SHOUT HEEVAHAVA, SHOUT! Crache ton venin!
Updated
"No-bama!" From Ohio, transmitted around the world, courtesy of AP, creating the impression we're all doughy cranks.
Wow! Big surprise! John McCain and Sarah Palin were in Bethlehem, Pennsyltucky, yesterday, and don't you forget it. In Coopersburg, for Hannity & Colmes, amiably chatting about Bill Ayers. If you hung with a terrorist, what did that make you? And if you would vote for a guy who hung with a terrorist, what did that MAKE YOU?!
And on the frontpage of today's LA Times, datelined Bethlehem, were DD once lived and went to school. Again creating the impression that a substantial number of people in Pennsyltucky are cretins -- something DD knows to be patently untrue. (Although, I'll concede some readers may not believe this.)
"The edgy tone of the rally [in Bethlehem's Lehigh University] was set even before the duo arrived onstage, when local Republican official William Platt warmed up the audience by twice referring to the Democratic nominee as "Barack Hussein Obama," reported Peter Nicholas.
"[It is a practice] critics contend is meant to peddle the false notion that Obama is Muslim. He is Christian," wrote the reporter.
Critics, but not the dumb ass, masquerading as an objective journalist, writing the piece.
"The crowd jeered when Obama's name was mentioned. People crowded into the gymnasium yelled out, 'He's a radical!' and in a play on his name, 'Abomination!'"
The latter has a certain Biblical quality.
"Sarah's hot!" yelled another person, according to the newspaper.
DD doesn't put much stock in outbursts furnished for color in current news coverage of the race. While it looks ugly, stupid and desperate -- ugly, stupid and desperate people are a dime a dozen in the US. Many of them vote. And perhaps many of them, as your host has reckoned before, while liking a good symbolic hate party, will be found face down and mumbling in some bar on election day rather than in the voting booth.
It's way too easy for reporters to record the spew of cranks and send it worldwide.
If only we had had a reporter from the Pottsville Republican at Pine Grove High School football games in the early Seventies. There was one season-ticket holder in his late twenties who continually embarrassed his community.
The Pine Grove High Football Cardinals were not a good team. In fact, they struggled to keep even home games close. When the other team would score, or a penalty flag would go against us, our special heevahava would shout "Homers!" -- the insult you hurl at referees when you're a visitor AT AN AWAY GAME.
"HOMERS!" the guy yelled. Again and again. So loud, you could hear it everywhere within the small field.
If you were at the far end of the stadium, the "r" sort of got lost in the wind, making it sound like "HOMOS!" Which made for a double dose of embarrassment.
We didn't have the mainstream media to send a picture of HOMERS-guy, mouth open in mid-cry, worldwide, though.
Hey Heevahava! Wave that "Obama will gut our military" sign! Speaking of gut ... this ad was paid for by the Lehigh Valley chapter of Obese White Guys for McCain/Palin.
Left out of much of the news from Lehigh University's Stabler Arena rally was another tidbit from a French journalist.
"Republican presidential nominee John McCain has taken to asking, 'Who is the real Barack Obama?' at rallies this week, leading one supporter in Pennsylvania, a blue-collar battleground state to shout back, 'he is a bomb,' reported AFP here.
"Before the rally, local Republican leader Bill Platt warmed up the crowd by several times referring to 'Barack Hussein Obama,' focusing on the Illinois senator's middle name, trying to highlight his differences with other Americans.
"Chants of 'Nobama, Nobama' mingled with cries of 'terrorist,' as one banner in the crowd declared: 'Go ahead, let the dogs out.'"
Perhaps unsurprisingly, no American news agency chose to note the "let the dogs out" sign. Was the French reporter being accurate?
Hard to say.
So DD went to the website of the Morning Call newspaper in Allentown. Lehigh University in Bethlehem is the Call's territory and it sent at least three reporters to the event.
None of them reported much, except for one rather tepid story, which mentioned Platt had been inundated with telephone calls after his use of "Barack Hussein Obama."
Another here was a puff piece on Palin's rockstar-like treatment in the Lehigh Valley. A third did some nut-picking, interviewing one crank who claimed she shifted her voter registration to Democrat to vote against Obama in the primary, and now is back to being a Republican.
"Virginia Salvatore of Bethlehem said she switched her registration to Democrat just to vote against Obama in Pennsylvania's April primary," reported the Call. "She changed it back afterward ... 'I'm so scared of him getting in,' said Salvatore, 70. 'Not enough is known about him. And I don't think enough emphasis is put on his friends and his voting.'"
The Bethlehem chapter of Obese White Guys for McCain/Palin makes it to England, here at The Telegraph.
Hey Heevahava! From the archive.
Updated
"No-bama!" From Ohio, transmitted around the world, courtesy of AP, creating the impression we're all doughy cranks.
Wow! Big surprise! John McCain and Sarah Palin were in Bethlehem, Pennsyltucky, yesterday, and don't you forget it. In Coopersburg, for Hannity & Colmes, amiably chatting about Bill Ayers. If you hung with a terrorist, what did that make you? And if you would vote for a guy who hung with a terrorist, what did that MAKE YOU?!
And on the frontpage of today's LA Times, datelined Bethlehem, were DD once lived and went to school. Again creating the impression that a substantial number of people in Pennsyltucky are cretins -- something DD knows to be patently untrue. (Although, I'll concede some readers may not believe this.)
"The edgy tone of the rally [in Bethlehem's Lehigh University] was set even before the duo arrived onstage, when local Republican official William Platt warmed up the audience by twice referring to the Democratic nominee as "Barack Hussein Obama," reported Peter Nicholas.
"[It is a practice] critics contend is meant to peddle the false notion that Obama is Muslim. He is Christian," wrote the reporter.
Critics, but not the dumb ass, masquerading as an objective journalist, writing the piece.
"The crowd jeered when Obama's name was mentioned. People crowded into the gymnasium yelled out, 'He's a radical!' and in a play on his name, 'Abomination!'"
The latter has a certain Biblical quality.
"Sarah's hot!" yelled another person, according to the newspaper.
DD doesn't put much stock in outbursts furnished for color in current news coverage of the race. While it looks ugly, stupid and desperate -- ugly, stupid and desperate people are a dime a dozen in the US. Many of them vote. And perhaps many of them, as your host has reckoned before, while liking a good symbolic hate party, will be found face down and mumbling in some bar on election day rather than in the voting booth.
It's way too easy for reporters to record the spew of cranks and send it worldwide.
If only we had had a reporter from the Pottsville Republican at Pine Grove High School football games in the early Seventies. There was one season-ticket holder in his late twenties who continually embarrassed his community.
The Pine Grove High Football Cardinals were not a good team. In fact, they struggled to keep even home games close. When the other team would score, or a penalty flag would go against us, our special heevahava would shout "Homers!" -- the insult you hurl at referees when you're a visitor AT AN AWAY GAME.
"HOMERS!" the guy yelled. Again and again. So loud, you could hear it everywhere within the small field.
If you were at the far end of the stadium, the "r" sort of got lost in the wind, making it sound like "HOMOS!" Which made for a double dose of embarrassment.
We didn't have the mainstream media to send a picture of HOMERS-guy, mouth open in mid-cry, worldwide, though.
Hey Heevahava! Wave that "Obama will gut our military" sign! Speaking of gut ... this ad was paid for by the Lehigh Valley chapter of Obese White Guys for McCain/Palin.
Left out of much of the news from Lehigh University's Stabler Arena rally was another tidbit from a French journalist.
"Republican presidential nominee John McCain has taken to asking, 'Who is the real Barack Obama?' at rallies this week, leading one supporter in Pennsylvania, a blue-collar battleground state to shout back, 'he is a bomb,' reported AFP here.
"Before the rally, local Republican leader Bill Platt warmed up the crowd by several times referring to 'Barack Hussein Obama,' focusing on the Illinois senator's middle name, trying to highlight his differences with other Americans.
"Chants of 'Nobama, Nobama' mingled with cries of 'terrorist,' as one banner in the crowd declared: 'Go ahead, let the dogs out.'"
Perhaps unsurprisingly, no American news agency chose to note the "let the dogs out" sign. Was the French reporter being accurate?
Hard to say.
So DD went to the website of the Morning Call newspaper in Allentown. Lehigh University in Bethlehem is the Call's territory and it sent at least three reporters to the event.
None of them reported much, except for one rather tepid story, which mentioned Platt had been inundated with telephone calls after his use of "Barack Hussein Obama."
Another here was a puff piece on Palin's rockstar-like treatment in the Lehigh Valley. A third did some nut-picking, interviewing one crank who claimed she shifted her voter registration to Democrat to vote against Obama in the primary, and now is back to being a Republican.
"Virginia Salvatore of Bethlehem said she switched her registration to Democrat just to vote against Obama in Pennsylvania's April primary," reported the Call. "She changed it back afterward ... 'I'm so scared of him getting in,' said Salvatore, 70. 'Not enough is known about him. And I don't think enough emphasis is put on his friends and his voting.'"
The Bethlehem chapter of Obese White Guys for McCain/Palin makes it to England, here at The Telegraph.
Hey Heevahava! From the archive.
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