Preference Cascade
Friday, September 24, 2010
"That's seeexist!"
if ya can’t respond to the heat, stay in the kitchen.
Calling a female candidate such sexist names as “ice queen” and “mean girl" significantly undercuts her political standing and does more harm than criticism based solely on her policy positions, a study of voter attitudes finds.
Yeah… but calling Meg Whitman “Hawt Blonde” is just disturbing.
[wait… “mean girl?!?” what’re we - Modesto Jr High Guurlz?]
Harder-edged attacks, such as referring to her as a prostitute, were equally damaging among voters...
aaiiieeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
The female candidate lost twice as much support when even the mild sexist language was added to a political attack. ... Her support rebounded after a mild response - calling the discussion “inappropriate” and turning to issues - and after a more direct counterattack that decried “sexist, divisive rhetoric."
They [apparently] did not test the results of calling the male candidate a “useless doooosh,” a “slimy sidewinder,” or intimating it would be unsafe to allow him near your wife, sons, goats or chickens.
The groups that sponsored the research are the Women’s Media Center, the WCF Foundation and Political Parity.
oh.
They will announce a joint initiative today called “Name It. Change It” designed to monitor and respond to sexism against female candidates in the media.
We’ll see whether they come out as vigorously in defense of sistahs Sharon, Meg and Christine as they might for Liza Merkowsky or Mary Landrieu, or those endorsed by Emily’s Llist.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Let's Fling Poo!
when all you have is a hammer...
Dinesh D’Souza’s article in Forbes, How Obama Thinks is an interesting read. Exploring Teh iWon’s own writings and those of Obama Sr., D’Souza uses reason and logic to draw some conclusions. Which may be why some are having such a problem with the article.
Here’s the jist: RTWT - it’s interesting
[D’Souza:]
...Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history. ... The President’s actions are so bizarre that they mystify his critics and supporters alike....Obama writes, “...The pain that I felt was my father’s pain.”
...He adopted his father’s position that capitalism and free markets are code words for economic plunder. ... Clearly the anticolonial ideology of Barack Obama Sr. goes a long way to explain the actions and policies of his son in the Oval Office.
Colonialism and neo-colonialism are so outside the worldview of the vast majority of Americans it will take some studying to even make the concepts register. Despite having been called “imperialistic” by the Moonbats for decades [and where, exactly, are our colonies of Germany, Italy, Viet Nam, etc.?] Americans just don’t get the concept at, say, the level of a Victorian British shopkeeper. Or a contemporary Punjabi shopkeeper, generations removed from the colonial experience. It’s not in the American experience.
Pointing it out is one thing: it’s an excellent first step. But giving the concept meaning to the American Voter is going to be a whole nother undertaking.
“Did they not fact-check this at all, or did they fact-check it and just willfully ignore it?" [Robert Gibbs] wonders.
Whereupon he whipped out a list of the “facts unchecked” as long as his pudgy little arm, each with documented, checked and cross-checked refutation:
....
...
“Fascinating...”
“It’s a stunning thing, to see a publication you would see in a dentist’s office, so lacking in truth and fact. I think it represents a new low.”
rly? Have ya read the NYT/LAT/WaPo lately? Have ya seen CNN/MSLSD/Jon Stewart? “Lacking in truth and fact” is practically the motto on their banners. *sheesh*
Rubber:Glue :: Me:You [PooFling Part Deux]
*s’eyeroll*
Yeah… hadda invent a new term* for the weary exasperation that overtakes me when I hear juvenile crap like this:
[Joe Biden on the Dinesh D‘Souza Forbes article:]
“I mean, this is kind of — what’s happened on the Republican side. … When you can’t compete in ideas, what you do is the same playbook out of the conservative playbook. You try to delegitimize the other guy. That’s what’s going on … the attempt to delegitimize one of the most talented men to enter American politics in three generations."
Yer quite a wordsmith, Sheriff Joe. Ya mean like this?
The race for Illinois’ 11th Congressional District is heating up between Democratic Rep. Debbie Halvorson and her Republican challenger, Adam Kinzinger. ... a small group of protestors gathered outside, brandishing signs depicting Kinzinger and other prominent conservative figures — including radio and television host Glenn Beck and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — with Hitler mustaches smudged on their portraits.
*eyeroll*
OR *clicky*clicky*
One of the protesters has been identified. She’s one of Obama’s Organizing for America staffers. They shipped her from Missouri to Chicago for their Hitler rally.
Like you said, Sheriff Joe—“You try to delegitimize the other guy.” Though just exactly what Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin with Hitler moustaches have to do with Ill 11th Congressional challenger, Republican, Adam Kinzinger, I’m not so sure. But the crude, crayon-smeared attempt at “delegitimization” is clear.
Another one of the protesters has been identified– Julie Merz – Rep. Halvorsen’s campaign manager who is depicted at the end of the video – was just recently the Deputy Director of Member Services on Ms. Pelosi’s staff.
ooooooooooo! subtile…
Monday, July 26, 2010
Was Shirley Sherrod Thrown Under the Back of The Bus?
*scrape*scrape*scrape*
Poor Shirley Sherrod, targeted by eeeevil Breitbart, raaaacist FNC, and alla you viiile Teabaggers… Fired by the old white guys in the West Wing, vilified by Vilsack, who struggled, in her soft voice, to tell Andy Cooper
[vid—@2:30]
“... I don’t think [Andrew Breitbart] is interested in seeing anyone get past [black vs white]. I think he’d like to get us stuck back in the times of slavery. That’s where I think he’d like to see all black people end up again.And that’s why I think he’s so vicious against a black President....”
“...What has he [Breitbart] done to promote unity among The Races? ...
I’d like him to show me he’s not a raaaacist."
Riehl World has a little more on this post-racial couple; this time on what husband Charles has done “to promote unity among The Races”:
Charles Sherrod: “We must stop the white man and his Uncle Toms from stealing our elections."
Go. Click Read. Savor the post-raaaacist gestalt.
And then, let’s wonder why this Paragon of Promoting Unity Among The Races was strangely absent from the Sunday shows.
*vrooom*thumpthump*
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Legacy
∅
"In its present form without any changes I don’t think it’s possible to pass the Senate bill in the House,” said Pelosi, D[umbass]-Calif. “I don’t see the votes for it at this time."
[Harry Shallow Sandy Grave Reid : “We’re going to wait until the new senator arrives until we do anything more on health care.”
What a difference a day makes . . .
[1/19/10] “We will get the job done. I am confident of that. I have always been confident of that,” [Pelosi] told reporters as she left the Capitol at 11:30 p.m. ...
“Massachusetts has health care and so the rest of the country would like to have that too,” Pelosi said, referring to the state’s health care program. “So we don’t [think] a state that already has health care should determine whether the rest of the country should."
ToDaZeD WeeWee'd Up
UnPrecedented PissyPantz
*Plink* ... *plonk*plonk*
*scrape*scrape*scrape* evolves
Unicorn Wall crumbling
ToDaZeD Word of the Day: Preference Cascade
But Wait! There’s Moah!
Erroll Southers, the embattled nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration, has announced his withdrawal ...
“...it is apparent that this path has been obstructed by political ideology." ...
“...It is clear that my nomination has become a lightning rod for those who have chosen to push a political agenda at the risk of the safety and security of the American people."
Your “nomination has become a lightning rod for those who have chosen to push a political agenda at the risk of the safety and security of the American people.
FIFY.
"This partisan climate is unacceptable and I refuse to allow myself to remain part of their dialogue. ..."
“Unacceptable”?!?? Gettin a little too warm in the kitchen fer ya? Too dirty prissy good for some political wrangling, are ya? Or, perhaps.... just perhaps, that “false testimony to Congress” thingy ... yanno, about misusing yer FBI access to check up on your ex-wife’s new boyfriend? Yeah—is that what’s worrying you, Binky?
It worried me. It worries Jim DeMint.
”...The Senate could have had an open and transparent debate this week to approve Mr. Southers, but apparently, answering simple, direct questions about security and integrity were too much for this nominee. ..."
[And another thing] “...TSA screeners can already join unions, but collective bargaining would force TSA officials to ask union bosses for permission to make critical security changes. ..."
And that’s what I’d call trying to “push a political agenda at the risk of the safety and security of the American people.”
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