INTERVIEW WITH MCCAIN HECKLER ADAM KOKESH. (25)
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Kokesh, a passionate Ron Paul supporter, is 26 and a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. He served in Fallujah in 2004, grew up in Santa Fe, and currently lives in Washington, D.C. He has a website. At the beginning of McCain's speech, Kokesh held up a sign reading, "McCain Votes Against Vets" and yelled, "Ask him why he votes against vets!" I followed as Kokesh was escorted out of the Excel Center by ...
Oh, What A Beautiful Morning (1)
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So I flip on the teevee this morning. Bad idea. I was hoping to ride my scooter to work today, and after yesterday's torrential downpour and this morning's thick clouds, I figured I'd better check the weather report. The box was still on CNN after watching McCain's drone last night, and I was greeted with this (paraphrasing here):"Coming up: Sexism in the Presidential Campaign! Everyone is asking about Sarah Palin; her hair, her clothing, her ...
9/11 9/11 9/11. (1)
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Here at the Excel Center, we just finished watching a "never again" video about the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, complete with stirring images of New York City. You know, that "cosmopolitan" place filled with "media elites" and "liberals" who don't put "Country First" -- or at least that's what the message was during the previous three days of this convention. Of course, I'm having the thought I always do when politicians use 9/11 to ...
VP hopeful Palin attended 5 colleges in 6 years - Yahoo! News (1)
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Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended five colleges in six years before graduating from the University of Idaho in 1987.
Is Tupac Shakur the most overrated artist ever? (1)
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TELL US WHAT YOU REALLY THINK. (1)
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The RNC, where Republicans stop being polite and Georgia Rep. Lynn Westmoreland gets real: "Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they're a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they're uppity," Westmoreland said.Asked to clarify that he used the word “uppity,” Westmoreland said, “Uppity, yeah.”Gee, I wonder why there aren't more black folks at the convention this year? --A. Serwer
Thank You Thursdays: Community Organizers (4)
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Jay Smooth said it pretty damn well, but I still feel a feminist obligation to talk back to the Republicans who made fun of community organizing last night. Thank you to all the community organizers, past and present, who have recognized the ways in which the personal is the political, hearing--in the individual stories of ordinary people--a common thread of struggle deserving of action and resolution. Thank you to those who jump started whole movements ...
Owned (2)
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So, so owned. Yes I know it's too easy, but he's right. The biggest failing of media, in terms of covering this election, is getting in bed with these "strategists" who are little more than out of work Party flacks.
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Hey McCain camp, make up your mind about the press (1)
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Media Matters for America - County Fair (8)
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New press release out today from McCain's camp which contains a laundry list of quotes from, yes, media elites, who praised Palin's speech last night. The press release is supposed to reinforce the narrative of how successful Palin's performance was Wednesday night. But as Michael Calderone at Politco point out, isn't it odd for the suddenly anti-media McCain camp to be swooning because anchors and pundits at ABC and AP wrote up good reviews for ...
Stop the presses! Britney's opening the VMAs! (1)
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Obama Racism/Muslim/Unpatriotic/Scary Black Dude Watch, #74 (1)
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There was some discussion last night in the open convention thread about a conventioneer wearing a hat which appeared to be an alligator gripping an effigy of Barack Obama in its jaws. Pet provided a picture; this morning, Shaker InfamousQBert sent me a better image:[See larger versions here and here.]It's pretty clearly Obama in the alligator's mouth; it may even be the official Barack Obama Action Figure. And, aside from the general eliminationist messaging there, ...
del Toro Goes Canon Crazy (1)
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Romancing the Tome (2)
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According to Variety, Guillermo del Toro is apparently going to keep this blog in business for the forseeable future, what with the slew of literary adaptations he's hankering to make, including Tolkien's The Hobbit,Dan Simmons' Drood (supposing what might have prompted Charles Dickens to write The Mystery of Edwin Drood), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, among others.
Biden Would Prosecute Bush War Crimes [Politics] (1)
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"Biden's comments, first reported by ABC news, attracted little notice on a day dominated by the drama surrounding his Republican counterpart, Alaska governor Sarah Palin." [Guardian]
*Compare And Contrast*by tristeroHere's how the NY Times (1)
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Compare And Contrastby tristeroHere's how the NY Times covered Biden's speech:Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware accepted the Democratic vice-presidential nomination on Wednesday night with an ode to his middle-class upbringing and a blistering attack on Senator John McCain.“Again and again,” he said, “on the most important national security issues of our time, John McCain was wrong, and Barack Obama was proven right.”He said Mr. McCain had supported President Bush’s policies that Mr. Biden ...
It's Magic: How Can McCain and Palin Still Support Ab-Only? (1)
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Pregnant seventeen-year-old? McCain aid Mark Salter responds, "This is an American family." As a matter of fact, it is. Teenage pregnancy doesn't just happen to Juno, Jamie Lynn, and the daughter of the Republican Party's vice-presidential nominee. Nationwide, one in ten births comes to a teenage mother. Three in ten girls in the United States become pregnant by age 20. Recently, teen parenting has become more common: between 2005 and 2006, the teen birth rate ...
THAT’S SEXIST: “As an actual feminist, I have the great good (1)
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THAT’S SEXIST: “As an actual feminist, I have the great good joy of getting to determine what is and isn’t sexist. Sexist: Asking whether Sarah Palin shouldn’t be staying home with her baby and her other children. Not sexist: Pointing out that Sarah Palin is an utter twit.” [Commie Girl/LA City Beat]
SHORTER SARAH PALIN SPEECH. (1)
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Alaska! [Cut to baby] "Community organizers" suck. [Cut to baby] DRILL, BABY, DRILL! [Cut to baby] John McCain=American hero. [Cut to entire family onstage.] --Ann Friedman
Foxman On Jews for Jesus, Then and Now (1)
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Abraham Foxman, of the Anti-Defamation League, a man who has done terrific and important work exposing anti-Semites over the years -- and no, Andrew, he doesn't criticize people as anti-Semites when they "sneeze into a bagel" -- told the JTA yesterday that "he didn't have much problem with Palin's pastor." Foxman explained, according to the JTA, that unlike Catholics, "evangelicals never promised to renounce proselytizing. For another, they don't have the same sort of history ...
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That's what Blender thinks (h/t). Or at least that's what Blender is willing to say in order to stir up some controversy and sell their newest issue. 'Pac just topped the music mag's sarcasm-drenched list of "The 33 Most Overrated...Shared by Sarah (20)Contribute comment
