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WATCH OUT STRAIGHTS I'M INVITING YOU

"much like a vampire, alfred must invite a straight inside"

those limbaugh quotes are pretty tame compared to what a comparable list of his anti-woman or anti-black quotes would look like

Have you ever switched to the show and heard "Dancing Queen" precede a reference to Barney Frank? Why didn't he use "Knowing Me, Knowing You"?

i've been meaning to start a poll on the disconnect between rightwing talk radio and the theme music they'll use - limbaugh and the pretenders obv, but hannity using martina mcbride's 'independence day' never fails to amuse me, and laura ingraham using john lennon's 'power to the ppl' i figure has to be deliberate trolling (though this ridic 'lennon was a reaganite at the end' story they've been spreading around makes me wonder); couldn't think of enough others to make it pollworthy though.

I don't remember if it was Ellen Willis who said that the huge success of the Movement is its appropriation of leftist revolutionary tropes.

i've seen alinsky's rules for radicals sold on what was clearly the 'tea party' table at the local borders

yep -- some of those NRO commenters have cited it.

still the 'independance day' one blows my mind - hannity's audience is obv going to be very familiar w/ this song and going to know that it is in no way remotely a patriotic anthem, not even in a 'well you could accidentally interpret it..' way like 'born in the usa' or hell 'power to the ppl' - and yet every afternoon there it is LET FREEDOM RIIING and i'm like 'ok is everybody just agreeing to pretend that this crazy wrongness is actually right?' and then i realize 'oh wait, right'.

yeah, but you see the liberals are the abusive husband and the right wing is the battered wife setting the house on fire.

So wait – is this true?

I seriously doubt it

I have witnessed multiple legendary scoldings over the term "jimmies" though, which has never failed to be hilarious

I have never heard this term until today! Sprinkles is not that cumbersome a word to use.

thought jimmies were condoms

^^^^ yes, exactly, hence my first encounter with this usage was momentarily startling

Those are "jimmy hats."

Love how many of those NRO comments boil down to "if that word isn't really racist, here are some other terms you can use to provoke minorities!"

omg it all comes around

[Approved commenter] DavidJ

07/05/11 12:06

Interestingly, I was thinking about just this kind of thing yesterday when I saw a Dairy Queen sign advertising their "Moolattes."

lol

that is still my favorite thing in the whole world

lol

who "thinks about just this kind of thing" besides these people?

I have a friend who is down for a DQ pilgrimage so I can take a picture of a mulatto enjoying a Moolatte

this must happen

Good job he's cited his sources like a professional:

In a conversation yesterday with a few folks

[Approved commenter] MarkW

07/05/11 12:29

I remember a few years back when a city manager was nearly fired for using the term niggardly. Which is inherited from Scandanavian and means miserly.

(Man, I'm really surprised that word made it past the bad word filter.)

this incident has taken on totemic significance hasn't it... i don't even remember what the original time & place was tbh

My last moolatte was tragic.

xp: it was in Texas IIRC

of course, attempting to google it takes you straight to the Wikipedia page for the n-word; draw whatever conclusions from that you want

Tbf there are ridiculous human beings who sincerely fixate on these kinds of things- tho in my experience it's more to win social points than out of legit concern

it's a little bit irritating how self-congratulatory ppl are about it.

i bet we could play some kind of game, every corner post about race or language or "PC" gets a 45 minute window before someone brings up "niggardly" again

this incident has taken on totemic significance hasn't it.

It's the McDonald's Coffee Case of racism and political correctness.

It hasn't happened until Jonah's written a column and he's debated its substance with Peter Beinart.

look if you're white and well-off what are you going to feel aggrieved about besides the possibility that someone might scold you over a candy name; everyone needs a two minutes' hate apparently

xpost -- You were saying?

Those are "jimmy hats."

I know, but I often heard it condensed to "jimmies"--(though they were probably technically what the hats were covering.)

isn't referring to white guys as "jim" an old-school (1960s or before) putdown used by blacks, like some redneck calling a black guy "rufus"

Edifying!

Ned, it must thrill you to live in a city whose newspaper is Jonah's home.

It's great because I know my eyes can conveniently blur whenever Tuesday rolls around.

it's so strange. the sense-memory of the fear of lucianne must be so strong, what else keeps him employed now, except inertia? he has absolutely no redeeming or even remarkable characteristics as a writer or lol 'thinker'. every other professional right winger is more interesting. he's not even hateable, just hapless.

"Yo, goole, you need copy editing advice, hit me up. I'm coolin it behind Target."

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_845ywsAF1Oc/R14KltELALI/AAAAAAAAAF0/hG8T6VV0uy4/s320/jonah_goldberg_in_car.jpg

^^modern version of the old "kids - don't accept rides from strangers" warnings

"hey I've got something cool to show you on the computer...no I know your mom, she said it was OK"

still lol at the marriage advice Maggie Gallagher gleaned from G. Gordon Liddy:

I have stopped divorces in my own social circle, simply by saying “It sounds like you would be better off, but there’s not much in it for your kids.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/270799/what-read-summer-nro-symposium

Derbyshire's summer reading recommendation: some book arguing that apartheid was just swell

Ilana Mercer calls her book “a labor of love to my homelands, old and new.” The old is South Africa, which the author left in 1995. The new is the U.S.A. In both nations the founding European stock . . .

"Founding European stock." You mean illegal immigrants?

First of all, buy the children in your life anything and everything written by Robert A. Heinlein.

A Pair of Faces . . .
July 5, 2011 1:25 P.M.
By Jay Nordlinger
. . . one kindly and dear, the other beastly and murderous. (Nice cheekbones, though.) I’m talking about Colonel Sanders and Che Guevara.

of course you are

billy-clubbed by the Thought Police over these seemingly innocuous candy bits

Do We Want the Casey Anthony Jury on Terrorist Trials?
July 6, 2011 1:42 P.M.
By David French

So basically--"Do we want the {}jury on {}trials?" Love that constitution!