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| While Obama does nothing but be black all the time, the constant Freeper articles about the Knock Out Game and War on Whites are realism. |
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| Be afraid, Whitey, this is totally about to happen to you unless you vote Tea Party! |
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| I think this makes the picture a lot less offensive to Muslims, actually... |
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| Strawmen...strawmen everywhere! |
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| Yeah, this is totally legit. no one check up on that pic! |
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| Awesome paranoid Rorschach, Freeps! Personally, I see Knight Rider. |
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| The Constitution is all that keeps us from becoming Middle Earth. |
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| Freepers do love to couch their dog whistles as Obama vs. Hillary. |
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| So into the Obama-golfing meme, you didn't notice how insensitive to the murdered journalist you were being. |
They could care less about the journalist. They are just using it as an excuse to bash to Obama. That one with the babies is just disgusting. I'm sure the original came from some white supremacist site. The buckets seem to represent the Dem/Repub party so of course the Dem is a dark skinned black child with a gun held to the Repub white blue eyed child who has a knife behind it's back. Strange.
ReplyDeleteOh as an aside it appears that CNN has had to close their comments section because of all the racism that was being exchanged there.
Think you are over reading it slightly. My take?
DeleteThe black child is Obama. He's got a gun because he can pull the trigger on Hillary's presidential aspirations at any time. The white child is Hillary and has a knife because she is known (certainly in Freepertown) for stabbing people in the back. It's that stupid "hug it out" statement she made. It seems, from tineye search, to have originally been a Benetton advert.
Terribly done though. A metaphor should float into your mind like a feather, not hit you in the face like a brick.
Is it just my system or are 3 of the pictures not showing up for others as well? I've not done the cache/cookies thing in a while.
ReplyDeleteIgnore please - it was my system. Ran Ccleaner and they are showing up fine now.
DeleteI'm not able to see the second picture, but I think that's because the DailyStormer website is down right now.
DeleteDailyStormer? (boggle) (mouses over image to check url)
DeleteFR has been difficult to distinguish from a white nationalist website for a long time now, but somehow I feel that actually linking to image macros from the likes of DailyStormer is crossing a new line for them.
Freepers letting their hardcore racism fly in that thread with the "race profiteers" with open references to the good ol days when the KKK was openly active in Missouri.
ReplyDeleteIf you can't be part of the solution, you can gain a lot by prolonging the problem
ReplyDeleteSounds clever, but...does that actually mean anything?
DeleteI can't answer for Anonymous - nor would I presume to - but I think he has a VERY good point.
DeleteTake Al Sharpton (please). He's got a lucrative TV contract from bigging up black vs. white conflicts. He's not trying to solve the problems, he's using them for his own gain, much like William Randolf Hurst did with the Spanish/American war. Where is his outrage about Chicago, or Baltimore, or Detroit? Bet you can't find more than a single soundbite on any of them - unless a white guy shot a black guy.
Same with Sarah Palin. She snipes from the sidelines. Effectively at times, but where are her solutions? It's far more profitable for the problems to keep rolling along.
I am starting to really miss JFK, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. Hell, even Nixon. The sort of people who'd look at a problem, roll up their sleeves and say "Let's fix it."
You may have a point, EC, but you have to admit, who in this day and age is going to listen to someone who doesn't have money backing them up in order to get their message out to as many people as possible? Not to mention, repeating that message ad infinitum in order to keep it in the minds of people. And I may not agree with everything either Sharpton or Palin says (although I would definitely disagree with Palin significantly more than Sharpton), but I do think they believe what they're saying and it's not just for the money. Plus, it's easy to say "Let's fix it." It's quite another thing to actually do it when you've got an entire political party fighting you every step of the way.
DeleteMe defending Sarah Palin? Does that mean the End Times are truly upon us? ;)
Ha! It's certainly one of the signs of the end times! Made me laugh like hell though - thank you. :)
DeleteAs to them believing the message they speak - who knows? You are (I think) a bit too young to remember the heyday of the televangalists. They are still about, sure, but back in the day they were massive and on the regular TV channels, not safely tucked away on channel 650. It soured a lot of people my age and older on believing what people said on screen or in print. Nixon was just the icing on the cake for that.
I have a tiny bit of respect for Al Sharpton - he stood up when it mattered, and that counts for something to me. Not exactly fond of him, though. He does seem to me to work division more than unity - reminds me of that Springsteen song "Glory Days."
I see it this way. You and I can talk, share jokes and music, disagree, agree and it doesn't mean much. Just two people talking, right? When you hit the public eye you are no longer a person. You are a brand to be marketed, and control over what you say is significantly altered to keep the brand front and center.
I'm not sure what heyday of televangelists you mean, but I certainly remember at least hearing about Jim & Tammy Bakker, Oral Roberts, Billy Graham and others. I was born in 1972. How long before that are you talking? I think to some extent, they probably did believe what they were preaching, they just got swept up in the celebrity and money, and forgot they were human beings with actual faults. But you're right, TV personalities don't have the credibility they once did. Now information travels at the speed of light, and everyone with a smartphone is a journalist, whereas once upon a time corruption was easier to hide (of course, not that it happened any less). It's probably as a result of this that personalities have to keep a tighter lid on their words and actions.
DeleteIn other words, these TV personalities are a direct result of what we as a society demand.
Born in '72 - you just missed it. By '75 it was dying down a bit, and to a kid, there are WAY more important things than people talking on TV. Still there, but less in your face, "give me money" sorts of things.
DeleteCorruption is always going to happen. Alistair Cooke (he did "Letter from America for the BBC - the guy who had some of his bones stolen when he died) wondered if it's the power that corrupts people, or if it just attracts them. Who knows?
Wow, everyone needs to visit that ex-army blog...the comic sans oh wow the comic sans
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HELLO FREEPERS
ReplyDeleteGlad you found this site. Too bad your legless leader zotted all the decent posters. Site was good at one time but now comprised of creatards, bible thumpers and end of world retards and other wackjobs..oh well
If you run off some of the more outlandish posters the site will be much better..i.e.e geronl, savagesusie, littlejeremiah, editorsurveyor, wagglebee etc.. These idiots run of more people than they attract.
Ozy what part of the One World Trade Center pic are you claiming is not legit? The building on the left? Because the image of the right is certainly One WTC.
ReplyDeleteYeah my other right. Left is certainly ONE WTC. Not sure where the other building is.
DeleteBut that's not the building, it's the antenna. The building looks nothing like a minaret, alas for conspiracists.
DeleteI wasn't aware they were claiming that was the full building and not the spire. I do not believe it is supposed to be a minaret btw.
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