I read just yesterday that George Hamilton said he’d woken up that morning feeling like John McCain and looking like Barack Obama.
I’m disappointed she wasn’t the WPITW.
I have to say that reading through six pages of that crap was all worth getting to Tristan’s comment:
Ruined my keyboard.
All the Other great cOmments are getting prOps, I didn’t want this One OverlOOked.
I’m usually pretty compassionate, esp with for the mentally ill, but this skank deserves no mercy, regardless of her age. Her* intent* was to reawaken the racist fears that some Americans have of black men and remind them of the risks in electing Barrack Hussein Obama: He’s a big black scary stranger who will steal your money and leave you wounded.
Thankfully she’s not just a racist, but a stupid racist. What a fucking bitch.
Aaand my local paper ran a blurb on this story today. No mention of it being a hoax or investigated as such. Also no mention that the B was backwards. sigh
The usually jocular Eugene Robinson was seething when, responding to Keith’s request to put the narrative of Todd’s initial claim and the fact that it was a lie into some historical context, he said “The historical context is simple. It is the blood libel against black men concerning the defilement of the flower of caucasian womanhood. It’s been with us for hundreds of years, and apparently it’s still with us.”
We’ve been joking about this almost from the beginning because it seemed so obvious to many that Todd’s story simply didn’t add up. However, now that the dust has begun to settle, what’s brought into perspective for black people is that (a) a number higher than zero of Americans are still too willing to tar an entire race of people based on a single accusation, without proof, and (b) had the story not been quickly found to be a hoax, and the rising racial tensions promoted by right wing media, including blogs, diffused, circumstances could easily have escalated into vigilante violence against black people simply for being black.
As you know, there are a lot of cites that she is in fact mentally ill. Can you show me one piece of evidence for your above claims?
Of *course *she’s nuts. Have you seen the way she obsesses over Bret and Jemaine?
What do YOU think her intent was?
And btw there is a lot of evidence that suggests Hitler was mentally ill too, and I have no compassion for him either. Sue me.
Actually, can you show me a cite to her history of mental illness that does not ultimately link to her own claims of a history of mental illness?
They can damn near cost you the presidency.
Laughed. Out. Loud.
This is nothing new. Remember when Hitler assaulted Charles Manson and carved a swastika into his forehead? It almost cost Nixon the election…
So what you’re saying is that the something I can show you is inferior to the nothing you can’t show me?
I don’t think she had an intent any more than someone with Tourette’s screaming obscenities – or someone having a seizure and flailing around – has an intent. I think she’s delusional and if racist tendencies underscored her actions, they came from our general culture and not some kind of evil racist gene specific to her kind.
And fine – if you don’t want to be compassionate to sick people (and comparing the extremely scattered and inefficient actions of Ms. Todd to Hitler is pretty amusing) and also don’t want to apologize for that, I can’t change you. But since you’re so proud of that, I don’t see why you’re complaining.
Now you’re just starting to be a real dipshit (here, and in the GD thread where you assert that the police “believe” her enough to report in to the press).
She may or may not have a history of mental illness, but she also has a big reason to be looking for mitigating factors, and it is only her claim to a history of mental illness, not any sort of corroborated fact. Perhaps she does, perhaps she doesn’t, but you’re running around here making affirmative statements as to her mental health history. Of course I can’t prove the negative (i.e. that she does not have a mental health history), nor do I have any interest in doing so.
So let’s be very clear. Because I’m taking the only actual evidence we have to go on, the statements of the press and police, at face value, I’m being a total dipshit. Because you’re choosing to believe some random morons on a message board with no more evidence that she acted intentionally to stir up racism than that she was hired by the McCain campaign – or maybe because you’re so wise you’re having a conversation about a subject you have no interest in forming an opinion about, I’m not sure – you’re the smart one. Well, then why do you believe any part of the articles and police statements at all, if you’re just going to discard the parts you don’t like?
Exactly. And remember how *some people * were willing to give Hitler a pass, just because he had Tourettes? It’s like deja vu all over again.
She seemed sane enough in her earlier YouTube videos (hey, if remote video diagnosis of people you’ve never met is good enough for Dr. Bill Frist, it’s good enough for me). My diagnosis? Sane, but stupid.
The most wonderful bit of this whole thing is the Vice-President of Fox News warning that if this is not true, McCain’s campaign is now tarred as “race-baiting” and is toast.