March 09, 2012
— Ace A video blasts the left's double-standards on "misogyny."
Whether or not any of this is "misogyny" I don't know. I know the left calls it that-- when they want to divert the country's attention from the 9.1% unemployment rate. (Whoops-- that's what the independent gold-standard survey organization Gallup found it was. Obama's own Shop of Understanding Accountants found it was 8.3%, as I guessed they would.)
I'd call it "mean jokes," myself. And generally comedians (or just anyone, acting as a comic) can tell them.
Except when the left decides you can't. Then it's the Worst Thing Ever.
And yet they never call out their own.
Allah's Quotes of the Day from last night features Kristen Powers making this obvious point.
“It’s not true that liberals never call out people for misogyny!” is the refrain. Of course it’s not true, and I never said it was. Many of the professional left seem incapable of distinguishing between a few blog posts and comments condemning left-wing misogyny and a full-scale war to remove someone from their job. This really shouldn’t be so hard to grasp: If you hate misogyny and sexism in the media, then react to the consistent and repeated misogyny of men on the left with the same fervor that you have reacted to Rush Limbaugh’s sickening outbursts.President Obama has seen fit to wade into the Limbaugh kerfuffle, even telling reporters Tuesday that Limbaugh’s behavior was an attack on everyone’s daughter and “I do not want them attacked or called horrible names.” Speaking of daughters, do you remember when Bill Maher said that the real name of then-20-year-old Bristol Palin’s book should be “Whoops, There’s a Dick in Me?”
While there might have been a CYA tut-tut offered sotto voce over Maher's, or Letterman's, or Olbermann's, or Shultz's, or Taibbi's nasty jokes, there definitely was not this two week long -- and counting -- Flood the Zone coverage of it.
The media still chooses what the national debate will be about. I sort of think the 9.1% unemployment rate and $1.7 trillion annual deficits are worth talking about.
Team Obama thinks we should talk about what a Big Meanie Limbaugh is, and, shockingly enough, the media agrees. Even generally fair-minded reporters like Jake Tapper agree that Limbaugh's gag is worth two weeks of "debate" about, whereas the right strained to even get anyone in the media to take notice of Maher's twat-bombs and c-bombs.
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Posted by: Keef Olbermann, Voice of Civility at March 09, 2012 01:22 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: rectal exam at March 09, 2012 01:22 PM (O7ksG)
If you ever woke up next to him after he'd slipped you a roofie, you wouldn't be able to naw your arm off fast enough.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 09, 2012 01:22 PM (UOM48)
Because pesos don't count as real money.
Posted by: Tijuana Donkey at March 09, 2012 01:24 PM (vjyZP)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 09, 2012 01:25 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: nickless at March 09, 2012 01:27 PM (MMC8r)
I briefly heard Rush today, who said the direct result of all this nonsense was that they essentially took away one of their most commonly used political tools: the brazen insult. He apologized because it's their go-to tactic, and if he can't use it, he's darned sure going to make sure they can't either.
We have them on the run. I swear. They are pouring gasoline on themselves, so Mitt won't need to light anyone's hair on fire, they're going to self-immolate.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2012 01:27 PM (TOk1P)
That might be the one joke he's told in the last 10 years that's actually funny.
Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at March 09, 2012 01:28 PM (+lsX1)
"Clown nose on, clown nose off" is one of the most profound observations of this century.
Posted by: dick cheese at March 09, 2012 01:28 PM (GTbGH)
Yeah, me neither.
Little Willow Palin was sure fair game though.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 09, 2012 01:29 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: joeindc44 says come on, guys, no tough questions at March 09, 2012 01:29 PM (QxSug)
Posted by: MikeTheMoose finally remembers why he's here at March 09, 2012 01:29 PM (0q2P7)
He apologized because it's their go-to tactic, and if he can't use it, he's darned sure going to make sure they can't either.
That's the only truly reasonable response.
Posted by: Polliwog, Hobbit Teahada at March 09, 2012 01:32 PM (N5/RR)
11 Bill Maher, Keef Olberdouche, Crazy Al Schultz and Rosie O'Donnell walk into a coffee shop in Kabul.....
....And they are pelted with shoes....for not wearing burkas.
Posted by: wheatie at March 09, 2012 01:32 PM (dauG/)
"We've established what you are. Now we're just haggling over the price."
Posted by: pep at March 09, 2012 01:32 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: rectal exam at March 09, 2012 01:32 PM (O7ksG)
Posted by: BobJustBob at March 09, 2012 01:33 PM (Rg36M)
Posted by: Wyatt's Torch at March 09, 2012 01:34 PM (zxrQh)
It would be fun to make Bill Maher the face of the modern corrupt democrat party. That video is a great start. Moore please.
Posted by: rectal exam at March 09, 2012 01:34 PM (O7ksG)
Posted by: mare at March 09, 2012 01:35 PM (A98Xu)
IMDB Vulgar - 2000
Storyline: A loser with a crummy apartment, an odious mother, and a job that isn't taking him anywhere (kid's clown), gets a new idea. He decides that he's going to be a clown for bachelor parties. He will dress up like a woman clown and play a joke on the groom. After that the real stripper will come out and everyone will have a good laugh. He goes to his first job (changing his clown name from Flappy to Vulgar). When he opens the door he is knocked cold. What follows is a story of violation, fame, blackmail, and revenge.
Posted by: dick cheese at March 09, 2012 01:36 PM (GTbGH)
Posted by: steevy at March 09, 2012 01:36 PM (7W3wI)
As I said in a comment in another thread here, expect the Dictator-in-Chief to create a new fed level department, let's call it the Department of Free Everything for Wimmens, or FEW for short, with Sandy Fuck as its head.
No congressional approvals required.
Posted by: I am the walrus, goo goo ga joo at March 09, 2012 01:36 PM (PH+2B)
>>Whether or not any of this is "misogyny" I don't know.
Yeh, I've never been too sure of that. It's not like they say nice things about, oh I don't know, Rush Limbaugh.
Posted by: Mama AJ at March 09, 2012 01:38 PM (XdlcF)
Kirsten Powers opened up a big case of red ass for liberals, and they never forget. Kirsten will suffer the same fate as conservatives, and she can expect to be labeled a c*nt, and have her squeaker violated.
Posted by: Doctor Fish at March 09, 2012 01:40 PM (TkGkA)
Jake Tapper don't do math.
Posted by: Jake Tapper at March 09, 2012 01:40 PM (lVGED)
I wrote a song called "Whiskey and Wimmen"
Posted by: John Lee Fluke at March 09, 2012 01:40 PM (vjyZP)
Posted by: ktgreat at March 09, 2012 01:40 PM (i5KzK)
Posted by: steevy at March 09, 2012 01:41 PM (7W3wI)
I think what it boils down to....is that the Institutional Left cannot bear the idea that there are conservative women out there who are getting elected to office. ....They must attack! This cannot be!
It was easy enough for them to ignore the fact that there are lots of conservative women out there in business. ....But having them in politics ---- no no no!
Conservative women are supposed to be these Stepford Wife types, who don't think and have no valid ideas about anything.
Posted by: wheatie at March 09, 2012 01:41 PM (dauG/)
“Whoops, There’s a Dick in Me?”
But I'm safe baby because Congress forced the reticent taxpayers to pony up for my cooter pills. We won bitches.
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 09, 2012 01:41 PM (TkGkA)
Posted by: Lars Groteballen at March 09, 2012 01:43 PM (aRmVp)
No congressional approvals required.
Posted by: I am the walrus, goo goo ga joo at March 09, 2012 05:36 PM (PH+2B)
sure but no republican or conservative women need apply. They will be refused any consideration in the festivities
Posted by: willow at March 09, 2012 01:43 PM (TomZ9)
Posted by: ObjectionSustained at March 09, 2012 01:44 PM (Yaj4M)
Posted by: steevy at March 09, 2012 01:44 PM (7W3wI)
38 I wish someone would drop a twat bomb on me.
You mean, like, call you a twat? .....Or are you wanting a big furry twat to come down on your noggin.
Posted by: wheatie at March 09, 2012 01:45 PM (dauG/)
Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston would be forever alone without AoS at March 09, 2012 01:45 PM (ijjAe)
My idea of a liberal women is one who swallows and leaves immediately, but only after running the vacuum.
Posted by: Doctor Fish at March 09, 2012 01:46 PM (TkGkA)
Posted by: nickless at March 09, 2012 01:48 PM (MMC8r)
They explained.
Klavan's first Culture remains one of the best pieces of social commentary ever recorded.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose finally remembers why he's here at March 09, 2012 01:48 PM (0q2P7)
As the mother of a son, I totally agree with your post.
And if there's ever another draft, draft the women as well.
*waits for flaming*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 09, 2012 01:49 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Bill Maher at March 09, 2012 01:51 PM (mmHDH)
Posted by: Fritz at March 09, 2012 01:51 PM (FDEjy)
Organized boycotts fizzle out because then they can play the martyr card "oh, the mean right wingers are after me"
Just stop buying, the pezzonovante of the entertainment industry won't know why, just figure that Bill Maher or whomever has reached has-been territory
As long as they keep making money at it, they'll keep doing it
Posted by: kbdabear at March 09, 2012 01:53 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: Lincolntf at March 09, 2012 01:53 PM (hiMsy)
O/T, but shamelessly blogwhoring my latest post, " Fisking Fluke's Fables ", wherein I lambast Ms. Fluke's testimony to SanFranNan's dog-and-pony show:
Somebody better go check on Gloria Steinem – she’s got to be in absolute vapors on the floor of her living room. All those bras that were burned back in the 70s, and the Women’s Movement has been stopped in its tracks because some poor little twenty-something couldn’t give up a couple of Double Espresso Lattes at Starbucks each month.
LetÂ’s hear it for Girl Power! YouÂ’ve come a long way, baby.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at March 09, 2012 01:53 PM (0xqzf)
Posted by: Sgt. Fury at March 09, 2012 01:54 PM (GMcwY)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 09, 2012 01:54 PM (yqRWu)
Posted by: MikeTheMoose finally remembers why he's here at March 09, 2012 01:54 PM (0q2P7)
56.....And if there's ever another draft, draft the women as well.
Seems only fair to me. .....I'll not be flamin ya, Jane.
Posted by: wheatie at March 09, 2012 01:54 PM (dauG/)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 09, 2012 01:55 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Lincolntf at March 09, 2012 05:53 PM (hiMsy)
Please tell me you didn't pay for it.
Posted by: Tami at March 09, 2012 01:55 PM (X6akg)
Posted by: willow at March 09, 2012 01:55 PM (TomZ9)
are they really scolding us on lack of civility?
Posted by: willow at March 09, 2012 01:56 PM (TomZ9)
Posted by: steevy at March 09, 2012 01:56 PM (7W3wI)
>>>And if there's ever another draft, draft the women as well.
>>>*waits for flaming*
There are days I feel like I need to borrow the old MLK sign and hold it up
"I AM A MAN"
I get tired of the demonization of everything masculine.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose finally remembers why he's here at March 09, 2012 01:56 PM (0q2P7)
a bizarre hypothetical about black astronauts disappearing in outer space
Wasn't that in the new "Iron Sky" flick?
Posted by: wooga at March 09, 2012 01:57 PM (vjyZP)
Posted by: willow at March 09, 2012 02:00 PM (TomZ9)
Isn't Kristen Powers married to some Arab guy? ....That alone could protect her from some backlash from her fellow lefties. ....They don't want to do anything to piss off people of the Arab persuasion.
Posted by: wheatie at March 09, 2012 02:00 PM (dauG/)
Sandra Bernhardt, anyone?
The best thing about going after the Lefties on this? It's straight out of Alinsky-- make them live up to THEIR standards!
SOL, YOUMAGNIFICENT BASTARD, I READ YOUR BOOK!
Posted by: nickless at March 09, 2012 02:00 PM (MMC8r)
I can answer that.
They used the virtues of Man to attack him.
Men are supposed to be of good humor when jokes are made at their expense.
Men aren't supposed to be thin skinned when criticized.
Men are supposed to be able to just handle adversity and complaining and claiming victimhood is for the weak.
Men aren't supposed to expect accolades or recognition for getting things done and providing for others. Having done it and knowing yourself is reward enough.
The great virtues of man that built a nation. Used to destroy him in the eyes of the common culture.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose finally remembers why he's here at March 09, 2012 02:02 PM (0q2P7)
Posted by: steevy at March 09, 2012 02:04 PM (7W3wI)
83....I get tired of the demonization of everything masculine.
It's only if they're white....and American. ....It's cool to be a guy of any other color, or nationality.
Just look at all the commercials these days. ....White guys are always portrayed as 'dumb'....or wimpy and dumb. ....It is the smart, masculine black guy who is held up as the one to emulate. ....Or the asian guy. Or the latino guy. .....But the white guy is the stoopids.
Posted by: wheatie at March 09, 2012 02:05 PM (dauG/)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 09, 2012 02:07 PM (bxiXv)
Agreed. I don't mind economic boycotts at all. It's part of the free market speaking. What a company says, how it operates, the product it pitches, the device's reliability, its cost relative to others... all of this matters in my mental calculus. And sometimes price isn't everything.
Maher and anything with which he or the likes of him are associated will never get a look or a dime from me intentionally. He has free speech. I choose not to hear it and I'll punish those who use him as an advocate. There will remain enough fools to finance his soap box anyway even should it actually be just of wood.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 09, 2012 02:08 PM (eHIJJ)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 09, 2012 02:08 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Lincolntf at March 09, 2012 05:53 PM (hiMsy)
Thanks for taking one for the team. Sounds like you're in Weaslel Zipper territory with one of his books.
Posted by: Polliwog, Hobbit Teahada at March 09, 2012 02:09 PM (N5/RR)
Posted by: wheatie at March 09, 2012 06:05 PM (dauG/)
Well, white males are only about 30% of the population. Tyranny of the majority.
Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at March 09, 2012 02:12 PM (NVu2l)
Posted by: CoolCzech at March 09, 2012 02:12 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: CoolCzech at March 09, 2012 02:15 PM (niZvt)
Maher is not the least bit funny. One open handed slap up side the head and he would run away in tears. He is also about 5 feet tall one ugly SOB, inside and out. inferioirity complex to the max, must be impotent
Posted by: The Jackhole at March 09, 2012 02:18 PM (nTgAI)
do they really want photos of lefties killing palin , bush, cheney or any of the people on the right?
are they really scolding us on lack of civility?
Posted by: willow at March 09, 2012 05:56 PM (TomZ9)
The leftists will claim 'photoshop!' We've played this game before, and since the media is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Marxist DNC, they win. Why?
Because they have been playing this game long before we woke up to it. These pieces they play have been on the board since the late 1800's. We didn't get in the game until Reagan, long after they had taken the reins in the media and school systems.
And we are not going to catch up any time soon.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert at March 09, 2012 02:21 PM (ial2b)
Posted by: Lincolntf at March 09, 2012 02:21 PM (hiMsy)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 09, 2012 02:22 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: oic at March 09, 2012 02:22 PM (gS0Xa)
For example if Palin ever visited New York, she would be "gang-raped by my big black brothers." C'mon, who can't see the humor in that? It's all girl power-ey.
(http://tinyurl.com/8y9wsy3)
Posted by: Sandra Bernhard at March 09, 2012 02:22 PM (eHIJJ)
If we had a Media that pursued the Democrats as thoroughly as they pursue the Republicans--and yes, I'd like to see such a Media--no Democrat would ever be elected. To any office, anywhere.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 09, 2012 02:23 PM (DuH+r)
Save the White Males! .....*waves fist in the air*
I say fluckabuncha this white misandry. It's time for some push back.
Posted by: wheatie at March 09, 2012 02:30 PM (dauG/)
You know you want some of this good lovin' ...
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