July 15, 2010
— DrewM Not sure what Sargent does well but my guess is being honest and fair doesn't make up any part of it.
He goes after rightwingers who attacked Obama's "Al Qaeda is racist" garbage by saying what we really mean is Obama only cares about blacks.
This has to be the dumbest attack yet: Some on the right are on a tear because President Obama allegedly said Al Qaeda kills Africans because the organization is "racist."The hint here is that Obama cares more about black victims of terror than about white ones. Get it? It's the latest version of GOP Rep Steve King's recent claim that Obama has a "default mechanism" that leads him to "favor the black person."
Wow, I hope he got a good deal on all the straw you needed to build that strawman!
He then links to what are presumably examples of this "hint" that "Obama cares more about black victims of terror than about white ones". You can read them here and here.
Note, Sargent doesn't quote Jennifer Rubin at Commentary or William Teach at Rightwing News, just links. He can't quote them because they didn't say anything resembling what he's attributing to them. Was Sargent just guessing a fair number of his readers will take his word for it and not soil themselves by going to racist sites?
The problem for Sargent is they, like Andy McCarthy and myself, took Obama's statement on at an issues level. We all argued in various ways that Obama is factually wrong (hint: al Qaeda hates everyone who doesn't follow their brand of Islam and has nothing to do with race) and that the statement illustrates Obama's continued unwillingness to deal with al Qaeda's Islamast underpinnings.
Initially, Ace took a different view on the statement and Jonah Goldberg had an ongoing conversation with McCarthy at The Corner on the subject. Neither of them had to resort to cheap racial attacks and mind reading to make their point. Why? Well, mostly because they have the ability to disagree using thoughts and reasoned arguments.
Mr. Sargent, as is typical of liberals, seems only capable of ascribing terrible motives to others. It's the kind of thing people devoid of real ability and integrity do when faced with things they just don't understand.
He calls the strawman he built "sick". I call his post pathetic, but typical, hackery.
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Posted by: Ian S. at July 15, 2010 12:16 PM (p05LM)
Posted by: MrScribbler at July 15, 2010 12:18 PM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: Greg Sargent, Ventriloquist Journalist at July 15, 2010 12:19 PM (QKKT0)
al Qaeda =racist
Tea Party = racist (according to his orcs at the NBPP and the NAACP)
al Qaeda=terrorist
Tea Party=....[fill in the blank]
Posted by: baldilocks at July 15, 2010 12:19 PM (CPqLO)
Posted by: alppuccino at July 15, 2010 12:20 PM (T5PzE)
Posted by: Darnell at July 15, 2010 12:22 PM (T5PzE)
Ugh.
I made the mistake of actually reading some of the comments to that assclown's post.
The stupid...it burns.
....off to read a book and rescue my brain cells after that tortuous ordeal.
Posted by: navtechie at July 15, 2010 12:22 PM (5CC0n)
Posted by: Dr. Spank at July 15, 2010 12:23 PM (uqo0a)
OT: The Cap worked
Let us all acknowledge his glorious achievement with the honorific title of Barack Obama, Tamponus Maximus.
Posted by: Cicero at July 15, 2010 12:24 PM (QKKT0)
No. The hint is that he concentrates on worthless, stupid issues to distract. The hint is that The Precedent is a worthless retard - and that's being overly generous.
-->It's the latest version of GOP Rep Steve King's recent claim that Obama has a "default mechanism" that leads him to "favor the black person."
Well, the Indonesian Imbecile is reflexively anti-white/anti-West. That's for sure. His real base, though, in his mind, is the third world. Not American blacks. He holds them in almost as much contempt as he holds the rest of America in. He just uses them as part of his third-world revenge lunacy.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 15, 2010 12:25 PM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: maverick muse at July 15, 2010 12:25 PM (H+LJc)
this was the last sentence, the article's title is: "Ex-Clinton fundraiser gets 12 years in prison" and drudge dropped the ball too: "Ex-Clinton fundraiser gets 12 years in prison.."
So, if you only read headlines and that is what they have discovered most people do, then you don't even click on this cause you think it only concerns hillary/bill.
Posted by: curious at July 15, 2010 12:26 PM (p302b)
Posted by: Sgt. Crowley at July 15, 2010 12:27 PM (pfStM)
Ugh.
I made the mistake of actually reading some of the comments to that assclown's post.
The stupid...it burns.
Me too. My favorite was the person who claimed that Republicans are racist because they always see racism in everything. Someone must have beaten the sense of irony out of this commenter as a young child.
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at July 15, 2010 12:27 PM (JxMoP)
No. It's being tested. It's working, so far, and we hear nothing of pressure leaking downwell, which is very good.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 15, 2010 12:27 PM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 15, 2010 12:28 PM (5jbD3)
Don't put us in the same boat. Everyone gets happy ending. Promise!
Oh, no checks.
Posted by: WaPo Massage Parlor Ads at July 15, 2010 12:29 PM (P9+0W)
Posted by: moki at July 15, 2010 12:29 PM (dZmFh)
Posted by: Ian S. at July 15, 2010 12:30 PM (p05LM)
Posted by: wHodat at July 15, 2010 12:31 PM (+sBB4)
Al Quada is one the least racist bunch of terrorist cock suckers on earth.
Comrade Zero and Holder have to come up with some theory about why they keep killing people. Obviously, it isn't their religion.
Posted by: Cicero at July 15, 2010 12:31 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Robert Byrds bloated corpse polluting the ground at Arlington at July 15, 2010 12:32 PM (xV0mL)
In fact, I'd go so far as to say that, since Obama is disproportionately screwing blacks, he must think they're stupid enough to keep voting for him and supporting him despite the screwing they're getting. Ergo, Obama must be a racist.
Posted by: Keith Arnold at July 15, 2010 12:32 PM (Jdtsu)
Axually I think it was the MFM who first made that claim while explaining to us why Al Qaeda is racist.
Posted by: John Galt at July 15, 2010 12:32 PM (F/4zf)
Posted by: Bill Clinton at July 15, 2010 12:33 PM (xV0mL)
Posted by: Ian S. at July 15, 2010 04:30 PM
I wondered what was grabbing my ass after the Thurston Howell III Memorial Golf Tournament....
Posted by: Countryclubber at July 15, 2010 12:34 PM (Ulu3i)
Yes, Sargent's whole cloth strawman is as sick as its creator's mind. So strawmen can now put words into other people's mouths.
I think that Mr. Sargent didn't read the articles he linked, like students cheating on their bibliographies, including the books and articles that come up on internet searches that are just too bothersome to actually read. Look, he constructs an argument out of thin air that he then explicates by projecting his own evil onto his opponents.
Posted by: maverick muse at July 15, 2010 12:36 PM (H+LJc)
Posted by: maverick muse at July 15, 2010 12:38 PM (H+LJc)
I think that Mr. Sargent didn't read the articles he linked, like students cheating on their bibliographies, including the books and articles that come up on internet searches that are just too bothersome to actually read.
That's what Cliff Notes are for. Duh!
Posted by: Greg Sargent, Ace Journalist at July 15, 2010 12:38 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Greg "Kuato" Sargent at July 15, 2010 12:39 PM (P9+0W)
Me too. My favorite was the person who claimed that Republicans are racist because they always see racism in everything. Someone must have beaten the sense of irony out of this commenter as a young child.
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at July 15, 2010 04:27 PM (JxMoP)
I read that comment and just about spit out my coffee.
The cognitive dissonance of that persons comment was was as thick as his skull.
I almost...almost...registered, just so I could post and ask him if he rode the short bus to work this morning.
Posted by: navtechie at July 15, 2010 12:56 PM (5CC0n)
Posted by: wtfci at July 15, 2010 01:02 PM (R4rMI)
Posted by: moki at July 15, 2010 04:29 PM (dZmFh)
Only way I'd teach is if I could wear a side-arm and body armor in the classroom. But thanks. 
Posted by: baldilocks at July 15, 2010 01:04 PM (CPqLO)
I had to listen to two of them in a class I teach go on and on about the "horrid picture of Obama as Hitler" they saw today. I asked if either of them had ever seen the pictures of Bush depicted as Hitler. Neither of them had. Then they started on the 'everyone is saying racists things about him.'
So, I gave them extra hard exercises to do. ;o)
Posted by: Tami at July 15, 2010 01:19 PM (VuLos)
The name of his game is not to understand and evaluate ideas and opinions honestly and objectively, but to find fault in the words and deeds of his political enemies, and if need be to invent fault.
There are two kinds of liars. Those who lie when they speak, and those who lie when they listen.
The latter will always deliberately misinterpret things. They will listen deceitfully and look for opportunities to pretend that you said things you didn't say, or maliciously work to put their own spin and interpretation on things you did say, which amounts to the same thing.
This is why legalese was invented.
Leftards aren't the only ones who do this, though they are more prone to it than most.
Posted by: Lee at July 15, 2010 02:53 PM (saVwg)
The ban had been anticipated on grounds that Islamist extremists could use it as a pretext for attacks.
...
Walwater Media's production, "Tere Bin Laden" ("Without You, Bin Laden"), revolves around a television journalist whose sole ambition is to gain residency in the United States.
The journalist, played by Pakistani pop star Ali Zafar, films a video with the lookalike, which quickly goes viral online, and attempts to migrate to the United States.
Journalists making things up. How preposterous.
Posted by: Neo at July 15, 2010 02:55 PM (tE8FB)
prescienceblog.com
Posted by: tadcf at July 15, 2010 03:17 PM (bVFv2)
Dept of Energy Human Genome project.
DNA studies do not indicate that separate classifiable subspecies (races) exist within modern humans. While different genes for physical traits such as skin and hair color can be identified between individuals, no consistent patterns of genes across the human genome exist to distinguish one race from another. There also is no genetic basis for divisions of human ethnicity. People who have lived in the same geographic region for many generations may have some alleles in common, but no allele will be found in all members of one population and in no members of any other.
The race protectors know the worst racists are those who deny races exits (like Hitchens), those who search for un-biased knowledge and scientific advancement and those who think justice is blind to race. The DoE is racist and the Holder and Obama regime are ignoring this obvious republican/Bush/Cheney plot to engineer the human genome.
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repeat after me
Posted by: meleager at July 15, 2010 04:14 PM (Y2/mt)
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