RETARDED POLICEMAN (EP-11: OLD LADY)

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A LIE HERE - A LIE THERE: GLOBAL WARMING - AIN'T IT GREAT

So to accommodate a lie, a lie "protocol" was created and signed by the fooled.

Now, the fool hardy who partook in the lie "protocol" are not abiding by the lie guidelines they helped the foolish become party to.

But the not so foolish, yet, are abiding by the lie better than the other foolish liars.

Confused?

Don't be, global warming is a lie made up by liars to fool the foolish.  That's all you need to know.  Are you a fool?  Or worse, are you a liar?  Hi Al Gore, you fat sack of excrement. :)

H/T: Instapundit

NEWS & OPINION ROUNDUP (22 JUNE 2008) SUNDAY NONSENSE EDITION

Because if it weren't for nonsense, there wouldn't be any news...

Blogging the Qur’an: Sura 30, “The Byzantines,” and Sura 31, “Luqman”

Sunday Funny courtesy of Flopping Aces

That Mugabe is a real sum' bitch, huh?

Well, seems like many Britons are catching onto the anti-capitalist scam, global warming.  Al Gore should be in jail for the fraud he knowingly commits.

Too much water - Not enough water

Those socialist(D) sure are a slimy bunch aren't they?

Obama (blessed be him) gathered with socialist(D) mayors to tell them what they want to hear, promise them what they want promised and will eventually deliver none of it.  I wonder if any of them have been involved with this?

You know someone is lying to us when we as a country can do this, but can't seen to get this right to save our lives.  Oh yeah, its all about lack of funding right socialist(D)?

Via Instapundit, seems the New York Times will spend a paragraph acknowledging progress in Iraq and then finish the rest of the article with visions of doom and gloom.  Why would they sneak it onto the pages on a Saturday?

Barack "Delano" Obama?

Hmm, "a political process has replaced an academic process where it concerns the production and approval of our textbooks."  Thanks liberalism!  Folks you have to monitor what is being put into our kids heads at school.

Some "human rights" group is claiming Palestinians are abused under Israeli detention.  The groups funding is hidden so we cannot know the true nature of their intent.  Rough up a few terrorist animals OUTRAGE!  An Israeli or American is be-headed or drug through the streets and then hung, no problem, they probably deserved it, right?

Hmm, if Obama (blessed are his words) wins I wonder if we have this to look forward to?  Oh yeah, we do, its called the Fairness Doctrine.

Mike Wallace won an Emmy for pushing us towards WWIII?  That's what this tin foil hat sporting kook is trying to tell us.

That should get you through your coffee, ain't the news great?

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NEWS & OPINION ROUNDUP (19 JUNE 2008) THE "C" WORD EDITION

The drooling libtard masses are enjoying some satire with a new YouTube video, "He said it first."  It references the fact/rumour? that McCain called his wife a c!@#.  NSFW, I thought it was funny.

As for the war that's been waged by the AP on bloggers, the Collins Report has an outstanding idea, cancel your subscription to all newspapers and stop buying them.

B. Hussein Obama and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari cannot agree on what they said during a recent conversation.  Somebody get Obama a tele-prompter, you know he's a babbling idiot without it.

I wonder what the Nation of Islam is going to say about this.

Follow up to what I mentioned yesterday about the government seizing ownership of oil companies, Hot Air has more coverage and a Cavuto video interview that I found just plain scary.  I wonder how long it would take to change our currency to say, "United Socialist States of America?"

The End Of America: What A 'President Obama' May Mean For The Nation

This has been ongoing, but America isn't the only ones protecting their language, culture and borders.

A new book is out, "From Crayons To Condoms" describing some things you may not know that are going on inside public schools.

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MG Antonio Taguba (retired), doesn't ring any bells huh?  Is spouting off at the mouth to anyone who'll listen that the U.S. is guilty of war crimes.  And we still give him a retirement check I'm sure.

Did Obama take cues on Iraq from Tony Rezko and crew?

Great Satan's Girlfriend always has some good info and hot soldier babes.

Another radical socialist gets another congressional seat in Maryland.  I wonder if the idiots who vote these vermin in actually know what it is they support?

The Media Matters sissy's have their wrist especially limp today over something Michael Savage correctly pointed out.

Ann Coulter has another fine article out.

Farm subsidies: A gift for the wealthy?

Flood coverage.

Obama campaign are tightening control of access and image.  Why?  Because they know he's a scumbag, why else would anyone cloak themselves?

Muslim Americans for Obama.  Yayyyy!

In2theFray thinks Achmoonijihad is funny.

Michelle Obama's damage control appearance on the View (only worth watching for Elisabeth Hasselbeck) had the drooling libtards all aflutter about her hair, make-up and dress.  Since when did giving "dap" become an acceptable form of greeting for anyone other than saggy pants, hip-hop types?  She sure spent a lot of time talking about the plight of the black woman... what about the whitey women Michelle?

All for now folks, more later...

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Lt. Col. Chessani acquitted - Take that Murtha and MSM

All but one of the original eight Marines have been acquitted and had their lives returned to them.  As Michelle Malkin notes, not a peep from the MSM.  I'm not surprised, are you?

Just a reminder of the stupid things that drooled out of John Murtha's liberal infected mouth November 2005.  And the prick still has his job, pulling a paycheck paid for by you and me.

It's much worse than reported in Time magazine. There was no fire fight. There was no IED that killed these innocent people. Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood. And that's what the report is going to tell.

Now, you can imagine the impact this is going to have on those troops for the rest of their lives and for the United States in our war and our effort in trying to win the hearts and minds.

Thanks again to Michelle Malkin for keeping up with it all, that's why she gets the big bucks and why I only get a case of Schlitz and let out of the basement once a week.

Yesterday: Haditha Watch: The fate of Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani

June 5: Haditha Marine Lt. Andrew Grayson acquitted

March 28: Case dropped against Haditha defendant Lance Cpl. Stephen Tatum

Charges dropped against Capt. Lucas McConnell

Charges recommended dropped against Lance Cpl. Stephen B. Tatum

Charges dropped against Lance Corporal Justin Sharratt

Charges dropped against Sergeant Sanick Dela Cruz

Let Freedom Ring reviews the Murtha Marine-smearing timeline.

Everything else you need to know is at Defend Our Marines.

Flashback: September 2007…Jason Mattera corners cut-and-run Murtha on his Haditha smears…

Please give John (Traitor) Murtha a call and ask him why he has not apologized for his stupid accusations flung so carelessly at these fine Marines - 202-225-2065.

Cross posted at Democrat=Socialist

NEWS & OPINION ROUNDUP (16 JUNE 2008) "NO ATHIEST IN FOXHOLES" EDITION

We all know how loving and compassionate the liberal left is don't we?  Well, in case you didn't know, someone paid a turd named Rory O'Connor to write a book depicting talk radio as hate speech ONLY, if it is a conservative voice.  They were so kind to list the progressive (communist) alternatives so you can listen in on how hateful family values, patriotism and individualism are.  No link, I just wanted to make note of another attack on free speech.

An recent Gallup poll shows that many Americans will be holding their noses if they decide to vote at all.

CNN uses a rather unflattering picture of Johnny boy McCain asking the question, "Is he too old?"

Further proof speculation that Obama is going to try to disarm the citizenry, once that is done, the government will overtake every aspect of our lives.  Remind you of anything?  You know Russia used to be one, Cuba still is?

Ed Morrisey at Hot Air fills us in on the new push to get that Bin Laden guy.

Interesting information on our pal George Soros.

Vile Personal Attack Of E.D. Hill On "Indecision 2008" Comedy Central Blog - More Heinous Gloating Over Fox's Cowardly Capitulation To Soros' "Media Matters" Campaign To Silence Obama Critics

Leaders of the Reno-Sparks National Association for the Advancement of Colored People say another increase in the minimum grade point average from 2.75 to 3.0 this fall could discourage minority students from getting a higher education.  That is the dumbest thing I've heard today so far.  Black America if your listening, what your own people just said is that your too stupid to succeed with higher standards, therefore the standards should be lowered.  Get it?

And in case you didn't know already.  It's racist NOT to vote for Obama.

All for now folks, more later...

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NEWS & OPINION ROUNDUP (15 JUNE 2008) "BABY DADDY DAY" EDITION

Like we didn't see this coming like an HIV infected Rhino.  Thanks Filthy Five, you may have done us a big favor!

Some Reformed Chick is Blabbing.

Obama has a gun?

Clarence Thomas vs. Barack Obama

Given the questionable agenda of some environmental alarmists over the years, they were confident that the scientific case for human-induced global warming would sooner or later be exposed as false.

Today is Conscientious Objectors' Day!  Or as I would like to call it, Cowards Who Should Live Someplace Else Day.

A school in Maine drops the Pledge of Allegiance from a ceremony they were holding to prevent offending Muslims.  Yep, to prevent offending Muslims.  Never mind if the rest of us are offended.

It was the Army's birthday yesterday.  How could I have forgotten, I haven't been out that long have I?

Have I mentioned today how much Obama really, really, really likes the thought of killing babies?

The libtards are staying true to form by calling a Barack Obama Monkey Puppet racist.  But it has been fine to portray George Bush as a "chimp" for the past seven years.  Get over yourselves, you white guilt ridden turds.

Election 2008:  All about Race

McCain sticks his foot in his mouth, by somewhat agreeing with Michelle Obama that it was "tough" to be proud of America.  John, you suck balls.

Are American voters as stupid as the democrat party banks on?

Michelle Obama's "not for profit" hospitals windfall profits.

Sadr group to boycott Iraq local elections.

Barack Obama's brother say's Barack was brought up a Moslem.

Mean old oil companies are going to annoy polar bears.

Rough night last night, that's all for now... Happy Baby Daddy Day!

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MOTHER OF THE YEAR AWARD GOES TO...

This lady!  H/T: Worthalaugh

I'm only 39 and I can remember growing up in the backwoods of GA that ANY adult had full permission to beat your ass if you were acting the fool and you got another one when you got home.

Now, the CPS will take your kids if you limit their iPod use.  *sigh*

Cross posted at Democrat=Socialist

NEWS & OPINION ROUNDUP (14 JUNE 2008) JIHADI'S NOW PROTECTED BY OUR CONSTITUTION EDITION

Yep, I had to throw that in the title.  They now have more rights than you American citizen.

Thomas Sowell's observation that Obama has "spent decades aiding and abetting people who hate America."  Who are those people?  Take a look.

Herman Cain talks about Obama.

Double Plus Undead still zombie free.  H/T: for the video below explaining zombies and democrats(S).  Gotta love Bob Hope.

Democrats hired a group called VIP to be in charge of a large voter registration effort, which turned out to be fraudulent. Guess who runs this VIP campaign ... the Muslim American Society.

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If this had been two men, they would be under the jail right now.

As Big Dog points out here and I pointed out here, isn't it "funny" how damn near the entire state of Iowa is flooded and not a single person is standing around blaming anything on President Bush?  They do what any good America does.  Suck it up and drive on.  But if you've lived for generations as a government dependent you don't know how to do anything except stand there with your hand out waiting for someone to support you.  Good job liberals.

Next time your spending $120 to fill up your minivan, thank Al Gore.  Or blame yourself?

How Al Gore used tax dollars to create the Global Warming cult.

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Well, there's about 1000 more jihadis on the street now.

Who knew rabbit assassins were so cute?

Did Obama's stupid "Fight The Smears" website actually validate the existence of the elusive Michelle Obama "whitey" tape?

Discount for student contraceptives added to Iraq war funding bill?

Public Schools Emphasize The Pleasures Of Sex?

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Does the name Gov. Jennifer Granholm ring any bells?  It didn't for me either but she is the Governor of Michigan and she, like the Obama's, LOVE the thought of a knife going through a baby's skull.  What nice liberals.

US rebuts WTO concerns about farm bill.

McCain and Obama on their tax plans.

We all know when you take the tele-prompter away from Barack Hussein Obama he's like a sissy in an auto parts store.  Lost.  Why else would he run screaming like a little girl from townhall meetings?

Princess Obama Derangement Syndrome

Michelle Obama, in her own words.

Florida Muslim Student Admits Supporting Terrorists

The NAACP has voiced concerns over an animals shelters promotion called "Black is Beautiful" to try and sell animals with darks coats.  Are these idiots serious?

Achmoonijihad taunting the west again.

Socialism cannot work in the US...why it exists in Europe...And Why Democrats suck.

National Council Of La Raza And Wachovia Launch $16.25 Million Partnership To Advance Economic Development In U.S. Latino Communities.

Weekend Things...

That's all for now folks!

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OBAMA'S FIRST 100 DAYS

Welcome to Obamaland.  I couldn't have been more sarcastic myself.

World peace will probably be first on the agenda. Obama, as president, will give all those dictators a good talking to. He’ll make them see the error of their ways and during the first 100 days of his presidency, the first plank of the Obama World Peace Initiative will take hold: Peace through negotiation. Thugs will lay down their arms, Iran will halt their nuclear program and N. Korea will join the community of man.

Once Obama has shown these bad boys the error of their ways, he’ll be ready to tackle his next big job -saving the earth from melting. Of course, this will require a temporary halt to capitalism but hey, ya gotta break a few eggs, right?

Obama will explain that saving Mother Earth will require both blind faith and lots of cash. And we’ll believe him because he sounds so, well, so passionate and truthful. The United Nations has already laid the groundwork and come up with a price tag. According to the IEA, a mere $45 trillion bucks should do the job.

Thanks Nancy for the perspective read the rest here.

THE ELUSIVE "GAFFEHUSSEIN"

If Obama's wife or supporters don't do him in, he'll do himself in with his constant displays of complete inadequacy.  Take his tele-prompter away and he's like an epileptic in a strobe light factory.  I wouldn't let the guy run a Burger King drive-thru much less our beloved republic.  Dick Morris has convinced me that's why Hillary didn't really quit.

Taps please, Hussein will never win.  see-dubya has smart guy coverage.

 

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NEWS & OPIONION ROUNDUP (9 JUNE 2008)

Fred Thompson talks about "Adhering to the Principles that Keep America Prosperous & Free."  How did we let him slip away and end up with McCain?

Congress still hasn't worked this out?

$4 average per gallon of gas.  And it's definitely NOT a socialist democrats fault.  They would never be paid off to hinder new drilling would they?

Surprise!  America is still a horrible, misogynistic republic.  No offense ladies, but enough with this crap already.

Good news from Iraq.

Another libtard gets it all wrong when applauding Hispanic groups boycott of CNN.  Read the quote and tell me if you don't see the complete failure in the logic.

Here's hoping they and their allies can help improve the quality of cable television and the standard of living for illegal immigrants. Just because people are in this country illegally — but helping the nation in countless ways — doesn't mean they can't be treated with dignity and respect.

I'm confused.  Did George Soros actually get in front of a senate committee and explain that it was not the oil companies at fault for high fuel cost?  Or is he profiting from it as well and simply a foreign interloper sent to create chaos in our markets?

Islam, Oil, Elections and America - Nice opinion piece.

Keith Ellison, our first Muslim congressman, is a turd.  A fresh, squishy turd.

Hi!  I'm a part of the liberal media, if you see Barack, would you ask him to put his penis in my mouth?

Florida House District 44 seat being threatened by a socialist take over.

Michelle (America is a racist Nation) Obama is scheduled to co-host The View.  But remember, no matter what she says, we are NOT allowed to criticize her, no matter how Marxist and un-American her words most probably will be.

That Hugo Chavez is such a jokester.  A "bicycle" factory being built in the socialist dictatorship of Venezuela, with the aid of Iran, is producing bicycles, NOT nukes.  Why would a bunch of desert folk, spend all this time and money to help Chavez, build a bicycle factory?  I smell a rat.

As I said before, the climate change loons are going to unleash the largest redistribution of income ever in 2009.  Green is the new communist red.

Remember William "dollar bill" Jefferson from Louisiana?  The Lunch Counter tells us that more of the Jefferson clan are being indicted on charges of fraud.

Karl at Protein Wisdom shares the news that Allahpundit uncovered a Kostard who is hopping mad that John McCain gets disability payments for injuries sustained as a POW.  On a side note I must add that this same idiot probably thinks its perfectly fine that there are families in America who have lived off of government welfare for several generations.

More bed wetters mad about the check-points set up in a D.C. suburb to help curb violence in the area.  Here's an idea for you, don't act like an animal and you won't get treated like one.  But that's probably more logic than can be understood.

Patriotism stands in the way of uniting us under a one-world government administered by the Socialist International?

Reparations?  Remember, black people CANNOT be racist.

Imagine that, socialism doesn't work.

The "LOL" of the day, Iran to help plan U.N. anti racism conference.

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McCAIN-JINDAL IN '08 T-SHIRTS AND BUMPER STICKERS

Earlier I watched an interview of Bobby Jindal by Geraldo and doggonit, I like the guy.  The words coming from his mouth are all the right one's and like an Obamasissy I almost fainted!  KIDDING!

Let me be the first? to offer McCain - Jindal in '08 t-shirts and bumper stickers.

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NEWS & OPINION ROUNDUP (6 JUNE 2008)

Still no smoking gun with the now famed but elusive Michelle Obama "Whitey" tape.  Maybe someone's waiting on 4th of July?  I'm watching the Free Republic thread for any signs of life.

Some coverage of that pathetic disgrace to a bag of flesh, Cindy Sheehan.

A baby said, "your not aborting me assholes!".

Transgender whackadoodles upset that AIDS data collection not differentiating them from other AIDS patients.  I don't know, go read it and see if you can make sense of it.

Center for American Progress, the communist think tank funded by Soros and his diseased minion try to compare President Hoover to President Bush on the economy?  A swipe at conservatism and our president is all it is folks.

Congress on Thursday sent a $290 billion farm bill to President Bush for a second time in an effort to fix a printing error that has threatened the delivery of U.S. food aid abroad.

The bombing of a Danish embassy because of a cartoon caricature of Muhammed is President Bush's fault?

Obama's Nation of Islam ties.

Who fund's these idiots?

Double Plus Undead still zombie free...

The American Public Needs Better Info.

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The Materialist Faith of Communism, Socialism, and Liberalism.

Israel moving toward using force in Gaza, personally I wish they would just unleash on each other and be done with this centuries old squabble over real estate.  To the victor goes the spoils.

Hezbollah in Nigeria?  Hell, why not, what better place to increase your ranks.

Right Wing Nuthouse has the exclusive transcript to the Barack/Hillary meeting.

This Time article suggest that if Obama were to go to Iraq he would only be subjected to disinformation from our military and he relies on history from the Carter administration to make his point.  What a dick.

So illegals enter the country, find work and the racist group, La Raza, bitch and moan because some "study" says more Hispanics die in the workforce than "other" U.S. workers.  Answer to the problem: DON'T FUCKING COME HERE THEN!

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Nice Deb introduces us to the "Obamanation".

Nigerians have Obama fever too?  Of course they do, they know the Marxist with the Muslim name would ultimately weaken and/or destroy America.

Fatah and Hamas agree to sit and have a talk, Putin is pleased and I'm going to go to the bathroom and talk to the shampoo bottle and accomplish more than they will.

More opinion on the tax and spend scheme cooked up by enviro-commies that Obama AND McCain support.

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Sorry so late folks... like anyone reads this anyway.

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BLAST FROM THE PAST - BILL COSBY SAY'S SOMETHING LOGICAL AND MAKES THE ILLOGICAL MAD

This is older, I received it in an email today (Thanks Ed!) and in light of recent race hysteria generated by those surrounding the puppet Marxist Obama, I thought it was timely enough to repeat.

They’re standing on the corner and they can’t speak English. I can’t even talk the way these people talk: Why you ain’t, Where you is, What he drive, Where he stay, Where he work, Who you be… And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk.

Everybody knows it’s important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can’t be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.

People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we’ve got these knuckleheads walking around. The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids. $500 sneakers for what? And they won’t spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.

I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was 2? Where were you when he was 12? Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn’t know that he had a pistol? And where is the father? Or who is his father?

People putting their clothes on backward: Isn’t that a sign of something gone wrong? People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn’t that a sign of something? Or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up? Isn’t it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?

What part of Africa did this come from? We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don’t know a thing about Africa. With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap, and all of them are in jail.

Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person’s problem. We have got to take the neighborhood back. People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different ‘husbands’ — or men or whatever you call them now. We have millionaire football players who cannot read. We have million-dollar basketball players who can’t write two paragraphs. We as black folks have to do a better job. Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us. We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.

We cannot blame the white people any longer.

The full transcript of Mr. Bill Cosby’s Pound Cake speech at the 50th Anniversary commemoration of the Brown vs Topeka Board of Education Supreme Court Decision

Of course, Mr. Cosby was attacked for his words.  You didn't think the government dependant serfs were going to let this slide did you?  Sad really how those that truly don't know any better fly into a rage at the mere mention of those two horrible, foreign words, personal and responsibility.

Bill Cosby has some nerve talking about “personal responsibility.” On May 17, with no warning, the 67-year-old multimillionaire comedian ambushed three venerable Black organizations – the NAACP, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, and Howard University – fatally disrupting a gala celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Brown desegregation decision. Cosby drew from the hip (or the lip) to spray the hall with generalized insults against people who weren’t even there: the Black poor who, he said, “are not holding up their end in this deal.”

Apparently, Cosby thinks he is one of the deal-makers, and that he’s been cheated. The mostly Black, tuxedoed attendees at Washington’s Constitution Hall, forced to bear witness to Cosby’s tirade, were also to blame “in this deal” since they had collectively failed to sufficiently call the “lower economic people” to account for their “personal responsibility” deficits. 

Not once did it occur to “Cos” that he owed his immediate and larger audience the benefit of a well-prepared presentation. Dr. Cosby saw no need to buttress his rant with a single reliable fact, nor to provide a coherent structure for his argument, so that reasonable people might arrive at some useful conclusions. Instead, he played the elderly “shock jock,” frothing and flailing away, spewing a sewer of abuse that, if directed against other ethnic groups, would be considered blood libels. (See a compilation of “Cosbyisms” at the end of this essay.)

The super-successful entertainer, famed for his practiced timing and flawless delivery, the evangelist of education – the discipline in which he received his Ph.D. –  displayed an utter disrespect for his audience and for the august occasion of the anniversary. His extended outburst, presented without the evident benefit of even the most rudimentary preparation, was a gross violation of professional and personal discipline – an affront Cosby would never commit against a half-drunk nightclub crowd, much less the corporate and university audiences he regularly addresses. Yet he gave free rein to his inner demons in front of a throng of African Americans at Constitution Hall on the anniversary of Brown.

The irresponsible icon

Icons always have apologists; Cosby has a media-full. Black people who should be insulted, instead make excuses for Cosby’s shameful, impulsive, totally uninhibited behavior that, in a non-icon, would invite suspicions of substance abuse.

USA Today’s Black columnist DeWayne Wickham – normally a smart fellow – sugarcoats Cosby’s bile as “talking black” – as if Black discussions of public policy, including subjects as momentous as the Fate of the Race, are by definition devoid of substance, structure, precision or logic. A similar exculpatory current runs through most corporate newspaper columns penned by Black writers in the wake of the Cosby abomination. 

Amazingly, the out-of-control, grotesquely self-indulgent comedian was roundly praised for his “courage” in confronting the supposed Black phobia against “airing dirty linen” in public, i.e., within hearing distance of whites. How perverse and ironic! Much of the Black talking classes forgive Cosby’s clear lack of a sense of “personal responsibility” and elementary decorum, precisely because to do otherwise would risk diminishing a Black icon – in front of white people! Better to let Cosby’s insults to African Americans, slide.

And since when was it an act of courage to badmouth poor Black people in America?

By simple standards of civility Cosby is guilty of an extreme lapse in “personal responsibility” by dint of his behavior to his audience and to the millions of people he slandered. More to the point, Cosby doesn’t know the meaning of the term – and neither do most of the Black chatterers who have been bandying it about.

Role Model mogul

What do the various political actors mean by “personal responsibility?” Certainly, we know that in the mouths of Republicans and their Black camp followers “personal responsibility” is a code for what people are told to exercise when the state refuses to see to the general welfare of its non-rich citizens. We know that song. But what does Cosby mean, and why are otherwise progressive Black writers and politicians bending over backwards to find ways to agree with him?

An enormous vacuity surrounds the Black discussion over Cosby’s remarks. People rush to say “yes” to a term, the definition of which is not necessarily shared or understood. Where does “personal responsibility” end and “social responsibility” begin? If a comedian turned demagogue can hector a substantial portion of a race of people to behave as he (vaguely) commands, then surely he is talking politics, not just giving advice to individuals. Cosby’s politics are in fact rooted on the conservative side of the Black spectrum – that is, when he is being coherent at all. 

The Chicago Tribune’s Clarence Page recalls:

”Cosby was saying the same thing backstage when I interviewed him during my college days. It was 1968, but he didn't want to talk about black power, Black Panthers or cultural revolutions. He wanted to complain about why so many young blacks of my generation were wasting the great opportunities that hard-won civil rights victories had brought us. In those politically polarized times, I was disappointed by his traditionalist attitude. But I appreciate its wisdom today with new eyes, the eyes of a parent.”

Actually, Page appreciates Cosby with the “new” eyes of a highly paid corporate journalist who finds enough common ground with white conservatives to appear regularly on shows like The McLaughlin Group.

Thirty-two years later, Cosby was still urging young people on campus to be politically passive. At Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in May, 2000, he warned students:

”Those of you going to grad school, listen to me carefully… I know you have an idea of how you want to make a change in the world. That is not what grad school is for. Do what they tell you to do and then when you graduate, do what you want to do. That is what grad school is for. If you're gonna argue with the professor you're going to not get a good grade, you're not going to graduate in grad school. Okay? So take your young idea, study what they want you to study, kick tail and then when you get your turn to write your dissertation then you tell it the way it ought to be told.

”It is not for you to stand up and argue… You get an A on all the tests and then, make your move.”

By that, Cosby meant, make your personal career move. Don’t dabble in campus politics, or challenge the orthodoxy of those in power at the institution. Shut up.

Because of men and women who shared Cosby’s worldview, many Black college campuses were relatively quiet during the Civil Rights Movement, a silence enforced by Black administrators who did not hesitate to expel students and fire faculty who sought any change whatsoever in the status quo, on or off campus. Later in the Sixties, Blacks on white college campuses tended to be significantly more activist than students at traditionally Black schools, largely because they were not smothered by a “tradition” hostile to mass Black political activity.

Cosby advocates a neutered Black politics of individual striving within the parameters that are allowed by those in power.  He projects his own, self-invented persona as a “role model” for African Americans to follow as individuals, while rejecting collective action to alter power relationships. His message: Each of you people should do as I did. Cosby’s  method is derived from a long line of accommodationist Negro leaders whose message was the equivalent of, “Eat your Jell-O.”

Ironically, the young Cosby did not follow traditionalist counsel. He dropped out of college to pursue the wildly perilous career of Black standup comedian in a largely segregated America. Had he failed as a comic – as the odds overwhelmingly dictated – without a good education he might not have been able to buy his mother a fine house far from the projects where he grew up. Luckily, Cosby the dropout didn’t listen to people like – Cosby.

Spurned, vengeful benefactor

Cosby bucked the odds, but never the system. His job was to become a Role Model for a Black presence within the existing order. Once that was accomplished, he added a make-believe family to the Model: the Huxtables. Writer Khalil Tian Shahyd “wasn’t surprised at all” at the tone of Cosby’s Constitution Hall remarks:

After all, for more than a decade he presented us every Thursday with what he thought the ideal African-American family should look like. That we should listen to jazz, and have people like BB King come into our home for dinner and invite us to sit front row at his shows. Take weekend trips by limo to the most expensive hotel in the city for dinner and pampering just to treat our partners to a day without the children. Live in a big house with not one neighbor of color, where our children shave their heads to appear in a skin head rock video and are sheltered from the real world of zero sum politics, gentrification, under-funded and abandoned school districts, swelling prison populations, racial profiling, economic marginalization, domestic abuse and all those specifically “poverty based social ills.”

In addition to making Cosby a lot richer, the TV show proved that a Black-cast show could hold white people’s attention in prime time for multiple seasons.  This was considered a great victory.  The ideal Black Role Model – Cosby himself, or the self he created – was now the entire nation’s Role Model for Black people. Heady stuff.

Role Model Politics is nearly as emotion-laden as cult-of-personality politics – and just as divorced from reality. The Role Model is, by definition, the template of righteousness and progress. Those who fail to follow the Role Model’s path are rejecting the Model’s persona. No wonder Cosby goes ballistic at poor Black people’s behavior – or what he imagines that behavior to be. He takes it personally. It’s as if “those people” are all playing the “dozens” at his expense. How else to explain the explosive vitriol of Cosby’s Constitution Hall performance?

However, Cosby’s inability to perceive that he is obligated as a matter of “personal responsibility” to atone for his blanket verbal assaults, is his personal problem. It is far more worrisome that so many Black opinion molders harbor similar attitudes towards politics and the poor. Cosby showed his ass, but the same ill winds are blowing through the spaces in lots of Black skulls in high places. Deep down, they value other Black people little, and trust them less. They would rather celebrate virtual social mobility (the “Huxtables”) than fight for the material resources that bring the possibility of dignity to millions. They see more virtue in a millionaire parting with a fraction of his money – although never enough to risk falling out of wealth – than in the selfless work of thousands of community organizers and activists who are motivated by a sense of both personal and social responsibility.

Dr. King and Malcolm X and Fred Hampton died in a social struggle to empower Black people. Cosby demonizes these same people, employing the enemy’s language, like some vengeful,  spurned benefactor. Yet much of Black media pretend not to see the throbbing ugliness in their icon, thus calling into question their own fitness. In the face of a brazen assault on the human dignity of African Americans, they equivocate – or join in the mass lynching. Mimicking racists, they impose yet another burden on the already super-disadvantaged Black poor. As Paul Street wrote in the April 8 issue of :

”The harsh material and structural-racist reality of American society interacts with timeworn, victim-blaming ruling-class explanations of poverty to play an ugly game on the nation’s most truly disadvantaged.  They are expected to magically leap beyond their social-historical circumstances – to exercise an inordinately high degree of sound personal responsibility just to keep their heads above water – while others are structurally empowered to “pass Go and collect $2 million” without such exercise, and indeed to deepen the well of black disadvantage.”

If huge numbers of Black people could be drawn together to figure out precisely how we have failed each other, that would be one helluva “social responsibility” conversation.  But the Bill Cosbys of the community cannot be allowed to hog the microphone, just because they may have paid for it. As journalist-educator-lawyer-activist Lizz Brown says, “That doesn’t give him license.”

In truth, we can’t afford Bill Cosby anymore. He costs more than he gives.

Bill Cosbyisms

Cosby on the Black poor:

"Lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids – $500 sneakers for what? And won't spend $200 for 'Hooked on Phonics.' "

Cosby on Black youth culture:

"People putting their clothes on backwards: Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong? ... People with their hats on backwards, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something, or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up? Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up to the crack and got all type of needles [piercings] going through her body? What part of Africa did this come from? Those people are not Africans; they don't know a damn thing about Africa."

Cosby on civil rights:

"Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem. We have got to take the neighborhood back. We have to go in there – forget about telling your child to go into the Peace Corps – it is right around the corner. They are standing on the corner and they can't speak English."

Cosby on literacy:

"Basketball players – multimillionaires – can't write a paragraph. Football players – multimillionaires – can't read. Yes, multimillionaires. Well, Brown versus Board of Education: Where are we today? They paved the way, but what did we do with it? That white man, he's laughing. He's got to be laughing: 50 percent drop out, the rest of them are in prison."

Cosby on poor Black women:

"Five, six children – same woman – eight, 10 different husbands or whatever. Pretty soon you are going to have DNA cards to tell who you are making love to. You don't know who this is. It might be your grandmother. I am telling you, they're young enough! Hey, you have a baby when you are 12; your baby turns 13 and has a baby. How old are you? Huh? Grandmother! By the time you are 12 you can have sex with your grandmother, you keep those numbers coming. I'm just predicting."

Cosby on the sons and daughters of poor, Black, unmarried mothers:

"…with names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed [!] and all of that crap, and all of them are in jail.

Cosby on Blacks shot by police:

"These are not political criminals. These are people going around stealing Coca-Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake and then we run out and we are outraged,  [saying] 'The cops shouldn't have shot him.' What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand?"

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THOSE MOVERED.ORG KIDS AT IT AGAIN

Does my heart good to see these young folks at work.  This time they play a little cat and mouse with some Ron Paul supporters.

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