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4/10/2007

Offered Without Comment

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 1:54 pm

Lefty blogger TBogg says, over a picture of Condi Rice:

Oh oh….looks like a pouty Brown Sugar is going to ask Daddy to buy her another pair of Ferragamos Or invade another country.

Whatever.

P.S. This post appears immediately below the post linked above, and was posted 14 minutes earlier.

Comments (28)

28 Responses to “Offered Without Comment”

Hey, it’s not like he called her a “nappy-headed ho”!
Jim Treacher (867a4f) — 4/10/2007 @ 2:45 pm
nice one.
AF (c319c8) — 4/10/2007 @ 3:09 pm
I personally think she’s hot. Always have, always will.
The Liberal Avenger (b8c7e2) — 4/10/2007 @ 3:16 pm
Very bright,very hard working -dedicated to the US.If someone like Condi Rice can be4come Secr. f State,this country’s doing a lot of things correctly.
(ANd then for yang,let’s ta;k of Madeline Albright)
Corwin (dfaf29) — 4/10/2007 @ 3:32 pm
What Would Sharpton Do?
Pablo (08e1e8) — 4/10/2007 @ 3:34 pm
She’s always reminded me of a hostess at an upscale restaurant. (And being a nappy-headed ho, I speak from experience.)

tbogg’s DA MAN!
David Ehrenstein (2da653) — 4/10/2007 @ 3:44 pm
Rice is a lightweight, but she did her best to try to control Rumsfeld.
AF (c319c8) — 4/10/2007 @ 3:49 pm
Dr Rice is hotter than hell dude… I’d totally hit it…

2 times.

Anywho, on a serious note, regarding WWSD: Absolutely nothing, and you know it. She’s a conservative, and thus fair game for any insult anyone can think up.
Scott Jacobs (e3904e) — 4/10/2007 @ 4:53 pm
Would I be hijacking this thread if I said that I don’t believe that Imus should be fired? Sorry if I’m hijacking, but “I question the timing” of this post anyway.

OK, this isn’t overly liberal of me maybe, but I don’t believe that he’s really a racist. He makes fun of everybody and I think that matters, for example.

FWIW, on an online MSNBC survey earlier today, most people were against it. Only about 30% said that he should be fired.
Psyberian (de47c4) — 4/10/2007 @ 5:32 pm
Yeah, to continue the derailment of this thread I agree that Imus doesn’t deserve to be fired. At least he apologized for his comments, unlike other right-wing blowhards that make racist comments daily that would put Imus’ to shame.

As for TBogg, well, if you’re gonna go around pointing out whenever a blogger posts something offensive, you’re gonna be a very busy bee.
TrojanGuy (0680ff) — 4/10/2007 @ 5:36 pm
Patty is only interested in posting his outrage
over incivility. He’s perfectly ok about rank
corruption as long as your’e polite about it.
semanticleo (2f60f4) — 4/10/2007 @ 5:58 pm
At least he apologized for his comments, unlike other right-wing blowhards that make racist comments daily that would put Imus’ to shame.

Nice try TrojanGuy, but there is no way you are going to get me to believe that Imus is a right winger. Not after hearing him giving a radio Lewinsky to John Kerry throughout all of 2004. Imus sucks up to people on the left and the right when he thinks they provide good radio, so he is just an all-around horse’s ass, but not one wedded to a particular ideology.
JVW (bcc29b) — 4/10/2007 @ 7:59 pm
Troganguy, I know that some people characterized as right wing generally do say some pretty wicked stuff, but I don’t think any mainstream ones say anything that actually eclipses Imus’s racism. Imus is a shock troll like Howard Stern. When Rush Limbaugh says something race oriented, it’s usually substantive, if offensive to some.

Anyway, I’d like to see an example of what you mean before I decide if you are full of it.

I also note that it’s really funny how liberals always come on here to say this blog is wasting its time by pointing out how odious some of the left blogosphere is. It’s obviously something some lefties are very sensitive about.

I think it’s interesting. It’s obviously interesting to everyone else if the comment levels are any indication. It’s a bizarre phenomena how much more vulgar and offensive the left blogs are than the right. I don’t see this in the liberals I personally know (though I admit I see more overt racism in the liberals I know). I like to read and talk about it and I always expect someone to point out “what a waste of time this all is!!!!!”

Imus shouldn’t be fired. He was hired to say stupid stuff, and he’s excelled at it for years. If anything he deserved a bonus for taking so much flack for serving his employer so well. I’m sure ratings will be pretty damn high when Imus is back. He does, however, deserve my personal disgust. Our country has been repeatedly pulled apart by racial demagogues who try to show how “with it” they are with their racial humor or invective. Imus was an idiot to say what he did, and he was even worse to give Al Sharton, a man responsible for actual hate murders of jews and whites from riots he incited, an audience for the Imus apology to The Black Community.

There is a black community in this country. I wish people lived in communities based on character, not color, but Sharpton and Imus would rather things be more… exploitable.
Dustin (ea244e) — 4/10/2007 @ 8:41 pm
Semanticleo: Intellectual lightweight
OHNOES (e35d79) — 4/10/2007 @ 10:32 pm
NUANCE.

Everyone knows that just because you’re black doesn’t mean you’re actually black.
PCachu (e072b7) — 4/11/2007 @ 6:07 am
Anyone stupid enough to say what Imus said on talk-radio doesn’t deserve an audience to pollute.
Leviticus (e87aad) — 4/11/2007 @ 6:30 am
What Leviticus said. The racial divide question is secondary. It would have been just as bad if he had called the equestrian team “honky ho’s”. These are just college girls, sobebody’s daughters. He talked like a deprived ghetto denizen (or “word of Robert Byrd”) and he should be marginalized and ostracized just like any other “word of Robert Byrd”.
nk (a3cd81) — 4/11/2007 @ 6:51 am
[…] may not surprise you, given recent events, that this sort of behavior tends to attract attention. Nor is it particularly surprising that, given all the attention, TBogg attempts to […]
Indefensible - Neptunus Lex - The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy. (b4835e) — 4/11/2007 @ 10:17 am
We all know what the deal is, Condi is a house n****r, not a field n****r.

[Edited by Mgmt.]
Alan Kellogg (5c186b) — 4/11/2007 @ 11:13 am
“There is a black community in this country. I wish people lived in communities based on character, not color, but Sharpton and Imus would rather things be more… exploitable.”

That’s rich.

Read Gwen Ifill’s oped in the NY TImes

I was covering the White House for this newspaper in 1993, when Mr. Imus’s producer began calling to invite me on his radio program. I didn’t return his calls. I had my hands plenty full covering Bill Clinton.
Soon enough, the phone calls stopped. Then quizzical colleagues began asking me why Don Imus seemed to have a problem with me. I had no idea what they were talking about because I never listened to the program.
It was not until five years later, when Mr. Imus and I were both working under the NBC News umbrella — his show was being simulcast on MSNBC; I was a Capitol Hill correspondent for the network — that I discovered why people were asking those questions. It took Lars-Erik Nelson, a columnist for The New York Daily News, to finally explain what no one else had wanted to repeat.
“Isn’t The Times wonderful,” Mr. Nelson quoted Mr. Imus as saying on the radio. “It lets the cleaning lady cover the White House.”
I was taken aback but not outraged. I’d certainly been called worse and indeed jumped at the chance to use the old insult to explain to my NBC bosses why I did not want to appear on the Imus show.
…Why do my journalistic colleagues appear on Mr. Imus’s program? That’s for them to defend, and others to argue about.

Duncan Black puts in well:“Various corners of the wingnutosphere are trying to claim Imus is a liberal (he isn’t), that if he was a conservative he’d be fired (he wouldn’t be), and that liberals are giving him a pass. Sadly, to the extent that “liberals” are represented by people likes James Carville and Pat Tom Oliphant, on that last point they’re actually correct.”

Fineman: It’s a different time Imus. It’s diferent than it was even a few years ago, politically. You know, in the environment politically it’s changed. And some of the stuff you used to do you just can’t do anymore.
Imus: no you can’t
Fineman: You just can’t because the times have changed. I mean just looking specifically at the Africa-American situation. I mean, hello, Barack obama has gotten twice the number of contributors of anybody else in the race. I mean, you know, things have changed. Some of the kind of humor you used to do you just can’t do anymore. So that’s just the way it is.

Pat, does all this mean that you’ll admit that this is still a racist country?

The Corner

Don Imus is in a wee bit of trouble for comments he made regarding the Rutgers Women’s Basketball Team during his radio show last week. Imus has since apologized, but I found this to be of interest:

At MSNBC, where the radio program is simulcast on television, officials offered Imus no support.

“‘Imus in the Morning’ is not a production of the cable network and is produced by WFAN Radio,” said a statement from the network. “As Imus makes clear every day, his views are not those of MSNBC. We regret that his remarks were aired on MSNBC and apologize for these offensive comments.”

That’s ridiculous. Not only does MSNBC give Imus his own page on MSNBC.com, but the Imus show is a regular destination for NBC’s top correspondents. If MSNBC is really so offended, maybe they should forbid NBC employees from appearing on the show as some sort of punishment.

I found NRO link at MyDD
So the next time someone goes on about black on white racism being the real problem these days, or the next time I catch a whiff of whiteman’s resentment I’ll point them to this post. And don’t even think about saying it’s a liberal problem, or I’ll just link to Trent Lott, The Council of Conservative Citizens, Jesse Helms serenading Carol Moseley Braun in a capital elevator (with a rendition of Dixie), and top it off with the story of Senator Macacawitz.
It’s still a white man’s world.
AF (c319c8) — 4/11/2007 @ 1:24 pm
“That’s ridiculous. Not only does MSNBC give Imus his own page on MSNBC.com, but the Imus show is a regular destination for NBC’s top correspondents. If MSNBC is really so offended, maybe they should forbid NBC employees from appearing on the show as some sort of punishment. ”

that’s from NRO, not me.
AF (c319c8) — 4/11/2007 @ 3:06 pm
Well now that Imus is off MSNBC we can all turn our attention to a far more important matter: Joan Walsh’s oh-so-sensitive feelings.
David Ehrenstein (cf7ed9) — 4/11/2007 @ 3:49 pm
TBogg has an invitation under his e-mail address, “Think about how stupid you want to appear.” Compared to TBogg, I appear to be Albert Einstein.
SDN (0e4377) — 4/11/2007 @ 4:12 pm
It looks like British Prime Minister Tony Blair may have to apologize to Al Sharpton, too!
Jake Gittes (e6cddd) — 4/11/2007 @ 5:20 pm
Never knew the Moors murders were committed by blacks. And the Krays? Black too it seems.
David Ehrenstein (cf7ed9) — 4/11/2007 @ 5:44 pm
Heh Sneer. The Brits outlawed guns, then they outlawed knives … I suppose black people are the next logical step. If they could also outlaw cowardice in the face of the enemy …. ^~^
nk (a3cd81) — 4/11/2007 @ 7:03 pm
Duncan Black puts in well:“Various corners of the wingnutosphere are trying to claim Imus is a liberal (he isn’t), that if he was a conservative he’d be fired (he wouldn’t be), and that liberals are giving him a pass.

If Imus isn’t a liberal than I’m not sitting here. Playful talk about lynching Republican officials, calling Bush and Cheney war criminals, saying the Republican Party is full of corrupt crooks, etc etc… well, doesn’t quite strike me as “Conservative” or even “Centrist”.

Maybe that’s just Atrios describing Imus… but then, to many liberal bloggers anyone to the right of Castro is a Bushitler sellout.
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R.BALDUS (416ba3) — 4/15/2007 @ 9:42 am

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