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Archive of entries posted on 22nd September 2009
Zo on ACORN and Racism
lolbama! Part 23
This week, That One. Next week, terrorists. Submit for either at lolterizt@gmail.com
Tons of entries again this week. You folks make my job SO easy.
Meanwhile, pass ’em around, spread the love, and if you make your own, don’t be shy about dropping a link to your pics in the comments. The more, the merrier.
NOTE TO READERS: Hovering your mouse over the picture activates closed captioning for the l33t-speak/txtmsg impaired.
WARNING! – Complimenting the creators of these captions in the comments only encourages their bad behavior!
My favorites from the submissions using last edition’s uncaptioned picture:
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This week’s uncaptioned picture for you to play with:
I know it was used in a caption contest recently, but people have already started using it for submissions. When in Rome…
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#1: When creating lolbama! pictures, please caption with either black or white text, as colors like red and yellow tend to blur badly when I compress the images.
#2: Standard image size for these posts is 350px wide by whatever high. If you can have your images 350px wide before you caption them, I won’t end up shrinking your captions into illegibility when I re-size the images.
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Maybe America Is Racist
I thought Obama had a good response to Letterman when asked if he thought opposition to his agenda was racist: “I was actually black before the election.” Obama knows it’s smart to play down the racism angle, as it’s a huge loser for Democrats. In the future, people might actually be more hesitant to elect a black president (or, at least, a Democrat one) if they feel that means they can’t ever disagree with him without being called racist.
A lot of the opposition Obama now faces is because Obama obviously doesn’t know what he’s doing, has a number of crazy radicals in his staff, and is hugely liberal. The thing is, I thought everyone also knew before election that Obama was inexperienced, hangs with crazy people, and is a socialist. So apparently a lot of people don’t pay attention during the campaign if that all caught them by surprise, so maybe a lot of people didn’t know Obama was black. Maybe the country is just as racist as some people say, and with all of Obama’s recent TV appearances, people have finally seen him for the first time and exclaimed, “What?! The president is black?! I thought Barack Obama was a Swedish name! Well, now I’m going to vociferously oppose everything he is for, because I don’t like the black people.”
Just something we should consider.
Obsessive Green Footballs
If you want to get an idea of how crazy Charles Johnson is, look at his recent post on Limbaugh and his responses in the comment thread. Charles Johnson points out something outrageous! Limbaugh said (“He wants to have segregation again!!!”), which anyone who has been through the Limbaugh outrage theater a hundred times before knows is something Rush said facetiously and liberals decided to take as 100% super-serious. Charles doesn’t even get much support from his commenters, and there he is for a thousand-plus comment thread, constantly deleting comments and responding bitterly and humorously, trying to convince them Rush is sooper racist with some links to old hit pieces. How much time must he spend in his comment threads each day doing this? Doesn’t that seem like a pretty miserable existence? I”m almost convinced this is some sort of performance art, and I shouldn’t be taking him seriously.
The guy really needs to take a break from blogging and politics, because I don’t think his psyche can handle it anymore. This is like a bigger crazy spiral than Andrew Sullivan’s. Does he have any friends left he hasn’t shunned who can talk to him?
UPDATE:
Q. What’s Charles Johnson’s favorite food?
A. A banana!
That was pretty bad. I should ban myself.