Assholes

Attendees at the Right Wing Americans for Prosperity "Defending the American Dream" Summit react to the news that Chicago's bid for the Olympics has been rebuffed.

“If anyone cares, Chicago is out!”

[Cheers and applause erupt. Camera pulls back to show various delighted faces in the audience]

“The very first vote! They did not have any chance at negotiating, they were out on the first vote…”

[More jubilation. A couple near the front give each other a high five.]

I can understand not being thrilled with having the Olympics in Chicago. At least one Chicago friend of mine, impeccably liberal, was not happy with the idea.

But cheering because an American city is not getting the Olympics?

This, and the gloat-fest from Limbaugh and Beck answer the question:

Is the right wing’s hatred for President Obama greater than its love for America?

Decide for yourself:

"He snucked up behind me grabbed my arms. I didn't even realize what was happening...I just saw the faces of the people in front of me before I realized I was in handcuffs," said Hofstra.

So a Chicago cop arrested Lisa Hofstra, a nurse in charge of a hospital’s emergency room, during a busy shift and, as her lawyer puts it, “held her hostage” in his police car until the hospital performed a blood test he wanted on a drunk driving suspect. No doubt all those lay-abouts with head-wounds, broken limbs, and serious bleeding appreciated this monkey-wrench being thrown into the emergency room schedule. Hofstra is now suing the Chicago Police Department.

It would be interesting to know a bit more of the background on this story. What kind of conversations, if any, took place between the police department and the hospital while they were holding Hofstra? Was the policeman involved reprimanded in any way? Even taken aside and told, “hey, don’t do this kind of thing,” by his superiors?

Even the hard-core, law-and-order types at Free Republic are clucking their tongues and shaking their heads over this (with only one or two stating that Hofstra probably had it coming.)

Does anybody out there, barring Chicago cops and Freepers who embarrass other Freepers, think arresting an emergency room nurse for following hospital procedures is a good idea?

Officers arrived at the Rainbow Lounge to conduct the scheduled inspection. Some officers remained outside while some entered the club. While walking through the Rainbow Lounge, an extremely intoxicated patron made sexually explicit movements toward the police supervisor. This individual was arrested for public intoxication. Another intoxicated individual also made sexually explicit movements towards another officer and he was arrested for public intoxication. A third individual inside the lounge assaulted the TABC agent by grabbing the TABC agent's groin. He was escorted outside and arrested for public intoxication. Fort Worth Police statement on last weekend’s raid on a gay bar that put one bar patron in the ICU with a fractured skull.

And of course, the first thing a gay man in Texas does when he sees a bunch of surly male cops is grope them.

This sounds a lot some homophobic good ol’ boy’s paranoid nightmare about how gay men act.

” How dare he? When he has a bastard son! And a slut for a wife.” Protestor at the Fire David Letterman Rally

Jonah Green’s video of the small protest yesterday in front of CBS studios reveals something anyone familiar with the far right already knows. This brouhahah over a Letterman joke is not about defending women and children. It’s about getting a nice hard hate on against a perceived liberal and his family.

Many years ago Mad Magazine had a funny feature called “You Can’t Argue With a Bigot.” It was a series of vignettes showing how bigots, confronted with something that contradicts an earlier prejudiced assumption, will simply shift their argument to fit the new circumstances. A bigot watching a ball game, for instance, first predicts that a black baseball player is going to choke at a crucial moment. “Those people” always do. Then he observes sagely, after the player has just hit a home run, that of course “those people” can run fast. It’s from living in the jungle and being chased by lions.

Today the Internet offers heightened ability to track this kind of idiocy. The recent tragedy in Texas, where a child visiting from Mexico died from Swine Flu, gave us all an opportunity to watch the racist assumptions unfold as information about the case came out. And while the comments section of the original Houston Chronicle story has a rich vein of racist venom about the child and his family (“Um, this sickly little kid is the first death to take place in the US, and he wasn't a US citizen. He was, already sick when he was, ahem, "visiting" family”) the most organized place for watching the shifting memes, of course, Free Republic.

We begin on April 29th, with the article in the Houston Chronicle:

The first reported death in the United States from the swine flu outbreak was that of a 23-month-old Mexico City boy who fell ill in Brownsville and was transported for treatment at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, where he died Monday, officials said.

Annnnnd the good folks at Free Republic are on it, antennae quivering as they sense that something is just not right!

FWIW, the anchorette on CNN bent over backwards not to ask the CDC guy they had on any questions about the toddler and/or her family. That kind of delicacy coming from the MSM automatically makes me suspicious.

Fox News reporting that this child was ‘visiting’ from MEXICO!! This is not the ‘first’ US death! It is the first death of a Mexican here illegally(probably here to escape the governemnt run healthcare in Mexico)

A sane poster at Free Republic (yes, they do exist,) points out:

Wait, we don’t know if they were here illegally yet. People from Mexico can come into the US legally, too.

But the first poster will have none of that!

Does it matter? They were here to get medical help because the government run healthcare in Mexico is awful.

A convenient promissory note is thus offered showing what the argument will be if the illegal alien thing doesn’t pan out. (There is, of course, nothing in the article to indicate that they had come to the United States for medical care.) For now, however, they are to be talked about as illegals until someone can prove otherwise:

Most likely the child’s parents drove from somewhere in central Mexico and crossed the border at Matamoros/Brownsville and then claimed they were from Brownsville. Either way, I’m betting illegal. Who knows how many people they infected along the way.

"23 MONTH OLD CHILD WAS VISITING FROM MEXICO per Fox news radio".."

Now they're called "visitors"?

"When you go on a long trip, don't you stay a few decades?

And even if the parents themselves aren’t illegals:

"I bet there is an illegal alien connection; parents, family, caregiver, etc.

But of course, they will be! The clever Freepers aren’t fooled by the obvious efforts of the press to sugar coat this ugly fact, and can only nod wisely and wait for the news to finally come out

Wait for all hell to break loose when (and if) they preface “visitor” with the dreaded “U” word...which their lips will hardly be able to say....”Undocumented”. I doubt CNN would even have the balls. When and if that other shoe drops, zowie! watch out!

I bet they are all quarantined and I bet they are illegal. Just because they were “visiting relatives” doesn’t make the relatives legal residents.

"Three days of the family's whereabouts were missing in prior reports.”

Would that be the time they were slipping into the country???

And even if they were here legally, they must be poor and certainly won’t be able to pay their hospital bill.

I suppose it would be politically incorrect to ask who paid for endangering many hundreds of people.
It’s just a hunch on my part, but I’m guessing that the Mexican baby didn’t have any medical insurance, so I paid to bring a victim to my downtown Houston, probably to one of the best, but crowded, hospitals in the country.

He and his family were not visiting. They came to exploit (steal from) the US health care system .

That same thought came to my mind as well. I would like to see more info on his ‘trip’. (vacation, whatever)

Then the news hits that, before the child showed symptoms, the family visited a mall. A savvy Freeper knows, of course, that they weren’t there to buy anything.

More like shop-lifting......

While another hazards a guess at which mall:

I'm guessing Gunspoint Mall. It's a tad, ahem, "urban".

Whoops. It turns out to have been Galleria -- an upscale mall. The Freeper who first speculated they were shoplifting is undeterred:

Last I checked, they weren’t demanding proof of income at the mall entrances. Could be they were high class shoplifters!

Nor is the Freeper who was wrong about it being an “ahem, ‘urban’ mall:”

The thing is, any nice public space invites human trash. The Galleria is very swanky, but the folks walking the mall are oftentimes of a low caliber.

While another Freeper has doubts about whether the Galleria could possibly be upscale at all, given who was visiting it.

That child and family were at Galleria Mall in Houston???? Gee, I always thought was an Upscale mall.......... how times have changed............

The Freeper who talked about Human trash reminds everyone:

HIS (Illegal Alien) PARENTS BROUGHT HIM THERE.

But by this time, it’s apparent that the family was here legally. This is pointed out to him, so the Freeper falls back on the “Mexican=poor and dirty deadbeats” assumption

Lovely. Show up, spread a bit of disease, get some free healthcare...

Finally, of course, the truth comes out in The Monitor.

In Mexico City, senators from the Partido de la Revolución Democratica through the Milenio newspaper extended their condolences to the child's grandfather, media mogul Mario Vazquez Raña.

Vazquez Raña, former owner of United Press International, leads the Organización Editorial Mexicana newspaper empire, publishers of El Sol throughout the country of Mexico. Vazquez Raña also is on the executive board of the International Olympic Committee.

The child's mother and father also are named as members of El Sol's administration in Mexico government court records involving labor issues and the El Universal newspaper.

Not only was the family here legally, but they are wealthy and influential. Which means, the image of impoverished, shoplifiting illegals now discredited, some Freepers must scramble for other insults to heap on the family for being Mexican.

Like being irresponsible parents:

That might explain why the family went shopping at the Galleria before moseying on over to the hospital.

And not really being that rich at all! not like AMERICAN rich people:

The phrase "tallest midget in the circus" comes to mind.

LOL. 
May have been a somebody in Meh-hico, but not here bro...

But of course, when all else fails, there is one dependable argument bound to crop up in Freeperland.

It was OBAMA’S fault!

If I remember correctly -—— the first reported ‘Swine Flu’ death in Mexico was the day after Obama’s trip to Mexico City. The person that died was a ‘high up’ or wealthy person and had met with Obama.

And now this story. And Obama went right on traveling with his cold and cough ..........Something smells.

Indeed it does.

Take one part a sense of entitlement, two parts an extended period of power, 3 parts powerful people willing to pander and ½ part a new administration that threatens this hegemony and you have:

A grass-roots level, red hot mess of paranoid insanity bubbling higher and higher towards violence.

The far right has been catered to for so long that a change of administration has completely unhinged a lot of them. Here are a few quotes from our patriotic friends at Free Republic in a thread about the best response to our “violent lurch into socialism.”

Note the sheer number of Americans these people are looking forward to killing and/or “expelling” from the country.

“Where can we join up to shoot liberals?”....
Just ask your neighbor who he voted for......

"The United States of America was created by the people ... who rose up against their standing oppressive government, and shot the bastards."

I say let's get it on - sooner rather than later. Let's see the big, bad, scary gay, liberal, afraid of taking a single casualty, lacking discipline, pot smoking army come to Texas and suppress us. And in this civil war, the conservatives will be on the side of Liberty, the liberals on the side Karl Marx.

That time has come again ...

"The Federal Govt must be defeated and restored to the form our founders intended." The sooner the better. The more time the Usurper has, the worse it will be. I wonder how our military will react, obey the Usurper, or will a general have the balls to refuse? (which the constitution says he has to)

I think it depends. Many of the Generals will probably resist, so they will be replaced by willing Generals.

BTW the ones that need to be dealt with are those in the MSM propaganda machine who are foisting this imposter on us. Without them he is nothing.

cities would have their water cut off, food cut off, power cut off, and city dwellers are not familiar with the country-side and fire arms so they will not fare well when venturing out. The vast majority of the military will not be on their side - I would guess they might have 35% willing. The RATS would be reduced to eating rats in short order, like sieges of old.

The goal for us would be to be left alone and kick the liberals out. We do not want to win and then be forced to continue dealing with these people. I want to "vote them out of the country". Good riddance.

The most likely scenario if things worsen is a military coup, a rule by martial law for a while, and a leader who wants to restore Constitutional law and will eventually step down or stand for election, not unlike George Washington. He will be the second Father of our Country. The bulk of the upper echelon officer corps are men of honor, not power grabbers – those are the politicians.

Foreigners, Libtards, Dems: Round 'em up and ship 'em east on trains. Michigan is way to cool to lose to the Blues.

Obama could never win a civil war as long as the people are armed. What he forgets is that we don’t have to go to war against the federal paramilitary force. We only have to take out their leaders. Kill a few hundred prominent ‘Rats and his dreams of a Marxist United States folds like a house of cards.
Anyone want to borrow my copy of Unintended Consequences?

Kill a few hundred prominent ‘Rats'
I believe only a few dozens head Rats AKA traitors. need to be "neutralized" starting with those who disseminate the socialist propaganda ... MSM heads and leftist academics and this will stop ... In the meantime we as members of the opposition need to start serving on juries in order to nullify the governments attempts to imprison its political enemies. Look for trumped up drug and weapons charges ... a few guilty may get off but that would be a small price to pay

we should just clean up the middle blue parts and kick out New England/West Coast/Upper midwest and move on.

I might need a little help cleaning up the blue Texas counties along the Rio Grande.

as soon as we clean up Houston, we’ll be down to help

I got news for you... WE are going to “bury” HIM, and every SOB that thinks like him... right down to the last soul.