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December 16, 2003

Dean | Howard Dean peddles hate for cash

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Who Says Dean and His Ilk Have No Sense of Humor?

DEBORAH ORIN at the New York Post reports on the "no-videos-allowed" Dean fundraiser in New York in HOWARD'S HATEFEST. [Emphasis added.]

[T]here were no TV cameras last Monday night when pro-Dean comics took the stage on West 18th St. in Chelsea at a $250-a-head Dean fund-raiser (reduced from $500) and competed to see how often they could use the F-word in the same sentence.

Comic Judy Gold dissed President Bush as "this piece of living, breathing s---" and Janeane Garofalo ridiculed the Medicare prescription-drug bill that Bush had just signed as the "you can go f--- yourself, Grandma" bill.

Just a few days before, rival John Kerry had used the F-word to attack Bush in Rolling Stone magazine in an apparent bid to sound hip, but Dean's event was "enough to make John Kerry blush," as rival Dick Gephardt's spokesman Erik Smith tartly put it.

And the Dean event got a lot worse. Comedian David Cross used the N-word for blacks in a disjointed "joke" apparently based on the premise that it's fine for a pro-Dean comic to use racial epithets as long as the goal is to claim Republicans are racists.

Comic Kate Clinton evoked Michael Jackson (hit with new child-sex-abuse charges) and said: "Frankly, I'm far more frightened of Condoleezza Rice" - the Bush national security adviser who has nothing in common with Jackson except being black.

Rice seems to drive liberal woman comics especially nuts. Sandra Bernhard insulted her in racial terms with a "Yes Massa" accent at another Dean fundraiser the same night. Perhaps the pro-Dean comics find it unbearable that the most powerful black woman in U.S. history, close friend to the president and his wife - and a brilliant classical pianist to boot - dares to be a Republican.

Actually, there was something to offend everyone. Dean rival Joe Lieberman got ridiculed for being unable to campaign on Jewish holidays because he's Orthodox. Vice President Dick Cheney was accused of talking "like Mary Jo Buttafuoco."

Cheney's wife Lynne was called "Lon Chaney" - the long-ago movie star who specialized in playing ghouls in horror films. And Cheney's daughter Mary, who is gay, was called "a big lezzie."

Even the apolitical "jokes" were ugly - like a suggestion that it's bizarre to see an Asian baby with Asian parents because so many Asian babies are adopted by whites.

Dean was present and later deplored the racist tenor of the jokes, but took the cash and let credit go.

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Classy.

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Comments

As I mentioned in a humorous (but TRUE)
Post earlier on a different subject!

GrandPa said: Vote Republican…

Eliminate “FLIP-FLOP dizzyness” and

STOP “Whoring for More” and More and

More and MORE and MORE ……… and

More”….

Oh, when will they ever learn? When will
they ever learn?

(To the tune of: Where have all the Flowers
gone)?

Posted by: leaddog2 at December 17, 2003 10:19 AM

The ‘compassionate’ left is an act. In their private conversations, they are as bad or worse than your average drunk, insensitive Klansman. Subjects such as weight, plastic surgery, race, religion, sexual orientation - well, polite people do not ‘demean’ others in public or hold them up for ridicule - unless they’re republicans.

The easiest way to defeat them is to film such get-togethers and air it on public access channels. Let the rest of the country see what a group of vain, smug, self-serving pricks look like. To paraphrase Dean Wormer: cynical, profane and rude is no way to go through life.

Unless you’re a democrat. And they wonder why they can’t get laid.

Posted by: torpedo_eight at December 17, 2003 05:17 PM

Yes the left certainly is bad. Almost as bad as republicans who like to call people “sick, traitors, destructive, corrupt, bizarre, cheat, and steal.”

Posted by: AnyoneButBush2004 at December 18, 2003 02:21 AM

AnyoneWHATEVER Are you really a Republican?

Posted by: Cap'n SPIN at December 18, 2003 10:18 AM

ABB2004: “Almost as bad as republicans…”

My point exactly. You’ll never paint yourself as the mirror-image of crude, crass republicans, but you’re all of that. You are no better.

The fantasy here is your smug moral superiority. It doesn’t exist. Your pot thinks it’s less black than their kettle. It is this facile, transparent BS that renders much else that you say null and void.

I live in the real world. I am totally flawed. I know that and freely admit it. But it’s always fascinating for me to listen to perfect people like youself prattle on.

Posted by: torpedo_eight at December 18, 2003 11:43 AM

AnyoneButBush2004, (will be defeated) said, “Almost as bad as republicans who like to call people “sick, traitors, destructive, corrupt, bizarre, cheat, and steal.”

The difference being, we can prove what we say, and call ,you liberal fux.
You can’t just call all of us as Republicans. You would be correct to refer us as ” everyone that isn’t a whiny, lying, anti-American, troop undermining, liberal. Oh yeah, and “sick, traitors, destructive, corrupt, bizarre, cheat, and steal, liberals.”…….. wtf?????

Posted by: Jeff B at December 18, 2003 12:53 PM

Yes you republicans should definately eliminate that 1st amendment thingee, so you can just shoot anyone who doesnt agree with you.
As for the quote- “sick, traitors, destructive, corrupt, bizarre, cheat, and steal.” that was Newt Gingriches’ Gopac enshrining what has clearly become offical republican party gospel.

Posted by: AnyonebutBush2004 at December 19, 2003 05:17 AM

Four more years! Four more beers!

Posted by: Declan at December 19, 2003 03:33 PM

Wait, wait.. back up.. Michael Jackson is black?

Posted by: TBox at December 21, 2003 11:49 PM

Of course ANY Democrat earning over $15,000 a year is a bonafide racist.

Why else would they constantly demand more money for failed schools and crime-ridden housing developments?

Keeping the poor Black or Latino uneducated and confined to government-operated ghettos is as racist as any Nazi leader ever could dream of being.

When, and if, the “poor” ever wise up, ALL the Dems will be out of jobs; fired for their decades of rank hyopcrisy.

Real progress in education and fair housing and job opportunities cannot be bought with ever increasing amounts of cash.

Holding schools AND parents accountable would be a good start. With a decent education poor kids might actually be able to move out of the ghettos and live like the rest of the country because they’d be able to get good jobs and buy better housing.

But, rank-and-file Dems don’t won’t to hear or admit that. Having to admit they’ve been seduced by racists (the Dem leadership) would be just too, too difficult.

Posted by: Paul Fields at January 2, 2004 03:40 AM

Okay-the whole David Cross thing is because of people too stupid to understand irony. He was doing a f-ing routine about Strom Thurmond’s “affair”/rape of a 16-year-old girl, in his voice. Get it? Understand? He wasn’t being racist, but anti-racist. Next time—a puppet show to explain things like: irony, representation, performance, imagination.

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Posted by: Timothy at January 24, 2004 05:52 AM