May 12, 2008
Name: Angry Black Guy
emailaddress: marawls@—.com
Message: This is insanity.
When the majority of progressive and feminist leaders come out and support Obama in the general election, people like you will be exposed for the extremist that you are.
You look at McCain and Obama and your response is “give McCain the presidency because Obama is so evil”?
Insanity.
I have been reading blogs like this for 2 days now and I have yet to hear a clear explanation of what Obama has done to make him the most evil candidate ever (or whatever the latest term of endearment for him is).
Hillary lost. Get over it. Sore losers weren’t cool in grammar school and they are less cool in elections.
Grow up.
Where does one begin to pick apart your tired old arguments (and I’m using the word “arguments” generously), when the pickings are so ripe?
Your first dead-wrong assumption is that I’m voting for McCain. If you’d bothered to read anything else I’ve ever written, instead of hitting me with the usual reactionary “If you’re not for Obama, you’re for McCain” knee-jerk, you’d know I’d rather poke sharp sticks into my skull than vote for McCain. (You’re welcome for the visual.)
Didn’t you learn the meaning of dicto simpliciter in your freshman debate class? (You must be a college graduate, or on your way, since, after all, only smart, highly-educated people support Obama, right?)
Next: Your hyperbole undermines any shred of credibility you might have. Where did I ever say “Obama is so evil,” or that he is “the most evil candidate ever”? Putting words in other people’s mouths is not, to use a word that seems very important to you, “cool.” If you want to be taken seriously, you need to set fire to that fallacious little straw man of yours and bury his ashes, posthaste.
If — again — you had ever bothered to read anything I’ve written about Obama himself, instead of succumbing to the usual (uncontrollable?) reactionary spasm (that knee of yours must be ready to fly right off your leg with all that jerking) — it would be plain as day, even to you, that Obama has no concern for us pesky homos, and patronizes us only as much as he is absolutely forced to, so he doesn’t look like a complete homophobe.
I know your eyes will roll back in their sockets at the sight of the names McClurkin, Meeks, and Caldwell, but until the day you come to terms with the fact that homophobia is as real, as damaging, and as valid as racism (a tragic blind spot for nearly all Obama supporters), you will just never get it. You’re an Angry Black Guy? Well, I’m an Angry Lesbian.
I’m also an Angry Woman, who’s more than had it with the rampant sexism from the Obama camp (which the Obama camp adamantly refuses to acknowledge, much less remedy).
If you think Obama is so “transfromational,” or even “progressive,” then you and I are at a complete impasse. There’s nothing new or transformational about him; he’s no progressive, by any stretch of the imagination; he’s the same old DLC offering, only in a bright, shiny package. And his style of politicking is hardcore old-school — specifically, Chicago-style politics. The only thing new and fresh about him is his oratory skill — which crumbles the second he’s not working from a prepared speech.
Finally, your last line is hilarious — you illustrate perfectly one of my many complaints about Obama supporters:
“Hillary lost. Get over it. Sore losers weren’t cool in grammar school and they are less cool in elections.”
You think I give a damn about being “cool”? Maybe being “cool” is all-important to the “American Idol” generation, but my list of core values doesn’t include a slot for “being cool.” Let me check… economy, war, healthcare, that silly little business about getting equal rights… Nope, I don’t see “cool” anywhere on the list.
And thanks for the “get over it” — you illustrated, perfectly, the biggest point on the Obamaniac Behavior Cycle wheel. See what I mean about predictability?
One last thing: I find it heartbreaking that so many of you Obama supporters see this as a game to be won or lost. If there is a winner, there must be a loser, right? I guess that’s what they teach you guys in gym (”Crush that defense! Kill! Kill! Kill!”) while they’re teaching us girls to play nicely together, and make sure everybody goes home as happy as possible at the end of the day.
Silly me. I once thought that the goal of most Democrats was to craft an outcome as close as possible to “win-win.” Obviously, I was mistaken in that notion. For you New Democrats, it’s “We win! You lose! We’re great! You suck!”
Which brings us to the erroneous belief that Obama is going to be the “President for all people.” Hogwash. He is the candidate for young, college-educated, white-collar, Christian heterosexuals — and the rest of us can go pound salt.
I know this, because people like you tell me that every day.
But that’s a moot point now, isn’t it? Because you’ve also been telling me, since day one, that unless I bow down at the Altar of Obama, you don’t need me in your party anyway.
Oh, and by the way, vapid threats about being “exposed as an extremist” might have worked on me when I was a child, but you’re talking to a grown-up who went through far worse threats of “exposure” as a gay teenager — thirty years ago.
And chew on this: I heard the same thing I’m hearing from you — and received far more threatening messages — from the hardcore Bush lovers back in the early days of the Iraq War, when I was speaking out against him and his legions of “If you’re not with us, you’re against us” loyalists. Meanwhile, the “anti-American traitor!” slurs thrown at me then have just metamorphosed into “You’re not a REAL Democrat!” now. Same song, different band.
Intimidation doesn’t work anymore. I’ve been through it, and I’ve learned that unless I’m dealing with an obviously demented and potentially dangerous person (in which case I just forward everything to the FBI and let them handle it), it’s all just more playground bullying.
See, I am the grown-up here. You’re the one who needs to chill. While passion is a wonderful thing, unbridled rage directed at people you cannot strongarm into conforming to your beliefs and doing what you want them to do is something else entirely. It’s just not “cool.” (It’s also the trademark of the classic, textbook-case — and frustrated — religious fundamentalist. But I’ll return to the frightening similarities between Obamanation and the Radical Religious Right another day.)
One last thing: If you’re getting so hot under the collar after “reading blogs like this for 2 days now,” maybe it’s time you stopped reading these blogs. You’re going to need all your energy to defend Obama once the Republicans go to work on him. Besides, we little non-Obamanauts are nothing but fly specks in the course of the Obama Cosmos — I know, because you keep telling us that, too.
Now, you go back to your echo chamber, wherever that is, and complain to your friends about the lesbian who was just too stupid, unreasonable, hysterical, and “insane” (that’s your word) to drink the Kool-Aid.
Playground bullies are not welcome here.
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May 11, 2008
If I hadn’t seen this with my own eyes on the official Obama site, I wouldn’t have believed it (which is why I screen-capped it; if the Obama people have any sense left at all, they’ll scrub this page faster than you can say “Tony Rezko”):
In a post that reads like an Onion article, a pro-Obama blog reports:
Tuesday’s primaries made Barack Obama the “presumptive nominee”. Now there is increasing speculation that Hillary Clinton will be his running mate. But some pundits warn that Obama better watch his back should Hillary become his Vice President. Concern was heightened after Bill Clinton recently invited Barack Obama for tea with some of Vladimir Putin’s “associates” at New York’s famous Russian Tea Room.
The danger of having the Clintons, who know their way around the White House kitchen, too close for comfort has motivated some Obama supporters to launch a new group seeking to protect their candidate from any close encounters with a bad oyster. Die-hard Obama supporters now have the opportunity to serve and make the ultimate sacrifice by joining Food Tasters for Obama, which is awaiting approval from site administrators at MyBarackObama.com (they are apparently worried that the group will be cast by the media as some sort of weird suicide cult).
“Some some of weird suicide cult”? How about just “off da hook crazy”?
Come to think of it, I’ve seen Obama supporters, in their compulsive poo-flinging, demonstrating fervent belief in those oldie-but-goody right-wing tales of Hillary murdering Vince Foster (I think the current version of the story ends with: “…right after she had Ron Brown’s love child”), so I guess imagining Hillary padding into the White House kitchen to slip cyanide into the tomato bisque isn’t too far a stretch for some of these folks.
While the piece might be parody (the author bills himself as “a registered Fan of Andy Borowitz at the Huffington Post”), the fact remains that there is a Food Tasters for Obama group awaiting approval on Obama’s site.
That’s…
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May 1, 2008
When you get hate mail this impudent (which is just-this-short of a physical threat), you know you’re hitting a raw, shredded, glistening-bloody nerve — which means you know you’re doing something right:
Name: Warren Bigley
email address: warrenbigley@yahoo.com
Message: Yeah it looks like you ran out of false stories to make up about conservatives 2 years ago huh? How would you like to debate? I can come to you or you can come to Ohio and we can have an oldfashioned liberal vs Conservtive debate.
But like every other liberal i am sure you are to cowardly to take me up on it.
Warre W Bigley
Leader of the conservative cause
REMOTE_ADDR: 75.109.158.119
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR
2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506)
DATE: 20:21:32 2008-5-1
If I had any clue as to what you were talking about, “Warre,” I might address it, but since you make no reference to, well, anything, it stands to reason that you’ve been trolling the Internet looking for any good, strong, liberal Americans you haven’t yet smeared. And you found me. Awwwwwww!
Who are you anyway, little boy? Oh, wait, you’re the “Warren W. Bigley” who was put on disciplinary probation by West Virginia University “for issuing a press release as president of a student Republican group the school said was not properly registered,” aren’t you?
No wonder your panties are in a twist, “Warre” — you’re a Mitt Romney supporter, and you’ll never be able to get over the fact that nobody wanted your whacked-out, Dark Ages, gay-hating dog torturer to come within 100 miles of the White House.
“Leader of the conservative cause”? 
How ridiculous you are! If you only knew…! You’re the leader of nothing, “Warre.” You’re a snot-nosed little punk who thinks he can bully everyone else into silence.
Well, guess what, little boy? That may have worked on the playground, but it doesn’t work now. I’ve come up against far more fearsome bullies than you, “Warre,” for longer than you’ve been alive.
And why would I ever want to “debate” a liar who accuses me of making up “false stories”? I would never “debate” you, kiddo, as your style of “debate” would probably entail putting a bullet through my head the moment you realized your tough-guy, banty-cock posturing was crumbling like the Walls of Jericho against my reason and logic. Why would I want to go up against such a whack-job as yourself? You, Romney, the Taliban — you all scare me for the same reason. You sound like a crazed idealogue who is completely and utterly out of control.
By the way, that you were accepted into West Virginia University — or any institution of learning above the third grade — is utterly amazing. Does WVU have an affirmative action program for the terminally illiterate?
Helpful tips:
• Punctuation is your friend.
• In accordance with every manual of style in existence (in English, at least; is English your native language?), we spell out all numbers from one to ten.
• “Old-fashioned” / “old fashioned” is not one word.
• “Conservtive” is spelled “conservative.”
• The word “to” in this case (”i am sure you are to cowardly”) should be spelled “too.”
• The word “i” in the same sentence should be capitalized (”I”).
• Your name is spelled “Warren,” Warren, not “Warre”.
P.S. Your offer to come to California is declined, “Warre.” You are not welcome here. We are a peaceful people, and we don’t want raging, puffed-up, self-important little bigots here. Now, as nicely as I can put it: Get lost, loser, before I report you to your mommy, and she grounds you from using your My First Big-Boy Computer™ for a month.
P.P.S. I hope you enjoyed the attention you got from me, punk. I did it so that if some crackpot hunts me down and kills me, there will be a public record of your nut-ball email for the investigation.
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April 30, 2008
“Lesbians” as in “people of the Isle of Lesbos,” that is — who, I thought, have preferred to call themselves “Lesbosians” ever since we women-lovin’ women co-opted the word “lesbian” long before the idiots in this story were even born:
People of Lesbos take gay group to court over term ‘Lesbian’
ATHENS, Greece — A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world’s gay women.
Three islanders from Lesbos — home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between women — have taken a gay rights group to court for using the word lesbian in its name.
One of the plaintiffs said Wednesday that the name of the association, Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece, “insults the identity” of the people of Lesbos, who are also known as Lesbians.
“My sister can’t say she is a Lesbian,” said Dimitris Lambrou. “Our geographical designation has been usurped by certain ladies who have no connection whatsoever with Lesbos,” he said.
The three plaintiffs are seeking to have the group barred from using “lesbian” in its name and filed a lawsuit on April 10. The other two plaintiffs are women.
Also called Mytilene, after its capital, Lesbos is famed as the birthplace of Sappho. The island is a favored holiday destination for gay women, particularly the lyric poet’s reputed home town of Eressos.
“This is not an aggressive act against gay women,” Lambrou said. “Let them visit Lesbos and get married and whatever they like. We just want (the group) to remove the word lesbian from their title.”
He said the plaintiffs targeted the group because it is the only officially registered gay group in Greece to use the word lesbian in its name. The case will be heard in an Athens court on June 10. …
What a bunch of sanctimonious twits. I hope they lose their stupid lawsuit in a big way — after which we can all laugh at their pettiness.
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March 24, 2008
…along comes Gordon Fischer:
Obama supporter references Bill Clinton and ‘blue dress’
(CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton’s aides blasted Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign Monday after a major Obama supporter referenced the blue dress at the heart of former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment scandal.
Gordon Fischer, a former chair of the Iowa Democratic Party and part of Obama’s Iowa support team, also compared Bill Clinton unfavorably to Joe McCarthy.
McCarthy was a senator who was known for leveling accusations that people were Communists or spying for the Russians in the 1950s.
“When Joe McCarthy questioned others’ patriotism, McCarthy (1) actually believed, at least aparently (sic), the questions were genuine, and (2) he did so in order to build up, not tear down, his own party, the GOP,” Fischer, wrote on his blog.
“Bill Clinton cannot possibly seriously believe Obama is not a patriot, and cannot possibly be said to be helping — instead he is hurting — his own party. B. [Bill] Clinton should never be forgiven. Period. This is a stain on his legacy, much worse, much deeper, than the one on Monica’s blue dress.”
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Fischer, who endorsed Obama last fall, later removed the post from his blog and replaced it with an apology.
“I sincerely apologize for a tasteless and gratituous [sic] comment I made here about President Clinton. It was unnecessary and wrong,” he wrote.
In a conference call with reporters Monday, Clinton aides said Fischer’s decision to attack the New York senator reflected “gutter tactics that [the Obama] campaign is now deploying.”
“This is now the Obama campaign’s primary message to the American people,” said spokesman Howard Wolfson. “Not to build him up, but to tear Sen. Clinton down.”
He also dismissed Fischer’s apology. “In my opinion the remarks of Gordon Fischer are very much in keeping with the campaign Sen. Obama is running. So I don’t know why he would apologize.”
See also:
Just When You Think It Can’t Get Any Worse for Obama, Jeremiah Wright Cracks Un-Wise About “Semen Stains”
Barack Obama’s Spiritual Mentor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr., Bashes Mythical “Rich” Whites (Especially Italians) (which includes another of Wright’s anti-Bill slams, i.e., the “riding dirty” crack).
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March 17, 2008
Back in February, we tried to make sense of Barack Obama’s ever-changing position on decriminalizing marijuana:
In 2004, Barack was in favor of decriminalizing marijuana.
In 2007, Barack was not in favor of decriminalizing marijuana.
In 2008 — just this past Thursday, in fact — Barack was in favor of decriminalizing marijuana.
His campaign, forgetting all about the debate last fall, said Barack was always in favor of decriminalizing marijuana.
But then, “before the day was over,” Barack was not in favor of decriminalizing marijuana. Again.
If you don’t feel totally baked after trying to figure that out, Jeralyn at TalkLeft discovers the supposed truth (this time around, anyway):
Now he’s clear: he opposes decriminalization of marijuana.
What accounts for this latest switch? His campaign says he didn’t understand what decriminalization meant.
And Obama was a lawyer?
And the editor of the Harvard Law Review?
And a former pot smoker whose freedom rested on knowing whether or not weed had been “decriminalized”?
Gee, maybe he can use that as an excuse for his pot-smoking — he didn’t know it was illegal!
Jeralyn adds:
I think it’s a fair question to ask if he’s being disingenous now, first about raising his hand by mistake and now saying he was confused about what decriminalization means, or whether in 2004 he was engaging in a campaign ploy to attract the youth vote.
Hit the TalkLeft link for more, with some spirited (and often amusing) reader comments!
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March 7, 2008
Not, mind you, that we’re saying abrasive “comic” Artie Lange — the abrasive, drug-addled former MADtv cast member, and now one of Howard Stern’s on-air entourage — is back on the smack; but we do wonder if that’s what prompted Lange’s despicable anti-gay tirade on Stern’s show last month.
On the other hand, we’ve heard that heroin is supposed to make a person blissed out, not hostile, so…
Anyway, we’re hearing about the incident only now because we don’t listen to Howard Stern. (The appeal of much pop culture, like “Jackass,” and Hannah Montana, eludes us, which is A-OK, because we’re not perpetually adolescent teenage boys, or little girls. We could ask 100 of our very best friends what “Jackass” is, or who Hannah Montana is, and maybe one might guess the latter was the name of a 1940s-era burlesque stripper.)
Sadly, we do know who Artie Lange is. On the upside, we know him only from MADtv, best remembered, perhaps (with “best” being a truly subjective word), for his title role in the deliberately offensive TV sitcom spoof, “My White Mama.” On the downside, we never knew what a gigantic, flaming asshole he was until the Stern story broke in the gay press.
Sometime after his out-of-control drug habit got him fired from MADtv, Lange started appearing regularly on the Howard Stern show, where, we have learned, Lange has repeatedly dropped the “F-bomb” — not “fuck,” but “faggot” — on the air. (That’s not surprising, as Stern himself says “fag” a lot, or so we’re told.)
Lange’s behavior (hell, Lange himself) would have continued to fly under our radar had he not taken the level of uncivil discourse to a whole new low.
Jenny Stewart of Gay.com/PlanetOut.com tells the story:
A recent on-air clash between popular cast member Artie Lange and show employee “High Pitch” Mike devolved into a vicious, epithet-strewn fight that left both studio members and listeners confused about Lange’s true feelings toward gays.
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In a twist of irony, this word is at the center of the conflict between Lange and Stern show worker “High Pitch” Mike, so named due to his unfortunately falsetto voice. Mike has somehow become Lange’s kryptonite: No other cast member gets under Artie’s skin the way Mike does, and their fights have a distinct high-school mentality — with Lange as the big, popular jock and Mike as his nerd-ish object of ridicule. The catch is that Mike refuses to be bullied — and Lange, despite a wealth of wit and material, ends up relying on the “f-bomb” to shut Mike up (it should be noted that Mike insists he’s straight).
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The discomfort in the studio was already palpable — then this exchange happened:
Mike: Anything you say on here [the air] becomes fact.”
Artie: “No it doesn’t! I wish it did, because [then] people would believe that you’re a fucking flaming homo. And you are a flaming homo, and I hope you get AIDS. I hope your lover takes off the rubber tonight and fucks you in the ass with his AIDS-ridden cock. And that you come in here tomorrow with fucking sores on your face and 40 fucking pounds!”
It was like a switch had been flipped in Artie’s head, and there was no going back. I suspect even he knew it at that point, and he wasn’t going to back down. When a clearly disturbed Stern began asking him why he was so out of control, Lange simply responded, “Mike started it,” and “What, I’m supposed to sit here like a jerk-off?”
Stern treaded lightly, but kept after Lange; he diplomatically said that both Lange and Mike were guilty of saying bad things. And after co-host Robin Quivers reminded Lange about his work with the HRC, Stern added, “Yeah, every minute with the faggot … you’re cutting a public service announcement.”
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“You’re allowed to think someone is gay; that’s not a legal question,” said Stern. “Look, I’m getting very uncomfortable with this fag stuff, I mean, this is silly. If a gay person tuned in and heard that, people would not appreciate it. The rhetoric was getting heavy.”
Invoking the old double standard, Lange denied he was anti-gay, and chalked his tirade up to his not playing well with others — shamefully throwing himself on the “boys will be boys” defense.
More at the link.
An editor’s update to Stewart’s piece notes:
A few days after the fight, Stern addressed it on-air, saying that it sparked a lot of listener e-mail. Stern said some listeners were so offended by Lange’s comments they cancelled their subscription to Sirius, while others wrote in saying they thought Lange’s response to Mike’s provocation was justified. Artie himself said that he received a sad, offended e-mail from George Takei, who also asked him to go ahead with his promised “f-word” public service announcement. …
George Takei? Yep. Notes Stewart:
He [Lange] also maintains an unlikely but genuine friendship with openly gay actor and recurring Stern star George Takei. As his mentor, Takei even convinced Lange to do a public service announcement for gay-equality group the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), pledging $100 for each on-air use of the word “fag.”
In fact, Takei has been trying a long time to get Stern himself to curb his use of the word “fag”.
More power to Mr. Sulu. We wouldn’t have the patience.
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