On Fox News, the painful realization that white dudes are no longer the center of everything
Up all night. Too tired to scan the manosphere for weird reactions to Obama’s victory.
But here are some scenes from last night as a couple of backwards white dudes attempted to come to terms with the new demographic realities that enabled Obama to win the election despite getting a smaller percentage of the white vote than Michael Dukakis did in 1988.
Karl Rove, on Fox News, responded to the new realities with good old-fashioned denial, arguing with the number-crunchers for Fox after they called Ohio as a win for Obama. Rove must have thought he’d bought the election good and square!
Bill O’Reilly, meanwhile, responded with, well, there’s really no other word for it than racism:
Also, while we’re talking demographics, here’s a nice pithy breakdown of the gender gap, from ABC news:
Women favored Obama by 11 points while men backed Romney by 7; the gender gap has been bigger just once, in 2000 (when men were +11 Bush and women were +11 Gore). Add in marital status and the gaps become garish: Married men for Romney by 60-38 percent; unmarried women (younger, more Democratic, more aligned with Obama on social and role-of-government issues) backed the incumbent by 67-31 percent.
Grouchy entitled white dudes, get used to it.
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Posted on November 7, 2012, in on the tv, oppressed white men, patriarchy, playing the victim, racism and tagged bill o'reilly, denial, election, fox news, karl rove, racism. Bookmark the permalink. 252 Comments.
hellkell, from earlier conversations I could deduce that we would be dying due to the six months wait for a check-up and the ultimate denial of live-saving procedures by that rationing Death Panel. I guess we’d do said dying on the street because… well, we’d be lying on the curb outside of the doctor’s office?
Person dead from eeeeeeevil socialist medicine here. Well, I guess I’m a zombie. I get prescription brains!
Y’know, because diabetic zombie. Gotta have sugar-free grey matter.
So they killed you, and then brought you back to make you suffer even more. Ye gods, the U.K.’s social welfare system is even more dastardly than Fox News said!
Here is proof positive that this election will not doom America.
Take a lesson, America.
tl:dr, we can all get along.
The black guy got — aargh!
O NO WAIT that was me opening the Ark. Sorry!
@Fitzy
Embalming fluid on prescription, free prescriptions because undeath is a Chronic condition, and free reattachment and replacement of body parts. The NHS is a zombie’s dream. I smell as fresh as a week-old daisy.
I’ve been having issues with my mother’s husband, but that’s less “I wont talk to you because you voted for Romney” and more “I don’t want to talk to you because you voted for Romney because he shares your hatred of women, gay people, brown people, and poor people, your inability to understand your affluent straight white dude privilege, and your willingness to intimidate and terrorize people into giving you what you want, all the while thinking that you deserve or worked to earn what you’ve bullied your way into getting”.
But really this election was just another event in a long line of not-good events. If my BFF confessed she voted for Romney I wouldn’t spontaneously disown her. That would be stupid.
@Falconer, snicker. That’s just what I was envisioning!
I probably should have put a warning on that video. But who here hasn’t seen that bit? And anyway it embedded nice and everything, so people see what they’d get if they clicked on it.
I think it’s much more common to have relatives you don’t talk to about politics, namely, everyone except my uncle.
Of course I have relatives I don’t talk to because they’re dipshits, but they’re actually liberals.
http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/i-hate-everything-cat.jpg
@katz — Yeah, I’ve got relatives I don’t talk to about politics or religion. Other topics are just peachy.
Glenn Beck: Man, sometimes God really sucks.”
I think I got into a fight on Facebook with the guy who posted this:
“You knew that Obama lied to cover up this culpable negligence, and then lied about lying. You had the video, CBS, which you could have aired immediately after the second debate, exposing him for the liar that he is.”
Remember when Mitt said Obama took too long to declare the attacks in Benghazi as acts of terror? Then Candy interjected and said that was incorrect? Well, this dude was on a rampage, days after, saying the networks cut and reworked the footage of Obama commenting in the Rose Garden about the Benghazi attacks (which were played after the debate to prove Mitt was wrong), claiming that he was in fact talking about 9/11. So, according to angry guy, Candy was covering up for Obama and he’s a liar, and blah blah blah.
Now remember, at the debate, both men were responding to a question from the audience. I asked this enraged guy why someone would ask about 9/11 during the current election, and he told me the networks were lying. Playing Devil’s Advocate, and assuming enraged guy was correct, I also asked why Obama’s comments reflected any type of negligence, since he was not president on Sept. 11, 2002 (and hello, why would anybody but the president be filmed making a public statement in the Rose Garden?). This guy couldn’t give me a straight, coherent answer.
I told him to take the tin-foil hat off, then he declared he was in the right, since I resorted to a petty insult. He was foaming at the mouth and irrational. I posted a response, wondering the whole time why my Facebook friend would be associated with such a person. While we were having it out, no one joined in or tried to break the fight up. Anyhoo, this was not a rational person.
If this person expressed the same sentiments in mixed company, he’d have a hard time not being ostracized. I wonder if these people live day-to-day constantly repressing their wack-a-doo notions. They do not represent a majority in any demographic, I think…..but god damned, they’re angry as fuck.
Shiraz, I’d love to see some screenshots if you have them.
I HAVE POPCORN AND JUNIOR MINTS AND M&MS.
I don’t have screenshots — I wasn’t thinking at the time. But this is what started the fight:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/16/candy-crowley-fact-checks-mitt-romney-libya_n_1972313.html
Am I in moderation? None of replies are posting. Sorry everyone.
This site was broken for me for awhile - the template wasn’t loading
IT IS FINE NOW HOWEVER
I think Glenn Beck goes to the same appearance-terribling salon that Donald Trump goes to.
I MEAN, IS THERE SOMETHING ABOUT NOVEMBERS THAT MAKES WEALTHY CONSERVATIVE SHITLORDS GET SUNBURN AND WHITENED HAIR OR IS IT JUST ELECTIONS THAT DO THAT?
Most of my family is really cool about politics. Then I have one uncle who’s a member of a far-right, explicitly racist organisation. He disowned me when he was on a frothing tirade about ‘kicking the fuck out of commies’ (for supporting - i.e. not violently attacking - Muslims), and I politely pointed out that I’m an anarcha-communist.
But then again one of my cousins just announced she’s having Ice Ice Baby as her first dance at her wedding and now I like her more than I used to, so swings and roundabouts.
With a couple of exceptions, the regular trolls have been awfully quiet the past couple of days…
It’s been kind of nice.
I don’t know if this has been linked over here, but you might enjoy knowing how butthurt THESE people are: http://jezebel.com/5958490/twitter-racists-react-to-that-nigger-getting-reelected/gallery/1?tag=racism
Here’s some lulz.
OMG did you know “Barry Soetero” went to Mars the old-fashioned, John Carter way back in the 80s and managed not to get eaten by the local fauna? It’s true, the people who claim it are time travellers and have been all over the universe, so you know they’re trustworthy.
Also, the White House denied it, so QED.
I know I’m way too late to the “sandpaper my loins” party, but all I could think about was “Well, that’s a rather extreme way to deal with morning wood.”
Ok, gutter humor relieved.
Yikes, careful sampling wingnut tears… they seem to be made of LSD.
@Corvus: Poor, poor Chris Rock. His joke (about n-words vs. black people) has been seized by hateful white people as justification for hate language. I know he’s spoken out about this, but the people who abuse his joke aren’t listening.
“and BOOM now everybody wants to vote for him because hugs are positive like smiles.”
Why yes Lauren the Racist Twitted Tweeter, hugs ARE positive. That is why people like Chris Christie a wee bit more than they did two weeks ago (he is still probably an asshole but he is being a responsible asshole and people like that too.)
This is also pretty hilarious.
Hey, remember when the Obama administration was going to hire a whole bunch of lefty bloggers, except they wouldn’t hire anybody who talked like their Chief of Staff? Good times. Good times.
Mr. Hannity might find this website useful.
For our trolls obsessed with Mary Kellett. Here is a prosecutor who tampered with evidence in a rape trial — to protect her husband, who was the accused serial rapist.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/09/prosecutor-wife-suspected-of-evidence-tampering-for-accused-rapist-husband/
I wish that Rahm Emanuel thing had actually happened.
Oh goodness, those twitter wankers - “IAmNotRacist”. And then rants about how much they hate black people. Isn’t “hating people based on the colour of their skin or culture of origin” a pretty big part of the definition of racism? >.(\
So… spearheaer ranty dude lives in the south, but he’s all clued-in on the urban office workplace, right down to the politics.
And, when people have said shit like, the “I work for my shit” in my hearing I’ve told them off. They tend to want to leave in a hurry when I start, but they haven’t paid yet, so they are stuck.
And I smile at them while I do it.
Bill O’Reilly has always been a butthead. I am a little surprised he actually used the phrase “white establishment”, I’m thinking he probably got chewed out backstage afterward. Also, Todd Akin really got shit on later that night, it was hilarious.
If only we could get “white dudes” like David Futile to give up his blog to a person of color due to his white privilege.
Along with pecunium (and only white dudes on this site) will kill themselves.
Oh well they will become extinct eventually.
You can’t stop progress David.
P.S. You’re a white dude. Twit. A fat one at that.
David, a white male, who will go the way of the do do bird.
Hopefully by heart attack clogged by all lipids in his heart and arteries.
Hello, Pell
“do do” bird? Yeah, that’s Pell.
Haha I literally just mentioned his aversion to subtlety on another thread. Bloody ninny.
It’s always so charming how he goes straight to calling David fat, because compelling argument. David is fat so…his brain doesn’t work? I’m not really sure what the reasoning is there.
Do people actually DO those rant about food stamps? I mean, Jesus Christ, they’re singlehandedly saving my ass right now! Why would ANYONE be a dick about FOOD STAMPS?
I mean, Jesus.
(And as someone who is fucking LIVING IN AN ATTIC CLOSET because that’s all I can afford… aaaaaarrrrrgggghhhh. The White House probably spends more on a goddamn dinner party than I do in a year. All I want is to be able to have a room with four walls and a standable ceiling someday! IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?)
amandajane - there probably isn’t any!