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Glenn Reynolds of the popular conservative blog Instapundit (home of the Instalanche, the nickname given to the huge amounts of traffic an Instapundit link can drive) made an unfortunate observation about the Newsweek cover that has so many conservative bloggers in a lather. Rather than focus on Andrew Sullivans titular question Why are Obamas critics so dumb, Reynolds picks on the cover photo, and the Presidents liverish lips.
From Instapundit:IN WALKS THE VILLAGE IDIOT, AND HIS FACE IS ALL AGLOW. Hes been up all night listening to Obamas radio.
But the Obama photo on Newsweeks cover will do him more harm than all the desparate sycophancy in the text. He looks terrible, and surprisingly like Jimmy Carter, even down to the downturned liverish lips and incipient jowls. Im amazed they went with that one. Perhaps the staff is of two minds. Andrew Sullivan, of course, has reason for gratitude.
Although Im not a frequent Insty reader, Ive never known Glenn Reynolds to exhibit any racist tendencies, so Im going to give him the benefit of the doubt that he didnt know liver-lips is a deep-dish racial slur.
Even so, given all thats going on in this country, its more than a little bit strange that Reynolds has chosen to fixate on President Obamas lips.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/popular-conservative-blog-slams-president-obamas-liverish-lips-on-newsweek-cover/
ProgressiveEconomist
(5,818 posts)for what racist epithet 'liver' makes a great stand-in.
Remember the backwoods skit with this twangy song:
"I hate liver, liver makes me quiver.
Liver makes me curl right up and die (makes me cry)
Liver liver liver liver liver liver liver liver ..."
See near the end of the 'Food music' blog at http://www.lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=14049&start=30
Neue Regel
(221 posts)"He looks terrible, and surprisingly like Jimmy Carter, even down to the downturned liverish lips and incipient jowls."
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Is a set of creases that frames the lips like parentheses.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)The words there are descriptive of features of Jimmy Carter.
If I said "You look like Kermit the Frog, right down to the ping pong ball eyes," the phrase "ping long ball eyes" is a feature of Kemit's which I am comparing to you.
Or saying "these two people have these features in common."
Either someone failed reading comprehension, or I completely missed that Carter wasn't white.
napoleon_in_rags
(3,991 posts)Another macho man attack from the right.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)Whatever that's supposed to mean.
Again, I'm sure Reynolds is otherwise a fine example of a conservative douchebag but not only is the term "liver lips" not a racial slur, he doesn't use it as a racial slur.
While it could be used as a dog whistle slur for "n****r lips", I couldn't find many examples that use. "Liverlips" was a staple insult of comedians decades ago and had no racial connotations, whatsoever. I think (it's been a while) this was one of Milton Berle's oft-repeated insults. Possibly Tim Conway as well.
I think everyone here needs to rent and watch more Milton Berle movies, is what I'm saying. Or at least "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World!"
But no, that's not a racial slur.
I've seen it used here many, many times. Search with Google, see for yourself.
PB
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)The election will be a giveaway.
These assclowns make it way too easy.