Kathleen Parker and the Oogedy Boogedy Blues (I think she'll be the next Arriana Huffington)

Pajamas Media ^ | Nov 21,2008 | Rick Moran

[driftless2]

"Parker is a Democrat"

Last year in one of her columns, Parker asserted that Hillary Clinton was well qualifed to be president. I'd only read her columns occasionally up to that point. After that statement, I read her columns even less and with a lot of skepticism that she knew what she was talking about.

[beckett]

See Post #5

Actually the proper term is "oogedy oogedy boogedy". Waltrip popularized it, since he had the forum as a TV broadcaster, but the term originated on the NASCAR circuit years before Waltrip mentioned it on TV. To find who exactly coined it would require further research.

Given Waltrip's sort of proprietary attitude towards the term (he says every time a race starts), I suppose it's possible it originated in the Waltrip family itself, which goes way back in NASCAR and might be considered NASCAR aristocrats, so to speak. Aristocratic rednecks, if you will.

[nathanbedford]

You bring in up an interesting point. By picking on the author for describing secularists as being "frightened" I meant to introduce the larger point which is that the secularist is driven to his animus toward evangelicals by virtue of his spiritual condition. He has swept away one belief structure, that of a higher power and all of the "baggage" that comes with it, and substituted another more to his liking because it is his own creation.

To the degree that the belief structure which the secularist has substituted is in any way threatened it is an attack against the soul of the secularist because he has substituted his own construct for his soul. If you do not like the use of the word soul, call it his spirit, or even just his sense of self identity. But whatever you call it, it is all the secularist has. To attack the construct is to take a knife to his heart.

In this sense I do think you have made a good point that somewhere deep in the recesses of his being the secularist can be very frightened by this. And there is always, as you say, that little white angel on the shoulder whispering into his ear.

For any readers of this thread who might also be struck by the apparent incongruity of someone with my nom de plume and avatar commenting on the Klan, I invite you to review my about page.

[beckett]

OK...I got the answer. Oogedy-boogedy, or, as I said earlier, more properly “oogedy oogedy boogedy” is a misspelling of Waltrip’s original phrase “boogity boogity boogity.” Waltrip coined the phrase in its NASCAR context. He came up with it when he was a driver to liven up radio communication with his pit boss at the start of the race. But the phrase itself actually came to Waltrip from a 1960 doo wop song, “Who Put the Bomp” by Barry Mann.

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But the phrase itself actually came to Waltrip from a 1960 doo wop song, “Who Put the Bomp” by Barry Mann.

So Kathleen Parker represents the "Bomp Shu Bomp" faction?

Is she the one who "put the Bomp" in it or just someone who'd like to shake his hand?

[hinckley buzzard]

It pleases these pusillanimous pussyfooters to mask their me-too country-club republicanism behind the figleaf of "conservatism." and the degenerates they go to dinner with are only too happy to play along.

[hinckley buzzard]

the best way to garner an interest in your work is by trashing your team.

Well yeah. It's called selling out.

That didn't work out so well for him

Actually, it worked out fine for him--until he got nominated for president.

[FredZarguna]

It really never did, though. McCain hasn't had to campaign very hard for his Senate runs. The one time there was a (barely) competitive primary he got angry with the Club For Growth and decided if his Maverosity¹ didn't entitle him to a sinecure he'd create the Incumbent Protection Act of 2002, now referred to as BCRA-2002 or McCain-Feingold. His Press Credentials never really served him particularly well within our party, and, just as the Dinosaur Media knew when they were boosting him, it would serve him against a Democrat opponent not at all.

The truth is that our field this time around simply sucked, McCain was picked by a lot of Indy's, Dems, and losers, and next time around we need to do a better job selecting the right candidate.

Maverosity and Mavericatude are registered trademarks of Zarguna Enterprizes, Ltd.

[FredZarguna]

Is she the one who "put the Bomp" in it or just someone who'd like to shake his hand?