Great entertainment, and thanks for the dedication DRJ…

Shane

Maybe the dual threads are contributing to your impatience. If you agree, I’ll ask Patterico if I can resume my posting privileges for the purpose of taking the comments you and I made on the debate thread and moving them to this new post.

Let me know if that’s okay with you. I won’t do it unless both you and Patterico agree.

Trinity United Church of Cthulu

I just saw this.

Heh.

Maybe one person in five is cheering and clapping.

So “only” 20% are showing active approval. The other 80% are sitting there nodding.

How many are getting up and leaving? Or even shaking their heads?

I remember reading a statistic that says that only 10% of the population has to like an entertainer for that entertainer to be a huge success. Not “be their biggest fan”, not “buy every album/watch every movie ever made”, just … “like”.

Jerry has twice that within his own church after one of the most offensive comments imaginable under the circumstances.

Let’s picture it. September 11, 2001 was on a Tuesday. This sermon was delivered five days later.

While people are still frantically scrabbling through still-smoking wreckage of the largest buildings on the continent, breathing in all that caustic dust in a wasted effort to find survivors, he is busy writing this sermon, and while the nation is still mourning, he gloats about it.

Do you know he was quoting the Ambassador to Iraq about the chickens?

He’s quoting Malcolm X. You can tell by the way he says that he’s quoting Malcolm X.

The “Chickens Coming Home To Roost video. Maybe one person in five is cheering and clapping. Even in the Trinity United Church of Cthulu most black people do not hate America.

Things a racist might say

I’ve got one…

“Is you their black-haired answer-mammy who be smart? Does they like how you shine their shoes, Condoleezza? Or the way you wash and park the whitey’s cars?” (Left-wing radio host Neil Rogers)

Another:

Blacks and Hispanics are “too busy eating watermelons and tacos” to learn how to read and write. (Mike Wallace, CBS News)

Yet another:

“I’ll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” (Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One)

I’m sure there are plenty of others.

Such as Spike Lee referring to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as “a handkerchief-head, chicken-and-biscuit-eating Uncle Tom.”

And:

“I will not let the white boys win in this election.” — Donna Brazile, Al Gore’s Campaign Manager

I see no protesting. I also heard nothing about the chickens coming home to roost, which was the quote I was specifically talking about.