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Thread ID: 17030 | Posts: 14 | Started: 2005-03-01
2005-03-01 01:42 | User Profile
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REPUBLICANS, BLOGGERS AND GAYS, OH MY! by Ann Coulter February 23, 2005
In response to the public disgrace and ruin of New York Times editor Howell Raines, CBS anchor Dan Rather and CNN news director Eason Jordan, liberals are directing their fury at the blogs. Once derided as people sitting around their living rooms in pajamas, now obscure writers for unknown Web sites are coming under more intensive background checks than CIA agents.
The heretofore-unknown Jeff Gannon of the heretofore-unknown "Talon News" service was caught red-handed asking friendly questions at a White House press briefing. Now the media is hot on the trail of a gay escort service that Gannon may have run some years ago. Are we supposed to like gay people now, or hate them? Is there a Web site where I can go to and find out how the Democrats want me to feel about gay people on a moment-to-moment basis?
Liberals keep rolling out a scrolling series of attacks on Gannon for their Two Minutes Hate, but all their other charges against him fall apart after three seconds of scrutiny. Gannon's only offense is that he may be gay.
First, liberals claimed Gannon was a White House plant who received a press pass so that he could ask softball questions ââ¬â a perk reserved for New York Times reporters during the Clinton years. Their proof was that while "real" journalists (like Jayson Blair) were being denied press passes, Gannon had one, even though he writes for a Web site that no one has ever heard of ââ¬â but still big enough to be a target of liberal hatred! (By the way, if writing for a news organization with no viewers is grounds for being denied a press pass, why do MSNBC reporters have them?)
On the op-ed page of The New York Times, Maureen Dowd openly lied about the press pass, saying: "I was rejected for a White House press pass at the start of the Bush administration, but someone with an alias, a tax evasion problem and Internet pictures where he posed like the 'Barberini Faun' is credentialed?"
Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president. Still, it would be suspicious if Dowd were denied a press pass while someone from "Talon News" got one, even if he is a better reporter.[rest of this BS deleted] Isn't it amazing that you can call someone an "old Arab" in an overtly derisive way and nothing happens to you, yet if you do like a contestant on Trump's show "The Apprentice" did, and refer to a someone-- whom you are trying to describe-- as "that Jewish woman", you get fired from the show and fired by your real-life employer (I posted this outrageous incident here on OD some months ago).
How is it these neo-cons know they can say things like "old Arab" with impunity yet they know to even make reference to "a Jew" outside of some pro-Israeli comment, you better be very careful? You ever hear some neo-cons like Laura Ingraham refer to Jews? She will be halting and always say "Jewish people" or "Jewish guy", but never, ever, "Jew". They obviously are aware of the double standard, but do they ever think about it?
2005-03-01 01:53 | User Profile
The "old Arab" reference was removed in her syndicated column (obviously by someone other than Coulter because she chose to keep the original on her website).
2005-03-01 02:00 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Jack Cassidy][url="http://www.anncoulter.com"]http://www.anncoulter.com[/url]
You ever hear some neo-cons like Laura Ingraham refer to Jews? She will be halting and always say "Jewish people" or "Jewish guy", but never, ever, "Jew". They obviously are aware of the double standard, but do they ever think about it?[/QUOTE]
Kind of funny, actually. "Jew" is an unfriendly sounding word. It just sounds like an expletive of some sort.
2005-03-01 03:19 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Bardamu]Kind of funny, actually. "Jew" is an unfriendly sounding word. It just sounds like an expletive of some sort.[/QUOTE] It is funny how that works. You are not the first person to mention this, I've heard it from people who have absolutely no negative view on Jews.
2005-03-01 03:56 | User Profile
Did anyone ever welcome you here, Robinder?
2005-03-01 04:25 | User Profile
No, but I don't really mind.
2005-03-01 04:29 | User Profile
Well, Welcome! :smile:
2005-03-01 04:36 | User Profile
It is funny how it sounds like slur. This is why all the neo-con goyim will use awkward phrasing, in hesitant speech, in referring to Jews. You hear such contorted phrases as, "He's an Israeli Jewish person." It is as awkward as the overly fastidious PC whiteys who have trapped themselves into such faux pas as referring to blacks in Africa as "African-Americans..." (no joke).
2005-03-01 04:37 | User Profile
[QUOTE=robinder]No, but I don't really mind.[/QUOTE]Yes, and a welcome from me too!
2005-03-01 04:44 | User Profile
Thank you both.
2005-03-01 07:49 | User Profile
[I]Jew[/I]'s a funny one.
If [B]you [/B] say it - even w/o added negatives, as in "the Jew David Horowitz", it's a loaded codeword, a deadly insult and likely a high sign to your Bund confederates to slip on their brass knucks and wait outside the exit. When a Jew identifies [B]himself [/B] as one - "as a Jew, I'm only too aware of racism's dark legacy yada yada yada" - he's either on television or at a public speaking gig. But either way, he's gettin' paid.
That's why they get so apoplectic at even its casual use. You're [I]costing them a payday[/I] - telling the world for free what they'd ordinarily charge money to admit.
Seriously, though, there is no word more taboo in America today. You can get away wth "Jewish", but by God, you'd better be on your knees in [I]full grovel-mode[/I] if you're going to utter "Jew" in public. To paraphrase Sobran, if you wish to know who holds the power in contemporary America, it is he who penalizes the utterance of his very [I]name[/I].
2005-03-01 12:47 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Jack Cassidy]It is as awkward as the overly fastidious PC whiteys who have trapped themselves into such faux pas as referring to blacks in Africa as "African-Americans..." (no joke).[/QUOTE] Jack, During the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics, a black athlete won a bronze medal in some sport in which blacks never win, like swimming or diving. The girl was from England (I think), and the announcer said something like, 'She is the first African-American, from any country, to medal in this event!' I remember being struck by how utterly stupid the comment was -- it wraps up ignorance and political correctness into one little, tidy package.
2005-03-01 15:46 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Quantrill]Jack, During the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics, a black athlete won a bronze medal in some sport in which blacks never win, like swimming or diving. The girl was from England (I think), and the announcer said something like, 'She is the first African-American, from any country, to medal in this event!' I remember being struck by how utterly stupid the comment was -- it wraps up ignorance and political correctness into one little, tidy package.[/QUOTE] Yep, this is exactly the kind of language faux pas trap you set for yourself if you try to be fastidiously PC. It's funny, but I always think that it would be better for broadcasters and prominent people in public to hold our views on race, for they would never get into the some of the messes we read about. For example, the liberal white guy who was working for DC mayor Tony Williams, who used the word "niggardly" in front of a 100% black administration meeting, and was confused when all the blacks when into a rage against him for using the word. I think most of us would assume that few blacks would understand this word isn't derived from "nigger", but we'd expect blacks to assume it is. There are countless cases where innocent-minded white liberals get into trouble with what they say because they approach blacks and other minorities the same way they would whites.
2005-03-01 17:27 | User Profile
This reminds me of an event where some "liberal" got tongue tied over a White person who had moved to the U.S. from S. Africa and was naturalized. She got confused over whether one should call this person an "African-American" or not.