One Redeye Rant Leads to Another Redeye Rant

All the links above the fold seem to go to scour.com (4.00 / 2)

Below the fold seems OK.

Oh, and whenever Lindsey Graham gets on my nerves, which is whenever I see his mug on the teevee or hear his smarmy voice, I just think of Huckleberry Hound.

That helps.

"The War in Iraq is not the disease. The War in Iraq is a symptom. Arrogance is the disease" - Bill Richardson

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by: herding old cats @ Thu Jul 16, 2009 at 20:28:27 PM CDT

Fixed hoc! (4.00 / 2)

Huckleberry Hound you say?  LOL!

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.~Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D. MA)

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by: Redeye @ Thu Jul 16, 2009 at 21:11:58 PM CDT

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Pat Buchanan was on Rachel Maddow (4.00 / 1)

They were discussing the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court -- and affirmative action.  PB was against that, of course.  Several times Rachel pointed out that 108 out of 110 Supreme Court Justices have been white and 108 out of 110 Supreme Court Justices have been male.  She asked him if he thought that meant that white people and men were the most qualified people to be judges.

PB argued and obfuscated and brought up a lot of extraneous stuff, but this is what I took away from his rant:

Black people are good at track and field.  White people are good at being judges. 

At the end, Rachel told PB he was dating himself and sounded very 1950's. 

Work harder and work smarter!

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by: mooncat @ Thu Jul 16, 2009 at 21:25:54 PM CDT

Get Out!!!! (4.00 / 2)

Last night Pat Buchanan was on Hardball with Chris Matthews spewing the same stuff.

Seriously,  Jeff Lieber at the Daily Kos calls him The Imperial Wizard of MSNBC.

First to the people who run MSNBC: When Patrick goes on camera, who holds his purple sheet with the Mystic Insignia Of A Klansman over the right breast? Does he have a hook in the green room and there's like, an intern, whose forced to valet park flaming cross?

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.~Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D. MA)

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by: Redeye @ Thu Jul 16, 2009 at 21:39:12 PM CDT

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Let's just boil down Pat's comments to thier essence: (4.00 / 2)

"Black people are good at running.  White people are good at putting black people in jail."

He didn't say "where they belong" - but how else does he keep the "lower orders" in thier place?

"The War in Iraq is not the disease. The War in Iraq is a symptom. Arrogance is the disease" - Bill Richardson

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by: herding old cats @ Thu Jul 16, 2009 at 22:15:03 PM CDT

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Wallowing in the mud (4.00 / 1)

Truer words were never spoken:

The media loves to cover pigs wallowing in mud. :)

The more candidates or campaigns (or parties) mix it up, the more local media will cover it.  Surprised to hear they give precedence to conflict?  I can't imagine why.  These are the same people whose unofficial motto is "If it bleeds, it leads."

Maybe you don't need to physically make your opponent bleed (I'm not advocating physical violence here) but you need to draw some figurative blood from his or her campaign to get the media to notice you. 

Work harder and work smarter!

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by: mooncat @ Thu Jul 16, 2009 at 21:39:11 PM CDT

When Pat says that we need to defend the "white working class Americans" (4.00 / 2)

He's riffing on his day in the Nixon White House.  This is the Nixon approach of telling Southern whites that they are weakened by sharing water fountains with people of color.  Not to mention schools.

And Southern whites hate nothing more than being accused of weakness - except realizing they've been conned by Yankees.

Just sayin.

"The War in Iraq is not the disease. The War in Iraq is a symptom. Arrogance is the disease" - Bill Richardson

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by: herding old cats @ Thu Jul 16, 2009 at 22:24:17 PM CDT

Nixon's Southern Strategy (4.00 / 1)

PB's involvement in the Nixon White House had slipped my mind.  No wonder racist remarks roll off his tongue so effortlessly.

If you haven't read Impossible, Ridiculous, Repugnant about racism and the rise of the Republican Party in the South, well it's a job you need to do. 

Work harder and work smarter!

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by: mooncat @ Thu Jul 16, 2009 at 22:57:02 PM CDT

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Didn't Huckleberry Hound (0.00 / 0)

oh, excuse me, Lindsay Graham promise to drown himself if Barack Obama became president?

For instance, there was the matter of Senator Lindsey Graham. In the fervor of the final week of the campaign, Graham basically promised to drown himself if Barack Obama took North Carolina. When I wrote that we did not really expect Graham to follow through, a number of readers took exception.

“A promise is a promise,” wrote John Kaseley of Bonita Springs, Fla.

“Can’t we at least throw him in the lake?” asked someone else.

Yet another broken GOP promise....  ;-)

I'm not short.  I'm fun size!!

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by: countrycat @ Fri Jul 17, 2009 at 08:03:44 AM CDT