To me it seems like an attempt to show how ridiculous all the crypto-Muslim/anti-American whisper-campaigning has been, especially since the New Yorker has been more or less been banging the Obama drum for months (especially Hertzberg). I chuckled, remembering some of their other covers lampooning the ridiculous assertions being made in this campaign. And though Read More
Image from NY Mag. Fascinating piece in New York this week on Willie Kathryn Suggs, one of the people most responsible for Harlem’s new ‘renaissance’: the first broker in Harlem to sell a house for a half-million dollars, the first to hit $850k and the first to sell a house for $2 million. She’s also Read More
Crossposted from shanio over at the neo. Brother Charlie Rangel, bless him, is renting not one, not two, not three… but four rent-stabilized apartments in one uptown building, for a fraction of what they would normally cost on the market. According to the Times: Mr. Rangel, who was first elected to Congress in 1970 and Read More
[vodpod id=ExternalVideo.629893&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] As usual with the Boondocks, the lampooning is so scattershot that it’s hard to figure out what they’re skewering. Are they criticizing BET? Are they criticizing the often-exaggerated criticism of BET? Huey’s naiveté? All of that stuff? (h/t DrZRM.)
Obama’s camp’s position on the FISA amendments* way back in October: “To be clear: Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies.” And December: “Senator Obama unequivocally opposes giving retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies and has cosponsored Senator Dodd’s efforts to remove that provision from the FISA bill. Read More
(image from the Guardian) (Crossposted From Bitch, Ph.D) Remember the girls in Massachusetts who supposedly had a “pregnancy pact”? By now everyone’s probably heard that the scandal has turned out to be bullshit. Quel surprise. Anyone with half a brain suspected all along that the real deal was that some young women who were unintentionally Read More
In a somewhat histrionic column on The Root, Janelle Jolley praises some major advertisers (Proctor & Gamble, GM, and McDonald’s among them) for pulling ads from BET’s 106 & Park and Rap City: We’ve already suffered for years from this toxic material wreaking havoc in the core of our community and shaping the public’s perception Read More
from guest contributor hilzoy at Obsidian Wings. Crossposted with permission. I haven’t written anything about Jesse Helms’ death, since I don’t like speaking ill of the dead. However: every so often, conservatives wonder: why oh why do people think that the Republican party, and/or the conservative movement, is bigoted? I think that the conservative response Read More
Nothing too spoil-y here, but you might wanna refrain if you haven’t seen the movie.* *Um, why haven’t you seen this movie?
The Republican National Committee is flush with cash, but it isn’t allowed to coordinate with John McCain’s campaign. Still, the RNC’s new expenditure arm is trying to help out their boy with a bunch of ads in four heavily contested states: Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to hit Obama on energy policy. But anyway, let’s Read More
