More On "The Worried Well"

Aide To Racist Nixon Can't Stop Calling Others Racist

Considering his own history of complicity, it kinda makes Ben Stein's charge that Obama knows "so little of history" mute:

The rest of what he says is just stupid,...

Repeated Racial Betrayals Have Doomed Republicans

The NYT has published a Michael "Spock" Beschloss history lesson.

"Hi, black American, trying to make the country great - I'm the white guy out to screw you!"

This time, it's about Jackie Robinson's sad, wannabe-friendship with Richard Nixon, which Spock uses to explain why blacks haven't voted with Republicans since LBJ - white racism:

Although Presidents Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson championed what became the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Robinson quit his executive job at Chock Full o’Nuts that spring to campaign for Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, a Republican, explaining that “we must work for a two-party system, as far as the Negro is concerned.”

But Republicans nominated Barry Goldwater, who opposed the 1964 legislation as unconstitutional. When Rockefeller denounced political extremism at the party’s San Francisco convention, Robinson, a “special delegate,” shouted, “C’mon, Rocky!” As Robinson recalled, an Alabama delegate “turned on me menacingly” before “his wife grabbed his arm and turned him back.”

Spoiling for a fight, Jackie cried, “Turn him loose, lady, turn him loose!” He later wrote with uncharacteristic overstatement that on leaving San Francisco, “I had a better understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler’s Germany.”

That fall, Robinson joined the 94 percent of the African-American electorate that backed President Johnson. (Since then, the percentage of the black vote for Democratic presidential nominees has never dipped below the low 80s.) In 1968, furious over Nixon’s courtship of Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who had once led the segregationist “Dixiecrats,” Jackie backed the Democratic nominee, Hubert Humphrey,… 

He'd always tried to be friends, and whites seemed to like him - once he was dead.

It was the nomination of Barry Goldwater that got Martin Luther King to switch, too - he told others, as well. 

We hear you - and see you - but have never done so passively.

A part of history conservatives don't want to dwell on as (appearing smart to racist whites by filling blacks with revulsion) they denounce us as "brainwashed" by Democrats to stay "on the plantation." Exactly the type of slavery-influenced words, memories,  reminders, tactics, and racial strategies, that seem to tickle racists pink - but will keep blacks anywhere, but with the Republicans, for a long, long time to come.

No Ghetto Pass? No Hoes!

If, after their many years of betraying blacks, white Republican conservatives keep expecting us to go along with what they insist -  instead of white Republican conservatives deciding to do what blacks need - there's no way this black/white thing will ever be able to end.

At least, not on TMR,…

 

Movin' On Up?

It’s not an accident that affirmative action and Nixon’s “law and order” campaign are both rooted in the same historical moment: the backlash to civil rights,...affirmative action and mass incarceration are just two sides of the same coin: one program to manage the aspirations of the black middle class, one to contain the anger of the black underclass. Both are forms of social control, and neither has anything whatsoever to do with repairing the real damage wrought by slavery and segregation.

Steve Martin Did A Bad Thing - Needed An Edumacation

Poor Steve Martin - the internet is becoming, like, The Hills Have Eyes or some shit for racism:

Then came dismay at the unwarranted betrayal - did Steve Martin ever have a Ghetto Pass? He plays the banjo, so I don't know. The banjo can make racism sound happy, like Martin famously said it could, for Nixon.

Big laugh.

 

Is it bash black folks day on twitter? RT @trice10552: Steve Martin coming for us too? For why?

O.K., Stevie, you're white, you're rich - you've used race, blacks and Indians (almost exclusively) for comedy before - what do you say? It's the Buddha calling, baby - Big Time. You know the New Age rules - you and Tina Fey made a movie about them:

BE HUMBLE!

Sorry about that. RT @illmami: I'm not totally offended but I don't want to be the one saying it. It was witty. But nawl. Not today.

Ooooh - EXCUUUUUUUUUUUSE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! 

Not. Humble. Enough. Steve. 

Too "sophisticated" for any American but the cocksucking French art lovers you're known to hang with now - try again:

I did apologize. But again, a second later I realized what an offensive thing I'd done. Deep bow.

Better - 12 Years of Cool - but know something: 

 You've been walking a very-thin cultural line, for a long time now, Mr. Mark Twain Award winner and - like blogging professors - we expect better of you. 

And we're very disappointed when you fail us. Believe it or not - we're counting on you. 

And it's important that we do.

Yeah, I learned that.

Good - so go hold up your end and keep helping with the others who can't:

And stay afloat, Holmes - we love you,...

The Dark Knight Is Here (And The Dark Son Sets)

Whoo, buddy, y'all done gone and done it now:

Assassination in American history has pretty regularly been the blessèd resort of the Left. Start with Leon Czolgosz, the anarchist who murdered the very conservative William McKinley; turn next to Harry Orchard, the union bomber who blew up Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg in 1905; turn again to Lee Harvey Oswald, the Marxist who murdered JFK (but whom Oliver Stone tried mightily to redefine as a clandestine conservative); add in Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, who tried to attack Gerald Ford in 1975 on behalf of “clean air, healthy water, and respect for creatures and creation,” and Sara Jane Moore, who fired a .38 revolver at Ford a few weeks after Fromme’s abortive attack because the “government had declared war on the left”; and then top it off with John Hinckley, the would-be assassin of Ronald Reagan who claimed Lee Harvey Oswald as his role model, and you begin to get some sense of how closely the profile of the gun-toting lunatic assassin suits the Left’s enragés. When the Left talks about violence from the Right, the only name it seems able to come up with is that of Timothy McVeigh.

I also seem to remember that the “climate” of nastiness that is supposed to have fostered the Giffords assassination attempt did not spring from the head of the Tea Party. It began long, long ago, sometime between Lyndon Johnson’s anti-Goldwater atom-bomb ads and the election of Richard Nixon, and then accelerated with the election of Ronald Reagan (whom Sam Donaldson badgered at press conferences in a manner unthought-of in the previous history of the Washington press corps). I was a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania when Reagan was gunned down, and I awoke the next day to find an op-ed column in The Daily Pennsylvanian, written by one Dom Manno, a DP staffer, gloating over the shooting and regretting only that the president had survived. Mr. Manno had to be taken in hand by the Secret Service for a brief lesson about the consequences of encouraging assassins, but the lesson Manno’s column taught me was about the serene sense of immunity he had felt in wishing a conservative president dead. The Left, in other words, never notices when it turns politics or journalism into a free-fire zone. It is only when one of its own gets hit in the process that the nastiness becomes unspeakable — but it is still never the Left’s fault for having manufactured the ammunition in the first place.

If we are living now in a time of unprecedented political “vitriol” — and I believe we are, and very much to the detriment of democracy itself — it is a brand of vitriol that was sprayed with relentless generosity on George W. Bush, who was caricatured by The Nation, day by day during his presidency, as a morphed version of Mad Magazine’s Alfred E. Neuman. And it was only yesterday that the Left’s president referred to Republicans as “enemies,” while the Speaker of the Left snarled at her critics as Nazis with swastikas.

Still, the rule of the Left is that nothing committed by the Left is a sin, whether it’s poisoning the political “climate” for the last forty years, or accusing “the Tea Party” and “the Right” of poisoning it when they strike back in kind. This is hypocrisy on a grand-mal scale.

Wow. A NewAger goes on a(nother) killing spree and it unleashes a level of scrutiny on the Left unseen, probably, in it's history? Now who woulda thunk that? (A little late but - hee-hee) Oh, come on, laugh!

Or should we say:

I Told You: The Big Lie Is We're "Going Green"

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Folks, even if we go nuclear (which we should) we're not getting off of foreign oil, and we're not going to run out of oil either; we're not going organic, nor are we going to "save the planet" (because it doesn't need "saving" - and whatever arrogant NewAge hippie came up with that one was really smoking some good shit) all we're, eventually, going to do is grow the fuck up, and come to our senses, about the state of the world and it's resources - which ain't bad:

Except in the minds of a bunch of delusionally apocalyptic NewAgers, who don't mind wasting said resources, trying to avoid their paranoid daydreams.

Our one seriously pressing problem is that we've ever listened to them in the first place, and continue to do so.

Get over doing that and the planet - meaning those of us living on Earth: not "Gaia" - just might stand a fighting chance.

Hat Tip: Althouse

Where's It Gotten You So Far? (We're Out There)

"When Cheney first began pushing back against Barack Obama’s repeated and scornful assessments of the Bush administration, most analysts figured that Cheney was tilting at windmills — and that the GOP needed to distance themselves from Cheney.  The rapid re-evaluation appears to have made hash of that advice. If Cheney — a politician as unpopular as Richard Nixon — could strengthen his standing by demanding an honest debate from the President, then perhaps other Republicans should be following suit."

-- Ed Morrissey, having one of those "D'oh!" moments, which can sure use up a lot of Hot Air.

"An honest debate"? What is "an honest debate" in this environment? Dick Cheney can take on the president only because he's Dick Cheney and he has the position and resources to do so. The CIA can take on Nancy Pelosi, sure, but the farther we are from power - out here in "TV Land" - we can be shouted down, right or wrong, by anyone, at any time, for any reason. Sabotaged even, in any number of appropriately cowardly fashions.

Republican or Democrat, we know the first reaction of cowards, as Ed Morrissey points out above, is to "distance themselves" from anyone determined to have "an honest debate". How far away they stand, or whether they possibly take action, is determined by how angry the mark becomes - which is usually determined by how big and stupid a lie (or lies) a mark was being asked to swallow - our only point being you can count on it that, unless it's meant ironically, cowards will always come up with something other than "Let's have 'an honest debate.'" They couldn't be called cowards otherwise.

Why, you start that "honest debate" stuff and who knows where it could lead?

We're The Dumb Making Scum Look Good

"The true farce and disgrace [of the debate] is that this increasingly glassy-eyed old blunderer and war criminal, who has been wrong on everything since he first authorized illicit wiretapping for the Nixon gang, should be cited as an authority by either nominee, let alone by both of them. Meanwhile, I repeat my question from two weeks ago: Does Sen. Obama appreciate, or do his peacenik fans and fundraisers realize, just how much war he is promising them if he is elected? Once again on Sept. 26 in Mississippi—at the end of a week when American and Pakistani forces had engaged in their first actual direct firefight—he repeated his intention of ignoring the Pakistani frontier when it came to hot pursuit of al-Qaida. Out-hawked on this point, as he was nearly out-doved on the Kissinger one, McCain was moderate by comparison."

-- Christopher Hitchens, drunkenly being more clear-eyed than most, for Slate.com.