Jay Bookman

By Politically Correct

September 5, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this

Ok… Since we live in the land of “free speech” what is the the list of so-called banned words that should not be used to describe Mr. Obama?

By JAY BOOKMAN

September 5, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this

Westmoreland can use any word he wishes, Correct.

However, the rest of us can criticize him for those choices, particularly since he is an elected official representing Georgia in the halls of Congress.

That’s the way free speech works. Free speech doesn’t mean you can say anything you want and never get criticized for it. It means the government can’t stop you from saying it.

By GodHatesTrash

September 5, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this

Well, the “dumber than dirt” defense is a good one for Little Lynnie Westmoreland - I’ve got things floating in my toilet with more brains than that sack of goo.

By BDAtlanta

September 5, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this

Sorry but this is a continuation from the previous thread:

Jasper, Reality, etc.:

There are two sides to taxes - the taking of tax dollars into Gov’t coffers and the depletion of those coffers through benefits to small businesses and their owners. Those benefits are there to help these businesses prosper, to help them when times are lean and, in some cases, to bail out those who never should have started a business or a particular business in the first place.

All small businesses use these services, whether it’s a tax break for having a computer in a bedroom in your house or owning a certain kind of truck to do your job. Those services are paid for through taxes…ever hear of the Small Business Administration? You guys don’t want to have to pay into those services but you want to reap the benefits of them.

God forbid you go calling on them for a benefit and don’t get treated properly because the individual who was hired to provide a service the day you went calling on them treated you poorly….maybe because their job is getting cut because Big Govt had to slash that program….then we get a new thread listening to you guys whine that Gov’t programs suck.

By sunshine and thunder

September 5, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this

This is an issue?

Why?

Or is that an “uppity” question?

By Peep

September 5, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this

They are uppity and Westmoreland is stupid.

By Chet Hayes

September 5, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

This morning I called Westmoreland’s office:

Them: Good morning, Congressman Westmoreland’s office. Me: Good morning, I would like to make a public comment. Them: Yes, sir, what is your comment? Me: I would like to compliment Congressman Westmoreland on his comments yesterday about Barack Obama. We need more people like him to call a spade a spade. You crackers in Georgia must be very proud. Them: [long pause] Sir, there’s no need to be insulting. Me: I’m sorry, but how did I insult you? Them: There is no need to call me a cracker. Me: I’ve never heard that term used in a derogatory sense. It is important to note that the dictionary definition of “cracker” is “a thin, crisp biscuit.” That’s what we meant by cracker when we used it in the city where I grew up. Them: Well, that’s not how you meant it. Me: Oh, so what you’re saying is that you don’t like being called names. Now you know how it feels. Them: [another long pause] Sir, I have to take another call.

By Robert Martin

September 5, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

I haven’t lived in the South since I was 13; my father died and I was sent to relarives up north.

That was 45 years ago, but I remember clearly that one never heard the word “uppity” without “the N-word” coming right after it.

That seems to me reason enough for this to be an issue.

By Robert Martin

September 5, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this

I haven’t lived in the South since I was 13; my father died and I was sent to relatives up north.

That was 45 years ago, but I remember clearly that one never heard the word “uppity” without “the N-word” coming right after it.

That seems to me reason enough for this to be an issue.

By TW

September 5, 2008 2:17 PM | Link to this

Gloves come off Monday. Media grace toward Bushgirl will peak this weakend, getting her as high as they can before they give her the old factual analysis.

Hope the National Inquirer hold off until then - heard the ‘other guy’ hurriedly had his divorce records sealed - how come?

By N-GA

September 5, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this

Robert,

You are absolutely correct. But the media is having a difficult time reporting it that way.

The old expression was “uppity ni@@er”, and was typically used by whites when describing blacks who tried to act as if they were equal to whites. In other words, they were not acting “superior” to whites, but were acting “superior” when compared to other blacks.

And it is so very unlikely for Mr. Westmoreland to hide from this. Simply put, Westmoreland is either stupid, or a racist. I suspect both are true.

By Taxpayer

September 5, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

Well,

I was for the Republican Party before I was against it.

By Davo

September 5, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this

So what? The only reason this is news is because someone who isnt even black finds it offensive.

*America Needs To Have A Superficial Conversation About Race *

http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/americaneedstohavea

By Davo

September 5, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this

Since Jay has seen fit to break my link….

America Needs To Have A Superficial Conversation About Race

The people of America need to put aside their differences and come together on common ground. Especially at this crucial moment in our history. How better, I ask, to achieve this goal than to engage in an inconclusive, protracted, ignorant, and superficial examination of the issue of race?

The time for vagueness is now.

Over the past 20 years, our country has become intensely polarized. The gap between rich and poor has grown ever more vast. Voters on both sides are desperate for alternatives. If we ever hope to move into a new era of enlightened multicultural exchange, we must foster, on a national scale, a second-grade-level look into the most painful and difficult issue in America’s cultural history.

Black, white, yellow, green, or brown— we can all be callously summed up in a trite statement of unity.

Like it or not, the U.S. needs a stupid conversation on the issue of race relations. Perhaps more importantly, we need this stupid dialogue to be couched in the most self-righteous, know-it-all attitudes on the part of those involved, as if they have no idea whatsoever of how much more complicated the issue is, and how little their one-dimensional approach to it brings to the table.

It’s our duty to put aside the complexities of cross-cultural communication and focus on the first idea that comes to mind. Then, after we’ve wasted 20 minutes discussing whether the term black is offensive, we can repeat the first idea over and over until we have alienated all listeners who did not already agree with us at the beginning.

Is that so very hard?

I’m talking about ill-informed citation of unconfirmed statistics on affirmative action programs. I’m talking about patronizing notions of ethnic identity. I’m talking about multisyllabic, intellectual-sounding terms like “victimization” and “social responsibility” and “self-actualization.”

The time has come to start saying foolish, foolish things about the O.J. trial once again.

It’s been too long since we sat down and shared long-discredited arguments about welfare mothers eating steak with each other. Terms like “reverse discrimination” should be put back in the spotlight. And while we’re being open and honest, why not trot out that old chestnut about the unfairness of black-only usage of “the N-word.”

I dare one of our presidential candidates to blanket the media with buzzwords like “Americanism,” without ever examining the underlying implications of what they might mean. That would be the day.

Liberals and conservatives alike, hear my plea: We can all say incredibly silly things about who does or does not have the “right” to “act” either black or white, or both.

The Information Age has opened the gates to free and unfettered communication. If we take advantage of that incredible opportunity and technology, we could, in theory, get every single political comment posted on the Internet to relate an embarrassingly simple-minded opinion on some aspect of race in America. We could have every political video clip greeted with literally hundreds of foolish and inane comments from citizens who appear never to have thought about the issue of race beyond their first naïve presumptions, or caricatures they’ve seen in the media. We could generate blogs—not just hundreds, not just thousands, but hundreds of thousands of blogs—all saying one version or other of the same basic three to five ill-informed viewpoints on this nuanced cultural issue.

Imagine it, if you can!

Since the civil rights movement, race has been our nation’s “dirty little secret”—an ugly, shameful reality swept under the rug of polite discourse, emerging only in isolated, angry outbursts about airport profiling, police brutality cases, and gangsta rap. Let’s take that issue out from under the rug—keeping that initial phase of ignorance, lack of mutual understanding, and fear—and make sure it dominates American politics for the next century.

Only by opening an embarrassingly one- dimensional dialogue on the most simple and wholly ignorant level can we ensure that we, as a nation, never get down to the deeper issues about race and identity that truly threaten to tear this country apart.

Who’s with me?

By Craig

September 5, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this

As a 30-year old who was born and raised in Atlanta, and as one who has lived here all of his life, I can share that never, not once, have I ever associated the word “uppity” with anything remotely racial.

Instead, I have always understood the connotation to mean something akin to snooty, snobbish, acting as if others were beneath you, etc.

As a side note, I don’t believe I would be considered “stupider than dirt,” (is that like being “ambitiouser than someone?”) so I’ll assume I didn’t miss something in 2nd grade about what not to say to people of different ethnic backgrounds.

I am far from being a supporter of Rep. Westmoreland, but is it that hard to believe that he, like myself, also didn’t know that implication of the word “uppity?” Is it at all possible that I’m “too young” of a Southerner, at 30, to be privy to this racially-charged definition?

By Taxpayer

September 5, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this

I was going to comment about all the elected ones and their need for spokespersons but then I figured that they really are a necessary expense for the taxpayer given that these elected idiots cannot seem to figure out that their feet are used for supporting their bodies — not filling their mouths. No wonder their health insurance premiums — and our tax burden — keep going up. Foot in mouth disease is very hard to treat because of its chronic nature with these Republican politicians.

By Hulak

September 5, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

Here we go again! It seems you can’t say anythign these days about Obama without being accused of being a racist. Just can’t wait to see all the headlines when Mccain/Palin win in November. That’s gonna be fun!

By Davo

September 5, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

Portrayal Of Obama As Elitist Hailed As Step Forward For African Americans

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/portrayalofobamaaselitist

By RealityKing

September 5, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this

“uppity”, adjective

1)Informal snobbish, arrogant, or presumptuous.

2)Taking liberties or assuming airs beyond one’s station; presumptuous

3)Definition: Rude and disrespectful. Synonyms: assuming, assumptive, audacious, bold, boldfaced, brash, brazen, cheeky, contumelious, familiar, forward, impertinent, insolent, malapert, nervy, overconfident, pert, presuming, presumptuous, pushy, sassy, saucy, smart

Uppity has racial connotations!? Where!!??

By Taxpayer

September 5, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

Let’s give Westmoreland’s spokesperson the benefit of the doubt for a moment and ask ourselves “now what?”. Surely, Westmoreland’s spokesperson then must acknowledge that Westmoreland, being the well versed and Georgia-educated person that I feel he must be given his stature, used the word based on its currently accepted definition — aggresively conceited, arrogant, putting on or marked by airs of superiority. Given this to be the only other possible explanation that Westmoreland’s spokesperson could have offered to the concerned taxpayer, then an obvious question still remaining for Westmoreland’s spokesperson would be something on the order of “What on earth did Obama do or say to provoke such a sharp retort from Mr. Westmoreland?” Do tell, Westmoreland’s spokesperson. Underwhelm us with some more second-hand rhetoric.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 5, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

By GodHatesTrash September 5, 2008 1:29 PM I’ve got things floating in my toilet with more brains than that sack of goo.

Yeah, your brains.

By Bud Wiser

September 5, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this

“By JAY BOOKMAN

September 5, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

Bud, I’ve pulled those posts down, as requested. It’s very clear who posted them, but I would be exceeding my authority on Jim’s blog by doing any more than I’ve done. Good luck.”

Thanks Jay. BTW, do you guys still throw paper airplanes at each other in the office these days, or is it the cubicle/cell structure?

My dad was in the newspaper business for 47 years, I worked there part time on and off during college. The “main news room” was one huge room with multiple desks, the editor in chief at his own positioned prominently front and center, the reporters and copy editors scattered about. The old fashioned ‘wires” (AP/UPI then) were up against the wall. I was pulling wire the day that Whitman nut was in the University of Texas tower shooting all those people. It was grim.

Also, there was a lot more than paper tossed back and forth in those days..

By AJC/DNC Management

September 5, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this

“Half of her staff really wants Sarah Palin on,” an insider explains. “Oprah’s website is getting tons of requests to put her on, but Oprah and a couple of her top people are adamantly against it because of Obama.”

Censorship?

Racism?

Or is she too “uppity” for them?

~~~~~

McCain TV Ratings Beat Obama in Preliminary Numbers

There you have it, even Thee Most Magnificent Dimwit In All Thee Land got beat the good looking girl and the old man.

And he’s the “Superstar.”

Bwa.

By Dusty

September 5, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this

Well, we are down to the bottom of the barrel today. Bookman has spent his “talents” on a “bad” word. Bad? My dictionary says uppity means arrogance. It did not say it was used only in the South as an insult. It did not mention race. The definition meant it was an apparent condition to which the adjective was applied.

Ah well, such adjectives should not be used indiscriminately because there are those who take the mantle of insult, the tenderness of heart, the purity of their own words, their humility so as never to be known as arrogant.

The opposite of arrogance is grovel. Could that be more acceptable?

And now for Bookmans next big “exclusive” word exposee’. He searches deep into the heart of HONKY!! There! I’ve said it. Another BAD word!! HONKY! Now that I have heard it, I am deeply and palely offended and will quietly retire to the nearest honky-tonk to overcome the grievance given to my uppitiness. I breathlessly await Bookman condemnation!!

By Davo

September 5, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=uppity

If the Urban Dictionary doesn’t have a racist definition…where is it? Jay? Show me

By The Way

September 5, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this

…and then Dusty wonders why she doesn’t get read.

The Cosmo defense. (seinfeld’s neighbor who went berserk racially and then said it was part of the “character” he created on stage). What? It’s a joke. What?

The macaca defense. it’s a bird, isn’t it?

Yeah, a tough old bird.

morons.

By jomo

September 5, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this

Uppity definition:

Taking liberties or assuming airs beyond one’s station; presumptuous:

The bigotry in this word is obvious. It was used back when white men could by law, beat the wife, slave and yes even the children for stepping out of line. So if Obama is Uppity then all those people who say you can be anything you want to be in this great country are full of Shiznit.

By grits

September 5, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

I don’t believe for a minute that Rep Westmoreland doesn’t know that “uppity” has acquired racial connotations but I do believe that he has a habit of speaking without first thinking which in this case has opened up an opportunity to use the pseudo-anonymity of the internet to break through some racial stereotypes. Wish me luck.

Before MLK, lily white me growing up in a lily white community was called uppity more than once by my mother when she thought I was putting on airs.

I have also more than once heard ‘boy’ used by one white man to assert himself over another. It is easy for me to imagine Westmoreland on both the giving and receiving ends of the expression.

There is no doubt that both ‘uppity’ and ‘boy” are/were used as a form of social control. I realize that their sting must be much worse when used against people suffering from more consequential racial discrimination but can you understand why white southerners who may have themselves been on the receiving end of these expressions do not think of them first as specifically racial?

By Dusty

September 5, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this

The Way@3:50

Glad you enjoyed your non-reading of my post. Ruffled your stuffiness a bit, I would say. The taxidermist will fix your feathers.

Ah….but it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s the WAY hiding behind the macaca. But not to worry. He’s just a parrot of practiced words. Nothing new.

By Ray

September 5, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

She has always been a bit uppity for my tastes and it doesn’t have a damn thing to with her race. She just seems a bit too good for those around her and if speaking to others about things that she feels be well informed about, she come across as a bit too arrogant. Chip on her shoulder….. yeah, probably. One of the most uppity people I have ever heard speak was that guy named Cornell West, used to be a Harvard, now at Yale and the head of the black studies dept in both places. Talk about uppity, arrogant and really full of himself. Spike Lee fits the bill pretty well, as well as Sharpton, Je$$ie and a few others that seem to think that being black is something a bit more special than being any other ethnic group. Call it what you will, it would offend a lot of people whether they were purple, green or had poka dots. Who cares, an uppity person is just that, regardless of race.

By jomo

September 5, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this

To Grits:

Racial is a loaded word. I always use bigot because my race cannot be defined without a forward slash +. Also I have never been able to figure out whether the Jews are a race or a religion. Use bigot instead. Race is a term only barely understood by DNA researchers nowadays.

By Dusty

September 5, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this

Well, grits,3:56

Bookman probably never ate grits in his life until he came South. Then he became an adopted Southerner, a renegade among the rebels, a warrior of the “true way”, that is “make ‘em Northern”(because there is NO prejudice of any kind in the NORTH).

A big dose of red eye gravy might help him, but he does not have the “grit”, a sad condition indeed.

We must be patient with this boy!!! He’s uppity!!! Under Wooten’s influence, he may recover. Perhaps when McCain & Palin enter the White House, the shock treatment will help his adjustment. Let’s hope so.

By Dennis

September 5, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this

Am I plagiarizing Biden when I write:

I am proud that the first Republican Woman Vice Presidential candidate is a lady “who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking” gal.

My Guess, Jay thinks Gov. Palin is a little uppity.

By The Way

September 5, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

Was Sarah Palin ever a stunt double for the LensCrafter girl?

By JAY BOOKMAN

September 5, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

Now Dusty, you have crossed the line!

I was raised in the military, but my Dad is southern through and through. Grits included.

By Bosch

September 5, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

Talked to a friend of mine whose working on Obama’s campaign - I asked her to get me a bumper sticker and a yard sign, and she told me good luck with finding one - they can’t keep them in stock.

By jomo

September 5, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

This comment may be postjudice (my made up werd for the day) but that last convention was a good mixture of white to off white. I think the GOP may want to rethink the insult everyone including Catholic community organizer theme.

By @@

September 5, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this

Again with the uppity????

I listened to the audio, and I have a question……

if Lynn Westmoreland were from say….Maine, Vermont, Delaware, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, anywhere in the northeast, and had used the word “uppity” to describe Michelle and Barack Obama, would you be harping on this Jay?

It’s ridiculous!!!!!!

Who or what are you defending with your overkill on this incident?

By Dusty

September 5, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this

Congrats, Bookman.

Glad your Dad is a Southerner. Sorry you aren’t. Guess you didn’t cross the Mason-Dixon line soon enough. You know you would have said so if true.

Can you honestly say you like grits (now cross your heart and hope to die)?? ‘Fess up!! This is the true test.

By Mrs.Godzilla

September 5, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this

Hell consider the source….remember this goofball on the Colbert Report….Mr. Ten Commandments!

Bosch…I get them from the campaign website…couple at a time…I sent my Dad a magnetic bumper sticker and a cool denim hat…

Off for last official meal of vacation.

By jomo

September 5, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this

If Obama is uppity. He has stepped outside your bounds. If you are retarded then you probably think he is. Retard –verb (used with object) 1. to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede. –verb (used without object) 2. to be delayed. –noun 3. a slowing down, diminution, or hindrance, as in a machine.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 5, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this

By Bosch September 5, 2008 4:38 PM Talked to a friend of mine whose working on Obama’s campaign - I asked her to get me a bumper sticker and a yard sign, and she told me good luck with finding one - they can’t keep them in stock

I order a McBushie- Cuda bumper sticker the moment they announced and I still haven’t gotten it yet.

By GMAN

September 5, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this

RealityKing @ 3:12 PM, you posted the following…

““uppity”, adjective

1)Informal snobbish, arrogant, or presumptuous.

2)Taking liberties or assuming airs beyond one’s station; presumptuous

3)Definition: Rude and disrespectful. Synonyms: assuming, assumptive, audacious, bold, boldfaced, brash, brazen, cheeky, contumelious, familiar, forward, impertinent, insolent, malapert, nervy, overconfident, pert, presuming, presumptuous, pushy, sassy, saucy, smart

Uppity has racial connotations!? Where!!??”

Definition #2 should answer your question!

Bush/McCain - Gambling with your children’s futures!

By AJC/DNC Management

September 5, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this

Oh my, thee Repugs are tearing that as-s up:

I’m not running for president because I think I’m blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save our country in its hour of need. My country saved me. My country saved me, and I cannot forget it. And I will fight for her for as long as I draw breath, so help me God.-McBushie

By jomo

September 5, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this

This is just like when they called him an elitist and then they looked it up in the dictionary and went…. DoH. ……Elite is the best of the best you freakin’ Idiots.

By Charles

September 5, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this

This is a quote two days ago from one of your fellow journalists:

John Harwood, CNBC’s chief Washington correspondent who also reports for the New York Times, admitted Wednesday morning on CNBC “that people who talk about bias in the mainstream press, left of center bias, are not imagining things.” He went on to explain: “It has to do with the kind of people who go into journalism, okay? So I’m not arguing with that general notion. I think that those of us in journalism have to do our best to try to present the most objective view we can of what we have, but everybody brings their own filter into it.”

Why can’t you fess up like Harwood did? Many people know how biased you folks are. There have many numerous surveys done by reputable organizations (like the Columbia University Journalism School) that show about 86% of you belong to the Democrat party.

There is no left-wing or right-wing conspiracy to control the media. Its as Norwood said, basically you are all birds of the same feather.

Your Democrat readers should take what you say with a big grain of salt. You’re fooling yourself if you think the Republicans don’t.

By jomo

September 5, 2008 5:16 PM | Link to this

Or how about let’s call him a celebrity? Because everyone hates celebrities ….right? What add wizard came up with that one?

By Randall Flagg

September 5, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this

Jay, was the “uppity” comment just as bad as when Biden said “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American presidential candidate who is articulate and bright and clean-cut and a nice-looking guy.”

I mean, Biden can use any words he wishes, Correct.

However, the rest of us can criticize him for those choices, particularly since he is running for VP.

Or is it too much to ask that the liberal media stop being hypocrits?

By N-GA

September 5, 2008 5:34 PM | Link to this

jomo,

the ad wizard certainly didn’t remember Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ronald Reagan, and Fred Thompson.

By jomo

September 5, 2008 5:39 PM | Link to this

To: Randall Flagg WTF? Is he not any of those things? Biden said: “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American presidential candidate who is articulate and bright and clean-cut and a nice-looking guy.” The only not so true thing is that Obama may not be African-American in the traditional sense because his dad was from Africa proper not of slave decent like most of the so called NIG/AFRO?/NEGRO/COLORED/WHATEVERYOUNCALLMENOW.

By Taxpayer

September 5, 2008 5:50 PM | Link to this

I think some people are just getting a little too worked up over this unfortunate event. It’s an event that Westmoreland’s spokesperson is just going to have to learn to deal with — like a man (or was it a woman). Those spokespersons sure have a rough life getting taxpayer dollars to defend someone that they probably never even talked to or knew personally or knew anyone that knew the person’s best friend’s second cousin twice removed. I just cannot imagine not getting paid well for taking on such an enormous task — speaking on behalf of a complete stranger and making it sound so believable, so personable. Westmoreland’s spokesperson did make that “explanation” sound that way, right. After all, if there were nothing to the comment to begin with, then Westmoreland’s spokesperson would have simply shrugged it off as a non-issue, right.

By jomo

September 5, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

To: Randall Flagg Oops. I spelled wrong. I have played that game… it is descent not decent. Also I am sorry did not consider that you may have found Obama not to be such a … as Biden put it … “Nice looking guy”… Good luck on your search. May I suggest Jdate.com?

By @@

September 5, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

Alrighty then! No response from Jay Bookman.

I SEE Barack Obama as someone who “Puts on Ayers.”

The kind of Ayers, who, in their self-righteous indignation, put a small group’s ideals above those of America and Americans.

The kind of Ayers who put their grievances, and the grievances of those who would follow them, above the lives of three police officers in San Francisco — one of whom died in their bombing protests. No need to bother finding out whether the officers had ideals. They were simply at the wrong place at the right time.

Can anyone doubt that that police officer’s family grieved the loss of their loved one? That he may have been the foundation for his family’s ideals?

Liberals above us all………picking and choosing what should and should not be labeled offensive.

By GodHatesTrash

September 5, 2008 5:52 PM | Link to this

The southerner, beaten down by generation after generation of alcoholism, incest, promiscuity, drug abuse, poverty, poor hygiene, practically non-existent education, and the simple-minded superstitions of fundamnentalism has always taken comfort in his/her belief that, as low and as mean as their lives have been, at least black people’s were worse.

White supremacism is not what their racism is about. These folks, when they look in the mirror, know that they aren’t superior to anybody, but by God, we can’t let those n-rs know that, especially the uppity ones.

Little Lynnie Westmoreland, is a “man” of these people. He sees the Obamas and sees two people that are far better educated, far more personable, far more intelligent, far more accomplished, far more decent, far more kind, and he knows that he could never have any of that, that he is not smart enough, not ambitious enough, not gifted enough to be anything other than a halfwit bigot. Since he sees himself as incapable of a good prosperous life, he directs his energy at pulling Obama down. This is qintessential southron behavior.

But remember, Little Lynnie - whoever wins in November, you’ll still be a worthless warmed over sack of Dixie doo.

By jomo

September 5, 2008 6:19 PM | Link to this

I would rather be uppity than a n****. The GOP are N****…………..nig·gard (ngrd) n. A stingy, grasping person; a miser………….. What do you think “conservative” means? 1. Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change. Good luck to you GOP’ers.

By @@

September 5, 2008 6:23 PM | Link to this

After all, if there were nothing to the comment to begin with, then Westmoreland’s spokesperson would have simply shrugged it off as a non-issue, right.

Taxpayer:

Cannot the same be said for those who found the word offensive?

A dull sword can’t pierce hardened armor.

I mean, if a person doesn’t consider themselves to be inferior, how can a word offend them.

By Dusty

September 5, 2008 6:36 PM | Link to this

God Hates Trash,@5:52

As usual, your sweetness and light are exceeded only by your ignorance. Anybody that posts like you has a deficency that has nothing to do with skin color. It has to do with a mind….a twisted one…the state of yours.

Most politicians do not promote those of other parties. I do not care for Westmoreland myself but far worse things have been said about Obama (and McCain) right here on this blog.

If you want everybody to clean up their act, you better start with yourself. You have a vocabulary that a skunk wouldn’t claim. Do us a favor and keep it to yourself.

By Bud Wiser

September 5, 2008 6:39 PM | Link to this

I’m staying away from this topic……

By @@

September 5, 2008 6:45 PM | Link to this

Wrong jomo!

Elitist (noun)

Translation: A self-awareness or self-pride in his/her favored status.

Now for OBlahMa to think that anyone can acquire self-respect through him is pompous. He would have to see them as lacking in order to be so presumptuous, now wouldn’t he?

By Taxpayer

September 5, 2008 6:50 PM | Link to this

@@,

Do you recall what Obama had to say about the comment.

I think the reporter asked if she could quote Westmoreland and he said yes so it’s not like someone left the mike on without anyone’s knowledge. So, I just think that Westmoreland’s spokesperson has some more splaining to do. I mean if I called you aggresively conceited, arrogant, or putting on or marked by airs of superiority, you might just want a more detailed explanation from my spokesperson as well. Then again, maybe not.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 5, 2008 7:02 PM | Link to this

Is Oprah Biased? Host Won’t Interview Palin Republican VP Nominee Sarah Palin Isn’t Welcome on ‘Oprah’-ABC

Either that or she’s not stupid.

Wouldn’t want to expose that audience of hers to a real person, let’s just keep feeding them the fake empty suits with no minds of their own.

By @@

September 5, 2008 7:06 PM | Link to this

Do you recall what Obama had to say about the comment.

I do Taxpayer. He said he didn’t see the word as racial in its context. I can also recall how OBlahMa’s surrogates jumped on Bill’s fairytale comment. How his surrogates jumped on Geraldine Ferraro’s comments.

Much ado about nothing in those comments too, but it didn’t stop his surrogates. Neither he nor his surrogates aasked for a more detailed explanation. The damage to Clinton and Hillary had already been done. No need.

When a political party uses race to divide, they find themselves entangled in a web they created.

By RW-(the original)

September 5, 2008 7:22 PM | Link to this

Two stories over a word that means arrogant and no dictionary I can find warns me of it being racially charged???

Isn’t someone that is 47, has written two autobiographies while never accomplishing anything of note, the height of arrogance?

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the first 22 seconds are pure gold

By RW-(the original)

September 5, 2008 7:35 PM | Link to this

Palin-Mania Sweeping Nation Almost Anything With Her Name On It Selling Like Hotcakes, Reports John Blackstone

Maybe Barry can’t get you a bumper sticker or a sign because the printers are all booked up.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 5, 2008 7:36 PM | Link to this

RW: You should have stuck around for the Read My Lipstick campaign sign.

Priceless.

By @@

September 5, 2008 7:38 PM | Link to this

Taking it one step further Taxpayer, let’s talk about identity politics in general, a tool used to hone the power of Democratic politicians.

Last night I heard a woman (Democrat) who said, out of fear of Sarah Palin, that women shouldn’t support her simply because she was a woman. “We have to get away from these identity politics. I was flabbergasted knowing how successful identity politics has been for them in the past. I’d love to see that same woman at some later date, asking their constituents to empathize with a group which the party promotes through identity alone.

The women’s movement was born of the left-wing ideology. A woman’s right to choose. A woman’s right to achieve. A woman’s right to equality.

All of a sudden the left is ridiculing a woman who chose to keep her child. A woman who chose to achieve. A woman who sees herself as an equal among men. A woman who chose not to see her children as barriers between her goals, or burdens to keep her from her goals

I looked at Sarah Palin’s three daughters, and wondered why Michelle Obama can see a better life for her two girls. A life where they can be anything they want to be. Two girls who can look at their father and see that all things can be made possible through him.

Why shouldn’t Sarah Palin’s daughters be allowed to see those same possibilities in a mother……a woman who shares their gender?

If the left-wing ideologues can so quickly throw a woman under the bus, at what time will they begin to throw different ethnic groups under the bus.

I firmly believe, that they’ve been throwing them under the bus for years in the interest of self and power.

By the other Bosch

September 5, 2008 7:45 PM | Link to this

….a love letter from the other Bosch….

I assume we’ve all been watching mostly the same things….and, if you’re reading, it is out of concern about establishing truth and maintaining democracy…

I have three main concerns with the speeches delivered at the Republican convention:

1) I did not appreciate it when Palin mocked Obama (paraphrasing) “what will he do?, After , parting and holding back the waters….” It was not clear to me whether she was making a joke about Obama, or if she was making a joke about religious belief. Shouldn’t we find out? If she was making a joke about Obama, is it really okay with you to reduce your convictions into a cheap political sortee? What does this say about those who applauded wildly? What does it say about the substance of your belief?

2) I did not and do not like critics making fun of Obama’s statements of ‘hope’ as ….”not being a strategy” It seems to me that we’ve already made room for ‘faith-based initiatives’. I don’t have my Bible or dictionary out, but it seems to me that, as usually defined, faith is something like the substance of things hoped for. Why would/are people willing to reduce their religious beliefs to parody?

3) As a teacher, I listened to McCains education remarks with great interest. He wants the laziest and stupidest among us to find other jobs. That can sell. The only problem is, according to No Child Left Behind, we (meaning me and all my lazy and stupid colleagues) will all eventually work for failing schools, and thereby be failing teachers. As I followed the cameras around the convention, I couldn’t help but conclude that McCain promised that the children and grandchildren of convention attendees would never again have to view a brown person.

….just Friday night thoughts from a lazy, stupid faith-based teacher.

…the other Bosch

By AJC/DNC Management

September 5, 2008 7:52 PM | Link to this

By the other Bosch September 5, 2008 7:45 PM 1) I did not appreciate it when Palin mocked Obama (paraphrasing) “what will he do?, After , parting and holding back the waters….”

Mr. Bosch: That was Rudy that said that.

By @@

September 5, 2008 7:55 PM | Link to this

Speaking of campaign paraphernalia, I got a laugh out of this in the AJC.

McCain/Palin merchandise sales increase, but it’s oh so fashionable to be an OBlahMa fan?

Buttons and bumper stickers with staid “McCain 2008” slogans were the stock in trade, compared with Obama merchandise which includes “Ohhhh — Bama” thong underwear and “Obama for your mama” maternity tees.

The way I see it is if you’re eager to have a politician up your crack all day everyday and a mama following you around 24/7, by all means……..WEAR IT PROUDLY!!!!

By RW-(the original)

September 5, 2008 7:59 PM | Link to this

AJC/DNC-M,

I went back and watched through the sign That’s the one I want up in the yard right now. I’m afraid we’ve just tripled PMSNBC’s viewership though.

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what will he do?, After , parting and holding back the waters…

That’s not just a paraphrase, it’s an outright mis characterization done solely so that you can make your religious argument.. it was a reference to Obama saying the moment of his becoming the presumptive nominee was when the seas began to recede, presumably because he has some power to stop the natural cycles of nature. She never said “parted” which is where the whole point turns.

If you really are the “other Bosch” is your entire family averse to looking up facts?

By Taxpayer

September 5, 2008 8:02 PM | Link to this

@@,

Obama did not accuse anyone of being racist. Isn’t that what you said. I sure didn’t either. But, I’d sure want to know why someone found me to be uppity. Of course, that’s just me — always trying to understand why. It’s a learning thing for me. As for those no good worthless surrogates, they just don’t make ‘em like they used to, do they. By the way, you did call me arrogant one time as I recall and all I did was comment to Bud Wiser about his need of a course in reading comprehension (based on my assessment of statements that he made regarding some of my posts) and my willingness to take on that task if the price were right. Is that the way you recall it. Now, was that really arrogance on my part or just a little friendly exchange of our very own jib jabs. I guess I would have to conclude that there was insufficient information in the posts to make that call, as an outsider, with any level of certainty.

What about someone that wrote auto-biographies. That sounds so peculiar, doesn’t it. After all, that’s not something that everyone does and certainly not while they’re alive, huh. By the way, my wife would call that some more of my dry humor. I’ve also co-authored a chapter in a book, written numerous white papers (that’s not a racist phrase), received over a dozen US patents, etc., but I’m not saying that out of arrogance. I consider these things to be my life’s work to date — sort of like my own unwritten auto-biography. I even take pride in my past works. As a matter of fact, while I was employed, I was required to write up these accomplishment once a year. Can you imagine that! It was almost like maintaining a living resume. Then again, not everyone really has a need for such a thing.

By @@

September 5, 2008 8:13 PM | Link to this

Mrs. Bosch:

You’ll have to lay some blame on the media, Nancy Pelosi and the adulation of the masses for OBlahMa’s messianic image. He certainly didn’t discourage it either.

“I am God, and there is none else: I am God, and there is none like me.”

It’s certainly O.K. to make clear the scriptures. Not only is it O.K., it’s required. If humor gets the point across, all the better. People are more receptive to humor. Conservatives know OBlahMa’s not God, but some of his supporters appear to need reminding.

faith is something like the substance of things hoped for.

There is no hope in earthy possessions.

He wants the laziest and stupidest among us to find other jobs

He didn’t say that. He said he would help find failing teachers other jobs.

There’s a Christian school near my home. It’s 95% African American. The other 5% are sharing in a faith-based education among brown faces which have sought the same quality education. Are you implying that brown people aren’t religious or desirous of a better education than Clayton County has to offer?

By GMAN

September 5, 2008 8:23 PM | Link to this

The worst example of an officer in the US military… John “Mr. Magoo” McCain. 1) C student in high school 2) Bottom of class in Annapolis 3) Worst pilot in aviation history 4) Awful Husband

Bush/McCain - Gambling with your children’s futures!

By @@

September 5, 2008 8:24 PM | Link to this

Is that the way you recall it. Now, was that really arrogance on my part or just a little friendly exchange of our very own jib jabs.

Do you really expect me to recall something from way back when? The fact that you do makes me wonder if you didn’t see some truth in what I said.

Congratulations on all your accomplishments! Sounds very fulfilling. Sounds like you don’t need me to top you off……or

do you want me to top off your tank there Taxpayer? Congratulations is all I have to offer.

I’ve got my own tasks and responsibilities to attend to.

Don’t mean to be offensive, but you’re wierd!

By Bush go away

September 5, 2008 8:26 PM | Link to this

Another press release from the Westmoreland camp:

“About my statement ‘It’s not like the good ole days when we could always count on the KKK.’ When I said it, I had never heard of any negative connotation about the term KKK. I always thought it referred to a Braves pitcher who had three stikeouts in a game. Seriously, I’m as shocked as anyone that it referred to something else.”

By J$

September 5, 2008 8:32 PM | Link to this

awwww, the left’s in a tizzy because some rep. said, “uppity”?

At least he didn’t say he wanted to cut his nuts off on national television.

didn’t see a cry fest over that one…

maybe they need to publish the liberal PC dictionary?

By the other Bosch

September 5, 2008 8:34 PM | Link to this

….only this…

1) check my assertion: will all schools ultimately be failing schools?

2) ask 100 white and 100 brown people you know: if your school makes the failing list, would you be able to manage the ‘choice’ of going to another school, or would you need the ‘goodwill’ of a bus, extended day, or etc…

the other Bosch

By You can't say that

September 5, 2008 8:36 PM | Link to this

“Do they have blacks in Idaho? They don’t have many.”

OMG….another racist in the house!

By RW-(the original)

September 5, 2008 8:39 PM | Link to this

Here’s the quote: “And the other thing I heard, I heard a very - by the way, I mean this sincerely - a very strong and a very good political speech from a lieutenant governor of Alaska, who I think is going to be very formidable, very formidable.”-Hairplugs Biden

Well at least he moved her up a notch from his boss calling her the Mayor of Wasilly [sic]

I think it’s October 2nd when Hairplugs has to face Sara’Cuda. It ain’t gonna be pretty if she realizes he can pack 18 lies into a five second sound bite.

By BDAtlanta

September 5, 2008 8:40 PM | Link to this

Who threw Sister Sarah under the bus? She came out of nowhere and everyone wants to know about her. Are we supposed to give her a free pass and not ask questions?

It’s becoming increasingly apparent the McCain team didn’t thoroughly check her out. Someone has to. She could be a member of a separatist movement (not that she is…but she could be.)

Obama made it easy for everyone - he reached as far as…Delaware. He didn’t go reach into the hinterlands to find someone nobody new to get that darn spotlight off his opponent.

Face it, Obama has a vision and McCain…well….he can’t find his spectacles at the moment. But if he could find them he’d find something to focus on…like maybe a snack….he likes ice cream.

By @@

September 5, 2008 8:44 PM | Link to this

will all schools ultimately be failing schools?

Nope, they’ll strive to compete with the best, or they’ll go under.

Good grief Mrs. Bosch!!!! Your lack of confidence in brown people is astounding…..

ask 100 white and 100 brown people you know: if your school makes the failing list, would you be able to manage the ‘choice’ of going to another school, or would you need the ‘goodwill’ of a bus, extended day, or etc…

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Do you assume they are without will? Without resources? Without friends or family who support them?

Appalling!!!!!!!!!!

By FrankLeeDarling

September 5, 2008 8:46 PM | Link to this

Obama ,what one half of America needs and the other half deserves

By TW

September 5, 2008 8:47 PM | Link to this

The more appropriate lipstick quote for Palin would have been the one about putting lipstick on a pig - put it on as heavy as you want, but you’re still left with nothing but pork.

Speaking of which, it’s time for the media to ask Gov Palin what she did with the money she took for the Bridge to Nowhere, $223m, being that her claim to have told Washington ‘No Thanks’ was a bunch of crap.

The games begin on Monday.

Should have been Romney.

By The REAL reason for NoChildLeftBehind

September 5, 2008 8:47 PM | Link to this

By the other Bosch,

No Child Left Behind was not designed to help schools. It was actually designed to create failing schools so they could introduce vouchers. How else to explain that if ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of a school’s students don’t pass the test, the ENTIRE SCHOOL is labeled a “failing school”?

Yes, that’s what the law reads will happen by 2014. It was designed to make sure teachers can’t do anything but fail, by putting into federal law that if every single child does not pass the test, the ENTIRE SCHOOL is a “failure.”

While we need major reforms (notice the “law and order/personal responsibility” Republicans are too spineless and gutless to address discipline?) putting teachers through a meatgrinder by deliberately setting them up to fail is morally bankrupt. In other words, typical Bush.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 5, 2008 8:52 PM | Link to this

When a whole pack of toady liberals whine and moan about America and say they are moving to Canada, they are immediately hoisted up upon the pinko filth pile and worshiped as some sort of visionary, after which they scurry straight back to their wormy rathole in Manhattan, U.S.A, safely wailing from behind the protection of the greatest fighting force in the world, chest pounding sissies all.

Now these same panty waists want to carp about Sexy Sarah’s hubby talking about getting as far away as he can from liberals?

Hmmmmmm.

By BDAtlanta

September 5, 2008 8:53 PM | Link to this

He, who are the brown people? People with good tans count?

AJC/DNC Mgmt, Oprah did state a while back that she would not use her show as a platform for any of the candidates. She should break that rule for Sister Sarah? She backs Big O but he hasn’t been invited on the show, has he?

By RW-(the original)

September 5, 2008 8:55 PM | Link to this

BDAtlanta,

Didn’t you get the memo? Hairplugs is only to be referred to as from Scranton, PA.

I think his theme song is going to be 30,000 Pounds of Bananas.

By @@

September 5, 2008 8:55 PM | Link to this

BDAtlanta:

Who threw Sister Sarah under the bus?

Hateful left-wing bloggers and their media moguls.

Following McCain’s announcement of Sarah Palin as his VP, the left began their attacks against her based on limited knowledge of who she was. According to them, she was not to be given the same considerations afforded to other women of the left-wing ideology.

Actually, it would be more appropriate to say they threw their own ideology under the bus trying to drag Sarah under there with ‘em.

Sarah escaped though. The liberals were left flattened.

By the other Bosch

September 5, 2008 8:56 PM | Link to this

Wow, @@,

have you already asked?

…the other Bosch…

By Taxpayer

September 5, 2008 8:59 PM | Link to this

@@,

Just out of curiosity, why did you even bother to start up a conversation with your 6:23 post to me only to end it with remarks that strike me as just plain rude and inconsiderate. Are you trying to emulate Bud Wiser or Andy? Did you even stop for a second to think that maybe I actually have a little bit of recall and that maybe I happened to bring up little bits of information because they actually fit into the discussion. I actually attempted to recall facts — not some so-called “truth” that you have managed to contrive. Furthermore, the last thing I will ever need is your acknowledgment of my accomplishments. I thought you wanted a serious exchange. Based on your remarks, I was obviously mistaken.

Have a good evening.

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