A civil rights icon does it Gangnam style
A brief note of introduction:
“Gangnam” is a district of Seoul, South Korea. PSY is a South Korean rapper/video star — think of a cross of MC Hammer with Pee Wee Herman — from the Gangnam district. “Gangnam Style” is PSY’s worldwide viral dance video hit, viewed more than 500 million times on Youtube so far. (Original here.)
With that as background, here’s a video put together by the Asian American Legal Advocacy Center here in Atlanta, urging people to register and vote. You may recognize some of the settings — the state Capitol, the MLK silhouette on Freedom Parkway. You may also recognize the older voting-rights champion who gamely dances Gangnam-style to get his message across.
Whatever you think of his politics, you have to admire a politician who doesn’t take himself too seriously. Personally, I would pay a lot to see Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in a dance-off, Gangnam-style.
– Jay Bookman
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josef
October 21st, 2012
5:05 pm
getalife
One of my students read it and smiled, “pure Confederate propaganda!” Not a bad review!
Go Navy
October 21st, 2012
5:08 pm
…cameras rolling….Ladies and Gentlemen we have a winner in the “You Got Punked” contest today…HUH???? step right up and take a bow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
josef
October 21st, 2012
5:08 pm
That double post is bad enough, but at the top of the page…Jeeeze…that’s embarassassing…
Brosephus™
October 21st, 2012
5:09 pm
They BOTH
A quick Google search of the phrase “respect lord Saban” brings back results limited almost exclusively to AJC blogs.
josef
October 21st, 2012
5:11 pm
Okay, looks like Big Daddy’s here saving his Little Prince from excess shame…Thanks…and BTW thanks for the earlier…
BOTH
Addiction is a terrible thing, isn’t it?
They BOTH suck
October 21st, 2012
5:11 pm
Bro
This morning I saw that from yesterday and figured who it was. Today’s post confirmed it.
Funny, the playing are you from Alabama? DId you go to Alabama?
hahahahahaha
Go Navy
October 21st, 2012
5:12 pm
USMC….You is kind…You is smart…You is important.
They BOTH suck
October 21st, 2012
5:12 pm
josef
Others are able to beat, some go back and forth, yet others get taken down
They BOTH suck
October 21st, 2012
5:14 pm
beat it……..
USMC
October 21st, 2012
5:15 pm
“USMC….You is kind…You is smart…You is important.”–Go Navy
Okaaaaaay, Navy. Go easy on that Moonshine.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 21st, 2012
5:16 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5md3_AJp-LQ
Brosephus™
October 21st, 2012
5:19 pm
They BOTH
I just choose to address people as they present themselves. For all we know, any one of us could have clinically diagnosed Multiple Personality Disorder.
They BOTH suck
October 21st, 2012
5:20 pm
Bro
That is true. I was going to let it runs its course, but figured a blogger looking to be “kinder and gentler” would want his alter ego called out before it went too far.
They BOTH suck
October 21st, 2012
5:26 pm
Bro
My post stating “Thulsa. Your Tide is looks good” was my opening salvo to let him know that “Huh????” was being outed.
Just call me Issa
josef
October 21st, 2012
5:27 pm
BROSEPHUS
“Any one of us could have clinically diagnosed Multiple Personality Disorder.”
I’ll have you know, all my personalities are ordered!
TaxPayer
October 21st, 2012
5:30 pm
I’ll have you know, all my personalities are ordered!
I like to keep mine alphabetized… in a binder… looseleaf… 3-ring. They’re the bestest.
Brosephus™
October 21st, 2012
5:32 pm
They BOTH
“Issa’d”
——-
josef
All my personalities get along like a well oiled machine.
Recon 0311 2533
October 21st, 2012
5:32 pm
There’s a growing probability that Obama will lose a second term.
josef
October 21st, 2012
5:34 pm
TAXI
Now if I could just get mine to agree on something, anything…I may have to go the 3-ring route…I didn’t have ‘em backed up before the last computer fry…
Recon 0311 2533
October 21st, 2012
5:39 pm
It’s not that Obama is a bad person, it’s just that he’s a bad president for America.
josef
October 21st, 2012
5:47 pm
Better than a slap in the face…
Jm
October 21st, 2012
6:04 pm
“TaxPayer
October 21st, 2012
5:30 pm
I’ll have you know, all my personalities are ordered!
I like to keep mine alphabetized… in a binder… looseleaf… 3-ring. They’re the bestest.”
So you have binders full of personalities. Figures…
Jm
October 21st, 2012
6:05 pm
Recon
Yep
josef
October 21st, 2012
6:06 pm
JM
Maybe you might want to consider ordering yours…sometimes it’s kinda hard to keep up…
HUH?????
October 21st, 2012
6:06 pm
“please don’t waste your worthless time replying to me. I don’t care what you have to say anyway.”
You know you want me to.
HUH?????
October 21st, 2012
6:08 pm
“You are nothing more to this blog than an object of pity and ridicule. Despite the fact that you will never believe this, I thought I would tell you anyway. Thats about all the time I have for charity today.”
What’s sad about you is that you actually believe the crap that you spew. You actually think that I care what you think about me. You actually think that your opinion means something to me.
HUH?????
October 21st, 2012
6:09 pm
“You haven’t had ribs if you haven’t eaten at Dreamland.”
I’ve had real BBQ via Memphis.
Jm
October 21st, 2012
6:09 pm
Josef
HUH?????
October 21st, 2012
6:11 pm
They BOTH suck
Not that it’s any of your business but I was asking Bro if he was from Alabama because I love me some Alabama people. Most of my kin folk is from that great state. The fact that he says he had scholarships to Bama and Auburn makes me proud.
Alabama: Owning college football since 2009.
josef
October 21st, 2012
6:11 pm
HUH
Where ’bouts in Memphis? Did you live there?
Jm
October 21st, 2012
6:11 pm
Couch’s BBQ, Jonesboro AR west of Memphis
Yum yum
HUH?????
October 21st, 2012
6:13 pm
“Where ’bouts in Memphis? Did you live there?”
No, but I’ve passed through more than enough times.
Germantown Commissary, Rendezvous, Central BBQ, Leonards, Interstate, Cozy Corner…
Jm
October 21st, 2012
6:14 pm
Dreamland yum
Corky’s yum
Rendezvous yum
HUH?????
October 21st, 2012
6:15 pm
Jm
Not a huge fan of Corkys because it’s more of a chain. I like the stand alones better. I met Mr. Neely at Interstate one time and he is one of the nicest people I’ve ever met.
paulo977
October 21st, 2012
6:17 pm
getalife…”You are voting against yourself.”
____________________________________________
They just haven’t figured that out…. amazing!!!
josef
October 21st, 2012
6:18 pm
Memphis…fergit the bbq, have a burger…
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1a0_1294940473
HUH?????
October 21st, 2012
6:21 pm
josef
Been to Dyers several times on Beale. Good stuff.
josef
October 21st, 2012
6:21 pm
Roadside stands are the best…Hawg Butt outside Jasper, Alabama…but the best is still the ones with no name set up in the parking lot…
Steve-USA
October 21st, 2012
6:24 pm
Jm- “Dreamland yum, Corky’s yum, Rendezvous yum”
I tried Dreamland and I thought it was terrible, it was covered in a terrible sauce. I did enjoy Corky’s, never tried the third one. My all time favorite was Tom’s and Tom Jr.’s down in S. Florida. My friends and relatives demanded I take them there whenever they visited.
Tastes are subjective though.
HUH?????
October 21st, 2012
6:24 pm
Rendezvous is the grandaddy of all BBQ joints.
Steve-USA
October 21st, 2012
6:26 pm
I prefer St. Louis cut over Baby Backs.
josef
October 21st, 2012
6:26 pm
Huh
Lived in Memphis during the school year as a young pup…Chickasaw Gardens…Pink Palace, Peabody ducks, Overton Park Zoo…fond memories…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 21st, 2012
6:26 pm
Maher called Palin the C-word and liberals had no problem with it.
Not this crap again, geez….
Once again — and especially those in the cheap seats:
BILL MAHER IS A FAUX POPULIST DOUCHEBAG ASSHAT ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT FOR A RUNNING MOB TO JUMP IN FRONT OF AND SAY, “WAIT! WHERE ARE YOU GOING? I WANT TO LEAD YOU!”
HUH?????
October 21st, 2012
6:27 pm
josef
So you are a rich guy? Chickasaw Gardens ain’t a cheap area.
Faulkner fan?
Jm
October 21st, 2012
6:28 pm
It’s all that dry rub v wet issue
I like rendezvous
But I kinda like all BBQ except for Carolina vinegar based sauce BBQ
Steve-USA
October 21st, 2012
6:29 pm
Jm-
I am not a fan of mustard based sauces.
Steve-USA
October 21st, 2012
6:31 pm
I told my wife I was thinking of buying myself a grill to learn how to slow cook Ribs in 2013 and she suggested I plant a vegetable garden instead.
Do you think she was trying to tell me something?
Jm
October 21st, 2012
6:31 pm
Steve USA
I hear you, and tend to agree
Recon 0311 2533
October 21st, 2012
6:32 pm
Kam, you’re spot on about Bill Maher.
josef
October 21st, 2012
6:33 pm
HUH
HUGE Faulkner fan…home place is at what would be Frenchman’s Bend in Yoknapatawpha…sat at his knee as a little one at the loafer’s bench in the ginyard…Granny despised him…told Granddaddy to “keep that boy away from that lyin’ old drunk.” “But, Miss Georgia, he won a Nobel Prize.” “So, he’s a Nobel Prize winning lying old drunk.” Her daddty had served with Faulkner’s grandaddy in the Wah-uh and she resented the way Faulkner presented him…it’s a lot of fun reading commentators on Faulkner and what they have to say about characters that you knew as real people…
josef
October 21st, 2012
6:35 pm
KAM
And you’re being nice about Maher…
HUH?????
October 21st, 2012
6:36 pm
josef
Please tell me that you’re a Cormac fan.
HUH?????
October 21st, 2012
6:36 pm
Steve-USA
BBQ is nothing to mess around with. I’ve tried many many times and failed.
Recon 0311 2533
October 21st, 2012
6:38 pm
Damn the libs are too agreeable this evening.
Jm
October 21st, 2012
6:40 pm
Recon
HUH?????
October 21st, 2012
6:41 pm
“Damn the libs are too agreeable this evening.”
We ALL agree that ribs are good. I don’t care if you’re an a$$ or an elephant. That $hit is GOOOOD!!!!!
josef
October 21st, 2012
6:43 pm
Huh…
I’m not his biggest fan…you gotta have a darker sense of humor to do Southern Gothic right…he’s a good craftsman, but, I can’t escape the feeling reading him that he’s following a script.
St Simons
October 21st, 2012
6:43 pm
We’re gonna gain seats in the House
We’re gonna pick up 2 Senate seats
and Obama the Mammmba is going to win Ohio & Fla.
this xmas will be in the new age.
the 1st native merkan president will be E Warren
overall, i like our position….
a lot better than the failed con ideologues’
who are at the end of their road.
except for am radio, one cable channel, and rednecki-necki-necki-stan
HUH?????
October 21st, 2012
6:44 pm
josef
Ridley Scott is directing a Cormac novel. Can’t wait! No Country For Old Men and The Road are my favorites.
Recon 0311 2533
October 21st, 2012
6:44 pm
Ribs prepared correctly are indeed good.
Recon 0311 2533
October 21st, 2012
6:48 pm
St. Simons you may want to keep in better touch with reality. Just saying.
josef
October 21st, 2012
6:49 pm
HUH
In all fairness, he came close to what I’m talking about in “No Country for Old Men.” The Coen Brothers and Tommy Lee Jones? Now, they got it right!
Recon 0311 2533
October 21st, 2012
6:49 pm
Jm…win or lose, isn’t it fun?
HUH?????
October 21st, 2012
6:50 pm
josef
The Coens are the perfect directors. No one like em. Don’t forget Woody Harrelson.
josef
October 21st, 2012
6:50 pm
He-ne-ha
Not Bill Clinton? He’s a Blythe you know…Cherokee Gypsies…
josef
October 21st, 2012
6:52 pm
Huh
I’m with you on the Coen Brothers…they could do a dog food commercial and I’d be in line to see it…and, yep, have to agree with you on Woody…the boy is way underrated, imeoiauo…
Jm
October 21st, 2012
6:53 pm
Recon yep
HUH?????
October 21st, 2012
6:53 pm
josef
Yazoo city? Oxford? Olive Branch? Some real good people in those parts.
St Simons
October 21st, 2012
6:53 pm
josef really? I did not know that. That explains a lot.
i just knew you were famous…
Jm
October 21st, 2012
6:57 pm
You know the problem in America is we don’t have a southerner as prez
If we did, he could have a big BBQ cookout on the front lawn and make those D’s and R’s get along a little better
josef
October 21st, 2012
6:58 pm
HUH
Kinfolks in all three…
He-ne-ha
The Blythe family story is one that really needs to be told…and not just because of BC…
HUH?????
October 21st, 2012
7:00 pm
Jm
I was pulling for Haley Barbour or Bobby Jindal. They’d most likely have a BIG BBQ cook out on the front lawn. Barney Frank and Chris Christie would be rib eating champions of DC.
Jm
October 21st, 2012
7:02 pm
Huh
No doubt
USMC
October 21st, 2012
7:04 pm
The Best BBQ ribs are the Baby Back Ribs at Fox Brothers BBQ!
Recon 0311 2533
October 21st, 2012
7:05 pm
Jm@6:57…Yeah Buddy.
They BOTH suck
October 21st, 2012
7:06 pm
Thulsa
ok
USMC
October 21st, 2012
7:08 pm
“You know the problem in America is we don’t have a southerner as prez”–JM
I don’t know, JM. We haven’t done a very good job of sending Presidents to DC. :
EX: Jimmy Carter and Bill “Impeachment” Clinton
josef
October 21st, 2012
7:11 pm
Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman, LBJ, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton…say whatever else you will, they left their mark not on just the country, but the world at large…
St Simons
October 21st, 2012
7:14 pm
Southern Soul & Beachcomber bbq are the best on de island mon
HUH?????
October 21st, 2012
7:14 pm
“Jimmy Carter”
The only mark he left was in his underwear when the Iran debacle went down.
Bill Clinton left his mark on Lewinskis dress.
josef
October 21st, 2012
7:19 pm
HUH
Carter–Human Rights
Bill Clinton–peace and prosperity
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 21st, 2012
7:20 pm
Well I see that doom is still going with the posts of absurdity requiring no brain power or actual intelligent thought.
Midori
October 21st, 2012
7:24 pm
for Josef
http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/s480×480/47571_253305901459594_500229781_n.jpg
josef
October 21st, 2012
7:26 pm
midori
Midori
October 21st, 2012
7:29 pm
Josef — that’s the most awesome Halloween decoration I’ve ever seen
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 21st, 2012
7:29 pm
Midori, well that certainly was a terror attack. Obama should be impeached for not knowing it was going to happen.
Has Issa posted the sensitive documents yet?
josef
October 21st, 2012
7:29 pm
Good fight
Not Thulsa…if it were, he’d've jumped on a piece of bait I threw out…
Midori
October 21st, 2012
7:30 pm
Keep!!!
hahahahahahahaha
Brosephus™
October 21st, 2012
7:35 pm
Hi Midori!!!
How ya feeling, sis?
————————–
Keep
If he hasn’t dropped the dime yet, just give him time to subpoena all the documents he wants to post online.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 21st, 2012
7:36 pm
josef, aren’t you celebrating the Pope named a native-american saint? Makes up for all the past, right?
Midori
October 21st, 2012
7:40 pm
Hi Bro
wasn’t today just beautiful?
josef
October 21st, 2012
7:43 pm
Good Fight
Well, always time for a little “Native American spiritualism…”
josef
October 21st, 2012
7:51 pm
Good Fight
Sorta along that line…caught this one last pm on PBS…pretty well balanced view even it were focused entirely on the Northeaster theatre…
http://www.aptonline.org/catalog.nsf/vLinkTitle/FORGOTTEN+WAR+THE+STRUGGLE+FOR+NORTH+AMERICA
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 21st, 2012
8:02 pm
Looks interesting. I’ll have to look for a rebroadcast.
TaxPayer
October 21st, 2012
8:10 pm
wasn’t today just beautiful?
Every day is beautiful, in its own way.
paulo977
October 21st, 2012
8:11 pm
josef …..”Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman, LBJ, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton…say whatever else you will, they left their mark not on just the country, but the world at large”
___________________________________________________
Indeed , indeed…..
saywhat?
October 21st, 2012
8:12 pm
Gangnam style stupidity is just one more thing to add to my “ignore” list, along with reality TV, teatards, celebrity “news”, etc, all of which are colossal wastes of time.
I have no issues with the Representative doing his thing- whatever pops his toast is fine by me- but its not worth my time to watch it.
Off topic, chalk me up as a recent covert to St Louis style ribs over babybacks.
I see the local troll is out in force today. It does make getting through the comments quicker though, because you get to scroll through so many without having to waste time reading them.
Brosephus™
October 21st, 2012
8:15 pm
wasn’t today just beautiful?
Everyday is beautiful!!!
Y’all have fun… Time to exit the time suck.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 21st, 2012
8:19 pm
1) SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) — “The head (Senator Feinstein) of the U.S. Senate’s Intelligence Committee said Wednesday that it appeared an intelligence mistake along with inadequate security were to blame for the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the American Embassy in Benghazi, Libya that claimed the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens, a Bay Area native, and three others.
“I can tell you this, I think we do know what happened now. There’s no question but THAT IT WAS A TERRORIST ATTACK (emphasis added), there is no question but that the security was inadequate and I think that there is no question that we need to work on our intelligence,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) during an exclusive interview with CBS 5.”
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/10/17/feinstein-intelligence-flaw-lax-security-to-blame-for-libyan-terror-attack/
2) JAY BOOKMAN: “The premise of the entire debate is false, because the attack on our consulate in Benghazi was not an act of terror.”
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/10/17/on-benghazi-the-debate-and-acts-of-terror/
3) WE REPORT ………… YOU DECIDE
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 21st, 2012
8:21 pm
Daniel 4:17
“‘The decision is announced by messengers, the holy ones declare the verdict, so that the living may know that the Most High is sovereign over all kingdoms on earth and gives them to anyone he wishes and sets over them the lowliest of people.’”