The Ever Inconsistent Left

Michael Calderone has the unedited Kathy Griffin CNN video at Politico. Griffin says something at the end that suggests to me maybe she didn't think it was going out over the air at that point. But it's what Griffin, somewhat of a heroine to the Left for her "Suck it," Jesus-related remark actually accomplishes in this latest episode that I find interesting.

She says, "I don't go to your job and knock the dicks out of your mouth" to a male heckler.

The main point of the joke is to demean a man for engaging in male homosexual activity, whether promiscuously, or for pay, or not. That is the real cut of the joke, after all. You're a guy and you literally "suck." Ha Ha! Only it isn't gay bashing because I'm a liberal.

Also, could someone say that to a female heckler on national television and ever work anywhere, again? It's doubtful. Somehow I don't think Anderson Cooper would be laughing then. He'd probably be calling the network heads to apologize before the cameras even went off.

It's the moral inconsistency of the Left that often annoys me the most when one or another of the usual groups climbs up on the soapbox of the day. Their rhetoric just doesn't track to the reality.

Comments

[Totally Heterosexual Conservative]

"The main point of the joke is to demean a man for engaging in male homosexual activity, whether promiscuously, or for pay, or not."

No it's not. But thanks for today's episode of "Whine Whine Whine."

[Fred Beloit]

Yes it is Totally. Denying the obvious is a waste of your valuable time. It is also obvious that this post has nothing to do with whining.

[Undertoad]

Sorry Riehl, I enjoy your posts often but I can find no connection to reality from this one.

1) It's comedy, and if you are annoyed by it, you are taking life too seriously;

2) It's comedy, and if you don't "get it" the safest thing to do is just stifle, because to carp about it makes you look sincerely pathetic to those who did "get it";

3) If you're sucking dick "at your job" you are a male prostitute and are getting paid for it, that's VERY obviously the center of the joke;

4) If you think bashing a heckler as a male prostitute is gay bashing, you are surely unclear on a lot of concepts involving homosexuality, prostitution, and dealing with hecklers;

5) Anderson Cooper is gay (Ooh! didja not KNOW?), so the fact that he got the joke and laughed should help put your humor compass on a more reasonable bearing;

6) Kathy Griffin is totally hilarious from any stance on the political spectrum, for those who don't run everything through a political filter... i.e., the vast majority of people on both sides.

Sorry man but there it is

[Fred Beloit]

Underllama, why have you written such a short analysis? Surely this joke at the expense of gay prostitutes, pimps, like Barney Frank's old roommate, and johns deserves more of an in-depth defense. Why haven't you brought in the women's rights to be an offensive comedian (not comedienne of course) angle? And what about the effects on the morale and well-being of male prostitutes hook? And you imply Dan is making a mountain out of a molehill? You are a poor specimen of a Lefty I must say.

[Dennis]

If it's true as a couple of the posters said that it's only a joke, why is the left so upset about the Obama the magic negro joke?

[templar knight]

Hmm...the liberal types who post here couldn't find any comedy in "Obama the Magic Negro". I thought it was funny as hell, myself. I sure am glad the liberals are now acquiring a sense of humor. They're going to need it. LOL.

[Totally Heterosexual Conservative]

"Yes it is Totally. Denying the obvious is a waste of your valuable time."

Oh, well, if you say so .... Griffin's "joke" had nothing to do with denegrating gay people. That YOU associate a "mouth full of dicks" necessarily with gay people is the product of your own tin ear and bigotries. Your bigotries are YOUR problem.

"It is also obvious that this post has nothing to do with whining."

Wrong again. ALL winger posts have everything to do with whining. In this case - "Whaaaa the mean liberal gets to make a crude joke on tv, while we don't get to scream 'faggot' at the gays we hate!!!! Whaaaaa!"

[Totally Heterosexual Conservative]

"why is the left so upset about the Obama the magic negro joke?"

"The left" isn't "upset" about anything. Don't you get it? "The left" revels when the GOP reveals itself to be what it is. I, personally hope that the GOP officially adopts the "magic negro" reference as its chief criticism of President-elect Obama.

[Dan Riehl]

"That YOU associate a "mouth full of dicks" necessarily with gay people is the product of your own tin ear and bigotries."

LMAO I think in your case we better add shit for brains, too. Geez, many you're hung over, you don't usually seem THAT dumb.

And a nod to Undertoad for completely missing the point. Here's a clue - I'm" not offended by most humor, if any. It's the Libs who don't want anyone on the Right to exercise a sense of humor that is the fairly obvious point of the post. Sorry man, but there it is.

[templar knight]

Since THC is so obviously NOT conservative, logic would indicate he/she/it isn't heterosexual, either.

As for the "magic Negro joke", it was a joke...haha...funny. Got it, THC. We laugh and move on, while you're the idiot who whined about it. Whine on.

[Undertoad]

I didn't say you were offended. I said you didn't get it.

Then I patiently and unemotionally explained why, if you don't get it, you should STFU.

That remains my counsel.

[templar knight]

Oh, yeah, I almost forgot. I wanted to offer an alternate, yet more accurate headline for your post, Dan.

"The utter hypocrisy of the Left."

[Totally Heterosexual Conservative]

"LMAO I think in your case we better add shit for brains, too. Geez, many you're hung over, you don't usually seem THAT dumb."

Wow, a witty rejoinder by a 12 year old.

"As for the "magic Negro joke", it was a joke...haha...funny. Got it, THC. We laugh and move on, while you're the idiot who whined about it. Whine on."

Um, you seem to be confusing pointing-and-laughing at the public train-wreck of the GOP with whining.

Again, you idiots don't get it:

WE WANT YOU TO EXPOSE YOURSELVES.

And you are. Now THAT'S magical.

[Totally Heterosexual Conservative]

"LMAO I think in your case we better add shit for brains, too. Geez, many you're hung over, you don't usually seem THAT dumb."

Jesus. Does being this stupid hurt or what? Sucking dick at work makes one a prostitute by definition dumb ass - not gay. It's not a gay joke.

[reliapundit]

GRIFFIN ISA A LIB ERGO ANYONE WHO HECKLES HER IS NOT A LIB ERGO IT'S ALL RIGHT TO USE ANY DEROGATORY ATTACK ON THEM.

[reliapundit]

LIBS DON'T SEE THIS AS HYPOCRITICAL.

SIMILAR TO THEIR OPINION ON HAMAS:

HAMAS IS OKAY TO USE ROCKET FIRE AGAINST CIVILIANS, BUT IDF IS WRONG TO TARGET HAMAS.

[Philip McDaniel]

A "mouth full of dicks" may pass as humor to the glitterati et al. but whatever else it may be it certainly seems gauche to me.

[MarkJ]

Well, we know one thing for sure: Kathy "D-List" Griffin has neither the class of Jack Benny, nor the rapid-fire wit of Groucho Marx, nor the joke-writing team of Bob Hope.

Remember folks, we're talking about a woman who tattooed a "wedding ring" on her hand...and then had it promptly lazed off about her divorce. Not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, huh?

[libocrat]

I think Anderson Cooper is himself gay. I may be wrong, but...
What do you think 'ol Anderson thought about Griffin trying to slur gay men?
Her intention was to call the man gay and to belittle a gay man having oral sex. There is no doubt that she is a closeted (pun intended) bigot.

[libocrat]

Liberals are dishonest in general, and this threat proves it.
Griffin was referring to the heckler's work...vis a vis...Griffin being at work.
She referenced him heckling her, versus, her bothering him while he sucked dick at his job.
It's painful easy to understand unless you are bent of dishonesty as most liberals are.
She chose "sucking dick", because she thought a gay man sucking dick reference was offensive and bad. She chose to use a gay man reference, because it's cheap, and it's bigoted, and she is cheap and bigoted.
You libtards may feel free to deny that which you know to be true. You merely expose what crass pieces of garbage you are.

[A. Nonomouse]

Why has no one posed the question, "Who's gay, you or the guy sucking your dick?"?

[Answer Man]

"Who's gay, you or the guy sucking your dick?"?

The answer: Anderson Cooper.

[WBestPresidentEver]

Kathy Griffin may be rich as in money but she is a nothing and a no body as far as I am concerned. I have no use for her foul mouth comedy and her views.
She is a loser in life. A real scumbag.

[Mike Roark]

Inconsistent because they don't believe what they are saying. They simply say what is most convenient to gaining power.

[Fred Beloit]

Totally wants us to expose ourselves, I guess so the wackheads on the Left will see we are not getting their bold message of hopey-changey-peacey-lovey-free medicine-and-no-one-else-may-speak-or-publish.

Allow me to expose myself. I agree completely with Israel in their defensive attacks on Hamas. I hope they keep it up until Hamas is completely destroyed, and then await an attack from their other enemy, Hezbollah, so they can do the same to them. Enough is enough.

I also agree with this statement from Samizdata.net:
"This is the time to apply that test ['It just boils down to asking the question "do you want the state to have less control over people's lives or more control?"... If a person can honestly answer that they think the state is too powerful and needs to be reduced...'] to Republican politicians, every last one of them... and drive any who fail that simple test out of the party...This is the opportunity to destroy a great many political careers and remake the Republican Party into the party of constitutionally limited government and to start fighting the culture war that the party should have been fighting since the day Ronald Reagan left office with his job only half done."

There, Totally, how's that for a first try?

[Fred Beloit]

Now you can see a video of Obama's policy of openness and transparency with the media at Sister Toldjah's blog. Those interested in jokes will appreciate this jewel:
http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2009/01/02/openness-and-transparency-obama-style/

[Fred Beloit]

From the Office of the President-Elect's statements desk comes this (1/3/09) from PE Obama: "That is how we will achieve the number one goal of my plan—which is to create three million new jobs, more than eighty percent of them in the private sector."

Hahaha. Now let's see, where is my calculator?...dumm dee dumm dumm...Here it is. Now about 20% of these new jobs must be in the public (government) sector. .2 x 3,000,000 = 600,000. Oh goody. 600 hundred K make-work government jobs to recruit for, to hire, to house in offices, to pay, to be forced into a union, to be promoted, to receive big-time benefits and then retire with big-time pay and benefits. Sounds like a plan...a s--t plan for tax payers.

[Lala]

place yer bets

600,000 border patrol guards

or

600,000 community activists

[Fred Beloit]

Say, Lala, did it ever occur to you that Christiane Amanpour may not be 100% truthful in every instance...or any instance?
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/pollak/48861

[Fred Beloit]

We can now add Frisco to the number of cities where the savages wax eloquent. Scroll down
to "Bad Craziness in San Francisco":
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php

The 2nd Amendment...at some point, we gon need it.

[Fred Beloit]

Some of the Lefties still don't get it. Obama votes "Present and Absent". But the U.S. Senate gets it very clearly. "US Senate leaders stand solidly behind Israel". Good for them.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D95GDLB81&show_article=1&catnum=0

[Lala]

Say, Fred, why yes, it occurred to me years ago, during Clinton's war against the Serbs, that Amanpour is not to be trusted.

[LOL]

good to see ole quixotic dan is ringing in the new year with a good outrage at... something insulting said on tv.

We're in 2 wars, an economic recession, and one of the most incompetent governments in history. Yet the moral outrage is what some lady said on tv. Boo hoo dan, some moral crusader you are.

[Fred Beloit]

"...one of the most incompetent governments in history."

No, LOL, that won't begin until Jan 20, when Pelost/Reid will no longer have to worry about the veto and when Chicago politics takes over the WH.

[seekeronos]

"--- HAMAS IS OKAY TO USE ROCKET FIRE AGAINST CIVILIANS, BUT IDF IS WRONG TO TARGET HAMAS. ---"

And heaven forbid that the Israelis ever get the notion to finally get rid of that so-called "Palestinian" problem within their rightful borders (per the 1967 war) ... and push those lousy terrorism-loving rebels into the Mediterranean Sea, and into Egypt, and into Jordan, as well as permanently settling the hash of Hamas once and for all.

Israel - all of it - belongs only to the Israelis.

[irongrampa]

Not at all sure why anyone would waste an eyeball or an eardrum on Ms. Griffin.