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VINDICATION!
Vindication, for me. When it was announced that Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Lamont Hill , a liberal, tweeted the following: “Am I the only one who thinks that awarding Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize is ABSURD?!?!?!” “Ok, now I HAVE to to start my ‘overrated Black people’ list. A NOBEL PRIZE? REALLY?”
The people at NewsReal thought the overrated black people list was a good idea. Is this a racist idea? Don’t know, don’t care. Yawn. That’s meaningless to me. The list should simply be called, overrated people. And who was on that list? That’s right, Michael Eric Dyson, the ubiquitous guest on many cable discussion shows. I’ve ALWAYS used Dyson as my “go to” example of the scholarly mush mouth. This is a guy who frequently uses $95 words, incorrectly, when a more pedestrian word or phrase would be more effective when making a point. But Dyson is rarely trying to make a point, other than “look at me, I studied the thesaurus.” His convoluted sentence structure leaves the non-racist in confusion – it leaves the liberal, although equally confused, thinking they have just witnessed some sort of amazing poetry.
From FrontPage: I will begin the list with my favorite black phony, Michael Eric Dyson, an overpaid professor of sociology at Georgetown University.
In fact, Dyson is a virtuouso of the meaningless sentence and the banal (often illiterately expressed) cliche. I can only provide a small sample, which I will simply quote leaving it to readers to see if they can make any sense of them.
Obama
“In the adjectival sense in which we measure racial progress, Obama is not a black president, but a black president.” (p. 3)
Faith and Spirit
“Spirituality makes religion behave.” (p. 19)
Music
“Barry White’s heterosexual boudoir bravado and elaborate orchestrations are of a piece with the bohemian rhapsodies spawned in homeoerotic fields of play.” (p. 68) I think he means that lesbians are big fans of the late R&B singer Barry White.
Literature, Language and Learning
“The writer’s gift can make us see ourselves and our moral possibilities different than what our reality suggests.” (p. 73)
“I was born in language; I was nurtured in a rhetorical womb.” (ibid)
“Writing is ultimately about rewriting.” (p. 84)
“Try as we might to quarantine knowledge, it invariably sneezes on us far beyond its imposed limits.” (p. 85)
Justice and Suffering
“Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.” (p. 125)
Gender
“Femiphobia — the fear and disdain of the female.” (p. 157)
“Real men aren’t afraid of real women.” (p. 164)
Preachers and Preaching
“In the best black oratory, style is not juxtaposed to argument; in fact, style becomes a vehicle of substance.” (p. 170)
“Paying attention to how you say what you say doesn’t mean you have nothing to say.” (p. 174)
“Martin Luther King’s speech was a clinic in the use of the vocal instrument to vibrate in swooping glissandos and poignant crescendos. King showed that there didn’t have to be strife between lexis (style, such as metaphor) pisteis(argumentation and proof) as there is in Aristotle’s view of rhetoric.” (p. 178)
Race and Identity
“Race is not a card. It is a condition.” (p. 185)
“When O.J. Simpson took that long, slow ride down the L.A. freeway in A.J. Cowlings’s Bronco, it wasn’t the first time he used a white vehicle to escape a black reality.” (p. 188)
Leadership
“It is not hypocritical to fail to achieve the moral standards that one believes are correct. Hypocrisy comes when leaders conjure moral standards that they refuse to apply to themselves….” (p. 210)
Poverty and Class
“We’re still in the closet about class in America.” (p.260)
Wisdom
“Bill Maher is one of the bravest and most brilliant social critics we have in the aftermath of 9/11.” (p.292)
“Tell the truth gently.” (p.294)
matt
November 7th, 2009
Wow..I have to admit to not really knowing much about Dyson but after this tutorial I must agree that he is quite the Cunning Linguist.
I find it not all that interesting that one of his favorite peers is Bill Maher. If ever there was an overrated liberal Rimjob machine it is Bill Maher.
His TV show is the reason I no longer have HBO.
I will NOT pay that pricks salary. I was amused,however when he dropped down on his knees in front of Ralph Nader during his show and begged him not to run for President in 2004.
I thought Damn,am I watching OZ? is that guy really going to unzip Ralph on TV?
cfm990
November 7th, 2009
@ Matt. I was thinking fecal linguist, seeing what rolls off his tongue.
matt
November 7th, 2009
Here is a quote from above spoken as though Barack himself spoke it.
“Martin Luther King’s speech was ummm a clinic in the use of the vocal instrument to errrrr vibrate in swooping glissandos and poignant ummmm crescendos. King showed that there didn’t have to be strife ummerr between lexis (style, such as metaphor) pisteis(argumentation and proof) as there is in UMMM Aristotle’s view of rhetoric.”
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November 7th, 2009
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Boobie The Rocket Dog
November 7th, 2009
Colin Powell- Four-star pencil-pusher
Ralph Bunche- RINO Obama of his day
Leontyne Price- Tore up a solo; couldn’t act a whit
Kathleen Battle- Decent singer but diva in name only
Alcee Hastings- My racist congressman (FL23)
wa
November 7th, 2009
I once had an online debate with someone on IMDB who ended up digressing into schooling me to all the important contributions that blacks made to America (as if being a conservative automatically made me a racist jerk who minimizes black contribution.) Within this incoherent rant, where she was making the case that WHITES were not needed (the argument always progresses there, doesn’t it?) she listed Eli Whitney as a major black contributor.
I had no idea I was in the presence of such a historian.
matt
November 7th, 2009
You are confused,BFH. The person whom you were debating was refering to the early American philosopher “Eli Whitney Houston” who had quite a following by early settlers.
I found one of Eli’s earlier works and it reads as follows:
Didn’t We Almost Have It All
Remember when we held on in the rain.The nights we almost lost it once again.We can take the night into tomorrowliving on feelingsTouching you I feel it all again.Didn’t we almost have it allwhen love was all we had worth giving?The ride with you was worth the fallmy friendLoving you makes life worth living!Didn’t we almost have it allthe nights we held on till the morning?You know you’ll never love that way againDidn’t we almost have it all?The way you used to touch me felt so fineWe kept ovr hearts together down the line.A moment in the soul can last forevercomfort and keep usHelp me bring the feeling back again!Didn’t we almost have it allwhen love was all we had worth giving? . . .Didn’t we have the best of times when love was young and new?Couldn’t we reach inside and find that world of me and you?We’ll never lose it again’Couse once you know what love isyou never let it end.Didn’t we almost have it allwhen love was all we had worth giving? . . .Didn’t we almost have it all?
Call me Lennie
November 7th, 2009
How could a human mind possibly place the words “Barry White’ and “Bohemian Rhapsody” inthe same book let alone the same sentence. Now I’m going to have the picture of Barry White singing Bohemiam Rhapsody the rest of the day.
Oh Baby, I see the silhouette of a man
My darling, will you do the fandango
It’s just that I see thunderbolts an lightning
And it’s so very very frightening
OooooooH oooh 0oh
Mama Mia, Can’t get enough of your love
Oh, why can’t you why can’t you why can’t you just let me go now
BigFurHat
November 7th, 2009
amazing comments, Lennie and Matt.
Perhaps this is a new singing duo sensation? There hasn’t been one in decades.
matt
November 7th, 2009
Yes,it suprises me how few have heard about Eli W Houston…Even had a town in Texas named after him.
Scumsburg,Texas
Tim
November 7th, 2009
Danny Glover – brain dead socialist sycophant, can only act one part.
Commissar M
November 7th, 2009
You know, I actually had a tough time with this one. There are certainly plenty of people who are well-known and influential who happen to be black and with whom I disagree. However, to really qualify, I had to think of people who have far exceeded any talent or ability they might have but who have been held in high regard in part or in full due to their race. Since a number of members have already mentioned people who fit that criteria, I had an even harder time. Anyway, I’d have to pick Tupac Shakur. I have never understood what made the guy so great nor why the leftist race hustlers here in the “Dirty South” continue to tie their careers to his rather thin “legacy”.
On the other hand, I could think of a lot of people who I admire but feel are under appreciated.
BigFurHat
November 7th, 2009
Hines, I would challenge that fukkin idiot Dyson to a debate, anytime and anyplace, and just to make it fair I will down a bottle of Robitussin beforehand.
In all my years of watching Dyson I have NEVER heard him utter one insightful passage. NOTHING. But it sure sounds weighty, doesn’t it?
Some people are just mesmerized by inanity, it’s okay James, you’re only as God made you.