Mr. Medved's Science
Mr.
Medved's Science
Dear Doc,
I'm surprised you aren't familiar with the work Michael Medved's been doing in eugenics. Why just this week, he published a paper on America's genetic greatness in the prestigious Townhall on-line journal.
According to Medved, America is great because we carry the genes of ancestors who had the courage to risk everything in order to better their lives. That's why they came here.
He also points out that black people don't have these genes because their ancestors were slaves. According to Mr. Medved, that's why we have racial tensions; their genes can't compete.
Although he doesn't mention it, I suspect he may have developed his theory after studying his own family roots. The Medved line originates out of the Ukraine. "Medved" is a descriptive name that derives from a Ukrainian-Yiddish word that means, roughly, "that asswipe who rants from the closet." From what I gather, generation upon generation of Medved men lived up to that description. Indeed, they could do nothing else. It was their biological destiny.
It wasn't easy to be a village's medved. People quickly lose patience with "asswipes" who lob self-righteous rants at them from hidden positions. So for centuries, the Medved family was driven from shtetl to shtetl until finally, in 1907, the people of Melvin Medved's village drugged him and dumped him onto a boat bound for America.
And that brings me back to where I started. The best evidence for Michael Medved's theory is Mr. Medved, himself. The medved gene is strong in him. No doubt, thousands of Americans who have no inkling of his surname's etymology have found themselves muttering about "that asswipe who rants from the closet."
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The General publishes the blog, Jesus General, and operates the Cafe Wellstone in Second Life. He can be reached at gen.jc.christian@gmail.com and JC Christian on Skype.
Dear General Christian,
Have conservatives completely abandoned science? Why aren't there any great conservative evolutionary theorists or climate scientists.
Doc in Draper
Dear Doc,
I'm surprised you aren't familiar with the work Michael Medved's been doing in eugenics. Why just this week, he published a paper on America's genetic greatness in the prestigious Townhall on-line journal.
According to Medved, America is great because we carry the genes of ancestors who had the courage to risk everything in order to better their lives. That's why they came here.
He also points out that black people don't have these genes because their ancestors were slaves. According to Mr. Medved, that's why we have racial tensions; their genes can't compete.
Although he doesn't mention it, I suspect he may have developed his theory after studying his own family roots. The Medved line originates out of the Ukraine. "Medved" is a descriptive name that derives from a Ukrainian-Yiddish word that means, roughly, "that asswipe who rants from the closet." From what I gather, generation upon generation of Medved men lived up to that description. Indeed, they could do nothing else. It was their biological destiny.
It wasn't easy to be a village's medved. People quickly lose patience with "asswipes" who lob self-righteous rants at them from hidden positions. So for centuries, the Medved family was driven from shtetl to shtetl until finally, in 1907, the people of Melvin Medved's village drugged him and dumped him onto a boat bound for America.
And that brings me back to where I started. The best evidence for Michael Medved's theory is Mr. Medved, himself. The medved gene is strong in him. No doubt, thousands of Americans who have no inkling of his surname's etymology have found themselves muttering about "that asswipe who rants from the closet."
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The General publishes the blog, Jesus General, and operates the Cafe Wellstone in Second Life. He can be reached at gen.jc.christian@gmail.com and JC Christian on Skype.
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The very first problem with this bull
is that since most blacks in America are descended also from their slave masters through rape (at least in some small part) they share whatever genes might be responsible.
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By gt6May 16, 2008 - 9:50amJesus H. Christ...
That just may be the most preposterous and absurdly uninformed pseudo-scientific clap-trap I've ever read in my entire life... Not to mention the fact that it couldn't possibly be more incorrect!
I know a LOT about this subject. I only wish I had time to address it.
I'll try to straighten out this jackass Medved later.
Lawyers to should leave science to the scientists.
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In the mean time, here's some food for thought:
1) Is it reasonable to suppose 10-15 generations of interbreeding of immigrants from all over the world would dramatically overturn 2,000,000 of evolution... just because the interbreeding occured in North America?
2) One would think that a Yale graduate decended from EUROPEAN JEWS would be smart enough to disregard something as scientifically discredited as the Nazi art of Eugenics... As a "science", it's right up there with Phrenology ( I'd like to read the bumps on Medved's head... right after I put down my fungo bat ).
WHAT AN ASSHOLE!
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By A GMay 16, 2008 - 11:38amPssst....
"Gen. J.C. Christian" is a pseudonym. The real author practices high-grade sarcasm in the guise of g0p Official Talking Points.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~~~John Kenneth Galbraith
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By nonexistent manMay 16, 2008 - 12:41pmPssst...
I was refering to Michael Medved, the source of this nonsense.
I thought that was obvious, having used his name explicitly.
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By A GMay 16, 2008 - 6:39pmA pseudonym?!?
I can't believe it! The author's name is not ACTUALLY J.C. Christian? I've been reading his blog for years and never realised! What are you going to tell me next, that he's not a general in the Army? And he's not a conservative? And he doesn't look like the manly, smiling guy in the military helmet that's on his blog? Maaaaaate -- you're breaking my heart! Say it isn't so!
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By carolshinkerMay 18, 2008 - 2:11amActually, Medved means "Bear" in Russian.
Why didn't he stick with movie reviews?
His profile of Hershel Lewis, the blood'n'guts master of the 60's exploitation cinema, was one of the funniest things I've ever read.
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By alienuslxMay 16, 2008 - 11:45amThat's not how evolution functions.
That is as ridiculous as the rejected hypothesis that speculated that, for example, the giraffe got its long neck by stretching to eat high leaves.
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By alienuslxMay 16, 2008 - 11:50amMedved has a history with this stuff
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0801/13/rs.01.html
CNN RELIABLE SOURCES
January 13, 2008
KURTZ: But some black leaders in South Carolina and elsewhere, Michael Medved, have taken offense at Bill Clinton's comments as if he was talking about Barack Obama's civil rights record or his whole candidacy. And it seems that's very different from what Clinton said and what the press reported that he said.
MEDVED: Well, yes, but there is that element. I mean, when you say "fairy tale," the question is, which fairy tale you have in mind. Rachel mentions Camelot. I think it's more Cinderella, which is the idea that the clock strikes midnight, which who knows which primary that's going to be in, and then all of a sudden the coach turns into a pumpkin and the footmen turn back into mice, and Barack Obama goes back to the -- God forbid -- the kitchen. And in that context, "fairy tale" is probably the kind of loaded language that Republicans in particular would get slammed on given the fact that Obama himself is what he calls a hope monger.
MADDOW: I mean, I will say, there's something going on here, which is that, on the Democratic side, the two front-runners right now are an African-American man and a white woman. And we have never had that situation before in politics. And there's something going on with both the coverage of Obama and Clinton, which is pundits feel like, I feel, treat them in a way that is weirdly patronizing. Whether it's the metaphors, whether it's Chris Matthews actually reaching out and grabbing Hillary Clinton's cheek, whether -- I mean, even just today, while we have been discussing this, Michael, you described -- you used terms likes Barack Obama getting back in the kitchen or him being exotic.
I mean, there's stuff that is -- there's the language that is used, there are techniques that are used to describe and talk about these candidates that I think is -- looks uncomfortably like patronizing them. And it feels racist and gendered (ph) to me in a way that I think a lot of people, potential voters, react to.
MEDVED: Well, it seems to me that, first of all, I'm doing those phrases, obviously, in quotes to deal with the fact that people do recognize that this is a history-making campaign. Either way the Democrats vote, they're going to be making history, which is one of the reasons, it seems to me, that one of the problems in everything that we've been talking about is that if Democrats do what Republicans have done to Republicans' detriment, and start going back and arguing "about the past," who took this position on the war five years ago and three years ago, that's going to hurt them.
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By shawnfassettMay 16, 2008 - 4:10pmWhat a racist little piece of shit.
And they have the big plastic Wal-Mart™ balls to compare Dems to the Nazis!
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury
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By LiberalIconoclastMay 19, 2008 - 11:40amWhere do I begin with this...
"According to Medved, America is great because we carry the genes of ancestors who had
the courage to risk everything in order to better their lives. That's why they
came here.
He also points out that black people don't have these genes
because their ancestors were slaves. According to Mr. Medved, that's why we have
racial tensions; they're genes can't compete."
Maybe we have racial tensions because Medved gets paid for actually NOTHING (thoughtless opinions and banter) and black people, whose ancestors DIDN'T get paid for their many contributions (labor, inventions, childcare, etc.) that have made this country great, don't have the same opportunities or resources, and are held to a higher standard more so than any ethnicity in this country.
Competition not in their genes, they have succeeded, when Medved and his ilk, in lesser circumstances or at the first sign of a little bit of exertion, run to their families or use unethic or immoral, if not illegal, practices.
For all their talk, how about Medved and alike believing in their bluster about a level playing field and hard work, pay all those back wages with interest, and let the competition really begin.
Hey Medved where is all that "courage to risk everything."
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By CeeCeefieldMay 16, 2008 - 6:33pm