Unmasking a Phony White Liberal (Fun! Fun! Fun!)

Village Voice ^ | 10/17/01 | Peter Noel

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Boy this article was fun reading!

Peter Noel is an ass. Al Sharpton is an ass! Mark Green is an ass! Freddy Ferrer is an ass!

You know who rocks? Me, that’s who! Because I tracked down all the Sean Delonas cartoons cited in the article for your personal enjoyment.

You know who else rocks? Sean Delonas, of course. Here’s more Al and Freddy bashing:

[Timesink]

God help NYC if they experience any more attacks after January 1. Neither Green nor Bloomberg have what it takes.

[swampfox98]

Jeeze, reading all this makes me wish Bill Clinton had run for Mayor.

[mafree]

The cartoons are funny but the situation is pathetic.

[ArcLight]

What an amusing article. It's so pathetic to watch these clowns savaging each other.

That said, I don't care for the cartoons at all. They don't strike me as racist; merely tasteless, but in a way that's almost as bad as bigotry.

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Oh yeah! I forgot to add "Bloomberg is an ass"!

He is marginally better than Green though. (sorta like saying "REO Speedwagon" was better than "Air Supply")

[j.cam]

Liberals are horrible losers.

[LarryLied]

God help NYC if they experience any more attacks after January 1. Neither Green nor Bloomberg have what it takes.

Maybe the terrorists have changed tactics and these guys are the latest attack.

[wheezer]

...who many blacks now believe stole the mayoral runoff election from Fernando Ferrer.

This white NYer agrees with those black NYers.

[Senator_Blutarski]

I sat riveted to my chair in Al Sharpton's House of Justice listening to the black activist read the Harlem riot act to the two-tongued Democrat, who many blacks now believe stole the mayoral runoff election from Fernando Ferrer.

Don't you love it when they eat their own offspring?

[IowaHawk]

The NY mayoral campaign: Like watching a 10-ton dumptruck full of sh*t skidding down an ice-covered street. Something bad is gonna happen, and nobody can do anything about it.

[ThePoetsRaven]

The cartoons have nothing at all to do with bigotry. NYC doesn't want bafoons for Mayor...that's all. Sharpton sends his kids to a pratically all white elite private school. He's the racist/bigot fat slob..

[Landru]

"By October 7, the Post's campaign of denigration had joined Sharpton and Ferrer at the hip in one massive blob. 'Sorry Al,' Ferrer says to his Siamese twin, 'but if I'm gonna win this election, I'm gonna have to distance myself from you.'"

One massive blob??

BWWWWAHAAAAAA!!!

Beyond the remarkable talent & humor this cartoonist obviously has?
People from outside the metro-NYC area, who're not familiar with Sharpton?

We're wondering...does Sharpton really have an excess flatulence problem?

[chinche]

Professor Fried is superciliously droning on in a vaguely British accent about how the visitation of annoying or unpleasant conditions upon a neighborhood (grating noise or belching smoke, for example) can constitute a tort or cause of action for a civil lawsuit.

"Can anyone think of an actionable nuisance we haven't touched on today?" asks Professor Fried.

"What about black people moving into a neighborhood?" suggests Mark Joseph Green, liberal Democrat of Cornell University and Great Neck, New York.

A thoughtful discussion ensues. Henry Sanders looks at me. We five blacks in fact all look at each other. Our faces betray little. In any case, the privileged young white scholars are oblivious. There are legal arguments to be mustered, pro and con. The discussion of whether or not the mere presence of blacks constitutes an inherent nuisance swirls around the five blacks. We say nothing. We cannot dignify insult with reasoned rebuttal. The choice is between ventilated rage and silence. We choose silence.

Let me defend Mr Green here for a minute.

1. Superciliously droning he may have been, but the professor was addressing a very practical question with respect to what might define of a tort. Any lawyer looking for a potential fee takes seriously the saying, Where there is harm there is a tort. Mr Green threw out an interesting possibility, where the judicial concept of a possible tort (a question involving harm and culpability at an individual level) is at least superficially inconsistent with a legislature's expression of a popular desire to correct a social injustice. All the more interesting because it would be titillating in the "liberal" legal community.

2. Green could have asked, "What about white crackers who put couches on their porches moving into a neighborhood?" Maybe in Georgia that might have immediately started the class thinking, but in Harvard the concept of couches on the porch would first have to be explained and then justified as not simply being a completely unrealistic hypothetical.

3. That the five black said nothing suggests either that they had no inkling of the practical importance of the discussion (i.e., tort actions = $$, not necessarily justice), or that they were so emotionally disoriented by the provocative framing of the question that they were unable to think on their feet. In any case, they did not demonstrate that day what it takes to be an efficient shark, er, attorney.

[Republic of Texas]

They did manage to put out the funniest name for an album. "You can tune a piano, but you can't tunafish". Of course, the music still sucked.

[xm177e2]

Avoid him like white anthrax powder

Avoid Al Sharpton like the black sores that form on your skin when you're infected with cutaneous Anthrax

[Libertina]

LOL, some of those visual images of sharpie I could live WITHOUT! Eeewwwhhh...

[habs4ever]

Those brilliant cartoons almost make me forget the article.Bravo! Too bad its gonna be Dinkins Redux in NYC.

[genefromjersey]

This is truly wonderful ! Apparently, Ferrer and Green are the best the Democratic Party and Liberal Party can come up with as mayoral candidates. I thought we had troubles over here in the poor old "Garden State";but, after looking at the NYC political scene, I'm happy to sign myself Gene from Jersey !

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Bump!