Political correctness was invented precisely to prevent the mainstream liberal media from persuing [sic] the questions which might arise about how Senator Obama’s mother, from Kansas, came to marry an African graduate student

To be fair, she pretty clearly concludes that Communist Jewesses are the greater threat.

Holy fookin’ ‘ell. I really thought that the title was one of them “shorter NRO” gags, though the [sic] shoulda tipped me off.

It’s amazing how devious (and far-seeing) we in the academy are: taking an old Communist insult (see, PC has commie origins!) and turning it into a re-imagining of public social relations in the 1980s, all so that it would help elect the first black (er…half-Negro/half-Jew) U.S. president in the ‘oughties, because otherwise his family’s Communist past could be investigated, and he would lose.

Well played, academia, well played.

I thought I’d given up posting comments on blogs but that piece is stupefyingly dumb and nasty. I mean…Jesus…back to silence. In the face of such ignorance, what other choice is there?

It’s communist jewish black islamo-liberal-fascists trying to destroy America and brave Republicans being the last barrier. It’s always been so.

This would be the same Lisa Schiffren who confessed after Iowa that after fifteen years of hating Hillary, she wouldn’t know what to do with herself.

Well, that didn’t take her long.

(Dan Quayle’s speechwriter, natch. The Murphy Brown speech was hers.)

In the face of such ignorance, what other choice is there?

Black humor.

See? There I go again.
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Interesting tack they’re taking—since directly smearing Obama with rank stereotypes about black males would almost certainly backfire, they’re mining one of the strongest unresolved undercurrents of American racial fear and loathing, miscegenation. Hey, it worked against Harold Ford, Jr. in 2006; it might have surprising purchase in this election.

It’s good to see the Nationa Review returning to its roots as a scurrilous racist rag–back in the good ol’ days, when young Bill Buckley was just a whippersnapper, fresh out of college (he hasn’t always been a self-important windbag with ill-fitting socks–it just seems that way). Back when the magazine celebrated the Klan’s right to self-expression, and massive resistance and its role in maintaining “order” in the south.

On a sort of related note, a friend of mine who was a poll watcher in Marshall, Arkansas back in 1980–the year that Bill lost–was told by his fellow poll watchers that the reason that Hillary didn’t take Bill’s last name was because he had fathered a black child. Of course they didn’t use the word “black.” Or “child,” for that matter.

Good to see the National Review elevating the tone.

This is very heartening. If this kind of crap — simultaneously puerile and incomprehensible — is the best they can do then we are in good shape.

Also, I really wish Henry had left the troll up there for all to see, as I’m genuinely curious about who would defend this and how. Henry does have a long history of being a very sensitive poster, but one of the better things about the net is how it reveals the enemy. It’s not like there was any room for a substantive discussion of this nonsense anyway — we’re all just here to marvel at it.

9. I don’t think that we should burn O’Reilly at the stake for this until we’ve got more evidence of what he really meant…

13. Not only a Jew, but a Jewish Muslim. In fact, quite possibly a Jewish Muslim communist.

When I was growing up, in seventeenth century England, most of the guys I knew with that background were heavily into drugs. And eating babies. Often while fornicating with the devil.

I think we should dig into this Obama guy’s background a bit more

It’s all coming together. See this piece of Cliff Kincaid crap about Obama’s “Commie Mentor”.

But Communism is good.

Bloix, worth reading. What a great American story Obama is. I wonder if America will see that.

mq @20,

the troll’s (sk, or was that a disemvowelled word too?) point, such as it is, is that Henry is quoting not from the Schiffren NRO piece but from Belle’s blog post about it. So the real racist here is Belle. QED, apparently. (I think the troll was also trying to bring teh funny. If so, it should keep its day job.)

It’s good that the troll pointed this out for us, because if it hadn’t, we’d never have guessed from Henry’s post (“Belle … describes the argument of a … post at NRO’s The Corner”) that the words above were Belle’s and not Schiffren’s. Sure, that is the plain meaning of Henry’s words, but this is obviously a case of hiding in plain sight.

Why do Henry and Belle hate blacks and Jews? Their hatred makes Lisa Schiffren cry.

“It’s good that the troll pointed this out for us, because if it hadn’t, we’d never have guessed from Henry’s post (“Belle … describes the argument of a … post at NRO’s The Corner”) that the words above were Belle’s and not Schiffren’s”

Ask not at whom the Belle LOLs, she LOLs at National Review . . .

OK, maybe that needs a bit more work.

There once was a gal on the Corner
Who realized she just had to warn ya:
“If you connect the dots,
it’s a Communist plot
that Obama was ever born-a!”

Even if Obama were the product of a Communist Negro and Jewess – so what? Are we now all responsible for the political beliefs of our parents? Ironically there is nothing more Bolshevik than tarring someone as an enemy because of their parents’ political affiliation. Is that what NRO wants? A world where every candidate has to demonstrate 4 or 5 generations of unsullied ideological purity? What am I saying, of course that’s what they want.

@36: They’ve already seen it happen, though. Don’t you remember the 1990s? Ruby Ridge? Waco? The folk-canonization of Eric Rudolph? The Michigan Militia?

Back in the day, it was the conservatives raving about heavy-handed government tactics and the erosion of civil liberties. The same maniacal pundits who are now crying “treason” at anyone who dares question this administration’s right to wiretap, detain, and torture without due process were advising their listeners on how to most effectively gun down an ATF officer in body armor. (Answer, per G. Gordon Liddy: “Head shots, head shots! Kill the sons of bitches!”)

Of course, all that stuff happened under ZOG a Democratic president, so it was characterized as “resistance.”

Yes; but can you imagine those events in the political climate of today, or rather tomorrow?

@43: You are, of course, correct. My larger point was simply that these people always, always, always need an Enemy—and that the emergence of a foreign adversary was a godsend for the ruling classes, enabling them to co-opt the violent paranoia of those who had previously sought their enemies domestically.

I saw (and still regret not buying) a “Run, Rudolph, Run” shirt in western NC, with a caricatured FBI agent stopping a baffled reindeer.

They smeared Martin Luther King as a Communist simp.
In the 60s Jesse Helms went on TV to denounce the civil rights movement’s leaders, and their combination of “communism, socialism and sex perversion” – which sounds like catnip for Lisa.
He didn’t mellow with age. From Helms’ 1983 speech against the MLK Day public holiday:

King associated with identified members of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), with persons who were former members of or close to the CPUSA, and with CPUSA front organizations. In some important respects King’s civil rights activities and later his opposition to the Vietnam war were strongly influenced by and dependent on these associations.

There is no evidence that King himself was a member of the CPUSA or that he was a rigorous adherent of Marxist ideology or of the Communist Party line. Nevertheless …

(I was looking for a link to the speech, but it seems to only be reproduced on wingnut race-baiting sites. Anyway, you probably don’t need a link to figure out what comes after the dots.)
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Of course, it is important to note that Helms was a miscegenator himself, thus presumably Jewish and not to be trusted.

Ah yes, what North Carolinian could forget Helms’s “University of Negroes and Communists” (Chapel Hill) crack!

Of course, it is important to note that Helms was a miscegenator himself, thus presumably Jewish and not to be trusted.

I think you’re thinking of Strom Thurmond, who of course took better care of his ‘natural child’ than did Mr. Obama (Sr.) who left his son to be raised on the social capital built up by white society (and look at the news story linked earlier — 100% white). You’re error has probably be caused by the vapors you liberals experience by someone even hinting the miscegenation is not necessarily a good thing.

Commenter Koo-Koo Bananas 53 is on to something.