Comments on: Deconstructing the “Whup Ass”

By: Boogeyman

Boogeyman — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:55:21 +0000

If Obama is Geraldo then when do we get to the opening of an empty vault and everyone turns away from him?

By: Dred Scott

Dred Scott — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:37:09 +0000

More throwing themselves under the Beck bus!

By: Deguello

Deguello — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:31:34 +0000

Get in? Only if you have money to donate (upper-class twit),or an affirmative action admission,or are/were a terrorist. If you are white,and merely intelligent,FORGET IT!

By: Norman Rogers

Norman Rogers — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:47:22 +0000

But as Jones relates, it was far easier to be a “hell raiser” at Yale. What that meant I think was that in lieu of studying (“Yale didn’t have any grades”), Jones knew that he could say and do almost anything he wished among rather wealthy (and to be honest, rather nerdy) white and Asian people, playing on both their guilt, and on their vicarious sense of adventure and cutting-age revolutionary romance—and do pretty well.

Oh, the nerds at Yale were full of contradictions. I am so glad I never went there. I suppose if I had tried harder, I might have gotten in, but even in the early 1960s, the people there were insufferable.

By: deguello

deguello — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:30:04 +0000

MR.HANSON:Deconstructing this,poverty pimp and would-be commissar is easy,just take out the “whup”,and you’re done!

By: deguello

deguello — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:04:13 +0000

#105MOHO Dear, take your enema,and use the text of Jones lies to wipe yourself…or not.Of course Jones graduated from Yale;with a meretricious Affirmative action/lowered standards degree.The only believable part of his exculpatory drivel,was his admitting to having poor reading skills.This flaw is ,of course, typical of the affirmative action graduates of our standards-challenged,guilt ridden Ivy League “universities”.When Obama loses his re-election bid, he’ll soon refer to his poor skills at public speaking(when not using his teleprompter,,as an excuse for his failures.

By: Subotai Bahadur

Subotai Bahadur — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:27:16 +0000

96. tioedong

Amen. As an American of Asian ancestry [not Korean, though] I took great pleasure in seeing the L.A. Chapter of the Korean Marine Association stand post guarding the businesses of their fellow Koreans. It appealed to me as a fellow Asian and as a supporter of the Second Amendment.

Growing up, my dad told me that I would have to work twice as hard as a white person to get the same deal. He meant it because of discrimination against those with Chinese blood. And from his point of view it made sense. When he came over, we literally were not human beings under Federal law and the laws of many states.

I caught the tale end of the discrimination of that sort [The first time I had to carry a gun was in high school in Hastings, Nebraska, because my fellow students decided that having epicanthic folds meant that I was VC; despite being Chinese and aiming at the time for Annapolis.], and saw it shift. Led by refugees from SE Asia, who by hard work built a new and successful life, Asians became top achievers in school and in business. And for that they faced discrimination again, for a different reason. Universities began defacto quotas limiting Asians to accomodate affirmative action placements of Blacks and Hispanics. I remember seeing actual functional illiterates being admitted to CU-Boulder under affirmative action, and them rioting and taking over Regent Hall when they flunked out, claiming racism. I later remember my daughter being bussed all the way across Denver to a different school, because she was Chinese while my stepson wasn’t.

Until the United States remembers that individual merit and achievement count more than racial origin; we are doomed to a succession of demogogues like Obama.

Subotai Bahadur

By: scott

scott — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:07:11 +0000

cfbleachers,

Dang! That was excellent!

By: John Reece

John Reece — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:44:01 +0000

As an occasional resident since 1972 of the People’s Republic of Berkeley and the People’s Republic of Santa Cruz, not to mention a former longtime member of the Sierra Club, I’d say VDH’s narration of how people like Van Jones and Barry Dunham got ahead is DEAD ON. Van Jones got to his position because lily-white Green groups like the Sierra Club are wracked with white-liberal-guilt over their lack of diversity and are therefore desperate to throw high-profile gigs at any minority member who has more polish than a 1968 Black Panther. And I’ve met Bobby Seale…

By: Moho

Moho — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:13:21 +0000

(Re: on the one hand, we are supposed to believe that Jones was a brilliant Yale law graduate,* on the other that he did not understand the simple English wording of the petition?), he might have survived the other inanities.

Are you implying he didn’t graduate from Yale? Or are you just too stupid to get your meaning across? Others have complained about the petition as well, including Tikkun’s Lerner:

What the Right did, with the help of the 9/11 “truthers,” was to distort the intention of at least some of us who were asked to sign the statement. The “truthers” published that statement with their own speculations of the role of Bush, and the way that it appears on their website makes it possible for someone to imagine that the signatories to the statement were all agreeing to their framing–and that is simply not true. Conversely, the Right used that deceptive form of publicity by the “truthers” to affirm something that Van Jones and others made clear we never intended to sign, ….

I was asked to sign a letter that I was told had four demands:

1. An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer
2. Immediate investigation in congressional hearings.
3. Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence.
4. The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry.

I did not authorize my name to be used for all the other stuff that I now see was included surrounding the letter, namely the sponsors of that 911truth.org, and would not have had I been aware that all that stuff was presented in ways that suggested that I agreed with it, and though I do recognize a few of the people I’d consider “nut cases” among the list of signatories, my guess is that most of those who signed were, like me, unaware of the context in which our names would appear.

A good reporter, even one with a malicious intent like yours, would have at least included such statements, and then found a way to undermine them. But you don’t; you’re a coward.