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Offline WinOne4TheGipper

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Mark Steyn: Racist dog whistles and the men who hear them
« on: August 31, 2012, 04:29:41 PM »
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American racism is starting to remind me of American alcoholism. At the founding of the republic, in the days when beer was thought of as "liquid bread" and a healthy nutritional breakfast, Americans drank about three-to-four times as much as they do now. Today the United States has a lower per capita rate of alcohol consumption than almost any other developed nation, but it has more alcoholism support groups than any other developed nation – around 164 groups per million people. France, which drinks about 50 percent more per capita than America, has one-twentieth the number of support groups. The French and Italians enjoy drinking, the English and Irish enjoy getting drunk, and Americans enjoy getting drunk on ever more absurd stigmatizatory excess. At Walmart they card you if you "appear to be under" – what is it up to now? 43? 57? And the citizenry take this as a compliment: Well-preserved grandmothers return from failed attempts to purchase a bottle of wine with gay cries of, "I was carded at Costco! They've made my weekend!"
And so it goes with American racism: The less there is, the more extravagantly the racism-awareness lobby patrols its beat. The Walmart carding clerks of the media are ever more alert to those who "appear to be" racist. On MSNBC, Chris Matthews declared this week that Republicans use "Chicago" as a racist code word. Not to be outdone, his colleague Lawrence O'Donnell pronounced "golf" a racist code word. When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell observed that Obama was "working to earn a spot on the PGA tour," O'Donnell brilliantly perceived that subliminally associating Obama with golf is racist, because the word "golf" is subliminally associated with "Tiger Woods," and the word "Tiger" is not-so-subliminally associated with cocktail waitress Jamie Grubbs, nightclub hostess Rachel Uchitel, lingerie model Jamie Jungers, former porn star Holly Sampson, etc, etc. So by using the word "golf" you're sending a racist dog whistle that Obama is a sex addict who reverses over fire hydrants.

http://m.ocregister.com/opinion/racist-370103-white-dog.html
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Re: Re: Mark Steyn: Racist dog whistles and the men who hear them
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2012, 04:42:55 PM »
Pathetic.  All the left has is to claim racism when they have nothing positive to run on.
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Re: Mark Steyn: Racist dog whistles and the men who hear them
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2012, 05:33:53 PM »
Golf.

There. I said it.
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Re: Mark Steyn: Racist dog whistles and the men who hear them
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Re: Mark Steyn: Racist dog whistles and the men who hear them
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2012, 06:00:28 PM »
I think the next step downwards for the Dims will be to deride anyone who criticizes the Failure in Chief as an ALCOHOLIC racist.

The guidelines to establish whether or not one is alcoholic are as ridiculous as the Democrat party.

I'm glad our forefathers didn't have poles shoved up their rectums when they crafted our Declaration of Independence and so forth.  Really illuminating book entitled Joy of Drinking illustrates just how far from "guidelines" our Founding Fathers were.
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Re: Mark Steyn: Racist dog whistles and the men who hear them
« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2012, 02:55:58 PM »
Someone once said the definition of an alcoholic was someone who drank more than his doctor.

I can see that.

Oh, and "Chicago"!
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Re: Mark Steyn: Racist dog whistles and the men who hear them
« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2012, 03:06:16 PM »
Some are making my job of banning words more simple.
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Re: Mark Steyn: Racist dog whistles and the men who hear them
« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2012, 03:22:39 PM »
We need to run that golfer out of the White House back to Chicago where he belongs.
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