Patriotic drunk rednecks

Oh dear God. I'm not sure what this signifies, though. Surely there are plenty of incoherent drunkards expressing every point of view. Except, maybe, that of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Well, I hope you can see why I take an Ignatian (as in Reilly, not Loyola) approach to life. I am not really appalled at this, just very amused at the human condition. I wish somebody would post a video of drunken Upper East Side WASPs nattering on about politics. We could post a whole collection of them under the title, "In Praise of Folly."

How do we know she's not right? BHO was born a Mohammedan and began his schooling as a Mohammedan. He claims to have converted to Christianity, but if he did, where are the fatwas? The imams don't worry about every average Abdul who turns apostate, but they are very conscientious about issuing fatwas for important men.

People in Mohammedan countries, who presumably understand the principles of their religion better than we do, uniformly believe that BHO is one of their own.

Our media simply refuse to ask the question, instead taking the idiotic position that we should believe what each candidate says. Well, if we're going to do it that way, then we should take BHO at his word when he mentions "my Muslim faith."

Hey, they are salt-of-the-earth, Joe six-pack (well six-case, maybe), real Americans! They can't remember which newspapers they read, and don't need to know about Supreme Court cases.

How is this different from going to a mental hospital and laughing at the funny things that mentally ill people do? This poor woman is laboring under some problem that has robbed her of her dignity. Holding her up to ridicule is horrible. What if she were your sister?

If she were my sister I would call the men in white coats.

polistra: Puh-leeze. More than 'nuff said.

To polistra:

The word you're looking for is "Muslim" not "Mohammedan". Whether you think highly of Islam or consider it a dire threat, there's no reason to pick a deliberately insult when referring to its adherents. If I were, as a hypothetical, to heavily criticize the Catholic Church, there would still be no call for me to call its members "Papists" rather than "Catholics" unless I intended merely to show my own bigotry.

And how do you know that Muslims (all billion plus of them) uniformly agree that Obama is an apostate? I've seen plenty attempts here in the U.S. by some on the right to claim that Islamic leaders will consider him one, but no sign of Muslim leaders expressing outrage. There's also Juan Cole's rebuttal of the claim that various versions of Islamic law would find him to be an apostate.

I'm an Obama supporter. Nonetheless, I can imagine quite a few reasons why Muslim nations might have problems with him as U.S. President or why he might fail to improve U.S. foreign image as substantially as he claims he can. Most of them relate to his aggressively pro-Israel rhetoric and willingness to leave military action against Iran open as a course of action.

But this apostasy stuff? Please.

Oh my, I actually know plenty of people who act and talk just like that, no alcohol or mental illness involved. Slightly different regional accent though.

Rod,

I'm starting to wonder if I should have apologized to you for insinuating that you are trying to suck up to your peers (your "betters") in the left-liberal media establishment, for insinuating that you are trying to apologize to them for having initially refrained from joining in their gang-bang of Sarah Palin.

You clearly seem to be attempting some sort of Andrew-Sullivan-style ideological realignment or rather rebranding of yourself.

It's not becoming and it's making this site less and less worth while by the day.

I suppose that next you'll be posting clips of malt-liquor-swilling, baggy-panted, crackheaded, baby-daddies on the South Side who are voting for the Reverend.

Then again, on second thought, no, I don't think you will.

Shame on you.

You know better than this.

UPDATE: Note well, though, that it wasn't the Patriotic Drunk Rednecks that caused the looming economic catastrophe...

Slow down, there, Rod. They might be overextended on that four-wheeler and about to get a midnight visit from ATV repo man. IJS.

Now that I've made that half-way crack, the question here is "Is it ok to put up the impoverished and ignorant for ridicule?" Under what circumstances is it OK to hold up someone for ridicule? I'm not entirely sure, but I say that anyone from Kentucky is fair game.

Just did a quick google search, apparently this is a video that is used as a viral video -- purposely spread around blogs by a third party that does this for a living.

Anyone can get taken. But, you know, "first bag free" isn't usually something people say about broccoli!

Well, the guy who kept trying to hide his face didn't appear to be very ignorant of the situation at hand.

It's not her state of drunkenness that's embarrassing, it's her ignorance of the facts.
Do you think she has a different opinion of Obama when she's sober?

Well, this was an occasion of sin for me and I fell into it. I watched the video, laughed and mocked. Now I see the evil in my own heart and beg God for forgiveness.

I wouldn't be so sure they are drunk. I grew up in an Appalachian county. There were people like these all over the place. They talked like this when they were sober. The way you tell when they’re drunk is they either giggled a lot or threatened to “beat your ass” for no reason. I don’t see how Rod showing this is a problem because the more educated ones thought the same way, but knew better than to say as much to outsiders. This bunch picked up this attitude from their “betters” in town. This is how people in large swaths of Appalachia think and showing the clip informs how the pillars of these communities think!

Thanks for removing that video, Rod.

Here's what Mother Teresa had to say on what our attitude should be toward those who face such problems:

"The fullness of our heart comes in our actions: how I treat the leper, how I treat the dying person, how I treat the homeless. Sometimes it is more difficult to work with street people than with the people in our homes for the dying because the dying are peaceful and waiting; they are ready to go to God. You can touch the sick and believe, or you can touch the leper and believe, that is the body of Christ you are touching, but it is more difficult when these people are drunk or shouting to think that this is Jesus in that distressing disguise. How clean and loving our hands must be to be able to bring compassion to them!"

Well, I hope you can see why I take an Ignatian (as in Reilly, not Loyola) approach to life. I am not really appalled at this, just very amused at the human condition. I wish somebody would post a video of drunken Upper East Side WASPs nattering on about politics. We could post a whole collection of them under the title, "In Praise of Folly."

Upper East Side WASP? Do they exist?

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