Warhol of course famously said that in the future everybody will be famous for 15 minutes. The corollary: in this future, which has now arrived, everybody will have his or her own macaca moment.
Moral of the story: If you’re going to play politics with the big boys, you had better learn to play by big boy rules.
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1 Washington Planner » Monday required reading // Jul 27, 2009 at 10:07 am
[...] Frum continues policing the conservative movement, in Macaca Moment [...]
2 DFL // Jul 27, 2009 at 2:56 pm
By what is considered a “macaca” moment in America today, Winston Churchill couldn’t be elected these days. He often spoke pridefully of the “British race”, looked down upon Gandhi and thought Indians incapable of decent government. With a politically correct political environment, is it any wonder that modern politics are so dull.
3 PaulFrank // Jul 27, 2009 at 6:33 pm
So dull . . . for a brain-dead white guy who can’t have any of his racist fun anymore. Ah, for the good ol’ days when you could call Mahatma Ghandi a ‘half-naked fakir.’
By 2042 the US will be a minority-majority country. (US Census Bureau)
Enjoy your coma, moron.
4 andydp // Jul 28, 2009 at 3:14 pm
So let me see…
This person distributes an unflattering picture showing President Obama as a witch doctor; then blames everyone else for “leaking” the e mail. People come to his defense saying its no worse than the stuff about Pres Bush. Having received my share of “anti” Pres Bush e mails, I do not recall any that were racially motivated.
I do remember getting several highly racial ones about then Senator Obama. I may add I lambasted the friend that sent them to me. I did not think they were at all funny or pertinent to the political debate.
When are people going to wake up and realize whatever they send via e mail it is capable of going global in about 15 seconds ?
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