September 29, 2005
— Ace Dagnabit, if only George Bush would stop being so "divisive" we could finally return to a pre-impeachment-war period of civility and reasoned political discourse.
The Bush administration's slow response to Hurricane Katrina may be the result of minority votes being suppressed and Democratic candidates losing the last two presidential elections, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus has alleged."Watching family members and others cling to rooftops in Hurricane Katrina, I wonder whether or not the absence of attention [to the recovery effort] is attributable to the loss of a vote in 2000 and 2004," U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas, said.
She added that the government's hurricane response gave her the feeling of "deja vu," following the Republican Party's alleged attempts to undermine the black vote in those two presidential elections.
Let me put aside that this is yet another high Democratic official engaging in moonbat conspiracy theorizing that would make a run-of-the-mill paranoid schizophrenic blush. "There there now Old Man," the razor-cut-striped lunatic would say. "Let's not go off the deep end here now, eh? Let's be a tad more rational about all this."
It's crazy, yes. But it's worse than crazy, which I've come to expect. It's fucking stupid. It doesn't even make any fucking sense.
How does the "suppression of the black vote" lead to killing blacks (or deliberately letting them be killed) by a hurricane? I mean, you know, if we're already effectively suppressing their votes, why do we have to kill them, too?
When you think about it, these "suppressed black voters," being Democrats, would have a much better chance of having their votes registered at the polls if they were dead than if they were still alive.
Let's grant her her premises:
A) The racist white Republican power structure ("The Man") suppressed black turnout in 2000 and 2004.
B) Some blacks couldn't vote, although, as usual of late, they did vote in pretty high numbers.
C) Therefore... we killed them.
What? How do you get from A to C? If anything, the failure to effectively suppress the black vote would lead to killing them. If we can't suppress them, I guess, we gots to takes them out.
Seriously. Most conspiracy theories, no matter how batshit crazy, make a kind of sense if you accept the dubious premises that undergird them. This one just doesn't make any kind of sense, except, perhaps, to a partisan retard like Sheila Jackson Lee.
Note the operation reporting this is the conservative-leaning on-line CNSN. Do you expect the MSM to take Ms. Lee to task for her hateful lunacies?
Of course not. We need a diversity of viewpoints, and the poisonous rantings of the bitter left are important to hear... but not important enough to hear, I guess, for the MSM to actually bother reporting on to a broader audience. The MSM is very protective of the Democratic Party, and doesn't want this sort of fever-swamp fantasia heard by anyone except the hardcore Democratic base, always in need of being "excited."
"News judgment" and "years of journalistic experience" dictate that moderate voters, who might be swayed in the wrong direction by such demented dipshittery, just don't need to hear stuff like this, and so the MSM won't trouble them by repeating it.
And Eff Off, Bill! Update: Okay, Bill doesn't really have to eff off. But he'll probably say something about neutral evaluation of a story's newsworthiness leading to this one getting little play. There are other reasons, apart from partisan bias, that animate the MSM's choice of what to report, and what to embargo.
What poppycock, if I may use such bold language. I'm getting weary of of hearing about these supposedly "neutral considerations" when time and time again these "neutral considerations" dictate, we are told, balls-to-the-wall flood-the-zone coverage of embarassments for conservatives and total disinterest in, bordering on active suppression of, any story that might tend to hurt the Democratic Party.
If these considerations are indeed "neutral," wouldn't one expect that about half the time they would help the Republicans, and only the other half they would help the Democrats? How does this coin-flip of a situation always seem to come up heads liberals win, tails conservatives lose?
Don't believe me? Hypothetical: A conservative Congressman wonders if swaths of the black population of New Orleans deliberately engaged in criminal behavior in order to garner political sympathy and federal dollars.
Think Ted Koppel might lead with that story tonight? And tomorrow night? And the night after tomorrow?
If we're going to have an "honest discussion about race" in this country, there has to be some, you know, actual honesty involved. Whether it hurts the Democratic Party or not, and whether or not it hurts the feelings of blacks to hear that many of the conspiracy theories their leaders offer (and which many believe) are simply insane and as viciously, unhingedly racist as any of the crap the Ku Klux Klan ever cooked up.
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Posted by: Brainster at September 29, 2005 01:00 PM (hEScd)
I was almost there too... flooding, water, hey! Water comes out of fire hoses!
shit.
Posted by: Dave in Texas at September 29, 2005 01:06 PM (pzen5)
Posted by: spd rdr at September 29, 2005 01:14 PM (KCd4Y)
Posted by: at September 29, 2005 01:14 PM (2c2wR)
Posted by: Lipstick at September 29, 2005 01:26 PM (8Rhn0)
Nagin was elected by those very same "suppressed black voters" that the Republicans were trying to "kill'. Like Ace said, they have a better chance to vote if they were dead.
Sheesh
Posted by: Pothus at September 29, 2005 01:27 PM (K23of)
Hate to break it to you, Ace, but on this point I generally agree: the media protects (read: ignores) the batshit raving lunacy of the elected Democratic moonbats, yet floods the zone with comparable GOP sound bites (and there are less comparable examples from the GOP, I'd say).
yeah these usually come from the far out nut gallery districts in the House - almost the equivalent in stature of your local rotary club - so it'll never make the front page of the WaPo, but yeah, they get a pass.
Posted by: Bill from INDC at September 29, 2005 01:32 PM (qe8/5)
Posted by: rdbrewer at September 29, 2005 01:36 PM (lpbk9)
Posted by: rabidfox at September 29, 2005 01:37 PM (CAVPy)
... also: ACE!! Please stop using the fine, upstanding word "democratic" when you mean to use the pejorative adjective "Democrat", as in "Democrat Party".
Posted by: kobekko at September 29, 2005 01:38 PM (0kfn8)
Its sad when you can't tell the moonbats apart.
Posted by: Iblis at September 29, 2005 01:41 PM (9221z)
Posted by: rdbrewer at September 29, 2005 01:51 PM (lpbk9)
Posted by: See-Dubya at September 29, 2005 02:00 PM (c10Uw)
She set up a meeing with him at her offices and just wolfed him when he arrived. She did the same with Chandra Levy and the girl in Aruba.
Fight fire with fire, baby.
Posted by: Dr.Reo Symes at September 29, 2005 02:01 PM (kUNrb)
Posted by: digitalbrownshirt at September 29, 2005 02:49 PM (ipjUv)
Posted by: tobab at September 29, 2005 02:50 PM (6n2I1)
As did Jimmy Carter. Thanks for reminding me -- not!
Posted by: at September 29, 2005 03:00 PM (2c2wR)
tobab, are you saying that these strange rambliings of Sheila Lee's make sense to you or that you agree with them? Tell me it ain't so!
Tob
Posted by: at September 29, 2005 03:00 PM (PD1tk)
What? Ace sez the KKK is cooking up black babies??
Posted by: at September 29, 2005 03:01 PM (2c2wR)
I completely believe you. Tons of military folks are returning from Afghanistan with the "Medal of Valor". It's Rove who's spreading the lies that the military award is called the "Medal of Honor". You learned the real truth of the matter in the military, I'm sure.
Douchebag.
Posted by: Lapsed Leftist at September 29, 2005 03:08 PM (vtiE6)
Posted by: Jesse Jackson at September 29, 2005 03:17 PM (X+OCl)
If you agree with what Sheila Jackson Lee said, which is that the Katrina deaths are linked to the black turnout in the last election, then just say so.
It sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory to me, something she just pulled out of her ass. Something she just made up to stir shit up between people.
I've had enough of people like that in my life. They just want to talk crap and get people moving against each other for no good reason, but from some crap she just pulled out of her imagination.
There's already too much damn drama between the races in this country. We're never going to come through these problems if there are people like this unhappy woman, forever creating drama where there actually is none.
It makes it harder to focus on the real problems.
Posted by: lauraw at September 29, 2005 03:20 PM (6krEN)
New Orleans levee reported weak in 1990s
Records: Construction firm alerted engineers, but no action was taken
(1998 to be exact)
Damn that Bush!!
Somehow he was able to mess wid da engineerin' way back in '98, in order to kill homies!
Posted by: Uncle Jefe at September 29, 2005 03:50 PM (+3fAP)
I also seriously doubt you're a man by any stretch of the imagination.
Posted by: digitalbrownshirt at September 29, 2005 03:56 PM (ipjUv)
underpants + ___ = Profit!
You just didn't know we elected underpants gnomes to Congress.
Posted by: Confederate Yankee at September 29, 2005 04:07 PM (0fZB6)
Posted by: at September 29, 2005 04:27 PM (Kvxj3)
Posted by digitalbrownshirt at September 29, 2005
Please, digital. It's "The Man". Capital letters. show some respect.
Posted by: adolfo velasquez at September 29, 2005 04:49 PM (0SEzk)
Maybe she means that the hurricane deaths were just a continuation of the suppression by other means - that, worried that their Theophilus (how cool is that first name, btw?) "Bull" Connortron software wouldn't work in 2008, they decided to "firm up" some purple states the hard way?
I guess that makes internally consistent sense? Maybe?
Posted by: Knemon at September 29, 2005 04:55 PM (QaHR7)
adolfo velasquez
Irony alert with lower case letters in your own signature.
I'll have to remember that. "The Man". I'm sure tobab sees it that way in his head while he's fantazing about why his life sucks.
Posted by: digitalbrownshirt at September 29, 2005 05:10 PM (ipjUv)
Not that I'm surprised. Anyone who argues that the media isn't biased toward the left is either hopelessly deluded, mentally retarded, or a fucking liar.
Posted by: The Warden at September 29, 2005 06:09 PM (Zxtyv)
Because they all think and sound alike? Cute.
"But you want to tell us that are thing are equal here."
Nope. Not even sure what you mean. Equal how? Giving everyone an equal shake does not produce equal results. On the whole, though, self-destructive assumptions and prejudices seem to be inflicting much more damage on "vulnerable" groups than the bigotry of others.
"my nephew just got back from Afghanistan with the purple heart, medal of valor and a bronze star. Just so he can come back home to be called N*****R and attacked by some inbreed."
Assuming he is black, if he was called a nigger it was most likely by other blacks. Or haven't you noticed that? As for inbred attackers, I trust a "medal of valor" winner will be able to teach the genetically challenged the error of their ways.
"I was also in the military and it exist if you don't believe me ask some of you buddies in the military (keesler AFB). "
No. I believe you. The military definitely exists. It's the moon landing they faked. (In Texas, too. Coincidence??)
"ask some Native Americans what they think since culture has almost been destroyed by something that you say doesn’t exist."
It's called conquest. Do you really think the lands were unoccupied before the _fill-in-tribe-here_ took it? How did the losers fare in that earlier conflict? I don't recall too many traditional Diversity Dances from my time among the Indians.
"I not here to start anything but one thing the military taught me was to be a man and I was offended by some comments."
Then be a man and suck it up, Slick. Nobody has any obligation to soothe your nuttier sensitivities.
"How can we go to another country and tell them how to live when we do so much evil to our own."
Because we do less evil than their governments do and want less evil inflicted on the innocent citizens of that country? I mean, that's just a guess, but if a country had to be perfect before it could do good, the Nazis and Sovs would pretty much be running the show by now. Luckily, majority rule tends to be rule by the grown-ups and your own strange line of thought has never really caught on as a national ethos.
Apologies to the regulars since I'm new here. Is this guy for real?
Posted by: VRWC Agent at September 29, 2005 06:10 PM (ovnMC)
Who knows? We get an occasional troll flare up, but they either get beaten down or ignored, so they go back under their bridges after a day or two. Sometimes we get a joker that'll do a troll parody, but it's really hard to tell the difference between parody and genuine liberals.
Posted by: digitalbrownshirt at September 29, 2005 06:23 PM (ipjUv)
Actually, Texas was largely unoccupied at the time of white settlement. OK, a few Apaches and so forth, but nothing significant.
The real challenge was the Comanches, a raider culture from the north that did not occupy the land. They were more like the hordes of Genghis Khan. They kept the Spanish at bay for two hundred years. In those days, if you wanted to travel from the missions in San Antonio to Santa Fe, you went through Mexico City because you did not want to travel through Comanche territory.
The Spaniards never figured out what to do about the Comanches. The folks who successfully took them on were Scotch-Irish white trash out of Appalachia. They had, through poor farming techniques, depleted their land and were moving on. To Texas. They were sharpshooters who had guns with rifled barrels.
And after having won the land, they defended it. These were the men who defended the Alamo. Men with names like Bowie, and Crockett, and Travis.
Most people don't understand Texas. They don't get that it has been one of the most violent places on earth, and the ground is soaked with blood. They don't get that Texan's are obsessed with land. I mean, in Texas, it doesn't matter who you are, you're nobody if you don't have a ranch.
When Bush figured he was about to become the President of the United States of America, what did he do?
Yup, he bought a ranch.
I miss Texas.
Posted by: Michael at September 29, 2005 07:47 PM (pRtzm)
adolfo velasquez
Actually guys, here in the U.S. the terminal punctuation should go inside the qoutes as in, "The Man."
Posted by: JeffK at September 30, 2005 02:23 AM (LbJaA)
Posted by: Dave in Texas at September 30, 2005 04:43 AM (pzen5)
Oh, she's got a good reason: it's how she makes her living.
There's already too much damn drama between the races in this country. We're never going to come through these problems if there are people like this unhappy woman, forever creating drama where there actually is none.
As long as there is money to be made from promoting race hatred, race hatred will be promoted.
That's one of the reasons that the United States of America turned out to be such a good idea: we didn't unite because we were all the same race, we united to provide freedom to ourselves, and to become strong enough to defend ourselves against other, mostly monoracial countries.
I believe it was Teddy Roosevelt who said that there is no room in this country for hyphenated-americanism; we are all americans, and if we think of ourselves as such first, and as members of whatever race second, we will never be less than the most powerful, prosperous, and free nation on the planet.
Of course, that would mean that Jesse Jackson would have to get a job.
Posted by: The Claw at September 30, 2005 06:32 AM (74cXW)
Posted by: tinkerbelle at September 30, 2005 08:43 AM (LvmZM)
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