[sanjuro]

Actor Robert De Niro opened a fundraiser starring Michelle Obama by listing her Republican rivals and jokingly suggesting that America isn't "ready for a white first lady." Newt Gingrich was not amused, and the Obama campaign says the quip was inappropriate.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/03/20/national/w122530D29.DTL#ixzz1pjZQF4vU

It is really not a big deal to me, but I am trying to figure out how the Republicans are the injured parties in the new political correctness.

 

[stevew]

if you call the right woman a cvnt....give a million to a obama pac....the national organization of women won't give a sh!t.....won't call for a boycott of your show.....and nary democratic elected official will give a sh!t.

just saying...

 

[dante]

if you call the right woman a cvnt....give a million to a obama pac....the national organization of women won't give a sh!t.....won't call for a boycott of your show.....and nary democratic elected official will give a sh!t.

just saying...

You do realize that there's a difference between saying one line about a female politician and spending NINE HOURS OVER THREE DAYS berating a private citizen, right?

 

[stevew]

NINE HOURS OVER THREE DAYS

nine hours?

you listened?

 

[dante]

Not in years. He stopped being interesting when he ran out of ideas and just started carrying water for the GOP. Think it was around 1993...

 

[JohnE]

Also quite a difference between a comedian on a cable show, and a commentator on public airways. Not saying Maher was even close to being jusitified, but...

 

[stevew]

comedian

that's like saying wile e. coyote was a genius.

 

[jonKranked]

that's like saying wile e. coyote was a reliable engineer.

ftfy.

 

[rockofullr]

I don't understand how that could possibly be offensive.

 

[Silver]

It is really not a big deal to me, but I am trying to figure out how the Republicans are the injured parties in the new political correctness.

Because talking about race is racist. Everyone knows that if you want to talk about naggers, you can't say nagger anymore due to the PC left. So you talk about welfare queens, young bucks, food stamp presidents.

 

[Silver]

if you call the right woman a cvnt....give a million to a obama pac....the national organization of women won't give a sh!t.....won't call for a boycott of your show.....and nary democratic elected official will give a sh!t.

just saying...

If cunt is a good enough description for John McCain's wife, it's good enough for Sarah Palin.

 

[stevew]

If cunt is a good enough description for John McCain's wife, it's good enough for Sarah Palin.

louie ck saying palin had a family of chinese housed in her wizards sleeve was much more acceptable.

 

[Silver]

louie ck saying palin had a family of chinese housed in her wizards sleeve was much more acceptable.

Get back to me when Louis CK is the GOP Pope, will you?

 

[kidwoo]

louie ck saying palin had a family of chinese housed in her wizards sleeve was much more acceptable.

You also don't get the difference between targeting one SPECIFIC, intentionally public figure, and targeting one private citizen example to make three days worth of statements that insult half of the world's population.

And LCK is funny. The manatee never is. At least not the way he means to be.

 

[dante]

I have to chuckle when people are told who they should be offended by... Like they can't decide for themselves whether Rush Limbaugh's comments are offensive and Maher's aren't.

 

[kidwoo]

I have to chuckle when people are told who they should be offended by... Like they can't decide for themselves whether Rush Limbaugh's comments are offensive and Maher's aren't.

'Offended.' Hmm. I'm rarely 'offended' by any one thing anyone says.

What I find more offensive is the knowledge that so many people don't recognize straight up stupidity. The manatee's comments were more just pandering to stupidity than offensive.

Maher is rarely either of those.

 

[Silver]

Maher is rarely either of those.

Cough...vaccines.

 

[Pesqueeb]

Cough...vaccines.

They can't all be winners.


I agree with Kidwoo, I could really give a sh!t what "title" fatass, or anybody else, gives to a person to label them. Really, if your going to be offended by Rush, it shouldn't be because he called someone a slut. If thats what it took, you weren't paying attention.

 

[kidwoo]

Cough...vaccines.

I said rarely.

 

[Silver]

Really, if your going to be offended by Rush, it shouldn't be because he called someone a slut. If thats what it took, you weren't paying attention.

This is worth reposting.

 

[sanjuro]

Because talking about race is racist. Everyone knows that if you want to talk about naggers, you can't say nagger anymore due to the PC left. So you talk about welfare queens, young bucks, food stamp presidents.

I was thinking that Republican use lots of codewords. Maybe liberals needs a good codeword for white person.

 

[Pesqueeb]

Relevant on several fronts:

THIS week, Robert De Niro made a joke about first ladies, and Newt Gingrich said it was “inexcusable and the president should apologize for him.” Of course, if something is “inexcusable,” an apology doesn’t make any difference, but then again, neither does Newt Gingrich.

Mr. De Niro was speaking at a fund-raiser with the first lady, Michelle Obama. Here’s the joke: “Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady?”

The first lady’s press secretary declared the joke “inappropriate,” and Mr. De Niro said his remarks were “not meant to offend.” So, as these things go, even if the terrible damage can never be undone, at least the healing can begin. And we can move on to the next time we choose sides and pretend to be outraged about nothing.

When did we get it in our heads that we have the right to never hear anything we don’t like? In the last year, we’ve been shocked and appalled by the unbelievable insensitivity of Nike shoes, the Fighting Sioux, Hank Williams Jr., Cee Lo Green, Ashton Kutcher, Tracy Morgan, Don Imus, Kirk Cameron, Gilbert Gottfried, the Super Bowl halftime show and the ESPN guys who used the wrong cliché for Jeremy Lin after everyone else used all the others. Who can keep up?

This week, President Obama’s chief political strategist, David Axelrod, described Mitt Romney’s constant advertising barrage in Illinois as a “Mittzkrieg,” and instantly the Republican Jewish Coalition was outraged and called out Mr. Axelrod’s “Holocaust and Nazi imagery” as “disturbing.” Because the message of “Mittzkrieg” was clear: Kill all the Jews. Then the coalition demanded not only that Mr. Axelrod apologize immediately but also that Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz “publicly rebuke” him. For a pun! For punning against humanity!

The right side of America is mad at President Obama because he hugged the late Derrick Bell, a law professor who believed we live in a racist country, 22 years ago; the left side of America is mad at Rush Limbaugh for seemingly proving him right.

If it weren’t for throwing conniption fits, we wouldn’t get any exercise at all.

I have a better idea. Let’s have an amnesty — from the left and the right — on every made-up, fake, totally insincere, playacted hurt, insult, slight and affront. Let’s make this Sunday the National Day of No Outrage. One day a year when you will not find some tiny thing someone did or said and pretend you can barely continue functioning until they apologize.

If that doesn’t work, what about this: If you see or hear something you don’t like in the media, just go on with your life. Turn the page or flip the dial or pick up your roll of quarters and leave the booth.

The answer to whenever another human being annoys you is not “make them go away forever.” We need to learn to coexist, and it’s actually pretty easy to do. For example, I find Rush Limbaugh obnoxious, but I’ve been able to coexist comfortably with him for 20 years by using this simple method: I never listen to his program. The only time I hear him is when I’m at a stoplight next to a pickup truck.

When the lady at Costco gives you a free sample of its new ham pudding and you don’t like it, you spit it into a napkin and keep shopping. You don’t declare a holy war on ham.

I don’t want to live in a country where no one ever says anything that offends anyone. That’s why we have Canada. That’s not us. If we sand down our rough edges and drain all the color, emotion and spontaneity out of our discourse, we’ll end up with political candidates who never say anything but the safest, blandest, emptiest, most unctuous focus-grouped platitudes and cant. In other words, we’ll get Mitt Romney.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/opinion/please-stop-apologizing.html?_r=1

 

[TheMontashu]

I don't understand how that could possibly be offensive.

I'm just as confused as you are

If cunt is a good enough description for John McCain's wife, it's good enough for Sarah Palin.

A local kid who I know through going to punk shows made these babies

 

[rockofullr]

A local kid whom I know through going to punk shows made these babies

 

[kidwoo]

I was thinking that Republican use lots of codewords. Maybe liberals needs a good codeword for white person.

Because no 'liberals' are white persons.

I get what you mean there's definitely a special kind of whitey.

Like silver's buddy here.

I just can't get past 'ignorant prick'


I know there's something better. Writer's block.






edit: oh dear god..........of course.........I know that backdrop. That is most certainly the town I was born and raised in

 

[Andyman_1970]

This week, President Obama’s chief political strategist, David Axelrod, described Mitt Romney’s constant advertising barrage in Illinois as a “Mittzkrieg,” and instantly the Republican Jewish Coalition was outraged and called out Mr. Axelrod’s “Holocaust and Nazi imagery” as “disturbing.” Because the message of “Mittzkrieg” was clear: Kill all the Jews. Then the coalition demanded not only that Mr. Axelrod apologize immediately but also that Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz “publicly rebuke” him. For a pun! For punning against humanity!

I may be mistaken, but I'm not sure the Blitzkrieg had anything to do with the "elimination" of the Jews by the Nazi's. IIRC that was a military doctrine of using combined arms to advance quickly.....hence the lighting war name.

Sensitive much?

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

Relevant on several fronts:

Way to slam Canada, bet they go cry into a corner now.

 

[Silver]

I may be mistaken, but I'm not sure the Blitzkrieg had anything to do with the "elimination" of the Jews by the Nazi's. IIRC that was a military doctrine of using combined arms to advance quickly.....hence the lighting war name.

Sensitive much?

You're correct. However, since Anne Frank is a Mormon now, I guess Mitt has a point.

 

[stevew]

republican jewish coalition.....?

left out token?