Saturday, April 26, 2008
Cultural Dis-intigration
Olber-doosh still a tool
I know this is tedious: yet it’s still a popcorn moment. So here’s the quickie of it:
SCENE: Talking heads show discussion on MSNBC and the ultimate resolution of the “Democrat Party Contest” [these folks cannot take even a moment of uncertainty or conflict...]
[I know—“Head-On” commercials scoff at MSNBC ratings. nevertheless, we press onward.]Howard Fineman: [...it’s going to take] “some adults somewhere in the Democratic party to step in and stop this thing, like a referee in a fight that could go on for thirty rounds. Those are the super, super, super delegates who are going to have to decide this.”
Keith Olbermannnn: “Right. Somebody who can take her into a room and only he comes out.”
Yeah… hokayfine. Classic “I’m so intense” Olberdoosh rhetoric. whatever. But. the Moonbat reaction? [I say reaction because a response involves some actual skull-sweat. This crap is straight limbic chemical gush.]
Maybe I could talk about it in terms of the times I have been in that situation, alone with a much stronger and violent male, and what a man suggesting putting [Hillary] in that position does to me.
...the demands that she be eradicated from politics, a symbolic honor killing.
Nice similie, Miss AllAboutYou… Though the multi-culti ironing is a tad thick…
there’s an ugly strain of misogyny running through Hillary Clinton’s media coverage
...Really, it can only mean one thing: Beating the crap out of Hillary Clinton, to the point where she is physically incapable of of getting up and walking out. At minimum. We know this. We know this because we have all seen movies ...
Movies. Reality. Movies...reality. movingreality…
If 2 white guys suggested that “somebody” take Obama into a room and Obama doesn’t come out, how would that sound to you?
If it sounds more...um, outrageous to say such a thing about Obama than it is to say it about Clinton, then you need to take a long look at your personal beliefs about human rights.
Can you imagine if a bunch of white guys suggested that “somebody” take another white guy [Rove, say… or Cheney or Dubya] into a room and he doesn’t come out?
*crickets*
This is clear a threat of violence.
As a woman, who has been in the unfortunate circumstance of being alone in a room with a male who was physically larger and more powerful than myself, and fearing for my safety, Olbermann’s comment struck a nerve. ...
This is disgusting and deplorable. “Professional journalists” should not be advocating violence against a Presidential Candidate ...
[bolding reproduced from original which was exhausting]
Could it be that these HuffPo-ops didn’t even get the Thunderdome reference? Dealing with these kids is like trying to have a nuanced conversation with a buncha illiterate peasants. Though illiterate peasants would not be so hampered by the expectation of a perfectly safe and bubble-wrapped world. This is not an outcry for a return to ‘gentlemanly and Civilized political process: it’s more along the lines of a lament against Nature Red in Tooth and Claw. Welcome to the Real World, Kiddies; now, wash your hands before you’re lunch.
The tyranny of the right of [bad] personal choice trumps natural and logical consequences as the idea “Why would you put yourself in a room with a violent male more than once?!?” morphs from everyday common sense into a startling revelation.
Cultural references are right out—we share no culture. Metaphors, similes and other linguistic symbology *p00f* gone; no one gets the referents.
Pretty soon we’ll all be reduced to simple, declarative sentences with a [federally mandated] menu of 247 subtitle languages.
Meanwhile, clumsy references and erstwhile subtleties lie in forgotten heaps, “it was a joke” is a thoughtful defense and “what’s a meta phor?” becomes a serious question. ...and this is an actual sentence in a “serious” essay:
I can already hear the outcry of those who can’t believe I’d equate the gender card with the race card.
*walks quietly away*
Olberdoosh responds in the [now] classic style of the “bitterness” bait ‘n’ switch:
It is a metaphor. [note the simple, declarative sentence] I apologize: the generic ‘he’ gender could imply something untoward. It should’ve been ‘only the other comes out — from a political point of view.’
Oh. well… If it’s a Guurl Super-super-super Delegate… okay, then.
Will there be JELL-O?
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