ed note: You should also read the post at Patterico’s Pontifications for more great commentary on this. Thanks for saving the image!
It is no surprise to readers of this blog that there are a lot of folks out there who are temperamentally incapable of not seeing the world through the eyes of victimhood politics. Not because they are victims, in whom a certain trauma induced bias might make sense, but because they love the moral high ground they get from buying into it all.
When Obama received a Nobel Peace Prize (it really cannot be said that he won it) anyone with any objectivity knew how silly it was. The words “Cracker Jack” were common. I know, I know the word “Cracker” is a dangerous one these days but we must brave the peril. Why “Cracker Jack”? Because of the silly, worthless prize inside by tradition.
The other factor that contributed to this tale of silliness is that Tammy Bruce has a pet raccoon. The actual animal. Said raccoon is cute (most are) and opens things a lot (most do) and Tammy has posted pictures of this. Tammy is an openly gay Republican who worked to elect President Clinton at one time. Anyway, she posted a picture of her raccoon another raccoon opening a box of “Cracker Jacks” as a comment on the Obama choice.
It’s perfect, frankly. Unless you have race as the only answer in your mind to every question. Then you routinely look for the most offensive way to read every sentence and you get : raccoon: must be a racial thing, it’s about Obama: raccoon: coon! coon! He’s black! She called him a coon!
Ands that’s exactly what at least one idiot did. Enter D. Aristophanes, blogger at Sadly, No to fire up the shrill machine and start meeting their outrage quota for the day.
To be fair, one commenter at the hand waiving victim-fest that is Sadly, No was willing to give Tammy a little wiggle room:
“Mebbe. Just mebbe. But I would also say that Tammy may have been reading too little into the image. “Insensitivity” (or cluelessness) is the best defense she has to this, and that is asking for a huge benefit of the doubt. What kind of national dialogue exists that would allow her to post this without thinking twice?” link to comment
How horrible for them that they are losing control of the national dialogue. It must just kill them that after decades of political correctness being shoved down the throats of schoolchildren and students that some people will still say something without worrying what the insane victim culture fringe will be able to twist it into.
My heart f_ing bleeds for them. Really.
Note: Tammy followed up, but interestingly has changed the image.
There was no changing of any image. That's an entirely new post, with some raccoons laughing at the fools. Heh.
tammy may well be the only individual in a position of both influence and visibility who is brave enough to bring the racoons and their diabolical agenda to light. to even imagine the risk she is taking in terms of her credibilty but her physical safety as well. the degree to which these masked insurgents have infiltrated the very fabric of our society is as of yet undetermined, but know full well, in both your heart and mind that the danger real,very real. tammy, in having revealed this so called “raccoon agenda” which no one else will even address, has brought the perhaps most dire element of threat facing our national securtiy to the attention of all america.