The Other McCain

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Did You Request Your KeithOlbermann.com Address Yet?

Posted on | July 20, 2010 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

Tucker Carlson has struck comedy gold here, I think, at least amongst the geek set.
I just requested:

[email protected]

Oh, that saucy Tucker.

Category: humor

Politizoid Takes On Charlie Crist

Posted on | July 20, 2010 | 4 Comments

by Smitty ( via Kathryn Jean Lopez)

Not bad, but there is real opportunity to build here:

Crist in Wonderland Episode 1 from RightChange on Vimeo.

Category: Uncategorized

‘Go Back to Europe’? You Mean, Where They Speak Foreign Languages?

Posted on | July 20, 2010 | 45 Comments

The Brown Beret protester yells at white Tea Party protesters through a megaphone: “Go back to Europe! You don’t belong here!”

Via Memeorandum and Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit, where the focus is on the racism of the Chicano militant group colloquially known as “The Klan With a Tan.”

Allow me to suggest that let’s not scream “raaaaacism” at these idiots. Rather, let’s point out the ironic absurdity of someone whose native language is Spanish telling other people to “go back to Europe.”

Think about the moronic Luddite impulse on display here. Not only is this lady’s language imported from Europe, but she’s yelling through a bullhorn — a device employing technology invented by Euro-Americans like Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. And she’s yelling outside a baseball stadium (Abner Doubleday?) in Anaheim, a town founded by German settlers in 1857.

Where did the Brown Berets get the inspiration for this kind of rhetoric? It was not from the Klan or the Know-Nothings or other white nativist groups. Rather, the roots of Chicano radicalism — like so many other contemporary radicalisms — can be traced to the 1960s.

This megaphone-wielding moron isn’t imitating the Klan or neo-Nazis, she’s imitating SDS, SNCC, the Black Panthers and the Weather Underground. She isn’t mimicking J.B. Stoner or George Lincoln Rockwell, but rather Mark Rudd, Stokely Carmichael, Huey Newton and Bernardine Dohrn.

Yelling “raaaaacism” at these ethnic hustlers doesn’t achieve the same effect as when liberals scream “raaaaacism” at conservatives. Why? Because the the Brown Berets’ implicit claim to legitimacy is rooted in the radical conception of non-whites as universally victimized.

Conservatives don’t really win any important argument merely by pointing out that militant are racist, because the radical rhetoric of the militants is cloaked in the sacred mantle of victimhood. If their claims of victimhood are valid, then their militancy is justified.

Debunk the victimhood narrative, however, and you have exposed the militants as peddlers of a bogus mythology, charlatans who are not authentic spokesmen for any legitimate grievance.

Therefore, let me point out that, judging by her greater fluency in Spanish than English, this Brown Beret woman is evidently not a native Californian, a fact that would tend to undermine her authority to tell other people living in California to “g0 back to Europe” or anywhere else. (Really, why should she single out Europeans? Does she have no quarrel with the immigrants from Korea, Pakistan and Kenya who have taken up residence on the sacred soil of Atzlan?) And far from seeking the universal oppression of Latinos, not only did these Tea Party protesters — supposedly hateful white racists — fail to inflict violence on her, but on none of them even suggests that she “go back” to wherever she came from.

She is manifestly a non-victim.

Category: California, Foreigners, Immigration, Video

Georgia Primary Today

Posted on | July 20, 2010 | 3 Comments

Just a reminder that it’s primary day in Georgia and we’ll be watching the results for two congressional candidates we’ve been following for months: Liz Carter in the 4th District (Yank Hank!) and Ray McKinney in the 12th District (Beat Barrow!).

Category: Election, Georgia

Andrew Sullivan Back From Vacation

Posted on | July 19, 2010 | 31 Comments

You may wonder: What topic would Sully blog about Monday, having been off the grid for the past week or so?

Guess. C’mon, guess.

If you can’t guess, you’ll probably click this link. And feel ashamed of yourself for doing so.

Related: Guess who the New York Post considers an authoritative source for an anti-Palin story?

Category: Andrew Sullivan

There Are Some Things That Only Democrats Can Get Away With; UPDATE: Shirley Sherrod Resigns!

Posted on | July 19, 2010 | 54 Comments

Including public declarations of racial discrimination:

Speaking of rural Georgia, if you live in Georgia’s 12th District and don’t like being represented by Shirley Sherrod’s fellow Democrat John Barrow, remember to vote Tuesday for Ray McKinney, who just got endorsed by the Tea Party Express.

UPDATE: Fox News:

The Agriculture Department announced Monday, shortly after FoxNews.com published its initial report on the video, that Sherrod had resigned.

(Via Hot Air.) Let’s make sure we all understand the principle involved here: Obama spends 20 years in Rev. Jeremiah “G–D— America” Wright’s church, and that’s no big deal. A low-level USDA appointee says bad stuff about white people and under the bus!

Category: Democrats, Georgia, Racism, Tea Party, Video

Everybody Have Fun at Right Online!

Posted on | July 19, 2010 | 20 Comments

My friend Steve Eggleston of No Runny Eggs blog fame asked me a question on Twitter:



Read  the article for yourself: “[T]he nation’s foremost new media experts from across the country” — a list from which my name is omitted. As I explained three weeks ago:

The list of speakers for this year’s conference includes Erick Erickson and Ed Morrissey — both of whom are far more interesting than me, which is why they’re on the list and that bastard Erik Telford didn’t invite me, just like he snubbed me last year.

I might suggest that readers hit the tip jar, but I doubt you would want me to attend a conference where I am so obviously unwelcome. 

Nevertheless — for your sake, dear reader — I just checked Travelocity. Even if I booked a flight today, the lowest round-trip fare would be nearly $600, but it takes three days for money to clear through PayPal after somebody hits the tip jar. This means that, by the earliest time I could get the money in my checking account, I’d be paying a premium for a last-minute ticket Thursday. (Right Online begins Friday morning at the fabulous Venetian Resort Hotel.)

So the only way I could possibly afford to get to Vegas by Friday would be to drive more than 2,300 miles one-way, which would take 38 hours non-stop. That’s 4,600 miles round-trip at 20 cents a mile = $920. And I’d have to leave Wednesday night, bringing along my 17-year-old son as relief driver . . .

But that would be insane. Only a complete lunatic like Bob Belvedere would even dare suggest such a desperate last-minute expedition.

It comes down to this: Are there 20 readers in the blogosophere who would be willing to bet $50 that I’m really that crazy?

Or are there 50 people who would wager $20?

Could there possibly be 100 people who would gamble $10 on the long-shot chance that, sometime Friday, I’d roll up in front of the fabulous Venetian Resort Hotel — unshaven, unbathed, wearing the same clothes I had on when I got in the car Wednesday night — toss the keys to the valet, walk into that conference and shout out, “Where’s Erik Telford?”

Maybe 200 people would pay $5 to see the look on Telford’s face?

Probably not. I’ve been on a long streak of bad luck lately. But maybe I’m due for a lucky break.

Category: Blame Erik Telford, Nevada, Operation Blame Erik Telford, Shoe Leather Fund

Did I Mention That My Daughter Has Made Dean’s List Every Semester?

Posted on | July 19, 2010 | 26 Comments

Fortunately, because I’m not rich, there was never any danger that my daughter would darken the door of Ross Douthat’s alma mater:

“Last year, two Princeton sociologists, Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford, published a book-length study of admissions and affirmative action at eight highly selective colleges and universities. Unsurprisingly, they found that the admissions process seemed to favor black and Hispanic applicants, while whites and Asians needed higher grades and SAT scores to get in. But what was striking . . . was which whites were most disadvantaged by the process: the downscale, the rural and the working-class. This was particularly pronounced among the private colleges in the study. For minority applicants, the lower a family’s socioeconomic position, the more likely the student was to be admitted. For whites, though, it was the reverse. An upper-middle-class white applicant was three times more likely to be admitted than a lower-class white with similar qualifications.”

My daughter should be grateful, then, that she is “lower-class,” so she’s dean’s list at her state university (working her way through) and recently married. If I had been rich, my daughter might have gone to Harvard and become an insufferable snob like Ross Douthat.

Category: Education, Family
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