Saturday, January 4, 2014

Contrition like this is hard to fake, I think



[Update: Mitt Romney accepts apology; asks to move on]

36 comments:

The Dude said...

First say "core principals" then turn on the water works. Give this clueless idiot an Oscar - she is just that good.

What's the hand signal for "You're fired, bint"?

I'm Full of Soup said...

She has a PhD from Duke- hard to believe what colleges are producing. She is nothing but a hateful race hustler.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

She didn't get it right away. But, I'm glaad she saw the light.

The Dude said...

Lem, all she got was caught. Her mission is one of hate, that will never change until anyone who disagrees with her is destroyed.

That's what leftists do.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

For those of you who may have missed it. This is the incident that prompted the apology.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I was all over it like a duck to water ;)

Unknown said...

Remember how the leftwingers rolled out the victim du jour, Sandra Fluck, at the DNC convention? She is the ultimate whiny taker baby - standing tall for the whiny taker class. Anyway - Rush Limbaugh had the nerve to call her what she is on his radio show. Demands for apology and threats of boycotts ensued. The outrage!
Then the dems rolled Fluck out as an actual speaker at the DNC convention. Come look at our poor victim. boo hoo.

The R's should just roll out MSNBC at their next convention. Roll tape of Martin Bashir or this racist and her merry staff of leftwing authoritarian "comedians" like Judy Gold and all the rest of those unfunny radical leftwing hacks.
Roll tape of all the various on-air talent/"comedians" swooshing through the mud as they insult the GOP for any old reason - including adopting a baby.

Actually considering how pathetic MSNBC is, just run a live feed.

Then read Paul Krugman NYTimes pieces as Orwellian joke poetry.

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

Everyone on MSNBC is sorry.

Although the tampon earrings were flattering on her...

KCFleming said...

Sorry, no quarter.

She is invincibly stupid and a horrible ass. These are just words and a few blubbery tears.

It'll all be forgotten in less than a week, when their next joke falls flat.

She's not sorry at all. This kind of humor is who she is. It's all she is. It's why she got hired.

What bullshit.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...
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Eric the Fruit Bat said...

Hate from the left, hate from the right, I don't see much of a difference, frankly.

Unknown said...

I forgot that she is the tampon earring grrrl.
I would forgive her if she had worn the tampon earrings again.
She could have juggled boxes of panty shields, too.

Come on Melissa, the GOP's war on women never stops!

KCFleming said...

"I don't see much of a difference, frankly."

The left gives no ground, allows no mistakes, permits no difference.

And you can't avoid it, not anymore. Now they are after your job if you don't celebrate all things leftist.

They're evil.

Unknown said...

Rush shouldn't have called her a slut. He should have called her cheap. Expecting tax payers to pay for your contraception, when that contraception is already super inexpensive.. is... cheap.

Lydia said...

This would have been much better without the tears. Tears make it mostly about poor Melissa.

Also, I’m pretty sure she was lying when she said she used the picture because all she intended was to say "positive and celebratory things about it". But, of course. Not.

It would also have been much better if she'd said she was ashamed to have taken cheap shots at the Romney family, and through that at all Republicans. She could have gone on to say that kind of thing is pretty despicable all on its own.

The Dude said...

Of course you don't, Etfb, but seeing any difference would require that you notice the use of race as both a battering ram and a shield by a talking head. The unwarranted attack on the grandchild of a political foe. The fact that the left's entire agenda is based on attacking, never building.

Destruction is all they know. You would have to recognize that there is evil in this world and much of it is on the left. Communism is relentless. It results in the death of innocents on a scale unknown in human history. If you are good with that, well, support your local tampon earring wearing moron.

Chip Ahoy said...

Apology not accepted. I stopped at .52, I think, at the hard apology. I figured anything that followed is tautologic, that anything added would subtract, that quite frankly I'm weary of liberals creating political hostile situations that as human beings they feel later compelled to appall a guise for. Apollo jize. Recant. Fuck 'em. Why pull that in the first place in association with "Is this racist?" Poopoo gerts! . She created a hostile situation. Is that what, a learning situation for all of us? No. It's a learning situation for her. And we are both unfortunate observers and victims of her racial hostility. Whatever contrition she learns will be the wrong thing unless you see evidence of reversal. Her entire construct remains. Republicans=racist. Not her, of course, not her, just everybody else. Has she admitted to questioning her whole construct? No? Did that last half contain some type of paradigm shift? Because if it does, tell me about it okay? Because there's a chance I can learn what that word means.

john said...

Nobody here watches her anyway, right? I never even knew her name. I never even knew those other people who made fun of the Romney pictures.

She was rushing her words at first as she knew she was on the verge of totally losing it. Didn't quite finish without choking up, as was the same I imagine with many, including me. I thought her apology was genuine (not even a hint at being a non-apology apology), and she exhibited some guts doing so.

Unknown said...

One thing must be understood- The people at the top at NBC are ultra wealthy fat-cat democrats.

Comcast and NBC are the real problem.

Shouting Thomas said...

I'm long past being annoyed with and tired of the inquisition and the apologies.

deborah said...

This is the age of internet and live tv...everyone trying to be funny and 'on,' give her a break.

Besides which, who the hell cares? The Left.

KCFleming said...

Deb, 5 years ago I would've agreed.

But they cut no one else any slack. Hell, Obama won't let nuns practice their religion because it contradicts the leftist religion,.

I see no reason to forgive and forget. They won't, and its getting worse every day.
Don't want to teach kindergartners cross dressing and fisting?
Then you're fired.

Coming soon to a business near you.

Michael Haz said...

If Barack Obama had a sister, she'd sound like Melissa Harris-Perry.

Unknown said...

This was a truly ugly and racist episode on MSDNC. She apologized, I don't buy it, but at least she did it. It's more than we usually get from the sanctimonious left.

deborah said...

It's become Mickey Kaus's Feiler Faster theory on steroids re Progressivism. It's all happening so quickly.

Ignorance is Bliss said...

She misses the point, and apologized to the wrong people. The Romneys are so far beyond her that she has no power to harm them. The same is true of the large majority of adoptive parents.

As with so many liberal policies, the victims are not seen, and will never even know that they were victims of this act. They are the children who would have been adopted, but the potential parents decide to pass because they don't want to put up with this kind of shit.

edutcher said...

That she did it at all is the issue.

The "apology" seems to be predicated on the idea that the rubes are catching on and getting fed up.

bagoh20 said...

It wasn't an accident like stepping on someones toes, or just an exploitable figure of speech like "binders of women". It was conceived, planned, and executed. In other words it's what they wanted to do when they did it. They simply didn't like how it was received.

Like if I walk up to woman on the street and fondle her, and then she screams, and I say "I'm sorry." That doesn't really make it OK. And if I have a pattern of doing this, then I'm an asshole and a sexist, and can't be trusted. MSNBC has a pattern of doing this.

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Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Dennis Miller...

"The reason Melissa Harris-Perry wears tampon earrings is because her show is entertaining once a month."

zing...

virgil xenophon said...

I'm with bags, Pogo, sixty, et al. There was a saying that went around when I was a young officer some 40 years ago that exactly expresses my feelings towards Harris-Perry on this: "My heart pumps piss for you--eat shit and die!"

deborah said...

I don't know about her faking contrition, though. Those could have been tears of terror over the thought of losing her job. I believe she's very sorry, but very scared.

This whole thing reminds me of the time McCain's adopted daughter was dragged through the dirt regarding how she was situated in a family picture...she was sitting on the floor:

http://www.queerty.com/wp/docs/2008/09/mccainpeoplemag.jpg

I don't know if this was the most abused image at the time, but it was obvious that they were trying to downplay her weight. And her step-sister's weight too, I think.

KCFleming said...

I agree, Deborah, this was Melissa begging for her job, nothing more.

She's got an evil heart, and thinks it's made of gold.

This may be the first time she has ever been wrist-slapped in her entire life of endless participation trophies and gender-beauty-race advancements.

A preening high school clique queen who just got a glimpse of adulthood. But I have my doubts she'll learn anything from it, other than some topic avoidance.

Michael Haz said...

The children of liberal politicians are always off limits, but the children of conservative politicians are fair game. That's how things work in the media.

MHP thought she could get away with making a snarky comment about an infant - an infant- in the Romney family. That she said it is one thing, that what she said is revealing of her mind set is quite another.

Amartel said...

Well, of COURSE she's contrite. In her frenzy of bitter hatred she accidentally was racially insensitive to herself. Sads.

The Dude said...

Where is the "like" button? Armatel gets a "like".