Personally, I’m just waiting for the first right-wing wacko blogger to make the argument that even if Todd did lie, her story was "mythically" true because it represents the real life experience of so many delicate blossoms of young Caucasian womanhood.
Given the mental and emotional similarities between the "post-modern" left and the "pre-rational" right, I suspect it’s only a matter of time.
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October 25, 2008
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the defining line is as it has akways been – between the oppressor & the oppressed
as has been reported the mccain campaign was quick to capitalise on this – it commenced race baiting – something it has used decade after decade after decade
in a society so enamoured of violence – the hoax was & remains – a form of fuse
it is not simply the case of a mentally ill woman – but a culture where part of its hidden mythology, it’s blood libe against black – is of the the very dark blacman taking advantage of the innocent white girl
huffington post – has repoted in some detail how quick the communications of the mccain camapign provided the narrative(the deatils which atre horrifying are still ther on huff post) before the police finally arrested the woman for her lies
we know that mccain is an unworthy man – now the people have a proof of which they are either complicit or in opposition
i fear that after all this time – white skin privilege has too many benedits for the people to shed it
Posted by: remembereringgiap | Oct 25 2008 18:36 utc | 1
She was a collage republican, and to collage republicans what she did aspired to their particular demented idea of courage in search of ends, personified by their mentor karl rove. I wouldn’t be surprised to see people attending the McC/P rallies to start wearing backward B’s on their cheek, in solidarity.
Posted by: anna missed | Oct 25 2008 19:19 utc | 4
This incident ought to go into the you-can’t-make-shit-like-this up category. And yet, something here disturbs my paranoia…
First of all, I assume the thought has crossed minds that Joe the Plumber and the lady who said Barack was an ayrab were some kind of plants. Likewise, one might momentarily at least suspect something here in the case of the “scarlet letter” lady.
And yet, an odder thought crosses my mind — all of these, including the three who had some half-cocked idea of taken Barack out at the convention in Denver (against whom the charges were dropped…) — that these and others who are still below the radar were sort of, umn, “loose cannons”, acting out what racist campaign memes sort of well, inspired them to do.
I must have eaten too much pumpkin pie yesterday, but I can’t shake the feeling that something really ugly is gonna happen.
Posted by: Chuck Cliff | Oct 26 2008 5:52 utc | 6
re #5, I sincerely wish the same fate for others like Atwater, such as Rove and Emanual. In fact dying slowly from pancreatic cancer would be more fitting than a relatively quick death from brain cancer. Still, there is some kind of karmic justice in the fact that their poisoned minds end up killing them.
Posted by: dan of steele | Oct 26 2008 7:40 utc | 7
@Chuck Cliff (#6): …”loose cannons”, acting out what racist campaign memes sort of well, inspired them to do.
Ah. A play straight from The King Henry II School of Management, or, more succinctly, “wind ’em up and let ’em go”. I had the same thought when Hillary Clinton referenced the assassination of Robert Kennedy during the primaries.
It’s a brilliant maneuver (with the plausible deniability built right into it) unless you’re dealing with a populace that is accustomed to having someone else always do their dirty work for them. As wound up as the discontents might get, they’ll still each assume another one of them is going to do the actual marching to Canterbury Cathedral.
I wouldn’t worry so much about it.
Posted by: Monolycus | Oct 26 2008 8:21 utc | 8
The backwardness is very like this:
In 1989, as fascination with Downey’s TV show began to wane, he was involved in an incident in a San Francisco International Airport restroom in which he claimed to have been attacked by neo-Nazis who painted a swastika on his face and attempted to shave his head. Some inconsistencies in Downey’s account (e.g., the swastika was painted in reverse, suggesting that Downey had drawn it himself in a mirror), and the failure of the police to find supportive evidence, led many to suspect that the incident was a hoax and a plea for attention.[9] A few months later, the show was canceled.[9] Years later, during an appearance on The Howard Stern Show, Downey admitted that he had orchestrated the entire “attack” — even shaving the front of his own head in the desperate effort to save his show from cancellation, by its syndicator, MCA