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bear with me through the following expression of unfair prejudice and hate, but a lot of red sox fans don't care much for yankee fans, and i think it's because, for one thing, old towne teamers don't care much for the yankees at all, nor do they care much for a lot of the other yankee fans they've met in the process of earning their opinion. which is not to say beantowners won't meet a legit yankee fan every once in awhile who has supported the team since the 60's and 70's when they sucked, and who isn't just a loud, boorish, front-running, bandwagon-jumper-onner with a preference for ridiculing others, that they can respect. but when bahstin boosters do meet such a legit yankee fan, i'm sorry to say that said yankee fan does generally have to pass a certain amount of close questioning before the soxers are willing to even listen to, let alone respect, the bronx baseball point of view. (i told you it was an expression of unfair prejudice and hate...)
well, anyway, most yankee fans i meet don't like boston fans much, either. from the pinstriped point of view, those red B folks are the very body and insufferable soul of the boorish, front-running and bandwagon-jumper-onner sox crowd they've long known and despised, and tell me you haven't met plenty of sox fans who enjoy ridiculing fans of other teams and deserve every insult they get.
which is all to say, fair is fair, and we all get stained by our associations. when you're at a party with the loudest, most obnoxious asshole there, and you do nothing to moderate, mitigate or otherwise shield the rest of the crowd from the worst of his or her asshole behavior, then you're fairly considered to be associatively culpable, and exactly like him or her only less obvious about it. either way, and you should face it--nobody is going to like you, and nobody is going to go home with you no matter how charming you might otherwise be.
which brings us to the question today of what might constitute "legitimate" rape, and why it is that, should you be a rightie today, every leftie you know (and especially all the ones you don't) are going to hate you with a renewed and legitimate passion to the extent that you do or don't attempt to moderate, mitigate or otherwise shield the rest of the world from the worst of todd akin's black-hearted and pointlessly ignorant political views.
i am too lazy, and too respectful to all victims of all rapes to find and cite medical evidence attesting to the rate of pregnancy involved in all sorts, because akin's black-hearted ignorance deserves no such respect or effort. just please let it suffice to say that every rightie pundit with a "liberal media" complaint should just shut it and zip it for a good long time now because that blooper is so bald and so putrid that unless they're all over my television and web feed with denouncements and apologies, their opinions mean nothing to me at all.
yeah, i know, a lot of righties will feel like the sheer ignorance of the comments should be enough to hold them innocent. (seriously, who could possibly believe such a thing?) but, see, you righties came to the party with that asshole, and we all know it. so you're either going to tell him to shut up yourself and never let him hang with you again, or we're all going to know you're just an enabling and approving stooge to it all.
because that right there thing that he said? that's over the top.
well, anyway, most yankee fans i meet don't like boston fans much, either. from the pinstriped point of view, those red B folks are the very body and insufferable soul of the boorish, front-running and bandwagon-jumper-onner sox crowd they've long known and despised, and tell me you haven't met plenty of sox fans who enjoy ridiculing fans of other teams and deserve every insult they get.
which is all to say, fair is fair, and we all get stained by our associations. when you're at a party with the loudest, most obnoxious asshole there, and you do nothing to moderate, mitigate or otherwise shield the rest of the crowd from the worst of his or her asshole behavior, then you're fairly considered to be associatively culpable, and exactly like him or her only less obvious about it. either way, and you should face it--nobody is going to like you, and nobody is going to go home with you no matter how charming you might otherwise be.
which brings us to the question today of what might constitute "legitimate" rape, and why it is that, should you be a rightie today, every leftie you know (and especially all the ones you don't) are going to hate you with a renewed and legitimate passion to the extent that you do or don't attempt to moderate, mitigate or otherwise shield the rest of the world from the worst of todd akin's black-hearted and pointlessly ignorant political views.
i am too lazy, and too respectful to all victims of all rapes to find and cite medical evidence attesting to the rate of pregnancy involved in all sorts, because akin's black-hearted ignorance deserves no such respect or effort. just please let it suffice to say that every rightie pundit with a "liberal media" complaint should just shut it and zip it for a good long time now because that blooper is so bald and so putrid that unless they're all over my television and web feed with denouncements and apologies, their opinions mean nothing to me at all.
yeah, i know, a lot of righties will feel like the sheer ignorance of the comments should be enough to hold them innocent. (seriously, who could possibly believe such a thing?) but, see, you righties came to the party with that asshole, and we all know it. so you're either going to tell him to shut up yourself and never let him hang with you again, or we're all going to know you're just an enabling and approving stooge to it all.
because that right there thing that he said? that's over the top.
posted by kad barma at 7:16 AM
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For a while I thought this was a reprise of the Gerry Nutter post from yesterday, where he said all Republicans are bad for not denouncing Mr Jim Buba for an EMail Jim had sent.
The candidate out west was over the top—and I knew it when I read the headline. I didn't bother to check out his reasoning. That said, picking up Gerry's broad brush, which he dropped in the canal, isn't really fair. And, besides, it is campaign season and this is not the first stupid thing that has been said.
The candidate—where was it, Missouri?—was stupid and clueless. Frankly, he is not in my lane, so I don't think it is my primary job to crush his nomination. And, of course, sadly, in this system, he may not be the WORST candidate in his race, just the most boorish.
Regards — Cliff
I think the underlying energy here is that this nitwit Akin is a news cycle from offsetting the trance around "You Didn't Build That."
Meaning, there are moments when public statements seemingly align, acheive cosmic superposition in the harmonic of collective consciousness; the zeitgeist.
This is not a statement of accuracy of the public sentiment. But, it is an affirmation of magnitude.
If "Democrats" are conjured to be collectivists and that is readily swallowed whole; how hard will it be to wrap the mindset of Akin, like a King Kong sized albatross, around the neck of the shambles of the GOP?
The dog will be soundly wagged.
For an example of how it should be done, here's Scott Brown's comments on Akins:
"As a husband and father of two young women, I found Todd Akin's comments about women and rape outrageous, inappropriate and wrong. There is no place in our public discourse for this type of offensive thinking. Not only should he apologize, but I believe Rep. Akin's statement was so far out of bounds that he should resign the nomination for US Senate in Missouri".
EXACTLY. Every responsible Republican should be able to point to such a public statement by, say, noon today, and Democrats, for their part, can thus remain mute about the whole thing while their opponents clean their own house, and the public discourse at the same time with maximum speed and without the press having to waste a whole lot more time on this nonsense.
Kudos, Mr. Brown, and to Ms Warren for her doing her silent part as well. Good on both of you.
But, who answers for stupidity by those not affiliated with a nationally recognized party and not recognized by that party?
And, as we know, there is stupidity everywhere. Just look at this little gem. He skates because of the "age of consent"? Or is it a double standard?
Regards — Cliff
Appears to me the state Democrats are properly closing ranks to shun him from the party. Romney's repudiation of Akin similarly declined to declare a need for immediate redress, but it's in the same general direction. Good on all of them.
As for unaffiliated stupidity, well, that stands on its own as we would say. The point here is to eliminate the convenience of choice between associating with sociopaths when politically expedient, and properly insisting that the misogynists and child molesters have to get off the party bus. My opinion is that if both the D's and R's were cleared of their worst offenders, the knee-jerk need for both to be so unreasonably oppositional to the other would decline, and the quality of our national discourse could improve.
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