I’m trying to understand what the hell Kathleen Parker is going on about. As best as I can tell, she’s saying that, for her, Obama is not a black man but more like O.J. Simpson (before he nearly cut his wife’s head off with a knife). And he’s a chick.
Does that about sum it up?
is she African-American? “my life experience is different from that of most African Americans”?????
No .. Parker is white .. she was considered, for a moment, a sane Republican .. because she wrote a column for two that was right about “The Quittah”(I believe) .. but she’s since reverted to form
The part where she says that her “different life experience” makes her able to see things without the lens of race is really priceless. According to Kathleen Parker, being white magically makes you color blind. Excuse me while I go use my unique Caucasianness to impartially analyze all racial issues now. Kathleen Parker has made me see the light.
true
I’m sure she has a point in there somewhere.
summary of her column: because of her transcendent whiteness plus being a distant relative, she has unique insight into the multitude of things wrong with Barack Obama both as a president and as a human being, which, in order to help him become a better president and human being are listed below, except for the things that won’t fit in this column and will be explained in follow-up columns.
My first reaction was that she has joined MoDo on the list of female columnists who seem to have Daddy issues.
She’s a wing-nut(despite her one coherent column a year or so ago) .. so of course she has daddy issues
Yep. For a while, she was claiming that she’s impartial and nonpartisan. And yet every single one of her columns repeats talking points from the right-wing blogosphere.
I think at this point his legislative track record has knocked them so far for a loop that they’re focusing on little things.
I’m convinced people like Parker get together with Peggy Noonan and Lisa Schiffren(!) and like drink heavily and come up with this shit.
Then some, like Schiffren, go home and really plow into the highballs.
The purpose of writing that Obama is kinda like OJ is simple. She can talk about a style of speech but what she’s really saying is that Obama = OJ. It’s a simple technique of propaganda that’s used over and over. Find someone you want to smear and then put a mental picture of him standing next to someone everyone hates.
So there is a seed planted in nitwit brains that Obama can’t be trusted with white women, he kills Jews and jumps over high fences.
By the way, whoever cut Nicole Simpson’s throat and stabbed Ron Goldman in the back did so after they were both dead, if you look at the autopsies.
very interesting. then what injuries did they die from?
I’m sorry that you think your job requires reading Kathleen Parker. Immersing yourself in teh stupid is risky.
She is a typical Republican. Our President isn’t authoritarian enough for her. Would she change her mind if he landed on an aircraft carrier in a full flight suit, including protection?
If you aren’t Rambo, you must be female!
Actually they (Republicans) are hung up on sex in all kinds of ways and not above using racial associations as dog whistles.
They are repugnant, one and all. Southern Senators have been especially repugnant the last couple of weeks!
This part was one of the centerpieces of the column’s premise, and as such made the entire column deeply delusional and offensive:
“But I also recognize that my life experience is different from that of most African Americans. And that experience allows me both the luxury of seeing people without the lens of race….”
I am white. F*** you, Kathleen Parker.
The whole business of presuming that the entire American public wants “…an action figure in the hyper-masculine mode…” is standard so-stupid-it-burns conservative/MSM trope, but the whole exploration of “I am Obama’s kin” was a novel level of foolishness, I must admit.