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Strange Fruit

by BooMan
Mon Oct 13th, 2008 at 12:17:46 AM EST

Political Byline advertises itself as "opinionated, but not partisan." That seems to be false advertising because not only do they refer to Democrats and other supporters of Barack Obama as "fucktard Liberals" and "Anti-American, God Hating, Baby Killing, Fascist bastards", but they've created a graphic of a noose, Barack Obama, and the message: "Asphyxiation: the fucking solution."

The alleged point of the post is to fight fire with fire. The blogger is offended by some images he's seen on Ted Steven's intertubes that suggest Palin's parents should have aborted her or that show a fist punching Palin in the face. The noose is supposed to show equivalency.

Let me just make an obvious point, here. I can go find the most offensive, racist image file available on the internets and post it. I can complain about it. But that doesn't provide me with an excuse to create and post something equally or more offensive. And let me make a second point. If I'm going to post an offensive image and complain about it I should at least explain the provenance of the image. Who posted it? What is their ideological leaning? What did they say their point was? You know, context.

Finally, it's not necessary to make up graphics of a noose and a black man. You can just post the real thing:

Just post that and say that you'd like to see that done to Obama, his wife, and their two daughters. If you don't like that particular image, there are many more to pick from. You see, lynching black people isn't some rare thing in the history of this country, and we have around 100 authentic souvenir photographs of real-life lynchings to choose from. But let me give you Billie Holiday...she can explain it for you:

Any questions?

Strange Fruit | 8 comments (8 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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Threatening the life of a US President or Presidential candidate is a felony. I think a call to the Secret Service would be warranted and might sober up the ethnic narcissist at Political Byline up. Maturity is a struggle for some.

The Ownership Society: $62 trillion in CDOs based on a $10 trillion mortgage market

by Multisect on Mon Oct 13th, 2008 at 01:03:04 AM EST

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Sarah brings tears.

Share. Share resources, share delight, share burdens, share the healing. Sharing will bring us back from mass suicide. www.share-international.org

by Isis on Mon Oct 13th, 2008 at 01:32:46 AM EST

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After decades of beating the culture war drum combined with the War on Terror, it was only a matter of time before they would declare war on us.

by liberaljournal on Mon Oct 13th, 2008 at 01:41:36 AM EST

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Opinionated does not mean, as many people believe, having strong opinions. Opinionated is defined as obstinate or conceited with regard to the merit of one's own opinions; conceitedly dogmatic; Holding stubbornly and often unreasonably to one's own opinions. Synonyms include prejudiced, biased; bigoted; stubborn.

I would say Political Byline's self-description is more accurate than they probably intended.

by Hurria (Muslawia@gmail.com) on Mon Oct 13th, 2008 at 01:45:54 AM EST

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Maybe not surprising...

by ask on Mon Oct 13th, 2008 at 05:56:49 AM EST

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Nice work, Booman. Billie knew - it's long past time to meet this ignorance head on.

by Alice on Mon Oct 13th, 2008 at 10:37:07 AM EST

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someone took down their clever little page.
rats: I was going to link to it and make fun of them.

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

by brendan on Mon Oct 13th, 2008 at 11:18:59 AM EST

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Yes, another poor victim of the Left's relentless campaign of hate against conservative patriots. Oh, the inhumanity.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

by Steven D on Mon Oct 13th, 2008 at 01:35:38 PM EST
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