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Is Wayne Brady Gonna Have to Slap a Bitch?

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Wayne Brady is a funny black comic who can sing. He gets made fun of upon ocassion for being, shall we say, less than gangsta. When Dave Chappelle made a joke about how white people like Wayne Brady because Wayne Brady makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcom X, Wayne came on the show and did a bit, which produced the line “Is Wayne Brady Gonna Have to Choke a Bitch?”

Now, after Bill Maher said twice that he wishes Obama were “less like Wayne Brady and more like Suge Knight,” Wayne Brady has expressed the fervent wish to slap the shit out of Bill Maher in the street. To which one can only say, he’s gonna have a long wait in line.

The Confusion of Bill Maher and My Answer

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Why conservatives are mad at Obama: a short list.

1) He’s a Democrat. We tend not to trust such. They tend to be hostile to us. Call it a reflex.
2) The Stimulus. It sucked. Claims that it saved the economy are curious, inasmuch as the economy is (unexpectedly!) hardly any better than it was. Like a true-blue progressive, Obama ran the full Keynesian playbook, and the ball moved hardly at all.
3) The Auto bailout. Obama moved hell and high water to protect the UAW from the consequences of 30 years of sticking a banana in the tailpipe of our Auto industry. The Unions got to keep on keepin’ on and the taxpayers got Chevy Volts.
4) ObamaCare. Yes, It should more properly be called “PelosiCare” after the legislative genius who told us we would have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it. But Obama signed the thing, putting himself squarely in the camp of his party’s left wing. Whereupon he started granting waivers to any institution with sufficient pull (upwards of 1000 now).
5) Fast and Furious. The government gave guns to Mexican drug cartels and got a U.S. Border Agent killed. None of this is in dispute, and Eric Holder acts as though even discussing the matter is an annoyance that someone in his position shouldn’t have to bother with. Questions start getting begged.
6) The Endless Tax Rates Kabuki. Because the President, despite his own party’s deep ties to the financial service’s industry, can’t miss an opportunity to play at class warfare, we have to pretend that raising taxes on anyone (aka “letting the Bush tax cuts expire”) is a good idea in this economy. It isn’t, and it just contributes to the chaos that’s slowing down the recovery.

That will do. Claims that the President is a moderate centrist don’t pass the laugh test. He was elected on “Hope” and “Change.” That means a progressive, and the list above (which is just what I could come up with from the top of my head, and is by no means exhaustive) should provide ample evidence that Obama has governed as a progressive. Conservatives, they don’t like progressives. Progressives are pretty much the things Conservatives exist to oppose.

Claims that said opposition is somehow more hateful or out-of-control than in the past ignores American history. Claims that said opposition results from nothing more than naked racism is a boring ad hominem. If Obama were fully white instead of just half-white, his actions would result in the same full-throated opposition, just as Bill Clinton’s (who was a good deal less progressive than Obama) did.

What I hear, both from Maher, and from a good many of you, having skimmed these comments, is a frustrated query as to why these awful conservatives won’t go away. I can sympathize with the desire to wish that one’s political opponents would vanish. But it’s not going to happen, and raging at them doesn’t make at more likely to happen. Call it “Blowback”.

I look forward to reading your replies about how I’m a hateful racist who wants to whip the poor, reduce blacks to slavery, take the right to vote from women, and am otherwise sick, disgusting, and unsafe at any speed.

Did Bill Maher Actually Compare Himself to George Carlin?

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I’m reading Althouse’s Fisking of Maher’s recent yammering crap about his uncomfortable role in the ongoing Limbaugh outrage kabuki, and the only thing I take away is that this tool has the nerve to cast himself as Carlin’s successor.

Lemme explain something to you, Bill: You are not Carlin’s successor. You are not fit to eat Carlin’s mouldering feces. George Carlin had toenails that were funnier than you.

What is the basis of this statement? I spent most of my youth and young adulthood listening to Carlin. My dad had his old 70′s albums on vinyl, and I bought a lot of his 90′s stuff on tape and CD. It was like listening to two different men. 70′s George is cheerful, whimsical, offering questions and ponderings and pariodies. 90′s George is furious, raging, layering thundering denunciations on top of bizarre, off-kilter jokes. What tied the two together was a method focused on language, and the consideration of the assumptions of language. It wasn’t just foul language, although Carlin used dirty words to wonderful effect. There were ideas, or at least questions, underlying the comedy. Carlin was the Diogenes of our age.

Bill Maher may have intended to follow in Carlin’s footpaths, but that’s not where he ended up. I remember watching Maher in his early days, and I thought, even then, that he relied too much on applause lines rather than actual jokes. He’s continued down that road, and is now a standard-issue left-liberal audience-flatterer.

Carlin never flattered his audience; he went out of his way to challenge and offend them. He had no constituencies that he spared, no ideological camp that could count him as one of them. He could raise the Problem of Evil as an attack on religion, and then skewer environmentalists as “smug, self-serving bourgeois liberals.” I don’t know if Carlin ever had a million dollars to spare, but he would have kissed the Pope’s ring before he gave it to a presidential campaign.

The only reason anyone should ever utter Maher’s name in the same sentence as Carlin is to illustrate the decline of Irish-American stand-up comedy. As someone with plenty of green blood, I can tell you that being Irish doesn’t make you funny. As often as not, it makes you a smug, self-serving asshat with more fat on his liver than hair on his head.

Slutty Girls are Slutty (and if that were not enough, *NSFW*)

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“Slut” is not a word I use a lot, personally. I don’t care for the sound of it. I almost never use “cunt” for the same reason: it’s an ugly-sounding, ugly-used little word. When I wish to defame a woman’s reputation (and oh, if I had a nickel for every time I’ve done that), I stick with the poetic “promiscuous trollop.” The archaic usage almost gives the impression of a complement.

Aside from the sound, the logic of “slut” always confused me, no matter what person uses it. As I understand it, a boy uses “slut” to mean “girl who does what I want her to do.” I have never understood that. If you want girls to have sex with you, why would you punish and mock them for doing so? Why wouldn’t you celebrate her? Continue reading →