Phil Robertson Preaches While Paul Whitefield Crashes and Burns
Phil Robertson is a heck of a preacher:
I watched this all the way through to the end — which was interesting, because he makes a point of saying Jesus’s name in his prayer . . . and noting how the television show edits it out.
Meanwhile . . . a fellow named Paul Whitefield at the Los Angeles Times preaches his own “wisdom”:
Having grown up living in a trailer — but having never, ever watched “Duck Dynasty” — I feel uniquely qualified to say this: Enough with the trailer-trash TV shows.
. . . .
But I also know the trailer life — been there, done that. I spent a few years crammed into an 8-foot-wide, 50-foot-long trailer with Mom, Dad, two brothers and two sisters. We moved a lot.
Sometimes people didn’t want us; sometimes they used names, like “trailer trash.”
Growing up, my brothers and I (even my baby sister) worked with Dad; he was a pipeline welder. Many of those guys were the salt of the earth, but others could barely read or write. And some of their views, their language, their morals were, to be kind, coarse. What we wanted, and what my parents wanted for us, was to rise above that. So we went to college.
And now I turn on the TV and see that the vulgarity, the racism, the sexism, the crudeness I encountered as a youth is not only being broadcast but celebrated?
No thanks.
Except, you just said you don’t watch it. You “never, ever” watched it.
So, how’s about you shut your pie hole? You’re “uniquely qualified” to show us (along with your co-tool Michael Hiltzik) how embarrassing blue state nincompoops have become.
I sent Whitefield this tweet tonight:
@PaulWhitefield1 I didn't read your piece in the L.A. Times about Duck Dynasty, but I know it was garbage. Enough elitism in our newspapers!
— Patterico (@Patterico) December 23, 2013
Ah, the irony! We’ll see if he bites. I’ll correct the record after a day or two, but let’s hope he flames out in the interim.
Oh, I read his piece all right. In fact, I think I have read this guy before. Yes, here we go. Paul Whitefield is the guy who wrote this piece in 2007. He thought he was being Jonathan Swift here, as you can tell from the phrase “Modest Proposal” in the headline. (He doesn’t trust you to grasp his cleverness.) Enjoy:
LISTENING TO President Bush’s speech on Iraq earlier this month, my first thought was: “Where the heck are we going to get 21,500 more soldiers to send to Iraq?” Our Reserves are depleted, our National Guard is worn out, our Army and Marine Corps are stretched to the limit.
Then it hit me: Re-up our Vietnam War veterans and send them.
They’re trained. They’re battle-hardened. Many already have post-traumatic stress disorder. Also, some have their own vehicles — Harleys mostly, which are cheap to run, make small targets and are highly mobile. I’ll even bet that lots of these guys still have guns (you know, just in case).
OK, some vets are a bit long in the tooth (or don’t have teeth — because of Agent Orange?). Or their eyesight isn’t what it was. Or their reflexes have slowed. But with today’s modern weaponry, how well do you have to see?
Too out of shape, you say? Listen, if Rocky Balboa can step back into the ring at age 60, all these Vietnam War vets need is a little boot-camp magic and they’ll be good to go. I mean, who doesn’t want to drop a few pounds?
Don’t want geezers fighting for us? Well, let’s face it, our young people have greater value right here. Most of us want to retire and collect our hard-earned Social Security, and we need those youngsters here, working and paying taxes — lots of taxes.
Finally, these Vietnam War guys are hungry for revenge. After all, they fought in the only war the U.S. ever lost. And they didn’t even get a parade. So this is their chance. We can throw them that big parade when they come marching home.
This is who you’re dealing with, OK?
You can’t be the salt of the Earth if you can barely read or write. You gotta be edumacated like Paul Whitefield.
I guess Paul Whitefield thinks “salt of the Earth” is a metaphor for LAT commentator. In which case he falls into the barely can write category.
Steve57 (be5be1) — 12/23/2013 @ 12:09 amNote the link to the LA Times article is “bad”:
https://patterico.com/2013/12/22/phil-robertson-preaches-while-paul-whitefield-crashes-and-burns/Let%27s%20pluck%20%27Duck%20Dynasty%27%20and%20sweep%20away%20trailer-trash%20TV%20%20
First part of link has pointer to Patterico.com
Rest of link is good:
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-duck-dynasty-the-end-of-trailer-trash-tv-20131219,0,5995552.story#ixzz2oHQ0MFKD
BfC (a1cf00) — 12/23/2013 @ 12:46 amSome of the most honest and hard-working people I ever knew could barely read or write. Several of the men left school in 3rd or 4th grade to support their families. Some of their kids quit after 6th grade because they were needed in the fields. Most of them were/are functionally illiterate and needed help with paying bills, etc.
But perhaps the greatest blessing of having been born in a poor rural area and still being able to get a top-flight education was being able to learn that knowledge is a wonderful thing, but it doesn’t make you better than anyone else for having more of it.
And I promise you all on my mother’s grave that if you were stranded in some strange place with no money or way to get help, you would pray God that the next people to come along were some of those poor farmers who could barely sign their own names.
If you saw Whitehead at all, it would be as he drove past you without looking. You don’t need a trailer to be trash, Paulie.
Estragon (19fa04) — 12/23/2013 @ 1:40 amAnd now I turn on the TV and see that the vulgarity, the racism, the sexism, the crudeness I encountered as a youth is not only being broadcast but celebrated?
— You get all of this in an episode of Duck Dynasty?
Icy (3fee81) — 12/23/2013 @ 4:44 amI gotta start watching!
How’s about YOU shut your pie hole? This is not, as you pathetic losers imagine yet again, some turning point in our culture where everyone is going to wake up and see that it is actually the gays and blacks and immigrants who are the tyrants. No, these are the spasms if a dying breed of hateful, anti American religious zealots. So give us all a break and just STFU and get over the fact that the culture war is over, and you lost.
Gaylib (3c72b7) — 12/23/2013 @ 5:06 amHeh! Gaylib just said it, everybody who preaches courteous discourse with the subcultures. Ken? They want you to STFU. They will shout you down. They do not know decency and courtesy. They know happyfeet’s word of the day. “Bareback”. With a little meth before and after. That’s their thought process and their morality, their hearts and their minds.
nk (dbc370) — 12/23/2013 @ 5:29 amPS to Gaylib. http://i.imgur.com/PlGH7rr.png NSFW
nk (dbc370) — 12/23/2013 @ 5:35 amHe was fine as far as preachers go, but that’s not saying a whole lot.
Former Conservative (6e026c) — 12/23/2013 @ 5:37 amIf comment #5 is an example of high culture, then indeed, we — all of us — HAVE lost.
Icy (3fee81) — 12/23/2013 @ 6:03 amI saw this earlier, but didn’t listen to it all.
Mr. Whitefield can be relieved to know that Mr. Robertson still loves him, even if he is a Californian who hates him and calls him trailer trash.
Unlike what happens if you say mean things about many other groups of people.
From what little I’ve seen, it seems that Mr. Robertson as a speaker has the advantage of telling the truth as he sees it, so he doesn’t have to make sure he is not caught in his lies.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 12/23/2013 @ 6:05 amDRJ and I each posted links to this, which is a nice narrative of the life of the Robertson clan:
http://www.iamsecond.com/seconds/the-robertsons/
I found it interesting that a grandson talks about being a cynical and suicidal teenager from a rich family; quite the full range of experience on the other end of the spectrum from grandad growing up where a bottle of coke was an unaffordable luxury.
Great post.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 12/23/2013 @ 6:20 amHe does ‘end all doubt’, I’m sure he thought Obama was the best thing since sliced bread, and looked down on the Huntress, because she wasn’t properly credentialed,
narciso (3fec35) — 12/23/2013 @ 6:22 amI imagine if Reagan has shaken hands with Pinochet, at some gathering, he would not be so copacetic,
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-obama-castro-handshake-casablanca-20131210,0,7968725.story#axzz2oJAJD7EK
narciso (3fec35) — 12/23/2013 @ 6:27 amHe’s as predictable as a Timex watch;
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/la-times-give-obamacare-give-us-single-payer
narciso (3fec35) — 12/23/2013 @ 6:29 amthis one guy in my high school lived in a trailer
i wonder what happened to him
happyfeet (8ce051) — 12/23/2013 @ 7:22 amSo give us all a break and just STFU and get over the fact that the culture war is over, and you lost.
Nothing new under the sun.
Famous ancient Greek philosopher Plato originally said that opposition to homosexuality was something only cretins expressed, and then later in life not only repudiated such behavior but even thought there should be laws to ban it.
The most liberal hierarchy in America, the world of Hollywood, even today, for any number of reasons, has most of its main players of not demonstrably totally straight background tap dancing around their sexuality.
I’m still waiting for a time when Jay Leno, David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, etc, will ever casually, happily start interviewing an actor and asking about his boyfriend or “husband,” or more of such celebrities walking down the red carpet hand-in-hand with a same-sex partner.
If the dynamics represented by Plato in ancient Greece existed over 2,000 years ago, there’s no reason to think human nature will ever totally transform itself in the 21st century. And thank God for that.
Mark (58ea35) — 12/23/2013 @ 7:41 amFamous ancient Greek philosopher Plato originally said that opposition to homosexuality was something only cretins expressed, and then later in life not only repudiated such behavior but even thought there should be laws to ban it.
You keep saying that and the support you have cited is a secondary reference to Phraedrus and the Symposium, which do not say what you say. Both instances which make it clear that Socrates was no pederast and used reasoning (Phraedrus) and example (Symposium) to dissuade young men from it.
nk (dbc370) — 12/23/2013 @ 7:52 amI watched a couple of episodes of the DD show last night and found it very amusing. This LAT fellow? Not amusing, but definitely TRASH.
Colonel Haiku (a6caa8) — 12/23/2013 @ 7:57 amBoth instances which make it clear that Socrates was no pederast
But he certainly originally expressed the biases of a nose-in-the-air liberal.
Mark (58ea35) — 12/23/2013 @ 8:07 amMany of those guys were the salt of the earth, but others could barely read or write. And some of their views, their language, their morals were, to be kind, coarse. What we wanted, and what my parents wanted for us, was to rise above that. So we went to college.
A liberal newspaper can write this about trailer park culture, but they would never, never write this about ghetto chic culture. Because, you know, that would be blaming the victim or something.
JVW (709bc7) — 12/23/2013 @ 8:14 amSometimes people didn’t want us.
Does this guy live in California? I need proof, because several things he says, like Harleys are cheap to run, make it sound like he’s never even visited.
My family on my mother’s side came here from Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl, and the people who were here definitely didn’t want us. No need for qualifiers, like sometimes.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 12/23/2013 @ 8:16 amMy grandfather worked in a sawmill. Within my living memory the state all but abolished that occupational category.
Today is the last day for people to sign up with Covered California. Tomorrow the state will start charging me a fine for the offence of existing.
Gaylib–in the world I inhabit Bill Cosby is a great American and Al Sharpton not so much. Michael Tilson Thomas adds beauty and depth to the culture of our time and Dan Savage’s rage and vulgarity subtracts from it. The idea you seem to have that a nation’s culture is merely the result of a war for power by special interest groups, rather than something created in mystery and molded over time via a nation of individuals, shows a lack of imagination on your part.
elissa (a65140) — 12/23/2013 @ 8:18 amMore reason not to give the LA Slimes even a second of my time. Pat, you and Drudge are my only remaining links to that fishwrap. Cool video of Phil, btw.
Dirty Old Man (5b158d) — 12/23/2013 @ 8:32 am#20… Spot on, JVW.
Colonel Haiku (f69c28) — 12/23/2013 @ 8:32 amJVW, fo shizzie, my nizzie. (I concur wholeheartedly my African-American brother, in English.)
nk (dbc370) — 12/23/2013 @ 8:37 amLink to crappy LAT piece fixed.
Patterico (abba35) — 12/23/2013 @ 8:45 amMany of those guys were the salt of the earth, but others could barely read or write. And some of their views, their language, their morals were, to be kind, coarse. What we wanted, and what my parents wanted for us, was to rise above that. So we went to college.
So much gobbledygook and arrogance and logical fallacies in his lecture to the masses. Who is this little man to define salt of the earth through his narrow minded lens??? If he believes that salt of the earth must be able to read and write, then he must also believe that during our nations ugliest period of time an entire population of African American slaves (and let’s throw in American Indians) could not possibly be ‘salt of the earth’ people. Shame on his bigotry.
Coarse and vulgar language and morals are taught and learned from the ground up -during one’s formative years and is the job that parents are charged with. One of the courses I took in college was an advanced writing course wherein I listened to the prof discuss having sex on his kitchen table with his student gfriend. Suffice it to say, education does not ensure refinement, morals, or things noble.
Dana (a53109) — 12/23/2013 @ 8:48 amIs it ironic or not that “Salt of the Earth” is a Biblical phrase?
Pious Agnostic (c45233) — 12/23/2013 @ 8:51 amCoarse language and morals? What does he think of Hollywood, President Clinton, Martin Bashir, Alec Baldwin, etc? I suspect what he deems coarse language and morals is defined by sides of the political aisle and not at all defined by a personal sense of ethics…
Dana (a53109) — 12/23/2013 @ 8:54 amR.I.P. Mikhail Kalashnikov
nk (dbc370) — 12/23/2013 @ 9:09 amComment by papertiger (c2d6da) — 12/23/2013 @ 8:16 am
Today is the last day for people to sign up with Covered California. Tomorrow the state will start charging me a fine for the offence of existing.
I don’t think this is correct, unless the State of California is charging a special fine.
First, after today, maybe, you won’t be able to get insurance that goes into effect starting January 1, 2014. But the federal fine only applies if you go three consecutive months without insurance – thus, if you don’t have insurance by April 1. But keep listening for further developments.
Second. the fine isn’t “charged” – it is withheld from your federal income tax refund.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/your-money/weighing-the-risks-of-going-without-health-insurance.html
Third, anyone who previously had insurance is exempt, if he files a claim saying the new insurance is too expensive for him.
Sammy Finkelman (dbe090) — 12/23/2013 @ 9:10 amDec 21: 100th anniversary,, or centennial, of the crossword puzzle.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304367204579268330149375204
Dec 23: 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve Board.
Sammy Finkelman (dbe090) — 12/23/2013 @ 9:17 am“I surely don’t have anything against hardworking everyday Americans. That describes me too.”
steveg (794291) — 12/23/2013 @ 9:19 amOh. OK. Sure.
Whitefield ascends to the penthouse from the outhouse and now sits in judgement of the people who have (more money than he does) and have chosen to remain out on the water and the land, clinging to their guns and their religion.
tell you what Finkelman. You can call it a tax if want, but let’s name it accurately.
It’s the “Mom was supposed to abort you” tax.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 12/23/2013 @ 9:54 amOr maybe the “How dare you breathe my air” tax.
“Third, anyone who previously had insurance is exempt, if he files a claim saying the new insurance is too expensive for him.”
Sammy – Why do they call it the “Affordable” care act anyway? I thought it was supposed to save families $2,500 each. Is this basically an admission they lied again, prices are up pretty much across the board and people can’t afford it?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/23/2013 @ 9:59 am“Third, anyone who previously had insurance is exempt, if he files a claim saying the new insurance is too expensive for him.”
Sammy – That seems like blatant discrimination against people who did not have insurance for whatever reason and find the new insurance too expensive but are not allowed to file a similar declaration. What are they thinking?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/23/2013 @ 10:02 amMy daughter’s boyfriend told her that he saw 0bama yesterday over theyah in Hawaii. I asked her to check w/him to see whether that sighting made him feel blessed. She rolled her eyes, canya believe it?
Colonel Haiku (e1b5c1) — 12/23/2013 @ 10:09 amPeople who had insurance before, when they weren’t being forced, are pretty likely to keep on having insurance without being forced. This waiver does very little.
The REAL problem with people who used to have insurance and cannot get signed up now is that they won’t have insurance, which they think they need. I guess it is helpful that after taking their needed insurance away the government doesn’t penalize them, too. But it is cold comfort.
This (and the extension of (now HSA-less) catastrophic plans) is just a cosmetic sop to Dem Senators that have been screaming Do Something, but it actually doesn’t do anything excpet make a bad deal look worse.
I guess that’s something after all. A Festivus miracle.
Kevin M (536c5d) — 12/23/2013 @ 10:12 amThat seems like blatant discrimination against people who did not have insurance for whatever reason and find the new insurance too expensive but are not allowed to file a similar declaration. What are they thinking?
They are thinking, cynically, that people who had insurance don’t want waivers, they want insurance. So, they get waivers and no insurance.
And that people who didn’t have insurance possibly didn’t want it, and still don’t want it, so they don’t get waivers and have to get insurance.
How is this discriminatory? They all get fracked.
Kevin M (536c5d) — 12/23/2013 @ 10:17 amthe SyFy channel has particularly stupid reality shows I know cause of you could see them on hulu, if you wanted to watch a particularly stupid reality show
maybe not as dumb as the one about how animals can see ghosts, but still
happyfeet (c60db2) — 12/23/2013 @ 10:23 am“And that people who didn’t have insurance possibly didn’t want it, and still don’t want it, so they don’t get waivers and have to get insurance.
How is this discriminatory? They all get fracked.”
Kevin M – The people who had insurance but had it taken away can file a form and not purchase new more better affordable insurance because it is too expensive or have the option of purchasing a more stripped down catastrophic coverage policy, which was not previously an option for them.
The people what did not have insurance for whatever reason must purchase the more better affordable insurance even if it is too expensive for them or face fines which will be taken out of any tax refunds now or in future years.
The options for the two classes of people are different. Obamacare was supposed to treat everybody the same.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/23/2013 @ 10:27 amDucknado?
Colonel Haiku (a6caa8) — 12/23/2013 @ 10:32 amthose shows are agonizingly bad;
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/susan-rice-on-60-minutes-nsa-officials-didn%E2%80%99t-lie-they-%E2%80%98inadvertently-made-false-representations/
narciso (3fec35) — 12/23/2013 @ 10:33 amHiltzik just a “co-tool”? I can’t get past the second paragraph of a Hiltzik column before I risk projectile vomiting. I do at least glance at his most recent pile of steaming dung when it shows up in the Daily Dog Trainer. I’ll give him that but he’s such a predictable bunghole that the first two paragraphs will let you know where he’s heading. I rarely have to make the jump to the inside pages.
I don’t watch Duck Dynasty either; but I’ve read some of what Robertson has to say. Seems reasonable enough to me and in line with generally accepted Red State Christianity. I’m not a practicing Christian, but what they have to say won’t harm me. Which is a hell of a lot less toxic and dangerous to the common good than Blue State liberal secularism. What those folks will do if not restrained will harm me and the common good.
As for Whitehead and Hiltzik they are simply useful tools (they don’t rise to the level of “idiots”) for the left.
Comanche Voter (bd140e) — 12/23/2013 @ 10:34 amI feel bad for some people who live in trailers that may not be able to experience the finer things in life, like a Chick-Fil-A sammich.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/23/2013 @ 10:36 amDucknado?
Colonel – Only if Paris Hilton stars.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/23/2013 @ 10:37 ami wonder what it’s like to have sex in a trailer
that’s so kinky
happyfeet (c60db2) — 12/23/2013 @ 10:40 amMy wife, as a child, spent some years living in a trailer. She is the most hardworking, honest and diligent person I have ever met. Also, the most beautiful on the inside as well as the outside. I am a lucky man, indeed.
Gazzer (74e832) — 12/23/2013 @ 10:41 amMaking your appeal more selective;
http://twitchy.com/2013/12/23/former-mass-gop-senate-nominee-gabriel-gomez-says-two-conservative-activists-belong-to-a-klan/
narciso (3fec35) — 12/23/2013 @ 10:42 amI went to t he end of the video and actually heard him say “Jesus” at least three times in the last two minutes, nothing seemed edited out
phaedruscj (dc2574) — 12/23/2013 @ 10:44 amComment by phaedruscj (dc2574) — 12/23/2013 @ 10:44 am
You mean the video above? That was a talk he gave at a church, not something on A+E.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 12/23/2013 @ 10:57 amNo, daley… gotz to be Lindsay Lohan as teh Swamp Harlot.
Colonel Haiku (c0dc59) — 12/23/2013 @ 10:59 amI think Lindsey Lohan and Paris Hilton (she did some farm thing, right?) ought to make guest appearances on Duck Dynasty, it might do them some good.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 12/23/2013 @ 11:00 amHate when that happens, phaedrustic.
Colonel Haiku (c0dc59) — 12/23/2013 @ 11:01 amboat sunk in teh swamp
Colonel Haiku (df0ea2) — 12/23/2013 @ 11:05 amfour hunnerd pound guy sez hands
smell like chili meat
“I went to t he end of the video and actually heard him say “Jesus” at least three times in the last two minutes”
HOLY CRAP! He’s not allowed to do that even if the video is of him preaching in church. Where were the speech police while this was going on?
Good thing this never would have happened on one of our college campuses where impressionable. pre-indoctrinated ears could have heard him. They’ve got speech codes, you know.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/23/2013 @ 11:06 amHere is something interesting:
http://mosaicmagazine.com/supplemental/2013/10/better-to-be-wrong-than-right/
Excerpt:
Note: The Rosa Kaganovich who is probably meant died in 1924, so this would have been a claim she was alive later.
Sammy Finkelman (dbe090) — 12/23/2013 @ 11:06 am“boat sunk in teh swamp
four hunnerd pound guy sez hands
smell like chili meat”
and you got a purty mouf
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/23/2013 @ 11:08 am53. It was Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, maybe you didn’t mean to say Lindsey Lohan did it, who did the farm thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simple_Life
Originally it was supposed to be Paris and Nicky Hilton.
Sammy Finkelman (dbe090) — 12/23/2013 @ 11:19 amOne of the more incredible statements recently delivered by President Obama:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/12/04/remarks-president-economic-mobility
He also said in that speech:
Sammy Finkelman (dbe090) — 12/23/2013 @ 11:27 amApparently some at NRO seem to be more on the side of Whitefield than Robertson, and GLAAD than Steyn.
Hmm.
http://blogsforvictory.com/2013/12/23/mark-steyn-nro-liberal-fascism-and-the-conservative-coward/
Sammy, no I didn’t mean to suggest that LL did the farm thing with Hilton.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 12/23/2013 @ 1:06 pmBut LL did go to camp and went skinny-dipping (allegedly, it wasn’t shown, you know) when she was a young youth before she went through late adolescent child actor go crazy.
Having known someone who actually lived in such a structure for their entire life (i.e., a former GF in high school) I challenge his claim because I noted that people who live in them are pretty damned defensive about them being “trailers” — the structures being described are “mobile homes”. “Trailers” are the things you tow behind your truck that are more like 15′ long and streamlined….
IGotBupkis, "Not Home For The Holidays" (155353) — 12/23/2013 @ 3:16 pmThere’s a silver lining to this controversy.
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 12/23/2013 @ 5:38 pmIt finally answers the burning question of; “Hey, so what became of ZZ Top ?!”
I think sex in mobile homes and trailers and tents and cabins and shacks and those Sears garden shed has been all good… sorta drafty at times, however I live in CA so no frostbite to report
steveg (794291) — 12/23/2013 @ 7:28 pmyou should have your own reality show
happyfeet (8ce051) — 12/23/2013 @ 7:41 pmThere’s already enough sex on TV.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/23/2013 @ 7:52 pmnot mobile home sex there’s not
happyfeet (8ce051) — 12/23/2013 @ 7:54 pmJust FYI, the LA Times art critic, believe it or not, recently penned a column that apparently bashes George W Bush, in part due to his appearance on the Tonight Show. I understand Bush showed Jay Leno some of his artwork. Interestingly enough, the readers’ forum to that article article has been shut down.
I don’t mind the ludicrous leftism of the LA Times, just as long as they’re not doing well financially. On the rare occasion when I do peruse the hard-copy edition of that paper and notice few to no advertisements, a smile forms on my face.
Let them eat cake.
Mark (58ea35) — 12/23/2013 @ 8:13 pmI was a trailer court kid growing up and resent Whitefield’s attempt at some kind of white trash street cred. Personally, I rarely talk about my childhood. Unlike Whitefield, I don’t claim any special sociopolitical insights into the human condition or the nature of poverty and poor people. Who I am is who I am right now, at this moment. Growing up poor didn’t define me. So I had a lousy childhood. So what? So did (and so are) millions of others. I’m guessing many or most of us made out all right.
Abraham Lincoln, by all accounts an affable man, is reputed to have grimaced at mention of his hardscrabble frontier background, and is said to have deeply resented his campaign manager’s use of that background as a presidential campaign ploy (although Lincoln was a pragmatist and understood its usefulness). Lincoln worked hard to leave it behind him where it belonged, and did. So did I. So do most people who strive and aspire to a better life.
Troy Riser (d42ba8) — 12/23/2013 @ 9:56 pmPoor Paul. Gets himself a fancy journ-O-lism degree, goes to the big city …
… and turns out he’s still just trailer trash.
CiceroTheLatest (9f0b2d) — 12/24/2013 @ 5:57 amIf this idiot’s car broke down, I doubt he’d think twice about how superior his education was to the semi-literate who fixed it for his sorry @$$!
BTW, I’ll bet he’s more mathematically challenged than most of the people he’s mocking.
Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 (f7d5ba) — 12/24/2013 @ 6:25 am“There five stages of drinking. Six if you live in a trailer park.”—Larry Miller
Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 (f7d5ba) — 12/24/2013 @ 6:30 am“There are”
Arrrgh! More coffee is required!
Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 (f7d5ba) — 12/24/2013 @ 6:31 amI have no doubt that liberals like Paul Whitefield are fully aware of the following and instead of thinking “trashy,” they get pangs of tears and sympathy. And not even so much about the idea of “well, so many Americans have had run-ins with the law,” but also — and this is the kicker — about whether such people are possibly quite relevant or not in the hip world of GLBT—ie, there’s no definite public record about whether the person involved in the arrest was a male or female prostitute, although murmurs in the grapevine are that it was the former, not the latter.
Obama and his friend
Mark (58ea35) — 12/24/2013 @ 7:32 amMr. Robertson is indeed a good preacher. Timing is the key.
Now days I feel blessed if the sermonizer is a Christian let alone whether they can they preach.
gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 12/24/2013 @ 4:56 pm10. Today, I am again reminded of my failings.
Noisy gong.
gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 12/24/2013 @ 5:42 pmWonder if Bobby Titcomb was in the Choom gang? Maybe Five-O has a planned sting operation going since Mr. Big is now on the island. It’s about time, I say.
Paul Chapey (2f8051) — 12/24/2013 @ 11:37 pmI dunno why anyone should be surprised:
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/12/24/Terry-Bradshaw-on-Duck-Dynastys-Phil-Robertson
God plants his select men just anywhere, and can use anyone and/or their works to his good purpose.
1 Kings 18@19
gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 12/25/2013 @ 8:34 am61. The offending Steyn column, should anyone care to read it again:
http://nationalreview.com/article/366896/age-intolerance-mark-steyn/page/0/1
gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 12/25/2013 @ 2:47 pmumm, the USA won that war as well. Despite traitors like John Kerry and others, N. Vietnam essentially asked for peace after Nixon bombed the cr@p out of them.
What was lost was the peace and that was lost because Democrats abandoned S. Vietnam.
iconoclast (44cdb8) — 12/27/2013 @ 11:00 amComment by iconoclast (44cdb8) — 12/27/2013 @ 11:00 am
N. Vietnam essentially asked for peace after Nixon bombed the cr@p out of them.
But they didn’t realize it. Obama is making the same mistake now about Iran.
If Iran is willing to agree to anything it’s willing to agree to everything we want
What was lost was the peace and that was lost because Democrats abandoned S. Vietnam.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/27/2013 @ 11:04 amHat tip via Ace – where he also reports it is his 10th aniversary.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/12/life_on_glaads_blacklist.html
Sammy Finkelman (b9404b) — 12/30/2013 @ 1:14 pm