Comments on: Eminem http://xrlq.com/2004/08/21/eminem/ Politische Kommentare mit Snarkenremarken Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:42:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Xrlq http://xrlq.com/2004/08/21/eminem/comment-page-1/#comment-5266 Xrlq Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:53:52 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2004/08/21/1784/eminem/#comment-5266 Octavian: you're right, but at the end of the day, "yes" means "yes." Unless she said it in a sarcastic tone of voice, which I doubt, she allowed Matthews to put words in her mouth. That doesn't excuse him for doing it, it just means she screwed up. Joel: Of course it matters what they don't have in common! We didn't go to war against Asia; we went to war with Japan. To accuse a Filipina of "self-loathing" because she won't condemn the internment of the Japanese makes no more sense than calling a Frenchman "self-loathing" because he doesn't care what happened to Romania. I mean, gee, they're both European peoples, right? Octavian: you’re right, but at the end of the day, “yes” means “yes.” Unless she said it in a sarcastic tone of voice, which I doubt, she allowed Matthews to put words in her mouth. That doesn’t excuse him for doing it, it just means she screwed up.

Joel: Of course it matters what they don’t have in common! We didn’t go to war against Asia; we went to war with Japan. To accuse a Filipina of “self-loathing” because she won’t condemn the internment of the Japanese makes no more sense than calling a Frenchman “self-loathing” because he doesn’t care what happened to Romania. I mean, gee, they’re both European peoples, right?

]]> By: Octavian http://xrlq.com/2004/08/21/eminem/comment-page-1/#comment-5263 Octavian Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:16:33 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2004/08/21/1784/eminem/#comment-5263 As to the part you can't shake, the Hardball transcript is wrong. It should read "MALKIN: Yes. Some of them say that...." at which point Matthews interrupts her yet again. What she was going to say after that, we will never know. As to the part you can’t shake, the Hardball transcript is wrong. It should read “MALKIN: Yes. Some of them say that….” at which point Matthews interrupts her yet again. What she was going to say after that, we will never know.

]]> By: Joel Thomas http://xrlq.com/2004/08/21/eminem/comment-page-1/#comment-5261 Joel Thomas Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:45:44 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2004/08/21/1784/eminem/#comment-5261 They are both Asian peoples, that's the point. Doesn't matter what they don't havew in common. They are both Asian peoples, that’s the point. Doesn’t matter what they don’t havew in common.

]]> By: Xrlq http://xrlq.com/2004/08/21/eminem/comment-page-1/#comment-5207 Xrlq Wed, 25 Aug 2004 01:15:34 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2004/08/21/1784/eminem/#comment-5207 I, on the other hand, am having a hell of a time understanding yours, assuming you do in fact have one. Let's see if you can tell me what each of the following groups have in common: 1. German Jews 2. French Jews 3. Polish Jews 4. Russian Jews Now, let's shift gears. See if you can tell me what the following two groups do NOT have in common: 1. Japanese 2. Filipinos I, on the other hand, am having a hell of a time understanding yours, assuming you do in fact have one. Let’s see if you can tell me what each of the following groups have in common:

1. German Jews
2. French Jews
3. Polish Jews
4. Russian Jews

Now, let’s shift gears. See if you can tell me what the following two groups do NOT have in common:

1. Japanese
2. Filipinos

]]> By: Joel Thomas http://xrlq.com/2004/08/21/eminem/comment-page-1/#comment-5206 Joel Thomas Wed, 25 Aug 2004 00:09:45 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2004/08/21/1784/eminem/#comment-5206 So if Hitler had decided to conentrate only Jews from Germany, France or Poland and a Russian Jew cooperated, then we wouldn't have to worry about self-loathing? I got your point. So if Hitler had decided to conentrate only Jews from Germany, France or Poland and a Russian Jew cooperated, then we wouldn’t have to worry about self-loathing?

I got your point.

]]> By: Xrlq http://xrlq.com/2004/08/21/eminem/comment-page-1/#comment-5205 Xrlq Tue, 24 Aug 2004 23:33:21 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2004/08/21/1784/eminem/#comment-5205 Joel, you completely missed the point. It doesn't matter that she is Asian, only that she is <u>not</u> Japanese. It doesn't take much "self-loathing" for an American of non-Japanese descent to defend the internment of Americans of Japanese descent, does it? Joel, you completely missed the point. It doesn’t matter that she is Asian, only that she is not Japanese. It doesn’t take much “self-loathing” for an American of non-Japanese descent to defend the internment of Americans of Japanese descent, does it?

]]> By: Joel Thomas http://xrlq.com/2004/08/21/eminem/comment-page-1/#comment-5204 Joel Thomas Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:48:53 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2004/08/21/1784/eminem/#comment-5204 As to the point that Michelle can't be self-loathing because she is Asian, that's just plain dumb. There were Jews who sided with Hitler, some even hiding their background. I don't see evidence that she necessarily is self-loathing, but the fact of her race doesn't prove the matter. As to the point that Michelle can’t be self-loathing because she is Asian, that’s just plain dumb. There were Jews who sided with Hitler, some even hiding their background.

I don’t see evidence that she necessarily is self-loathing, but the fact of her race doesn’t prove the matter.

]]> By: Joel Thomas http://xrlq.com/2004/08/21/eminem/comment-page-1/#comment-5190 Joel Thomas Mon, 23 Aug 2004 03:14:31 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2004/08/21/1784/eminem/#comment-5190 "Homicide" doesn't mean "murder" but when a coroner rules an accidental death a homicide, the newspaper or other medium carrying the story will usually bother to point out the difference simply because a lot of people do make the wrong assumption. Call me a cynic, but I think some of these folks were intentionally trying to leave the impression that Kerry intentionally caused his own injuries in order to get a medal. After all, at least one of them said Kerry had a "plan." What this really comes down to is that if you are a Bush supporter you give him the benefit of the doubt on questionable matters and likewise for Kerry supporters. The dynamic is that we often hold our foes to a higher standard than we do our friends, just as in campaigns there is a tendency to compare the best traits of the candidate we support to the worst traits of the candidate we oppose. “Homicide” doesn’t mean “murder” but when a coroner rules an accidental death a homicide, the newspaper or other medium carrying the story will usually bother to point out the difference simply because a lot of people do make the wrong assumption.

Call me a cynic, but I think some of these folks were intentionally trying to leave the impression that Kerry intentionally caused his own injuries in order to get a medal. After all, at least one of them said Kerry had a “plan.”

What this really comes down to is that if you are a Bush supporter you give him the benefit of the doubt on questionable matters and likewise for Kerry supporters. The dynamic is that we often hold our foes to a higher standard than we do our friends, just as in campaigns there is a tendency to compare the best traits of the candidate we support to the worst traits of the candidate we oppose.

]]> By: Xrlq http://xrlq.com/2004/08/21/eminem/comment-page-1/#comment-5185 Xrlq Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:02:48 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2004/08/21/1784/eminem/#comment-5185 I guess I speak a really weird, unusual dialect of English, in which "self-inflicted" just means that you inflicted it on yourself. I agree that the usual inference where someone <i>dies</i> of self-inflicted gunshot wounds is that he probably committed suicide. That's because most fatal, self-inflicted gunshot wounds <u>were</u> intentional; it rarely happens by accident. By contrast, non-fatal self-inflicted wounds, like those of Max Cleland, (allegedly) John Kerry, or just some redneck shooting himself in the foot, are often the result of simple negligence. By itself, the word <i>inflict</i> connotes nothing as to <u>how</u> you inflicted the wound; it merely acknowledges <u>that</u> you did. I guess I speak a really weird, unusual dialect of English, in which “self-inflicted” just means that you inflicted it on yourself. I agree that the usual inference where someone dies of self-inflicted gunshot wounds is that he probably committed suicide. That’s because most fatal, self-inflicted gunshot wounds were intentional; it rarely happens by accident. By contrast, non-fatal self-inflicted wounds, like those of Max Cleland, (allegedly) John Kerry, or just some redneck shooting himself in the foot, are often the result of simple negligence. By itself, the word inflict connotes nothing as to how you inflicted the wound; it merely acknowledges that you did.

]]> By: Nanuk http://xrlq.com/2004/08/21/eminem/comment-page-1/#comment-5182 Nanuk Sun, 22 Aug 2004 12:15:36 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2004/08/21/1784/eminem/#comment-5182 Matthews was more than fair, huh ? Bitchslapping Michelle while preventing her from finishing a sentence must be a new form of the fairness doctrine. Matthews was more than fair, huh ?

Bitchslapping Michelle while preventing her from finishing a sentence must be a new form of the fairness doctrine.

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