I haven't heard "boo" out of the right denouncing Hitchens for this, yet they want to portray their poobah, Rush Limbaugh, who imagines that people expect him to receive anal sex from the President just because he's black, as the poor widdle victim here.Uh... boo.
IN THE COMMENTS: I say the joke was funny and the President wasn't laughing at it. I get some pushback.
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That was a rather gaseous bag of shit.
But thanks anyway for proving my point that leftists have no problem threatening murder of anyone who disagrees with them.
Kilborn, in your experience must be Republican because he is obviously an asshole. Therefore, he's OK with a sniper bullet in head of the Republican presidential nominee? And what about the rest of the CBS crew that night - are they Republicans too, because they also must be frat-boy assholes? How does that bit of illogic work again?
To you, evidently, an assassantion threat doesn't even matter because "Bush was the elected leader of Texas only. Non-Texans did not owe him any more respect.. ". How fucking stupid is that?
Not stupid enough - you surpass yourself: "The banner carriers were not leftists but anarchists". I guess you could read that small sign on their shirts saying
"We know we are marching in San Francisco in an anti-war rally just filled with leftists, but make no mistake, we are not leftists, we are ANARCHISTS; however, even though we have nothing in common, we will still march with you commies anyway!"
Oops, again my bad - Kevin Keating, carrier of that banner, is a self proclaimed communist (actually, "Lenninist without Lenin"). Now a communist couldn't be a leftist too, could he FLS? You are such a twit.
Blogger ElcubanitoKC said..."Using the same logic, shouldn't we then question the fact that those same people seem to, or at least claim to support the current president?"
You could, but Obama carries a 65% approval rating.
Duh.
Palladian said..."Jen, honey, "Jeremy" is a convicted panty sniffer."
I've never been convicted, but I've certainly sniffed my share of panties.
I once dated a lovely woman who wore the type you caould actully eat.
And they weren't all that bad...
Here's something should warm the cockles of your heart:
Wanda Sykes and her wife, Alex, welcomed twins on April 27, her rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.
Daughter Olivia Lou weighed in at 6 lbs., 7 oz., and was 19-inches long. Son Lucas Claude debuted at 7 lbs., 9 oz., and was 20-inches long. The comedian's wife gave birth to the babies.
"All are happy and healthy and at home," says Sykes's rep Danica Smith.
Ann, I like your blog. And, most of your commenters are great. However, Jeremy is such an ass that I'll probably stop coming here (again). I'll try to come back from time to time, but he's just such a major horse's ass that he ruins the thread. I could just skip his comments, but too many of the other comments are responses to him. I know that's exactly what he wants, and the other commenters give it to him. If they stopped, he would go away. Commenters like Jen are good to read. Opposing viewpoints, stated succinctly and without malice, are good to have.
ignored the link to the 2007 poll that found that 19% of self identified Democrats at that time thought that the US losing the war in Iraq would be a good thing.
It was a Fox poll, with the question (No. 40) stripped of context. (although the pollster did go on to ask if the polled one ever prayed for President Bush.) Further, 5% of Republicans and 7% of Independents agreed with the traitorous Democrats. So god knows what the polled ones though the question was asking. Recall too, that the poll took place two years after "Mission Accomplished."
Find me a poll from an organization without an axe to grind.
DBQ Said:
"Just as there shouldn't be a single decent human being who thinks that it is a funny joke to wish a painful and lingering death on a person that merely disagrees politically with them."
So, just checking here ... you said the following in another thread about a mentally ill dead 18 year old:
"I don't feel the least bit sorry for any of them, not even dead Ashley . . . Useless stupid pieces of shit."
And called the same dead, mentally ill 18 year old a "wast[e] of human skin."
So the thing that keeps you from ceasing to be a "decent human being" is the fact that, rather than joking, you really meant what you said. Right?
Classy.
Oh for chrissakes!
Seriously? Panty sniffer? I come back from work and that is all you people have? Panty sniffer?
That and inane comments about blog spelling? Of course I mean tare as in "the seed of a vetch."
Obviously.
And it's not a Ford Fiesta. It's a Mercedes. AND ITS A STICK.
Props to Stephen.
"The banner carriers were not leftists but anarchists". Oops, again my bad - Kevin Keating, carrier of that banner, is a self proclaimed communist
The left has vomited Kevin Keating out. As for his politics, refer to this SF Chronicle article:
Battle Over Gentrification Gets Ugly in S.F.'s Mission
Anarchist arrested, charged with making threats
Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, June 7, 1999
(06-07) 04:00 PDT San Francisco -- Unlike his Ukrainian idol and suspected namesake Nestor Makhno -- an anarchist who terrorized and killed landlords before the Russian revolution -- Kevin Keating has not bombed anyone.
So far, police believe, the self-styled anarchist-communist has confined himself to scratching pricey cars in San Francisco's Mission District to strike at the neighborhood's new gentry and plastering trendy establishments with posters vowing to reduce them to ``picturesque ruins'' in the ``next major urban riots.''
Further, if you have evidence that Craig Kilborn is a "leftist" put up or shut up. And you should realize there is a vast difference between making tasteless jokes about killing the President, and making tasteless jokes about killing the governor of a state. Your original statement blurred those distinctions, implying "leftists" wanted to assassinate the CinC in time of war.
Posting trouble.
"I don't feel the least bit sorry for any of them, not even dead Ashley . . . Useless stupid pieces of shit."
Correct. I don't feel sorry for them in the least. According to the "story" they chose their sorry lives. But, I don't wish them dead or to suffer in a public format and I don't make jokes about them.
So the thing that keeps you from ceasing to be a "decent human being" is the fact that, rather than joking, you really meant what you said. Right?
Right. I believe in Darwin's law. Survival of the fittest, evolution ....and as difficult as that is for you bleeding heart liberals to comprehend.....some organisms really don't make the evolutionary grade. Epic fail at life: and the species is better for it in the long run.
That doesn't mean that I should to weep alligator tears over people who choose to become the dregs of society. It also doesn't give me the right to make fun of them as a living, as does Wanda Whatserface or to laugh at their misery or to wish them to die.
Any other questions?
Jen said “Christopher Hitchens s [sic] a limey freak who should stay on his side of the pond.” Welllll, there’s a tolerant statement. Sorry Jen, but I don’t think Hitch is going anywhere, though hopefully he’ll take another trip to Lebanon just to irritate the Islamofascists, and then come right back here and irritate Jen. The world would be a much better place if more Brits were like the Hitchens brothers.
Jeremy, it’s Mort SAHL. And if Mort Sahl had been at the dinner, things would have been much different. Sahl was known for sparing no one, conservative or liberal.
Jen said “Christopher Hitchens s [sic] a limey freak who should stay on his side of the pond.” Welllll, there’s a tolerant statement. Sorry Jen, but I don’t think Hitch is going anywhere, though hopefully he’ll take another trip to Lebanon just to irritate the Islamofascists, and then come right back here and irritate Jen. The world would be a much better place if more Brits were like the Hitchens brothers.
Jeremy, it’s Mort SAHL. And if Mort Sahl had been at the dinner, things would have been much different. Sahl was known for sparing no one, conservative or liberal.
Jen said “Christopher Hitchens s [sic] a limey freak who should stay on his side of the pond.” Welllll, there’s a tolerant statement. Sorry Jen, but I don’t think Hitch is going anywhere, though hopefully he’ll take another trip to Lebanon just to irritate the Islamofascists, and then come right back here and irritate Jen. The world would be a much better place if more Brits were like the Hitchens brothers.
Jeremy, it’s Mort SAHL. And if Mort Sahl had been at the dinner, things would have been much different. Sahl was known for sparing no one, conservative or liberal.
Why does comedy seem so mean, obscene and unfunny these days? Why is it funny to say nasty things about a radio host but not funny to say nasty things about a comedian?
Not that either is funny. It's not shocking anymore. It's just hateful.
Remember the new rules;
Do not be the first to stop clapping for the leader, do not be the quiet one when laughing at his jokes or when he laughs. But don't outdo his laugh.
Obsequiousness can be hard, like kneeling, for the floor is cold and unforgiving.
P.S. Yet another Althouse threadkill by Jeremy.
Why is it funny to say nasty things about a radio host but not funny to say nasty things about a comedian?
Wanda Sykes doesn't actually want El Rushbo's kidneys to fail.
Here's a good explanation of how jokes work, from Wikipedia:
Edward de Bono in "The Mechanism of the Mind" (1969) and "I am Right, You are Wrong" (1990).
Edward de Bono suggests that the mind is a pattern-matching machine, and that it works by recognizing stories and behaviour and putting them into familiar patterns. When a familiar connection is disrupted and an alternative unexpected new link is made in the brain via a different route than expected, then laughter occurs as the new connection is made. This theory explains a lot about jokes. For example:
Why jokes are only funny the first time they are told: once they are told the pattern is already there, so there can be no new connections, and so no laughter.
Jeebus folks - if you just ignore Jeremy, et al, he/she will fester and die away. It is good for Althouse's traffic I guess.
Do you think when he says the Koran is a "book of hate" that that might upset any of the billion Muslims in the world?.
Who gives a shit? I think Savage is right on. I mean when 'artists' put the crucifix in a glass of piss, Christians are told to lighten up, it's free expression. You can cover a statute of the Virgin Mary in cow shit and that's art too, don't be so uptight Christian folks. Make movies that insult the Catholic church and thats just dandy.
But upset the poor widdle headhackers and that's insensitive!. People like you crack me up. The most intoleration religion on the planet and you trip over your own dick to defend it.
I hope her testicles shrivel up.
The joke was offensive because it wasn't funny. Not because it contained offensive material, but because Sykes set it up and delivered it badly.
Rosanne, or Kathy Griffin, would've done better.
We should be questioning why President Obama laughed.
Hitchens wrote "dyke" because it's the closest thing to "syke(s)" that he could come up with, and not be funny.
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