tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post2627347461146665173..comments2024-03-28T12:25:01.094-04:00Comments on the daily howler: STARTING TOMORROW: Angry versus helpful!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-68914804691772303882023-01-31T10:26:35.026-05:002023-01-31T10:26:35.026-05:00If Somerby were a liberal, this is what he might w...If Somerby were a liberal, this is what he might write. If you read this, try going back and reading Somerby's post and note the differences between the two.<br /><br />"You are here: Home / Crime and Punishment / If Not for Stopping Evil, Then What?<br />If Not for Stopping Evil, Then What?<br />January 31, 2023 at 10:08 am EST By Taegan Goddard 12 Comments<br /><br />I couldn’t bring myself to watch the video of Tyre Nichols being bludgeoned to near death by Memphis police officers.<br /><br />I have a very high tolerance for terrible news, but the description of the beating alone was enough to break me. Knowing that Nichols later died from his injuries was just too much.<br /><br />Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) spoke for nearly everyone when he said on Meet the Press it was “just difficult to watch.”<br /><br />He added: “What strikes me is just the lack of respect for human life… You know, they, this man was handcuffed. They continue to beat him.”<br /><br />But then Jordan said something that struck me as just terribly wrong: “I don’t know that there’s any law that can stop that evil that we saw.”<br /><br />If there’s any use for government at all, shouldn’t it be to stop behavior that everyone agrees is wrong? Shouldn’t we at least try?<br /><br />Martin Luther King Jr. said it best in 1967: “It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-21956992820962290762023-01-31T10:22:26.591-05:002023-01-31T10:22:26.591-05:00"Roseanne Barr will make her return to stand ..."Roseanne Barr will make her return to stand up comedy after nearly 20 years away from the microphone as part of a new special that will stream on Fox Nation, Fox News’ streaming service.<br /><br />The hourlong special, titled “Cancel This!” will be available to stream on Feb. 13, the Monday after the Super Bowl, after it was filmed in front of a live studio audience in Houston, Texas at the Cullen Theatre.<br /><br />Barr, a controversial personality in comedy and noted supporter of former President Trump, had her popular sitcom “Roseanne” canceled and rebranded “The Conners” in 2018 after she tweeted racist comments about former Obama administration adviser Valerie Jarrett."<br /><br />Yes, this is the same Roseanne Barr who Somerby was positively name-dropping here back when she got in trouble for her statements, the person Somerby defended when she was called out in 2018.<br /><br />http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2018/04/breaking-before-she-was-famous.html<br /><br />http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2018/04/breaking-from-donald-j-trump-to.html<br /><br />Somerby said he liked her a lot back in 1985-6, but since then she had expressed some crazy ideas -- but Somerby claimed it was liberal derangement that put Trump into the White House. Somerby excused Barr by calling her beliefs and statements crazy, while attacking the black woman who complained about Barr's racism and objected to the slant of her new show. It is the journalists who are to blame, not Barr, who Somerby said over and over that he "liked a lot" back in the day, hinting that he was partially responsible for her later success.<br /><br />Way to show spine on behalf of a friend! He liked her a lot back when she was presumably different (except she was probably the same racist person back in 1985, but with a better filter). Barr can be considered someone caught in Trump's trap. She may have thought that if Trump could get away with his blatant racism as president, she could do it too. Then she found out that she couldn't. Somerby blames the liberals who objected, not Barr, who he liked a whole lot.<br /><br />Bill Maher is being given a second discussion format show on CNN too. That makes me wonder if Somerby will see a revival himself on these right wing comedy programs. Even the hope of such a thing (realistic or not) may be a motive for his shilling. Or maybe he just likes these right wing comics a whole lot. <br /><br />Note that an actual liberal would be made sick to their stomach by the garbage mouths of these racist and sexist comics, including Maher and Barr. But not Somerby, who likes these guys a lot, he says repeatedly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-52437292094545003882023-01-31T09:58:47.390-05:002023-01-31T09:58:47.390-05:00Reminds me of the old saw:
Did you hear the one ab...Reminds me of the old saw:<br />Did you hear the one about the Republican voter who isn't a bigot?<br />Me neither.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-22704260866925367212023-01-31T09:58:17.015-05:002023-01-31T09:58:17.015-05:00Here is the Stormy Daniels case without the sex:
...Here is the Stormy Daniels case without the sex:<br /><br />"Former President Donald Trump's effort to keep details of a settlement related to a past nondisclosure agreement lawsuit were dealt a setback on Monday.<br /><br />Bloomberg News reports that US District Judge Paul Gardephe has ruled that Trump must disclose the amount of money he's paying to former staffer Jessica Denson, who had filed a legal challenge to Trump's mandate that all campaign staffers sign NDAs as a precondition to working for him."<br /><br />If Trump was having campaign staffers routinely sign NDA's then it seems unlikely Stormy Daniels approached Trump begging for an NDA as a grift (Somerby's version of her lawsuit).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-34564489330647378482023-01-31T09:57:10.452-05:002023-01-31T09:57:10.452-05:00Every Republican is uglier than my asshole. Dumbe...Every Republican is uglier than my asshole. Dumber too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-61375355725479312752023-01-31T09:42:14.307-05:002023-01-31T09:42:14.307-05:00It just gets weirder and weirder because as she be...It just gets weirder and weirder because as she becomes an advanced senior citizen, Hillary Rodham Clinton looks more and more like Nixon in the late stages of his presidency. <br /><br />So Chris Hayes's junk resembles a bipartisan terror show of failed politicians. <br /><br />But we shouldn't let that affect how we view his reporting. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-2999063671546533352023-01-31T09:38:22.680-05:002023-01-31T09:38:22.680-05:00It took her 17 comments to get to that point.It took her 17 comments to get to that point.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-33422489108609197062023-01-31T09:37:18.700-05:002023-01-31T09:37:18.700-05:00Cecelia is playing "what about..." and t...Cecelia is playing "what about..." and thinks that if there is something wrong in the Pelosi police report then that justifies the cops who blatantly lied about how they killed a man in Memphis. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-43796196468301919502023-01-31T09:26:20.557-05:002023-01-31T09:26:20.557-05:00Ironically, his junk looks like Nixon. Ironically, his junk looks like Nixon. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-8884341362011947102023-01-31T09:25:28.034-05:002023-01-31T09:25:28.034-05:00I didn't know until recently that Chris Hayes ...I didn't know until recently that Chris Hayes did porn when he was younger.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-84092639001877549082023-01-31T09:17:50.810-05:002023-01-31T09:17:50.810-05:00Both Pelosi and DePape were at the door. Pelosi’s ...Both Pelosi and DePape were at the door. Pelosi’s did not walk to the door, open it to the police, and then walk back to stand next to DePape. Ceceliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15162272807640653299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-82778382356763028512023-01-31T07:40:19.871-05:002023-01-31T07:40:19.871-05:00These theories fell apart on Friday afternoon when...<em>These theories fell apart on Friday afternoon when the San Francisco Police Department released body camera footage captured by officers who responded to the scene. In the footage, DePape can be seen wielding a hammer in one hand and holding Pelosi's arm with the other. As the situation unfolds, DePape begins to swing the hammer at Pelosi, knocking him to the ground as police rush in.</em><br /><br />Yes, Ceclia, Pelosi walked to the door. Crazy Magat with a hammer didn't carry him there.<br /><br />Door opens.<br />Cop. " How you doin'? What's going on man"<br />Magat: (holding Pelosi's arm) "Nothing"<br />Cop: "Drop the hammer"<br />Magat: "no"<br /> <br />Pelosi pulls away from Magat. Magat turns and smashes Pelosi in the skull.<br /><br />This all happened in the space of 30 seconds. <br /><br />There's something seriously the fuck wrong with Cecelia. <br /><br />Chris Hayes presented a great opening segment last with a long compilation of all the bullshit fed to rubes like Cecelia about this incident.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-61138038293837748722023-01-31T04:18:12.019-05:002023-01-31T04:18:12.019-05:00TV ratings?
Finally the Right is getting to the im...TV ratings?<br />Finally the Right is getting to the important stuff. LOL.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-88188005902706538352023-01-30T23:48:00.106-05:002023-01-30T23:48:00.106-05:00“…(2) treating all snonymous commenters as the sam...“…(2) treating all snonymous commenters as the same person”<br /><br />Anonymouse 11:29pm, which anonymous are you? Ceceliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15162272807640653299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-15467758043980032542023-01-30T23:39:22.736-05:002023-01-30T23:39:22.736-05:00Start of the subject:
AnonymousJanuary 30, 2023 ...Start of the subject: <br /><br />AnonymousJanuary 30, 2023 at 6:17 PM<br />If you are black, you are expected to sit still and do nothing while they kill you. Then the police get to lie about what happened. You, being dead, have no way to dispute mistaken police reports. This status quo would no doubt go on and on, if there were no videos, as there are now.<br /><br /><br />CeceliaJanuary 30, 2023 at 6:25 PM<br />The SF police lied about Paul Pelosi walking to the door and then walking back over to his assailant. <br />Ceceliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15162272807640653299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-77543428152184528322023-01-30T23:30:53.353-05:002023-01-30T23:30:53.353-05:00BIL was a white Chicago Fireman. Racist as hell. A...BIL was a white Chicago Fireman. Racist as hell. Asked him how he worked side by side with black officers. He said the black Firemen are hard working family men. They hate those - other words for disadvantaged ghetto people. Group culture can overcome identifying by race. But you know that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-30039106532886243352023-01-30T23:29:59.029-05:002023-01-30T23:29:59.029-05:00Now you are (1) changing the subject and (2) treat...Now you are (1) changing the subject and (2) treating all snonymous commenters as the same person. Bye now. Don’t stay up too late.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-76009837602395885642023-01-30T23:01:14.597-05:002023-01-30T23:01:14.597-05:00Anonymouse 10:;7pm, that says it all.
Anonymouse 10:;7pm, that says it all. <br /><br />Ceceliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15162272807640653299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-39366498862767466582023-01-30T22:57:32.296-05:002023-01-30T22:57:32.296-05:00BTW: what was it that was being used to try to tak...BTW: what was it that was being used to try to take Pelosi’s life? <br /><br />A hammer. <br /><br />What were they struggling over?<br /><br />The weapon of a hammer. <br /><br />And here I thought the anonymouse argument that it’s okie dokey for an adult to tell a child “I’ll get you” for bullying their kid (as in the movie Tar) was the quintessential jumping of the shark. Ceceliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15162272807640653299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-71743479550301585922023-01-30T22:51:56.248-05:002023-01-30T22:51:56.248-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ceceliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15162272807640653299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-10745996065181674762023-01-30T22:47:01.594-05:002023-01-30T22:47:01.594-05:00No one is interested in that.No one is interested in that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-15200641854072603292023-01-30T22:46:16.031-05:002023-01-30T22:46:16.031-05:00Anonymouse 10:35pm, the police told NBC that Pelos...Anonymouse 10:35pm, the police told NBC that Pelosi walked to the door when they arrived and then went back into the room with DePape. <br /><br />Ceceliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15162272807640653299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-15843683793961886812023-01-30T22:35:21.384-05:002023-01-30T22:35:21.384-05:00It was not a struggle for a hammer — it was a stru...It was not a struggle for a hammer — it was a struggle for Pelosi’s life. If the police didn’t get it right, why are you insisting the AP did?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-67220522809692310682023-01-30T21:58:15.384-05:002023-01-30T21:58:15.384-05:00Anonymouse 9:39pm, you’ve sure spent a lot of time...<br />Anonymouse 9:39pm, you’ve sure spent a lot of time on my language about that widely reported <b>struggle</b> for a hammer between DePape and Pelosi. <br /><br />A struggle in which Pelosi didn’t do what the police said that he did. <br /><br />Why stop now while you’re in the process of exhibiting all your political operative priorities and lack of scruples? Ceceliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15162272807640653299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-15999821516755935042023-01-30T21:56:03.787-05:002023-01-30T21:56:03.787-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ceceliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15162272807640653299noreply@blogger.com