Comments on: Dog Whistle, My Ass http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/12/21/12/dog-whistle-my-ass/ Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:25:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: mbw http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/12/21/12/dog-whistle-my-ass/#comment-138357 mbw Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:49:47 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/12/21/12/dog-whistle-my-ass/#comment-138357 Abby, WTF? Ferraro isn't a "Boomer" - you don't even know what you're talking about. She was born in the early 1930s, during the Depression, one of the "Greatest Generation". Boomers are post-WWII - born 1946 to 1964. What you really meant to say was "old" or "over 30". You know, Boomers used to say that too = when they were young and ignorant. Abby, WTF? Ferraro isn’t a “Boomer” - you don’t even know what you’re talking about. She was born in the early 1930s, during the Depression, one of the “Greatest Generation”. Boomers are post-WWII - born 1946 to 1964.

What you really meant to say was “old” or “over 30″. You know, Boomers used to say that too = when they were young and ignorant.

]]> By: Abby http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/12/21/12/dog-whistle-my-ass/#comment-138354 Abby Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:56:43 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/12/21/12/dog-whistle-my-ass/#comment-138354 Ferraro's comments and her response to the uproar over them are a perfect illustration of her generation's attitude toward race, life, the universe and everything. The boomers don't apologize, they don't change their minds, they don't explain themselves. They expect the world to bend to their whims. In reality, they are about to suffer the fate that they themselves have arranged for themselves: old age in a country that doesn't give a crap about the elderly. Their sunny dispositions and intransigent selfishness aren't going to win them any friends in the gloaming of their wasted lives, either. Ferraro is merely the modern archetype of a generation lost in its own delusions of what is right and what it deserves from the universe. Ferraro’s comments and her response to the uproar over them are a perfect illustration of her generation’s attitude toward race, life, the universe and everything. The boomers don’t apologize, they don’t change their minds, they don’t explain themselves. They expect the world to bend to their whims. In reality, they are about to suffer the fate that they themselves have arranged for themselves: old age in a country that doesn’t give a crap about the elderly. Their sunny dispositions and intransigent selfishness aren’t going to win them any friends in the gloaming of their wasted lives, either.
Ferraro is merely the modern archetype of a generation lost in its own delusions of what is right and what it deserves from the universe.

]]> By: Susie http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/12/21/12/dog-whistle-my-ass/#comment-138346 Susie Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:04:57 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/12/21/12/dog-whistle-my-ass/#comment-138346 So clearly you think white, working class, uneducated voters are inherently stupid and racist. Is that that inclusive "new politics" I keep reading about? So clearly you think white, working class, uneducated voters are inherently stupid and racist. Is that that inclusive “new politics” I keep reading about?

]]> By: NAPatriot http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/12/21/12/dog-whistle-my-ass/#comment-138344 NAPatriot Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:50:27 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/12/21/12/dog-whistle-my-ass/#comment-138344 I agree it was never Ferraro's intention to dog whistle. She's not that smart. It was, however, the Clinton campaign's slow and tepid response that some of our less sophisticated voters in Pennsylvania heard. And believe me, they got it loud and clear. Hillary knows just where the line is...and she played this one just about perfectly. She'll win big in PA with white, working class, uneducated voters. I agree it was never Ferraro’s intention to dog whistle. She’s not that smart. It was, however, the Clinton campaign’s slow and tepid response that some of our less sophisticated voters in Pennsylvania heard. And believe me, they got it loud and clear.

Hillary knows just where the line is…and she played this one just about perfectly. She’ll win big in PA with white, working class, uneducated voters.

]]> By: Susie http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/12/21/12/dog-whistle-my-ass/#comment-138343 Susie Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:37:57 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/12/21/12/dog-whistle-my-ass/#comment-138343 You know, I'm a longtime student of Carl Jung, and I have to say, the man really WAS a genius. You know, I’m a longtime student of Carl Jung, and I have to say, the man really WAS a genius.

]]> By: Anthony Kennerson http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/12/21/12/dog-whistle-my-ass/#comment-138340 Anthony Kennerson Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:18:36 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/12/21/12/dog-whistle-my-ass/#comment-138340 Nice try of defending Ferraro (and by extension, Hillary), Susie, except for one small problem: when the comments did in fact make it to the big media markets, Ferraro didn't repudiate or tone them down at all; in fact, she actually intensified and defended her crass remarks. This was no flippant comment by Ferraro, whether cancer-induced or not; this was a deliberate attempt to play the race card and to slam Obama as some form of undeserving Black candidate. And the fact that Hillary did next to nothing to repudiate Ferraro's comments says a hell of a lot about her (Hillary's) strategy of winning at all costs or bringing the Democratic Party down to the ground for her own personal political benefit. And before you dismiss me as an Obama cultist, you should know that I'm not even a registered Democrat, and that I reject both Clinton and Obama as too conservative and corpratist; my vote will be for the Green Party (especially if Cynthia McKinney is their candidate). I dislike Obama's pandering to the Right as much as any Leftist/Progressive; but his offenses pale in comparison to the vile and disgusting racism and destructive politics that Hillary's people have fostered on this campaign. Keith Olbermann was absolutely right on the button tonight in his Special Comment; and anyone who supports Hillary Clinton as the "proven progressive Democrat" should ask themselves how they can continue to defend her campaign in the midst of these latest acts of desperation. Anthony Nice try of defending Ferraro (and by extension, Hillary), Susie, except for one small problem: when the comments did in fact make it to the big media markets, Ferraro didn’t repudiate or tone them down at all; in fact, she actually intensified and defended her crass remarks.
This was no flippant comment by Ferraro, whether cancer-induced or not; this was a deliberate attempt to play the race card and to slam Obama as some form of undeserving Black candidate. And the fact that Hillary did next to nothing to repudiate Ferraro’s comments says a hell of a lot about her (Hillary’s) strategy of winning at all costs or bringing the Democratic Party down to the ground for her own personal political benefit.

And before you dismiss me as an Obama cultist, you should know that I’m not even a registered Democrat, and that I reject both Clinton and Obama as too conservative and corpratist; my vote will be for the Green Party (especially if Cynthia McKinney is their candidate). I dislike Obama’s pandering to the Right as much as any Leftist/Progressive; but his offenses pale in comparison to the vile and disgusting racism and destructive politics that Hillary’s people have fostered on this campaign.

Keith Olbermann was absolutely right on the button tonight in his Special Comment; and anyone who supports Hillary Clinton as the “proven progressive Democrat” should ask themselves how they can continue to defend her campaign in the midst of these latest acts of desperation.

Anthony

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