Monday, September 13, 2010

What Counts as Racism Today?

By Nicholas Stix

Consider the following passage:

According to scholars, brown-faced half-wits have had remarkable staying power throughout history despite their outlandish, easily debunked claims, shameless self-promotion, and complete lack of credentials. More often than not, experts said, these dark, shallow dullards skillfully manage to control debate on the most important social and political topics of the day.

Although the foregoing is true, if a mainstream public figure said so, he’d be finished, before he completed the last sentence, destroyed by one of the very people he was denouncing. But that wasn’t the actual quote. I altered the original, which follows:

According to scholars, pink-faced half-wits have had remarkable staying power throughout history despite their outlandish, easily debunked claims, shameless self-promotion, and complete lack of credentials. More often than not, experts said, these pasty, shallow dullards skillfully manage to control debate on the most important social and political topics of the day.

It’s from The Onion, which is supposed to be a satire site, but there’s nothing at all satirical about it.

Glenn Beck controlling debate? How could he possibly do that? Does he somehow have ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/MSNBC, etc., the newspapers, higher ed, the schools, courts, public agencies and America's diversity trainers under his sway? Does the White House pipe his show into people's homes, against their will?

The screed also alludes to Rush Limbaugh.

Other excerpts from The Onion rant follow.

NEW YORK—Following an Aug. 28 rally in Washington, D.C. attended by an estimated 87,000 Americans, experts confirmed this week that the U.S. populace appears to have fallen under the spell of yet another pink-faced half-wit.

[That’s a lie, though it’s one that was first propagated by the MSM. More credible estimates are that from 300,000-700,000 people attended.]

The most recent pink-faced halfwit has reportedly captured the popular imagination through the conventional vehicles of a nationally syndicated talk-radio program and a cable news television show. According to media analyst Rebecca Ellington, the pink-faced half-wit has mesmerized the nation by spewing out hundreds of predictably reactionary and emotion≠ally manipulative on-air diatribes.

“This particular pink-faced half-wit is at the height of his persuasive powers,” Ellington said of the bloated, hateful multimillionaire. “By exploiting citizens’ greatest anxieties during an uncertain time in our nation’s history, the pink-faced half-wit has been able to promote his own vain, avaricious self-interests under the guise of standing up for the very disenfranchised people whom he himself is fleecing.”

“I’ve seen a number of pink-faced half-wits during my career, and in the pantheon of bombastic demagogues, this one will surely be remembered as one of the most disgusting,” Ellington continued. “It’s truly extraordinary: He may well be too ambitious and narcissistic to be able to comprehend how much damage he is doing to our country.”

[Next passage was what I quoted earlier.]

“Anytime followers heed his advice and do something illegal, [the pink-faced half-wit] can simply claim that his work is intended only for entertainment purposes,” said Ellington, proffering a copy of the current pink-faced half-wit’s inane ghostwritten thriller The Overton Window, a thinly veiled conduit for an untenable and potentially dangerous fringe ideological message. “This leaves them free to wield their truly baffling influence in incredibly irresponsible ways without fear of accountability.”

The Onion piece is a crude, stupid, vitriolic, anti-white screed, which matches the talking points of the “Obama” White House, straight down the line; no more, no less. Particularly in its humorlessness, lack of irony, and nasty language, it does not at all resemble the site’s typical work, and may have come straight from the West Wing, or from a Journolister.

A tip ‘o the hat to James Fulford.

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