Oh, give it a rest

I saw some traffic coming in from the American Stinker (the blog with Uncle Sam taking a dump in its masthead) and had the displeasure of reading a petulant exercise in wingnut overreach by Jeannie DeAngelis. Here’s the paragraph, the last one, that contained a link to Rumproast:

President Obama left the First Lady to join Joe Biden at the memorial service for victims of the WV mining disaster and told mourning families that while golfing his, “heart ached” over the tragedy. Winding down “middle class” spring break, son of a coal miner’s daughter, Barack Obama, commemorated the twenty-nine “middle class” miners that ” lived—as they died—in pursuit of the American dream” similar to the one only the grief stricken president has the benefit of enjoying.

Compare and contrast:

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Linda Davis & Barack Obama

They sat in the second and third rows Sunday, as President Obama called coal miners the embodiment of the American work ethic. A family that has become the face of West Virginia’s grieving by simple, heartbreaking math.

Five men of the Davis family went into the Upper Big Branch mine April 5.

Two came back.  [...]

The Davises had already talked to Obama: In the aftermath of the blast, he called family patriarch Charles Davis, 75. It wasn’t like in the movies: There was no secretary on the line, no “please hold for the president of the United States.”

Davis picked up the phone, and there he was.

“He said, ‘This is President Obama,’ ” Davis said. Obama told him that, if Davis or his wife needed him to help with anything, all they had to do was call. Davis remembered that Obama said that if he wasn’t home, “the first lady will take care of it.” [...]

As the service concluded Sunday, a choir broke into song, and Obama took Linda Davis’s arm to lead her out.

“Here,” she said in the parking lot a few minutes afterward, pulling a rectangle of white cloth out of her purse. “He gave me his handkerchief to wipe my tears with.”

I guess Obama made that call from the golf course…

MORE: If you think what Jeannie wrote was bad, check out what the Freepers had to say. WARNING: You won’t need waders, you’ll need a Hazmat suit. [hat tip StrangeAppar8us]

UPDATE: Overall the rightwing blogs seemed to have just ignored the memorial service yesterday, but one of the “adults” we were supposed to listen to during the primaries gurgled up this nonsense:

I will name WaPo the cover of the day as it catches the photo op with the miner’s widow in the right moment: as Obama rushes to disentangle himself from the yucky moment

other papers were more reverential in their choice of photo, but they demonstrate anyway Obama has just as much of a problem as W to pretend that he cares

God, I hate these people.

Posted by Kevin K. on 04/26/10 at 08:30 AM • Permalink

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They just miss that straight talkin’, brush-clearin’ cowpoke GWB, a genuine man of the people who pulled himself up by the bootstraps despite being the scion of a blue-blooded family with enormous wealth and influence.

The American Stinkers can see right through the Obamas’ elitist lower-middle-class upbringings and scholarship-rather-than-legacy admissions to Ivy League schools. What a pair of phonies, growing up without chauffeurs and now acting all hoity-toity just because they’re the president and first lady.

Many racists-in-denial like DeAngelis can’t stand the fact that 1) Black People are eating off the White House china; 2) a Black Man who isn’t Tiger Woods is allowed to play golf on ritzy private courses; 3) Mr. & Mrs. O. are educated, elegant, wealthy individuals who appreciate and enjoy the same refined pleasures as Rich White Yuppies, but look better doing it, have nicer manners and tip bigger; and 4) despite living the same privileged High Life as every other White President, Obama is hugged, cheered and applauded by the working-class West Virginians DeAngelis is doubtless convinced should really, really hate his Black Ass for having the gall to show up, pray with them, honor their dead and express the nation’s shared sense of loss.

Of course, you pretty much have to be a flaming racist asshole to write for American Thinker, which publishes outrageous shit like this under the guise of legitimate commentary.

The notracist is, we must remember, fantastically clueless about how their little comments might be seen, and generally feels that a simple disavowal of racism, and the fact that they aren’t wearing a hood should be enough to see them through.

For example, I recently had a family member tell me that the two most ignorant people he’d ever heard give political commentary are Charles Barkley and Whoopi Goldberg.

Gee, wonder why he chose them?

Aware that the White House won’t always be home, Barry and Michelle also took the opportunity to checkout local real estate. The Camelot conglomerate toured the Biltmore Estates a French Renaissance-style manor in Asheville built by George Vanderbilt II in the late 1800’s, “one of the most prominent remaining examples of the Gilded Age.”

Yes, he’s going to buy Biltmore and make all the local white folk tend the gardens.

They concoct the frame that Obama is a capitalism-hating Commie, then attack him for being a hypocritical Socialist who wants everyone else to wear wooden shoes while he himself indulges in every earthly pleasure. Both sides of that comma are spectacular lies, but it works for them.

For a while, calling him a “Communist” gave them almost as juicy a rush as shouting “Nigger!”...because the synaptic bridge between “redistribution of the wealth” and “Black Reparations” is superconductive at room temperature, and fires all by itself.

Now, though, the radio haters are running hard with “African Colonial,” because it is a wonderfully refined way to say “ungrateful, privileged beneficiary of the White Man’s rule” without admitting that you eat your own poop and lap water out of the toilet.

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.  If the president hadn’t gone to the service people would have complained that he couldn’t be bothered to take time out of his busy vacation schedule to honor those poor white West Virginia miners ‘cause he’s an uppity black guy.  The president goes to the service, as he should have, and he’s an uppity black guy trying to hog the spotlight for himself.

People don’t watch FNC for the news, they watch it because it tells them what they want to hear.  The same with sites like FreeRepublic and RedState.

At least they can’t criticize the use of teleprompters.

KK, check your link to the World’s Biggest Blogwhore. I think it may have moved.

Fixed. Thx.

@ Strange: She’s probably posted links to that post on every online condolence site associated with the tragedy. It would really not surprise me a bit.

OMG, that neeegrooo is assaulting that poor white widder woman!!

NotYourSweetie is truly the Queen Pimp of the Blogoverse, for all the good it does her. Even DWP thinks she’s a postitute. [spelling intentional]

I guess we should link to the definition of blogwhore or we’ll be called SEXXXXXISSSSSSSST!

we should link to the definition of blogwhore

Not to worry. Alan Grayson’s got it covered.

Jebus, the first paragraph of hers that you posted is basically incoherent.  Why am I not surprised?

Jebus, the first paragraph of hers that you posted is basically incoherent.  Why am I not surprised?

I note with sadness more than anger that the worst thing about right-wing affirmative action (aka Wingnut Welfare) is how, once these poor unfortunate inferior beings have been promoted beyond their capabilities in name of some greater social goal, their own actual work reveals them to be undeserving of the opportunities they have been given.

Although unable to be officially confirmed, rumor has it Michelle visited the Grove Park Inn spa to avail herself of luxurious choices ranging from a $250-dollar Mountain Honey Wrap, to an economical $100-dollar Walk in the Clouds pedicure.

Yeah, and I’ll bet she ordered a meal of lobster and Iranian caviar too!

Good grief.

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