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Shocked, Shocked
The PC culture devours one of its famous lefties.
Once upon a time a rock star craving attention would simply bite the head off a live bat. Generating that kind of buzz today can only come by announcing one’s opposition to gay marriage.
Singer Michelle Shocked discovered this week that worse fates await big-mouthed artists than rabies shots.
“You got to appreciate how scared folks on that side of the equation are,” Shocked informed her San Francisco audience Sunday night. “Once Prop. 8 gets instated and once preachers are held at gunpoint and forced to marry the homosexuals,” she continued, “I’m pretty sure that that will be the signal for Jesus to come on back.” Shocked, and her shocked audience, laughed awkwardly at her apocalyptic rant. The folk-rock singer then joked, “If someone would be so gracious as to please tweet out ‘Michelle Shocked just said from stage: God hates faggots.’”
On cue, that’s precisely what the ignorant indignant did.
Twitterverse Savonarolas chimed in: “hoe you better commit suicide real quick.” The press compared her to the hateful Reverend Fred Phelps. She strikes me more as a prophet — albeit, like many seers, a slightly unhinged one — for anticipating that her audience would willfully misinterpret her words.
An activist in Vermont organized a Change.org petition demanding that club owners break agreements that they had entered into to host the apostate radical’s concerts. “Freedom of speech and artistic expression are critically important,” the petition reads,” “but this isn’t about free speech. This is hate speech.” As it stands, venues have canceled ten of eleven scheduled U.S. performances. The lone holdout, a club in Madison, Wisconsin, insists that they must wait on a decision from their boss when he returns from vacation.
“WOW!” exclaimed the petition organizer. “The Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Telluride, Colorado cancelled Shocked’s show today. That’s right: Michelle Shocked’s entire U.S. tour has evaporated within two days of her bigoted anti-gay rant.… But we’re not done yet! Please keep signing and sharing so we can convince European venues to follow suit and continue dropping the anti-gay Ms. Shocked.”
Until Sunday night, everybody pegged “the anti-gay Ms. Shocked” as a lesbian superhero. Rachel Maddow certainly did when she stole Shocked’s haircut. The singer’s 1989 “On the Greener Side” video, a feminist reinterpretation of the iconic “Addicted to Love” video that replaced Robert Palmer’s female eye-candy with male models imitating their blank mannequin stares, brought a politicized edge to a relatively apolitical MTV in its 1980s heyday. So when police arrested Shocked two years ago at the Occupy Los Angeles protest, the news shocked nobody.
Despite the legitimate greatness of her 1988 near-hit “Anchorage,” Shocked’s left-wing political sensibilities far more than her artistic talents made her career. Her debut album, for example, featured a picture of her arrest at a protest outside 1984’s Democratic National Convention as cover art. So it makes sense that an audience built on ideological solidarity disappears because Shocked has finally done something to earn her name.
Popular music fans are a forgiving bunch. If they can place Chris Brown at the top of Billboard’s album charts after he beat up his girlfriend, put Steven Tyler on American Idol’s seat of judgment after he once secured custody rights to an underage girlfriend, or beatify Michael Jackson after his disturbing relationships with boys, then maybe a penitent Shocked will eventually win absolution, too. Alas, some transgressions, like embracing a political position that the voters of most states have endorsed, don’t merit clemency.
Before the San Francisco club pulled the plug on Shocked’s concert Sunday night, the singer characterized her beliefs as “nothing worth getting a froth over.” She apparently didn’t know her audience. “This is not a tribunal,” Shocked naively explained. “This is one woman’s opinion.”
Whoever said all publicity is good publicity should have never said it to Michelle Shocked. The nerve of some people to think that they can continue to make a living after embracing a ballot question endorsed (twice!) by a majority of California voters — in the state of California no less. Rock ’n’ roll, a musical form synonymous with rebellion, ends as conformity.
John Lennon observed that the Beatles bested Christ in the popularity department. Michelle Shocked opined that marriage should remain the domain of one man and one woman.
Heresies tell us so much about a society.
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7-08| 3.22.13 @ 6:31AM
Who?
TLP| 3.22.13 @ 7:10AM
Exactly.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.22.13 @ 8:41AM
Ditto!
mike 3/505| 3.22.13 @ 9:16AM
What he said.
TLP| 3.22.13 @ 3:57PM
That's what she said.
Doctor Right| 3.22.13 @ 9:15AM
She's a very talented folk and country/blues/rock singer. She's been around since the late 80's.
They don't play her on your local "Dinosaurs of Monster Rock" oldies station (targeted at mid-50's man-children who still listen to Def Leopard), so I'm not surprised you've never heard of her...
TLP| 3.22.13 @ 10:07AM
Isn't he great?
Everybody's Stupid because they don't listen to the CRAP that he listens to.
We're Idiots for wanting to listen to the Music that we like. The Music that we grew up on. The Music that defined our Formative Years.
We're just not as Smart as Doctor Dipshit because we don't get the Androgynous Station on our AM Transistor Radios. We're not Hip, because we're not listening to all the latest Boy Bands like Doctor No Friends does.
He's 46 years old, most likely lives with him Mother, and spends most of his time getting himself off to old pictures of his Sister and his Cousins when he's not busy Parading in front of the Mirror in his Mom's old Wedding Dress as the Radio blasts "I'm too Sexy".
Doctor Right| 3.22.13 @ 12:16PM
LO-friggin'-L!!!
Man, did I have YOU pegged!!! Struck a nerve, eh, Timmy???
Too funny!!
Hey, Timmy! I hear there's going to be a "Monsters of Rock" revival tour in your town! And they're doing free prostate exams for all you aging headbangers!
"Formative years"!!! BWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH!!!!
Yes, I AM great! Especially when it comes to "getting" you. You're as transparent as glass.
Warrior| 3.22.13 @ 3:28PM
Timmy, if you're looking for a modern Zeppelin/Foghat rock fix, try Rival Sons. If not, see if the Queen will lend you the iPod the Marxist narcissist gave her a couple of years ago.
Bob Grant| 3.22.13 @ 10:34AM
Right,
But I must have my daily triple shot of ZZ Top fix. You're pushing it, pal.
Occam's Tool| 3.22.13 @ 1:34PM
I'm a fan of Jonathan Coulton. I'm waiting for the things that make Fudgepacker Jack weak and strange to be engineered away.
Rhoetus| 3.22.13 @ 8:23PM
I saw her video Addicted to Love, more of a parody of Robert Palmer's. I thought it was clever and very funny. Then I forgot all about her. This just proves that the Left are the children of the French Revolution, [Off-with her head!] Barbarians they are.
Appleby| 3.22.13 @ 6:42AM
Someone else who proves that Lumpy's Proletariat can't recognize the truth, much less handle it.
Most "rock music" these days is nothing but screaming obscenities and jungle drums, and it wouldn't bother me at all if ALL the rock concerts in the world were cancelled due to lack of interest. If this little lady is a Christian, she has just discovered the Jesus was right about the persecution we will suffer in His name. I'm not surprised that someone promptly suggested she kill herself. There's a lot of that going around.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.22.13 @ 8:39AM
I believe Lumpy's last name is Rutherford.
TLP| 3.22.13 @ 10:10AM
How do you know that, Albert?
I'm almost positive that I saw every single Leave it to Beaver, and I never heard anyone call Lumpy by his last name.
You have some splainin to do, Lucy.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.22.13 @ 10:22AM
Lucy's maiden name was McGillicuddy, if I recall properly.
I was paying attention to what Ward and June were saying, even when it wasn't to Wally or the Beaver.
Of course, if you were a real Leave it to Beaver" fan, your post would have started in your best Eddie Haskell voice "Gee, Albert, that dress looks nice today".
Bob Grant| 3.22.13 @ 10:39AM
Al,
I think you're being a little hard on the TLP.
Doctor Right| 3.22.13 @ 1:09PM
"Ward, you were a little hard on the Beaver last night.."
- June Cleaver (being cryptic)
TLP| 3.22.13 @ 1:25PM
Idiot.
Goldwater Girl| 3.22.13 @ 2:58PM
DR,
That comment confirms that you do have a sense of humor that fits in well with friends of TLP! Don't fight it. We can get sermons from Barackolini and Moo-Shell.
TLP| 3.22.13 @ 4:02PM
He wasn't trying to be funny.
He was trying to remind Bob Grant that he's smarter than him.
It's called: Narcissism.
Occam's Tool| 3.22.13 @ 1:38PM
No, Albert, it would be: "you smell nice, you must be wearing deoderant today."
We had 4 people doing our dissection on our cadaver. Of those 4, 3 of us became psychiatrists. Two of us (both future shrinks) argued which one sounded most like Eddie Haskell. Ah, memories.
Dr. Gonzalez: I hope your practice and life are as serene and perfect as the skies over El Paso, Texas 350 days a year. And your life and career as well, Albert.
Jacob McCandles| 3.22.13 @ 10:24AM
Very nice ACJ. His father, Fred Rutherford, always referred to him as Clarence.
Bob Grant| 3.22.13 @ 10:36AM
If you have a Lumpy Proletariat, may I suggest an appointment with a doctor?
Appleby| 3.23.13 @ 8:40AM
I guess y'all never watched "Max Headroom." Well, they did say it went off the air because it was too complex for the hoi polloi.
Bob Grant| 3.23.13 @ 12:57PM
Perhaps it was a "heady" tv show but was annoying to the extreme, and extremely difficult to watch with that headache-inducing computer generated background; so annoying, in fact, it made the Scandal video Good Bye to You seem therapeutic.
There's good reason Max got the Axe!
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.23.13 @ 1:38PM
Wasn't it replaced by Beavis and Butthead (hehehehehehehe)?
Bob Grant| 3.23.13 @ 2:12PM
Which one was Hoi, and which one was Polloi?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.23.13 @ 9:56PM
Maybe the laugh sound effect should have been Hoihoihoihoihoihoi.
Occam's Tool| 3.24.13 @ 9:43PM
Fudgepacker Jack is the Great Cornholio, all right.
Matthew Quigley| 3.22.13 @ 7:43AM
And this individual's opinion one way or the other should matter why? And who the hell is she in the first place?
Von Mises Jr| 3.22.13 @ 8:10AM
Just another liberal genius like Bouncy who was a radical feminist until she married the rich rapper, got pregnant and had a baby. Now she sings "Bow Down Bee-itches" from what I hear. She sold out her sisters for the rapper god tour.
It just shows what hypocrites so-called liberals are. If Perp found an attractive woman that did not have bugs in her pants and sores, he might go all in for heterosexual love. But since that ain't gonna happen, I guess we are stuck with Caliban as a $10 per hour MoveOn troll.
Nancy in NC| 3.22.13 @ 8:16AM
Once again the left proves their hypocrisy. They call for tolerance as long as one follows their prescribed agenda. Step out of that box and all bets are off.
Tolerant? Not so much.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.22.13 @ 8:37AM
The left loves artists who are provocative and shock sensibilities until their sensibilities are shocked.
Unlike the late Jesse Helms, though, they don't just want to cut off her government funding for her art; they will insist that she must die for her sin (either she must kill herself, or they will deny her a right to earn a living so that she might slowly starve to death).
squalis| 3.22.13 @ 9:28AM
We shouldn't get so high and mighty. I remember the response of our side to the Dixie Chicks and others over the years.
Perhaps we will see Shocked and Nugent playing together on Crossroads.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.22.13 @ 9:45AM
When the Dixie Chicks on foreign shores during wartime spoke about their shame regarding the Commander-in-Chief, I don't recall anyone saying they should die, just that people who disagree with their message or how it was said should stop listening to or buying their songs.
As I wasn't really paying much attention to them before that, my personal boycott of them probably didn't have much of an impact.
Goldwater Girl| 3.22.13 @ 9:59AM
It was the Dixie Twits boorish behavior that prompted the exercise in "free speech". While Alan Jackson and others were writing moving lyrics about 9/11, the twits chose to be ashamed of being from America. Frankly, I don't want to hear political opinions from any artists. Why do they think we care what they think?
squalis| 3.22.13 @ 10:38AM
Agree completely!
Occam's Tool| 3.22.13 @ 1:39PM
I care about what Jon Voight thinks very much.
Goldwater Girl| 3.22.13 @ 2:36PM
I do care about Jon Voight's opinion, but he's not forcing it on me, when I've paid good money to enjoy the show. I wasn't a Dixie Chicks fan before her comments, but I was with some boater friends when they sailed ole Natalie into the river!
TLP| 3.22.13 @ 10:54AM
I would disagree with your final sentence, old friend. (You spelled "Impala" wrong) One man CAN make a difference, even if it's only to himself.
I have a Boycott List as long as Purp's Dreampenis.
You name it, they're on it: Asner, Robbins, Robbin's Whore, (Mike) Farrell, Alda, Sheen, All of the Black ones, and the guy who played "Booger" on Rose Barr. There are so many more, and just not enough time.
I know that my one man Boycott is not gonna hurt any of these Multimillionaires who spend their Weekends at the White House speaking out against Multimillionaires.
When that whole thing with the French, happened a few years ago, and we got Freedom Fries? I made a list of every French-Owned Company doing business here, and gave it to everyone who bought one a my shirts, at the Fairs.
As former Military, you know that everyone is a Cog in the Machine, and they all combine to make a Cohesive Unit. The Gunnery Sergeant is no more important than the Guy in the Chow Hall, in the Big Picture. The Pilot needs the guys that keep them in Clean Sheets and Pillowcases. The Guys running the Flight Deck need the Guy running Supply. These one man Boycotts are the same deal.
Maybe we're not having an effect. But, maybe we are. All I know is that I can Kiss the Mirror, KNOWING that I at least Tried, and yeah, it was Worth it.
The Boycott AND the Mirror Kiss.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.22.13 @ 11:09AM
I don't disagree with your overall point about the power of one, the importance to the team, etc.
Still, though, my point was that as I wasn't buying their product before, my decision never to buy their product after had a limited impact.
TLP| 3.22.13 @ 1:28PM
What about the Kiss in the Mirror?
Surely, you agree with that.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.23.13 @ 11:29AM
...it's when the mirror kisses back that you're really special...
markenoff| 3.23.13 @ 11:08AM
I also boycott all things French. No French wines, no French cheeses, no French movies, no French literature, no French Fries, no French dressings.
Instead I try to buy Australian. They have been our staunchest ally through thick and thin, even sending troops to Vietnam. I even replaced French kissing with Australian kissing.
(Wait for it)
It's just like a French kiss only down under.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.23.13 @ 11:33AM
Markenoff, it is comments such as this that demonstrate your cunning.
AuH2O Girl| 3.23.13 @ 12:05PM
Both of you, go to your rooms!
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.23.13 @ 1:41PM
I stand chastened (wink, wink, nudge nudge).
TLP| 3.23.13 @ 5:15PM
You spelled "Chase Bank" wrong.
TLP| 3.23.13 @ 5:16PM
Or, was it "Chaiselounge" ?
Gary B| 3.22.13 @ 12:10PM
It's kinda' fun to see the Left wipe out one of their own. Wish it would happen every day.
Stephie| 3.22.13 @ 8:42AM
Those that demand tolerance from others are more often than not, intolerant.
TLP| 3.22.13 @ 8:57AM
Like 7-08 (which I still say is what the cops yell into their radios everything they surround this guy's house: "All cars. We have a 7-08 in progress at you know who's house") I have no idea who this abroad is or why she doesn't take the time and Money, to get a Boob Job.
She's against Gay Marriage. She's probably FOR In Utero Infanticide but she's definately against Sanctifying the joining of two Puzzle Pieces that don't fit together. She's FOR Sodom and Gamorrah. It's only when they both have a Wedding Dress on that she finds it repulsive.
How did we get here? When did the THE OBVIOUS become something Repulsive and Unfare? When did Common Sense become something to be Shunned? Whatever happened to Standards?
How did Men's and Women's Bathrooms end up BiSexual? When did the Toilet on Ally McBeal become the New Norm? And does anyone REALLY think that Sodomite Scout Masters is the way to go?
When did getting knocked up at 14 become a Badge of Honour deserving of a TV Show? And, where was I when Hoes and Bitches became the Answer to the Wheel of Fortune Bonus Round Puzzle?
The Bible tells us to TEACH A MAN TO FISH, lest he stay up all night getting Wasted, Playing Video Games, and Sleeping til noon the next day.
Christ tells us that "The Poor will always be among us". He just never dreamed that they'd have a House, 2 Cars, a Flat Screen TV, an IPhone 5, and a Freezer Full a Steaks.
When did "Greed is Good" turn into "Tax the 1% so's I can get my Muthafluckeing Shitt!" ?
Doctor Right| 3.22.13 @ 9:17AM
How did you become such a bore?
When will the TEDIOUSNESS of your tiresome, uninsightful rants become obvious to everyone? (It's actually started to happen, BTW)
Goldwater Girl| 3.22.13 @ 9:22AM
Sorry DR, that would be your rants
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.22.13 @ 9:58AM
I’m afraid I will have to register my concurrence, GG.
Due to some respect for some well-stated political positions that occasionally concur with my own, I usually try not to succumb to the temptation to engage in friendly fire.
Nonetheless, it has become too difficult for me to continue to ignore the Doctor’s unrelenting condescending attacks on TLP and others on the site who have the temerity to not agree 100% with his opinions, or dare to speak in a voice louder than his own.
For a mental health professional, his lack of insight into his own projection and megalomaniacal narcissistic posts is staggering.
Apparently, the reason he has such antipathy toward the Catholic Church and the Pope is that only Doctor Right is infallible, and those who merit his displeasure are heretics, uninsightful or bores.
If I cared to address him anymore, I would say ” Ph. D., heal thyself.”
Doctor Right| 3.22.13 @ 12:25PM
You guys in the TLP fan-club are highly amusing.
For the record, I used to ignore his idiocy when he went by his own name ("Timothy L Pennell"), and when he returned as "TLP." I thought he was a tedious bore - harmless, since I didn't bother responding to him - but a bore, nonetheless.
Then one day I posted something he disagreed with, and l'il Timmy couldn't take it. He instantly lashed out with his special brand of juvenille stupidity fully expecting me to cower and run for cover.
Oops!
L'il Timmy can dish it out, but he can't take it.
And as a mental health professional, I'd be remiss in my duties if I let Timmy persist in his fantasies. He needs to be immersed in reality.
For my own sake, it IS therapeutic.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.22.13 @ 12:39PM
You misspelled juvenile.
Doctor Right| 3.22.13 @ 1:14PM
Who cares..?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.22.13 @ 9:59PM
Doctor Right| 3.22.13 @ 1:14PM
Who cares..?
Reply to this
Since you asked, while I was trying to avoid posting another uncomfortable truth, I will respond to your request.
Apparently, you are oblivious to the “You Misspelled” response, which is frequently used lately on the site to agree, disagree, or deflect from a post here over the past month or so, depending on the context.
It can be used to de-escalate a disagreement with someone of otherwise similar inclination, or to mock a pretentious fool with whom one disagrees (particularly if it accurately identifies an error from one who pompous asserts a position which presumes to be correct to the exclusion of others). In this case, it was the latter, brought up particularly since you exhibit a persona on this site where you can’t imagine making any errors.
When I observe your behavior on today’s thread, Dr. Right, I am reminded of a high school girl who can’t stand it if any of her friends have a positive relationship with anyone she considers to be rival. While you demonstrate significant intelligence in articulating your positions on a number of political issues, your emotional shortcomings repetitively demonstrate themselves again and again in the fights you pick with those whom might agree with 80-90% of the same things you claim to believe in.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.22.13 @ 10:05PM
I have witnessed others disagree with their fellows on the Right who experience temporary disagreement or feuds subsequently mend fences, with a prime example being Gary B with TLP. Despite past differences, both are able today to demonstrate their agreement in common positions, and allow for their differences, without requiring that the latter to be the dominant topic of the thread. I have also seen TLP attempt to bury the hatchet with you, to no avail.
One of the definitions in Merriam-Webster of “bore” is a tiresome person. With your repeated attacks on TLP and others with whom you should share some common agreement, you definitely meet that definition. Don’t take my word alone for it, inspect further down the thread for those who register disagreement, or implore you to change direction.
Personally, Doctor, I no longer care about your thoughts on any issue. You have become Stalin in 1942: we have a common enemy, but you have shown through your core and your personal behavior that you are not trustworthy, even with whatever common cause we might find.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.22.13 @ 10:07PM
In other words, while you claim conservative credentials ( and I believe you feel that you live them), you show the world through your narcissistic behavior an inability to relate to those who don’t bow down before you.
The characteristics that you ascribe to others with whom you express hatred and superiority (such as TLP) are demonstrated abundantly by you. The difference is, that while those such as TLP may have some of the characteristics you describe, TLP has a great deal of affability, which is something you have come to lack. As a result, many who might be inclined to find common cause with you are driven away as a result of you personality disorder.
Many others on the thread here today have tried to alert you to the destructive path that we have witnessed you taking. You try to dismiss us by calling us followers of TLP. While I count myself a friend of Tim, I don’t follow anyone. I do recognize when I am in concurrence with someone on many other issues though, and don’t hesitate to politely disagree and express myself on issues where I find an inability to come to an accord.
AuH2O Girl| 3.23.13 @ 12:17PM
AC,
Like most of us, your comments become more enlightened after happy hour. Nice work, couldn't agree more.
CJW| 3.23.13 @ 2:22PM
Albert
Everyone here is opinionated otherwise we would not post, but most are friendly and sensible, such as the Contest Gang. We have a Village Idiot who posts under various names always saying the same lefty drivel.
Our friend the psychologist hates the Catholic Church, goes crazy when he sees the word Pope, and goes crazy at T's posts. From the first time I visited this site two years ago I always responded to the anti Catholic rants. But they were not as as bad as the departed Mullah, and had abated until the election of Pope Francis. I have no issue with his religion and try to respect others' religious beliefs, except for muslim jihadists or commie secularists.
I cannot understand why a smart educated psychologist comes here to attack the Catholic Church, or to personally attack T for no reason. What is the point? It is not debate. We rightly write JackWi off as an anti semite, but it still seems ok here to post anti Catholic bigotry as long as one claims to be right of center.
The political opinions of anyone who cannot make a choice between Obama v. Romney, stays home or votes third party, but LECTURE us, are irrelevant.
How do you justify watching Obama enact regulation after regulation, sign Obamacare, stop drilling, appoint Kagan and Sotomayor, let Americans die in Benghazi, and destroy our constitutional republic, but say, good let Obama win and the country be destroyed because the Reps did not nominate my candidate.
edith| 3.30.13 @ 1:53AM
I came for the comments. I stayed for the intervention.
TLP| 3.22.13 @ 1:35PM
As I recall, it was the good Doctor who went off on ME, because I dared challenge his Stupidity.
If we are to Judge a Man by the Body of his Work?
Then I feel comfortable that you will believe ME, and not Miss Congeniality.
loulou| 3.22.13 @ 9:28AM
What are you talking about?
SUBVET| 3.22.13 @ 10:05AM
Doc..........you being a Godly man that you are what does the Bible/Jesus say about your fellow man.
Bob Grant| 3.22.13 @ 11:39AM
DR,
Since Ray Lewis' retirement it seems your rants have become increasingly snippish.
You should move on. I'm sure you can hitch your fanboyish energy to another thug's wagon - er - NFL player. It's not like there's a shortage 'em.
Doctor Right| 3.22.13 @ 12:27PM
Ray Lewis:
GREAT ball player.
GREAT man.
NOT a Catholic!
How's that, Bob?
TLP| 3.22.13 @ 3:09PM
You left out: Murderer.
Bob Grant| 3.23.13 @ 10:35AM
GREAT man, huh?
Let's see, he and his lawyer covered up his involvement in a double homicide. Shortly therafter, the NFL engaged in a mission to rehibilitate his image because the league COULD NOT endure another star player with such a tarnished image. They succeeded in a manner Goebbels would be proud based on your embracement of him.
A GREAT man? Why? Because heretofore he hasn't killed anyone else?...or is it because he makes those cute Chunky Soup commercials with his mother?
GREAT man? Yea, he's a regular Martin Luther King.
TNcracker | 3.23.13 @ 8:37PM
Does Dr. R live in Baltimore? If so, that could explain why he's such a nasty SOB.
Bob Grant| 3.23.13 @ 8:54PM
A shrink from Baltimore. Gradulated from the Edgar Allen Poe School of Psychology.
Gary B| 3.22.13 @ 12:21PM
DR,
Sometimes TLP pisses me off, but I've to say, he's damned clever and funny when he does it. I mean, really, the line about "The Poor will always be among us..." that's really good stuff. I believe he could make pretty good money writing material for stand-up comedians.
Doctor Right| 3.22.13 @ 12:28PM
Clever? Really?
Oh, well...there's no accounting for taste.
I find his shtick tiresome, didactic, and not in the least bit clever.
TLP| 3.22.13 @ 1:38PM
You spelled "Dick in the Attic" wrong.
Bob Grant| 3.22.13 @ 9:36PM
Speaking of dinosaurs of rock, wasn't Dick in the Attic the title of an Aerosmith album? If memory serves, I believe one of the songs was called: Big Ten Inch.
TLP| 3.23.13 @ 7:48AM
You're thinking of a "Big Dick in the Attic", of which I know nothing about.
You need to talk to Goldwater Girl.
Bob Grant| 3.23.13 @ 10:47AM
I'm not touching that one with a 10 foot...D***.
Bob Grant| 3.23.13 @ 10:48AM
I meant the issue, not GG per se...
AuH2O Girl| 3.23.13 @ 12:20PM
Thanks Bob, I think I hear your hoof at the door now
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.23.13 @ 1:42PM
Willllburrrrrrrrr.
Bob Grant| 3.23.13 @ 2:03PM
It's good to be a racehorse :-)
AuH2O Girl| 3.23.13 @ 2:24PM
Watched a mare breeding once; when it requires a couple of guys to guide it, it's too big!
Bob Grant| 3.23.13 @ 2:45PM
A whole new meaning to the term stud finder.
Occam's Tool| 3.24.13 @ 9:49PM
What a sweet lady. (Serious, not kidding)
Anyway, Dr. R, I must disagree with you on one thing. The greatest linebacker of all time, as my father, who played against him in high school could tell you, is Dick Butkus. Check out Kentucky Fried Movie for proof.
Gary B| 3.22.13 @ 1:56PM
"I find his shtick tiresome, didactic, and not in the least bit clever." Noted. Now, let's back to raking Obama and cadre of Leftist idiots over the coals. Spend your mental health skills trying to figure out what the hell goes on inside the minds Americans who want to destroy America. Help us understand why liberals can't stand their neighbors' freedom. Help us understand the nature of Marxism, which, to all the world, looks like slow suicide. My first instinct is to put the stupid bastards out of their misery, but can't do that. What's the next best thing?
Goldwater Girl| 3.22.13 @ 2:31PM
I wish DR would apply his razor sharp mind to diagnosing the fraud in the WH. We come here to forget how F---ed we are, so don't take yourself so damn serious.
TLP| 3.22.13 @ 4:16PM
Don't you mean: His Bowling Ball sharp mind.
He really needs to get some Help.
Bob Grant| 3.22.13 @ 9:20PM
GG,
This rapier wit you seem to think Dr. Right posseses is lost on me. I'm not feelin' it. I'll give him credit for being slightly right of center politically, and on occassion he'll throw in a chuckle-worthy quip but that's about as far as it goes.
His adoration of a potential murderer (Ray Ray) and increasing proclivity to go off the rails on certain political issues makes me question mental state. Perhaps he should take this into account when he renews his medical license.
AuH2O Girl| 3.23.13 @ 12:22PM
You guys struggle with sarcasm
Bob Grant| 3.23.13 @ 12:44PM
And that is why G*d created the emoticon; to help out us slow folk from the South.
AuH2O Girl| 3.23.13 @ 12:49PM
Just teasing you, fellow southerner
AuH2O Girl| 3.23.13 @ 2:27PM
Sending a mint julip your way, my friend
Bob Grant| 3.23.13 @ 2:48PM
I wouldn't know what to do with one of those. A coupla Pabst Blue Ribbons and a written apology, sans sarcasm, will suffice, GG :-)
TLP| 3.23.13 @ 5:44PM
PBR's?
Really?
Why do I think that they send you a Birthday Card, every year?
Bob Grant| 3.23.13 @ 8:40PM
"Why do I think that they send you a Birthday Card, every year?"
----
As a reminder to drink more - Ovaltine - I mean Pabst Blue Ribbon?
AuH2O Girl| 3.23.13 @ 6:58PM
How bout my white socks, redneck and blue ribbon beer? I will have to rely on Sir Albert to set it to music. Not sure how to do that on IPad . Sending you a warm six pack of Falls City. Trying to class you up so the good Dr will invite you for dinner.
Bob Grant| 3.23.13 @ 8:37PM
GG, a simple from-the-heart letter of apology will suffice.
Truth be told, I can't stand PBR. I was simply trolling for a Frank Booth reference From Albert.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.23.13 @ 9:06PM
For you, BG:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snhiofL2Rh4
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.23.13 @ 9:04PM
You ask, I provide (to the tune of "Red Necks, White Sox and Blue Ribbon Beer" by Johnny Russell-song credits to Neese, Holyfield, McDill):
There's no place that I'd rather be on the net
When the weekend arrives with my T –A – S set
TLP is preppin’ for this week’s contest
Doctor Right is snipin’ won’t give it a rest
Drackman is absent no ban lifted yet
When the weekend arrives with my T –A – S set
Pecos is ridin’ a horse name of Tim
K Jack wants beer get a Yuengling for him
CJW is here but no Colonel Mike yet
When the weekend arrives with my T –A – S set
No we don't fit in with the clowns on the Left
We have a sense of humor which leaves them bereft
There's no place that I'd rather be on the net
When the weekend arrives with my T –A – S set
Goldwater becomes A U H 2 0 girl
Tina and Joellen will give it a whirl
R M John II Li’l Jen no tete a tete
When the weekend arrives with my T –A – S set
No we don't fit in with the clowns on the Left
We have a sense of humor which leaves them bereft
There's no place that I'd rather be on the net
When the weekend arrives with my T –A – S set
There's no place that I'd rather be on the net
When the weekend arrives with my T –A – S set
AuH2O Girl| 3.24.13 @ 1:58PM
Snap!Snap!Snap!
AuH2O Girl| 3.24.13 @ 4:19PM
Thanks Alberto, I knew you would deliver
Bob Grant| 3.24.13 @ 4:51PM
Thanks Al,
(((PABST.BLUE.RIBBON!)))
spike59| 3.25.13 @ 5:57AM
mint julep?????? seriously???? have you been watching "Gone With the Wind" again????
Occam's Tool| 3.24.13 @ 9:51PM
PhD, Bob. I'm the MD.
However, I like Dr. R. I like Tim. This disheartens me, as we have scum in the WH, and scum on this site, such as Bowen and Fudgepacker Jack. I genuinely hope for peace and calm among people I like.
Occam's Tool| 3.24.13 @ 9:53PM
And, of course, Alberto is non-pareil.
My life and work are VERY,VERY good.
Bob Grant| 3.24.13 @ 10:33PM
With all due respect to the credentials, Dr. Right spends an inordinate amount of time on this site antagonizing those who do not fully embrace his views. The latest example would be his comments on this article. They drip with intolerance and arrogance. To a simple lay person, this seems odd coming from someone whose profession is to heal the psyche of others.
And, unless his last name is Right, don't you think his choice of username gives credence to my point?
I like him well enough, however, and agree with much of what he has to say. What sticks in my craw is his blind devotion to Ray Lewis, but I suppose that's my cross to bear.
TNcracker | 3.23.13 @ 8:25PM
Don't presume to speak for anybody but yourself. It's jerks like YOU that bore the hell out of me.
markenoff| 3.23.13 @ 11:11AM
I prefer the Sicilian version:
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day;
Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime;
Feed him to the fishes he ain't your problem no more.
Occam's Tool| 3.24.13 @ 9:56PM
Markenoff: you are spot on about the Aussies as opposed to the Kiwis---Oz is much better than godzone, and I always root for the Ozzie team to beat the All-Blacks.
And that poem: beauty, my man. May I steal it sometime?
The Only Good Democrat| 3.22.13 @ 9:56AM
Shelly started going to a black church and now she is aligned with that amazingly consistent group. She is a goofball and remains one. It is interesting what festers in the leftist communities. Gays wouldn't directly attack blacks but there is a tension there. Shelly's crime is that she is white and noisy.
Gary B| 3.22.13 @ 12:24PM
...and mentally deficient, like every other Leftist.
The Only Good Democrat| 3.22.13 @ 1:10PM
She was raised in a dysfunctional home and her dad is a leftist ass. The fact that she gets one thing right is probably a victory.
Gary B| 3.22.13 @ 1:57PM
Well, I guess so...
JP| 3.22.13 @ 10:36AM
The contradications of the Left's Artistic Coalition simmers just below the surface. African-Americans culturally do not dig gays in the least. And the natural misogny of most rappers is ignored by feminists and lesbians alike.
Yet, feminists, gays, and African Americans supposedly get famously get along. And their Enemy Number 1 of course is Christianity. But, no one has ever considered what lays ahead. With Christianity waning in our pop culture and culture at large, there is one religion that for the moment is celebrated, if not endorsed by the litteratti and inteligentsia - Islam. Author Robert Ferginno predicts Islam will spread in America not through outright evangelization or even violence; he predicts if Islam does in fact grow here, it will grow through our pop culture. In one of his novels, the tipping point comes when a very popular young female Nashville singer/entertainer converts (think Taylor Swift). This is followed by another entertainer; which is followed by a famous actor. Since Islam is considered the "correct religion", and it is good for one's career, celebs race to the mosques to get in with the good crowd. This in turns influences hundreds of thousands of young people to "convert". What initially was a shallow decision made by the frivilous young quickly becomes problematic as for many of the young converts, for the first time there is something solid to believe in. All of a sudden feminists and gays find themselves on the outside looking in.
Petronius| 3.22.13 @ 11:14AM
Good one JP Soon Southern Baptists will be totally counter-cultural. The kids want to face Mecca? Let 'em. More bacon, pork steaks, and ribs for Us. But this too shall pass when they find out muzzies are into bestiality and PETA throws a hissy fit.
doramin| 3.22.13 @ 5:08PM
I'll do you one better JP. Think Sharia marriage. If Muslim marriages are legalized here in the U.S.A. Islam will take America by storm. Every man-jack-amongst-us will stampede to the mosques to convert.
Buck Ofama| 3.24.13 @ 2:56AM
> Every man-jack-amongst-us will stampede to the mosques to convert.
Your comment has been posted
FVCK ALLA THE PHONY "GOD", FVCK ISLAM WITH A BIG RUBBER DICK... AND BREAK IT OFF.
Buck Ofama| 3.24.13 @ 2:57AM
>In one of his novels, the tipping point comes when a very popular young female Nashville singer/entertainer converts (think Taylor Swift).
Try to form a complete sentence.
FVCK ISLAM, FUCK ITS PHONY GOD.
AuH2O Girl| 3.24.13 @ 4:18PM
And TLP was formerly banned for something much, much milder? Buck, I think your days are numbered here!
Occam's Tool| 3.24.13 @ 9:58PM
Buck: an excellent point. Muhammed, to not put too fine a point on it, was a child raping murderer and thief. Proof is found in the hadiths. And he is the perfect Muslim. Nuff said.
Petronius| 3.22.13 @ 11:07AM
That's show business. Just look at Who Owns it and who runs it. Try being a straight male in an undergraduate drama program today. The casting couch is for the boys. Any guy who won't play will never Work. I hope she has enough money piled up to last her. If not, the best thing she can do is go on ET and admit she said it just to get noticed.
Bill8472| 3.22.13 @ 12:00PM
I bet Michelle Shocked went at least 500 psychic miles that day. Maybe she had some memories of East Texas when she made her remarks.
God bless her. A person not afraid to speak her mind.
I like that some lefties claim that "hate speech is not free speech." I wonder if they make any other distinctions of that type.
Bill8472| 3.22.13 @ 12:06PM
"Hoe you better commit suicide real soon."
That must be a message from one of those people who H8 the H8ERS.
Seek| 3.22.13 @ 12:26PM
Musically, I always liked Michelle Shocked, especially her first couple of albums back in the late 80s. I even could overlook her foolhardy Left-agitprop. But now she's getting a dose of the real nature of the Leftism she espoused. So the issue has changed.
Some here might call this sequence of events "poetic justice." I say hold off on the conservative "serves you right to suffer" mantra. Treat her like a potential ally. She's experiencing first-hand the bullying, blacklisting and ostracism that go along with being "offensive." Hopefully, Michelle, bred deep in the heart of Texas, will draw the right conclusion from all this and become...a conservative.
The Only Good Democrat| 3.22.13 @ 1:17PM
She is not an ally and won't become a conservative. She will disappear. That is how the left is. A bunch of gays shouldn't make the mistake of showing up at her church. It would make bad press. Obama would be forced to trash another black church. Shelly has got into a lot of mischief. She was a lot cooler when she was just an immature kid with a mohawk singing about squatting in buildings.
Buck Ofama| 3.24.13 @ 2:55AM
>singing about squatting in buildings.
Probably turned on a lot of rug munching, camo-clad, butt plug wearing butch lezbos.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.22.13 @ 1:22PM
Seek, while I am reluctant to pigeonhole individuals who comment regularly here, after a while an observer can begin to develop a sense of the issue or issues that resonate with a specific commenter, and how they might choose to self-label or others might identify them in the various camps of conservatism or the Right.
While I find most of what you post to be fairly consistent, your last sentence causes me to rate you to be a little more of an optimist than I might have thought previously.
Occam's Tool| 3.22.13 @ 1:47PM
As for TLP and Dr Right: I think the world of both of you. I wish you liked each other. But I will continue to like both of you, and, should you find yourself in my neck of the woods, let me know through here and we will figure out a way for me to take you out for dinner on me.
Same for my other friends on the site. Many lovely people here.
Really, except for the Fudgepacker, I don't tend to actively dislike anyone on this site continuously. Occasionally Kinmg bugs me because he has a moderately severe problem with Jews, and Bowen bugs me because he is a Paleo Conservative, which is code for a Conservative antisemitic ass. Like Taki.
Cpm| 3.22.13 @ 3:48PM
Beer Summit? Teachable moment?
TLP| 3.22.13 @ 4:35PM
He's an Idiot.
Go to Friday's Contest.
I said that I hoped that he would come.
Moe Blotz| 3.15.13 @ 8:38AM
This is off subject, but I refer to the photograph at the header on the Welker article. Is that the greatest linebacker to ever play the game, Ray Lewis, lying prone on the turf as he watches Wes Welker's feet disappear into the end zone? RA, who cares, but I just thought I would stir up Dr.Right.
TLP| 3.15.13 @ 9:07AM
He was away for a while, apparently.
I did invite him here, today. Hopefully he'll show up.
See what I got for my trouble.
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Diefledermaus| 3.22.13 @ 4:27PM
Live by liberalism, you die by liberalism.
Let them eat their own until their are none left.
crankitup| 3.22.13 @ 4:30PM
you spelled prick wrong. It's time to pull the plug on this tub of manure and start over. evie is turning tricks again.
Thom| 3.22.13 @ 6:55PM
Dr. Right,
I have no dog in this fight but I hope when the bullets start flying you can tell from which direction the enemy is firing and just don’t start shooting at anyone you see that has a gun. You have a tendency to stake out the DMZ and then see everyone around you that doesn’t agree with you as the enemy.
RABart| 3.23.13 @ 8:41AM
Albert, Your response to Dr. Right deserves special recognition. It was both elegant and, as usual, well thought out. Your response was not only supporting TLP-- but all of us who post on this site. I think I speak for everyone here in Thanking you for your brilliant analysis and caring response.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.23.13 @ 9:58PM
Thank you, sir.
Rhoetus| 3.23.13 @ 1:13PM
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Buck Ofama| 3.24.13 @ 2:53AM
Queers have no need for marriage. There is no proper mother and father figure to raise children. If they want AIDS care, they have the gubmint nanny state.
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Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.24.13 @ 3:42PM
Get your story straight, Evie. Is it a Nissan GT-R, or is it a Corvette? Is it $9295 this month, or even more than $10,000? Is it the nicest work, or the best job you've ever had?
It is time to be consistent. Inquiring minds want to know.
AuH2O Girl| 3.24.13 @ 4:23PM
Thanks for that, I was ready to turn in my resignation tomorrow. I mean, who wouldn't? Or is it Who Knows?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.24.13 @ 5:52PM
While Who Knows apparently spent a lot of days on the commune porch destroying some brain cells and rearranging some chromosomes, I can usually follw his stream of consciousness.
I'm thinking Evie doesn't list English as even her third or fourth language, and if she's actually earning money, her payment is in the Hong Kong dollars that went out of circulation in 1997.
Rifleman| 3.24.13 @ 6:16PM
Another liberal has found out that "free speech" isn't really "free" unless you tightly adhere to the left-wing agenda. The most intolerant people in the world are liberals...
Occam's Tool| 3.24.13 @ 10:10PM
This month's TAS has an excellent article by Peter Hitchens on Gay marriage.
If I may speak professionally for a moment:
Degrade the importance of marriage, and fewer people will get married. Raise a kid out of wedlock, or withsingle parenthhod, and the more likely a kid will go wrong. Secondly, there will also overall be fewer kids born. Eventually, there will be more old folks than young workers.
This does not bode well for the future of such a society. In New Zealand, I found the worst group of adolescents I have ever seen outside of a Native American Reservation, both Pakeha and Maori.
When I moved there, I heard the term "partner" used a lot, something I had rarely heard outside of relating to homosexual relationships in the States. I thought it meant a lot of Gays in NZ. But no, I later found that there were a lot of heterosexual relationships which did not involve marriage going on for long periods, and children raised out of wedlock. One of the highest adolescent suicde rates in the world, too, and a pathetic amount of adolescent psychiatry and inpatient beds available.
To put it another way, Owensboro Kentucky with a catchment area of, say, 300,000 has more child and adolescent inpatient psychiatric beds available, serving kids with and WITHOUT insurance, than Auckland, New Zealand and Wellington, NZ COMBINED.
That's one example of underservice by an NHS. I can go on. This is an example of societal breakdown in a Liberal, G-dless society.
spike59| 3.25.13 @ 5:55AM
“You got to appreciate how scared folks on that side of the equation are,” Shocked informed her San Francisco audience Sunday night. “Once Prop. 8 gets instated and once preachers are held at gunpoint and forced to marry the homosexuals,” she continued, “I’m pretty sure that that will be the signal for Jesus to come on back.” Shocked, and her shocked audience, laughed awkwardly at her apocalyptic rant. The folk-rock singer then joked, “If someone would be so gracious as to please tweet out ‘Michelle Shocked just said from stage: God hates faggots.’”
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I'm not suprised that the Left hasn't figured out that Shocked was joking and is actually a supporter of gay marriage; should I be surprised to see posts by folks on the Right who likewise don't get it?
spike59| 3.25.13 @ 5:55AM
surprised, not suprised
atilla| 3.28.13 @ 1:33PM
Well, at least we have learned where the HOMOSexual universe stanza on free speech and the Constitution. BTW, the only speech the alternate lifestylers approve of is theirs…..THE MOST HATEFUL OF ALL….INTOLERANCE AND CONDEMNATION …ALL THE WAY, EVERYDAY.
GO TO HE** WITH YOUR PHONY SENSE OF BEING HURLED ON.
dickdata| 3.28.13 @ 1:45PM
And this is different from the Dixie Chicks how???
avafromtexas| 3.28.13 @ 2:24PM
Agree, atilla.
How can these fools continue to lie to themselves about how *tolerant* they are? Even if I were on the sidelines, looking in...............I'd be turned off by their rabid hate and hypocrisy.
rjessup1| 3.28.13 @ 5:03PM
Who is this person? I am sorry she must be too mainstream. I never heard of her but then I don't follow pop culture icons. Well I guess she can now join the likes of Sarah Palin as the most hated person in America.
CforUS| 4.2.13 @ 11:38AM
Take Change.org to task for "hate speech". If anyone hates anyone it's anyone that disagrees with BO and his bastard child Change.org. I guess we better get used to it. We're not going to be able to scrape Change.org off our shoe for a very long time, if ever. What color shirts do they wear over there?
Vance P. Frickey| 4.5.13 @ 5:41PM
First, Two and a Half Men's Angus T. Jones reveals he thinks his show's scripts are tripe and the show actually lowers the lowest common denominator; now Michelle Shocked leaps off the butch rockette express, tries to snark about it during a show on the leftmost point of the Left Coast and gets mangled in the media machine she helped to build.
Life is good.