle….
*cue Peevee… cowering at the mention of Bachmann…*
September 28th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Mitch, would this be covered under Berg’s Seventh Law? Eighth?
September 28th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Personally, I’m disappointed by the census this year. Last time around they asked about Native American and I had fun with that.
I wonder what I’ll pick this time. The NASA HR department made it quite clear to us when filling out these forms that the government’s not allowed to challenge your own self-characterization (they weren’t pleased that a mischievious blond haired, pale skinned guy wrote down African American based on going back a few hundred thousand generations but they couldn’t do a thing about it).
September 29th, 2009 at 9:02 am
You have to be careful who you (waggishly) self-identify to, nerdbert. If I called myself Hawaiian in front of a bunch of _real_ Hawaiians violence might erupt. The proper term for a non-Hawaiian who was born and bred in the islands but is not Hawaiian is ‘kama’aina’, meaning ‘child of the land’. Even then you’d still be a f*ckin’ haole to some.
I wish they had a check box for ‘hillbilly’. It’s as precise an ethnic definition as ‘hispanic’.
September 29th, 2009 at 9:29 am
I wish they had a check box for ‘hillbilly’. It’s as precise an ethnic definition as ‘hispanic’.
And more precise than “Caucasian”. Any term that encompasses everything from Swedes to Greeks is pretty meaningless.
The only actual Caucasians I know are King Banaian, and the Kourajians, Martarosians and Tarpinians from Jamestown.
September 29th, 2009 at 9:54 am
I’m a native Minnesotan!
September 29th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
KR wrote: “For that we shall consider it is YOU that are in FEAR unless someone in this discussion joins you in the allegations of scary Michelle….
*cue Peevee… cowering at the mention of Bachmann…* ”
KR the only thing I am afraid of in this regard is that those who are gullible might give either Bachmann or Steele money without checking out their statements for accuracy. Beyond that, I’ve never subscribed to the scared rabbit version of femininity, and I can’t imagine you really believe I’m cowering; you just want to yank my chain. If it makes you happy to imagine otherwise, that’s your problem KR. I’d add however that if you think that of Pen, you really don’t know either the man or his background.
September 29th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
DG, You and Pernicious Peevee are the ones that continue to cry FEAR.
Nobody else has made that accusation around here.
If you two are not in FEAR, then I suggest you refrain from such talk of FEAR; because I will continue to point it out as long as you continue crying FEAR. *grin*
As for political contributions, if accuracy were required there would be no such thing as a political contribution… just ACORN money funneled to the Democrats…. can you say landslide… filibuster proof… Liberal Fascism…
*fade to scene… DG standing in front of and trying to protect a cowering peevee…*
September 30th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Master of None wrote:
“2. Through the Be Counted program, false Be Counted forms could be fraudulently filled out by ACORN workers, much like they filled out false voter registrations. ”
There were two problems with the acorn workers and voter registrations; while some clearly did fill out completely fake forms in order to get paid more, Acorn had to accept them under the law. And, for those cases where the individual filling out the form was the person intending to disrupt the system, the Acorn worker HAD to accept what they filled out as did the Acorn office.
However, contrary to the fears that were ginned up, there has NOT been a lot of people fraudulently voting despite people being jerks about filling out the voter registration forms. Last I checked for the entire country it was something like 13 or 14 cases where there was clear, and prosecutable voter fraud – and that number covered a period of SEVERAL YEARS.
So, while it is deplorable conduct to screw around with these forms, the claimed harm resulting from that conduct is negligable.
As for the comparison to Census form fraud, the data is verified, it is not as was the case with the voter registration fraud, required to be accepted uncritically. So, as with the actual voter fraud, there is NOT an indication that people being jerks with the Census has a pronounced effect on the final result – another piece of information that is not as widely included as a fair and objective picture of the situation should identify.
September 30th, 2009 at 11:37 am
KR – it’s not worth retyping; a cut and paste will serve as well.
“KR, what you seem to fail to grasp in your repeated use of that phrase is the only people in fear are those who believe Bachmann, Steele, and others of similar views who promote inaccurate information.
That does NOT include either Pen or myself. ”
KR also wrote, “Bachmann may be a huge turn on for many male supporters and opponents. Many female opponents might be jealous of her looks, brains, and success. Some Bachmann supporters might be in fear of dark parking lots… and lions and tigers and bears, oh my!”
KR, female opponents might be jealous? I would argue with you KR, that you would never write that about male candidates, or their supporters or opposition either as being so petty and superficial. You are unlikely to describe male candidates the way you describe Bachmann – or Palin on other occasions.
It is as offensive a statement as the one from an ealier thread that posited women didn’t like Palin because of jealousy. And it has been said about Bachmann as well. Those statements reflect a superficiality, an idea of women as stupid, shallow, vain and jealous, that went out of fashion with 1950’s sitcoms.
I’m also assuming you are not including me in those statements. I’d like to point out to you KR, that seeking out a copy of the Census report to Congress, reading it, and commenting on not using the existing legitimate options to change census questions is really, seriously, not what I think could ever be characterized as ‘jealous’ behavior.
The only thing worse than men making those statements is when women demean themselves and other women by making them. Sadly, there have been a few; their gender does not make their words more credible or correct.
KR, while this may not be your intent, your comments are unfair and inaccurate on the basis of gender. In other words, sexist.
RE other comments, KR, is it necessary for a statement to be true, objective and valid, for someone else here to make it, or endorse it? Hardly. Bad argumentation on your part KR.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
G.O.M.
Top Ten Reasons for ChiTown oLIMPics
2) Latest census puts Chicago as largest city in the world
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
September 30th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
“KR, what you seem to fail to grasp in your repeated use of that phrase is the only people in fear are those who believe Bachmann, Steele, and others of similar views who promote inaccurate information.
That does NOT include either Pen or myself. ”
Well, actually, there is a lot of false information about Rep. Bachmann out there. For example, her statement on the census were attributed a sense of militancy that Rep. Bachmann had never espoused; she saw it more as civil disobedience. I needn’t even go into the nearly-slanderous link the leftymedia made between the already-out-of-context statements and the death of the census worker in Kentucky, ascribing a link to the motive of a suspect they hadn’t even come close to finding yet, much less ascertaining a motive.
THAT’s fear!
KR, female opponents might be jealous? I would argue with you KR, that you would never write that about male candidates, or their supporters or opposition either as being so petty and superficial.
Can’t speak for Krod, but there was plenty written, on “both” (all?) sides, about the “marketing” battle between the young, buff Obama and the old, literally war-ravaged McCain. Simple fact – pettiness and superficiality is the rule among humans, rather than the exception.
You are unlikely to describe male candidates the way you describe Bachmann – or Palin on other occasions.
Again, not to speak for Krod, but there’s a reason male career politicians are so very prone to toupees and exaggerated workout regimens; voters prefer guys who look younger and cover-ready. Think Mac didn’t wish he looked a few years younger, or that he didn’t know he lost not a few votes, especially female votes, to just looking older than Obama?
Put another way – since it’s acceptable to bag on mens’ motivations and foibles in a way society doesn’t allow us to do with women – do you think that if the DFL nominated Margaret Anderson Kelliher (who, lets just say, looks like a normal woman her age) and the GOP countered with a Pat Anderson or a Laura Brod (who, lets just say, do not), the DFL wouldn’t be worried about the same “marketing” issue?
It is as offensive a statement as the one from an ealier thread that posited women didn’t like Palin because of jealousy. And it has been said about Bachmann as well. Those statements reflect a superficiality, an idea of women as stupid, shallow, vain and jealous, that went out of fashion with 1950’s sitcoms.
Well, perhaps – although marketing to womens’ superficiality (as a market segment, not necessarily as individuals) is big money these days. “Sex In The City”, “Desperate Housewives”, “Oprah”…
…and, worst of all, the ad industry’s meme of the past twenty years that depicts most families in ads as a) a schlubby, incompetent guy who is saved by his b) improbably beautiful wife.
Now, marketers know that women spend most household money; they do the shopping. And so they present a flattering archetype of women, and a deeply unflattering one of men. Why?
Because women (as a marketing segment) ARE that shallow, and DO like to see themselves as the women in those ads; if it didn’t work, you’d never see that kind of ad!
(And lest MNob or Rew unleash a brainturd about what a sexist that makes me – nope. Find ads aimed at markets where men do most of the spending; the guy is always buff and virile and utterly in charge of the situation; the women are always smokin’ hot and practically diving into his lap. Just like they will if you buy Axe Deodorant or ‘Lectric Shave or an F150. By the way, is it coincidental that my social life pretty much peaked when I drove an F150? Marketeers, get back to me).
So does this mean more men voted for Palin because she’s crazy-hot? Probably, some did. Does it mean, as Dennis Miller said, that women were jealous of Palin because of her looks and/or her apparently close and, er, exciting relationship (sez Miller) with Todd? As a gender, that’d be absurd. As individuals? Who knows?
Question: compare the nastiness and pettiness of “feminists'” attacks on the likes of Rep. Bachmann or Gov. Palin or Ann Coulter with, say, those on Carol Molnau or Kathryn Jean Lopez or other prominent conservative women who do have to get by on, let’s just say, talent and personality. What do you see?
September 30th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
“You are unlikely to describe male candidates the way you describe Bachmann – or Palin on other occasions.”
Ya think? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Did you see the rack on Oberstar? Ha ha ha ha ha ha How ’bout dem legs on Lieberman… …that Edwards fella sure has nice hair. Oh my! How dare K-Rod make such a sexist comment!!! Horror!!!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Maybe you’re not jealous, DG, but do you disagree with my statements? Emphasis added to help you keep up:
“Bachmann may be a huge turn on for many male supporters and opponents. Many female opponents might be jealous of her looks, brains, and success. Some Bachmann supporters might be in fear of dark parking lots… and lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
The point is, DG, that you keep accusing your opponents of fear-mongering. It is clear that you are projecting more than anything. I simply pointed it out to the readers.
My Karma just ran over your Dogma