July 14, 2012
— andy Presented for your consideration are three exceptionally stupid links.
First up, we have perennial HQ whipping-boy Matt Taibbi on Mitt's NAACP speech and "free stuff" == teh racism. Or something.
Next comes Jason Whitlock on how the Penn State scandal was caused by sexism and lack of "gender diversity". O RLY?
And, finally, we have an interview of Meghan McCain by a person named Chelsea Handler who apparently has a show on something called E! (video below the fold).
Your challenge, should you decide to accept it, is to read/watch these and vote for the dumbest. But beware, your MENSA membership is at risk, because it's very nearly impossible to run this gauntlet without shedding some IQ points along the way.
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Posted by: soothsayer, of the Wolverines at July 14, 2012 01:15 PM (iKEjk)
We demand the immediate release of our Christian allies in all nations.
Posted by: Invictos at July 14, 2012 01:16 PM (OQpzc)
I read Paul Krugman's bullshit Keynesian drivel in the newspaper last week, and my IQ dropped 20 pts.
Posted by: Fresh at July 14, 2012 01:17 PM (O7ksG)
Meggy Mac just talked about how she smokes dope once in a while. No wAy!?!@11
I voted Whitlock - his competitors come close but he has no shred of logic in his hypothesis.
Posted by: beancounter at July 14, 2012 01:24 PM (p18em)
McCain is just an overprivileged vacuum-skull whose given a platform to spout because of who her daddy is. No one expects her to be smart. In fact, being a ditz is a feature, not a bug, for those who distribute her gibberish.
Taibbi got my vote.
Posted by: Jeffersonian at July 14, 2012 01:25 PM (gxCRt)
Posted by: AD at July 14, 2012 01:25 PM (Gw5R8)
Posted by: soothsayer, of the Wolverines at July 14, 2012 01:25 PM (FBxnv)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at July 14, 2012 01:27 PM (jucos)
Posted by: The Chap in the Deerstalker Cap at July 14, 2012 01:27 PM (fscec)
Posted by: navycopjoe who lives in waikiki at July 14, 2012 01:27 PM (/ZhEn)
Posted by: gebrauchshund at July 14, 2012 01:28 PM (iYwUw)
My bad. I'll pick Tabibi then. Can't pick McCain - she resembles my favorite hooker too much.
Posted by: beancounter at July 14, 2012 01:29 PM (p18em)
Posted by: Sarah Jessica Parker at July 14, 2012 01:29 PM (IoNBC)
Posted by: soothsayer, of the Wolverines at July 14, 2012 01:29 PM (HtU5U)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at July 14, 2012 01:30 PM (jucos)
Meggy and the dumb blond (but I repeat myself) are the "dumbest" just because they are both flat out dumb. I frankly couldn't watch more than about 30 seconds of it. That sort of thing on E! is pretty standard. Tosh.O is at once funny in an absurd sense and juvenile - stupid.
Taibbi is calculated stupidity and partisanship, so it's a spit and a hack above Meggy Mudhead. Taibbi is a dumb flack but probably spend hours crafting the inanity that he wrote. He was probably mentored at it by some crack-addicted Mexican janitor.
Whitlock's article, while it has a silly problem, is not intellectually insulting. He at least lives in the same place as many people in noting the mendacity of the Penn Staters that overlooked what Sandusky was up to.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at July 14, 2012 01:30 PM (sJTmU)
He's been all over the JEF's crooked bankster friends - honestly, he does the best job of publicizing banksterism of anyone in the mainstream media.
In fact, he so scared the Chicago Mob that they had to send out Newton Minow's daughter, Nell Minow, to try to discredit him.
will
Anyway, Taibbi is one of the good guys.
Posted by: Zombie Shane at July 14, 2012 01:31 PM (Z2i+W)
Posted by: n0b0z0 at July 14, 2012 01:31 PM (rsOPT)
Posted by: soothsayer, of the Wolverines at July 14, 2012 01:31 PM (ZGmNK)
Posted by: Harrison J. Bounel at July 14, 2012 01:32 PM (TWn4N)
Posted by: Meggie Mac at July 14, 2012 01:33 PM (IoNBC)
Posted by: dantesed at July 14, 2012 01:33 PM (pHDvz)
Posted by: soothsayer, of the Wolverines at July 14, 2012 01:33 PM (OZ9Xn)
Whitlock wins. Sensitivity aside, how could anyone who's seen the legal problems the Catholic church has had from pedophile priests not act when there was even a suspicion of what Sandusky was doing? Gender has nothign to do with it.
I admit, I couldn't click on the Meghan McCain link.
Posted by: Jim in Virginia at July 14, 2012 01:35 PM (Gm2Tu)
Posted by: Uncle Jim at July 14, 2012 01:36 PM (KZI7g)
Posted by: Meggie Mac at July 14, 2012 01:36 PM (IoNBC)
Posted by: David C. at July 14, 2012 01:36 PM (ZtMso)
Posted by: Jim in Virginia at July 14, 2012 01:38 PM (Gm2Tu)
Posted by: nickless at July 14, 2012 01:38 PM (MMC8r)
Your kidding, right. Sports writers are the ones who flunked J-school and couldn't buy a communication major. Besides, Whitlock is that a-hole that nearly had an orgasm over the all-black Celtics championship.
Posted by: auscolpyr at July 14, 2012 01:38 PM (BwDfs)
Posted by: scrubjay at July 14, 2012 01:42 PM (zEPKX)
To which Meghan McCain should have said, "Me neither."
And that should have been the end of whatever that was.
On the Internet, every set of tits will be famous for 15 minutes.
(And when you grade on a body-fat curve, hers really aren't anything special.)
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at July 14, 2012 01:43 PM (IGYyt)
Posted by: soothsayer, of the Wolverines at July 14, 2012 01:43 PM (kV+ev)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 14, 2012 01:44 PM (G98RT)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 14, 2012 01:44 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: buzzion at July 14, 2012 01:46 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 14, 2012 01:46 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: Scobface at July 14, 2012 01:47 PM (IoNBC)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 14, 2012 01:48 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 14, 2012 01:50 PM (G98RT)
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That's ok, I'll do it for you. He's a loathsome little turd.
Posted by: mediumheadboy at July 14, 2012 01:53 PM (x2CNJ)
I don't really dig comedians in general, with some exceptions. Like Chappelle. But I don't think I've ever seen a woman get up on stage without some disturbing sex obsessed routine.
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 14, 2012 05:48 PM (csi6Y)
Kathleen Madigan. Tammy Pescatelli.
Posted by: buzzion at July 14, 2012 01:54 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: just me at July 14, 2012 01:54 PM (oZfic)
Posted by: Mr_Write at July 14, 2012 01:54 PM (CLkAH)
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I don't know about the current scene, but Marsha Warfield was good back in the day.
Posted by: mediumheadboy at July 14, 2012 01:54 PM (x2CNJ)
Really? The guy who celebrated the death of Andrew Breitbart? I believe a lot of us have him on the list of people to slug if the opportunity ever arises.
I read his bankster book. Of the dozen or so books I've read on the subject his was the least useful because it was so mired in his lefty hatreds going in. If anything, being able to point to one of theirs as down on the banksters just provides protective cover for the Obama gang.
Posted by: epobirs at July 14, 2012 01:55 PM (kcfmt)
No, no he's not. He's a hard core lefty douchewad, and the only reason he's on Obama is that he's not a big enough lefty douchewad to suit Matt's taste..
Posted by: OregonMuse at July 14, 2012 01:56 PM (qYiIT)
I'm telling you people - the banksters put the JEF in office [they intentionally sabotaged the McCain campaign via their contacts in Hank "Bankster" Paulson's Treasury Department], they own the JEF lock stock & barrel, the JEF knows that they own him, and they have been grooming the JEF for higher office since at least back in the day when Timothy Geithner's father, Peter Geithner, financed all of Stanley Ann Dunham's lunatic fantasies in the turd world.
Matt Taibbi is just about the only journalist in the mainstream media who has tried to shine the light of day on the banksters and their banksterisms.
BTW, in case you folks aren't aware of it, the banksters own all of us, as well.
In fact, this nation is rapidly disintegrating into a duopoly of banksters [on the one hand] and everyone else [on the other], where "everyone else" is a polite euphemism for "all you serfs out in flyover country".
Posted by: Zombie Shane at July 14, 2012 01:57 PM (Z2i+W)
Unfortunately the tone Romney struck yesterday was not very helpful. Instead of going on the attack over the Bain stories, he seemed defensive. Talking about Obama's alleged "dignity" and demanding apologies that will never come (Mitt never gave any to his GOP opponents) seemed weak.
What a crock of nuclear grade stupid horseshit. The author of this drivel must have the brains of shit stained underwear and the historical perspective of an aborted fetus.
Let me s-p-e-l-l it out for you:
Obama has very high personal likeability rating.
Attacks against presidents with high likeability ratings always do irreparable harm to the attacker.
Case in point: the GOP tried to impeach the high likeable President Clinton. The result? They lost their asses in the 1998 elections. 1998 was the polar opposite of 1994 solely because the GOP was stupid enough to go into a full bore attack mode against a highly likeable president.
WTF?
The people who sign onto the premise presented in this thread must be either too young to remember 1998 or dumb as shit.
The best way for Romney to handle this is to educate the voters, particularly the moderate, low information voters, on the lies these attacks consist of. Preferably with a bit of humor while likening it to the kinds of lies everybody has experienced against themselves during their lifetimes.
Romney is doing just fine.
And he's best off by totally ignoring the red meat base (who, BTW have been rendered insane by their rage) and the Eeyores.
If he does those two things he can't lose.
If he doesn't, the election is his to lose. And he will lose it.
Posted by: Sean Rogan at July 14, 2012 01:58 PM (7+pP9)
Posted by: Truman North, iPhone snob at July 14, 2012 01:59 PM (b/hrq)
Posted by: huerfano at July 14, 2012 01:59 PM (bAGA/)
Posted by: Truman North, iPhone snob at July 14, 2012 02:00 PM (b/hrq)
Uh, no.
If I ever make a "Fuck it" list of guys I would like to punch in the nuts before I die, Matt Taibbi would be right up there next to Bill Maher and Janet Reno.
Posted by: OregonMuse at July 14, 2012 02:01 PM (qYiIT)
Posted by: Redd at July 14, 2012 02:02 PM (suLy7)
"There's a small part of me that wonders, though, whether a cadre of women would have let the Sandusky thing go."
You may want to go back and read his article. That was his point.
Posted by: HH at July 14, 2012 02:03 PM (v+ExF)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 14, 2012 02:04 PM (Z9EHQ)
Not enough meat on those ribs...MM prefers chowing down on something a little less likely to stick in the craw.
Rosie O'Donnell...she'd be some good eatin'.
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at July 14, 2012 02:05 PM (IGYyt)
Posted by: Mama AJ at July 14, 2012 02:06 PM (SUKHu)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at July 14, 2012 02:06 PM (ZhEoC)
Posted by: Andy at July 14, 2012 02:06 PM (tmzN0)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 14, 2012 02:08 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: Zombie Ronald Reagan at July 14, 2012 02:08 PM (c1WVm)
Posted by: naturalfake at July 14, 2012 02:09 PM (G9qZk)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at July 14, 2012 02:10 PM (ZhEoC)
Meggie McBoobs is in a league of her own
Should be "which is the dumbest after Meghan McCain's"
Posted by: kbdabear at July 14, 2012 02:10 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: Mekan at July 14, 2012 02:10 PM (T/L2Z)
Matt Taibbi--a fellow, who whenever he opens his mouth, gives new meaning and texture to the term "dumbfuck".
You can't really say he's stuck on stupid--because he can't quite claw his way up to the level of "stupid". But it is true that what he's got is "forever".
Posted by: Comanche Voter at July 14, 2012 02:10 PM (oe1aw)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 14, 2012 02:11 PM (csi6Y)
If you think Taibbi is "one of the good guys", congratulations, you're on Team Lenin.
Posted by: Waterhouse at July 14, 2012 02:11 PM (k5Vlb)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at July 14, 2012 02:12 PM (3yCFy)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 14, 2012 02:13 PM (csi6Y)
Holy crap will someone get these heavy-ass titles off me? "Athletic director" alone must weigh a couple of tons.
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at July 14, 2012 02:13 PM (IGYyt)
Maria Bamford. I'm sure she's a devoted leftist like the rest but her act doesn't go into politics or current events for a cheap laugh.
Posted by: lowandslow at July 14, 2012 02:13 PM (GZitp)
Posted by: nickless at July 14, 2012 02:13 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Meghan McChoomwagon at July 14, 2012 02:14 PM (Y+DPZ)
hahah i thought that too....that someone escaped from the conspiracy blogs...
Posted by: just me at July 14, 2012 02:15 PM (oZfic)
Might have been more accurate if Rick had said "Obama was choomed with power"!
Posted by: Hrothgar at July 14, 2012 02:15 PM (Cnqmv)
Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at July 14, 2012 02:15 PM (WItBr)
Posted by: Vic at July 14, 2012 02:15 PM (YdQQY)
I don't really dig comedians in general, with some exceptions. Like Chappelle. But I don't think I've ever seen a woman get up on stage without some disturbing sex obsessed routine.
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 14, 2012 05:48 PM (csi6Y)
Anjelah Johnson. She has a few routines on You Tube. I find her pretty funny. And yes, she "makes fun" of ethnics, including her own!
http://www.comedytime.tv/view_video.php?viewkey=d9607ee5a9d336962c53
Posted by: Full Pint at July 14, 2012 02:15 PM (7g1yh)
Posted by: Vic at July 14, 2012 06:15 PM (YdQQY)
Thank God.
I will continue the rosaries, an extra one each day for you two.
Posted by: just me at July 14, 2012 02:16 PM (oZfic)
Is there nothing they can't do?
Posted by: naturalfake at July 14, 2012 06:09 PM (G9qZk)
Make big enough beds for the London olympic village. Here's the length of each bed: 68 inches.
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at July 14, 2012 02:16 PM (ZhEoC)
did you notice how she was sitting? You were supposed to notice the long blond hair...not a body part....
Posted by: just me at July 14, 2012 02:17 PM (oZfic)
Posted by: just me at July 14, 2012 02:18 PM (oZfic)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 14, 2012 06:08 PM (csi6Y)
Hey, like he's stating. Almost all male reporters ignored it. Had there been women reporters, would it have been different?
I don't know.
Odd though, he's calling out one of his former co-writers from the Kansas City Star
Posted by: HH at July 14, 2012 02:19 PM (v+ExF)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 14, 2012 02:20 PM (C8mVl)
Posted by: Matt at July 14, 2012 02:20 PM (1ha9G)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at July 14, 2012 02:20 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Skunky Choom at July 14, 2012 02:21 PM (gYPAF)
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at July 14, 2012 02:23 PM (dM1NM)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 14, 2012 02:24 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 14, 2012 02:26 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 14, 2012 02:26 PM (2pG7H)
Both of us could write better columns than he would have. His was long and boring and used too many big words and like we didn't understand all his multi-line paragraphs. Our eyes glazed over and we could only stay awake by thinking about shoes.
Oh, and one more thing (this is just from Chelsea): Hi, Jason!!! Can you text me I'm getting wet just looking at your jovial, *black* balding head!! I like all black men, but especially ones who resemble Barry White and Luther Vandross rolled into one. Literally.
Posted by: Meghan McCain and Chelsea Handler at July 14, 2012 02:26 PM (IGYyt)
Posted by: locomotivebreath1901 at July 14, 2012 02:27 PM (4ZAZ3)
Posted by: Vic at July 14, 2012 02:27 PM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Libra at July 14, 2012 02:27 PM (kd8U8)
Meggie Mac smokes weed to mellow out?
From what?
Posted by: AmishDude at July 14, 2012 05:55 PM (J5tI6)
Big tits will give you a back ache. So she got that stress, and not knowing planet she's on. That's got to be stressful too.
Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at July 14, 2012 02:28 PM (KZI7g)
Posted by: NJRob at July 14, 2012 02:29 PM (FVp26)
Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at July 14, 2012 02:31 PM (Ho2rs)
"Think about it. Secretly, most men sympathize with Tiger Woods. But for the grace of God there go we. Take away the partisan politics, and men had no problem with President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky."
Sighs...
I did indeed skip over that. And you are right. That is just crap.
Maybe he just isn't the guy to make the case between female/male sports writers...
Actually, no, he isn't...
I was wrong.
Posted by: HH at July 14, 2012 02:34 PM (v+ExF)
Posted by: Unclefacts Out Of Commenting Retirement Just For This One Thing at July 14, 2012 02:35 PM (6IReR)
Actually, I think that's a point to my theory that the only reason anyone gives a shit about sexual abuse at Penn State is because the victims were boys, not co-eds or female townies.
(Obligatory "Fuck you, Ferentz, you sleazy fuck.")
Posted by: HeatherRadish at July 14, 2012 02:35 PM (hO8IJ)
Posted by: Ronster at July 14, 2012 02:35 PM (6KYyi)
Whitlock is breathtakingly stupid, but at least makes a point that it's hard to imagine a group of women conspiring to cover up child rape.
However, it takes a true dimwit to opine that by Romney not patronizing blacks in a speech that received six standing ovations, he somehow managed to achieve a new low for a Republican candidate.
The boy is seriously drain bammaged.
Posted by: Arms Merchant at July 14, 2012 02:36 PM (+XVQe)
Posted by: Drillanwr at July 14, 2012 02:36 PM (W7Xn5)
McBoobette and Whitlock do no have the intellectual firepower to know why their words are babbling idiocy.
Taibbi on the other hand is smart enough to know why his aggressive bigotry is wrong, malicious, and intellectually bankrupt.
Fuck him and the horse that rode him.
Oh and Zombie Shane, the irony of him calling us bigots when you got booted for being a racist slag *quiet loud.* Do us a favor, go fuck yourself.
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at July 14, 2012 02:37 PM (Vcb44)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at July 14, 2012 02:38 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at July 14, 2012 02:38 PM (WItBr)
This is OT, but if your outrage meter needs testing, go to HA and read Jazz Shaw's post about Obama "Channeling" Elizabeth Warren .
Posted by: irongrampa at July 14, 2012 02:39 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: Y-not at July 14, 2012 02:39 PM (5H6zj)
94 Well folks back home again and wifey is at home now. No longer have to make daily trips to the city.
Posted by: Vic at July 14, 2012 06:15 PM (YdQQY)
That's good news, Vic.
Although it's still probably a lot of work for you, though, I'm sure.
I hope she gets to feeling better soon.
Bless you both....y'all've been through hell.
Posted by: wheatie at July 14, 2012 02:39 PM (MbB0O)
Posted by: Ronster at July 14, 2012 06:35 PM (6KYyi)
I liked his early stand-up routines but when he started Mork & Mindy he went downhill fast. I have never heard the two guys y'all mentioned.
Posted by: Vic at July 14, 2012 02:40 PM (YdQQY)
Posted by: robtr at July 14, 2012 02:40 PM (MtwBb)
Posted by: ErikW at July 14, 2012 02:41 PM (2QdRj)
Posted by: Vic at July 14, 2012 02:41 PM (YdQQY)
Rush had a comment or two on what would have happened if Romney HAD patronized the blacks. Instead, he broke the rules by speaking to them with the same message he gives elsewhere, didn't pander to them, and treated them as intellectual competent.
Obviously Romney is a RAAAACIST!
Posted by: Hrothgar at July 14, 2012 02:42 PM (Cnqmv)
Posted by: Y-not at July 14, 2012 02:43 PM (5H6zj)
Even if one accepts that premise--which I do not--only an idiot cannot distinguish among Woods, Clinton, and Sandusky.
Few, if any, men would think Woods or Clinton deserve death for their sexual affairs. Sandusky, on the other hand....
Moreover, many men care as much about their football team as they do partisan politics. But I haven't heard any male Penn State fans saying, "Let's cut old Jerry some slack. He coached for *our* team after all."
Whitlock should be embarrassed to show his face after such an asinine column.
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at July 14, 2012 02:43 PM (IGYyt)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at July 14, 2012 02:43 PM (ZhEoC)
Posted by: Daniel Ruwe at July 14, 2012 02:43 PM (ZwdlM)
But of course, Taibi only read the reports about scattered boos.
Posted by: Arms Merchant at July 14, 2012 02:43 PM (+XVQe)
Posted by: stillers at July 14, 2012 02:43 PM (gVUg0)
Ron White is good at stand up comedy.....even though he often sits on a stool.
Posted by: wheatie at July 14, 2012 02:44 PM (MbB0O)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 14, 2012 02:44 PM (csi6Y)
Really? He kinda lost me with the column where he called everyone in the management and coaching staff of the Indianapolis Colts--in the freaking Tony Dungy era--racists, because 45% of the team was white, including *gasp* wide receivers (one was Cuban, but there's good Hispanics and white Hispanics...). Generally teams run about 25% white.
They couldn't have possibly signed white guys because they had skills or smarts or anything. He didn't actually call Dungy "self-hating" or "acting white" because that would be career suicide, but it doinked into the goalpost like a Vanderjagt kick in the playoffs.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at July 14, 2012 02:45 PM (hO8IJ)
Posted by: Y-not at July 14, 2012 02:46 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 14, 2012 02:46 PM (csi6Y)
Whoa, Opera might actually really be pissed at MO.
@AshleyRParker
EXCLUSIVE Oprah visited Wolfeboro, N.H. Friday for a sit-down w Ann & Mitt Romney, running in O Magazine.
Posted by: robtr at July 14, 2012 02:47 PM (MtwBb)
Posted by: Full Pint at July 14, 2012 02:47 PM (7g1yh)
"You can't fix Stupid".....is one of Ron White's initial routines.
Delivered with a cigar in one hand, and a glass of scotch in the other.
Posted by: wheatie at July 14, 2012 02:47 PM (MbB0O)
Posted by: Y-not at July 14, 2012 02:48 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 14, 2012 02:49 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 14, 2012 02:50 PM (csi6Y)
Bill Engvall is also a good stand up comedian......he's the "Here's Your Sign" guy.
Posted by: wheatie at July 14, 2012 02:50 PM (MbB0O)
151...Yeah, she is, Y-not.
I never liked Oprah.
So I wouldn't shed a tear if her career continues to circle the drain.
Posted by: wheatie at July 14, 2012 02:52 PM (MbB0O)
Why? Women kill their baby daddy's kids by other women, kill the other women, sell their kid, or let someone film their kid, or let people watch them do things to their kid online. And the "someone" isn't always a guy. Sometimes it's a couple.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at July 14, 2012 02:52 PM (hO8IJ)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at July 14, 2012 02:54 PM (hO8IJ)
Whitlock is breathtakingly stupid, but at least makes a point that it's hard to imagine a group of women conspiring to cover up child rape.
You don't know women in academics, then. Especially administrators.
If these were young girls, the university would have come down hard on Sandusky. But PC rules the roost at universities.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 14, 2012 02:54 PM (J5tI6)
Obama has been groomed by bankers for higher office since he was a small child? Are you completely insane?
The bankers will get behind anyone they think is going to give them the best conditions for their activities. That candidate could be a complete unknown up until a year or so before the election. Back when Carter was elected there were still people on November 5th saying "Jimmy Who?" Or it could be someone who has been in the political spotlight for decades. They don't care.
The idea they would invest decades in raising a candidate from childhood is just silly. The world provides plenty of pliable politicians for them with no cost before they become useful.
Posted by: epobirs at July 14, 2012 02:54 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Y-not at July 14, 2012 02:55 PM (5H6zj)
The boy is seriously drain bammaged.
Posted by: Arms Merchant at July 14, 2012 06:36 PM
As long as it's not rape-rape!
Posted by: Whoopie Goldberg and the rest of The View at July 14, 2012 02:56 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: Y-not at July 14, 2012 02:57 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 14, 2012 06:37 PM (Vcb44)
Why is that fuckhead still here after he got ace so fucking jacked up that he made multiple dumbass posts about dagny that resulted in her saying fuck this shit?
On topic: Matt T is pretty smart (he once whaled away on one of Flathead Friedman's dumbass books in possibly the funniest review I've ever read) who just hangs out with lefty cocksuckers and sacrifices all cognitive ability to fit in with those turds. Whitlock is a fat shit who is somewhat intelligent about sports (not exactly the highest bar to surmount) but has the pathetic need to seem "edgy" so that he gets to sit in for Jim Rome when he takes one of his Johnny Carson length vacations. Megga McCanzz is just an embarrassingly dumb slit who is just like her POS father.
Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at July 14, 2012 02:58 PM (gmfr3)
I'm starting to think there is merit to the rumors about a circle/network of adult men taking advantage of those kids. It turns my stomach.
I'm not thinking so much that it's a network, but that this president's particular "area of study" (think Western Nevada) dulled any moral sensibilities.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 14, 2012 02:59 PM (J5tI6)
"You can't fix Stupid".....is one of Ron White's initial routines.
Delivered with a cigar in one hand, and a glass of scotch in the other.
Posted by: wheatie at July 14, 2012 06:47 PM (MbB0O)
That's how all his routines are delivered.
Posted by: buzzion at July 14, 2012 03:00 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: Y-not at July 14, 2012 03:01 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Ronster at July 14, 2012 03:02 PM (6KYyi)
Well, so far the only administrator I've heard of at PSU who challenged Joe Pa's authority was a woman, the gal (VP or whatever) who was in charge of student discipline. And she wound up resigning in protest.
I don't think this is a gender politics issue, but it may be a gay politics one.
Knowing academics, it's much more likely that she hated the football program generally and just got "lucky" that she was right about it.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 14, 2012 03:02 PM (J5tI6)
Ron White is a Texan and he is for the death penalty. He pissed off a crowd in New York in one of his stand up shows (for about 30 seconds), but then he had them back in the palm of his hand.
He smokes cigars and drinks Scotch during his routine, and the language is pretty hard -R sometimes, but he is insanely funny.
Jim Gaffigan is just as funny, but so dead pan and clean. He seems pretty normal as a human being and has his head screwed on straight. Never seems to stray in to "blue" humor. Makes fun of everything, including himself. Seems like a crazy Scottish ginger.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at July 14, 2012 03:03 PM (sJTmU)
I don't think this is a gender politics issue, but it may be a gay politics one.
Yep. Abject fear at the gay politics of it all.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 14, 2012 03:03 PM (J5tI6)
@ 168
Louis Black. Yeah he is funny at times, but a big lefty. He starts his rants and you expect him to explode. But he can be funny.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at July 14, 2012 03:06 PM (sJTmU)
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Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at July 14, 2012 03:07 PM (3yCFy)
I haven't heard any indication she knew about Sandusky. From what I've heard it was far more of a jurisdiction battle and the main incident of contention was a party attended by much of the team that became a drunken brawl with much property damage.
I have no problem imagining a female athletic director trying to exercise the same level of power over other school officials and getting away with it so long as she won games and brought in the cash.
The real enabling failure here was worship of something as dumb as a football coach. I have no used for school athletics myself. I'd happily do away with the whole lot and the absurd athletic scholarships as well. Schools should teach. If you want to play games do it somewhere else.
Posted by: epobirs at July 14, 2012 03:08 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: AmishDude at July 14, 2012 07:02 PM (J5tI6)
That may have been the case but it seemed as if she was seriously concerned about football players breaking the law not having to answer to anybody but JoePa. There comes a point when somebody who has absolute authority out in the middle of the sticks loses perspective about right and wrong. Paterno was waaaaaay too fucking old to be dealing with urban athletes. Starting with the Rashard Casey incident when Joe bent his own fucking rules for an athlete who'd had trouble with the law (I'm too fucking lazy to look it up but I think it happened in the early 90s) I figured he'd jumped the shark and it was gonna be downhill for him after that. Little did I realize what the ultimate would be though; I don't think anybody did. Paterno lost his one contact with reality when his brother died; they'd take walks together and his brother would let him know if he was fucking up. I still think a reason he stayed on as long as he did was because his crone wife was worried that JayPa would be unemployed without his father running the show.
Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at July 14, 2012 03:10 PM (gmfr3)
Wow.
I thought AoSHQ was supposed to attract the top 1% of the top 1% of the politically informed.
Posted by: Zombie Shane at July 14, 2012 03:10 PM (Z2i+W)
And that's the important factor here: these men felt they knew Sandusky. That they were colleagues and friends. Their gender was not the determining fact, but where their loyalties resided and where their self-interest was.
It's not, as Whitlock argues, males have more tolerance of it (as we might in a *genuine* sexual harassment case). Hence my point about wanting to kill him, versus Clinton and Woods. A woman might be more likely to say Sandusky needed help and counseling, in fact.
A couple of other points: This is the football team, so his solution isn't really practical in any case. The person who spotted the abuse would have to have been a male, because a woman would not be in the male shower room, regardless of her position. If we assume men are going to turn a blind eye, then, there's no remedy for that. Carrying it one step farther, it's hard to envision the head coach being anything but male.
Second, don't you think women found out along the way? Did none of these men mention any of this to their wives? Plus, we're looking only at Penn State, but I bet the Second Mile had women in its hierarchy. The athletic department had evidence of Sandusky's molestations, but they were not really who was providing him with prey. The foundation had to be in on the cover-up, too, and I bet some women knew the suspicions there--and did nothing for the same reason the men didn't
A last quibble: He also undercuts his own attempt to suck up to women by his example of Pat Summit. That is, he says we need more women like her who are willing to say openly they dislike an opponent. Males in athletics don't evidence this problem. Well, if men are more eager for confrontation than women, then he's contradicted himself. A man should have been eager to call Sandusky out.
We already have a lot of men who are like Pat Summit. He didn't say we should hire more women just to give them jobs but because they (in his view) have strengths men don't have. Bringing in only women who are more like men isn't real diversity.
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at July 14, 2012 03:15 PM (IGYyt)
Which is why I questioned you cognitive function. Such comic book conspiracies are the sort of thing that provide fuel for the opposition, giving them material to dangle in front of the fence sitting voters to convince them the right is made up of insane people.
Problem is, in your case they'd be correct. Take your nonsense somewhere else.
Posted by: epobirs at July 14, 2012 03:15 PM (kcfmt)
Dammit! I know you warned me before I dove into those cesspools, but I now feel *significantly* more stupid then when I began. Since I am now too big an idiot to truly understand the warning, you'll heat from my attorney sometime next week.
PS - Any of the legal rats around here need to garner some pro bono hours for your bar requirements? This should be an easy case, win or lose...
PPS - Meggie Mac & Cheese could not have pulled off the victory by herself. It took the PROUD ignorance and racism of the dipshit twat host to roll her fat ass in for the win.
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Is "epobirs" an Axelrod astroturfer?
Does anyone recognize that moniker?
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