Well … duh!
Is there anyone who didn’t already realize that?
“He said it wasn’t his idea. The president had ordered him to write the memo justifying the firing.”
If you have forgotten, the President then used the memo to justify the firing of Comey on Rosenstein’s recommendation.
(Hey, why wait for somebody to produce a case that Comey should be fired when you can do it yourself? That’s just good business. In the corporate world we call it vertical integration! You don’t need a supplier if you ARE the supplier. And it’s often wise to give your supplier a different name, creating a house brand, even if they are really your own company. In this case, Rosenstein was his house brand.)
See the movie “Silver Streak” for blackface in a mainstream movie from the later seventies. That movie starred Pryor and Wilder.
How about SNL? Billy Crystal as Sammy Davis Jr. Of course that was way back in the last century. They would never have a white actor darken his skin to portray a black man, say in the last 10 years? Oh. Maybe Fred Armisen’s career should be over. Of course both men had nothing but admiration for the men they were impersonating. America’s national pastime used to be baseball, but many say football replaced it. But America’s true national pastime is looking for things that we can be offended by. I wish it would be baseball again.
Billy unwisely reprised his Sammy in a filmed segment during the 2012 Oscars. It did not go over well.
By the way, I think you stated the case perfectly.
The new reality is really cramping my style. Years ago, I was one of the few people consistently offending everyone. Now everyone is offending everyone else – and, unlike me, they don’t even intend to. It took away my competitive edge.
My first reaction to the yearbook controversy was to say there should be a 34 year statute of limitations on stupid or offensive jokes. I don’t think many people think Northam was or is actually a racist and 35 years ago such jokes were more accepted than they are today. Then I learned Northam had accused his GOP opponent Ed Gillespie of being a racist in the last weeks of the campaign and my sympathy kind of evaporated. Then of course he changed his story from apologizing for being in the picture to denying he was in it and claiming he has no idea how the photo got onto his yearbook page. For that denial alone he should resign. As for the Lt Governor, I don’t think an accusation alone is sufficient reason to force him to resign. As I understand it, there is no corroborating evidence for either story. It may come down to the credibility of the other woman (and perhaps later women) making similar accusations. Obviously, if either accusation is true he belongs in prison, not the governor’s mansion.
Hey, just cos some fuckstick tells you to write something and sign your name to it, that’s no reason you can’t just quit instead.
Well if McCabe said it and it’s in a book, it must be true. BTW, for someone who claims to be middle of the road on things and calling out both sides Scoop, I find your lack of ANY post regarding the long line of Democrat racists forming in Virginia baffling.
…and Uncle Scoopy says….
The only thing that seems noteworthy to me is that if the story had broken in 2016, they all would have had to resign. As of the new Trump-based standard, I doubt if any of them will. If racist behavior and multiple accusations of sexual misconduct don’t cause the President of the USA to resign, why should it force out the leaders of a former Confederate state? Hell, if Virginia is going to demand a southern leader who has zero history of questionable sexual or racist behavior, they better go get Jimmy Carter before he dies.
One thing I have heard from various black commentators on TV is that they don’t need white people to tell them what they think … and they think that Northam, on balance, is an OK guy. Black voters in Virginia are in wide agreement with that. They say he should stay, by a wide margin, 58 to 37. The general idea seems to be that a stupid Halloween costume is actually no big deal, especially in comparison to, for example, other politicians who espoused Obama birtherism, which was obvious straight-up racism.
As for me, I listen to Northam, and I can’t figure out how such a lightweight could have persuaded people to vote for him in the first place. If I had absolute control of America’s political personnel, I’d fire Trump and all three of those Virginia guys. But I have no such control.
And this is a whole new world.
But I thought that Democrats held themselves to a higher standard than Trump. Remember the old “When they go low, we stay high” sack of shit Michelle O put out there. Must be another example of that hypocrisy and the “do as we say and not as we do” mentality that family, the Clintons, and Dems in general adhere to.
In regards to your comment about black commentators saying they don’t need white people telling them how to think, I would say I completely agree with them. I might even go as far as to say I personally don’t need anyone, be it a person of color or another white person, telling me I have lived a life full of white privilege. While some may have actually lived a life of a white person, they have not lived my life in particular so don’t claim to know how I have lived and what I have had to go through. So stop with grouping all of us white Americans, particularly males, into a nice package to direct all your anger and hatred towards. Those sweeping generalizations, stereotypes, and assumptions the Left says they despise so much, actually go both ways. If you don’t bathe submerged in a vat of hypocritical unawareness 24/7 it is actually easy to see that.
My main point was every big story about Trump always finds its way onto your radar Scoop and therefore onto this blog. It’s just funny that such a big story on the other side got crickets. Just saying.
Basically because there was nothing much to say about it. There’s no real controversy. There is nothing to say in their defense. I would have and should have written about the moonwalk speech because that shit was hilarious, but I was just pressed for time that day, I didn’t even know about it until I heard Trevor Noah talking about it, and I don’t play much attention to local politics anyway. I can’t even name either of my state’s senators.
As for the Democrats holding themselves to a higher standard, it’s obvious that is not going to be practical. They obviously can’t have one of their most influential senators resigning over a failed joke in poor taste while the President stays in with 20+ accusers of sexual impropriety, plus many, many examples of racist behavior, plus being an obvious co-conspirator in crimes Michael Cohen was guilty of. … To use a separate standard would be essentially to concede victory to Republicans. The only practical thing for them to do is to hold themselves to the exact same standard.
In the real world, I don’t see Northam resigning over alleged racism when the black voters of Virginia still love him. If the black voters were actually offended by his actions, as the Cherokees were by Elizabeth Warren, that would be a different story.
“As for the Democrats holding themselves to a higher standard, it’s obvious that is not going to be practical.”
The 4th in line for succession is Speaker of the House, Kirk Cox. A Republican who only holds that position due the GOP’s 51-49 edge in the House. An edge they only hold because one district had a literal tie in votes and they drew names out of a fucking bowl to determine the winner.
Also Virginia districts are gerrymandered in favour of the GOP.