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eet and i am sure of it the house is being watched on all sides sabin tries to reassure him but apparently doesn t do a good job because not only is foo cha still agitated he forgets how to speak english me afraid he admitted frankly strange men this end and that end of street me no like it ah michael crichton dan brown if you were wondering what your books would look like a century from now wonder no more comments 7 march 4 2008 what makes a man turn neutral filed under laws and sausages tomemos 1 00 pm updated below i figure i may only have time for one more post about the democratic nomination so here it is following the democratic primary has given me a new political experience which is the experience of being nonpartisan normally whenever a news story breaks i know exactly how to feel who s at fault who s the victim the left is right the right is wrong in the back and forth between clinton and obama though i don t have a strong preference as i ve mentioned before and thus i don t have a strong automatic response when one of them or more often one of their supporters takes a shot at the other side sure there are things that i disagree with i roll my eyes and spit when clinton releases a fearmongering ad or when obama lets it be known that he might appoint republicans to his cabinet and lest you think that i m dedicated to the idea that the candidates are exactly equal it does seem to me that the clinton side has been making more reprehensible attacks of late ahem of course if obama were on the brink of defeat he might be taking some desperate steps too but if a frog had wings it wouldn t bump its ass a hoppin but my non partisanship does make me feel qualified to say a lot of what people are complaining about is just manufactured outrage tortuous transmutations of ambiguous or poorly worded statements into supposedly clear examples of dog whistling i don t feel that when hillary clinton answered the question you don t think senator obama is a muslim by saying of course not there isn t any basis for that i take him at what he says and there isn t any reason to doubt that that she was trying to imply that he may be a muslim i don t feel that when obama said i understand that senator clinton periodically when she s feeling down launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal that he was trying to imply that clinton makes attacks when menstruating though it is still a patronizing comment both explanations are feasible i suppose but the simplest explanation in both cases is the innocent one beyond which if you think that millions of people can be swayed by commentary that requires phd level analysis to unpack then the electorate is either much smarter or much stupider than we ve previously supposed from a position like that i m very sensitive to commentary that claims to be objective but in fact is anything but at days of industry hungarian great bela tarr links approvingly to just such an article by paul jenkins at the huffington post entitled clinton and the vast media conspiracy i don t agree with jenkins s premise that contrary to her claims clinton has not been treated unfairly by the media and in fact has been favored by them but i m not interested in discussing that here indeed i would rather pound a nail into my eye than get into another debate about media coverage of this campaign i ll simply link to what digby said not just about the obvious sexism clinton has faced but also about the left s failure to demand that she be treated fairly i would warn that if unfair and biased press coverage is now a disqualification for elected office then i think we d better think long and hard about whether the democrats are going to be viable as a political party bad press for democrats is part of the package and i would also add that i think it was part of the netroots job to help fight back this kind of bias against all democratic presidential candidates even if as individuals we were pulling for a different one that did not happen and i think the netroots failed miserably in one of its primary missions this time out digby is right no one has an obligation to like clinton or to want her to be nominated but to actually rejoice in her public stoning and to pretend that the reporting really is fair and balanced because it benefits your candidate of choice is to sell out not just one candidate but the party itself anyone and that includes obama who wants to succeed as a democrat in defiance of right wing attack which brings us to what i am interested in talking about jenkins s first sentence emphasis added hillary clinton has convinced the media that it is biased against her one of the great and rare successes of her presidential campaign akin to her creation of the vast right wing conspiracy responsible for conceiving a string of sexual and other disgraces in her husband s white house and i m thinking wow jenkins has gone so far against clinton that he has become a 1998 republican sneering about the vast right wing conspiracy saying that the real problem is the sexual and other which other scandals that the clinton presidency committed when molly ivors at whiskey fire says that some obama supporters do not seem to know whose framing they re adopting i assume she refers to something like this h t to mithras about whom more in a bit i hope i never hear another person wondering why so many democrats don t seem to trust hardcore obama supporters why they strike us as a little bit of a cult of personality anyone who will side with newt gingrich and ken starr over bill clinton all to score points against hillary clinton a decade later is no democrat they should register republican and not talk to me about politics they should not talk to anyone about politics frankly also the camel s back having broken i ll go ahead and say it plainly if you hate hillary clinton hate her like the republicans hate her and jenkins though he puts it most directly is hardly the only liberal who feels this way it is because she is a woman i can t pretend otherwise anymore and it was cowardly of me to do so in the first place reasonable people can disagree on the impact of her war vote her compromises with the center and her effectiveness as a speaker and politician but speaking as an impartial observer there s nothing rational that bridges the gap between those objections and finding her repellent at least not if you didn t recoil from kerry and gore and bill clinton and if you did shouldn t you be voting for nader mithras who is a dedicated obama supporter puts it well some obama supporters have made it clear that they are not against hillary because she is a woman but because of what kind 0f person she is i don t think there is any way to know really whether that s true or not my gut tells me it s largely bullshit i doubt these democrats loathed bill clinton in 1996 by which point you knew what you had in the clintons electing a woman to legislative positions seems to be problematic enough electing a woman to be commander in chief stirs up anxious masculinity all over the place you can hear it in the vitriol directed at her that isn t aimed at her husband women hear it and know where it comes from they ve heard it before so that s why i ll have trouble feeling very excited when obama who is largely blameless in this wins the nomination if it means that the democrats can t nominate anyone who has a political history who has established political connections or worst of all who is a woman then as digby says our long term viability may be in question the yes we can generation better stick around until 2016 is all i m saying now having said all that i m aware that the nonpartisanship i feel between clinton and obama is not the same as neutrality in fact i am still being quite partisan defending both candidates against attacks that could harm them in the general election this means that i tend to play down the importance of even those attacks on both sides that have merit a nonpartisan viewpoint is not necessarily the wisest or most unclouded if it were michael bloomberg really would be what this country needed so i think i can corral my strong feelings which are the result of a long and trying primary fight long enough to say returning to jenkins obama supporters let us not go down this road the vast right wing conspiracy is real it was real in the 90 s and it s real now how else do you explain the coordinated questioning of obama s patriotism at exactly the moment that he became the front runner do you think that they re not going to find or manufacture some scandals as whitewater was manufactured starting at about 8 pm central time today if obama wins the nomination i think obama is great i really do but let s not miss the forest for this one very exciting tree it s not just a matter of not alienating female voters and other rational people this november it s a matter of understanding in the long term who the enemy is and who it isn t if we don t hang together we re going to hang separately maybe in november maybe further down the road update 3 5 10 15 a m what s the word for the kind of prescience where you predict something and it turns out it already happened above i wrote that obama would have to deal with manufactured scandals just as the clintons had to deal with whitewater a complete boondoggle and fishing expedition in which the clintons were cleared of wrongdoing but nonetheless acquired a vague association with financial scandal that persists to this day indeed it is almost certainly part of what jenkins is referring to with other disgraces well obama is already dealing with this in the form of this rezko nonsense and it s just going to intensify if he gets nominated glenn greenwald lays out not only the utter hollowness of the non allegations obama isn t even accused of let alone proven to have engaged in any wrongdoing at all but also discusses the similarities to the whitewater technique digby has more on this now this is not a point in hillary clinton s favor indeed her campaign has tried to benefit from this and other phony scandals to its and her discredit it is however a refutation of the fairytale that obama is immune to groundless attack as if the various ethnic canards haven t already proved that as well as an argument for opposing specious allegations regardless of which candidate they affect comments 8 february 20 2008 it s too close to home and it s too near the bone filed under blogs themselves funny stuff tomemos 12 02 pm so you might have heard about this blog stuff white people like you might have heard about it from girl detective s post about her ambivalent feelings about it i echo some of that ambivalence here the blog isn t a take on all white people no jokes about c w music or mayonnaise sandwiches here but rather on the educated liberal urban or pseudo urban white person what you might call the hipster yuppie complex you also might call it me and many many people i know for instance the top entry right now 71 being the only white person around i swear to god i ve been in that exact dim sum place it s in artesia or something and yes we drove 45 minutes to a lunch spot exactly because of its amazing authenticity other entries that describe me pretty well apple products kitchen gadgets apologies and the one about the sunday new york times is a dead ringer for my family except for the part about listening to music while reading it in general i think the blog is really good and going through the archives suggests to me that it s just been getting better it ranges from simple observational humor 63 remember that whenever a white person says they wants to go to a sandwich shop you are looking at at least a 15 outlay after tip and drink also note white people will wait up to 40 minutes for a good sandwich 24 wines that are acceptable red white less so to incisive critique 62 it is a poorly guarded secret that deep down white people believe if given money and education that all poor people would be exactly like them in fact the only reason that poor people make the choices they do is because they have not been given the means to make the right choices and care about the right things sometimes it s not as funny as it could be usually this happens when it lapses into mere sarcasm but what is in general i think it deserves the hype predictably one strain of the blog addresses privileged liberal self righteousness about the everyday steps they take to advance liberal causes or awareness priuses vegan vegetarianism and what seems to have caused the most internet wide dismay recycling the joke is generally that these 50 simple ways to save the ____ steps are ways of mollifying liberal guilt without actually changing one s lifestyle as in this excerpt from the recycling entry recycling is fantastic you can still buy all the stuff you like bottled water beer wine organic iced tea and cans of all varieties and then when you re done you just put it in a different bin than where you would throw your other garbage and boom environment saved everyone feels great it s so easy there are two over reactions to this kind of joke critique and this applies to all sorts of comedy and commentary besides swpl which is my broader point the obvious one is to huff and puff that these things aren t funny because they re really important are you saying people shouldn t recycle these are the same people that hold that south park or team america are conservative because they the angry liberal viewers can t tell the difference between pointing out the flaws or foibles of one position and endorsing the opposite position in other words while you should take positive steps that may be minor or symbolic it is possible and in fact important to recognize the limits of what you re doing so that you can remain humble and motivate yourself to take more substantive steps later i ll get to how this happy medium works the other overreaction is to say absolutely right all that stuff is phony liberalism and it doesn t make a lick of difference this is where that ambivalence i mentioned comes in it s right to take comic positions seriously but one should never forget that those positions come from a comic persona and absolutism is often part of a comic persona it generally should not be part of how we actually formulate positions for instance one of my favorite comedy routines of all time is brace yourself chris rock s niggas versus black people the reason it s so funny is that it s so startling not just because rock uses profanity and racial slurs but because he adopts an extreme persona that casts american racial politics in a stark light whereas when people invariably white people talk about how much sense that routine makes they not only sound racist they generally are racist here s a sadly no post about one example this has nothing to do with the question of who can say what words it has to do with the difference between comedy which is 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