Comments on: the new york post: barely fit to wrap fish

By: Mad Bull

Mad Bull — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:11:49 +0000

You know, I was considering writing about this too.... I agree with what you had to say, and I think you said it very well. Mad Bull´s last blog post..Poor Likkle Priest….. Awwww.

By: maria

maria — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:22:58 +0000

I came across this great quote today, here -> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-jenkins/worst-week-ever-republica_b_170378.html

“The highlight of the GOP week was, of course, Governor Bobby Jindal’s response to Barack Obama’s Congressional address. The best that can be said for Jindal’s performance is that it channeled Kenneth the Page from 30 Rock, presumably not the objective, even for someone who willingly changed his name to “Bobby.” But the past seven days have offered so many moments of breathtaking inanity by the GOP that our heads spin at trying to organize them cohesively. With the country on the verge of being swallowed up in its entirety by the spiraling economy, Republicans obsessed over Obama’s citizenship, gay people, pregnant women with HIV, helicopters, primary challenges to their own Senators from porn stars and Christian fundamentalists, registration forms, hopeless recounts, and assorted variations on the 1981 theme of “Government Is The Problem.”

By: YingYang

YingYang — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:25:19 +0000

In light of the recent watermelon postcard thing (http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Mayor-Who-Sent-Watermelon-E-mail-Says-Hell-Resign.html) I have to agree that the racist crazies are flooding out of the woodwork. I am completely amazed that people, particularly elected officials, cannot exercise the smallest amount of self-censorship or self-awareness. "I had no idea that watermelons + black people = racist". Really??!? Without the racial overtone the bloody postcard is nonsensical you asshole mayor! Then again, maybe it is best they have no self-awareness. This way we can spot them and weed out their poisonous kind. YingYang´s last blog post..“It isn’t easy being green”

By: SINgleGIRL

SINgleGIRL — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:00:40 +0000

Did you see Rupert's apology today? What possessed him, if he "understands the hurt" to wait so long? SINgleGIRL´s last blog post..Can't Buy Me Love

By: zooms

zooms — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:37:14 +0000

Think The Post should have come up with an apology rather than an explanation, if they were genuinely concerned about misinterpretation. They think we stupid or what?

By: maria

maria — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:28:28 +0000

Bienvenido, Esteban. *susurrando* ¿Por qué gritamos?

By: ESTEBAN AGOSTO REID

ESTEBAN AGOSTO REID — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:22:35 +0000

UNADULTERATED RACISM!!

By: maria

maria — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:30:33 +0000

Hilarious! Matt, knowing that you work in the “news” industry gives me hope. Srsly.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:25:21 +0000

And I love the apologists for the Post saying the cartoon was “political satire” that’s been “misinterpreted.” I’ll grant them the first point, in the broad sense. But it hasn’t been misinterpreted. There is no other possible interpretation.

Of course, by saying that I mark myself as a liberal purveyor of groupthink and political correctness that plays racial politics and obviously has no sense of humor. Plus I hate freedom. And I want the terrorists to win. Obviously. Yay, terrorists.

By: maria

maria — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:19:13 +0000

I couldn’t agree with you more, Matt. As one of my other Twitter buddies noted, “Congress may write the laws, but no name is as linked to the stimulus as Obama’s.” Pretending otherwise is (putting it mildly) disingenuous.

By: MattElggren

MattElggren — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:46:01 +0000

It's just plain stupid at best -- malfeasance, but feels more like raw hate cowering behind plausible deniability. And just because a majority of Americans are ready to move past racism does not mean that the minority has also made progress. You're right, Maria, the hate-prone are coming unhinged. MattElggren´s last blog post..Beer

By: maria

maria — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:26:30 +0000

What pisses me off most is that the whole thing is such a massive waste of energy. I’m sick of distractions. We have work to do.

By: YingYang

YingYang — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:53:36 +0000

Whoa. I had to look at it two or three times so make sure I was making the correct inference. The Age of Obama is flushing all the crazies out of the woodwork. YingYang´s last blog post..“It isn’t easy being green”

By: jdid

jdid — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:45:11 +0000

shameful

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:20:23 +0000

In the course of my job, I read the post every day — and they’ve been going completely off the deep end lately. I just want to shake them and say, “Are you LISTENING to yourselves? You guys aren’t ‘conservatives,’ you’re RAVING LUNATICS.”

By: maria

maria — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:53:46 +0000

Oh, it’s most definitely about President Obama. He just signed the stimulus bill, yesterday I believe. It’s just that this is WORSE than merely depicting Obama as a chimp. He’s being depicted as a chimp who went wild, nearly killed a human and was executed by an impromptu police firing squad because he was impossible to subdue. The Republicans and their flunkies in the conservative media are going nuts about the stimulus bill, and that’s fine, but if this cartoon is not the graphical equivalent of hate speech, I don’t know what is.

By: SanMan aka bandi

SanMan aka bandi — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:22:18 +0000

didn’t know about that news story but I made the monkey inference still… i thought it was about the newly installed…

By: maria

maria — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:37:48 +0000

As far as I’m concerned there is no other possible interpretation. You get the chimp reference, right? A pet chimp (in the U.S.) almost ripped the face off a woman the other day. The police shot the animal dead. The woman is in critical condition. Sick, sick sick.

By: SanMan aka bandi

SanMan aka bandi — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:23:27 +0000

i read some serious racial tones in this… just my opinion…