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• Alan discusses the latest campaign controversies shaping the race for the White House.
I just don’t understand why John McCain wants to wait until he is elected to get Osama bin Laden. I received this e-mail today: The 7th anniversary of 9/11 and Osama bin Laden is still celebrating his handiwork. We’ve had 7 years of an incompetent administration bent on fighting the wrong war in the wrong place rather than getting Osama bin Laden. The incompetent 3 sided box at Tora Bora allowed bin Laden to escape as “Warmonger” Bush didn’t want his family pal to get axed too soon. Bin Laden has been much more valuable to this crooked administration as a boogeyman to scare voters into voting for an incompetent political party who has done nothing but take advantage of the worst attack on American soil for political advantage.
“Bush Hugger” McCain claims he has a plan to find and eliminate bin Laden yet he doesn’t want to share it with us. He’s either a traitor to America or he’s just blowharding another big lie and he has no plan to get bin Laden. Just more propaganda for his spin machine.
Go Obama/Biden 08/12!
Does this mean that in order for John McCain to get Osama bin Laden he wants us to elect him first? What kind of a message is that?
Alan, I watch “Heinous and Colmes” mainly because I enjoy watching you put the know-it-alls on the hot seat. I record the program because it allows me to fast forward all the diatribe that comes out of your co-host Sean Heinous. Keep strong my brother because your program would be nothing more than a right wing show without you.
Anonymouse,
Yep, for sure, your tone was part of the reason I got pissed off, good point.
Anyway, it’s a free country still, thank god. You are going to use whatever words you want to use, knock yourself out. Now you know that I’m thin skinned, and going to get irritated when you say something I consider as disparaging against my friends and family.
PS. If there is a next time you try boiled peanuts, you should put them in your bottle of Dr. Pepper, that’s the secret. Though in all honesty, I consider boiled peanuts fairly vile myself.
Anyone who’s bothered by “redneck” or “cracker” is being too thin skinned. There are much nastier words in common use and directed at people who don’t deserve it. You should save getting pissed off for the really bad stuff.
I’m a “hillbilly”. Whether that’s a name to get irritated over depends entirely on the tone used behind it. Hillbilly = redneck = cracker.
Anonymouse,
Look, I’m tired of being pissed off. Let me just put it this way, with no sarcasm or aggressiveness on my part.
It is offensive for many southerners to hear us being referred to as ‘crackers’, or maybe you didn’t mean me specifically, but I’m pretty sure members of my family, former neighbors, etc… would fall into what you who you are calling ‘cracker’. (I live in the deep, deep, deep south now, Brazil, so I am a ‘gringo’ not a ‘cracker’ now)
It is also irritating that ‘rednecks’ and ‘crackers’ seem to be acceptable targets, when many people use those words just to refer to poor white people with ‘funny’ accents. It’s not cool dude (or dudette).
So I just point that out to you, it’s not false outrage, it is a lot of irritation, and a little bit of offence. That’s all.
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Allen the more I read this hateful stuff that is being said it just turn my stomach now you see why we got to get those devils out of office!!!!!!!!!! pure hate oh my God the lord will help you I hope that you are not letting this hateful stuff get you down because these statements are demonic and evil and they have the nerve to include God in these hateful statements.Allen I would hope you would consider Leaving Fox because they have proven to be Racist, and Sean is their front line man who is also a Racist ,stupid idiot who will not listen but blab blab blab nothing that makes any since comes out of his mouth he is a poor excuse of a human being he disgust me to the upmost and his supporters.
September 9th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
When will somebody ask about McCain’s gambling problem? This summer he was seen in a Las Vegas casino playing craps for large amounts and propositioning a young woman nearby to come with him and be his good luck charm. The casino offered to have a private table set up in his room but his campaign manager insisted against it.
September 9th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Guys, get over yourselves. She just misspoke, the Obama misspoke about the lipstick on a pig. When one talks several times a day, it is only human to make a little slip. You are making way too much of this.
Shame on you Alan Colmes for making this a topic of discussion.
September 9th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Sorry guys, my last post was a mistake.
September 9th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Alan has a lot of fans in the cracker, American South.
Lubricated with a couple of beers, they aren’t doing the South any PR favors by calling in and calling Obama grade school names.
But, this is to be expected from people who think “boiled peanuts” are a delicacy.
September 9th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Your wacky Christian caller: “I wish I could quit you, Alan!!”
September 10th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Alan, find that clip of Hillary when during the primary debates she said that because of inexperience Obama will probably get rattled and off message as soon as the Republicans take off the gloves during the general election. It seems all the talking-heads on both sides are saying he is rattled and off message now.
Obama’s ‘new’ shine barely carried him through the primaries and Sarah’s ‘new’ shine will carry Mcain to the White House. This election cycle is a lot of fun as a spectator huh?
j
September 10th, 2008 at 12:18 am
See?
That’s the problem with bible thumpers. They can’t be happy minding their own business. They’re driven to check out everyone else’s lives and “correct” the witnessed misbehaviors.
Usually, the bible thumpers got interested in what everyone else was doing wrong after their own lives of drug abuse or alcoholism were straightened out.
September 10th, 2008 at 12:18 am
The scary part is that this bible hugger is on his own.
September 10th, 2008 at 12:28 am
Alan,
Why are we talking about the experience of candidates and never about the IQ of the candidates. It would be nice for a change to have a president in the White house who actual can remember all the issues that are important for the country at the same time.
September 10th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Anonymouse,
Alan has a lot of fans in the cracker, American South.
Lubricated with a couple of beers, they aren’t doing the South any PR favors by calling in and calling Obama grade school names.
But, this is to be expected from people who think “boiled peanuts” are a delicacy.
How about you just keep your ignorant bigotry against southerners to yourself.
September 10th, 2008 at 12:55 am
But, this is to be expected from people who think “moon pies” are a delicacy?
Better?
The South is filled with crackers. Fact, not “ignorant bigotry”. In parts of the South, it’s still 1950.
September 10th, 2008 at 1:04 am
Gee, I’m from the South and I think she described my neighbors quite well.
September 10th, 2008 at 1:06 am
We had McCain at “Hello!” The Media refuses to reveal the truth to the American public and this is keeping McCain’s hopes alive. McCain lost control of his major campaign issue-campaign finance reform. It passed after so many tries for a specific reason. Someone forced all politicians to take responsibility for their ads before 9-11. Someone was a real pest to the Bush administration to the point of being a “Bush Fly.” Did they spy on “The Bush Fly?” We assumed that Bush was talking about Bin Laden. What had he done to be a pest to Bush from January to Sept 11, 2001? Nothing! Bush knew about the possible attacks on America and he went on vacation. When the first building was hit, he continued to read. As if having a tower in New York hit by an airplane didn’t warrant his immediate attention? Where was the “Emergency Broadcast System” on 9-11? Why did campaign finance reform finally pass? McCain knows this race is over and he can’t hide behind a skirt and win it.
September 10th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Analogy is both the cognitive process of transferring information from a particular subject (the analogue or source) to another particular subject (the target), and a linguistic expression corresponding to such a process. I’m a Sarah Palin supporter yet, am frustrated by the media and the offended right wing. Let’s not play games and take everything out of context. Oboma made an analogy clearly not a sexist comment. Boo-hoo I don’t think anyone’s feelings were hurt. I guess the media had nothing else to report that day. For the voters who only pay attention to negative news and ridiculous tabloids this is fuel for fire. Even if the lipstick wearing pig was a comment directed towards Sarah (big deal), I’m personally sick of people crying over political slings. Talk about soap opera. It seems that society is overly concerned with getting their feeling hurt. Women have fought for rights and equality for a long time. Now we have it and we can’t stop complaining about sexism. Point, Oboma made an analogy in reference to Change and McCain. I may not agree with his view point but am concerned that voters are being bogged with to much garbage and are being strayed off the path of educated voting. This is not about me and my own political view points but what is right. Left wing, Right wing, Elephant, Jackass, Conservative, or Liberal it does not matter. let’s stay focused on the task at hand and guide our American brothers and sisters on the path to vote for the person that best represents us not who makes the cover of tabloid city.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:18 am
above post: ABSOLUTELY to everything you said!!!!!!!!everyone needs to stop being so emotional. if women are truly confident with their sex and accomplishments they simply laugh at such nonsence. look everyone, it the inate gutteral nature of politics, let’s get back to the REAL issues!!!
September 10th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Anonymouse,
No, it’s not better, you are an ignorant bigot. Hope your hate keeps you warm at night, anonymouse.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Vince,
It’s not Bible Thumpers who dictate to me how much water I could use in a toliet.
No, it was toilet manufacturers who went to congress to ask them to standardize. Different states were setting different standards and it was becoming very expensive for them to manufacture one toilet for one state, and another for a different. Thus they lobbied congress to create one standard.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Vince probably needs LOTS of water in his toilet.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:46 am
So you can drink it up when I have your head in there?
September 10th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
“Hope your hate keeps you warm at night, anonymouse.”
I hate moonpies and boiled peanuts. Especially, warm moonpies (when left in the sun) and cold, boiled peanuts.
I only dislike crackers. It’s not the cracker’s fault he’s the way he is. Most of them were born into the life and it wasn’t their choice.
I also hate the Yankees.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
That’s super Anonymouse, revel in your bigotry and hate. Just don’t expect others to think it is as cute as you do.
Maybe you should look at your original statements and replace the words with groups of people you don’t think it cute to hate, and replace the disparaging word ‘cracker’ with a disparaging word for that group. I have no idea how deep your bigotry runs, so I won’t suggest a specific group to use, but there must be some group you don’t think it cute to disparage.
Um Cara (e Um Sulista) (e Um amante de Moonpies)
September 10th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
You can put lipstick on a moonpie, but it’s still just a graham cracker cookie with a marshmallow center.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
And you can post a non sequitur, but you still aren’t nearly as funny as you think.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
I never knew for sure what “the other side of the tracks” really meant until the first trip I made into the South.
Many southern towns really are divided by railroad tracks. Nice surburban homes for the better off on one side of the tracks and shacks on the other side for the less well off “color’ds” with a few white “crackers” spread around the fringes.
Spare me your “false outrage” over being insulted by what I wrote. Southern crackers are just a fact of life, deal with it. It’s nothing for you to be ashamed of. It’s just who you are.
September 10th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Anonymouse,
You got me, only southern towns have more expensive parts of town and less expensive parts of town. In the rest of the country they have million dollar houses next door to tents next door to track housing next door to public housing next door to trailers, all in the same city block. Everyone goes to equal quality public schools, and there are no homeless. Racism has almost been eliminated everywhere in the U.S. but the south. Yet us crackers still have been unable to achieve this.
I’m not sure why that is, but you may have hit on it with the boiled peanuts and moonpies – there is probably something in them that lowers our intelligence.
I really appreciate your words of encouragement not to be ashamed of being Southern. Maybe someday I will be able to get past my shame, but for now – it is too soon.
I too would encourage you to not be ashamed of being a thoughtless bigot. I mean, sure you could help it with empathy and learning, but those things are hard, and besides, it is more fun to look down on those different from you. It helps to make you feel better about yourself, I understand.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
I’ve shared lunch, supper and a beer with many crackers (white guys) and poor black guys from Mississippi over to Georgia. If you could look at me, you wouldn’t be able to tell us apart.
I’ve worked with them. I’ve marveled at the low wages for hard, dangerous work. You can make better money in a Chicagoland McDonald’s than in Mississippi farm labor. I’ve marveled at the rural Southern status quo of “people at the top” and “people at the bottom” with only a scattering of people in between.
I don’t appreciate your cheap, patronizing attitude toward people who only deserve a decent wage and a shot at a decent middle class living.
While towns all over the USA have good and bad parts, no where else but the South is it as common to have a line drawn through the middle of town splitting off the “haves” from the “not-so-haves”, limiting the odds of their ever mixing.
Heat the moonpie in the sun, on the dash of the truck. You can more easily wash it down with a Diet Coke. Yummy.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Anonymouse,
While towns all over the USA have good and bad parts, no where else but the South is it as common to have a line drawn through the middle of town splitting off the “haves” from the “not-so-haves”, limiting the odds of their ever mixing.
I already agreed with you, what more do you want:
Only in the south do the rich and poor not regularly go to the best private schools together
In the rest of the country, well, at least the biggest cities in the rest of the country, inner city schools are usually the best funded, and people from the surrounding areas do everything they can to try and get their kids into those schools.
In the rest of the country it doesn’t matter if you are rich or poor, even the rich work as farm labor, and often the poor are CEOs
After work, in the rest of the country, the rich and poor enjoy together an evening of fine dining, drinks, and dancing in their country clubs. They even take turns on who will serve, and who will be served. Back and forth between rich and poor as to who will cook and clean.
It is perfectly acceptable to disparge southerners with the word ‘cracker’, we are just southerners, after all.
Also, the wacky callers into Alan’s show with southern accents are very representative of people as a whole in the south. In fact, those lunatic callers without southern accents are most likely southerners affecting accents of other areas just to try and throw you off guard. And those callers with southern accents who are not lunatics are mostly kind hearted northerners affecting a southern accent to try and give us a little bit better image.
You did get one thing wrong though, we eat our dashboard heated moonpies with warm dr. pepper. So perhaps you are a fraud after all, and don’t know nearly as much as you think you do.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
99 out of 100 people who call in to the Colmes show and prattle on about “Barack Hussein Osama” or “Obama is a socialist/communist” or “Obama Yomama” do so with a thick, Southern accent.
When Colmes tries to politely explain what a crock of **** they’re slinging, the callers always respond by pushing back, yelling louder to drown Colmes out and calling him names.
Why that is, I don’t know. But it is.
A caller on Sept 9th, shortly before 11:55pm, is what started “this”. While the word may be too harsh, yes, he was a “cracker” and at that time of the evening the odds are good he’d knocked back a few beers. He also sounded like he’d just tipped a few.
Rather than directing your nastiness in my direction, maybe your time would be better used looking around at your neighbors and trying to understand their behavior. The average working person’s interests are more aligned with Obama’s policies yet, down South, they seem to see McCain/Palin as their saviors. McCain/Palin are their worst enemies.
Chuck Norris is on Larry King right now with A. Huffington. As I said when he was on the Colmes Show the other night, the man has been kicked in the head too many times. He is seriously rude and mentally ill.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
I should have said a moonpie is better washed down with a “Big Red” but Diet Coke is the first thing that popped into my head.
Please accept my humble apologies.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Anonymouse,
Please accept my humble apologies.
That was all I was looking for!
Certainly Anonymouse, I accept your apologies.
I’m sure your attack was based more on ignorance, than true hatred. Most bigotry is.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
While I always kept a couple of Moonpies in the truck for just in case, I always preferred to stop somewhere in the country for a decent meal instead. I ate very few moonpies and most of what I purchased probably eventually went in the trash. I tried (cold) boiled peanuts once and that was enough.
The first place I remember stopping south of Memphis to eat at was the Booga Bottom Cafe in Hushpuckena, MS. Who could forget a diner name like “The Booga Bottom Cafe”?
Obama should enjoy 95% support through the whole region, from Clarksdale, MS all the way over to Valdosta, GA. Face your cracker neighbors and tell them to, “SNAP OUT OF IT!!!”.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Anonymouse,
Look, I’m tired of being pissed off. Let me just put it this way, with no sarcasm or aggressiveness on my part.
It is offensive for many southerners to hear us being referred to as ‘crackers’, or maybe you didn’t mean me specifically, but I’m pretty sure members of my family, former neighbors, etc… would fall into what you who you are calling ‘cracker’. (I live in the deep, deep, deep south now, Brazil, so I am a ‘gringo’ not a ‘cracker’ now)
It is also irritating that ‘rednecks’ and ‘crackers’ seem to be acceptable targets, when many people use those words just to refer to poor white people with ‘funny’ accents. It’s not cool dude (or dudette).
So I just point that out to you, it’s not false outrage, it is a lot of irritation, and a little bit of offence. That’s all.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Anyone who’s bothered by “redneck” or “cracker” is being too thin skinned. There are much nastier words in common use and directed at people who don’t deserve it. You should save getting pissed off for the really bad stuff.
I’m a “hillbilly”. Whether that’s a name to get irritated over depends entirely on the tone used behind it. Hillbilly = redneck = cracker.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Anonymouse,
Yep, for sure, your tone was part of the reason I got pissed off, good point.
Anyway, it’s a free country still, thank god. You are going to use whatever words you want to use, knock yourself out. Now you know that I’m thin skinned, and going to get irritated when you say something I consider as disparaging against my friends and family.
PS. If there is a next time you try boiled peanuts, you should put them in your bottle of Dr. Pepper, that’s the secret. Though in all honesty, I consider boiled peanuts fairly vile myself.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Alan, I watch “Heinous and Colmes” mainly because I enjoy watching you put the know-it-alls on the hot seat. I record the program because it allows me to fast forward all the diatribe that comes out of your co-host Sean Heinous. Keep strong my brother because your program would be nothing more than a right wing show without you.
September 11th, 2008 at 11:19 am
I just don’t understand why John McCain wants to wait until he is elected to get Osama bin Laden. I received this e-mail today: The 7th anniversary of 9/11 and Osama bin Laden is still celebrating his handiwork. We’ve had 7 years of an incompetent administration bent on fighting the wrong war in the wrong place rather than getting Osama bin Laden. The incompetent 3 sided box at Tora Bora allowed bin Laden to escape as “Warmonger” Bush didn’t want his family pal to get axed too soon. Bin Laden has been much more valuable to this crooked administration as a boogeyman to scare voters into voting for an incompetent political party who has done nothing but take advantage of the worst attack on American soil for political advantage.
“Bush Hugger” McCain claims he has a plan to find and eliminate bin Laden yet he doesn’t want to share it with us. He’s either a traitor to America or he’s just blowharding another big lie and he has no plan to get bin Laden. Just more propaganda for his spin machine.
Go Obama/Biden 08/12!
Does this mean that in order for John McCain to get Osama bin Laden he wants us to elect him first? What kind of a message is that?
September 11th, 2008 at 11:23 am