Chelsea Clinton

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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    know1 wrote:
    Even if the OP is true - and I don't think you can say that wholescale Republicans were making nasty comments and jokes about Chelsea on a daily basis - whatever happened to taking the high road?

    Just because someone else did something that's bad, doesn't give justification to you to do it.

    "If you hate something, don't you do it too" - PJ

    I don't think people are saying it was wrong of people to make those jokes about Chelsea. They're saying it was in poor taste, just like Dave's joke. What they are pointing out is the hypocrisy... that when it was republicans making jokes about Chelsea, nobody cared. No conservative talking heads were outraged at what a low blow it was. But when it's a comedian making a random joke about their conservative darling, suddenly it's a horrible horrible thing to say and Dave should be fire. That is a double standard. It's ok when our people do it about your people, but it's wrong when your people do it about ours.

    In that sense, your quote is dead on... the republicans are here hating on something that they have done themselves and thought nothing of.
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    So ALL Republicans were laughing at the jokes about Chelsea and ALL are upset about the Palin joke?

    Point being that it might not be hypocrisy if it's not the SAME ones laughing and getting upset.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    know1 wrote:
    So ALL Republicans were laughing at the jokes about Chelsea and ALL are upset about the Palin joke?

    Point being that it might not be hypocrisy if it's not the SAME ones laughing and getting upset.

    Seeing as how I don't have my census polls handy, I don't know. But I think you're being a bit disingenuous. It's a fair inference to see how the right wing talking heads generally responded then and now. Then: making fun of the looks of a 13 year old girl that was the child of a democrat was not newsworthy and certainly did not draw criticism from the right. Now: making a joke about a 16 year old girl that's the child of a republican is newsworthy and the source of protests and calls for firing. That's hypocrisy. Maybe not on an individual level, but it is hypocrisy on the level of the movement and its claims with respect to being the party of values.
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    soulsinging wrote:
    Seeing as how I don't have my census polls handy, I don't know. But I think you're being a bit disingenuous. It's a fair inference to see how the right wing talking heads generally responded then and now. Then: making fun of the looks of a 13 year old girl that was the child of a democrat was not newsworthy and certainly did not draw criticism from the right. Now: making a joke about a 16 year old girl that's the child of a republican is newsworthy and the source of protests and calls for firing. That's hypocrisy. Maybe not on an individual level, but it is hypocrisy on the level of the movement and its claims with respect to being the party of values.

    hey ... the GOP is the home of family values ... it's the foundation of their entire platform ... ;)
  • Drowned Out
    Drowned Out Posts: 6,056
    NMyTree wrote:
    VINNY GOOMBA wrote:
    It's all just more bullshit and distractions from the real issues. We're being looted everyday by the military-industrial compled and the banks, and all both "sides" of the media cares to cover is bullshit like this. The only thing worse than Hollywood is when Washington becomes Hollywood, with people's obsessions over our political figure's personal lives.

    Correct.
    :?
    I'm confused.
    You agree that this is all bullshit, and both 'sides' are covering this as a distraction from real issues...
    Yet you make a thread framing it as a partisan issue, which you KNOW will contribute to further bickering about a pointless topic already covered in three threads on the train? Would we be correct in saying you're part of the problem then?
    Seriously, WHY do so many americans feel such an overwhelming urge to define themselves by party affiliation? It boggles the mind. The republicans do this, the dems do that wah wah wah....Vinny's quote gets to the heart of this issue....perpetuating the rep vs dem angle makes things worse.
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    Drowned Out wrote:
    :?
    I'm confused....
    Seriously, WHY do so many americans feel such an overwhelming urge to define themselves by party affiliation? It boggles the mind. The republicans do this, the dems do that wah wah wah....Vinny's quote gets to the heart of this issue....perpetuating the rep vs dem angle makes things worse.
    As long as people insist on "taking sides", there will never be a solution to anything.

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