More cheap shots
Published by Sabotabby August 31st, 2007 in Politics, Sex, Teh Gay
Like the time that Dick Cheney shot that guy, I’m convinced that there can never be enough jokes about Republican homobigots getting busted for the very sort of behaviour they try to outlaw. Schadenfreude doesn’t begin to cover it.
Keith Olbermann’s—um—reenactment:
The arresting officer manages to get a bit of racism in there:
Accusing Craig of failing to tell the truth, Karsnia told the senator: “I guess I’m just saying I’m just disappointed in you, sir. I just really am. I expect this from the guy we get out of the ‘hood. I mean people vote for you. Unbelievable.”
So, it’s okay to bust working class black guys for hooking up in washrooms? That’s disturbing, though it fits in nicely with Republican values, I suppose. As Amanda pointed out, using one of my favourite plays ever, Republican moral outrage is about preserving the pecking order more than it’s about an actual moral code. This is why Craig, like Kushner’s Roy Cohn, can claim that he’s “not gay.”
The more we understand the right’s twisted psychology, the better we can fight it. Or at least laugh at it.
So, it’s okay to bust working class black guys for hooking up in washrooms?
i picked up on that line, too, when i listened to this. but if you read the transcript, he was referring to the senator’s blatant lying, not insinuating that he expects guys “from the hood” to engage in bathroom-cruising. still doesn’t excuse it, but puts it in a slightly different context.
It’s too bad the cop had to put the racial spin on it, because probably a better metric would have been age - you expect young, stupid kids (off all socioeconomic backgrounds, if my time in the suburbs is any example) to think they can make things better by handing the cop a swift lie. Adults, and especially senators, should know better than to lie to an officer. Grownups know to shut up and call their lawyers. And that goes double for rich grownups who know their lawyers will be good ones. He’s rich, white and very influential - the whole thing could have gone away if he’d just shut his mouth.
I don’t see editorial cartoons that often, and I miss my Tom Toles.