Steyn Does it Again
Over at National Review Online, Mark Steyn on Barack Obama's "composite" New York girlfriend, the Julia ad, and, of course, Havard's own Indian princess. Pure sweet genius. Excerpts:
Last week, in an election campaign ad, Barack revealed his latest composite girlfriend — “Julia.” She’s worse than the old New York girlfriend. She can’t even be herself. In fact, she can’t be anything without massive assistance from Barack every step of the way, from his “Head Start” program at the age of three through to his Social Security benefits at the age of 67. Everything good in her life she owes to him. When she writes her memoir, it will be thanks to a subvention from the Federal Publishing Assistance Program for Chronically Dependent Women but you’ll love it: Sweet Dreams from My Sugar Daddy. She’s what the lawyers would call “non composite mentis.” She’s not competent to do a single thing for herself — and, from Barack’s point of view, that’s exactly what he’s looking for in a woman, if only for a one-night stand on a Tuesday in early November....
In the old racist America, we had quadroons and octoroons. But in the new post-racial America, we have — hang on, let me get out my calculator — duoettrigintaroons! Martin Luther King dreamed of a day when men would be judged not on the color of their skin but on the content of their great-great-great-grandmother’s wedding-license application. And now it’s here! You can read all about it in Elizabeth Warren’s memoir of her struggles to come to terms with her racial identity,Dreams from My Great-Great-Great-Grandmother.
Alas, the actual original marriage license does not list Great-Great-Great-Gran’ma as Cherokee, but let’s cut Elizabeth Fauxcahontas Crockagawea Warren some slack here. She couldn’t be black. She would if she could, but she couldn’t. But she could be 1/32nd Cherokee, and maybe get invited to a luncheon with others of her kind — “people who are like I am,” 31/32nds white, and they can all sit around celebrating their diversity together. She is a testament to America’s melting pot, composite pot, composting pot, whatever.
Just in case you’re having difficulty keeping up with all these Composite Americans, George Zimmerman, the son of a Peruvian mestiza, is the embodiment of endemic white racism and the reincarnation of Bull Connor, but Elizabeth Warren, the great-great-great-granddaughter of someone who might possibly have been listed as Cherokee on an application for a marriage license, is a heartwarming testimony to how minorities are shattering the glass ceiling in Harvard Yard. George Zimmerman, redneck; Elizabeth Warren, redskin. Under the Third Reich’s Nuremberg Laws, Ms. Warren would have been classified as Aryan and Mr. Zimmerman as non-Aryan. Now it’s the other way round. Progress!
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Nov '10
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Steyn in full cry! Glorious to behold.
He also wins the "name game" with "Fauxcahontas Crockagawea". What a splendid wit the man has.
Jun '10
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Is there anything better than Steyn when he's finally "P.O.ed"?
My favorite line: "In the old racist America, we had quadroons and octoroons. But in the new post-racial America, we have — hang on, let me get out my calculator — duoettrigintaroons!"
May '10
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While I love being a member of ricochet, I truly miss what it could be with Mark Steyn still participating on the podcast and writing on your pages. Maybe we're not supposed to "go there"?
Sep '10
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I read this yesterday. It's one of his best.
Dec '10
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Mark is so thorough in his devastation of the left that it is difficult to add anything in the way of comments. Perhaps an applause button?
May '10
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I waited for a long time for Steyn to return to Ricochet. I don't expect him to return anymore, except for a very occasional appearance as a guest on the podcast.
He's a busy man, so no hard feelings. But it's a shame.
Lileks has a similarly sharp wit, but the podcast lacks the apocalyptic perspective these days.
Apr '11
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I want my SGL, I demand it! Hopefully soon?
Mar '11
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Harvard Lore School.
Jun '10
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All this time I've been filling in "white" in the race section of various forms, and I could've been filling in "high cheekbones."
I need to get a drum....
Sep '10
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Aaron Miller
I waited for a long time for Steyn to return to Ricochet. I don't expect him to return anymore, except for a very occasional appearance as a guest on the podcast.
He's a busy man, so no hard feelings. But it's a shame.
Lileks has a similarly sharp wit, but the podcast lacks the apocalyptic perspective these days. · 49 minutes ago
I miss Mark dearly especially on the podcasts. I can't help but wonder what happened.
Jan '11
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This Elizabeth Warren thing is a gift from heaven for us conservatives. It punctures so many leftist assumptions about race, affirmative action (a 'threefer': Warran, Obama & Zimmerman!), the Ivy League/Ivory Tower, feminism.
I understand that Warren is making around $900,000/yr - that must make her part of the 1 & 1/32 %.
This whole thing is delicious!
May '11
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So do you think my lovely Japanese wife can get a green card, she has high cheek bones too......
Aug '10
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That was a brutal takedown of the latest leftist lunacy. But every barb was entirely warranted, and the targets deserve many more!
Dec '10
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Classic Steyn. And it didn't contain any forebodings about the imminent death of America. Just pure, acidic, razor wit. Makes for a very pleasant Saturday.
May '11
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For years we've been told that black conservatives like Clarence Thomas and Thomas Sowell aren't really" black". Bill Clinton was the first "black" president. A hispanic man who also has caucasian blood in him commits a racist act he's now more white than hispanic. Ethnicity isn't about blood lines and geneology. It's now about ideology and actions.
Sep '10
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#We'reAllFauxCohantasNowWhatACrock
Nov '10
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The next time you have Steyn on the podcast, I would be really interested if you could ask him about his background and how he came to think the way he does. Was it a book? An experience? What made him the man he is today? For example, we learned that the great event that made Thomas Sowell was when he actually went to work for the government. What was Steyn's moment? I remember hearing a radio interview with him and the host asked him just that. Steyn danced around the subject and didn't answer. He's such a mystery in some ways, I'd be really curious to know.
Dec '11
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If it was there, I be pressing it repeatedly. Steyn is a genius.
May '10
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This button will just have to do in the meantime:
Jun '10
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etoiledunord: All this time I've been filling in "white" in the race section of various forms, and I could've been filling in "high cheekbones."
I need to get a drum.... · 4 hours ago
Is it possible to get a cheekbone lift?