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wonkette take down the AP for the crappy article they wrote on their crappy push-poll about how up to a quarter of all Democrats won't vote for Obama because he's black, or violent, or lazy or something. It's fucking brilliant.
Now for how the New York Times is very much not keeping Clio sane:
Listen to me, Aaron Sorkin, because I had to listen to your fucking personal issues for 22 episodes of Studio 60: There is no right time for condescension! You really think that condescension is the appropriate response to American anti-intellectualism? Do you remember what happened to Obama's numbers when he condescended to Hillary? Do none of you people remember that the condescension of the left is why we fucking LOST IN 2004? Jesus Christ on a pogo stick what is wrong with you people? Do you really think that you can spend all your time making fun of the "flyover" states and then expect them to vote your ass into office in November?
By the way, that whole riff on how you don't know what white women want? Not actually funny, not because of your notorious women issues (may you never write another female character not played by Alison Janney because, seriously) but mostly because it makes it sound like they all want the same thing. (I say they because I'm not actually white, so I can't say we. But not all black women want to be Michelle Obama, either.) Never mind that it makes a joke about these two guys standing there going, yeah, I don't get women. Yeah, that's just the way to get those weirdo PUMA chicks back, or to make the disappointed Hillary people feel better.
Awesome job, Aaron. By selfishly spewing out all of your frustration you've just put everything that needs to be overcome and most of what's currently wrong with the left on display, and put Obama in a bad light because you know, of course he doesn't know what to do, but Bartlett knows, because in your shows there is always a sage-but-flawed white man who knows what everyone else is supposed to be doing. If I were Karl Rove, I would have found that piece to be hilarious too, but for a completely different reason.
Maybe, just maybe, instead of being offended that the US is full of anti-intellectuals (and hello, it's always been that way; even Jefferson played that game) we should be trying to find a way to say that no, just because I'm intelligent does not mean that I agree with your 7th grade English teacher who told you that you were too stupid to go to college so you might as well get into that vocational-technical school, or that I'm that slick talking fellow who told you to refinance your house so you could send your kid to state school. Maybe if we thought about people's interactions with others who condescend to them, we could get closer to understanding why they worry about folks who are smarter than they are, and we won't get millions of people voting for another George Bush.
So sit down and think for a good long time on this: do you want to win, or would you rather lose because it means that you're too smart for the room? Because, dear American left, I'm really beginning to wonder.
wonkette take down the AP for the crappy article they wrote on their crappy push-poll about how up to a quarter of all Democrats won't vote for Obama because he's black, or violent, or lazy or something. It's fucking brilliant.Now for how the New York Times is very much not keeping Clio sane:
Listen to me, Aaron Sorkin, because I had to listen to your fucking personal issues for 22 episodes of Studio 60: There is no right time for condescension! You really think that condescension is the appropriate response to American anti-intellectualism? Do you remember what happened to Obama's numbers when he condescended to Hillary? Do none of you people remember that the condescension of the left is why we fucking LOST IN 2004? Jesus Christ on a pogo stick what is wrong with you people? Do you really think that you can spend all your time making fun of the "flyover" states and then expect them to vote your ass into office in November?
By the way, that whole riff on how you don't know what white women want? Not actually funny, not because of your notorious women issues (may you never write another female character not played by Alison Janney because, seriously) but mostly because it makes it sound like they all want the same thing. (I say they because I'm not actually white, so I can't say we. But not all black women want to be Michelle Obama, either.) Never mind that it makes a joke about these two guys standing there going, yeah, I don't get women. Yeah, that's just the way to get those weirdo PUMA chicks back, or to make the disappointed Hillary people feel better.
Awesome job, Aaron. By selfishly spewing out all of your frustration you've just put everything that needs to be overcome and most of what's currently wrong with the left on display, and put Obama in a bad light because you know, of course he doesn't know what to do, but Bartlett knows, because in your shows there is always a sage-but-flawed white man who knows what everyone else is supposed to be doing. If I were Karl Rove, I would have found that piece to be hilarious too, but for a completely different reason.
Maybe, just maybe, instead of being offended that the US is full of anti-intellectuals (and hello, it's always been that way; even Jefferson played that game) we should be trying to find a way to say that no, just because I'm intelligent does not mean that I agree with your 7th grade English teacher who told you that you were too stupid to go to college so you might as well get into that vocational-technical school, or that I'm that slick talking fellow who told you to refinance your house so you could send your kid to state school. Maybe if we thought about people's interactions with others who condescend to them, we could get closer to understanding why they worry about folks who are smarter than they are, and we won't get millions of people voting for another George Bush.
So sit down and think for a good long time on this: do you want to win, or would you rather lose because it means that you're too smart for the room? Because, dear American left, I'm really beginning to wonder.
