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October 10, 2005

Olbermann and Farrakhan, Sitting in a Tree...

Would you like to get your TV news from Louis Farrakhan? Then you're out of luck for now, but you might give Keith Olbermann at MSNBC a try. Given their close compatibility in terms of both the nature and the severity of their paranoid psychoses, Olbermann and Farrakhan are the best argument for gay marriage I've heard yet.

Here's the latest on MSNBC's smirking tinfoil-hatter: The weekend terror alerts in New York City, whereby Major Bloomberg warned the city of a potential Islamic terrorist attack on the subway system despite the Department of Homeland Security trying to downplay the threat, was characterized by Olbermann as — ready? — an attempt to distract from news that Karl Rove would make another grand jury appearance in the absurd non-case of Valerie Plame.

Here's Olbermann raving on last Thursday's Countdown, via NewsBusters:

Stop what you're thinking. It's just an amazing coincidence. The terrorists just happened to wait to make these threats until there's bad news about the administration that it needs to preempt. Just a coincidence.

Apparently — in the dark universe inhabited by Olbermann — the DHS's downplaying of the threat was just a ruse, and Mayor Bloomberg's office is secretly taking orders from Karl Rove.

Olbermann also saw fit to accuse President Bush of McCarthyism for harping on this whole Islamic terrorism thing in the excellent speech he made last week:

About the speech, and again, not to question the existence of terrorism, but if a prominent politician takes any issue and seems to be using it as a last line of personal political defense, does history, does our history not teach us and supposedly, the politician, that he risks trivializing the issue, that he risks sounding like Joe McCarthy on communist infiltration?

Keith, a little career advice: Just shut up and go away, for everyone's sake.

Meanwhile, his fellow conspiracy hound Calypso Louie is telling anyone who will listen that the Bush Administration caused the flooding of New Orleans by dynamiting a levee in order to hurt black people.

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Posted by Van Helsing at October 10, 2005 6:29 AM

Comments

You come up with the greatest pics and captions. I guess it's part of your charm ;-)

Calypso Louie has a scant following (and that must drive him to distraction), but Olberman is loved and adored by much of the left. The biggest problem with Olberman's McCarthy analogy is that while McCarthy went about the business of exposing at-home communism all wrong, it turns out that his targets were, in fact, communists or communist sympathizers. Olberman would prefer we ignore Islamofascism in our country as well because he doesn't know even recent history as well as he thinks.

Posted by: Von Oyster at October 10, 2005 8:06 AM

You come up with the greatest pics and captions. I guess it's part of your charm ;-)

HEY! Stop that!

Posted by: V the K at October 10, 2005 10:20 AM

The distracted from (insert something here) is just a given now. But how did Rove create that huge earthquake in Pakistan?

Posted by: Jack T at October 10, 2005 1:06 PM

Yup. He also personally planted the sea-bed nuke that set off the SEAsia tsunami.

Posted by: Archonix at October 10, 2005 1:22 PM

Shoot, the whole first paragraph disappeared from my comment. That'll teach me to be smart...

As I was saying, Rove took his cue from The Core, which was actually a propoganda documentary covering up a super-secret Neocon plan to Destroy the Planet. Not content with merely boiling us all to death with rampant global warming, the oil mongers want to get all modern and use microwaves to cook us even faster. So, Rove took command of the drilling ship they used to drill a big hole under pakistan so he could plant big bombs and look for new oil to exploit at the same time.

Yup. Etc...

Posted by: Archonix at October 10, 2005 1:25 PM

After Chris Rock's assertion that George Bush "doesn't like midgets," I might have expected Gary Coleman to drum up a little anti-Bush sentiment. Funny how FarraKlan quieted down right after 9/11.

Posted by: Weapon of Mass Disturbance at October 10, 2005 3:03 PM

Posted by: V the K at October 10, 2005 4:16 PM

If he had said somthing positive about the ADMINISTRAION you all would be clapping for Olbermann but since it's negative he's dumb or unaware of whats going on in the country. You guys are a joke. I suppose Bush's S*it doesn't stink either Huh!!!!!!!

Posted by: R. Simelton at October 10, 2005 4:59 PM

"I suppose Bush's S*it doesn't stink either Huh!!!!!!!"

That would depend on what he ate. Why you should care about Bush's potential floaters is another matter entirely. Such scatological obsession speaks of a seriously disturbed mind...

Posted by: Archonix at October 10, 2005 6:05 PM

"ADMINISTRAION" (no T)

"whats going on in the country" (no ')

"stink either Huh!!!!!!!" (stink either, huh?)

Hmmm...in light of your obvious brilliance and firm grasp on the written English language, I would like to know just WHO the "joke" is?

Posted by: Jonathan at October 10, 2005 8:15 PM

Clapping for Olberman?

No - he sucked beyond belief on ESPN and he has raised his suckiness to new heights on MSNBC. I couldn't possibly care less about who he criticizes but the whole distraction meme is just so completely played out now.

Posted by: Jack T at October 12, 2005 11:16 AM

As I prepare for a civil service exam scheduled for October 18, 2005, I struggle with a desire to travel to Washington, D.C. for the Millions More Movement activities, rather than voyaging half way across Pennsylvania to take another test.

Do I really want to take this exam and attempt to get on another civil service list?

Since 2003, I have participated and completed the State Civil Service process more than a dozen times. In fact, I have tested within the “Rule of Three” mandate (State must hire from within the top three), but they have yet to call me for an interview.

The Civil Service Commission has tactically explained their hiring practice, i.e., Pennsylvania agencies often “opt out” and instead use a little known exception to the process (management directive that grants an unfettered discretion) that allows them to ignore the employment list and promote almost any available lower classification (a current employee).

The Commonwealth’s excuse for not hiring me is no different that the excuse a local temporary employment agency (Robert Half International) recently provided. That is, despite the fact that I scored a perfect 100 percent on their required testing (the average score for everyone else is only 85 percent), and was given an almost perfect score for my interview, the employment agency has insisted since August 2004 that it can’t place me. And, the Pittsburgh EEOC district office, a federal regulatory agency with authority to enforce Title VII has suggested that there appears to be nothing wrong with the company’s reason for not placing me: Robert Half claims its clients continue to select (whites) other candidates who have tested well below my scores and have inferior work experience and there is nothing they can do about it.

Nonetheless, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan (Nation of Islam) has challenged all of us to rise above the things that have kept us divided in the past. The agenda of his Millions More Movement is to see how all of us, with all our varied differences, can come together and direct our energy, not at each other, but at the condition of the reality of the suffering of our people. He has directed us to use all of our skills, gifts and talents to create a better world for ourselves, our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, and the like. True That (word is bond)!

I really want to participate and get my swerve on (enter the conflict of eliminating poverty and injustice in American society). But, this year, I have to tend to my family’s needs. That is, they have cut off all of my utilities, placed tax liens on my property, and have us struggling on food stamps. But, I am a proud “functionally unemployed” black man, flexed, and bout it (real, not fake and true to the game).

No! I’m not going to make it to Washington, D.C. for the Millions More Movement Activities. I have to take the civil service exam. . . . I have to score within the top three to force the white man to get creative again.

The Honorable Minister hopes to help poor people learn how to help themselves, beginning with the knowledge that there is strength in numbers. I may not be there on October 16, 2005, in person, but as a black man tight (straight, legitimate and feeling really good at the moment) and on his hustle (taking care of my family), I’m already there in sprit.

If I could go to the Millions More Movement activities, I would hope to hear about the marked change of October 2005, from the last two political cycles when President George Bush (Karl Rove) used the power of the White house to coax first-tier candidates into important congressional races. In these crucial few months when candidates are entering races, raising money and recruiting staffs, republican hopefuls are quietly stepping off. There’s one obvious reason why republican hopefuls aren’t listening to the White House: Bush is an unpopular president.

Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, Bush won the admiration of most Americans (even some blacks) for resolute leadership in the face of a foreign threat. But, after the recent simpleton response to hurricane Katrina and his tone-deaf reaction to the needs of America’s poor, the GOP and the world now well understand that Bush has slipped into a hole and unfortunately it appears the HNIC won’t be climbing back out. That is, his message remains essentially hopeless worries and hopeful faith. He’s back again portraying the world as too treacherous, too dangerous, and too risky for anyone but the GOP. Karl Rove wants to keep America focused on terror and national security. And, then they went public with wacked (crazy stupid) information suggesting possible subway attacks in New York (a city on orange alert the second-highest-level-indicating a high risk of terror attack since the color-coded warning system was established after the September 11, 2002 attacks). Bush backed the decision to announce the threat publicly despite questions by most federal officials about its credibility. They even claimed the source of the threat had passed a polygraph test. In short, like always, the GOP knew America can’t second-guess the motive behind a terror alert.

If I could go to the Millions More Movement activities, I would hope to hear about black GOP conservatives who have gone out their way in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina to play the race and irresponsibility card hoping to cultivate the most reactionary forms of Christian fundamentalism alongside the extreme right for whom racism is an essential ideological component. Just yesterday black GOP conservatives gathered to discuss race and irresponsibility. BOND (The Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny) and the Heritage Foundation cosponsored the event: The New Black Vanguard Conference II. It was moderated by Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President of BOND. Dr. Shelby Steele (Hoover Institution Senior Fellow), Joseph Phillips (Actor & Columnist), Linda Porter (Founder Jochbed Education Project), and La Shawn Barber (lashawnbarber.com) attempted to reflect upon policy questions they claimed of major significance to black communities.

In the course of a denunciation of current black leadership they enumerated some of the standard racist conceptions often voiced by the right wing: The view that welfare programs had created among blacks a culture of irresponsibility; there is an enormous cost for risky behavior within the black family (promiscuous women and fatherless households); and, one generation of blacks has followed another into poverty.

Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson has suggested in the past that America shouldn’t blame racism or President Bush and the GOP for what happened to thousands of poor blacks during and after hurricane Katrina. He said “The truth is black people died, not because of President Bush or racism, they died because of their unhealthy dependence on the government and the incompetence of Mayor Ray Nagin (a black man) and Governor Kathleen Blanco.” The black GOP conservative singled out Rev. Jesse Jackson, members of the Congressional Black Caucus, and Rapper Kanye West, all of whom he says blamed President Bush for not doing enough to help black people.

Yes! Rev. Jesse Jackson is on the record calling the president’s response “incompetent.”

Yes! During NBC’s celebrity telethon for hurricane Katrine victims on September 2, 2005, the scripted program took an unexpected turn, when Rapper Kanye West went off the script during the live broadcast, declaring “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”

But, black GOP conservatives are nothing but house slaves. They blindly follow simple-minded people. In slavery days we had house slaves and field slaves. The house slaves were “well behaved” and “rewarded” by being allowed to work in the “big house” close to the master. The field slaves were “rough” and “functionally unemployed.” Thus the people were divided and pitted against themselves, instead the common enemy (extreme right forces and Christian fundamentalists).

If I could go to the Millions More Movement activities, I would hope to hear about how da fam in the Burgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) can get rid of some punk ass black politicians that are indifferent to the plight of "functionally unemployed" individuals and their families. The last time da fam in the Burgh had oportunity to "break bread" with a bout it black leader was August 19, 1997. On that particular day the Honorable Minister accepted my question (from the audience) related to how black males can be a better father to their children. Among other things, he eloquently advised the group of black politicians on how we can come together and direct our energy, not at each other, but at the condition of the reality of the suffering or our people. But it's October 2005, conditions for blacks in the Burgh have become more precarious. The city is now controled by (in the closet) black GOP conservative house slaves.

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Posted by: kstreetfriend.blogspot.com at October 12, 2005 7:48 PM

I didn't have the stomach to read the whole thing but my considered reaction is "WTF?"

Doesn't this guy have a Panthers meeting to go to?

"bout it"??????? SO ghetto.

Posted by: Vonster at October 13, 2005 4:57 PM