Recently Bill Maher stated that the GOP base has finally become too stupid to understand their own racially-coded dog whistle messages, so now GOP candidates have to literally spell it out for the racists who they are trying to appeal to that yes, its' safe to fear enslavement at the hands of black people, scary scary black people, as if that has ever had a chance of happening in America except in the minds of the most delusional bigots.
Which brings us to today's entry in "Dear Republicans, are you fucking kidding me?"
At what point did the director say, "Add a black kid so we don't look totally racist, but not too many so the racist people we are pandering to will still get the message."
This ad is from earlier this year. Watch and weep at this clownishly sad example of the worst in American politics . . .
This is what I was talking about when I wrote An Open Letter to the People who hate Obama more than they love America, this is what I was talking about when I wrote Dear Conservatives, taste the f*cking rainbow earlier this week, and conservatives howled over it. That tells me I'm being effective and hitting them where it hurts. I can call Republicans stupid and get no complaints, I can question their patriotism without a peep, but if I say they are pandering to racists or palling around with white supremacy you wouldn't believe how they howl, ohhh, their poor hurt feelings and sensitive ears!
Let's not enslave our children with debt? Under Obama! Because he wants to enslave your children! Get it?
This is what passes for discourse among Republicans. Cartoons coupled with a garbled language of talking points, grunting and name-association between candidates they want to smear and the pantheon of right wing boogeyman strawmen who never go away like Reverend Wright, Saul Alinsky, ACORN and George Soros. I call it teabonics. George Orwell called it "DuckSpeak", and after you read this, you will understand why Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and the rest of the wingnut punditocracy sound so stupid, its' because they aren't speaking your language anymore, they speak teabonics, a language of dogwhistles and code-words that sound like racist duckspeak after a while to anyone who doesn't know how to decipher it. It is a political language only sociopathic conservatives speak.
...Winston turned a little sideways in his chair to drink his mug of coffee. At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away....He held some important post in the FICTION DEPARTMENT....It was just a noise, a quack-quack-quacking....Every word of it was pure orthodoxy, pure Ingsoc....Winston had a curious feeling that this was not a real human being but some kind of dummy. It was not the man's brain that was speaking, it was his larynx. The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words, but it was not speech in the true sense: it was noise uttered in unconsciousness, like the quacking of a duck.
Syme had fallen silent for a moment, and with the handle of his spoon was tracing patterns in the puddle of stew. The voice from the other table quacked rapidly on, easily audible in spite of the surrounding din.
"There is a word in Newspeak" said Syme, "I don't know whether you know it: duckspeak, to quack like a duck. It is one of those interesting words that have two contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it is abuse: applied to someone you agree with, it is praise.
www.george-orwell.org/1984
I'm Mark Oxner, I look surprisingly a lot like Doctor Octopus in Spiderman 2, and I approve this childish, delusional message that the black president wants to enslave your children. These are the nihilists we are up against.
This guy is running against Alan Grayson. We have a truth-speaker versus a corporate duckspeaker, an etch and sketch candidate that the lobbyists would love to write on him in ALEC language whatever they like, a guy who thinks that standing up for 99% of America is a bad thing because he is married to the interests of the wealthiest 1%, he does their bidding, even if it means depicting America's first black president as a slave ship captain full of white children. No low is too low.
I'm sure this has been written about before, the video ran back in January originally, I don't care. We should shove crap like this in the faces of conservatives non-stop, make them own it, it says everything we need to know about them. By approving this ludicrously horrible ad Mark Oxner has disqualified himself from Congress, though it does present a conundrum, how do we have a class war when one side has all the money but not a drop of class at all?
Peace and love to one and all
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