Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Matthew Poole,
because enfranchisement was just the biggest issue of a multitude of segregationist matters that were addressed in that period in the South but which hadn’t been a consideration in the North for quite some time.
Um, I do have to go out now but I'm going to hit you with a reading list concerning "segregationist issues" that were very big issues north of the Mason-Dixon line. I'm probably being every bit as reductionist as you are, but the reality was much messier. And more interesting.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Again, Matthew, I've read Robert Caro's Master of the Senate and am aware there were no group hugs and singing of Kum-bay-a in Congress during the passage of the Civil Rights Act. (I also know it was so heavily compromised that enforcement was difficult, if not actually impossible.)
But, again, I'd not Strom Thurmond -- segregationist double wide douche nozzle that he was -- filibustered for over 24 hours with no mention of "second amendment solutions" or slurs against Eisenhower. The collegial civility was often through gritted teeth (and a lot of people nursing their twisted arms when Johnson was involved), but it was real.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Simon Grigg,
The Obama claim however is based on….
The charmingly naive idea that the “lamestream” media had such a pash on for Obambi they all suppressed the irrefutable fact that he spent seven years at Hogwart’s School of America-Hating & Islamofascism. Guess Fox News got hit with a serious Polyjuice potion-based confounding charm there...
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But here’s a parting thought, after watching Obama’s speech a couple more times:
I often wonder if the rage of the Tea Party, “birther” loons and the Pa-Lim-Beck Axis of Stupid is (to paraphrase Oscar Wilde) “the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.” The delicious irony that’s been obvious for a while is that Obama’s temperament and approach to government is profoundly conservative, and for a secret Muslim he seems to get the ethics of the gospels more clearly and purely than people like Palin for whom God and faith are just another couple of talking points.
It would be a mistake to dismiss Obama as a slick performer with a good speech-writer. There’s something deeper, and much more interesting, going on and I get why it drives people whose feckless cynicism is boundless absolutely off the scales.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Perfectly happy to - I've run out of furniture.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Matthew Poole,
However, there was no Faux News to stir things up. No national broadcasting network would’ve dared allow the talent to blithely suggest that targeted violence against specific individuals was acceptable as a way of resolving political disagreements.
Also, let’s compare and contrast the 1960 Presidential race JFK won by a cat’s whisker.
Yes, Kennedy’s Catholicism (and anti-Catholic prejudice) was a real issue, and I’m not naive enough to pretend that it wasn’t exploited to some degree by Kennedy’s opponents in the Democratic primary and the general campaign. But you’d really have to stretch a loooong way to equate it to the “Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s a SECRET MUSLIM” blah-blah that was all the way in your face. And bluntly, it would have been nice if McCain and Palin had been a little more Nixonian (who, for all his faults, was rather more scrupulous about playing the religious card considering Quakers aren't exactly mainline Protestants either).
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Eh? I can’t see trolling or inappropriate attribution to me, or divine any offence in Simon’s comment. Please don’t get riled on my account.
Fair enough – I meant that the linked story was NOT written by Murdoch, but appeared in a tabloid not exactly known for taste and understatement that happens to be owned by his company. Even the anti-Christ deserves accurate attribution.
I suspect you may have found the coffee jar empty this morning, Craig?
Yeah yeah, I get it – Murdoch Anti-Christ Superstar. Meanwhile, can I start quoting the most stupid and vile comments on PAS and start attributing them to Russell? No I can’t because that’s not accurate, and I’d like to think this place rolls on a higher road than Kiwibog or the Sub-Standard.
Interesting to see prime minister Kevin Taylor’s spokesman John Key refusing to front the media over the decision to seal the Pike River mine. If anyone had any doubts John Key is a lazy, polls driven coward this must surely remove them once and for all.
FFS, Tom. Really. For Fucks. Sake. If it was my son or BH's corpse in that mine, I'd really not give a twopenny toss who delivered that gut-punch. You'll get plenty of chances to down-trou and unload on Key this year - try choosing your targets with more care.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Russell Brown,
The winger talking point on Obama’s speech (video here) is shaping up as “it was a cynical campaign rally."
Meh… and I’m sure these are the same people who would have been outraged and disgusted (and with some justification) when the nut-roots were equally cynical about President Bush at Ground Zero on September 11 2002.
That would really upset me, but then I reminded myself: Obama can never, ever do anything to satisfy those people.
Rupert Murdoch sinks a little further and blames it all on some poor girl:
No he doesn't, SImon, Two vile numpites in the meth-head New York tabloid his company owns did, You've just pulled the most frak-witted trollism here on PAS and attributed it to Russell. Stop.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to sally jones,
I don’t see how saying so denigrates women in general at all. There are very few options for women to succeed in politics. On the political right, there is just the one.
No, Sally, it’s just been pretty denegrating towards a lot of National Party women – MPs, officeholders and grassroots members – I’ve known, worked with, and come to respect over the last twenty years. I can’t believe I have to ask this here (rather than on Kiwibog or the Sub-Standard), and today of all days, but you can disagree with someone’s politics without acting as if they’re less than entirely human.
Sorry, Russell, I know you told me to lay off and I’m done. Time for a cup of tea and some quality spiritual detox with my girl, Janelle.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to sally jones,
Sally:
I'm going to make this request seriously and in good faith. Please read John Campbell's biography of Thatcher - seriously and with an open mind -- and tell me if you really think she was just a cock-pleasing she-male with penis envy.
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