"To the press, the only hate crimes are straight white men somehow committing acts of violence against people who are not straight white men."
It's the somehow that gets me.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 21 May 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
"I think it's only recently that there have been outspoken voices, particularly on blogs, saying, 'Shut up Jesse Jackson, we're tired of you,'" she said.
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh . . .
Dan Riehl, a conservative blogger who runs Riehl World View and contributes to Breitbart News, said that black-on-white violence isn't as predominant as other criminal-victim dynamics, but he still argued the news media have a special incentive to over-report stories of white criminals.
These people really do live in fucking fantasyland. You simply cannot have a conversation with people starting from premises as fundamentally mistaken as these are.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Monday, 21 May 2012 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUXDKnL4xGE
― j., Sunday, 27 May 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
i have literally taken shits that were smarter than that woman. they were marginally less spiteful.
― Sisig Steve (stevie), Sunday, 27 May 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
uh i don't even know what to link to, but there is some kind of bizarre legal blog war going on between a bunch of online liberals i've never heard of and conservatives. the key guy is "the speedway bomber" turned some kind of activist, Brett Kimberlin
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/345561/20120525/brett-kimberlin-speedway-bomber-blogger-terrorist.htm
apparently it started with somebody faking a 911 call about a shooting and getting the SWAT team called to a conservative blogger's home
the whole thing is really fucked up.
― goole, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
yeah michelle malkin and "twitchy" have been going on about this on twitter for the last week or so
calling a swat team on someone is obviously fucked up but patterico's hed was like "I Could Have Been Killed for Blogging" which is just
― max, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
yeah this is the victim of the attack (i think if you get the SWAT team involved it's not a "prank" anymore
http://patterico.com/
http://patterico.com/2012/05/25/convicted-bomber-brett-kimberlin-neal-rauhauser-ron-brynaert-and-their-campaign-of-political-terrorism/
what does it mean that i've never heard of any of these 'leftists' before? like not one time ever.
― goole, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
oh wait, that happened last year? then what's happening now? ok idg this at all
― goole, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
glenn beck seized on it for his radio show a couple weeks ago and malkin has been pushing it since then
― max, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
count on the corner! this is a summary of what just happened i take it
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/301263/arrested-blogging-maryland-jonathan-h-adler
― goole, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
It's a bunch of loons in a trailer park scanning eachother's phone calls, poisoning eachother's dogs, and calling the police five times a day. Getting all Sam Spade on internet machines at the library to prove that the Masons are running the whole thing.
― oh jeez. I can feel myself quicken. (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
well it's a little more serious than that, one guy was just thrown in jail for a night
― goole, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
It just keeps getting weirder.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/05/25/opening_act_blog_about_brett_kimberlin_day.html
― oh jeez. I can feel myself quicken. (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
managed to convince a technologically illiterate judge that this was incitement...
Huh? I would imagine that whatever technological form is used to publish an incitement, it is still recognizable as incitement because of what it says. Now, if the judge had been just plain illiterate, maybe it would have some bearing.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
he doesn't even understand that it's okay to be a shithead on the internet!
― Mordy, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
I'm trying to understand why crazy cousin larry went to jail, but right now I have only incoherant stories from crazy cousin larry’s family about how the government is conspiring with the lowdown sonofabitch across the way who done kilt their dog. As far as I can figure, crazy cousin larry was arrested for minding his own business because the cops and the whole town are against crazy cousin larry's family for no other reason than that they are right with the lord. I'm not defending the lowdown sonofabitch across the way who done kilt their dog. He's crazier than cousin larry! It looks like he's been harassing crazy cousin larry's family with frivolous lawsuits and calls to 911.
Larry's only been in jail for two days, so it's probably too soon to call it a sign of end days. I suspect it will be sorted out. I keep telling crazy cousin Larry's family to work with the authorities and to quit pamphleting the neighborhood and digging through the lowdown-sonofabitch-across-the-way-who-done-kilt-their-dog's garbage, but I just saw crazy cousin larry's ma on the roof with some binoculars and a police scanner.
― oh jeez. I can feel myself quicken. (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
"the lowdown sonofabitch across the way who done kilt their dog" = guy who set off a bunch of bombs, one of which blew off someone's leg
― Hauntingly Unemployed American (President Keyes), Thursday, 31 May 2012 12:09 (eleven years ago) link
Oh god, I remember this guy! He was a speaker at the 4th of July Smoke-out march in DC when I went back in like 95 or 96? My impression of him was that he was wackily psychotic and is one of the main reasons that I don't really go to political protests anymore, if I can avoid them. I had no idea about the bombings until now. That's super scary. I was like 16 years old, smoking pot, and sitting a few yards away from a convicted bomber. Fuck this guy.
― how's life, Thursday, 31 May 2012 12:32 (eleven years ago) link
my analogy still holds up. have you ever seen a horror movie?
― the conch is a well worn copy of the AD&D Fiends Folio (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
it's really weird how the response is "make this guy famous!" instead of "this guy is schizophrenic and needs help"
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
the Brynaert email is really deranged too.
i gather kimberlin has claimed (in legal proceedings?) that he's not a 'public figure' and so talking about the speedway bombings should be off limits. so 'making him famous' is both trolly and, idk, not wrong either.
― goole, Thursday, 31 May 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
i'm basically with the wingers on this one, kimberlin and these dudes seem like bonafide creeps, and if you've gotten to the point of messing around with lethal police powers for yuks you can go die afaic.
― goole, Thursday, 31 May 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/g8HC3.png
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 1 June 2012 03:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.wnd.com/files/2012/05/JUNE_12_460_wide.jpg
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 1 June 2012 03:59 (eleven years ago) link
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, May 31, 2012 11:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
this guy looks like the one dude from the tyler perry movies
― fapper don (J0rdan S.), Friday, 1 June 2012 05:08 (eleven years ago) link
^ the most shameful washingtonian
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Friday, 1 June 2012 05:14 (eleven years ago) link
Nothing says socialism like fabulously wealthy celebrities.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 1 June 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
i love this world where just showing a picture of the President with his own AG is supposed to prove some dastardly point
― Hauntingly Unemployed American (President Keyes), Friday, 1 June 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
We won The Cold War, so why are black people in power???????????
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, 1 June 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
is that Terry Bradshaw, middle left?
― atlas arghed (brownie), Friday, 1 June 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
corzine
― Hauntingly Unemployed American (President Keyes), Friday, 1 June 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
Hugo Chavez and Obama! Standing next one another! OMG, end times are near!
― Aimless, Friday, 1 June 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
Well known Marxist tax exile Bono.
― Brony! Broni! Broné! (Phil D.), Friday, 1 June 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
This is not so far-fetched as it sounds. Using the State to force ppl not to discriminate and be as racist as they wanted to be was seen as a totalitarian commie move by a lot of Americans and Robeson et al, were often attracted to the Communist Party (and willing to apologize for some pretty indefensible shit) primarily because it was one of the most forthright anti-racist parties in the country.
All those 1989 proved-us-right fuckers NEVER acknowledge how wrong about race they were.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Friday, 1 June 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
Who was it, either Chait or Pareene, mentioned that only the American Communist Party had a completely perfect record on 20th-C civil rights
― Dreaming in Infrared (kingfish), Saturday, 2 June 2012 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
Easier to do when you have no power whatsoever and no actual hope of getting any.
― Aimless, Saturday, 2 June 2012 02:13 (eleven years ago) link
True.
― Dreaming in Infrared (kingfish), Saturday, 2 June 2012 07:48 (eleven years ago) link
so what's up with this proliferation of weirdo conservative facebook pages? does Rove or Koch bros have some dopey kid on staff who just sets these up and posts links all day? judging by the "likes" they get they seem incredibly popular, and incredibly active (though it could certainly be more or less the same 2 million assholes subscribing to all of them). are there a bazillion no-name lefty/ Dem groups doing this, too?
http://www.facebook.com/ForAmericahttp://www.facebook.com/RightChangehttp://www.facebook.com/changewashingtonhttp://www.facebook.com/BeingAmericanByGOhttp://www.facebook.com/beingconservative
― it's smdh time in America (will), Friday, 8 June 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://bannerfarm.ace.advertising.com/CDN/214273/a626b903-ce80-4121-8216-a6b14876e48a.jpg
― buzza, Sunday, 17 June 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/changewashington
holy shit
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 17 June 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
x-post so building hillbilly solar panels is now a right wing thing?
― President Keyes, Sunday, 17 June 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
Obama Celebrates Anti-Police Riot Started at Mafia-Owned Bar for Transvestites… http://drudge.tw/Ly1jwH
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 June 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
Drudge hopes his readers are ignorant and/or incurious enough to take this at face value. On Friday, President Obama spoke at a reception marking LGBT pride month. The “anti-police riot” referenced by Drudge is, of course, Stonewall — one of the great, seminal moments in the modern gay rights movement.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 June 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
It is in no way surprising that a Daily Caller reporter would act like a tremendous, disrespectful asshole, as “act like an asshole” is essentially the Caller’s mission statement. Presidents shouldn’t be afforded god-like respect by the press or the citizenry, but “don’t interrupt people while they’re talking to angrily shout disagreeable things at them” is just sort of basic politeness, really. (Of course, in a movie written by a liberal screenwriter — *cough cough* Aaron Sorkin *cough cough* — Munro would be a hero. And in a movie written by a liberal screenwriter, he also wouldn’t be an obnoxious right-wing Irish-accented twit, and also his question would not be paradoxically nativist nonsense.)
http://www.salon.com/2012/06/15/angry_daily_caller_person_shouts_at_president/singleton/
― Fiendish Doctor Wu! (kingfish), Monday, 18 June 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/1866668968/profilepic.jpg
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 2 July 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
thirsty for COCAINES
― Call Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Poo-poo-pa-doop. (stevie), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 07:10 (eleven years ago) link
good overview of the whole kimberlin thing
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/10/brett_kimberlin_versus_right_wing_bloggers/
― max, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
I'm so glad Alex pores through that shit so I don't have to.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
The Maryland state attorney’s office declined to pursue it and sent him a hilarious letter:
The above-captioned matter is the third citizen complaint involving you and Mr. Kimberlin. At my direction, the State dropped the charges in the other two. Very respectfully, it is my belief that your dispute with Mr. Kimberlin cannot be resolved in the criminal justice system.
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link