I'm sure Obama will tell him at their next secret clubhouse meeting.
Can't click thru to the article for some reason, but if I recall correctly Cohen's district is around 75% African-American. It's Harold Ford's old district, right?
Ah, just read it. Yeah, Nikki Tinker is a former Ford staffer.
According to Instapundit's addendum the Jew being attacked is an Obama supporter. Instacracker's first post made it seem that the Negro attacking the Jew was the Obama supporter.
For all Prof. Cracker knows, Obama's already said something about this to a relevant party. But he/we'd never hear about it because nobody gives a shit about the kinds of stupid nitpicking things Insty and his ilk always focus on and for all their gasbaggery they rely entirely on the press to report the things they bitch about. Hey, did you hear an Obama volunteer has a Che flag?
2: It's my district, and it's about 60% black.
Wow, the stupidity of that post just grows and grows, doesn't it? "Or else he'll be like Al Sharpton." For those who refuse to click through, the update in full:
UPDATE: Why should Obama weigh in? Because he promises an uplifting new kind of politics and this is an ugly old kind. Because Steve Cohen is one of Obama's supporters, and political loyalty is supposed to run both ways -- unless you're Hillary, anyway, and Obama's supposed to be the anti-Hillary. Because otherwise Obama's big appeal -- I'm a black candidate who's not like Al Sharpton! -- will be a fraud. And, of course, because it's the right thing to do.
You can't convince me he doesn't know better.
You can't convince me he doesn't know better.
Oh, come on, he can perfectly well be acting in bad, racist faith and be that stupid. This is Insty we're talking about.
Whatever. Instapundit wouldn't give a flying fuck if the minister circulating the flyers wasn't black. You know how I know Obama's not Al Sharpton? He's won a bunch of fucking primaries, that's how. Also, I don't have my head up my ass.
I can't believe that idiot has tenure.
Jesus. There's no way to start straight-facedly demanding that McCain denounce every fucked-up thing a white guy says to prove that he's not David Duke (who, after all, is a white politician just like McCain), and get any kind of point across, is there.
I have yet to hear McCain deny that he is not a drug dealer.
I have yet to hear McCain deny that he isn't a turtle-human hybrid.
I am fine.
I had a partner here say that McCain's weird puffy-neck on the left thing is a result of his melanoma surgery. Anyone know if that's right?
Silly LB, everyone knows that whites have a diverse set of views and the positions of one white person are completely distinct from those of another white person.
14:
good
Insty is just a good example of a lesson that lawyers all learned long ago:
Law Professors can be dumbasses too.
16: That's what makes whitefolks inscrutable and crafty.
Christ, now Instapundit has another post on this, just linking to some other people wondering "where's Obama on this?" Reading the comments is not a happy experience.
I have yet to hear McCain deny that he is not a drug dealer.
"People have said that I am not a drug dealer. This is totally untrue. What am I offered for this pound of finest sensimilla?"
19: That's his third post on it. You missed this one, I think.
20: I had to look up sensimilla/sinsimilla. I did not know that there was more than one way to grow cannabis.
Representative Cohen is not good at avoiding innuendo!
"It's a chink in my armor," Cohen says.
Rep. Cohen is resigned to his fate!
I'm always going to be white.
Rep. Cohen can change, baby!
I don't have to always be Jewish
Rep. Cohen is inscrutable!
-- but I am, and will be.
LB--How fast do you read? How many words per minute?
Maybe substitute "infelicitous phraseologies" for "innuendo".
25: No idea. Very, but it's largely about effective skimming.
There was that reading-speed test posted here ages ago -- I remember being in the conventional/fast bracket for this place, and not on the same planet with Brad DeLong, who's some kind of cyborg.
I only manage about 400 words per minute. I'm definitely on the slow end for this place. I agree with you that DeLong's reading abilities are superhuman.
Which reading test? Out of curiosity.
Wasn't it something like JFKs inauguration speech?
31: Sorry, mano, Barry Levington is the authority on this one. If the Rastafari say it's sensi, it's sensi.
750-800 wpm is only "very efficient."
31. UD allows multiple spellings
Instant Pundit opines
Is there a word that can be used in place of "opine" which would denote the opining, but also the fact that it is ass? It would be great if there were.
That test is interesting. The questions were a little easy; I got 87% accuracy but I was hurrying so I dunno if I trust that.
On looking at the thread again, Delong isn't as out there as I'd thought.
I'm much slower than all y'all. 299 wpm, with 100% accuracy.
The kind of work I do emphasizes slow careful reading.
33: Am I on the same page as you? The page I was looking at called 700 wpm from a screen "excellent."
36: bloviates is the word. Or "pontificates" perhaps.
When I wrote 33 I was doing the Second Inaugeral test linked in 30. Now I've done the test linked in 34, and I got 960 wpm (85% accuracy). But Jesus, of course I'm going to read a stupid-ass fluff essay with strong topic sentences faster than I would read formal oratory from a different period.
850 wpm, only 75% accuracy. That sounds about right. Fast but sloppy, that's always been my style.
Fuck, between this thread and the last one, the only person scoring in the same low range as I is Michael. I'm feeling stupid. Also, I should get to work.
I did the test like I read unfogged.
I got 1914 and skipped the accuracy part.
If I was reading a piece of academic writing, it'd be a tiny fraction of the 720wpm [or more accurately, I'd zap through it at 700wpm, get a sense of the overall shape of the thing and then go back and read the important bits at a tiny fraction of that speed].
I imagine most people are similar.
550 wpm, 85% accuracy. That was a boring test. Made me want to find the calculate your sexual adventuressness one.
Made me want to find the calculate your sexual adventuressness one.
Do you really want to calculate speed and accuracy in that topic?
Oh I will try the 2nd inaugural one. 805 & 87% was on the fluff
I don't really even know how "accuracy" could apply.
Made me want to find the calculate your sexual adventuressness one.
That one requires a spotter, you can't do it alone.
I don't really even know how "accuracy" could apply.
Then, clearly, you are boring and not adventurous.
Ah, so that's Obama's appeal: a black man who isn't Al Sharpton! So what's McCain? A white man who isn't David Duke?
I think Obama needs to begin every campaign day with a comprehensive reading of the List of Silly Negroes just so Insta will be made happy at Obama's non-Sharptonness.
Come on, guys, for all we know, Glenn doesn't even think Obama is black.
Come on, guys, for all we know, Glenn doesn't even think Obama is black.
He can't help it if all he sees is humanity.
Instapundit's still on the blogroll.
helpy-chalk, don't worry. I, too, am slow (although I was reading much slower than I usually do; I actually hardly ever read anything, I just skim all day), with 378 and 100%. So when I do read, I read very very carefully.
"bloviate" or "pontificate" both denote pomposity, which isn't what we want here. "spew" connotes outrage, which this isn't. "Dribbles" might work.
"The Instant Pundit dribbles forth again today on current events..."
for all we know, Glenn doesn't even think Obama is black
come on. Surely at some point Glenn's eyes must wander places besides Obama's crotch.
helpy-chalk, being grouped with me is being with the refined, not the "stupid", you troglodyte.
Fast but sloppy, that's always been my style.
Wrong thread, mrh. You meant to put this on the smut thread.
I'm disappointed it took 24 comments for someone to pick that fruit.
Yes, this is excellent advice. Now let's hear about your plan to invade Russia in the wrinter.
Winter is a good time to invade Russia. The rivers are frozen, probably a reliable amount of snow on the ground, instead of uneven or thawing patches of it, etc. - just make sure you have winter equipment. Now, invade Russia in the fall? That would be insane. You might end up retreating in the mud after losing a big battle in September.