[Blog] Wonkette Disses Mississippi Easter Egg
So, Wonkette Inc.--we hear there’s an Army of Wonkette clones over there these days--is dissing every state’s Easter Egg this week. Um, cute. But her/their comment about Mississippi’s egg seems to be about as original as selling your blog to a corporate blog entity.
Here’s the snipe: “If you just said, Hey that looks like something the doctors pulled out of Trent Lott, then give yourself a racist pat on the back, because this egg is from Mississippi!” It would be one thing if the egg had the Stars & Bars on it, or “We Heart Strom” or even the embarassing Mississippi state flag, but it’s just a flowery egg design. It seems the mere mention of Mississippi brings to the Wonki’s minds the idea of Trent Lott and racism. To their small-stuck-way-up-their-butt minds, that is.
Put it this way: It would at least be funny if it was, well, funny.
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Comments:
My favorite comment was re Alabama’s egg:<blockquote class="yes">Nothing says ?The Jews killed Our Lord? like an American space shuttle plummeting to the Earth.</blockquote>...or, presumably, electing a Jewish-American governor in 1999, or establishing a state Holocaust Commission.
I never liked Wonkette. This blog entry kind of explains why.
Cheers,
TH
Posted by Tom Head on 04/05 at 07:57 PM | #
Yep, when you have to work this hard to be snarky, you oughta just let it go.
Posted by on 04/05 at 08:00 PM | #
...but in Wonkette’s defense, “deliciously stupid” is kind of the vibe the blog has always gone for. Take this entry, for example.
Cheers,
TH
Posted by Tom Head on 04/05 at 08:02 PM | #
(In this case she’s piling on the stupid and skimping on the delicious, but I wonder how many members of her target audience are supposed to remember anything she said 15 seconds later. It looks like pretty lightweight stuff--kind of like Friends meets Christopher Hitchens on a bad day.)
Posted by Tom Head on 04/05 at 08:03 PM | #
Right, I’ve been amused there before, too. But the “delicious” part seems to be missing. This just seems like such a stretch, and Good God, go after our flag with both barrels, but the “racist” smear is so tired when used like this. Icky.
You say “her,” but isn’t Ana Marie long gone?
It’s kind of like “Budget Living” after Sarah left ... flat ... but that’s a reference that not everyone will appreciate, I know. 
Posted by on 04/05 at 08:08 PM | #
Bless Wonkette’s heart. That’s about as cliche’d and overdone as the Catholics attacking “Jesus Chocolate Christ” in NYC. We will boycott New York because you created a chocolate piece called, “My Sweet Jesus.”
Blasphemy? No.
My idea of heaven? Chocolate and red wine. I think it should be the new food and drink of choice at the “Lord’s Supper.”
Posted by emilyb on 04/05 at 08:11 PM | #
I’m afraid I’m clueless about that one myself… I had assumed that Ana Marie was still blogging at Wonkette, but I have no idea; I’ve worked pretty hard to avoid the place! I think the only blog I read day in, day out these days is Feministing.
Agreed re: the tone of this entry… Stuff like that actually makes it easier to keep the state flag and not apologize for slavery and so forth, because all of the criticism of Mississippi’s legitimate racist reputation gets lumped in with thoughtless Mississippi-bashing.
The truth is--and I tell people this--that when you say Mississippi is a horrible, racist place, you’re saying that the 36% of the population that’s black (the highest percentage of black citizens in the country) simply don’t count.
Cheers,
TH
Posted by Tom Head on 04/05 at 08:12 PM | #
Someone could do a dissertation, BTW, on the connection between bashing Southern states that have a high black population and praising Northern states that don’t. Whenever anyone talks about Delaware and Vermont being so progressive on race, I laugh my head off. How can you be progressive on race when you’re more than 95% white?
Cheers,
TH
Posted by Tom Head on 04/05 at 08:14 PM | #
... maybe it was then. Mary M was the decadent sort, no?
<Ducking as lightning strikes.>
And it’s bless Wonkette’s hearts, Em.
Or, is that Wonki? I keep getting confused.
Posted by on 04/05 at 08:15 PM | #
True, Tom. I remember living in North Dakota, and hearing horrifying racist comments.
Of course, as I always say, that does not negate anything that happened here, or the work we need to do, one iota. But it does prove that the whole country is part of the damn problem.
Of course of course, it we would rip that damn flag down, they wouldn’t be able to look back at us and say, “yeah, right,” when we protest stupid “racist Easter Egg jokes.”
Sigh.
Posted by on 04/05 at 08:18 PM | #
Here’s their masthead:
Editor:
Alex Pareene
West Coast
Bureau Chief:
Ken Layne
Wonkette Emerita:
Ana Marie Cox
Interns:
Nick Mueller
Lauren Spohrer
Posted by on 04/06 at 09:14 AM | #
Wonkette has a bureau chief. Wow. The corporate blogosphere. Gotta love it.
Posted by on 04/06 at 10:43 AM | #
The phrase “West Coast Bureau Chief for Wonkette” just makes me giggle, for some reason, and the fact that said bureau chief is named Ken instead of something more feminine only makes it funnier.
Assuming Alex Pareene is a dude (I have no idea, to be honest), Wonkette has an all-male editorial staff except for the emerita and one of the interns. Isn’t that kind of like running BET so that all of the programs are hosted by white people, or putting the World Wrestling Federation on Lifetime?
Cheers,
TH
Posted by Tom Head on 04/06 at 03:57 PM | #
Pretty much. Makes it no real surprise that they’ve lost their zing.
Posted by on 04/06 at 10:44 PM | #
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