that's how you are, atrios. always illuminating the obvious but infrequently asked questions.
Anonymous | 08.29.03 - 11:52 pm | #

Sorry, having been on welfare, risen above, coundn't read after that bait. Sure he did a good job slaying that dragon. How often can one been offended by this canker sore of the new Christian Fundy wacko right? I have read Milton Friedman, and like him. I liked Jefferson more than Hamilton, and Madison, but would take, my god the right has morphed into .....what?.....the evil cousins of the teenage mutant ninja turtles on a jihad against all! Slay all ankle-biters over age 4, no 6, and excluding Kucinich!
mikedabutcher | 08.30.03 - 12:01 am | #

Northrup nails it. There's an active thread on Yglesias with ostensibly reasonable righties propagating pretzel logic. What can you do but make fun of it?

Are they serious about the Brown Peril?
bad Jim | 08.30.03 - 1:08 am | #

Our friends on the right don't seem to be able to grasp the distinction between an organization of members of a historically oppressed minority calling for racial solidarity, and an organization of members of a historically oppressive majority calling for racial solidarity.

It's the difference between the NAACP and the National Association for the Advancement of Aryan People.
rea | 08.30.03 - 8:46 am | #

I've seen some pretty shocking things over at hillel.org. It appears they want to encourage Jewish people to DO THINGS with OTHER Jewish people.
Atrios | Homepage | 08.30.03 - 9:19 am | #

That group has already denounced Bustamante as a "Zionist" tool.

Then again, the Republicans know that the trailer park doesn't know that, so boomshock@juno.com plays along.
Grand Moff Texan | 08.30.03 - 10:47 am | #

When did they start playing the race card? Seriously?

It started when they initiated Nixon's Southern Strategy and decided to become the party of "law and order."

I posted a brilliant example of rightwing hate humor today at Babelogue:

http://allahakbar.blogspot.com/

Even the name is offensive to Muslims. Somewhat funny at times, mostly very heavy handed. Conservatives don't seem to understand that "my enemy thinks I'm a shithead" is NOT self-deprecating humor.
Mark Gisleson | Homepage | 08.30.03 - 11:31 am | #

"National Association for the Advancement of Aryan People"

Never heard of that one, but there is a "National Association for the Advancement of White People." I doubt that it's anything other than a web site though. Any idiot can set up a web site, and it appears that more than a few have.
raj | 08.30.03 - 1:31 pm | #