Dip Hop

What do you get when two white guys from Dartmouth who can’t dance, can’t rhyme, and can’t sing make a rap video where they put on their church clothes and spout tea-bagger talking points in imitation black rapper dialect (“Yo we Americans,” etc.)? This:

Hilarious, of course, in the same way that a video of Susan Boyle in a bikini and viking helmet singing a disco version of The Ride of the Valkyries would be. My favorite bit from the lyrics:

Three things taught me conservative love:
Jesus, Ronald Reagan, plus Atlas Shrugged
Saving our nation from inflation devastation
On my hands and my knees praying for salvation”

By the way, when did people start praying away the inflation doggy-style?

UPDATE: Here’s a delicious detail I missed last night. These “yo”-yos did the video in their socks, like all the real rappers do.

socks

 

Usually The Answers To Obvious Questions Are Obvious

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ABOVE: Eric Scheie of “Classical Values”
“Si post fata venit gloria non propero”


Eric Scheie, who appears to be a bargain basement Victor Davis Hanson, got a heh-indeedy from Instahick and a jiggle of the love handles from Jonah the Whale for an extended whine about what a shame it is that kooky conservatives are calling Obama a socialist. According to Eric, this prevents the really smart and eminently reasonable conservatives — like himself, naturally — from saying what Obama really is, which is, of course, a socialist.

A question which has been plaguing me lately is whether it is possible to have a legitimate debate over socialism without sounding like a rabid, hysterical, over-the-top, far-right conspiracy theorist.

In a similar vein, I suppose one could also be plagued by the question whether it’s possible to have a discussion about the voices one hears that no one else does without sounding like an insane person. The answer to both questions is, not surprisingly, fairly obvious.

It would be nice to have time for an essay-length discussion, but I don’t.

Aw, come on Eric, you’re a non-practising lawyer and full time blogger. Sure you’ve got the time.

I worry that “socialist” within five words of “Barack Obama” has become code language for belief in various popular far-right conspiracy theories. In theory, “socialism” is still a perfectly legitimate word, but I worry that it is becoming delegitimized. As it is, the responsible critics of Barack Obama’s economic programs are very, very careful not to use the word “socialist,” and if they do, it is only to distance themselves from those who call Barack Obama a socialist.

Just a random thought here, Eric, but maybe, just maybe, there’s a reason for that.

By what standard is government ownership of 72% of a company less than “true” socialism?

I think we just heard the kook alarm go “arooogah, aroooogah, arooooogah!” And that funny clinking noise you just heard was the needle of the idiot meter breaking off on the side labeled “bag of hammers.”

The U.S. government has held ownership interests in corporations going back to the First Bank of the United States in 1791 and continuing through the Tennessee Valley Authority, Conrail, and, to this very day, Amtrak without these whack-a-doodle dandies obsessively yanking the Chatty-Cathy-strings attached to their necks that makes them gurgle out the s-word. Somebody who sets the goalposts for socialism to state-ownership of some companies rather than state ownership of most, if not all, companies is, quite simply put, a kook, and no amount of Scheie’s saying that he’s smarter than the other people calling Obama a socialist will erase that fact.

But here’s my problem: I am sick to death of this creepy feeling that I can’t talk about socialism without sounding like a kook.

Any ideas?

Well, you could, I suppose, either admit that you’re a kook or just shut the fuck up. If any of our readers have other ideas, Scheie has a comments section where I’m sure your ideas would be warmly welcomed.

 

Moe Be Dick

Update: Uh, some guy with a Muslim name shot two soldiers at a recruiting station today, killing one, so everything equals opposite, and never mind about the abortion doctor.

Leading the way in this regard is our pal Confederate Yankee, who began this morning by absolving the right of any responsibility for the murder of ‘infanticide specialist’ George Tiller, or for the alleged gunman, the far-out-of-the-mainstream Scott Roeder — who is extremely super-far outside the mainstream of American thought, as such thought is represented by the ‘center-right blogosphere,’ including such sites as ConfederateYankee.com. Such things being as they are, Mr. Yankee directs attention instead toward the real issues: Andrew Mickel and protesters against John Yoo, both emblematic of the far-out-of-the-mainstream extreme hard-left, as it is represented by the entire left, including entities such as the US Government.

We are then treated to some of the ol’ Con Yank legerdemain for which he is justly famed, with the very next post (from this evening) sirening up an alarm about ‘African-American Muslim converts,’ a group with an established pattern of allegedly one and also possibly two recent terror-type incidents, if any. This group is extremely mainstream because of an associative likeness to President Teh Blaxxor, with his “ties to certain terrorists/authors and the 20 years he spent in the congregation of a racial separatist church.”

Anyway, right, like he said, that abortion-doctor thing — not that it mattered except as an indictment of the left — is totally canceled out in rock-bashes-scissors fashion by the appearance of a similar yet more salutary news item. Interestingly, this replacement item is made of a special kind of rock that is immune to being covered by paper, should an item of that substance next appear under consideration. In other words, no backs, double tax.

ABOVE: In the midnight hour, she cried
‘Moe, Moe, Moe.’


Where were we? Oh yeah:

Moe Lane, RedState:

Welcome to the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, Gawker.
Oh, stop squirming. Having the chip put in doesn’t hurt *that* much.

No, it’s having the gunshot wounds put in that really hurts. Ha ha! When you’re at church!

Ha ha! For it’s just one church-shootin’ laugh after another, with laugh upon laugh in unending series. God damn that filthy DHS and their fascist report on so-called ‘right-wing extremism,’ which was made out of a big fat loaf of Khmer Rouge with Hitler sprinkles, and served in a bain chaud of the collected single tears of thousands of lone Twin Tower eagles.

And God-double-damn that ding-whoop, dang-blasted Bill Ayers, by the way, for this terrible reaping of what Obama has sown, domestic-terrorwise.

Ooh fine, we’ll just say it: All those hard-left far-liberals who are always criticizing other people’s gunmen should instead take a look in the mirror and criticize themselves, and then be criticized by conservatives, and then they should finally go back into the world and criticize one another, while conservatives help by also criticizing them and providing gunmen.

That’s a little thing that we like to call ‘reality,’ folks. Because these gunmen aren’t coming from nowhere and shooting at nobody. Quite to the contrary, they’re coming from their houses and cars and shooting at liberals. Does anyone seriously think that the liberals have no part in this? If indeed it’s the houses and cars that are causing it, then how could hundreds of commentators and talk radio hosts all simultaneously be wrong about liberals equaling insect vermin, all in exactly the same way?

I suppose they’re all tinfoil-hat lazy-metaphor-thing, with the being crazy and the hat made of tinfoil (i.e., non-depletable off-the-shelf expression for ‘believing in conspiracies’) — and not only that, but it’s like a tinfoil hat ‘on steroids,’ meaning agh uck strangled gluck by own intestines gack argle.

I’m sorry to have to tell you folks at The Gawker this, but it’s over. You’ve been tagged by the…

Hi, Betty White here for 1-800-PetMeds. Why are we picking on Moe today? Like life, it is random; but like shootings in churches, it is the fault, nay the responsibility, nay the re-fault-si-blame-ity of Young Bill Ayers, who is right now planning bombings in the early 1970s that might as well have killed somebody.

Yet isn’t it suspicious that all a right-winger has to do is to succeed where Ayers failed — i.e. in killing people — and all of a sudden, there’s not a word in the liberal media about Ayers, Saul Alinksy, or Tom Hayden, who were noted radicals of a kind that could easily have killed people at an equal or even greater rate than the right, for a combined total of many decades?

Not a single word about the millions of conservatives, statistically 100%, who didn’t kill a single person that day? Even though statistically, no conservative even killed anybody at all?

WOW, I GUESS THIS IS WHY THEY CALL IT THE ‘LIBERAL MEDIA,’ HUH? Hellzapoppin’, shiver me timbers. A heh in need is a heh-indeed. Blarf.
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Game Set, Match

Michelle Malkin lays down the law:

Unfortunately, some are not content to leave it at that for now. They fail to respect that there is a proper time and place to indulge in political battle.

You can go here, here, and here for all that. Another round-up here.

Tiller’s family is grieving. Those who have jumped to score political points before Tiller is even buried are no better than the Phelps family thugs of the “Westboro Baptist Church” who respect no bounds of civility.

Unfortunately, it’s too much to ask the cable news networks and hyper-partisan snipers on the Internet to have the decency to restrain themselves.

Prepare for a wall-to-wall onslaught of gleeful finger-pointing on the Left and heated responses on the Right.

Prepare for whitewashed hagiographies of Tiller’s career as an abortionist.

Prepare for DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano’s defenders to gloat about vindication.

Prepare for collective demonization of pro-lifers and Christians — and more gratuitous attempts to tar talk radio, Fox News, and the Tea Party movement as responsible for the heinous crime.

Prepare for the continuing redefinition of any and all sharp political disagreement as “hate” — a ruinous trend that inevitably comes back to haunt the hysterical accusers decrying “hate” the loudest.

How unhinged has the discourse gotten already? Here’s the left-wing Daily Kos going after the left-wing John Aravosis for going after Barack Obama because he didn’t go after “right-wing extremism” hard enough.

We concur. This is not the time for partisan sniping and name-calling. Also, Michelle Malkin is a manipulative sack of shit.

 

Insert The Customary Wry Pun

Welp, here we go again with more right-wing violence. And I’m not doing a great job at being funny right now, honestly, so here’s Free Republic to do a simultaneously better and worse job of it, giving us perspective on the matter, as they are often so good at doing.

Obama is going to take advantage of this murder to sieze even more control over our society.

I would not even put it past them to commit this murder themselves, as an excuse to sieze power. Reichstag Fire, and all that…

20 posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 1:19:31 PM by gridlock (L’Etat, c’est Barack…)

 

Great minds think alike. 😉

21 posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 1:20:00 PM by IMissPresidentReagan (What, were all the Judges who had a 100% rate of being overturned by the Supreme Court already taken)

 

Great minds think alike. 😉

22 posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 1:20:02 PM by IMissPresidentReagan (What, were all the Judges who had a 100% rate of being overturned by the Supreme Court already taken)

 

Great minds think alike. 😉

23 posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 1:20:03 PM by IMissPresidentReagan (What, were all the Judges who had a 100% rate of being overturned by the Supreme Court already taken)

Apparently they do, because literally a minute ago, I also posted that message three times.

He had the goods on Kathleen Sebelius, and that means she was blackmailable. I wonder if they will catch the killer on this one?!

38 posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 12:46:16 PM by freeplancer

 

This will do for Obama the same thing that Timothy McVeigh did for Clinton, marginalize his opponents as extremists in the public mind and shut down the developing scrutiny.

41 posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 1:26:16 PM by gusopol3

Now there’s a point. After the Oklahoma City bombing, in 1995, nobody dared investigate or impeach Bill Clinton for all those murders and rapes, not to mention the cocaine trafficking and interstate money laundering, forcing the impeachment proceedings to be hung from a tangle of alleged petty financial improprieties and consensual sexual relationships.

Oooh, and now this murder means that Obama is going to get away with all those murders!

This is the worst setback for our side since that murderous assassin Rudolph.

It was since (and one, therefore, could argue, in part, because of) Rudolph, America has swung to majority pro-life for the first time in 15 years.

90 posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 1:51:10 PM by Cedric

‘Since and. . .therefore. . .because of’ is one of those eternalities of human folly that you occasionally run across that make life worth plodding through.

Well, at least the perp didn’t rip his arms and legs off and then suck his brains out.

The best pot so far in this thread!!!

101 posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 1:59:27 PM by Turret Gunner A20

Unfortunately, the bong was just getting warmed up.
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Bobblespeak for a Sunday

For those who missed it, Bobblespeak delivers the goods on today’s Meet the Press:

Gregory: can the US still be the best in manufacturing?
[Google CEO Eric] Schmidt: yes we can lead the world in blogging, tweeting, and LOLCATs. […]

Gregory: can you still make money in America?
[Caterpillar CEO Jim] Owens: sadly no

It’s almost like it was written by for us.

 

The stupidest people in the world

Modern-day wingnuts may well be the dumbest group of organisms in the history of the known universe. Let’s imagine what would have happened if they’d been around in 1865:

***ELITISM ALERT!!!***

ELITIST PRESIDENT LINCOLN TAKES WIFE TO ELITIST ANTI-AMERICAN PLAY AT FORD’S THEATRE!

Despite the fact that the South is still devastated in the wake of his War of Northern Aggression, elitist President Abraham Lincoln is somehow finding the time to take his family to a fancy theatre production! Tonight, Lincoln plans to bring his wife to Ford’s Theatre to see a production of “Our American Cousin,” which has been described as a “farcical comedy whose plot is based on the introduction of an awkward, boorish American to his aristocratic English relatives.” Think about that — just days after the end of the war, with much of the South laying in ruins, our president is watching a “comedy” that mocks America’s heartland! How can the president sit and watch as America is mocked, even as Americans across the nation struggle to make ends meet? Why does the president insist on trashing American values while at the same time promoting alleged “unity” with the South?

***DEVELOPING***

We need a smarter opposition ideology in this country. The current crop isn’t cutting it.

 

Why Leave The House When There’s Still Food Left?

Shorter (if not smaller) Rick Moran:

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Rick Moran, The American “Thinker”
The Most Expensive Date Night In History

  • WTF is up with Obama going to a Five Guys hamburger restaurant? What’s wrong with the hamburgers from that fancy-ass kitchen in the White House that we pay bazillions for? And where does he get off eating ground beef when many Americans are being so heavily taxed that all they can afford is mac ‘n cheese from a box? Didn’t he say we all have to tighten our belts? Oh, and another thing, he and Michelle should stay home and watch videos like my wife Zsu Zsu and I do. And no smart remarks, either, from any of you that this is the reason why Zsu Zsu* and I have three cats instead of any kids.

‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.™


*Bonus weekend entertainment! Which one in this picture is Zsu Zsu?

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Malkin: Stupid Lefties Fall For Obvious Hoax! Update: Report On ‘Hoax’ Was A Hoax

Pity poor Michelle Malkin — she’s having a rough week. It turns out that ‘Dealergate’ has less to do with a conspiracy against Republican Chrysler disties and more to do with total dumbasses who can’t do basic math. What’s more vexing is that even a classic Malkin ragegasm hasn’t made 2+2=5 this time around.

Maybe she just needs to glower more. That’ll teach those pesky numbers!

Meanwhile, Malkin’s also got Bill O’Reilly on her case, though apparently he’s kind of apologized for implying she’s an overtly hateful piece of shit, when in fact it is her fans who are overtly hateful pieces of shit (Malkin is much more passive-aggressive in her hateful shit-piecing).

So not the greatest couple of days for Michelle. But being embarrassingly wrong in public is a kind of tradecraft for wingnuts, and Malkin ranks high in the guild. So she set out to really show the world how implosion is done with today’s post:

Lefty blogs punked by Mancow “torture” stunt(?); Updated

Last week, liberal blogs went ga-ga over radio talk show host Mancow’s waterboarding stunt. …

Now, there’s a paper trail that suggests the glaringly obvious — that it was all an elaborate hoax, reportedly orchestrated with the help of Jerry Springer’s publicist.

Time for B.S. detector tune-ups, people. Next time, libs, don’t be so eager to hype a veteran radio entertainer crying “torture.”

You’re the ones who end up all wet.

And then, the inevitable update:

Linda Shafran, publicist for Mancow and Springer among other celebs, e-mails the following statement:

BORED BLOGGERS ARE ALL WET
By Mancow Muller May 29, 2008

I am not a magician. Many news cameras were there!

Obviously, it was on the radio and I wasn’t in prison. I’m also not a radicalized Muslim terrorist. But it was not a hoax! I repeat: NOT A HOAX.

If nothing else, it must be admitted that Malkin has greatly increased the efficiency of the post-debunk-mock cycle that usually accompanies her output, here completely eliminating the third-party debunkers in a neatly self-contained story arc that takes her from heights of self-impressed gloating to the depths of defeat, all in a single post.

Now all she has to do is generate her own self-mockery, and we would be out of a job.

 

The Mascara Massacre: How Drag Queens Are Killing Our Troops

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ABOVE (left to right) Kristal, Kristeen, and Kristia


Meet Kristia Cavere, a new recruit at Renew America, who looks like she might give M’a’r’i’e’ J’o’n” a run for her money until you discover that she is not quite as hot as the ancient headshot she uses on her column suggests. But even if Kristia is decades older than M’a’r’i’e’ J’o’n” and not quite as as abundant with apostrophes, she’s every bit as lunatic as M’a’r’i’e’.

In Kristia’s second column ever for Renew America, she has uncovered a horrifying scandal in Baghdad, which she sees as the biggest breach of foreign protocol since Michelle Obama actually touched the Queen of England and since Obama bowed to the Saudi King. (Apparently, the correct foreign protocol with the Saudi King is to forcefully squeeze his left nut until he screams “Leggo my eggo, you damn fool!”)

In the short time that President Obama has been in office, there have been many breaches of foreign protocol such as an overt familiarity with the British Queen and bowing to the Saudi King. But the most significant indiscretion will occur tonight as homosexuality is promoted in our embassy in a foreign land — in Baghdad, Iraq, no less.

Oh noes! What has Obama done now? It sounds like he’s ordered the embassy staff to dress up as drag queens and as leather daddies in buttless chaps and then to parade through the streets of central Baghdad while throwing condoms and blowing kisses at all the male onlookers. Not so much. They’re having a gay costume party at the embassy employee association’s pub. Inside the embassy compound.

The Islamic culture does not appreciate or allow public sexual displays to begin with. Now the American embassy is going to display sexuality in a way that will do nothing but offend the host population, needlessly complicating an already sensitive situation.

Apparently the State Department must have invited Al-Jazeera into the embassy compound to televise the goings-on in the pub, particularly teh lip-synchng by teh drag queens and, of course, teh public buttsex, where the employees plan to let out climactic shouts of “Allahu Akbar” rather than the more traditional “Yeah, baby, yeah!”

The question becomes, who is going to suffer? Our embassy officials, or our soldiers on the ground who will endure the increased outrage when events such as this occur?

I think that must be a rhetorical question, don’t you? And I’m guessing that Kristia’s answer is our soldiers on the ground, who will be given the full Westboro Baptist treatment by the local Baghdadis. You know, they’ll be carrying signs saying “Allah Hates Fags” while throwing hand grenades and shit. They’ll, of course, be doing this because they have no other beef with the occupying troops other than the gays in the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad carrying on and having parties and stuff — which is, of course, the very cliff that Kristia was just headed right off:

More offensive than our men in arms in an Islamic country are men in drag, as this strikes at the very core of propriety and decency within their culture.

There may have been stupider things said at Renew America but, if so, I’m hard pressed to think of them.


Brad adds: See, for a little bit I was wondering how these guys could on the one hand support overtly torturing Iraqis without fear of pissing off the Arab world, while on the other hand denouncing teh ghey for offending Islamic culture.

And then it occurred to me: torturing makes Amur’ka look strong in their eyes, while lip-syncing Cher’s greatest hits over a third-rate karaoke machine makes us look weak. In other words, the Arabs will hate us if we torture them, but at least they’ll also fear us. If we act gay, then the Arabs will hate us and think we’re fairies.