The Poor Man's Ann Coulter

When conservatives talk about race, it's generally predicated on something that could potentially happen to white people when someone that isn't white acts a certain way or excels in life to a specified degree.

Those within the fringe elements of the conservative movement, such as Michelle Malkin, have nothing but complete contempt for non-caucasions. What sets Malkin aside is the very real fact that she is a minority and will exploit that very fact when the opportunity presents itself. That's what makes this statement from her a little hypocritical.



I'm reminded of a post that I did some time ago where Malkin and Joe Hicks were discussing race and the GOP. Both agreed that the GOP didn't need minorities, which came off as more than a shade odd, as Joe Hicks is black and Malkin is Phillipino.

I would have to press Malkin far more than Matt Lauer did in this interview, as the Gates dust-up had little to do with race from Obama's perspective as it did the very real fact that the arresting office ( having determined that Gates was in his own home ) decided to take matters further simply because he was proven wrong. The race issue was manipulated by people like Michelle Malkin. But, to their advantage, both Gates and Obama are black.

It would seem that, since Barack Obama is who he is, regardless of the context of any given statement on any day, his words have to be tilted because of his race. This is how Malkin views the world, through a prism of stereotypes. To her, every hispanic is an illegal immigrant, every Arab is a terrorist, and every black man got to where they are by Affirmative Action. The catch is, if you are any of these AND a Republican ( which I will never be able to understand ) then you're alright in her book.

Much in the same way that Glenn Beck calls Obama a racist, Malkin means the same thing - she'll just attempt to dress her rhetoric up with as many polysyllabic descriptors as possible.

In the end, Malkin's books are teaming with racial opportunistic language. That makes her statement to Lauer all the more predictably hypocritical.

Newt's Nonsense

I have to wonder whether or not he realizes that he just lied, and blatantly.



I'm reminded of something that my father used to tell me. If you lie enough, you'll have to keep lying in order to keep from saying you're wrong.

It's pathological, the lying that comes from the lunatic-fringe - of which Gingrich is a primary spokesmodel. The former speaker is of the mindset that you have to be continually agressive, and without pause. It's a militaristic mindset that doesn't allowe for nuanced, strategic diplomacy.

I'm almost of the mind that Newt knows that he just lied. But, does he really care?

What's The Past-Tense Of "Tweet"

Colbert seems to know.........



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When You Don't Take Your Job Seriously, At All

When asked by The Today Show's Matt Lauer whether he agreed "agree with Rush Limbaugh when he says that it’s common sense that as a conservative he wants the policies of Barack Obama to fail?" Micheal Steele replied:

Well, my personal opinion doesn’t matter in this. My job as the RNC chairman is to take into account all of the various views out there within our party and try to put together a strategy and a team that’s going to help us win elections.

That's right, the "leader" of the RNC says that his opinion doesn't matter.

So, let's take stock here:

- A party that can't seem to find a coherent plan to put forward about rebuilding the American economy. They prefer to play the part of obstructionists and speak in glittering generalities in order to create the illusion for the base that they know what's going on.

- A party "leader" that is nothing more than a rank amatuer

- A party that looks to an overpaid entertainer who is no more a leader than Steele, yet conservative Republicans seem to think he has all the right answers. Trouble is, he has no answers



More here

Direct To DVD Nonsense

Matt Lauer and right-wing "filmmaker" John "Go Fuck Yourself Nate" Keigler had a nice chat on The Today Show:



Certainly, there were plenty of people within America that have called Palin an "idiot". But, to have that as the keystone of your argument - apparently not just within this particular interview - is a tad sophomoric.

Zeigler, to this writer, seems a bit to gung ho for his own good. By that, I mean that he seems to be far too enraptured with this idea that there is some hidden, shadow-faction of media moguls that meet annually in the Hamptons in order to discuss who they are going to get elected each voting cycle.

It's the classic "conservative sore loser" position.

People like Zeigler are not concerned with correcting the problems within the country, like the economy. They are more concerned with creating a winning image to a losing team.

That being said, I'd really like to see how the rest of the film plays out.

I'm sure that it's comedy gold.

Palin's OK With Him Now, Sort Of

Now that she isn't campaigning anymore - or is she? - Sarah Palin is giving lots of interviews.

She has recently even changed her mind about the guy she alleged was "palling around with terrorists, doncha-know".



While it was expected she would say this, it seems that Palin lacks the inability to be critical of herself, to admit that she has learned a lot. She doesn't seem able to understand that her divisive language in reference to Obama caused quite the backlash and possibly some votes.

She refuses to admit that she was in WAY over hear head and that perhaps her selection as McCain's VP not only cost him the election, but damaged the Republican party to some degree.

Palin is on, what I feel to be, a continuing campaign that just might make her a moderately viable, and only partially reasonable candidate in 2012. However, with her inability to keep her hubris in check, it is doubtful that many are going to be as comfortable with her as she is with herself.