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8 Responses to “Rebellion Remixes”

1. Sports Fan Says:
   May 20th, 2008 at 1:43 pm

   I recognized the voices of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King as well as Churchill in the mix-tapes, Ben. Which means our guy is viewed as traveling in some highly potent oratorical circles these days.

   There were some other speakers excerpted in the tapes who I couldn’t identify, however. Can you shed any light on who they are?

   On another front, it seems I overlooked Fred’s parting volley over on PB a few days back. Allow me to quote:

   “I have a question for you Sport, would any national political candidate welcome Ward’s public endorsement and active support? The answer gives you a pretty good measure of the level of national respect for Ward Churchill. Case closed.”

   Well, duuuuh, Freddy. It’s hard to believe you’re really so completely out of touch with reality that you’d pose such a stupid question. Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney not only “welcome[s] Ward’s public endorsement and active support,” she’s been doing so for years.

   Having cleared that one up, I find myself in the peculiar position of having to actually agree with your point about how the “answer gives you a pretty good measure of the level of national respect for Ward Churchill.” As in, it’s substantial (hell, bubba, it looks like even John McCain’s quoting the guy at this point).

   The more so your final pronouncement: “Case closed.”

2. Torquemada Says:
   May 20th, 2008 at 4:13 pm

   Nice score, Fan.

   Next thing we can expect to hear from Fred-o is that running for president on the Green ticket doesn’t qualify as a “national political candidate,” even though the office is national, the Party will sure ’nuff be on the ballot, and Republican strategists will undoubtedly count on McKinney undercutting Obama to some extent (as Green candidate Ralph Nader did to both Gore in 2000, and Kerry in 2004).

   Fred-o will likely try to rationalize his attempt to exclude McKinney from the line-up by claiming that she “can’t win.” While undoubtedly correct, the point is utterly irrelevant to the question of whether she’s a “national political candidate” (i.e., the question he posed).

   Besides, John McCain can’t win either. Should we therefore assume that Fred-o’s going to argue that McCain cannot be legitimately viewed as a “national political candidate”? Yeah, right…. Hold your breath on that one.

   As is always the case with this jackass, all possible ends will be played against the middle. It’s kind of like a circular firing squad, when you think about it, although this boy’s way too fucking stupid to realize that he’s shooting himself in the dick every time he pulls the trigger.

   Anyhow, so much for “case closed,” eh? That only counts when Fred-o thinks he’s won.

3. Ramblin' Rose Says:
   May 20th, 2008 at 4:44 pm

   Ben, you do know that Churchill’s have been excerpted in mix-tape CDs for years, right? I’m not sure how many, but there’s a bunch.

4. Benjamin Says:
   May 20th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

   I do know that. Rumor even has it he was once asked to tour with no less than Rage Against The Machine.

5. Hilda Says:
   May 20th, 2008 at 8:39 pm

   The police opened fire with wooden blocks at the R.A.T.M. concert next to the democratic convention, they said because some kids threw snapple over the fence of the free-speech zone.

   http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/aug2000/la-a17.shtml
   http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/08/15/convention.protests.02/index.html

6. Benjamin Says:
   May 21st, 2008 at 5:56 am

   They ought to give a medal for throwing Snapple over a fence. Or off a building. Or down a flight of stairs.

7. Ramblin' Rose Says:
   May 21st, 2008 at 5:19 pm

   One of them sounds like Eldridge Cleaver, Sports Fan, but I’m not sure.

8. Snapple Says:
   May 31st, 2008 at 8:57 pm

   Why not over a cliff, Ben? Isn’t that the way of your people?

   http://legendofpineridge.blogspot.com/2008/05/benjamin-whitmer-says-i-should-be.html

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