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STEYN-SULLIVAN SWAP
“The worst trade since the Indians sent Chris Chambliss and Greg Nettles to the Yankees …”
UPDATE. Sullivan gets all relativistic:
Since whites still enjoy vastly more cultural power than blacks, Sharpton’s bigotry is more defensible than Imus’s.
#2 - Carn the Tiges!
I love this stage of the season. Hope springs eternal. Soon will be the winter of my discontent.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 04 13 at 01:06 AM • permalinkRe #5, rebase, it took me a while to load the page. I suppose Mark Steyn’s fans are all running to HH for the latest story.
They swapped Sullivan for Steyn? What a waste! Sully is 5 cans short of a full six pack these days.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 04 13 at 01:21 AM • permalinkRe #14, maybe that’s what all the “clenched teeth” was about, eh?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 04 13 at 01:51 AM • permalinkRe #15 Interesting, could be. No doubt David Bradley was like all the rest of us intro tyro journos, and at age 22 wanted only to write journalism like Hunter S. Thompson, write novels like Kurt Vonnegut and drink like F. Scott Fitzgerald. Maybe he just couldn’t bear to see one of his hero role models flayed to pieces.
dub kitty—hey, Sully’s covered. All he has to do with his dying breath is yell “I repent! Get me a hooker!”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 13 at 02:36 AM • permalinkObviously, Sullivan likes a bet each-way too.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 04 13 at 03:12 AM • permalinkWho the heck is Greg Nettles?
Surely they mean Graig Nettles, the eight time All Star, twice Golden Glove, greatest Yankees third-baseman ever - with due apologies to Home-Run Baker.
Go the Bronx Bombers!
Posted by Apparatchik on 2007 04 13 at 03:21 AM • permalinkO/T but a writers festival in Australia actually has a headline act worthy of the title. Its not up on the webpage till tomorrow but according to a bit in the Australian it will be Ayaan Hirst Ali!!!
Heres the festival website but it wont update till tommorrow.
here.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 04 13 at 03:49 AM • permalinkSince whites still enjoy vastly more cultural power than blacks, Sharpton’s bigotry is more defensible than Imus’s.
Leftards like to mock us wingnuts for having such a simplistic bilateral worldview of “good and evil”. Whereas they possess the more sophisticated, multilayered, nuanced worldview of “strong and weak.”
A few comments about Sharpton vs Imus:
1) Sharpton is a Reverend, right? Now I know it’s a requirement that black leaders have Rev. before their names, so the genuineness of their piety is suspect (race-baiting shakedown artists like Sharpton and Jesse being exhibits A and B). Still, shouldn’t you at least fake it enough that you would ask somebody who is actually religious what Jesus would want you to do, which would be “forgive” and “turn the other cheek” and all that other stuff I’m pretty sure is in the Reverend’s Bible somewhere?
2) When Imus opens his obnoxious mouth, girl basketballers cry. When Sharpton opens his, Jews die.
3) Sully is a fucking tool.
The argument that the sins of black people can be forgiven because they are black is common. The lefties use it all the time as evidence they are not racists when it proves exactly the opposite.
Whether it is Aborigines or Africans or Afro-Americans, it is racist to suggest that somehow the colour of their skin makes them less responsible for their actions. But it gets worse, because most black crime is against blacks, so they are also according less rights to victims on the grounds of their colour.
Someone such as Sharpton is an arsehole who happens to be black, not a black arsehole.
Sullivan’s comment is hilarious! He is becoming a master of self-parody. Yeah, whites have all the power in our culture. Those lacrosse players at Duke, for example. Everyone believed them right away, just because they were white! And people like Sharpton have no influence. They just can’t get any press, because, you know, they just don’t have any cultural power.
Posted by sarah rolph on 2007 04 13 at 07:33 AM • permalinkIs that a sweet lady with an ecstatic expression peering into Andrew’s window?
And does the name of the illustrator, have a connection to Andrew’s caricature?
Bigotry is never defensible. Sullivan’ moral equivilence is repulsive, to say the least. If he was ever conservative, he had those values surgically removed.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 04 13 at 09:30 AM • permalinkHere’s a fun game: Take Sully’s little statement and replace the word bigotry with all sorts of horrible actions. Remember, it’s okay, we’re not being racist. We’re being tolerant.
Example:
Since whites still enjoy vastly more cultural power than blacks, Sharpton’s protection racket is more defensible than Gotti’s
Fuuny, I always thought that believing that one person was less capable of approaching the Ideal because of the color of their skin was racist. Apparently that’s incorrect. No wonder people think I’m an insensitive bigot. I’ve been holding people to the same standards regardless of their color.
You’d think some bigshot journo like Andrew Sullivan would do some basic consistancy checking. The man’s like a weathervane in a tornado.
OK guys, I give up: I can’t get the Hugh Hewitt thing to load at all. So who swapped Steyn for Sullivan, or was it Sullivan for Steyn?
Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2007 04 13 at 09:56 AM • permalinkCan’t view the Hewitt site, so it’s probably taxed to the limit. Try later on.
Al Sharpton has been getting away with spewing anti-white bigotry for years. And he’ll keep on getting away with it as long as there are people like Andrew Sullivan, who thinks it’s okay that some are more equal than others.
Steyn was always an odd fit at the Atlantic.” I suppose the next one to be purged will be Christopher Hitchens. If Andrew Sullivan replaces Steyn, how about Rev . Al Sharpton to replace Hitch?
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 04 13 at 11:38 AM • permalinkI have no idea how one would go about quantifying the cultural power of various interest groups for a comparison, but it’s not obvious to me at all that whites have more of it than blacks.
Posted by tim maguire on 2007 04 13 at 11:56 AM • permalinkImus may be a smug, sarcastic grumbler who said lots of not-so-very-nice things, but when it comes to charity works, I can’t think of any media personality offhand who comes close. I’m not talking about some bullshit where you make an appearance somewhere and people drop some coin to rub elbows with you. He’s got a ranch in New Mexico for sick kids that takes up a big chunk of his time and his on-air attention.
What’s that piece of shit Sharpton done for anyone?
Imus deserved a pass. He deserved to have his friends, associates, and the people he’s helped come to his defense. Now sick kids are going to get less help because some college girls got their feelings hurt.
Yeah, that’s some awesome white power, there.
What has Sharpton done for anyone?
Well he made some casket salesman quite happy for starters. Some innocent people died in those made for media riots.
I’m sure Gary Trudeau will be next in line to get the ax over that bigoted cartoon of his of Condi Rice as “brown sugar” around election time in 2004.
Sharpton more defensible? How many false criminal accusations is Imus associated with? How many rioters did Imus appease?
Posted by Alan K. Henderson on 2007 04 13 at 02:46 PM • permalinkSince whites still enjoy vastly more cultural power than blacks, Sharpton’s bigotry is more defensible than Imus’s
Imus’s disgraceful appearance on Sharpton’s show would have been redeemed, had he just said “Say, Al, heard from Tawana Brawley lately?”
But no, it was not to be. They never learn…
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 04 13 at 02:51 PM • permalinkI wonder how this view of Sharpton squares with the view of Sharpton that Sullivan expressed in this article (where he castigates Lieberman for not standing up to him):
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=fisking&s=sullivan011304
Interestingly, the name of the article is, “Where have you gone, Lieberman.” I could ask the same question of Andy.
“Leftards like to mock us wingnuts for having such a simplistic bilateral worldview of “good and evil”. Whereas they possess the more sophisticated, multilayered, nuanced worldview of “strong and weak.””
More accurately, “victim” and “opppressor.” They actually dream of victim groups becoming strong enough to destroy oppressive democracy, and work feverishly toward that glorious revolutionary end.
Posted by Tatterdemalian on 2007 04 13 at 03:54 PM • permalinkIt’s a worse trade than Cleveland’s two Rocky Colavito trades, combined. And that’s saying something.
Posted by Warmongering Lunatic on 2007 04 13 at 04:30 PM • permalinkHmmmm.
Oh please mock them please, please, please!
It’s Vanity Fair.
It’s already pre-mocked.
Well more like chock-full of utter bullshit, but we’ll stick with “pre-mocked” to avoid the Thunder Stick from Andrea.
Posted by memomachine on 2007 04 13 at 04:38 PM • permalinkCute polar bear with Hollywood star alert
Please, someone tie DiCaprio’s hands behind him, wrap him in bacon, and drop him off near some starving polar bears.
But don’t forget a few bottles of Pepto Bismal….them bears are gonna need it.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 04 13 at 04:50 PM • permalinkO/T Isn’t Paco’s two month’s up?
I know he’s watching :-)
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 04 13 at 06:00 PM • permalinkTim, that’s Craig Nettles (apologies if already noted) and, speaking as a Yankees fan, that was a damn fine trade. Now if we could only get some pitching (funny how I say that every year).
I hear the “only whites can be racists because they have all the power” line quite a lot. As if anti-Semite bigots like Sharpton are powerless, culturally or otherwise (ask Don Imus). There isn’t a race on earth whose members can boast a 100% benevolence rate toward the other races. It’s called human nature. All I ask is that people behave as though they’re civilized. What’s contained in their heart of hearts is not my concern.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 04 13 at 06:57 PM • permalinkMemomachine: “chock-full of utter bullshit” sounds fine to me. I’m not against inventive cursing. (If I were nancy about bad words, I’d just turn on the Expression Engine module that turns naughty words into asterisks.)
As for James Woolycrock and Vanity Fair… hm, to mock, or to have a life? Decisions, decisions… (BTW, was disappointed—I thought that link would lead to a picture of a Hollywood celebrity being gnawed on by a polar bear. It will come soon, mark my words…)
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 04 13 at 07:27 PM • permalinkSince humans wield far more cultural power than dingos, their eating our babies is more defensible…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 13 at 07:33 PM • permalinkVDH again hammers the surreality-based community.
There are many players in this game, and I fear that all will be punished.We were living in Manhattan when Al Sharpton first came to national attention in, I think, 1977.
He championed Tawana Brawley, a 15-year-old girl who claimed to have been raped by six white men, including some police officers. Turned out not to be true. In fact, the grand jury ruled that she had pretty much manufactured the whole thing.
Al Sharpton’s actions at the time fomented a lot of tensions and nearly led to serious race riots. It was fairly clear from the start that he knew very well the girl was lying but he was prepared to use the incident to promote both himself and his agenda.
He hasn’t changed very much to my mind. Still crooked as a dog’s hind leg. And, as far as I know, he’s ever been called to account for his actions.
#73 So does Bill Whittle at eject!eject!eject!
Posted by dean martin on 2007 04 13 at 08:28 PM • permalinkHanson and Whittle are on fire! Thanks for the links.
Mustn’t forget the Freddy’s Fashion Mart and Crown Heights entries in the Sharpton Hall of Shame.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 04 13 at 08:55 PM • permalinkSharpton, Jackson and others before them have hung that slave guilt around the necks of white men.
Mainly because we are a civil type people, (exception being attacked Pearl Harbor, NYC, Bali or elsewhere, even then, MUCH to civil) whereas if Sharpton and Jackson and others, tried the same bullshit with the Islamics that enslave, torture, sell, buy, trade and kill their African brethren and/or forefathers…...
The Islamics would simply cut their damn fool heads off and video tape it and laugh.
I’m not against inventive cursing.
Saw a movie last night in which the female villain was cursed out with, “You cock-juggling thundercunt!”
I think the writers were just trying to shake us out of our 37-f-bombs-in-the-previous-minute-and-a-half stupor. Hey, Hollywood, pouring on the f-bombs isn’t “edgy” anymore, OK? It’s just lazy.
Seems like a lot of folks are getting testy, these days
Damn, wonder what penance will be after confession?
“You cock-juggling thundercunt!”
Great line! I must try it out at work on Monday (and then it’ll be my head that’s sawn off).Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 04 14 at 03:08 AM • permalinkhttp://marginalizedactiondinosaur.net/?p=128
the lying, conniving Sharpton machine.Posted by hollingshead on 2007 04 15 at 01:32 AM • permalink
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Sullivan has been loony tunes ever since Gay Marriage was rejected by the Pope. He loved Bush up until Bush came out against gay marriage too and then he started to hate him too.
Sullivan is now afraid he will go to hell for sinning against God. I think he has confused the Pope and Bush with God.