Friday, March 05, 2010

Gee! Hawd.

Evidently hyperautistic tourettes spokesmodel and all-around shit-munching gutter-trough pisspig "Wolf" "Blitzer" is now on the breaking story news case that the Department of Justice is a hotbed of jihad. Allahu Akbar, muthafuckas! Jesus Christ, America, really?

Anyway, it was on CNN, which gets about as many daily hits as this blog, so, you know, it seems unlikely to thoroughly penetrate zee dizcourze, comme on dit.

However. By the same goddamn, token, can we all please, pretty please, lay off the countervailing wailing that these are ruuuuhlll American patriots, these lawyers, dedicated to principles, model Romans, each of them, head to toes, soup to nuts. Responding to redbaiting and its offspring with a load of patriotic nonsense is equally tawdry.

34 comments:

davidly said...

This too shall pass. For all of her faults, America's greatest strength is to righten her course.

Bwaaaahahahah!

davidly said...
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Anonymous said...

Watch the quotes on the link, mang.

Anonymous said...

Spiderman, threat or menace?

Anonymous said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2ySV7AfgM

This is the sorta brain that you're dealing with.

NutellaonToast said...

IOZ, I know we've had our differences, but don't compare yourself to CNN.

You're not nearly THAT bad.

Justin said...
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Justin said...

Your link has an extra " at the end and is broken.

I generally like Glenn except when he says stuff like, "Edward R. Murrow led the media attack on the McCarthyism of the 1950s. Wolf Blitzer plays mindless, amiable, neutral, amplifying host to identical smear campaigns of today. That collapse says all one needs to know about much of modern establishment political journalism in the United States."

David said...

I usually like Greenwald, too, but he does have that tendency to imagine a bygone era where our mass media wasn't spoonfeeding shit to the masses.

Anyway, the answer to attacks on one's patriotism is to show that the attacked is in fact, Steve Rogers. For some reason, " Hey fuckface, my job is to defend accused people in court!" is seen as too weak.

IOZ said...

Link fixed.

zencomix said...

How many lawyers does it take to screw a light bulb?

Anonymous said...

Anyway, the answer to attacks on one's patriotism is to show that the attacked is in fact, Steve Rogers.

As if! Steve Rogers led an honest to god war against the Patriot Act in the comics. The guys who write those things aren't too swift, but that sure does help them tell right from wrong.

George Jones said...

CNN's next major anchor will be named Tod Blitzkrieg.

Charles F. Oxtrot said...

Greenwald's political acumen is about as sharp as a Q-Tip.

Rowan said...

And don't forget Captain America quitting his job and becoming Nomad after Watergate. Dude's not bad for his flag-waving.

Anonymous said...

The very idea that government agents would need a loyalty test is insane. Anyone who obtains their livelihood through the taxation of others is guaranteed to support the continuation (and enlargement) of that system. It's just rational self-interest.

la Rana said...

Yo, fuck that shit and fuck your inviolable indeterminancy campaign. Words and concepts do not have invariable definitions. Fine. True dat. But malleability is not nonexistence. Competing definitions do not a meaningless vacuum make. The relative value of a definition is an epistemological question, not an ontological one.

Vanity vanity all is vanity, but bruschetta can, in fact, be pronounced "correctly."

Anonymous said...

Sez you, la Rana. At least it's an ethos.
-- sglover

Anonymous said...

Yeah, you'd love your "blog" to thoroughly penetrate "ze dizcourze", wouldn't you?

Ashley said...

@Frog: bruschetta is a pet peeve of mine. Nice to see its mishandling rankles others.

Mr.Fundamental said...

dear lord is anyone awake? what day is it? who the fuck schedules a meeting at 2pm on a Friday afternoon at the beginning of the end of winter? fuck me.

la rana I'm way too outa my element to take up your comment with a worthwhile response, so insert a grain of salt in yer eye before reading on, but I'd say Monsieur's intent here (ha! read it and weep Jeffy boy!) is to help undermine and tear apart the vast overages of authority that roam the avenues of linguistics an`at.

CAPICE

Fridayly yours,

Enron said...

Isn't this all really a non-story? It's not as if Obama is freeing the accused un-persons, giving each one ten million dollars, and giving them digs nexts to Cheney. Also, didn't Murrow go on to work for USAID or something?

Moloch-Agonistes said...
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Enron said...

Also Mr. Fun, what's the deal with Jeffy Boy?

George Jones said...

Hans Lutwaffe.

Anonymous said...

Good evening, I'm Shark Kesselschlacht and this is the news.

Anonymous said...

Equally tawdry?

Anonymous said...

Ok, I get it: redbaiting, but with jihadist islam for communism. Brownbaiting?

Does that really work, though? Marxism is like Islam's polar opposite, not least because the latter has negative cultural traction, diametrically opposed as it is to America's cherished communist values.

Anyone could be accused of secret islamic loyalties, apparently! This is scary shit, I guess.

Nope, this metaphor isn't working for me dude. Zero resonance.

Inkberrow said...

Anon @ 1:09---

The metaphor doesn't work because it doesn't work. The true cultural analogue to fifties Red Scare excesses is mod-prog identity-politics excesses, wherein instead of expecting Communists and their pinko sympathizers to be lurking in every corner, we now fear (or pretend to fear, and persecute) dangerous racists, homophobes, and other menacers of mandarin-approved mascot-victims. We blacklist Don Imus instead of Dalton Trumbo. Today's bogeyman is Jim Bunning, the terrifying Judgementalist, who threatens the psychical repose of the gainfully unemployed.

Meanwhile, violent jihadists by all rational accounts should probably be considered a candidate for Real and Present Danger as compared with say, Witches. Violent jihadists turn Americans into corpses, not newts, and the corpses don't Get Better. Odd and heartbreaking that Greenwald and his mod-prog ilk accord Muslims the mascot-victim status that witches never received, even though organized witches never blew up any teeming buildings.

la Rana said...

Inky, your brain is a bowl of porridge. Please look up the definition of "metaphor." You do not know what it is, or how it works. It is not "two concepts in a sentence, like similar or different and stuff," as you seem to think. Though I must say, I agree that violent jihadists should probably be considered a real and present danger compared to all supernatural phenomena.

Inkberrow said...

La Rana---

I agree "comparison" or "analogy" is more apt here, but I was responding directly to Anon @ 1:09. How would you know the extent of my command of "metaphor"? You're just whining because you disapprove of me substantively, to which you respond by resorting to feeble procedural/gatekeeping ad hominem dismissal. (oooh, "Gate"!).

la Rana said...

Inky: "If you take violent jihad and stew it like witchcraft it tastes much more like racism than a communist witch hunt"

La Rana: "your brain is a bowl of porridge."

Inky: "You're just whining because you disapprove of me substantively, to which you respond by resorting to feeble procedural/gatekeeping ad hominem dismissal."

Inkberrow said...

La Rana---

I'd help you out here with some "Q.E.D.", but I'm not sure it furthers your cause. Is that quote of mine verbatim? If it is, I may have to concede your point.

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