August 04, 2010

Obama: The Great Bamboozler
— Ace

He's talking up people getting "bamboozled" again, cribbing dialog from the movie (but not apparently the life of) Malcolm X. (Neo-Neocon sets me straight; I always assumed the speech was drawn from reality.)

Good post, read it, I'll wait.

Here's my question. We conservatives are forever being accused of using "racial code words" and "blowing racist dog whistles," right?

Why is Obama allowed to reference by deliberate choice of key words a fictitious speech which is entirely -- en. tire. ly. -- about a conspiracy by evil white people to harm and keep down blacks?

Is this not a racial code word? No dog whistle here?

Here's the fictitious Malcolm X speech he keeps name-checking.

IÂ’m gonna tell you like it really is. Every election year these politicians are sent up here to pacify us! TheyÂ’re sent here and setup here by the White Man!

This is what they do!

They send drugs in Harlem down here to pacify us!

They send alcohol down here to pacify us!

They send prostitution down here to pacify us!

Why you canÂ’t even get drugs in Harlem without the White ManÂ’s permission!

You canÂ’t get prostitution in Harlem without the White ManÂ’s permission!

You canÂ’t get gambling in Harlem without the White ManÂ’s permission!

Every time you break the seal on that liquor bottle, thatÂ’s a Government seal youÂ’re breaking!

Oh, I say and I say it again, ya been had!

Ya been took!

Ya been hoodwinked!

Bamboozled!

Led astray!

Run amok!

This is what He [the White Man] doesÂ…

How many times does this motherfucker get to drop the words "hoodwinked" and "bamboozled" before someone in the MFM notice he's making a very nasty subterranean racial appeal based on resentment, suspicion, conspiracy theory, and ultimately hatred?

Post-racial? Really?

Really.

By the Way: That's the only really good piece of writing I can recall Spike Lee ever doing. I love that bamboozled/led astray/run amok thing, especially because the last one don't even make no sense. That's what makes it great.

But -- aesthetic appreciation aside -- this is an explicitly rabble-rousing race-warring whitey-hating speech.

Why does Obama's mind keep going here?

The word "bamboozled" was all but gone from the English language (including among blacks, don't give me that crap) until Spike Lee revived it in this nice piece of writing.

That is the real etymology of the word as far as current usage -- as far as current conscienceness of the word, it began with this speech in Malcolm X. It had been a dead obscurity before that.

So why's Obama so smitten with the word? I'm always told how goddamned smart and educated he his; why does his mind keep running back to a bit of discarded street slang whenever he wants to talk about the whiter party at election time?

Posted by: Ace at 11:39 AM | Comments (205)
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1 Did someone switch out the Value-Rite with Red Bull?

Posted by: Dave C at August 04, 2010 11:42 AM (V7Ud6)

2 How many times does this motherfucker get to drop the words "hoodwinked" and "bamboozled" before someone in the MFM notice he's making a very nasty subterranean racial appeal based on resentment, suspicion, conspiracy theory, and ultimately hatred?

How many times?  All of them.  Big O will never be called on it.  If he could get away with calling blacks "mongrels," there is nothing he can't get away with.

Posted by: VKI at August 04, 2010 11:43 AM (LZK9H)

3 Is "rush to judgment" one of the "code phrases" cause hannity is playing sharpton saying this now.

Posted by: curious at August 04, 2010 11:43 AM (p302b)

4
D E T R O I T - The future of America... under the Democrat rule.  We are bamboozled.



Posted by: Lemon Kitten at August 04, 2010 11:45 AM (0fzsA)

5 PostMost-racial? Really?

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at August 04, 2010 11:45 AM (NuAIL)

6 Thank god he didn't say, "the White man came in your mouth!"

Posted by: EC at August 04, 2010 11:45 AM (mAhn3)

7 (O)bam(a)boozled you crackas!

Posted by: Barack Obama at August 04, 2010 11:47 AM (VmtE9)

8 Holy crap, another post. Ace must have eaten some hobos who had a straight meth diet.

Posted by: George Orwell at August 04, 2010 11:47 AM (AZGON)

9 Is it just me, or is there MORE racism in jugear's POST-racial America than there has been in the last 30-odd years???

Posted by: FORGER - Racist Czar at August 04, 2010 11:47 AM (CG6Tz)

10 Cuse me, while I whip this out!

Posted by: Barack "Sheriff Bart" Obama at August 04, 2010 11:48 AM (LdYLm)

11 Because Obama watches 'Malcom X' as often as I watch the MST3K of 'Manos the Hands of Fate'?

Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2010 11:49 AM (9I0Uq)

12 One of these days Barry will be on camera and suddenly halt speaking... he will pull off the Mission Impossible rubber mask and reveal... Maxine Waters!

Posted by: George Orwell at August 04, 2010 11:49 AM (AZGON)

13 Is it just me, or is there MORE racism in jugear's POST-racial America than there has been in the last 30-odd years???

Nope, not just you.

Posted by: alexthechick at August 04, 2010 11:49 AM (YBXMV)

14 If there's one thing I hate, it's having someone run the okey-doke on me.  Oh, and bamboozling, that's no fun either.

What a 'tard.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 04, 2010 11:49 AM (UOM48)

15 is i read it all i could think of was the guy that came to town in "76 trombones"

Posted by: phoenixgirl at August 04, 2010 11:49 AM (eOXTH)

16 Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2010 03:49 PM (9I0Uq) The Master will not be pleased.

Posted by: Torgo at August 04, 2010 11:49 AM (AZGON)

17 I was not aware that "bamboozled" was a black-on-white code word.  I'm not gonna say you're reaching, but I will say that I don't think that Obama's doing it on purpose as a signalling device.

Posted by: Truman North at August 04, 2010 11:50 AM (e8YaH)

18 3 Is "rush to judgment" one of the "code phrases" cause hannity is playing sharpton saying this now.

Posted by: curious at August 04, 2010 03:43 PM (p302b)

I think zombie Johnnie Cochran made that famous during the OJ trial and we've never heard the end of it.

Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at August 04, 2010 11:50 AM (YVZlY)

19 The Master wouldn't approve.

Posted by: Torgo at August 04, 2010 11:50 AM (VmtE9)

20 The real question is why are you all so Wee Wee'd up in Obama's face like this?

Posted by: The MFM at August 04, 2010 11:50 AM (V7Ud6)

21 as not is

Posted by: phoenixgirl at August 04, 2010 11:50 AM (eOXTH)

22 Pssst....Ace, um, will you um, share some of whatever you're, um.....

nevermind

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 04, 2010 11:50 AM (UOM48)

23 I think Obama needs to go to the qaaba to go throw some rocks (like a girl) and clear his mind.  Maybe he'll happen upon a stoning while he's there. 

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 04, 2010 11:50 AM (8lCJT)

24 I heard a "boy", in there.

Posted by: MoDo at August 04, 2010 11:50 AM (5aa4z)

25 I put the "Bam" in teh "Booze" Bitches!

Posted by: Preznit Bow Wow at August 04, 2010 11:50 AM (CfmlF)

26 How many times, Ace?

As long as he wants!

He is, as you may have notice, black. Which, in the world being created by Osama Obama and Eric Shabazz Holder, gives him special privileges.

Hell, if I used the cracka (which we all hate every iota of) equivalents, you'd ban my racist ass. Even if you didn't, the squishes at Tepid Air surely would.

Ace, I'm glad to see you gettin' riled up a li'l bitty. Y'all need to do it more often. Anger translated into coldly developed (nonviolent but forceful) action is what will save the country, and maybe restore life to the hideous racism, economic nightmares and monstro unemployment of the Bush days.

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 04, 2010 11:51 AM (Ulu3i)

27 Did someone switch out the Value-Rite with Red Bull?

We are secretly switching Ace's Value-Rite with new Folgers Espresso Crystals let's see if he can tell the difference. 

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at August 04, 2010 11:51 AM (0q2P7)

28 Posted by: FORGER - Racist Czar at August 04, 2010 03:47 PM (CG6Tz)
I don't think there is more racism, heck, I don't see racism at all, in fact to my black educated middle class friends he is becoming "that guy". 

Posted by: curious at August 04, 2010 11:51 AM (p302b)

29

Hey Ace! etymology, nice...but give me some credit. 

Bamboozled by Love

Posted by: Frank Zappa's Ghost at August 04, 2010 11:51 AM (9I0Uq)

30 too bad he didn't add "and all y'all are too dumb to know it!"

Posted by: phoenixgirl at August 04, 2010 11:52 AM (eOXTH)

31 I'm sure the MFM will be along shortly to refuidate all this for you.

Posted by: Dave C at August 04, 2010 11:52 AM (V7Ud6)

32 I was not aware that "bamboozled" was a black-on-white code word.  I'm not gonna say you're reaching, but I will say that I don't think that Obama's doing it on purpose as a signalling device.

I will.  He's talking to his secret racist buddies.  Using movie dialogue.  Because he's a fucking dolt.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at August 04, 2010 11:52 AM (5aa4z)

33 Is there a list somewhere that indicates which companies hire people of color so I don't accidentally bamboozle them with my dollars? Because until Obama, I didn't consider skin color before purchasing. But now, no more hoodwinkin'.

Posted by: alppuccino at August 04, 2010 11:52 AM (yiQo+)

34 "amok" IIRC, is an actual battle command used by the people of the Philippines and other Pacific islanders. It just means "everybody dies". We Anglos have a similar command in "havoc". It is akin to the Broken Arrow command.

Posted by: rawmuse at August 04, 2010 11:52 AM (lLyFQ)

35

 If there's one thing I hate, it's having someone run the okey-doke on me.  Oh, and bamboozling, that's no fun either.

 

Tha's cause you uptight, white woman all wee wee'd up!

Posted by: Preznit Bow Wow at August 04, 2010 11:52 AM (CfmlF)

36 Is the okey-doke a dance?

Posted by: Dr. Spank at August 04, 2010 11:53 AM (xO+6C)

37 ...is Spike Lee a fan of mine?

Posted by: Frank Zappa's Ghost at August 04, 2010 11:53 AM (9I0Uq)

38 I think the man is a straight-up racist.  He always has been, always will be.  Him, his wife, his pastor . . . they are projecting their racism upon those who disagree with them, and their sycophants in the MFM eat it up.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2010 11:53 AM (zgZzy)

39 Obviously Ace wants us to return to the days of Bull Connor by pointing out Obama's continual reference to this "Malcom X" speech... /sarc

/Obama must watch this damn movie way too much to have it on the brain.  Perhaps to fuel his rage about how terrible America is?

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at August 04, 2010 11:53 AM (9hSKh)

40 >>>I was not aware that "bamboozled" was a black-on-white code word. Yeah? Well when he used it against McCain/Palin he explicitly used Spike Lee's "you been hoodwinked... bamboozled," straight from that speech. So did he just link those words up himself then by accident?

Posted by: ace at August 04, 2010 11:54 AM (KUUXH)

41 Oh, I meant to point this out to you cause my really really good black male friend pointed it out to me.  He said "notice the fund raisers are usually white people and you and I both know there are plenty of wealthy black people who could throw those fund raisers if they so desired".

Posted by: curious at August 04, 2010 11:54 AM (p302b)

42 Interviewer: Alright, Mr. Obama, you've done just fine on the Rorshact.. your papers are in good order.. your file's fine.. no difficulties with your motor skills.. And I think you're probably ready for this job. We've got one more psychological test we always do here. It's just a Word Association. I'll throw you out a few words - anything that comes to your mind, just throw back at me, okay? It's kind of an arbitrary thing. Like, if I say "dog", you'd say..?

Mr. Obama: "Tree".

Interviewer: "Tree". [ nods head, prepares the test papers ] "Dog".

Mr. Obama: "Tree".

Interviewer: "Fast".

Mr. Obama: "Slow".

Interviewer: "Rain".

Mr. Obama: "Snow".

Interviewer: "White".

Mr. Obama: "Black".

Interviewer: "Bean".

Mr. Obama: "Pod".

Interviewer: [ casually ] "Negro".

Mr. Obama: "Whitey".

Interviewer: "Republican".

Mr. Obama: "Redneck".

Interviewer: "Sarah Palin".

Mr. Obama: [ starting to get angry ] "Peckerwood!"

Interviewer: "Tea Partier".

Mr. Obama: [ defensive ] "Cracker!"

Interviewer: [ aggressive ] "Arizona Citizen".

Mr. Obama: "White trash!"

Interviewer: "Any White Person!"

Mr. Obama: [ really upset ] "Honky Honky!"

Posted by: SNL Skit You Wont See at August 04, 2010 11:54 AM (LdYLm)

43

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Obama may not be one but he sure seems to be very, very comfortable inciting racial division between blacks and whites ...

20 Years at Trinity church ...  and nothing sunk in ?  Really ??? 

Posted by: Jeff at August 04, 2010 11:54 AM (A3tpD)

44 How many times does this motherfucker get to drop the words "hoodwinked" and "bamboozled" before someone in the MFM notice he's making a very nasty subterranean racial appeal based on resentment, suspicion, conspiracy theory, and ultimately hatred?


C'mon, it's not like he's a white woman using a racist dog-whistle like "You betcha"  or "tax cut."

Posted by: Camille Paglia at August 04, 2010 11:54 AM (9PzaA)

45 Listen up, crackers.  I run shit here, you just live here!

Posted by: Barry O'Racist at August 04, 2010 11:54 AM (zgZzy)

46

You have failed us Torgo.  For this, you must die.  Whitey.  Satyr. 

Posted by: The Master at August 04, 2010 11:55 AM (8lCJT)

47 "How many times does this motherfucker get to drop the words "hoodwinked" and "bamboozled" before someone in the MFM notice he's making a very nasty subterranean racial appeal based on resentment, suspicion, conspiracy theory, and ultimately hatred?"

And what exactly do you mean by 'this' motherfucker?

Posted by: chuckles is a douche at August 04, 2010 11:55 AM (Q6iS+)

48 Most people drop lines from their favorite movies anyway.. 

Most of the time it's Caddyshack, Fletch or Monty Python and the Holy Grail..

With Barack, it's Malcom X.

Posted by: Dave C at August 04, 2010 11:55 AM (V7Ud6)

49 I was not aware that "bamboozled" was a black-on-white code word. ... I don't think that Obama's doing it on purpose as a signalling device. I will. He's talking to his secret racist buddies. Using movie dialogue. Because he's a fucking dolt. Indeed he is several ounces short of a pound. Haven't you noticed he appears to be the sort of guy who wants to be with the "cool" crowd, and has to speak the right language to be accepted? I've never heard anyone speak as inauthentically as Earflaps McUnicorn.

Posted by: George Orwell at August 04, 2010 11:56 AM (AZGON)

50 Bambi's got a little bag of rhetoric that he filled up in his community organizer days. He cycles through it once a week or so, like my mom's meal plans from when I was growing up: Meatloaf Monday, Taco Tuesday, etc. With Bambi it's Bamboozle Thursday, Let Me Be Clear Friday, and so on.

Posted by: joncelli at August 04, 2010 11:56 AM (RD7QR)

51 Don't forget he was speaking in Atlanta.  'Nuff said.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 04, 2010 11:56 AM (UOM48)

52 36 Is the okey-doke a dance?

Posted by: Dr. Spank at August 04, 2010 03:53 PM (xO+6C)

No.

Posted by: a guy who named his weiner "Okey-doke" at August 04, 2010 11:56 AM (YVZlY)

53 Obama should start quoting from Titanic.

Posted by: Dr. Spank at August 04, 2010 11:56 AM (xO+6C)

54 Aaaargh.

Posted by: HeatherRadish needs sock managment at August 04, 2010 11:56 AM (9PzaA)

55 48 Most people drop lines from their favorite movies anyway.. 

Most of the time it's Caddyshack, Fletch or Monty Python and the Holy Grail..

With Barack, it's Malcom X.

Posted by: Dave C at August 04, 2010 03:55 PM (V7Ud6)

I didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock, err, wait a minute, I was born in Indonesia

Posted by: Barack Obama at August 04, 2010 11:57 AM (LdYLm)

56 Let me be clear. Since before Day One, I'm was racialist if not an actual racist. The racialism is for fun, the racism for effect. And if you disagree with me, then you're acting stupidly.

Posted by: The Precedent at August 04, 2010 11:57 AM (swuwV)

57 Redistribution for reparations-----globally. That's the point.

Posted by: dagny at August 04, 2010 11:57 AM (464eJ)

58 When is he gonna use "OB-Guy-Nee" in a speech again? The only time that man's ever gotten a serious laugh out of me.

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at August 04, 2010 11:57 AM (wd0Iq)

59

Yeah? Well when he used it against McCain/Palin he explicitly used Spike Lee's "you been hoodwinked... bamboozled," straight from that speech.

So did he just link those words up himself then by accident?

Consider me duly schooled.  See, not listening for racist code words, sometimes I myself miss them.  Which is why I enjoy your work so much

Posted by: Truman North at August 04, 2010 11:57 AM (e8YaH)

60

OT: Has anyone noticed how all the liberal media today are in unison describing Missouri's vote on health care as "largley symbolic" ?

It seems that journolist still lives.

Posted by: robtr at August 04, 2010 11:57 AM (fwSHf)

61 That "nanananananana" when I was putting.  Racist code word.

Posted by: Ty Webb at August 04, 2010 11:57 AM (zgZzy)

62

...so in Summation, Manos - the Hands of Fate.

Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2010 11:58 AM (9I0Uq)

63 Pfft .. remember that Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, lives right down the block from Zero's Shitcago house. Other than that, Jerry Wright's Black Liberation Theology sermons must have really inspired BO. And who said he didn't learn anything sitting in that "church" for 20 years?

Posted by: TonyRezko at August 04, 2010 11:58 AM (b9I1o)

64

Wowie! The White Man been so busy keepin' the Black Man down, I don't know how the Hell he gets anything else done. It's a full time job, with the Black Man constantly strugglin' to get up outta that hole the White Man dug to keep him in. The White Man is responsible for everting bad ever happened to the Black Man. Everthing! That White Man bamboozled the Black Man at every turn.

Well, that's a great argument. Since they got rid of the White Man in Africa, Haiti, etc., all those places are now Heaven on Earth. With no crime, no racism, no corruption, no poverty, no genocide, no civil war. Right? Right?

Key to success? Kill de White Man!

So many people have the understanding and responsibility of 5 year olds.

Posted by: maddogg at August 04, 2010 11:58 AM (OlN4e)

65 How does this rhetoric help Michele and her fat chubby youngest daughter have a fabulous vacation in Spain? 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 04, 2010 11:58 AM (UOM48)

66 Ace: "...because the last one don't even make no sense."

I saw what you did there, Homey.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at August 04, 2010 11:59 AM (swuwV)

67

Obama may not be one but he sure seems to be very, very comfortable inciting racial division between blacks and whites ...

20 Years at Trinity church ...  and nothing sunk in ?  Really ??? 

Posted by: Jeff at August 04, 2010 03:54 PM (A3tpD)

FIFY.

 

Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at August 04, 2010 11:59 AM (YVZlY)

68 So bamboozled is a secret code word now?  Maybe we're all just getting a little overly sensitive to supposed code words and dog whistles.  I will concede the point when he lets loose with a "cracker ass motherfucker" or a "hook nosed slumlord," but "bamboozled" is not and never has been the sole domain of a Spike Lee script.  Lighten up Francis.

Posted by: Ted Kennedy's Gristle Encased Head at August 04, 2010 11:59 AM (+lsX1)

69 Mind if we dance with yo dates?!

Posted by: For Inclusion in the next State of the Union at August 04, 2010 12:01 PM (8lCJT)

70 53 Obama should start quoting from Titanic. Posted by: Dr. Spank Oh, man. You've hit on something. Imagine if Barry became confused and kept quoting from, say... "Glengarry Glenross?" "My door is always open to anyone with new ideas, even Republicans. We must pass this healthcare legislation. Pass it. Always. Be. Passing. You know what it takes to sell socialized medicine? Brass balls. That's what it takes. You know what my name is? Fuck you. That's what my name is. My watch costs more than your car."

Posted by: George Orwell at August 04, 2010 12:01 PM (AZGON)

71 as I said, the first time he dropped it he used "ya been hoodwinked, bamboozled," straight from the script, directed at McCain (white) and Palin (white).

Posted by: ace at August 04, 2010 12:01 PM (KUUXH)

72 68 So bamboozled is a secret code word now?  Maybe we're all just getting a little overly sensitive to supposed code words and dog whistles.  I will concede the point when he lets loose with a "cracker ass motherfucker" or a "hook nosed slumlord," but "bamboozled" is not and never has been the sole domain of a Spike Lee script.  Lighten up Francis.

Posted by: Ted Kennedy's Gristle Encased Head at August 04, 2010 03:59 PM (+lsX1)

You just made the list, buddy. And I don't like nobody touching my stuff. So just keep your meat-hooks off. If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I'll kill you. Also, I don't like nobody touching me. Now, any of you homos touch me, and I'll kill you.

Posted by: Pyshco at August 04, 2010 12:01 PM (LdYLm)

73 Posted by: robtr at August 04, 2010 03:57 PM (fwSHf)

sure it does, they just switched to private chat rooms after I heard one of them talking about a conservative journalist who had friday meetings with conservatives and he said these were just their Friday meetings.....he said it on Batchelor....don't remember it exactly but you get the gist..

Posted by: curious at August 04, 2010 12:01 PM (p302b)

74 Of course the ironic part is that Obama is only half-black and grew up in a mostly privileged environment in Hawaii. His first exposure to black culture and dialect probably wasn't until he came to the mainland as an undergraduate.

So his 'black' phrases and mannerisms are really just affectations that he picked up as an adult. All part of the ultimate bamboozle.

Posted by: Mætenloch at August 04, 2010 12:02 PM (f5vi+)

75 62

...so in Summation, Manos - the Hands of Fate Jazz.

Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2010 03:58 PM (9I0Uq)

FIFY.

Posted by: Glen Beck at August 04, 2010 12:02 PM (YVZlY)

76 Put your pitchforks and torches down.  Torches are your closers!

Posted by: Barack GlenGarry Obama at August 04, 2010 12:03 PM (zgZzy)

77

I'd like to make a shout out to my Aunt Pookie.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 04, 2010 12:03 PM (2g2ex)

78 I knew Obama's "bamboozle" was a Spike lift (almost all of Obama's "I'm black, yo!" shit comes from Spike's movies), but where the hell did he get "okey-doke?" Nobody has used that term to mean "swindle" for like sixty years, and he says it all the time. Has he whipped out a "gwine" yet?

Posted by: oblig. at August 04, 2010 12:03 PM (x7Ao8)

79 It seems that journolist still lives.

It's called "Cabalist" now and it has 1/3rd the members, but I thought everyone knew that.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 04, 2010 12:03 PM (p05LM)

80 17 I was not aware that "bamboozled" was a black-on-white code word.  I'm not gonna say you're reaching, but I will say that I don't think that Obama's doing it on purpose as a signalling device.

Posted by: Truman North at August 04, 2010 03:50 PM (e8YaH)

Has everyone forgot Spike Lee's movie "Bamboozled" from 2000?

http://bit.ly/zQsY1

Obama's obviously a Spike Lee fan. Spike Lee is the 'Leni Riefenstahl' of Black Liberation Theology. 

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at August 04, 2010 12:04 PM (oIp16)

81 His speech is pure Balderdash!

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at August 04, 2010 12:04 PM (yT8z7)

82 ...so in Summation, Manos - the Hands of Fate Jazz. Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2010 03:58 PM (9I0Uq) FIFY. You owe me a fucking keyboard, right this second.

Posted by: George Orwell at August 04, 2010 12:04 PM (AZGON)

83 How does this rhetoric help Michele and her fat chubby youngest daughter have a fabulous vacation in Spain?

Can we FOIA their room service bill and see if they eat like they tell us to eat?

Posted by: HeatherRadish at August 04, 2010 12:04 PM (9PzaA)

84 I wonder how dogs react to all these racist dog whistles. Are they like "Shit, there goes the skinny guy with the stuck-up water dog again!"?

Posted by: joncelli at August 04, 2010 12:05 PM (RD7QR)

85

I have a white neighbor married to a very bright and successful black man. I like them both very much. He is in a business where he watches and listens to a lot of video of talk shows etc.

She is stunned by how much time black people sit around talking about white people, what they think, what they did, their attitudes etc. She says that it's amazing how weirdly preoccupied blacks are with whites.

She told her husband that white people really don't sit around analyzing black people and their every action.

She finds it weird. It gave me some insight into some of the issues. It's like high school girls who will dissect every syllable, look, or action of a boy to decide who he likes or what he's thinking. Later, they find out that he is thinking "sandwich".

They come up with some of the shit they do because they THINK white people are conspiring when they really could give a shit.

Posted by: dagny at August 04, 2010 12:05 PM (464eJ)

86 Global reparations?  So, those of us whose ancestors were forced to settle Europe when we got run out of Africa, we can get our own back?

Sweet!

See, that doesn't end well, does it?

/and if you can't smell the sarcasm, fine, but first, you must...oh, skip it

Posted by: DarkLordOfTheThousandAcreWood at August 04, 2010 12:05 PM (IkEhE)

87

68 So bamboozled is a secret code word now?  Maybe we're all just getting a little overly sensitive to supposed code words and dog whistles.  I will concede the point when he lets loose with a "cracker ass motherfucker" or a "hook nosed slumlord," but "bamboozled" is not and never has been the sole domain of a Spike Lee script.  Lighten up Francis.

 

Interesting that he quotes from a film about a Whitey-hating racist to talk about his Whitey opposition, no?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2010 12:05 PM (zgZzy)

88 So if there are secret Dog Whistle code words for racism,

Wouldn't there be secret Wolf Whistle code words for sexism?

Posted by: Dave C at August 04, 2010 12:05 PM (V7Ud6)

89 HeatherRadish, have you seen the pics of Lt. Worf arriving in Spain?  Jeebus.  She's got a beer gut. 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 04, 2010 12:06 PM (UOM48)

90 Maybe we're all just getting a little overly sensitive to supposed code words and dog whistles.

Watch what happens the next time Sarah Palin says "tax cut."  It's like feeding time at the macacque cage at the Indy Zoo.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at August 04, 2010 12:07 PM (9PzaA)

91 Barack Obama doesn't care about white people.

Posted by: Adam (Kanye) West at August 04, 2010 12:08 PM (zgZzy)

92

I knew Obama's "bamboozle" was a Spike lift (almost all of Obama's "I'm black, yo!" shit comes from Spike's movies), but where the hell did he get "okey-doke?" Nobody has used that term to mean "swindle" for like sixty years, and he says it all the time.

WWE's Jim Ross says it all the time.

Posted by: Truman North at August 04, 2010 12:08 PM (e8YaH)

93 I'm still trying to understand how he sent his wife and his daughter and an entourage that require thirty luxury hotel rooms to a county that the state department warned "people of color" about?   And why he is fine to be alone on his bday.  And why the MSM is saying he is a batchelor for the night.  Is that code for "go bang who ever you want while i'm out of the country and happy birthday honey"?

Posted by: curious at August 04, 2010 12:08 PM (p302b)

94

Whether or not one agrees that "bamboozled" is racial code-wording--and I do--you don't have to wonder how long it would take the media and others to have a conniption if we were to refer to the Obama administration as a minstrel show or some such.

I would like to hear some reasons why we should be so much less touchy than the Left. Other than our self-respect, which will get our asses kicked in this game.

Posted by: spongeworthy at August 04, 2010 12:08 PM (rplL3)

95 Mr. Obama:  [snarky] "Bamboozled"

Mr. Cuomo:  [smarmy] "Shuck & Jive"

Posted by: Fritz at August 04, 2010 12:08 PM (GwPRU)

96

89 HeatherRadish, have you seen the pics of Lt. Worf arriving in Spain?  Jeebus.  She's got a beer gut. 

Photo linkage, please!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2010 12:08 PM (zgZzy)

97
And I'm supposed to believe Obama spent 20 years in Wright's church and never heard a word Wright preached?



Posted by: your fickle fiend, the summer wind at August 04, 2010 12:09 PM (uFokq)

98 HeatherRadish, have you seen the pics of Lt. Worf arriving in Spain?

Blissfully ignorant, thank you.  Is she wearing Malia's clothes again?

Posted by: HeatherRadish at August 04, 2010 12:09 PM (9PzaA)

99

 Is there a list somewhere that indicates which companies hire people of color so I don't accidentally bamboozle them with my dollars?

Because until Obama, I didn't consider skin color before purchasing.

 

I told my husband recently that having this mofo in office has made me become more aware of race, and not in a good way.  I am an Asian woman who's parents volunteered at a rescue mission in Center City, Philadelphia every Sunday and many Friday nights when I was a child til I was about 10 years old. 

I became friends with a lot of Black and Puerto Rican kids at the mission.  I didn't care what color they were or how much money they didn't have.  In fact, these poor inner city kids dressed better than I did, so I really didn't understand the poverty until I was older.  I didn't know about their absent fathers, drug addicted mothers, underperforming schools and their subsidized housing.  I didn't know and I didn't care--they didn't talk about it. 

What mattered was how well you could play jacks, how long you could double dutch jump rope, how loud you could sing in Sunday school, how fast you could run.  My parents and other volunteers brought the  older kids to our house several times for picnics and what not.  They marveled at our house in the suburb, thought we lived out in the country, and thought we were rich (which just cracked me up).  My dad took the high schoolers to Atlantic City several times for a day at the beach.  I was astounded that these kids who were older than me had never seen The Ocean before. 

I have felt comfortable around people of any color my whole life.  Only now, I am distrustful, suspicious,  dismayed, and disgusted by liberals of any color.  It's getting increasingly difficult to be polite to these people.  I think that Barack Obama has done more to set the Black community back than any other politician who's ever held an office in the U.S.  (I say the Black community as a whole because they overwhelmingly support him even as he destroys the very fabric of a colorblind American society).

Posted by: runningrn at August 04, 2010 12:09 PM (CfmlF)

100 So the Spanish are racists? What? I thought only america was racist? Is there a list somewhere on who's racist and who's not?

Posted by: dagny at August 04, 2010 12:10 PM (464eJ)

101 97 And I'm supposed to believe Obama spent 20 years in Wright's church and never heard a word Wright preached? Posted by: your fickle fiend, the summer wind at August 04, 2010 04:09 PM (uFokq) Certainly not. He was bamboozled. Hoodwinked.

Posted by: joncelli at August 04, 2010 12:10 PM (RD7QR)

102 89 HeatherRadish, have you seen the pics of Lt. Worf arriving in Spain?  Jeebus.  She's got a beer gut. 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 04, 2010 04:06 PM (UOM4

You Hit like a Ferengi's Grandmother.

Posted by: Michelle Obama at August 04, 2010 12:10 PM (LdYLm)

103 Yeah? Well when he used it against McCain/Palin he explicitly used Spike Lee's "you been hoodwinked... bamboozled," straight from that speech.

So did he just link those words up himself then by accident?

Very few things this President does are "accidental" he normally would rather take no action, than risk embarrassment with random action. Ace is right, this is no mere coincidence. It points to either Obama having watched the movie so many times that the speech is burned into his head and so by suggestion becomes the language that he uses OR he likes the movie and thinks that speech about systemic soft racism at the political level  used to maintain black people in poverty, knows that the reference will likely go unnoticed by those to whom the message is not directed, and conveys a message that his political opponents are malevolently acting to keep black people in a state of de facto economic slavery.

That makes him either a race hate porn junkie, a secret supporter of NOI or a lying POS politician looking for any edge, I could believe any.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at August 04, 2010 12:11 PM (0q2P7)

104 How many times does this motherfucker get to drop the words "hoodwinked" and "bamboozled" before someone in the MFM notice he's making a very nasty subterranean racial appeal based on resentment, suspicion, conspiracy theory, and ultimately hatred?

Why do you ask such silly questions?

Posted by: dum blond at August 04, 2010 12:11 PM (gbCNS)

105

When is he gonna use "OB-Guy-Nee" in a speech again? The only time that man's ever gotten a serious laugh out of me.

oooh, oooh I know this one! OB-Guy-Nee is the doc who prescribes breathalyzers for asthmatic kids

Posted by: kallisto at August 04, 2010 12:12 PM (+FkcS)

106
You notice that, too?

Michelle looks like she's sporting a 40" waist.

Posted by: your fickle fiend, the summer wind at August 04, 2010 12:12 PM (uFokq)

107

And I'm supposed to believe Obama spent 20 years in Wright's church and never heard a word Wright preached?

 

I can see only 2 scenarios where this could be plausible:

1.  If the windows were stained glass with depictions of the works of Jesus, and he was portrayed as a black man (definite possibility).

2.  If the walls of the church were covered in mirrors or other such reflective surfaces.

 

Otherwise, I declare shenanigans!  (Although scenario 1 wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility.)


Posted by: runningrn at August 04, 2010 12:13 PM (CfmlF)

108 I swear I have heard other movie or tv lines from him before and just let that thought go to the back of my head and didn't think to write them down and check.  I think his writers may do this on a somewhat regular basis.

Somebody who knows how to do it should research his speeches vs. the west wing.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at August 04, 2010 12:13 PM (yT8z7)

109 George Orwell: "I've never heard anyone speak as inauthentically as Earflaps McUnicorn."

Ahem. In chronological order:

Jon Cary: "Can I get me a hunting license here?"

Hillary Clinton: "I Don't Feel No Ways Tired..."

Baghdad Bob Gibbs: "Hello."

Botox Pelosi: "...The Word. IsnÂ’t it a beautiful word when you think of it? It just covers everything. The Word."

Consider them all tied for first.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at August 04, 2010 12:13 PM (swuwV)

110 I have felt comfortable around people of any color my whole life. Only now, I am distrustful, suspicious, dismayed, and disgusted by liberals of any color. It's getting increasingly difficult to be polite to these people. I think that Barack Obama has done more to set the Black community back than any other politician who's ever held an office in the U.S. Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom predicted exactly this outcome for race relations nearly a year before Barry was emaculated. And he was right.

Posted by: George Orwell at August 04, 2010 12:13 PM (AZGON)

111 107

And I'm supposed to believe Obama spent 20 years in Wright's church and never heard a word Wright preached?

 

I can see only 2 scenarios where this could be plausible:

1.  If the windows were stained glass with depictions of the works of Jesus, and he was portrayed as a black man (definite possibility).

2.  If the walls of the church were covered in mirrors or other such reflective surfaces.

 

Otherwise, I declare shenanigans!  (Although scenario 1 wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility.)


Posted by: runningrn at August 04, 2010 04:13 PM (CfmlF)

Shenanigans And Going-Ons

Posted by: Ludicrous Speed at August 04, 2010 12:14 PM (LdYLm)

112

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at August 04, 2010 04:11 PM (0q2P7)

 

BINGO!  Please stop by the front desk to collect your prize!

Posted by: runningrn at August 04, 2010 12:14 PM (CfmlF)

113 Most people drop lines from their favorite movies anyway...

Obama's favorite movie is The Godfather.

Posted by: davidt at August 04, 2010 12:14 PM (HtIec)

114
Obama bragged that he didn't meet with the CEO of BP because he wasn't about to get flim-flammed by a rich white business man.


Posted by: your fickle fiend, the summer wind at August 04, 2010 12:14 PM (uFokq)

115 106 You notice that, too? Michelle looks like she's sporting a 40" waist. Posted by: your fickle fiend, the summer wind at August 04, 2010 04:12 PM (uFokq) That blood wine goes straight to the gut, lemme tell ya.

Posted by: M'Chelle at August 04, 2010 12:14 PM (RD7QR)

116

15 is i read it all i could think of was the guy that came to town in "76 trombones"

----------

Monorail!

 

Posted by: I am not Spock at August 04, 2010 12:15 PM (3K4hn)

117 @109 True enough. But with those clowns, I have the feeling that they know they are selling shit as Shinola, and the deceit is deliberate. Barry seems to be so devoid of a center that he doesn't appear to know what is authentic and what isn't. He is a man without an interior. Just a collection of post-modern ultra-leftwing prejudices.

Posted by: George Orwell at August 04, 2010 12:16 PM (AZGON)

118 OR he likes the movie and thinks that speech about systemic soft racism at the political level  used to maintain black people in poverty, knows that the reference will likely go unnoticed by those to whom the message is not directed, and conveys a message that his political opponents are malevolently acting to keep black people in a state of de facto economic slavery.

Is that teenaged white kid still writing his stuff? 

Posted by: HeatherRadish at August 04, 2010 12:17 PM (9PzaA)

119 >>>. It points to either Obama having watched the movie so many times that the speech is burned into his head and so by suggestion becomes the language that he uses Well, it's burned in MY head and I didnt' see the movie -- it was in all of the ads. The ad campaign propagated it.

Posted by: ace at August 04, 2010 12:17 PM (KUUXH)

120 Obama's favorite movie is The Godfather.

Pffft.

Another lie.

I'd go with Titanic or Sex and the City.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 04, 2010 12:18 PM (NvFZs)

121 Wednesday Checklist

1. Get milk
2. Pick up kid from preschool
3. Run the lawnmower (weed if you have time)
4. Deliver three prostitutes to Harlem. Tell them to have sex with blacks.
5. Call wife/ask about b-day party decorations
6. Bamboozle the negro who lives next store
7. Pay credit card bill.
8. Run the okey doke. Next week run it in reverse order so everything wears evenly.

Posted by: Warden at August 04, 2010 12:18 PM (QoR4a)

122

115 She could be pregnant?

Wouldn't that be something.

Posted by: dagny at August 04, 2010 12:19 PM (464eJ)

123 I'd love to hear Obama say "It's hard out here for a pimp".

Posted by: Dr. Spank at August 04, 2010 12:20 PM (xO+6C)

124 "especially because the last one don't even make no sense."

When I read that I pictured aces head swiveling like the maid on the Jeffersons.

Posted by: Boxy Brown at August 04, 2010 12:20 PM (PWM6Q)

125 Is "rush to judgment" one of the "code phrases"

Yes, it came from the OJ trial, and how terrible it was that he left all kinds of evidence for the police when he killed a white woman.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at August 04, 2010 12:20 PM (yT8z7)

126 Posted by: dagny at August 04, 2010 04:19 PM (464eJ)

That's been a rumor on the MSM sites for a while, maybe the pooch just won't leave no matter how many sit ups she does.  But, that would certainly insure re election in 2012, America wouldn't want to turn out a pregnant president.

Posted by: curious at August 04, 2010 12:21 PM (p302b)

127

"How many times does this motherfucker get to drop the words "hoodwinked" and "bamboozled" before someone in the MFM notice he's making a very nasty subterranean racial appeal based on resentment, suspicion, conspiracy theory, and ultimately hatred?"

You see Ace, the universities have been pouring worse into the heads of the leftie boobs who write and manage the news.

They know this is a code word, but because the diversity training is so effective, agree that it SHOULD be used.

I've said it a million times, it (the racism and leftism prevalent in the high education system) is WAY worse than people realize.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz at August 04, 2010 12:21 PM (tcSZb)

128 @121 My neighbors must be wondering about the cackling coming from my place.

Posted by: George Orwell at August 04, 2010 12:21 PM (AZGON)

129

Michelle looks like she's sporting a 40" waist.
Posted by: your fickle fiend, the summer wind at August 04, 2010 04:12 PM (uFokq)

In an earlier thread, I commented on how heavy Michelle looked in those pictures of her and Sasha as they get off the plane in Spain.  Her arms even look flabby.  I said something about FLATUS looking FATUS, and how I think the resort in Spain is actually a fat farm.  They've got to get Michelle back in shape before she hits the campaign trail (she is the Democrats "Secret Weapon", after all!)  Plus you can't go around the country scolding people for being fat if you are too--unless you're Michelle Obama and the State Media just posts flattering head shots or trains 15 skinny lenses on you. 

Posted by: runningrn at August 04, 2010 12:21 PM (CfmlF)

130 That's been a rumor on the MSM sites for a while, maybe the pooch just won't leave no matter how many sit ups she does.  But, that would certainly insure re election in 2012, America wouldn't want to turn out a pregnant president.

Posted by: curious at August 04, 2010 04:21 PM (p302b)

 

Wait, she's gestating an elephant?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 04, 2010 12:23 PM (2g2ex)

131 I love that bamboozled/led astray/run amok thing, especially because the last one don't even make no sense. That's what makes it great.

I just looked up the word run, it has 179 definitions. One is bound to be right.



Posted by: MikeTheMoose at August 04, 2010 12:23 PM (0q2P7)

132 Wouldn't that be something.

Three nights in a hotel in a foreign country.  Little Punishment Obama will not be appearing on the stage at the 2012 DNC convention (insert 2008 lefty "prop" sneer here).

Posted by: HeatherRadish at August 04, 2010 12:23 PM (9PzaA)

133

My son is in catholic school and has to complete community service hours every year. He tries to do them in the summer because he is in sports the rest of the year.

He was working at the same inner city football camp last night. Some very young anklebiter age 7 or 8 asked him why he was there. He said to help and to get community service hours. The kid said, "Oh, what did you get them fo?" At the risk of loosing his street cred, my son said he wasn't allowed to talk about it.

It actually upset him to know that a 7 year old knew that people got court mandated community service hours.

 

Posted by: dagny at August 04, 2010 12:24 PM (464eJ)

134 So why's Obama so smitten with the word? I'm always told how goddamned smart and educated he his; why does his mind keep running back to a bit of discarded street slang whenever he wants to talk about the whiter party at election time?

Because, Ace, that's the only way he knows of to get close to the "black experience".  Language.  Affectation.  Street slang.  Because he has never actually been "black", except when it suited him.  He has been able to pick and choose the circumstances which he felt would make him fit in.  You notice, we don't hear much about him being half Caucasian, or even biracial.  These are traits which he downplays as much as possible, to the point (I believe, anyway) of being embarrassed by them.  He hasn't been inconvenienced by being black, not nearly in the same way as other people of his generation have been - but he craves the "street cred" that those experiences would give him, so he bluffs. 

Posted by: antisocialist at August 04, 2010 12:24 PM (Rwudm)

135 I don't get how the "run amok" makes it good. To me it means either Spike Lee's a gibberish-spouting retard , or Spike's saying Malcolm X is a gibberish-spouting retard. What's the option I'm missing?

Posted by: Waterhouse at August 04, 2010 12:24 PM (V3jYk)

136 As someone else has pointed out, the word "bamboozled" in modern American usage is tied strongly to everything Spike Lee. Spike Lee's film "Bamboozled" in 2000, and as Ace points out, use of the word in the Malcolm X movie... If I don't remember incorrectly, I do believe I've heard Reverend Wright use that term, as well...

Posted by: George at August 04, 2010 12:25 PM (h8WtQ)

137 I read where Michelle is taking 40 friends on vacation. She really feels our pain. It's like where being okey-doke'd without Vaseline.

Posted by: Dr. Spank at August 04, 2010 12:26 PM (xO+6C)

138 The Obama Story: http://tinyurl.com/ylhawjv

Posted by: alppuccino at August 04, 2010 12:26 PM (yiQo+)

139 She could be pregnant?

Wouldn't that be something.

 

These people will do whatever it takes to stay in office.  I wouldn't put it past her, and I wouldn't put it past them to have had someone elses embryo implanted in her.


That's been a rumor on the MSM sites for a while, maybe the pooch just won't leave no matter how many sit ups she does.  But, that would certainly insure re election in 2012, America wouldn't want to turn out a pregnant president.

 

I think Michelle is lazy--she only works out her arms and doesn't do any cardio or any core work or lower body workouts.  She just works on the one thing she exposes all the time.  And if she stayed pregnant til 2012--that would be the longest gestation evah!  Or do you think she's preggers now for the mid-terms and then going to get knocked up again in 12?  Everything these people do is calculated political strategery.  I actually think they are worse than the Clintons (and that's really saying something.)


 

Posted by: runningrn at August 04, 2010 12:26 PM (CfmlF)

140 135 I don't get how the "run amok" makes it good. To me it means either Spike Lee's a gibberish-spouting retard , or Spike's saying Malcolm X is a gibberish-spouting retard. What's the option I'm missing?

Posted by: Waterhouse at August 04, 2010 04:24 PM (V3jYk)

The third way.  Both are gibberish-spouting retards.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 04, 2010 12:27 PM (2g2ex)

141

If I don't remember incorrectly, I do believe I've heard Reverend Wright use that term, as well...

 

I remember that too.  It was like almost word for word the Spike Lee dialogue.  Hmm....

Posted by: runningrn at August 04, 2010 12:27 PM (CfmlF)

142 I'd like to comment, but right now, I have to go to my bunk and think up new ways to keep the black man down. That requires a lot of time and effort, since most methods have already been tried and failed. Bamboozlin folks ain't as easy as it used to be.

Posted by: mikeylaw at August 04, 2010 12:28 PM (QMGr1)

143 139 I think Michelle is lazy--she only works out her arms

Shoveling in the food with a corn scoop.

Posted by: WTF at August 04, 2010 12:29 PM (j5CHE)

144 Well, it's burned in MY head and I didnt' see the movie -- it was in all of the ads.
The ad campaign propagated it.

Well it totally zipped by me and I remember some of the ad campaign and I've seen the movie. All I remember from the ad campaign was something about sparks and a powder keg.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at August 04, 2010 12:29 PM (0q2P7)

145 Sorry. Bamboozled by linking.

Posted by: alppuccino at August 04, 2010 12:29 PM (yiQo+)

146

He hasn't been inconvenienced by being black, not nearly in the same way as other people of his generation have been - but he craves the "street cred" that those experiences would give him, so he bluffs. 

 

Amen!  Amen!  He needs to prove to other Blacks that he is down for the struggle and that he is "Black enough"--remember that was an early criticism of him. being Halfrican American and all.  And remember, this is a man who's grandmother was "a typical white person"--the only time you hear him referring to anything white, it's in a derogatory fashion. 

Posted by: runningrn at August 04, 2010 12:30 PM (CfmlF)

147 Smite Thee ain't no Uncle Tom.

Posted by: dum blond at August 04, 2010 12:30 PM (gbCNS)

148 he forgot "flimflamed"!!!! eleventy!!! not to mention hoodwinked, hornswoggled, befuddled, gyped (no offense to Gypsies), and all of those other colorful phrases used by colorful people everywhere

Posted by: the Butcher at August 04, 2010 12:30 PM (8g9qq)

149 You've been bamboozled [boy]!

Posted by: DaveS at August 04, 2010 12:31 PM (jvG2F)

150 I hate to break with the crowd but I've always used the word bamboozled and I've never seen a spike lee movie.

Posted by: dagny at August 04, 2010 12:32 PM (464eJ)

151 Posted by: runningrn at August 04, 2010 04:26 PM (CfmlF)

Yeah I was thinking one or two for the midterms and then a couple more for the election (and she wouldn't have to campaign cause of her delicate status)

Posted by: curious at August 04, 2010 12:33 PM (p302b)

152 Michelle looks like she's sporting a 40" waist.

She's bigger than Stonehenge.

Posted by: This is Spinal Tap at August 04, 2010 12:33 PM (gQ+XA)

153 I hate to break with the crowd but I've always used the word bamboozled and I've never seen a spike lee movie.

Geezer

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at August 04, 2010 12:33 PM (0q2P7)

154 93 And why he is fine to be alone on his bday. And why the MSM is saying he is a batchelor for the night.
___________

That part is easy. Clearly, he wanted a pron and pizza night for his birthday. He'll probably spend the night with Skinemax cranked on the bedroom TV.

Posted by: Anachronda at August 04, 2010 12:33 PM (3K4hn)

155

He can't have any black street cred. Mama and grandparents were white and his black half was an absent african/arab. How could he have possibly learned anything actually black except by watching movies or getting tutored?

Posted by: dagny at August 04, 2010 12:34 PM (464eJ)

156 i've never been impressed with spike lee...now, when he starts quoting clarence thomas then I'll really pay attention.

Posted by: curious at August 04, 2010 12:35 PM (p302b)

157 I'll take "what is, because he is a race pimp? for a thousand".

Posted by: unknown jane at August 04, 2010 12:35 PM (5/yRG)

158

I have felt comfortable around people of any color my whole life.  Only now, I am distrustful, suspicious,  dismayed, and disgusted by liberals of any color.  It's getting increasingly difficult to be polite to these people.  I think that Barack Obama has done more to set the Black community back than any other politician who's ever held an office in the U.S.  (I say the Black community as a whole because they overwhelmingly support him even as he destroys the very fabric of a colorblind American society).

Posted by: runningrn at August 04, 2010 04:09 PM (CfmlF)

Not actually Zero's fault. Having been around Black people my whole life, and hearing them talk, and becoming aware of their world view, he is representing them quite well. He says the things they want to hear. They support him in his endeavours to make the country socialist. And they really do blame racism for virtually all their problems. That's why he enjoys 88% approval in the Black community. He represents their view. I think race relations are not set back, people just kidded themselves into thinking that they had improved greatly. They haven't.

Posted by: maddogg at August 04, 2010 12:35 PM (OlN4e)

159

You're reading too much into it, Ace.  Obama's not trying to sound like Malcolm X.  He's trying to sound like Denzel Washington.  You know, someone popular.

Also, I was always familiar with "bamboozled" as one of those words Yosemite Sam used when he got pissed off.

Posted by: INCITEmarsh at August 04, 2010 12:36 PM (Q3MY9)

160 Amen!  Amen!  He needs to prove to other Blacks that he is down for the struggle and that he is "Black enough"--remember that was an early criticism of him. being Halfrican American and all.  And remember, this is a man who's grandmother was "a typical white person"--the only time you hear him referring to anything white, it's in a derogatory fashion.
Posted by: runningrn at August 04, 2010 04:30 PM (CfmlF)

Well most of Obama's adult life has been about becoming Black.  And then proving his bona fides by being Blacker than Black.

Posted by: Mætenloch at August 04, 2010 12:37 PM (f5vi+)

161 Posted by: maddogg at August 04, 2010 04:35 PM (OlN4e)

so you are saying that my black friends and my white friends who see one another as people and have great times together is an anomoly?   That these "code words" are to awaken the sleeper cells in the minds of blacks and reinforce to them that they are still pissed about racism?

Posted by: curious at August 04, 2010 12:38 PM (p302b)

162 America wouldn't want to turn out a pregnant president.

The campaign ad writes itself.  "If you fire my husband, we'll lose our health insurance, and I'll have to give birth alone in the street."

Posted by: HeatherRadish at August 04, 2010 12:39 PM (9PzaA)

163 antisocialist: "Because, Ace, that's the only way he knows of to get close to the 'black experience'. Language. Affectation. Street slang. Because he has never actually been "black", except when it suited him..."

That might be true. Even the Sherrod incident exposed how a "real" Black perceives The One. She chastised him for not being "Black" enough, so it sure seems that Obama patronizes his audience for both superficial, political gain as well as to bond with those who he internally thinks he should bond with more closely but really doesn't (except in some politically exploitative capacity).

Did he drop his g's in that presentation, because that's another tell. When he's live, he gets folksy. When he hob-nobs with non-hoi polloi or in studio, he speaks, ironically, King's English. I think Whitey makes him do that.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at August 04, 2010 12:41 PM (swuwV)

164 Like Fox News "snookered" the NAACP?

Posted by: twiceblessedmom at August 04, 2010 12:41 PM (HjxoE)

165 135 I don't get how the "run amok" makes it good. To me it means either Spike Lee's a gibberish-spouting retard , or Spike's saying Malcolm X is a gibberish-spouting retard. What's the option I'm missing?
_____________

Coded reference to Star Trek.

Posted by: Anachronda looks forward to Amok Time at August 04, 2010 12:42 PM (3K4hn)

166 You know I'm just going to throw this out there.  The other night in a serious conversation a very dear black friend of mine was asking when afro american would leave the lexicon and when black and white would leave the lexicon and it would just be American.  He actually said he wondered how many black actually can trace their ancestry back to Africa at this point, pointing out that the president even used mongrel.  He also said that he is tired of all this emphasis on black Americans that he sometimes feels like he should be put under glass and observed.  then the pheasant under glass jokes started and his moment was over.  But he has had me thinking about this since he said it.

Posted by: curious at August 04, 2010 12:43 PM (p302b)

167 142 That requires a lot of time and effort, since most methods have already been tried and failed. Bamboozlin folks ain't as easy as it used to be.
______________

Are you saying we've reached Peak Bamboozle? Maybe I should have bought some bamboozle offsets.

Posted by: Anachronda spouts gibberish at August 04, 2010 12:43 PM (3K4hn)

168 so you are saying that my black friends and my white friends who see one another as people and have great times together is an anomoly?   That these "code words" are to awaken the sleeper cells in the minds of blacks and reinforce to them that they are still pissed about racism?

Posted by: curious at August 04, 2010 04:38 PM (p302b)

I don't presume to speak for anybody. And I don't think a lot of Blacks ever stopped being pissed. And I don't know anything about your friends, or even what your definition of a friend is. And I don't think there are any code words designed to awaken "sleeper cells" in anyone's brain. I'm just saying there are still a lot of Blacks who think RACISM first, last, and always, and that is not a new phenomenon.

Posted by: maddogg at August 04, 2010 12:43 PM (OlN4e)

169 Here's my question. We conservatives are forever being accused of using "racial code words" and "blowing racist dog whistles," right?
Did anyone else hear "boy" after "right"?

Posted by: maureen dowd at August 04, 2010 12:44 PM (rfHsm)

170 I'm always looking for ways to hoodwink blacks.

When they ask me for directions, I send them the wrong way. When they ask me for recommendations on what to order, I point to the worst thing on the menu and tell them it's awesome!

Hahahaha! Oh, how I love pulling that last one. When they don't like what they ordered, I feign surprise and say, "Really? How strange that you don't like that. Maybe you should put a bunch of hot sauce on there to spice it up." Oh, man. That gets 'em every time! Every time!

Posted by: Warden at August 04, 2010 12:45 PM (QoR4a)

171 I know that Obama has at least moved us past "You must be a good basketball player"

Posted by: alppuccino at August 04, 2010 12:46 PM (yiQo+)

172 Posted by: maddogg at August 04, 2010 04:43 PM (OlN4e)
Maybe that's true for a certain age group.

Posted by: curious at August 04, 2010 12:46 PM (p302b)

173

Ha! Dave "Achoo" Chappel beat the great leader to it in 1993.

Starts at :58

http://www.youtube.com/

watch?v=hBVNRkE07s4&feature=related

Posted by: Jeff at August 04, 2010 12:46 PM (h/fF7)

174 Gee, is Obama ever dumb. Scotland hasn't had ten kings named Malcolm!

Posted by: andycanuck at August 04, 2010 12:46 PM (rfHsm)

175 But first you must racist dog whistle blow me.

Posted by: queef olbermann at August 04, 2010 12:47 PM (rfHsm)

176 I'm King of the World!!

Posted by: barack hussein obama, branching out to other films at August 04, 2010 12:48 PM (8/oOq)

177


The campaign ad writes itself.  "If you fire my husband, we'll lose our health insurance, and I'll have to give birth alone in the street."

 

I don't want my wife to be punished with a baby!


Posted by: Barry Obama at August 04, 2010 12:48 PM (CfmlF)

178 Prop 8 held to be unconstitutional.....per hannity

Posted by: curious at August 04, 2010 12:51 PM (p302b)

179

Are you saying we've reached Peak Bamboozle? Maybe I should have bought some bamboozle offsets.

Posted by: Anachronda spouts gibberish at August 04, 2010 04:43 PM (3K4hn)


No, baby, we're already at Bamboozle Overload.

Posted by: antisocialist at August 04, 2010 12:52 PM (Rwudm)

180 Maybe Barack Obama identifies with Malcolm X, who had a white grandfather.  Maybe he feels that Malcolm X is the proper role model for him to follow in trying to connect to Black audiences.

Posted by: stuiec at August 04, 2010 12:53 PM (7AOgy)

181 That's happy birthday DEAR asshole. Happy Birthday toooooo yoooooou. where is the proooooooooof

Posted by: alppuccino at August 04, 2010 12:53 PM (yiQo+)

182 Ace has two new threads up...

one on prop 8 and one on linda mcmahon...

Posted by: curious at August 04, 2010 12:57 PM (p302b)

183 Well at least America understands the meaning of jive talking now.

Posted by: bill-tb at August 04, 2010 12:58 PM (y+QfZ)

184 Warden, if you're heading down to Harlem to drop off hookers and booze, maybe we could carpool or something. I just picked up the Harlem account from my crack distributor and you know how The Man is always trying to save a buck. My mileage expenses aren't even covering gas at these prices.

Plus, at least I'll have someone to talk to. It gets kind of monotonous, keeping the black man down day in and day out.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 04, 2010 12:58 PM (CpbMn)

185 150 I hate to break with the crowd but I've always used the word bamboozled and I've never seen a spike lee movie.

Posted by: dagny at August 04, 2010 04:32 PM (464eJ)

But you wanted to...

Posted by: Spike Lee - Bamboozlin MoFo at August 04, 2010 01:02 PM (YVZlY)

186 Warden, if you're heading down to Harlem to drop off hookers and booze, maybe we could carpool or something.

Dude, that would be awesome. Then, when we spot a black guy, we can stand on either side of him and say ...

Hey left nut!
Hey right nut!
Look who's in the middle!

Hahahaha! Oh, man. I LOVE running that one on blacks!

Posted by: Warden at August 04, 2010 01:03 PM (QoR4a)

187 150 I hate to break with the crowd but I've always used the word bamboozled and I've never seen a spike lee movie.

Posted by: dagny at August 04, 2010 04:32 PM (464eJ)

 

ditto

Posted by: The Great Satan's Ghost at August 04, 2010 01:08 PM (SDV51)

188 Mind if we dance wif yo dates ?

Posted by: Biggun at August 04, 2010 01:10 PM (2cfUo)

189

Interesting that he quotes from a film about a Whitey-hating racist to talk about his Whitey opposition, no?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2010 04:05 PM

It has been years since I (re)read Malcolm X's autobiography, but I seem to recall that when he broke with the Black Muslims and went to Mecca (Hajj and all that) he became aware that white men were not inherently his enemies and came to follow the "content of their character" idea of Dr. King. So in this, as in many other ways, he was far smarter than Osama Obama.

By the way: the first time I heard "bamboozled" was on an "Amos & Andy" TV show back in the 1950s. When the Traitor-in-Chief says "do the name Ruby Begonia ring a familiar bell?" or expresses a longing to join the Mystic Knights of the Sea, he'll truly be "authentic."

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 04, 2010 01:35 PM (Ulu3i)

190 Holy mack-a-rel!  I finds Kingfish Obammy's speech to be mighty mind boggling.

Posted by: Amos at August 04, 2010 01:55 PM (6SGWt)

191 the last one don't even make no sense

Oh, no you DIDNT.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 04, 2010 01:59 PM (mHQ7T)

192 There's a new sheriff in town, and his NAME....is REGGIE HAMMOND!!!

Posted by: Reggie Hammond at August 04, 2010 02:08 PM (UK9cE)

193 His first exposure to black culture and dialect probably wasn't until he came to the mainland as an undergraduate.

No, that was would have been when he took his first piece of candy from Frank Marshall Davis. Barack knows how many licks to the middle of a Tootsie Roll Pop.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 04, 2010 02:08 PM (mHQ7T)

194 Anyone miss last week's speech about the new education program with the Orwellian name "Race to the Top." While the speech was purportedly a smack down on underperforming minority schools, who honestly believes anything the President says? The passive aggressive word games and finger salutes tell me more than 100s of words. The parties on the taxpayer nickel tell me some more. And, well, the policies speak for themselves. So there is no surprise here.

Posted by: Mr. Barky at August 04, 2010 02:13 PM (qwK3S)

195 You're worrying about dog whistle stuff (like the ambiguous origins of the word "bamboozled") when the GOP is agitating for the repeal of the 14th Amendment!  You're straining at a gnat to swallow a camel.

One might be a subtle whisper to blacks that the GOP is not your friend.  Meanwhile the GOP is burning a big old cross on White House lawn.  Even Alan Keyes is mad about it...  and that's saying something.

Posted by: blip at August 04, 2010 02:14 PM (2YVUW)

196

blip didn't make a lot of sense there.

I think what he was trying to say is that he enjoys having sex with young boys.

That's how I read it, anyway.

Posted by: Warden at August 04, 2010 03:15 PM (QoR4a)

197 Anyone miss last week's speech about the new education program with the Orwellian Freudian-in-a-racial-sense name "Race to the Top."

Fixed.

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 04, 2010 03:18 PM (Ulu3i)

198 I need advice.  I would like to work bamboozled into more conversations but am unaware about the etiquette.  I am a white male.  Can I say this in front of African American co-workers or is this off limits to me?  If I hear a white person say it in a crowded room, do I have to pretend to be appaled?  I can't find any guidance in my PC manual. 

Posted by: Adam at August 04, 2010 03:21 PM (lQ/x0)

199 What caught my eye in the linked article is this: "Â…heyÂ’re betting on amnesia."

Amnesia is a malady that the Democrats can only hope in their wildest dreams overtakes the public. The pile of crap created by Obie and the Democrats' is still steamy, stinky fresh, and November isn't all that far away.


Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at August 04, 2010 05:34 PM (XXuIK)

200

Uh.


Because he's a racist who spent most of his adult life in a black nationalist cult?

A normal, noble-savage loving, see-no-evil if a non-Republican voting minority did it, liberal Democrat?

Take your pick?

Posted by: MlR at August 04, 2010 05:55 PM (8PvvL)

201

Ah. I forgot a more basest possibility:

A run of the mill demogogue appealing to probably the most tribalistic and paranoid section of America.

Posted by: MlR at August 04, 2010 05:59 PM (8PvvL)

202 My mother used "bamboozled" fairly often when I was growing up and she is an 80 year old white woman who was born in the mountains of North Carolina.  I use it too.

Obama is obviously a racist for a myriad of reasons but I don't think his usage of this word is much of an indictment.

Unless I have been a black supremacist all of these years and just didn't know it.

Posted by: The Dog Whistler at August 04, 2010 06:17 PM (sfNbl)

203 Every time I hear a Lefty use that lame ass old "chickens come home to roost" line I am amused, it was dumb saying when Malcomb X said it and it's a dumb saying today.  "In fact, it doesn't make me sad, it only makes me glad" that they betray themselves as such ignorant buffoons.

Posted by: 7HEAVENS at August 04, 2010 07:00 PM (tuCVl)

204 finally, someone caught this. rewatch malcolm x and you're see he must have been studying denzel washington's performance all through the campaign. even the tight butt clinging suits, the pauses "mid thought", and finger pointing.

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