The importance of the law to the GOP is inversely proportional to the size of the accused’s bank account. They don’t even pretend otherwise anymore.
-Joe
You are still not reading for comprehension. The actress said:
Garofolo agrees with you that SOME Republicans are racist. She did not say that they are ALL racist. ELEMENTS of the party. This means a few of them. Part of the party. A subsection. Not the whole. A subsample. A fraction.
And, she’s an ACTRESS for God’s sake. I try not to pay too much attention to when actors spout opinions about politics. And I don’t then ascribe their words to an entire party.
God, I see this argument from the Republican side it makes me want to puke. “Your side does it, our side does it, therefore we’re the same.” " You have black members, we have black members - see, we’re the same!" It’s this very odd insistence that there are only two values in any comparison, even when you’re comparing populations. “You guys have sex scandals too, so stop pointing fingers” even when the person in the scandal ran on “moral and family values”.
I’m betting if we were able to poll racists, we’d find a tendency in their voting habits, and I’m betting it wouldn’t be Democrat. I’d also bet we’d find more racist organizations under the Republican umbrella.
Really, when you’ve been caught eating a box of cookies, it doesn’t fly to blame your sibling, “well they had a cookie too!”
Egad, here’s a plot for the next Hollywierd blockbuster: Garafolo spawns and Michael Moore is her babydaddy.
<cue deep-voiced announcer>
First…there was TERMINATOR
Then…there was PREDATOR
Now…from the unholy coupling of Garafolo and Moore, there springs…ASSHOLE!
You need more reverb at the end there. And cowbell.
And maybe something that rhymes with either ‘Terminator’ or ‘Predator.’
I can’t figure out which he sucks at more: screenwriting, or joke writing.
How about “Garofellator”?
The so-do-you type of argument is very effective because Democrats as a group believe strongly that they are more ethical than Republicans and do not hesitate to say so. You have to appeal to morality when your policies are against the self-interest of most people. When you’re constantly calling attention to your own moral superiority, you become a very easy target. Democrats love to tell people to eat their vegetables but they forget that they’re talking not to children but to people who have the right to eat candy bars three meals a day if they feel like it.
I love how Republicans *never *moralize.
Thing is, if we extend societal resources to you (like all us liberals want to force everyone to do), there should be some obligation for you to behave in ways that mitigate that cost to society. I’m not talking laws, I’m talking subsidizing behavior that pays off in reduced societal load.
Turn that corn subsidy into a broccoli subsidy. 
Anyone want to take bets on how many more posts SA is going to wring out of his outrage over Jeanine Garofolo daring to agree with him that some Republicans are racist?
To be fair, judging from his inability to report Jeanine Garofolo’s position accurately, SA doesn’t appear to pay that much attention when actors talk about politics, either.
As opposed to Republicans vis-a-vis sexual morality, which they actually attempt to write into law and amendment instead of just evangelizing, and then go on to hire a rentboy or do meth with their boyfriends?
Not bad, not bad. Now next time, try to actually be funny. :dubious:
You could resurrect a petition I saw once from a right-winger asking Garafalo to get naked in a film. Hey, as a good progressive, I signed it.
42fish, I’m utterly confident that you can’t prove I did any such thing. What I did was post a link Garofolo’s stupid remark and followed that with the observation that the left’s longtime practice of portraying Republicans as racist was looking less credible all the time.
The utterly ridiculous defense chosen by the highminded and honest lefties which followed was to deny the left does any such thing and besides Garofolo only said some Republicans were racist.
I countered this silly tactic by asking if anyone would be willing to cough up ten bucks for every instance I could point to on this board where broad brush characterizations of conservatives/Republicans/Tea Partiers as racist exists and crickets chirped.
That was all I needed to know to show up the ilk for the petty, dishonest dissemblers they are.
Translation: I win on both counts - honesty and fact.
Cheers.
Yes folks, he really, honestly is that stupid and self deluded.
And I only say that because at one point a conservative was rude to me, so now it is my God-given duty to be rude right back.
And now I"m out of here because I have some things to do. Important things.
OK, I"m back now, but just to confirm that SA is an ignoramus.
Now I"m gone.
I completely agree with you but the moral posturing is much more prevalent on the left than on the right. When a megachurch pastor gets caught blowing the pool boy, he gets the same treatment from the public as a liberal who gets caught cheating on his taxes and for the same reason.
I follow your second sentence, but the first doesn’t make any sense to me. I look at things with a left slant, but when you say the left does more moral posturing, What the hell are you talking about?
The right is the party of “Traditional” “American” “Values” and “Good” “Old” “Judeo-Christian” “Ideas”!
Yeah, but that’s all how to interact with fellow human beings and recognizing their worth as such. That’s just business.
Now, when you start talking about money, then you get into discussions of morality.