It's a movie reference from, "Pricilla, Queen of the Desert" starring Terrance Stamp (bow, kneel before Zod) about a performing group of drag queens; a stunning film really and the ping pong scene references a mail-order bride...I didn't view the scene as racist at all, but attribute this Malkin's remarks to her incredibly thin skin of any criticism. She obviously doesn't read Wonkette much at all...who rips on anyone in power on a regular basis.
Hmmm, Malkin "googled" herself and came up with 9 references to the Asian "ping pong ball" whore reference; but Google "Hillary Clinton"+"lebsian" and you get 509,000 references. I could care less than Malkin is Asian or not; but she walks around the town square poking people in the eye with a stick and then bitches when someone calls her on it.
Please point out where she makes racist and sexist comments like the boys at Wonkette did.
You have a damn wide gap in your double standard. That was text book Hate Speech and leftists giggle over it.
Wrong ... go back to Malkin's links; blog admins have pulled most of the nasty references. If you want to hear giggling hate speech, listen to Coulter and Limbaugh fire away. Mark Levine refering to Alec Baldwin as "Brokeback Alec" on the radio would certainly qualify and not an objection from Mr. Hannity while it was said. You can't make generalizations like this..that lefties giggle over it. It's simply not true.
There are entire sites dedicated to "fact checking" Michelle Malkin and calling into question the nature of comments she has made. She also wrote an entire book entitled, "The Case for Internment" which justified when this national did to Japanese-American citizens which an entire generation of citizens would find prfoundly more distrubing than anonynmous comments posted on a left leaning blog. Wonkette apogolized for the comment btw, but them comedy is hard and not every joke is funny; I read mallard Fillmore daily and have yet to crack a smile./
So it's still racist & sexist hate speech coming from the intolerant left.
The process of saying and writing nasty personal insults and then claiming it was just a joke didn't work well in the 5th grade and it still doesn't.
kinda like those purple heart band-aids passed out at the GOP convention?
So, my claim stands. The so called "enlighten" left are just as bad and arguably worse then the Conservative/Republicans they claim to be better than.
The guys at Wonkette can't even rise to the level of dick and fart jokes.
Sarcasm is lost on the right, isn't it? Wonkette is funny. And like any comedian, not every joke works. I shed few tears for Malkin who is the most thin-skined right winger of them all. At least Coulter laughs it off, but Malkin clearly can't take some of the same venom she dishes out (Media Matters has several references of Malkin's highly sensitive critiques).
Wonkette just isn't that funny since Anne Marie left. Like I said, they are not even up to the level of decent dick and fart jokes.
The process of saying and writing nasty personal insults and then claiming it was just a joke didn't work well in the 5th grade and it still doesn't.
http://www.margaretcho.com/
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Shall I paint all these right wingers as intolerant idiots based on the postings of these select few?
That the Right doesn't have its fair share of idiots has never been under debate.
The problem with the hatred on the left is that it is becoming more and more the mainstream in the democrat party.
I agree with you that Ana Marie is missed...
But hatred on the left becoming more mainstream of the Democratic Party? Neither Wonkette nor those who posted represent the Democratic Party; the liberal media and its readers, yes to a certain extent.
So as a comparision, would it be safe to say that all the venom Limbaugh, Coulter & Company spewed against Clinton was hatred from the right?
Well, you can certainly tell they were not happy with the Clintons.
I don't listen to Rush, so I can't comment on him, but while Coulter does have a strong viscious streak, she often attacked policies that Clinton (both of them) and other leftists had.
The attack against Ms. Malkin was a nasty personal racial & sexist slur.
If she had a history of making hardcore porn, there would be a shread of truth to it. Bill Clinton was a serial fornicater who cheated on his wife on a regular & repeated basis. That is a statement of fact born out in numerious Courts of Law.
Attack the principles, and question/make fun of their political beliefs. That is very differnt than making unfounded sexual slander and racial slurs.
Janet Reno probably takes offense at you calling her a lesbian as well...
and Big Bill's extra curriculum activities had absolutely nothing to do with his policies and in the way he governed.
Malkin is the subject of riducule from the left for her positions (suggesting that John Kerry intentionally shot himself to get a Purple Heart). And I do agree that the few (less than 9) comments against her were sexist in nature, but they no way reflect the positions of the vast majority of those Democrats, Liberals or the Left that she and you seem to feel believe this.
That said, why not comdemn the dozens of hate emails directed at Margaret Cho, who performed a comedy routine for MoveOn.org in which the right wing used language and references far worse than anything Ms. Malkin suffered.
But you don't see me painting the entire Right Wing, Republicans or Conservatives as being hateful or intolerant.
Each side has their share of of idiots; I respect Coulter for letting it (critcism of her) slide as she can dish it out and take it, but Malkin has repeatedly showns he is ill equipped to deal with any criticim of her whatsoever.
Is it any wonder she doesn't show up anywhere but Fox News these days.
So the personal attacks are fine with you. Personally I don't like 'em from either side and the ones against Ms. Malkin were particular vile.
Malkin didn't claim Kerry shot himself. There is a big difference between being wounded by firing a shrapnel grenade too close to you and getting caught in the blast and shooting yourself.
That particular mistake has been hoisted and waved by the left regardless of the actual truth of the matter.
I never said I was OK with personal attacks, as I'm not. But the right has a much more established track record of personal attacks against the left than the other way around. And the ones against Malkin are tame compared to the ones against Margaret Cho (an entertainer, just like Ms. Malkin).
Go to YouTube and download and view the Hardball episode where Malkin advances the notion that "legitimate" questions have been rasied about whether or not Kerry shot himself. By two "authors" that were part of the Swift Boat crew that made "swiftboating" a freaking adjective for personal attacks. Matthews wasn't buying what Malkin is selling and no one believes with any amount of credbility that Kerry shot himself in VietNam.
Malkin is a, to use her favorite term, a smear merchant.
Cho! Her so-called "comedy" act is nothing but a hate filled smear rant these days.
Bottom line is the Wonkette "boys" couldn't deal on an issue level so they went for a racial slur. So much for the "enlightend left." I called 'em on it.
If you want to hightlight the loons on the other side on your blog, feel free.
Thanks; re: Cho's routine...I can make the same arguement of Malkin's body of work. But my essential point is we have moonbats who post awful thinkgs on both sides of the aisle and its unfair to paint everyone on either side of the spectrum with the broad brush of name-calling.
That's why I love the dialouge with you. We both have strong points of view but it never gets in the way of our friendship.
(You have no idea how often I use your "nine pregnant women doesn't make one baby in a single month" line when it comes to prouct development.
You could, but it wouldn't be accurate.
Most of Ms. Malkin's written work is against actions, rather than the people directly. Now she will name the people committing those actions.
For example, calling Che a murdering coward of a communist isn't racist. It's a matter of historical fact.
Wearing a shirt with Che Guevara shirt in a free country is the moral equivilant of wearing a shirt with Adolf Hitler picture to a Synagogue.
That isn't racist. It is all too uncommon common sense.
Asking if any Asian woman who appears on video if she does the queefing thing with ping-pong balls is sexist and racist, and not very "liberal" at all.
There are idiots in the Right of Center spectrum as well. That side seems to be better at self-policing though.
I've heard Conservative talk radio types refer to the former White House Press Secretary as "the fat kid." The one who was always about to cry when the other kids picked on him. That is how they discribed his reaction to most of Dick Gregory's questions.
I also saw a Right of Center blog nail Rush Limbaugh for quoting directly from blogs, including blogger's personal comments, and not crediting them as the source.
Odds are Al Franken does the same thing, but is anybody from the left nailing him for it?
The right is better at self-policing? Oh please. Hugh Hewitt cites Rush as the most trusted "journalist" in America citing his huge audience as proof. Look at the comedic muses of Neal Bortz (Ghetto slut), Glen Beck (I hate 9/11 victims), Michael Savage (Liberalism is a mental disorder), Ann Coulter (where to begin), Malkin (where to end?), Hewitt (Iraq was a threat). I don't buy what you're selling here.
I gave examples. You provided nothing but attacks without content against those you disagree with.
Given that lack of valid content from you, I'll stand by my statement.
Mark --
Hewitt did call Rush the most trusted journalist in American, citing the size of his audience. Google it. Neal Bortz called Rep Cynthia McKinney a "Ghetto slut" after her punching incident. Glen Beck is on the record for saying her hates 9/11 victims...Hewitt also said that Iraq was a threat (Colbert Report appearance). Now Malkin is an apologist for the massacre at Haditha and Coulter's new book, Godless hits the stores tomorrow....I think I have offered adequate backup.
"an apologist for the massacre at Haditha"? What about innocent until proven guilty?
IF the Marines are found guilty, then they will be punished, unlike the UN "Peacekeepers" forcing pre-pubicent girls into being sex slaves for food.
That's because we're the good guys.
The left and it's pet media is drooling over thier chance to paint the American military as evil "baby killers" and have warm and comfy Vietnam flashbacks.
As I have said, there are those to the right of center who are not the most polite. Pointing out that those exist does not nulify the the racist & sexist hate mongers who exist on the left.
Step up to the plate and admit that those types exist in the far hard left spectrum.
I supposed those toddlers shot themselves in Haditha. But I am awaiting the outcome of the investigation into the incident that happened 8 months ago. I also think that UN "peacekeepers" who have sex with 8 year olds should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
And no one on the left or the MSM wants to think anyone in our military is capable of what happened there. This is a common misperception on the rigth because the right always needs an enemy. If the MSM wants anything out of Haditha, it's facts. What happened, who was involved, what prompted this, why were these people affected, why was their 8 months passed until this incident came to light?
The topic has strayed a bit from the original topic of the intolerance and racism of the left.
Here is a key difference. The US Marines who might have commited crimes in Haditha (a story which is falling apart as more light is shined on it) are in military prisons, treated more harshly than the inmates at Camp X-Ray, while the child rapists and slave traders the UN sends as "Peacekeepers" are still at large, raping children and operating a sex slave trade.
That is because we are the "Good Guys" and the UN is largely run by corrupt third world dictators and thugs.
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