Monday, January 7, 2008
News / Chicagoland The sickness unto election day: fear of a black electorate
Posted by Whet Moser on Mon, Jan 7, 2008 at 4:18 PM
From "black people will come for the white women" to "black people will come for your presidency" is racist racial progress, right? Here's Tribune Company star columnist Jonah Goldberg:
I think it's worth imagining a certain scenario. Imagine the Democrats do rally around Obama. Imagine the media invests as heavily in him as I think we all know they will if he's the nominee -- and then imagine he loses. I seriously think certain segments of American political life will become completely unhinged. I can imagine the fear of this social unraveling actually aiding Obama enormously in 2008.
Emphasis Glenn Greenwald's. I'd like to know which "segments" he's referring to. He might mean liberal fascists ("we've seized the English department and we're going to start tossing out dead adjuncts every hour unless Obama gets a cabinet position . . ."). Maybe he's just talking about columnists and bloggers, who are somewhere between senior-tour golfers and premature babies in terms of fearsomeness. I'm imagining the worst scenario I can possibly think of, and it involves a flood of blog posts leading to enforced server-space rationing. Whatever: it's not something I'd worry about too much.
I do wish, however, that Timothy McNulty would stop piddling over headlines and explain how his paper can continue running pieces by Jonah Goldberg. And "the Paper of Record just hired the arguably more incompetent Bill Kristol" is not an excuse.
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"Jonah Goldberg is so tragically lame, to sell a book he'd steal a logo from a racist child." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-kelly/jonah-goldberg-the-tough_b_79861.html
dag i was waiting for you to tackle this, seeing as i've started telling my other friends that you're going to knock jonah off the trib. Interestingly about the Hitler smiley: I'm nearly POSITIVE that it's used to demarcate "Argentina" in Martin Mull's "The History of White People in America" from 1985. Mull has a section where he Allan Rucker design different kinds of smileys to depict, iirc, white people around the world.
I wonder how this is going to play out in South Carolina. The "McCain fathered a black child" state.
Wow. I think Martin Mull suing Prussian Blue and Jonah Goldberg's publisher would be the greatest lawsuit in history.
That lawsuit has made me interlibrary loan the book (my copy is probably lost) and return to blooging. Look for the smileyfest soon. ha.
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