Fail Quotes

[Ibrahim90]

Study: White racism linked with opposition to gun control

Oh look: it's our old friend the race card rearing it's ugly head again and poisioning the well!

Fortunatley, one reasonable commentor left this comment debunking the whole mess:

whoever it was who posted the reply wins the internets for today!

[Dukect45]

A review of medical records, police reports and a federal lawsuit show deputies with the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office, police officers with the City of Deming and medical professionals at the Gila Regional Medical Center made some questionable decisions.

The incident began January 2, 2013 after David Eckert finished shopping at the Wal-Mart in Deming. According to a federal lawsuit, Eckert didn't make a complete stop at a stop sign coming out of the parking lot and was immediately stopped by law enforcement.

Eckert's attorney, Shannon Kennedy, said in an interview with KOB that after law enforcement asked him to step out of the vehicle, he appeared to be clenching his buttocks. Law enforcement thought that was probable cause to suspect that Eckert was hiding narcotics in his anal cavity. While officers detained Eckert, they secured a search warrant from a judge that allowed for an anal cavity search.

The lawsuit claims that Deming Police tried taking Eckert to an emergency room in Deming, but a doctor there refused to perform the anal cavity search citing it was "unethical."

But physicians at the Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City agreed to perform the procedure and a few hours later, Eckert was admitted.

What Happened

While there, Eckert was subjected to repeated and humiliating forced medical procedures. A review of Eckert's medical records, which he released to KOB, and details in the lawsuit show the following happened:

1. Eckert's abdominal area was x-rayed; no narcotics were found.

2. Doctors then performed an exam of Eckert's anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.

3. Doctors performed a second exam of Eckert's anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.

4. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.

5. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema a second time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.

6. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema a third time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.

7. Doctors then x-rayed Eckert again; no narcotics were found.

8. Doctors prepared Eckert for surgery, sedated him, and then performed a colonoscopy where a scope with a camera was inserted into Eckert's anus, rectum, colon, and large intestines. No narcotics were found.

Throughout this ordeal, Eckert protested and never gave doctors at the Gila Regional Medical Center consent to perform any of these medical procedures.

"If the officers in Hidalgo County and the City of Deming are seeking warrants for anal cavity searches based on how they're standing and the warrant allows doctors at the Gila Hospital of Horrors to go in and do enemas and colonoscopies without consent, then anyone can be seized and that's why the public needs to know about this," Kennedy said.

http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3209305.shtml?cat=500#.UnprOnBb4cN

Wow just wow

[nilecroc]

Study: White racism linked with opposition to gun control

Oh look: it's our old friend the race card rearing it's ugly head again and poisioning the well!

Fortunatley, one reasonable commentor left this comment debunking the whole mess:

@Xanthro Apologist.  You missed the point of the article.  You, nemo, and others are still in white denial regarding true reasons for not supporting gun control.  You insist on trotting out the white myth that because whites commit less gun crimes all 'yall need guns to protect your asses from Black gun owners.  You will take any discussion like this and twist it until it conforms with your mindset.  Continue on.
Comment from article. Now excuse me while I go jack off to zimmerman.

[nilecroc]

Party City.

[Travis Retriever]

http://www.vice.com/read/crackedcom-is-full-of-lies
Not sure if bogus.  Until shown otherwise, this goes here.

[MrBogosity]

http://www.vice.com/read/crackedcom-is-full-of-lies
Not sure if bogus.  Until shown otherwise, this goes here.

Cracked has a lot of writers. While some of them seem to do their research, others just seem to Make Stuff Up.

[Ibrahim90]

http://www.vice.com/read/crackedcom-is-full-of-lies
Not sure if bogus.  Until shown otherwise, this goes here.

to expand on what Shane said: the article itself is not bogus in terms of its facts regarding the accuracy of the article in question (the reality show ones). However, it does not mean all cracked articles are that way (and Wong's hardly what I call the wisest writer anyways: I'm sure some of you noticed how he is disproportionally represented in the failquotes....)

[dallen68]

However, it does not mean all cracked articles are that way (and Wong's hardly what I call the wisest writer anyways: I'm sure some of you noticed how he is disproportionally represented in the failquotes....)

That can be said of just about any publication.

[BlameThe1st]

Just to prove that the gun/racism study is even more bunk, one comment on the Huffington Post story reveals that the study actually DOES NOT link racism with gun ownership:

"Buried in the text of the study is an admission that there is, in fact, no correlation between "implicit racism" and what the study calls "gun outcomes".

*** "Contrary to research showing associations between implicit racism and policy decision making [23], we did not find implicit racism to be significantly related to gun related outcomes after accounting for other variables. Similarly, the small correlations between the stereotype that most blacks being violent and gun outcomes were not significant after accounting for all other variables." ***

The only way the study's authors were able to produce a correlation between "racism" and "gun outcomes" was to make up an entirely new concept, namely, what they call "symbolic racism". In other words, after they failed to find evidence of actual racism, they presumed their test subjects to be guilty of "symbolic racism" for giving politically incorrect responses to such statements as ""Generations of slavery and discrimination have created conditions that make it difficult for blacks to work their way out of the lower class.""

[ArtemisVale]

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I am deeply saddened when some of my fav atheist youtubers just doesn't apply the same amount of skepticism when they talk about politics

also this quote from terrypussypower posted made me want to cringe

"Your own money" eh. That's an interesting concept. For cavemen.

[nilecroc]

[yt]hoSxYkH0F_A[/yt]

I am deeply saddened when some of my fav atheist youtubers just doesn't apply the same amount of skepticism when they talk about politics

also this quote from terrypussypower posted made me want to cringe

Way did it make you want to cringe? He's obviously just insecure about being a caveman.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/05/news/economy/unpaid-work/index.html?iid=HP_River

[nilecroc]

https://plus.google.com/u/0/wm/4/up/mobile?gpsrc=gpfw0&partnerid=gpfw0&parent=https://apis.google.com&proxy=I2_1383919219050
Google can go fuck themselves.

[MrBogosity]

https://plus.google.com/u/0/wm/4/up/mobile?gpsrc=gpfw0&partnerid=gpfw0&parent=https://apis.google.com&proxy=I2_1383919219050
Google can go fuck themselves.

Link's not working for me.

[Skm1091]

https://plus.google.com/u/0/wm/4/up/mobile?gpsrc=gpfw0&partnerid=gpfw0&parent=https://apis.google.com&proxy=I2_1383919219050
Google can go fuck themselves.

This google plus thing is cumbersome

[nilecroc]

Link's not working for me.

They wanted to know my location in order for me to comment using mobile.