Commentary: Coulter’s Take on Berry’s ‘Mau-Mauing’ Reveals Her Own Insecurities (Slams Ann)

BAW ^ | 1/26/05 | Gregory Kane

[G.Mason]

"I thought mau-mau was a polynesian term."

The "mau mau" refered to here is a African gangster term.

Jomo Kenyetta was arrested for being a leader of that movement, served some jail time, and released.

The writers of modern history claim he was framed by the despicable British, and now he is a lauded, "honorable", though a very much deceased, hero of Kenya.

[gitmo]

What exactly does the verb 'mau-mau' mean? I googled it, and found a card game and the name of a Kenya tribe. But how that could be race-baiting is a mystery.

[MisterKnowItAll]

See my post #117.

[perfect stranger]

I'd have to find the links but JB was one of the judges of Moveon.orgs anti-Bush commercial contest.

He was also present at Kerry's election night celeb party. He was quoted saying something to the effect that there is a 99.9% chance that GWB would get at least one vote (He was probably referring to KG).

I can appreciate his musical talent but ultimately he's just another "Useful Idiot".

[perfect stranger]

"Beavers and ducks!" LOL

[Lancey Howard]

Seems like all you liberal fat chicks have a problem with Ann, lol.

[gitmo]

'Mau-mauing' means employing race-based intimidation against whites.

Thanks, MisterKnowItAll.

So accusing her of racism is race bating. Still seems odd to me, but I get lost on a lot of race issues.

[Lancey Howard]

I'd do a bit more research before I take this guys version of Confederate Flag history to heart.

My first thought exactly.

[MisterKnowItAll]

So accusing her of racism is race bating. Still seems odd to me, but I get lost on a lot of race issues.

Here's what I understood it to mean. When Ann says Halle Berry 'mau-maued' her way to the Oscar (oops, 'scuse me: 'Academy Award (TM)'), she means that Berry or someone, applied race-based pressure against whites to give the award to a 'black actress' even though (in Ann's opinion) the actress in question didn't really deserve it (unlike Denzel Washington, who did). As nearly as I can make sense of it, this Kane fellow is saying that Ann is 'all but' accusing Berry of terrorism, because the Mau Mau's intimidation techniques were not unlike the KKK's.

If that ain't what's going on, then your guess is as good as mine and maybe better. Kane isn't the clearest writer ever born.

[lentulusgracchus]

As far as I am concerned, the Confederate flag stood for and still stands for STATES RIGHTS. Some people want to make it stand for racism and I believe that in that way they hope to eliminate the STATES RIGHTS issue.

Bingo bump.

Also, Kweisi Mfume used the issue like a towtruck, to pull the NAACP out of the ditch 10 years ago after they went through all their woes and scandals. He rallied the faithful and went out and "repped" to the black community, especially during election years, using the Confederate flag as a hate-puppet.

Mfume was very successful in turning out the vote, spiking black turnout by (according to some numbers I saw four or five years ago) as much as 60% in some elections -- one of the important ones being the Congressional elections of 1998, when Mfume tried to get Clinton off the impeachment hook by turning control of the House of Representatives back to the Democrats before an impeachment trial could begin. He came very close to doing it, and he did succeed in driving Newt Gingrich into retirement, which was an important victory in itself.

[onyx]

We're still finding artifacts... they're cutting
into the limestone now... so much rain that the
hillsides have slidden in some sections. Just
yesterday I was looking at the machinery working
along Washington Street and the crews were sifting
thru the dirt.

I'd LOVE to see and talk to that ghost.
I talk to my Capt and Colonel all the time.
Even have a bottle of Old Charter 10 year old
and a box of expensive cigars upstairs in their
armoire. Husband told me tonight, to go buy
them a wooden rocking chair each from Cracker Barrel tomorrow.

He has commissioned an oil painting from
the old photograph of both men we obtained
from the historian/curator of the Military Park.
Once finished and framed, it shall hang on
the wall of the foyer next to the grandfather clock.

I am so dang thrilled and honored to be here.
Maybe you can tell?

[Hildy]

Burning feathers!!!!

[gitmo]

Thanks, now I understand the accusation. I wonder if there's any basis to it. (Neither ann nor Kane were clear, I'm afraid.)

[MisterKnowItAll]

Wikipedia has a nice article on the Mau Mau uprising:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Mau

Most of this was new to me, so I guess I didn't literally know it all ;-).

[perfect stranger]

Willis and Thorton made a great pair in that movie. I'd like to see another featuring them like this.

[Lancey Howard]

Thank you - - you probably nailed what the too-clever-by-half (obtuse) "pun" was supposed to be.

[wardaddy]

Those paintings are a very good idea.

I look forward to seeing them myself one day.

[cyborg]

mulatto

[F.J. Mitchell]

If being a black conservative is embarrassing to this guy, he should become a liberal.

[Lancey Howard]

....Cate Blanchett (Who is the best actress of our time).

Maybe I got the wrong actress, but wasn't Blanchett in LotR? Her miscasting as the Eleven Queen (or whatever) was the single glaring misstep in the whole awesome movie trilogy, imo. I'm not that familiar with her work, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and presume that she's done a lot of good work, as well.