Obama als Verwesungssymptom
As a scholar of Austro-German music of the early-to-mid twentieth century, I'm accustomed to reading cowardly screeds against this or that modern thing being a Verwesungssymptom or symptom of decay, a rotten spot on the fruit of our great [enter your ethnic or national self-identity here] culture. (And, to my amusement, I always hear Mark Levin's tiny voice narrating it.) I guess it's sort of like being a proctologist--it's work, so it doesn't really shock you.
But this does.
Here is an especially heated passage:
Surely not all bigots are as easy to make fun of as this one. Which brings me to my other point: please check out the rest of the site. This guy Arthur is, um, interested in Vikings and, um, manliness. A lot. I thought the site was satirical at first. There's a sidebar with links to several unintentionally hilarious articles (the man party is my favorite).
But this does.
Here is an especially heated passage:
This man [Obama] is the embodiment of everything that is wrong with United States. It is really not his fault. He is just another of the long line of misguided, foolish and naive peacenik pieces of shit that have come out of the hippie movement of the 1960s. [...] Never before have I been more convinced that American culture, the culture that allowed us to be the greatest nation in the history of the planet, has been destroyed. The average person in this country is not worth the air they breathe. These are the same people who fawn over American Idol, buy houses that they can't afford and would not know the Constitution if it [BLEEP] them in the [BLEEP]. There are people who voted for Obama who are not brain dead (not very many, but there are). The fact that they voted for Obama is testament to the decay of our society. American culture has descended into a celebrity worshipping, hyperactive, uninformed, placated and pathetic state. I simply do not believe that Americans understand what they just did, and the thing is, the vast majority don't give a shit.This rhetoric has won before. We know where it leads. But what on earth could possibly be done about it? How can the so-inclined be prevented from sliding into this mentality?
Surely not all bigots are as easy to make fun of as this one. Which brings me to my other point: please check out the rest of the site. This guy Arthur is, um, interested in Vikings and, um, manliness. A lot. I thought the site was satirical at first. There's a sidebar with links to several unintentionally hilarious articles (the man party is my favorite).
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Sometimes I turn it around. I hear a comment like that and think:
Yeah, the death and decay of YOUR AMERICA, not mine.
March 30, 2009 1:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Scary talk:
March 30, 2009 2:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
The guy is the best exemplar of his own rhetoric imaginable, though, isn't he?
March 30, 2009 2:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
How often this happens....
March 30, 2009 3:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
My favorite line from the blockquote is...
"... (They) would not know the Constitution if it [BLEEP] them in the [BLEEP]."
The original version was probably...
"...(They) would not know the Constitution if it marooned them in the laundromat."
But some authorities instead substitute...
"...(They) would not know the Constitution if it retooled them in the Industrial Revolution."
And still others maintain that this diary is nothing but a hypocritical attempt to defend the con-man Barack Obama, by selectively portraying his critics as crypto-Nazi freaks, like the author of the blockquote.
March 30, 2009 10:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
What does Levin say about that neocon icon, Ronald Reagan? Where is his outrage against celebrity ideologues like Rush or Billo?
It wasn't the "pieces of shit from the 60's" that "destroyed" this "great nation," but the pieces of shit that commited genocide against native americans, who enslaved blacks, who denied rights to women, who incarcerated japanese americans during WWII, who fought against equal access for the handicapped and denied full citizenship to gays and lesbians.
Fuck Mark Levin; what a piece of shit!
March 30, 2009 2:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, and that Arthur dude is a piece of shit, also!
March 30, 2009 2:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've gotten stuck listening to short swatches of Levin in the car on evening errands more times than I like, because we have a dysfunctional electric antenna (NPR AM has a weak signal and FM switches to music at night.)
I believe he has hated most Americans for quite some time. That's basically what he sells, populist pitchfork anger against the American masses. I know, kind of a bizarre twist. :-)
He was ok with Bush, but I wouldn't call him a fan. He absolutely despised McCain, giving him the "fake fraud phony" label and ranted mightily against him. Come to think of it, it seems he hates anyone who is a Congressperson, R or D, doesn't matter, because they inevitably compromise on something. He likes the dictatorial executive types, like Guiliani.
March 30, 2009 2:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
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Radio in the car?
That must have been what was located in the hole in the center of my dash where I installed my watch out for the idiots radar.
Automobiles have turned into information and entertainment centers to the detriment of safety ... not to mention peace of mind.
It's like the GPS mapping systems. If you don't know where you are, why are you there?
~OGD~
March 30, 2009 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
The 'Man Party'...
And this is the guy who says:
Where do you find this stuff worthzen?
March 30, 2009 4:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
I came across this article first:
http://www.arthurshall.com/x_2006_beer_paradox.shtml
I figured it was tongue-in-cheek. Then I started exploring the site and learned otherwise.
March 30, 2009 8:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
The beer paradox... Nancy boy beer is in fact a more manly beer and vice versa. Funny stuff. It really does read like a spoof.
March 30, 2009 9:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
It does look like a joke indeed. Don't know that much can be done about such craziness.
March 30, 2009 5:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
RE: Surely not all bigots are as easy to make fun of as this one. Which brings me to my other point: please check out the rest of the site. This guy Arthur is, um, interested in Vikings and, um, manliness
Reminded me of one of my all time favorite news blog comments, here:
http://agonist.org/20060517/saudi_king_calls_for_female_picture_ban#comment-86973
The Little Rascals reference in the title of the comment is extra gravy.
March 30, 2009 6:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
This guy Arthur is selling t-shirts. He's probably got 20 sites with different "opinionated characters" store fronting. Like it says on the site: HAIL CAPITALISM.
March 30, 2009 8:45 PM | Reply | Permalink