…There is such a thing as Gorilla Glue which you can pick up at your local Home Depot for as low as $5.97.
That being said, I’m sure everyone will have an opinion on former governor Zell Miller’s recent remarks railing against the Obama Administration and the Democratic Congress for “spending like we’re Paris Hilton, regulating like we’re Ralph Nader, nationalizing like we’re Hugo Chavez, printing money like we’re the Weimar Republic and taxing like we’re, well, the Democratic Congress.”
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Gold Dome Live blog:
Obama, “our globe-trotting president,” Miller said, “needs to stop and take a break and quit gallivanting all around. I think (chief of staff) Rahm Emanuel ought to get some Gorilla Glue and put it in that chair in the Oval Office and say ‘Sit here awhile.’”
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Zell lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Does Zell live in the 9th District, anyone know?
He could give the GOP Congressional candidate a run for that seat in Novemeber 2010.
10th District.
Nice attack on The Ox.
You had to say it. Blame the AJC.
Anyone who reads that comment and sees racism is either ignorant or else finds racism in every utterance by a white man. Or both.
You racist.
Can we just label him “angry white trash” instead?
Hey, don’t lump him in with me.
Mea culpa.
I have known Mr. Miller for 30 years. He knew what he was saying.
Are you saying, Concerned, that it was a racist remark?
Silly me. Don’t you know every southern white male is a racist, and whatever they say is borne from a racist heart? How foolish of me to think that what Zell said might just mean what a plain reading of his words mean.
It’s just a southern myth that some folks are so PC sensitive that they will twist anything to be able to holler racism and see what they can gain from guilty white man syndrome.
I have been enlightened.
Gorilla Glue is actually about the best stuff to use to stick people into chairs. . .
I prefer leather straps.
…fuzzy handcuff.
I was going to say Duck Tape–that would be a brand name too–but since I see that there is Gorilla Tape, maybe that would work better. Duck Taping him to a chair might keep him from bowing to other heads of state so he could concentrate on running a government car company as well as everything else that a head of state has to deal with.
Gorilla Glue also makes Gorilla Tape. Similar to duct tape, but much stronger; it will patch the hem of your pants and survive multiple washings! Nice item to have for the coming apocalypse.
It also will, with proper application, keep a globe-trotting under-qualified POTUSpretender firmly attached to the chair in his office. If he’d spend a little more time there, instead of in front of the cameras, he might learn something.
I denounce this comment and demand a full retraction.
Still a few more years before 2012 Obis_Sister. Of course, that might mean it’s time to get Gorilla Glue, tape, etc. before the mad dash.
Zell Miller made his start in Georgia politics as the Executive Secretary to Lester Maddox. Seems he has come full circle.
Those of us who both grew up in Georgia during the 60s and deal with reality know that though Lester started out as a racist, he was one of the best governors Georgia has had, and was very racially blind for the time period in the deep south that he was governing. Maddox appointed more blacks to state government office than any of his predecessors. Former Democrat Georgia House Speaker Tom Murphy once stated that Maddox was not a segregationist. Don’t forget Maddox and Bobby Lee Sears, a black ex-con who worked for Maddox at one time, went on tour doing comedy clubs.
So, if you trying to make the connection that anyone who worked for Maddox back in the day is a racist, sorry, but you are repeating mythology, not facts.
Yeah, OK, someone who decided to close a restaurant to avoid serving black people isn’t racist.
How can you, in any way, read about the Pickrick and not conclude that his behavior was racist?
What part of “Lester started out as a racist” did you not read in my post? As Tom Murphy pointed out, in Maddox’s mind, he was defending freedom of association (i.e. his racist customers wanted to dine in an all-white restaurant) rather than blatant racism on his part. Unless you actually lived in that time, it is not as black and white (no pun intended) as you think. I do not defend being racist, but I do think it was a good idea to defend one’s privately owned business from thugs who had no intention of eating there but just wanted to cause trouble, complete with local news crews.
I have unknowingly walked into restaurants, and in recent years, when I was out of town, that were predominately black, and was intentionally made to feel unwelcome (because I am white) by the clientele as well as the owners. I don’t consider that illegal. I simply left a room full of black racists and went to a restaurant or store that only saw green.
Rugby doesn’t understand the term “black racists.” He’s a one-way kind of believer in who can be a racist and who cannot.
AND…by the way, more often than not, the correct term to use is bigot, NOT “racist.”
“Racist” means you think your race is better than all other races. “Bigot” just means you hate someone because of some component of their (usually) physical nature (e.g., black, white, Hispanic, blonde, etc.), but can also refer to their beliefs or heritage that you loathe.
(:::beating head on desk as a reminder that bloggers HATE facts:::)
WTF are you talking about Bill?
Rugby,
Because you’re a clueless boob when it comes to discerning the difference between those two terms.
Well that isn’t true but, just as apropos, the weather sure was nice today.
I have a menu from the Pickrick.
My father in law owned “Mammy’s Shanty” in Atlanta. He would visit the other restaurants around town and save their menu’s so I have a large collection from the 60′s.
Look, who cares what Obama is doing and where he is going.
What Americans really need is for his teleprompter to settle down and get to work solving America’s problems.
We can spend more money to avoid going bankrupt and getting out of debt! I’m going to try that. Screw you American Express.
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=51162
Are you kidding me? They are calling him racist because of “Gorilla Glue”??? My dad used to work at Tractor Supply they sell Gorilla Glue too it is better than super glue. I know exactly what he is thinking and would not have thought that was racist. Maybe not everywhere in the country has Gorilla Glue or maybe some people try and make everything racist??? I know there are some racist out there and they make me sick but I don’t think that was what Miller was doing???
Meh… him meaning it either way wouldn’t surprise me. Having used Gorilla Glue in the past, I can verify it is indeed very powerful stuff. On the other hand, anyone who has lived in the South for more than ten minutes picks up on how we love to speak in code. My guts tell me that Zell didn’t mean to make any connection between his choice of adhesive products and the long standing tradition in some circles of calling humans of African descent monkeys, apes, gorilla, etc. but my guts could be wrong. They also thought that Mexican place last weekend was a good idea.
The problem with Zell is that he has been in pissed off mode for five or six years now. I expect that he’s going to fall over dead of cardiac arrest soon while yelling at a waitress for messing up his breakfast order.
So, you’re saying Zell’s last words very well may be “You call this scattered, smothered, and covered?!? Ugghhh…”?
While white Southern Republicans will, of course, see nothing racist in Zell’s comment and may even find it hysterically funny; black and brown people instantly recognize its racial appeal and racist intent.
Any politicial figure of Zell’s time and experience had to have known when writing and editing the speech that to use “gorilla” in any context in direct reference to a black man would be inflammatory. So why even intentionally interject that into the political discourse? Because Zell knew exactly what he was saying, knew how it would rightly be interpreted, and said it because that name, in his anger, is what he wanted to call the President.
Pointing out that there is a product actually named “Gorilla Glue” as a defense is weak, intellectually insulting, and too-cute-by-half.
Politically, it is unhelpful to the Conservative message and serves only to reinforce the negative perception that overwhelming majorities of blacks and Hispanics already have about Conservatives. Wouldn’t Zell’s conservative message have been better received by a broader coalition of potential voters if he hadn’t used “gorilla”? But by doing so, a sizeable portion of voters who would have otherwise been willing ears to hear out the substance of Zell’s message will now, instead, tune it out.
The problem is that the political base of voters who are likely to see his comments as racist is steadily increasing, while the political base of voters (such as readers of this blog) who will see his comments as simply funny is steadily decreasing.
It will increasingly become difficult for Republicans (conservatives) to win elections, particularly presidential elections, without drawing in African-Americans and Hispanics. So, politically, why intentionally turn them off to the conservative message? I don’t get it. To win, conservatives should be selling a message, and not red meat.
This is the same Zell Miller who several weeks ago said this in an interview with the AJC:
Q: When you agreed to this interview you said you’d do it as long as we didn’t talk about politics. Why don’t you want to talk about it?
A: I’m no longer in politics. I spent 50 years as a participator, now I’m a spectator.
Q: Ever thought about moving from spectator to commentator?
A: I’ve done that.
Q: OK, I’ve got you.
A: Have you?
Q: Have I what?
A: Really got me?
Q: I do, quite frankly. Well, I know you’re spending your time writing, but do you pay attention —
A: (Laughs.)
Q: No, no. Do you pay attention to what’s going on out there, like with the current administration?
A: Rosalind, Rosalind, you’re not going to get me there. Thank you.
As he gave this interview he probably already had the speaking gig booked and was coming up with all his nifty comparisons.
They don’t call him zig-zag for nothing.
Zell might be a redneck from coon country of N. Georgia, but has a lot more class than 90% of us.
Coon country? Is that what Zell calls it?
Was this not the same Zell Miller that endorsed Bush spending mania?
I think a lot of people here are having a problem distinguishing between “was” and “is now.” Maddox for example, at one point had racist tendencies, however towards the end of career that changed.
Let’s look at President Carter. Remember some of his rhetoric before he got elected? Did Strom Thurmond die a racist?
It’s possible that once Zell was a racist. But that does not preclude the fact that he can change, like so many of us. The fact of the matter is that Obama is President, he’s going to be criticized and not everything said about him is racist. Now if someone goes on a Micheal Richards-esque rant about Obama, then that is racism. But this? People are trying to blow it out of context and proportion.
You got that right. Of course, Carter has evolved over time from a clueless, incompetent, racist failure to a clueless, incompetent, anti-Semitic failure.
1) I don’t think the comment was racist.
2) Who cares exactly HOW he phrased it, the man said the hard truth. Every statement in the above exert is spot on. Let’s stop moaning about if the guy has issues with what color BO is and just get behind what he’s saying…
I am glad that Mr Miller made this comment. It is so patently ridiculous to call it a racist reference – Rahm is not black, that it clearly shows how absurd the PC movement became.
(I stole my wife’s idea after reading this to her. She is smarter anyway.)
The comment wasn’t racist and was right on target….Perhaps to be politically correct he should have called it “Troglodytes gorilla adhesive.”
I have a GorillaGoal basketball hoop in my driveway. PO can play there if he wants.
Sounds like Zell is a bit upitty.
I’m pretty sure Zell was born “uppity.”
It doesn’t look like ANYONE was ignorant enough to view the reference the wrong way… this was just Andre using a little reverse-psychology in the headline to stir things up.
Audio from Zell Miller here: http://www.gpb.org/news/2009/07/16/zell-miller-lashes-out-at-obama-administration
The quote in the AJC was off a might.
“Our globetrotting president needs to [takes breath (tb)] stop and take a brace and, break and quit gallivantin’ all around…. I think Rahm Emanuel…, I think Rahm Emanuel ought to get some Gorilla Glue (tb) and put it in that chair behind the old [sic] office and say, ‘Sit down here, Mr. President. We’ve got some things we’ve got to solve here statewide [sic] before we go (tb) and visit other places and other countries.’”
Speaking of TB, he should probably get tested. He sounds about a lung-and-a-half low.
Wow! Just what I would expect a white man from the South to say!
Don’t like what I just said?
“Anyone who reads that comment and sees racism is either ignorant or else finds racism in every utterance by a [non-Southerner]. Or both.”
@MSBassSinger July 16, 2009 at 5:06 pm
KMA
Keep Moving Ahead?
Kick My Aardvark?
(how often can you get to use “aardvark” in a sentence?)
Zell must have another book coming out soon
Guess we white Southerners will just have to accept the facts….Any time a statement can be remotely associated to or references anything primate-esque or primate-related or has a word that resembles any primate, it is automatically a racial slur and we are racists…..Any time the race card can be played, it will be played, and whether legitimate or not, we will still be racist white folks from the South.
The Race Card, in and of itself, is too easily played and too hard to defend against. It is the Ace of Spades in a deck of cards.
And by making that racist remark, I shall confine myself to my room, and lash myself across my back for such horrific racism.
There I go again. Sorry.
I am so full of Hate and Shame.
I struggle.
I shall confine myself to my room, and lash myself across my back for such horrific racism.
I shall send you my overcooked spaghetti for you to fashion yourself a lash.
Zell called me today & said for me to tell all you thumb sucking, panty waisted, lilly livered, limp wristed, weak as water, with no backbone, liberal Bill Clinton loving, dead beats to wake up & smell the coffee before you jump off the cliff just because Obama says “Yes you can”.
He really has a way with words!
I find it very interesting some of you who judge other people harshest claim to Be Christians yet have no ability to walk in anther persons shoes.
That’s because they’re not followers of Christ, but followers of some neo-con named “Christi” who tells them that they’re always right no matter how much it hurts others.
All this directed at little ‘ole me?
John & Byte: If either of you have ever heard Zell speak (which I doubt) then you would have seen this as a “funny”. Your idea of judging people is hilarious!
I am merely pointing out how so many are so quick to assume how a minority might feel about his comments. Only Zell knows how he truly feels about minorities so it would be ridicules for me to speak for what is in his heart.
But it does seem odd how Zell rips Obama about spending while supporting Bush and his out of control spending.
I am merely pointing out how so many are so quick to assume how a minority might feel about his comments.
Whoaaaaaaaaaa, Johnnny! WHO is the biggest (“biggest” as in the one who most often engages in such attacks) attacker on THIS blog in ASSumptions about how minorities might “feel” about comments made on this blog or excerpted from newspaper articles?
YOU, John Konop.
Bill
What are you talking about? My point is simple. The ability to take a step back and try to figure out another view or perspective does not mean you agree. Yet the inability to work with or understand the other view only takes you to path like the Middle East, Africa….
Respecting minority views is a cornerstone of our Constitution especially when you disagree!
John,
My point was that it is you who tends to do exactly what you laid blame on others about.
Last year when I made a crack about Andi Whats-His-Face-at-The-Loaf and a “camel,” YOU (and Rugby) immediately luanched into accusations of me being a racist and sh*t.
When, in fact, YOU (and Rugby) just ASSumed to think that you knew anything about what Andi would have felt about the comment.
Life would be a LOT better if people stopped WHINING about what people say. You know, “Sticks and stones and atom bombs may blow my as* up, but names will never hurt me.”
Bill
My re-call of the situation is you crossed way over the line with Andi. And instead of arguing the issue you went personal.
“Last year when I made a crack about Andi Whats-His-Face-at-The-Loaf and a “camel,” YOU (and Rugby) immediately luanched into accusations of me being a racist and sh*t.
When, in fact, YOU (and Rugby) just ASSumed to think that you knew anything about what Andi would have felt about the comment.”
You are incredibly petty (or borderline obsessive or stalker-ish) if you remember an internet argument from a year ago.
Rugby,
Can’t argue a rebuttal, so you resort to misdirection. Nice touch.
Oh…as far as memory goes, I am cursed with being able to remember TRULY outstanding acts, such as yours and John’s hysterically ridiculous posts against me…and others during that episode.
John,
My re-call of the situation is you crossed way over the line with Andi. And instead of arguing the issue you went personal.
Yeah, well, when someone accuses me of being a racist, yeah…that kinda…sorta gets PERSONAL. Silly me.
Then you really take the internet far too seriously. Take a break dude seriously. I’m worried about you.
And I was just pointing out the hypocrisy of so-called “Christians”. Not anything in particular about you… unless you fit the description of someone who hates abortion but loves the death penalty; hates homosexuality as being anti-marriage, but follow the lead of multi-divorced and/or philandering political “leaders”; and so on. I have no idea if that description fits you, but it sure does of others out in Evangelicaland.
FYI
Galatians 5:19-26 (The Message)
19-21It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on.
This isn’t the first time I have warned you, you know. If you use your freedom this way, you will not inherit God’s kingdom.
22-23But what happens when we live God’s way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.
23-24Legalism is helpless in bringing this about; it only gets in the way. Among those who belong to Christ, everything connected with getting our own way and mindlessly responding to what everyone else calls necessities is killed off for good—crucified.
25-26Since this is the kind of life we have chosen, the life of the Spirit, let us make sure that we do not just hold it as an idea in our heads or a sentiment in our hearts, but work out its implications in every detail of our lives. That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original.
“Oh…as far as memory goes, I am cursed with being able to remember TRULY outstanding acts”
Be careful BS. Someone will falsley accuse you of “taking notes.”
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