More on Bow Tie’n White Boys
So, Tucker Carlson, according to Democrat strategist Jehmu Greene, is “a bow tie’n white boy.” That’s what Ms. Greene said on Megyn Kelly’s show America Live. I think it was the “white boy” part that was supposed to be particularly offensive. As one bow-tyin’ white boy to another, however, I find it more pathetic than irritating. Why is it that Democrats are cruising around accusing everyone in sight of being racist when it is they, not the objects of their ire, who engage in the racist behavior? Harry Stein, in his new book No Matter What . . . They’ll Call this Book Racist, has some intelligent things to say about that.
It’s perfectly ok with me if Ms. Greene thinks she is disparaging me when she identifies me by my race and shaves a few years off my age. What I find totally unacceptable is her implicit condemnation of the bow tie. Please, let’s leave bow ties out if it. After all, what has that innocent bit of haberdashery ever done to her? In an earlier column, I had occasion to ponder the mystery of why the bow tie drives a certain species of liberal around the bend. They see a perfectly knotted bit of silk and … bang! It’s like a red flag to a bull. This recent insult to they bow tie prompts me to repeat that earlier column from 2008, in which I call for the creation of a “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to the Bow Tie.”
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I see you problem, Roger, old bean. You should not say that you sport a “bow tie.” No, you must suavely allude to the fact that you wear a “bo tye.” A simple change in spelling will make you appear hip and kool.
An ad for Brooks Brothers appeared right under your text. This amused me.
Roger, I love ya man so please don’t read this post:
Right under the text on my screen was an ad for a “hair nourishment” product. The ad implied it could keep hair loss at bay. I wonder if the internet ad genies have gone beyond text and have figured out how to parse photo content as well?
another googlish monstrosity, ads following one around all over the place, parsing obsessively. soon we will be planted with a corresponding chip in our heads.
however, be that as it may, i would like to remind us all, the other bow tie wearin’ white boy is farrakhan and his minions. the black bully boys who are waiting for the mothership that is hovering to land and take them away (pleeeeeze). also, i’ve noticed slurs on white seems these past few weeks to have replaced slurs on jew. evidently,i am screwed.
also, replaced is the word muslims and terrorists. too much for people to think through. white is easier.
In the movie “State and Main” there is a scene with a country doctor, who wears a bow tie and spouts country wisdom, that may help reveal one source of liberal animus to the bow tie. The doctor says (paraphrasing from memory), you should not wear bow ties, which emphasize your ears, but rather the ordinary neck-tie which mimics the male genitalia and directs attention toward your crotch. In other words, don’t pay attention to what you are hearing and by extension what’s actually going on around you — which may well lead to becoming politically conservative — but rather to your crotch, which leads to the standard liberal obsessions with sex of all kinds and, eventually, government dependency.
Actually, many country doctors wear bow ties because babies puke on the other kind.
It’s not just liberals. I’m a libertarian and I hate them too.
And it’s not just Republicans who wear them. I always thought Democrat Congressman Paul Simon was particularly vile due to his politics and his bow ties.
You wear a bow tie with a tuxedo. Only. End of story. Otherwise you look creepier than a clown in a Stephen King movie.
Anbd let’s not forget the Left’s favorite cleric, Calypso Louie Farrakhan.
or the Black Nation of Islam
Racism is the “double standard” that allows minorities to hurl race/gender based insults withot being denegrated by the media.
And exactally how did Colin Powell and Condi Race thank Bush or the Rs ?
A knife in the back. Just ax em
Some of the most authoritarian people I know are libertarians. Apparently, their new commandment: thou shalt not wear bow ties lest thou be associated with Farrakhan.
“You wear a bow tie with a tuxedo. Only. End of story.”
Uuuuuhhhhh, you call yourself a libertarian? And yet you rail against someone’s liberty?
As Indigo Montoya said, “He keeps on using that word, but I do not think he knows what it means!”
Remember that bow-tie white boy who integrated the military by executive order? Here in Missouri we remember, and honor him for it. Hint: He succeeded FDR as POTUS.
Let’s also give an honorable mention to Charles Osgood.
Maybe we can make this a Wikipedia Category?
Bow ties are a sign of deviance. Senator Dirksen even wore polka dots. And we suspect Goldstein wears a bo tye.
Years ago, a remember reading an article about a woman lawyer who caused a dustup in court because she called a judge “old man” after he had previously addressed her as “young lady.” Her justification was “You’re the one who brought age and gender into this.”
George Zimmerman is a “white hispanic”, Granny Warren is a 1/32 Cherokee, Tucker Carlson is a “bow-tying white boy”… these days it’s the liberal who are bringing race, nationality, age and gender into everything.
Good to know that Greene will never suffer any consequences of her revealed racism,, Carlsen on the other hand should be shunned for this choice of ties!
The irony is that Mr. Carlson was not wearing a bow tie at the time Ms. Greene disrespected him on air.
Roger: your article made me ponder how that “innocent bit of haberdashery” could be used to reverse the otherwise inexorable march of progressivism. It occurred to me that we might be able to cause liberal heads to explode by carpet bombing the airways with images such as this one:
http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blyfdr110.htm
Do you think such a ploy would violate the Geneva Convention?
Ya gotta love it: fashion commentary brought to you by a portion of our citizenry who seem to think that outfits costing north of $300 that expose the wearer’s plumber’s crack are awesome badges of being cool.
Personally, I’ve always thought of racism as a wonderfully efficient IQ test. The howler, of course, is that these poor fools are too dumb to know they’re flunking it wholesale.
It’s accepted canon among African-Americans, liberals, and assorted hipsters, that white people are incapable of being “cool”. The bow tie is a signature “not cool” item. Apparently, all this makes the likes of Tucker Carlson fair racial game to the likes of Jehmu Greene.
However, I give you this:
Some have suggested Ms Greene be dismissed. I think that would be a mistake. She should be allowed to exercise her 1st amendment right of free speech without negative consequence. This will open the door to others being allowed to exercise their rights and speak freely regardless of how odious it might be considered. This could be the end of political correctness! Bring back Pat Buchannan!
As someone with an abnormally large, or “fat,” head, I take exception to Mr. Kimball’s grotesque cheerleading on behalf of the bow tie.
The last thing I need on my neck is a dainty knot of silk to call attention to the massive cannonball-like object looming over it.
The only neckwear that might successfully compete with, or offset, my fat head would be one of those foulards made of desiccated leopards favored by African dictators, or a necklace of human heads like that worn by the Hindu goddess Kali.
If modesty and humility remain “conservative” values, then it’s odd that Mr. Kimball should take such lurid, preening delight in ostentatiously broadcasting the normal size of his head. This is rather like deliberately rollerblading through a room filled with quadriplegics, or proudly donating one’s collection of dart-throwing trophies to a school for the blind.
There was a time when conservatism called the human spirit away from the squalid rewards of self-congratulation, but Mr. Kimball appears to be charting a distinctly different course. He ought remember that it would be no easier for him to pass through the eye of a needle than it would be for someone with an abnormally large head.
Chuckleheadism is a well recognized disorder, usually accompanied by being right all the time, and joyous to be with. Our columnist is a charter member, as am I. Glory in your spherical noggin! Embrace your oversize orb!
The support group meets every Tuesday at 8 PM. Somehow, though, noone ever shows up, so I’m not really sure where it is.
Chuckleheads forever!
– bow ties work well on thin or heavy-set men; they can say look at my expensive/expansive shirt.
Hmmmm.
Teddy bears look very good in bow ties.
It gives them a look that is simultaneously convivial and distinguished.
That odious woman’s comment was a compliment. Though I prefer “Moon-landing, uncertainty principled, Keates-reading, atom-smashing, Halls of Montezuma-mopping, pragmatic rationalist.”
Haters of White People are a dime a dozen. They vote Left and are warmly embraced and empowered by the Left.
Self hating White People give them cover for their demonization and villification.
I’m in my 30′s and LOVE the bow-tie.
As well as the ascot.
The tie is a boring and in-the-wat-at-times accessory. More times than not in my case the tie gets tainted, stained throughout the day.
As for the bow-tie, ascot – not a chance.
CNN’s Roland Martin TRIES to pull off the ascot – though he looks creeeepy.
There’s nothing ‘fashionable’ of a fat, balding, bug-eyed, ridiculous facial-haired (the thin-n-trim beards men wear, the more poodle-like, metrosexual they truly are) short man with an accompanying creepy smile wearing an ascot.
Wear a tie, Mr. Martin. It’s supposed to help those vertically challenged appear ‘taller’.
Heck, it MAY help Mr. Martin look to be ~ Tom Cruise’s height.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your comments re:Tucker Carlson, Jemima Greene.
My experience with people who don the affectation of the bow tie are they have a large cellulose rod up their rectum. And an ascot? MY GOD, how ghey can it get? These people survive only in the cocoon of the frivolous and useless.
“Jehmu” in Kenyan Swahili means “loud mouthed, marginally educated imbecile with more junk in the trunk that’s brains”. And I think the “jeh” is silent….
No, the “jeh” is not silent; it’s pronounced “zhe”.
This overweight white girl wonders WHY someone whose name and appearance both resemble “Shamu”‘s, would think it’s a good idea to start name-calling on national TV. It’s as stupid as the overweight occupier demanding a sammich. Girls, I don’t see this ending well.
Shamu? Isn’t that one of Orca Winfrey’s relations?
I can’t remember who the comedian was who said something like, they say I lived in a mansion and owned people and I’m supposed to feel bad about that?
If you think bow ties don’t get enough respect, try wearing an ascot. There appears to be no neutral position on that item of dress.
The one name that establishes the truth of the bow tie as the ultimate symbol of principled defiance, resistance to tyranny, individual liberty, and political erudition: Winston Churchill.
I wear bow ties because he did and you don’t.
You are the one-in-a million, that’s-Winston-Churchill-neckwear-not-a-bow-tie, devotee to whom I will give a pass on my judgment of bow ties. Your reasoning is sound, your heart is pure, and we both mourn the loss of the Churchill bust in The White House. Pray that its return is one of the first things sought by Obama’s replacement.
Nertz to you. I started wearing bowties as a waiter, because the long variety were a magnet for every kind of food stain, and it was much more presentable and inexpensive to go the other way. I’ve enjoyed them ever since. So it was a presentability issue in my case, and not affectation.
I’m not sure I understand the difference between “presentability” and “affectation.” Perhaps presentability refers to the bare minimum.
However, on a recent visit to Berlin, I was struck by the utter lack of “affectation” in the housing in what remained of Stalin’s Legacy in the eastern part of that city.
A dour presentation of self is not evidence of either moral or intellectual superiority. Affectation is one of the things that makes life fun and interesting. It may also be essential to self-expression and individual liberty.
On a more serious note, I do wonder if this “oops” is deliberate strategy on the part of Shamu and others of her bulk–I mean ilk. I have a very strong feeling part of the Obama-Soros’s diabolical plan to steal the election is to fan the flames of racial tension and declare martial law and suspended election. If there are more oopsies like this from Dem strategists, I will be sure. We already have Blacks, SEIU, AFL-CIO, and the Black Panthers poised to be his “marching army.”
Back to a less gloomy note, perhaps all White men should start bow tie-ing it every day. We could call it the BOWS movement, create some clever acronym, and suddenly be visible everywhere in protest of the Left’s lack of civility toward the Right.
To each his own, at least JehMU did not accuse Tucker of wearing a clip on tie. A guy in a bow tie or regular tie sure looks better than a guy who removes his tie and rolls up his sleeves to look like “one of the folks”. And a guy in a tie looks better than any of the young men walking around in pants with the crotch at their knees. (seriously, guys, give this look up, you look HILARIOUS)
I wear a bow tie with my old jeans and Rebel Flag suspenders to mow the lawn and go to the trash dump.
I always get a good laugh. Some people look like they just got stuck with a cattle prod.
Doesn’t Calypso Louis Farrakhan wear bow ties too? Hmmm, I don’t know about this. The only people I see wearing bow ties these days are head waiters and members of an orchestra or dance-hall big band. Now a bow tie definitely goes with a tuxedo. But with everything else, I guess their day has gone. Unless, of course, you are part of the Nation of Islam, then the bow tie is right up your ally. Lose the bow tie, bud.
As regards calling names and racism, I would like to note:
If you call a black man a naughty name beginning with N, he wants to kill you.
If you call a white man “Honky”, he will laugh at you.
This is what really pisses them off.
Just why is that, you think?
“12. Jim O’Connor”
Sorry, I’ve listened to shamu (whoops Jamu) on about every show on fox. I’m sick to death of her sitting their smirking at the conservatives, cutting them off, and refusing to stop talking.
I love to watch Lou Dobbs, but have had to even turn him off because she takes over any program and just rehashes msnbc talking points from the white house.
I don’t watch msnbc for a reason! And one of the reasons is the line up is entirely made up of jamus!
I’m with you 100% Roger.
Nothing says master-of-ceremonies, editor-in-chief, conservative head of the free world, board member emeritus, wicked sense-of-humorist, master-of-the-hounds, great gatsby, stoogie/scotch aficionado and man comfortable in his own race, color, sex, politics like a man who can carry off a bow tie.
But of course, you have to consider the source of my sweeping, absolute female observation.
Ms Webutante’s is little more than a thinly disguised propagandistic effort to forward radical “Anything You Do, I Can Do Better” feminism.
Not content to sit back and demurely allow Mr. Kimball and the guys to lead the anti-megacephaly/pro-bow-tie kulturkampf, Ms Webutante takes her cues from the likes of Madame Mao, Leila Khaled, Dolores “La Pasionaria” Ibárruri, and Helen Gahagan Douglas, and announces, “My anti-megacephaly is not only equal to that of any man, it’s better, stronger, and more intuitive!”
This is, of course, only the thin end of Ms Webutante’s very, very large and totalitarian wedge.
Bertie Wooster evolved into Greg House. Pigpen is in.
Just what is about liberals who think they can make comments about “white boy” and his “bow tie” and get away with such crass and biased crapola? Well I say, if it annoys the liberals, then guys go out and buy a few and put them in your “reserve” wardrobe. If you just have to go to parties where there are lots of sanctimonius liberals, wear your bow tie just to annoy them. Have somefun with it, buy polka dots and bright colors!!@
Personally I would not wear one…I wouldn’t want the libs around here (the few there are) to think I was following he lead of Minister Far Side…I mean Louis Farrakhan or Calypso Louis as Rush calls him.
Like Obama, Jemeaux X. is a faux wannabe sister. Her parents emigrated from west africa. Unlike Obama, her West African descent has endowed her with the sturdy build enjoyed by so many african americans.
It is the “boy” part of the comment that is of importance.
In the old south Whites would call black adults “Boy”. It was disparaging and a way of putting them in their place. The whites could get away with it, because the power of the state, especially law enforcement, was all white.
Hood blacks are aware of this and when they can get away with this refer to caucasian adults as, “white boy”. Occasionally this can be benevolant, but generally they it is a way of saying “screw you”.
On the street, if you want to get to someone, you insult their mother, their ethnicity, or their religion. Tucker is obviously unprepared for such lowball tactics.
Jemeaux X. obviously thinks she can get away with such a comment. She is kind of like the archetypal Southern White Sherriffs of 1967. She called Tucker a “white boy”, because she is a part of the power structure and that enables her to get away with it.
In a perfect world Tucker would beat the crap out of her husband or boyfriend, unless Jemeuiex. X. was forthcoming with an apology. Tucker, while a fit and youtful for a 45 year old man, does not look like an agressive brawler.
There is also zero chance of Jemeaux X. having a boyfriend. She is a full figured sister with a jawbone like Mike Tyson.
I think that in the Bible, the Israealites cry out to God, asking how he can be so cruel. This is one of those ciruumstances.
ELC – I’ve got to differ with you regarding the West African women and their frame, respectively.
Most West African women aren’t shaped like American Black women. For African women, even post-baby have the overwhelming # have nice curves, far more muscle mass. Their lives consist of FAR MORE laborious day-to-day than those across the Atlantic pond.
This is due in large part to their differing diets.
American Black women enjoy far more fatty, fried dishes with little/ no vegetable content. Or the essential vitamins from an accompanying vegetable dish are fried away for the most part.
Disappointingly most American Black women are shaped like a thumb or bowling ball. It’s overwhelmingly due, like Black African Black women.
Oprah Winfrey is an excellent example of the majority of, ‘Today’s American Black Woman’ shape-wise.
For every Deneen Borelli, Condoleezza Rice, Angela McGlowan, Star Parker, Janice Brown, Amy Holmes etc., there are overwhelmingly heavy set-obese Black women.
Oops.. I’d meant, ‘It’s overwhelmingly due again to one’s diet. Unlike African Black women whose diet is far more healthy due to fruit, vegetables being more available and abundant’.
You are correct. Whatever our nationality, our impoverished foreign cousins are mostly thinner than us and better looking for it.
The average black person is a little thicker and stronger than the average caucasian person. Thus the success of FUBU Clothing.
Just wait a cotton pickin’ (oops is that racist?) minute…my fav economist, Dr Peter Morici, sports a bow tie most times.
I loved the fact that you referred to Bertie Wooster, Roger old bean, but it was actually Jeeves more than Wooster who cheriched the “perfect butterfly effect.” Jeeves, in fact, a number ot times chastises Bertie for his sloppy tying skills and insists on correctly retying the offending cravat. On one particularly memorable occasion– I forget which book it appears in and I’m much too much of a Drones Club member to be bothered looking it up– Jeeves tells Wooster that his tie isn’t up to standards. Bertie, upset about a crisis in his affairs, one of his endless matrimonial imbroglios, impatiently replies that ties seem unimportant at that moment because of the peril he is in. To which Jeeves returns the immortal reply, “There is never a time when ties are not important, sir.”
“w**** **y” is the equivalent of n****r; if a black person assaulted a white person and used the term “w**** **y”, it would be considered a hate crime.
Since When ?
That Jehmu person is paid by Roger Ailes to stir things up, which has done quite well.
I generally (even at my advanced age) wear t-shirts but I am going to have to change my style and begin wearing button downs and bow-ties. Sadly, years ago I had Laser eye surgery, but I still wear reading glasses!
I will suggest that her use of Bow Tie’n was meant to reference what some black gangs in South Africa would do to other blacks who got out of line. They’d tie their arms behind their backs, place an old tire over their heads (call this a Bow tie) fill the tire with gasoline and set it on fire.
By using this term, she was saying (in my opinon) that Tucker is someone who would bow tie blacks in this country.
Having watched Jemu on several occaisions I have come to hold the opinion that she is just another racist bigot.
I’ve never understood why men wear ties of any sort. I mean, if men really ruled the world (as we are accused of doing) would they really get up in the morning and put a noose around their neck? A tie is almost as stupid as some of the shoes I see women wear.
I’ve dropped Fox News completely. No web site, no TV, nothing. I let them know, but I don’t think they care. After all, I’m just one angry white person (although I don’t wear bow ties).
CEASE.
“Chucklehead” is a bastard amalgam.
When your subject provokes your use of invective, when he is clearly, both a chowderhead and a knucklehead, when two terms race to your tounge and you combine them. You’ll have used poor language, and even worse, poor slang.
I’m glad that others have reminded me of Winston Churchill and Senator Paul Simon. I had been mourning the passing of Pat Moynihan and Joe Flynn.
Now, Mr. Richard Kimball, I’ve long been curious, are you related to Mr. Chris Kimball? (The tall, bald, four-eyed, bow-tied host of America’s Test Kitchen)
any place to buy membership for life?