Blunt (Racist-MO) advice for conservatives - "You have to play the ball where the monkey throws it."

[jefferson_dem]

:wtf:

Play the ball where the monkey throws it

Former House Republican whip Roy Blunt was a featured speaker Friday afternoon at the Values Voter Summit, and he had a little parable to share with the crowd.

Conservatives shouldn't get too upset about the way liberals have taken over Washington since President Obama won election, he said. "We've got a reason to explain why we believe in the kind of America we believe in," Blunt said. "You know, you can't control everything there is in life that you'd like to control."

And then he told a little story about a group of British soldiers who found themselves posted in a quiet part of India in the late 19th century or the early 20th century. It was, Blunt said, a "very lush, very quiet, very peaceful, very uneventful part of India."

So the soldiers decided, without much better to do, that they'd build a golf course in the jungle. And then the story got weird.

Almost from the day the first ball was hit on this golf course something happened they didn't anticipate: monkeys would come running out of the jungle and then grab the golf balls. And if it was in the fairway, they might throw it in the rough. And if it was in the rough, they might throw it -- they might throw it back at you! And I can point to great and long detail about how many things they tried to eliminate the monkey problem, but they never got it done.

So finally for this golf course and this golf course only, they passed a rule and the rule was, you have to play the ball where the monkey throws it. And that is the rule in Washington all the time.

Yes, you read that right: the point of the story was that like British golfers, conservatives in Washington have to play the ball where the monkey throws it.

Blunt, who's running for Senate in Missouri next year, didn't explain precisely why he chose an analogy about monkeys to illustrate the difficulties posed by the party that opposes the country's first black president. (They both like to screw up the white man's golf game?) Perhaps it was just a really, really stupid parable to choose. But he may have had posts just like this one in mind, later in his speech, when he told conservatives not to worry about accusations of racism.

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http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/09/18/monkeys/index.html

[myrna minx]

1. Unbelievable.

:puke:

[CBGLuthier]

2. A spade is a spade

I have seen a resurgence in the quaint expression about calling a spade a spade.

They just think they are so fucking clever. If course there is a racist intent. Ha Ha he called Obama a monkey and no one can call him on it.

[kestrel91316]

5. I'm bad. I always thought that saying referred to a spade in a deck of cards.

[orpupilofnature57]

11. I believe it was , Don't make a damn bit of difference now ,it meant

telling it like it is ,They are incapable of that.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Were they Macacas?

[Schema Thing]

4. Sometimes a monkey is just a monkey

[orpupilofnature57]

7. Not with those Predators.

[orpupilofnature57]

6. Subliminal is worse than Ignorant assholes trying to give comprehensive

reason like limpblob ,why they should be assholes.Educated, seemingly friendly and happy racist are the worse.

[bertman]

Now everybody knows where the racist SOB stands. Good work Roy.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. He chose that speech on purpose!

[jenmito]

9. He doesn't mean anything racist by this. He is NOT comparing Obama to a monkey.

It's only a few fringe crazies who do that. :sarcasm:

[Cha]

10. How far fucking deep did blount have to dig to

up with this shit?

Fucking racist bigoted cracker barrel. Yes, I said cracker.

[orpupilofnature57]

12. I agree ,I love Southerners ,I hate Crackers.

[Cha]

13. "Cracker" is forever linked

with the crackerhead who was coming out of Cracker Barrel and attacked a Black Army reservist with her daughter looking on(in horror, no doubt).

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"Troy Dale West Jr., of Poulan, Georgia, is facing charges including misdemeanor battery and disorderly conduct after allegedly beating Army reservist Tashawnea Hill, 35, after the two had words at the entrance of the Morrow, Georgia, restaurant the evening of September 9.

Hill, an African-American, told police that West, 47, yelled racial epithets at her as the attack took place.

"He did punch me with a closed fist repeated times. My head is still hurting today. I have knots on my head," Hill told CNN Wednesday night, adding she also was kicked.

Police said witnesses confirmed her account.

The FBI has "initiated an investigation in the matter to determine if a civil rights violation occurred," the agency said in a statement.

Because the alleged incident happened in full view of Hill's 7-year-old daughter, the Clayton County district attorney's office added a felony charge of cruelty to children."

<more>>>
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/16/cracker.barrel.beating/index.html

[rbrnmw]

21. Thank You !!!!! he is that and more

[hileeopnyn8d]

14. I've tried several

combinations of word searches in Google. I'm not coming up with any stories of British soldiers in India playing golf while being interupted by monkeys.

I just did another search using the direct quote from the article, it appears he's told this story before in 2006 in a speech at the Heritage Foundation.

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-25122313_ITM

Still, I think it was a bad choice of stories.

[FreedomTrain]

29. So he first told this story while the CHIMP was president?

Well, I guess that settles it. All you losers trying to find hidden racism in any and all things will have to keep on looking elsewhere.

[masuki bance]

15. Looks like a variation of a Unitarian Universalist sermon

Golfing With Monkeys
a sermon by Rev. Scott W. Alexander
Unitarian Universalist Church of Rockville, March 11, 2007


http://www.uucr.org/sermons/golfingwithmonkeys.html

“Golfing With Monkeys”…now there’s a sermon title that tells you ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about what I want to focus upon this morning, nothing (that is) unless you know the rather intriguing story. Is anybody here this morning familiar with the “Golfing With Monkeys” story? Good, I like “basically clueless congregations,” they’re more receptive!

Here’s the story: The Rev. Gregory Knox Jones (a Presbyterian minister who serves a church just over the River in Northern Virginia) writes that “Once the English had colonized and established their businesses, they yearned for recreation and decided to build a golf course in Calcutta. Golf in Calcutta present a unique obstacle. Monkeys would drop out of the trees, scurry across the course and seize the golf balls. The monkeys would play with the balls, tossing them here and there. At first, the golfers tried to control the monkeys. Their first strategy was to build high fences around the fairways and greens. This approach, which seemed initially to hold much promise, was abandoned when the golfers discovered that a fence is no challenge to an ambitious monkey. Next the golfers tried luring the monkeys away from the course. But the monkeys found nothing as amusing as watching humans go wild whenever their little white balls were disturbed. In desperation, the British began trapping the monkeys. But for every monkey they carted off, another would appear. Finally, the golfers gave into reality and a rather novel ground rule . Golfers were obliged to PLAY THE BALL WHERE THE MONKEY DROPPED IT…As you can imagine, playing could be maddening. A beautiful drive down the center of the fairway might be picked up by a monkey and then dropped in the rough. Or the opposite could happen. A hook or slice that had produced a miserable lie might be flung onto the fairway.” The unpredictable monkeys, then, brought equal measures of gratuitous bad and good luck to the game.

Now…I was both charmed and fascinated when I first read this story…and “the perpetual preacher in me immediately concluded that this cute little story (about the mischievous monkeys wrecking havoc with the best laid plans of the humans on the Calcutta golf course) deserved an entire sermon. It deserves an entire sermon because LIFE IS SO OFTEN LIKE THIS (as we try to navigate our way the course of our lives). This morning I want to focus on this story about the mischievous monkeys -- who inserted themselves into the game the humans were trying to play -- for I believe it is both a telling (and a spiritually instructive) metaphor about the lives we actually live…and points the way to how we might more successfully move with the world (not as we so often fancifully imagine it) but rather as it actually is. I want to make several points which this story wisely make clear.

First, there is the obvious truth (in this story) of LIFE’S UTTER UNPREDICTABILITY…ITS FREQUENT RANDOMNESS (AND, IF YOU WILL, ITS RELATED “UNFAIRNESS”). From almost as soon as we begin to think about life as little children, we human beings like to think -- despite the regular, abundant, and unmistakable evidence we receive to the contrary -- we like to think that (just as every golf course has clear rules which the players should observe and obey so they can “finish the course,” and “succeed at the game”) that “in the game of life” also there are clear rules to follow “over the course of our lives,” -- if you will -- which if we faithfully observe will help us likewise to successfully navigate our way. Most of us (even through adulthood) have a “tape” (that plays at least subliminally in our heads most of the time) and that tape (or script) goes something like this. “If I just work hard…live right… mind my Ps and Qs…obey the law…live by my principles… watch my diet…brush my teeth… exercise regularly…don’t drink too much…tend to my marriage…carefully rear my children – if I follow the basic rules and do all the things I know I really should – then I will sail through this thing called life, and everything will basically work out for me as planned.” ..."

[jefferson_dem]

18. Oh, so that's it.

Blunt just wanted to share a lesson from the Unitarian Universalist tradition with this flock of freakish fundies.

Uh huh. Y'right. You're funny. :thumbsup:

[masuki bance]

24. Or it could be that the Unitarians are racist. nt

[jefferson_dem]

26. Your light-hearted snarky quips about racial slurs are disgusting.

Not surprising though as you revealed your true attitudes on these issues during the Skip Gates arrest incident.

[masuki bance]

28. You don't know how to use google so you lose your mind?

What you think of me is of so little concern that I really can't believe that I am responding. Must be time to get dinner, bye.

[MercutioATC]

16. Plenty of people here called Bush "Chimp"...

I don't see the implicit racism in likening Obama to a monkey in this case.

[Connie_Corleone]

17. It's because in this country's history, black people were referred to as monkeys and apes.

Bush was called a chimp because he was stupid and made facial expressions like a chimp.

[orpupilofnature57]

20. It's the likening-ers.

[CakeGrrl]

23. It's an old racist chestnut: blacks = monkeys, apes

Hence:

http://wonkette.com/390464/rednecks-enjoy-obama-monkey-t+shirt

And the SC GOP jackass who said an escaped gorilla was probably one of Michelle's ancestors:

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/06/15/gop-activist-compares-michelle-obama-to-a-gorilla/

The point being that for a long, long time, racists have portrayed blacks as barely evolved from primates as a way to depict them as inferior to whites.

[jefferson_dem]

25. Nothing racial here folks. Move along...

http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS319US319&q=obama%20monkey&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

[CakeGrrl]

19. It's not racist!

There ARE monkeys in India, y'know.









:sarcasm:

[orpupilofnature57]

22. Ronnie Ray-Guns worked for one, too bad he couldn't teach him more.

[elshiva]

27. Fuck you, Blunt.

[agentS]

30. Blunt's monkey analogy has the wrong target.

If he thinks the monkey chucking the golf ball around is Obama, then he's wrong. Obama has been consistent on the vast majority of his plans. Even his wishy-washyness on the Public Option has been consistent. So the President is not messing up the game.

I think the real monkeys are the hard-right, christian zealot, teabagging, FOX News watching, fat ass Rethugs who are protesting everything without understanding anything and relying off Glenn Beck as a digital "thinking cap".

This week they took the ball out of health care and chunked it into the weeds of "Czarism" or whatever. Despite the current President having less Czars than the previous President, they're obessed because Czars the word came from Russia. Therefore it's dog-whistle politics at it's dumbest. And what does the GOPers do? They just follow the ball and espose the same crap, regardless of whether or not they actually agreed with having Czars (See Lamar Alexander).

Next week the monkeys will throw the ball into illegal immigrant education zone or into birter-istan, and the GOP will play it up to keep their psycho authoritarian block happy.

So is Blunt using blunt racist language? I would say yes, because of his response to others to not worry about sounding racist. But, we know who the real monkeys are, even if Blunt refuses to directly admit it.