Where are PC Police when You Need Them?
Pat Sajak ·
September 2, 2012 at 4:40pm
President Obama, speaking to a crowd in Urbandale, Iowa (he's in Iowa again?), had this to say about last week's GOP convention: "It was a rerun. We’d seen it before. You might as well have watched it on a black-and-white TV." Would a Republican speaker be accused of playing the race card? I'm just asking.
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Feb '11
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Better than saying "colored."
Dec '10
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For once I might agree with him. It was about returning to an era of black and white tv where people had jobs and took responsibility for themselves. An era where family and community were the go to for crises and the government showed up only when all else had failed. It was an era when nothing stood in the way of America. If he's offering a choice between America as it is under him or the "Leave it to Beaver" era, I know which one I'll take.
Apr '12
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Maybe there's something about the concept of "conservative" that our President fails to grasp.
Jan '11
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Yeah. It's as bad as the Constitution. No one can relate to the Constitution, either. It's like over a hundred years old.
(h/t Ezra Klein)
Jun '10
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Let me think. Yes, I remember black-and-white TV. The president was Ike, great warrior, college president, liked his soldiers (and didn't try to take credit for their sacrifices--my Dad fought for him), and, sacrilegious though this may be, his smile was genuine.
Back in those days people got married, stayed married, and kids had brothers and sisters. Oh, and a baby had a 1/20 chance of being born illegitimate--today 2/5. People back then had a real sense of hope that they could change their own lives.
I'm with the Prawn. Get rid of Jim Crow, and I'll take the fifties over today.
We actually had a shared moral code back then. Wouldn't want that now. Relativism is so much more convenient.
KC: I pray the red hat lives on.
Edited on September 2, 2012 at 5:11pmSep '12
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The GOP convention speeches really got under Obama's skin because they successfully cast him as a washed-up has-been who failed to live up to his potential and promises (he's a fading poster on an unemployed college grad's childhood bedroom wall). So of course the adolescent Thin-Skinned One lashed out with a poorly disguised, poorly cogitated retort amounting to "No sir, you're the one who is so yesterday, Mitt Romney!"
Obama's childish retort was unnecessary because the Dems have already been flogging one that works better, namely, the "we can't go back to the failed Republican policies that got us into this mess" spiel, which originally seemed a potent reply to the charge that the Dems' policies haven't worked, yet. So it seems this spiel would have had some collateral utility, although not much judging from the damage Clint Eastwood's performance did to the notion that the Obama was ever up to the job in the first place.
Gosh I love this subliminal combat! The spectacle of skilled propagandists hurling hammers at the hearts and minds of low-information, average-to-low IQ voters is one to enjoy.
Edited on September 2, 2012 at 5:30pmJul '10
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Al Gore, the king of the Current TV empire that sparkled once with such bright jewels as Elliott Spitzer and Keith Olbermann, thinks we ought to ditch part of the Constitution (the electoral college) and maybe a lot more. Jetting back and forth between colossal mansions, he has time to ponder great matters. The pressures that build up from these powerful congitations would make that noble brow explode were it not for the release of chakra by ladies sent up by the hotel front desk.
Jun '10
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Race, class, gender. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Aug '12
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Before the sentence was completed the race card would be drawn and thrown. Guaranteed.
Jan '11
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tabula rasa:
KC: I pray the red hat lives on.
Ha!
The funny thing is that the new avatar picture was taken on New Year's Eve this year ... and by sheer coincidence, I had a red plastic party hat on my lap that was pretty much the same as the original.
It's like a theme.
Jul '12
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Our President has a point. When we will learn that the successes of the past must make way for the failures of the future. Clearly Republicans err when they depart from the wisdom of C. K. Chesterton:
The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
There's color TV now?
Jun '10
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KC Mulville
tabula rasa:
KC: I pray the red hat lives on.
Ha!
The funny thing is that the new avatar picture was taken on New Year's Eve this year ... and by sheer coincidence, I had a red plastic party hat on my lap that was pretty much the same as the original.
It's like a theme. · 13 minutes ago
Had a bit of panic for a moment. I feel better now. The hat has become iconic.
It's importance is only exceeded by the thoughtfulness of your posts. You realize you're one of Ricochet's experts on Catholicism and the go to guy on anything relating to the Jesuits.
Jan '11
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What's Mr. Obama got against black-and-white televisions? After all, isn't he black and white himself?
Apr '11
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As tho novelty were the principal criterion and BHO's Liberal Fascist Party were going to meet it.
The speeches are the same because the problems are the same, and the Dems are the reactionary party of the status quo ante, nunc, et semper.
Jan '11
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But to answer the question posed in the title of your post, Mr. Sajak, the PC police are where conservatives have let them take up residence - at the headquarters of the Democrat Party and the federal government.
They have comfortable quarters there, make good salaries, have wonderful benefits and defined benefit pension plans adjusted for inflation.
Conservatives let them have those goodies and now they are firmly ensconced, making sure that we toe the Party line.
Every time you or someone else at Ricochet or some talk-radio broadcaster says something to the effect that "If a Republican said that, he'd be run out of town," please remember that you are not making a point or offering an argument.
You are making a confession of IMPOTENCE.
You are admitting that they can punch you, but that you can't punch them.
A broadcaster could believe, and say on air, that society would be better off if men worked and women stayed home to raise the children. But if he stated the same words in his workplace, he could be charged with creating a hostile environment for women or investigated for discriminatory hiring practices.
Some free speech, eh?
Mar '12
Re: Where are PC Police when You Need Them?
KC Mulville
tabula rasa:
KC: I pray the red hat lives on.
Ha!
The funny thing is that the new avatar picture was taken on New Year's Eve this year ... and by sheer coincidence, I had a red plastic party hat on my lap that was pretty much the same as the original.
It's like a theme. · 1 hour ago
You were always destined for the red hat.
Nov '10
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You all should really check out Katievs's racism piece on the Member Feed.
May '10
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In the 1950s 80% of all black children lived with both parents. How horrible.
Aug '12
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There is a direct link between Democrat social programs, well intentioned though they may be, and the destruction such policies have wrought upon the black family unit in the US today. I don't have the supporting evidence handy but one begat the other. That the democrat party has been able to rely on the black community's vote year in and year out, the most conservative group of democrats by the way, is really quite a feat. Prior to the '60s blacks voted Republican. We need to get them back. Ironically Obama's evolution on the subject of gay marriage may present the opportunity to do just that. Ok. I'll stop rambling now.
Edited on September 2, 2012 at 7:39pmSep '10
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I notice that Chair, Choom Gang and Cheech and Chong all start with the same two letters. His response seems Churlish and Childish. Did he go to Church today? They seem to singing from the same Chorus.