Once again, West Virginia….
It’s funny how these uninformed voters, in particular the woman trying to look trendy in the coffee shop (you need a Mac to do that), won’t vote for Obama because she think he’s either a Muslim (he’s not) or that he wasn’t born in America (he was — in Hawaii). She’s going to vote for John McCain, who of the two presidential candidates, is the only one to have his citizenship called into question.
Oh, lawd.
Are the good sheeple of West Virginia the most racist, uneducated, and misinformed voters in America? Or will Kentucky top them next week? I’m willing to bet that the lovely white ladies who were interviewed by the news networks, and then showcased on The Daily Show last night got their learnin’ from the fair and balanced Fox News. I’m also willing to bet that each lovely lady has already ordered a Barack Obama t-shirt.
Watch and cringe. (The interviews start at 1:49.)
Now, let’s examine each quote one by one…
“I guess because he is another race. I’m sorta scared of the other race ’cause we have so much conflict with ‘em.”
Exactly what sort of conflict are the good sheeple of West Virginia having with other races other than white folk? Are there even any non-whites in West Virginia? Where do they hide? I bet in caves. Hell, I would too.
“He’s Muslim, and that has a lot to do with it.”
This woman obviously watches Fox News. I can’t think of any other place where she could have been fed that dribble. She probably also believes we found WMDs in Iraq. Fox News incorrectly reported that too, just like they have repeatedly reported that Obama is a Muslim.
“I don’t like the Hussein thing. I’ve had enough of Hussein.”
This woman is my favorite. You can see the seriousness in her eyes. She has had enough of Hussein! In her defense, she dated Saddam Hussein in college. I’m kidding! Saddam Hussein never went to college. But she was part of the resistance during the war when Iraq invaded West Virginia. So it’s understandable that she’s had enough of Hussein.
I wonder where she buys her muumuus…
Do you think the majority of West Virginians know that a plurality of the country is mocking them and having a good laugh at their expense? Do you think they even care?
Don’t ever watch the awful train wreck that is the Nicholas Cage remake of the classic Christopher Lee film The Wicker Man. To save you the trouble, someone has compiled the best unintentionally hilarious scenes from said train wreck. Enjoy.
Oh, Billy boy. I never knew you had such a temper. This is an old video from Bill O’Reilly’s days on Inside Edition. He completely freaks out and explodes with rage because the teleprompter isn’t working. The great thing about this video is that the O’Reilly of today would claim this to be some sort of left-wing fabrication created to destroy him.
Oh, how LOST continues to raise the bar and many, many questions. Questions that burn…
Is Claire dead? She seemed rather creepy in the cabin with her and Jack’s daddy, Christian, last night. Personally, I think she died in the cabin explosion. Miles gave her a quizzical look last week, as if he knew something the others didn’t.
Matthew Abaddon called Locke “Mr. Locke.” There’s only one other character on the show that calls him that: Walt. So, is Matthew Abaddon a grown-up Walt? Walt is special. Mayhaps, like the never aging Richard Alpert, Walt can teleport and time-travel too…?
And, how exactly does one move an entire island?
The GOP has unveiled a new TV spot and website that frivolously attacks Barack Obama, sans evidence, with the usual Republican scare tactics of guns, abortion, black people, ect…
What’s truly disgraceful about the ad is that they cropped an image of Barack Obama to make it look like he’s giving the finger.
He doesn’t wear flag pins, so he’s not patriotic. His name is not normal, so he’s a muslim terrorist. Now he’s giving America the finger as if to say, “Fuck you, America!”
Stay classy, GOP.
Warning: This trailer contains what appear to be spoilers. Watch at your own risk.
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Bill Moyers interviewed Jeremiah Wright just days before the pastor exploded on national television. Moyers tells it like it is. This is a must watch. (Transcripts below.)
I once asked a reporter back from Vietnam, “Who’s telling the truth over there?” “Everyone, he said. “Everyone sees what’s happening through the lens of their own experience.” That’s how people see Jeremiah Wright. In my conversation with him on this broadcast a week ago and in his dramatic public appearances since, he revealed himself to be far more complex than the sound bites that propelled him onto the public stage. Over 2000 of you have written me about him, and your opinions vary widely. Some sting: “Jeremiah Wright is nothing more than a race-hustling, American hating radical,” one viewer wrote. A “nut case,” said another. Others were far more were sympathetic to him.
Many of you have asked for some rational explanation for Wright’s transition from reasonable conversation to shocking anger at the National Press Club. A psychologist might pull back some of the layers and see this complicated man more clearly, but I’m not a psychologist. Many black preachers I’ve known — scholarly, smart, and gentle in person — uncorked fire and brimstone in the pulpit. Of course I’ve known many white preachers like that, too.
But where I grew up in the south, before the civil rights movement, the pulpit was a safe place for black men to express anger for which they would have been punished anywhere else; a safe place for the fierce thunder of dignity denied, justice delayed. I think I would have been angry if my ancestors had been transported thousands of miles in the hellish hole of a slave ship, then sold at auction, humiliated, whipped, and lynched. Or if my great-great grandfather had been but three-fifths of a person in a constitution that proclaimed, “We the people.” Or if my own parents had been subjected to the racial vitriol of Jim Crow, Strom Thurmond, Bull Connor, and Jesse Helms. Even so, the anger of black preachers I’ve known and heard about and reported on was, for them, very personal and cathartic.
That’s not how Jeremiah Wright came across in those sound bites or in his defiant performances this week. What white America is hearing in his most inflammatory words is an attack on the America they cherish and that many of their sons have died for in battle ? forgetting that black Americans have fought and bled beside them, and that Wright himself has a record of honored service in the Navy. Hardly anyone took the “chickens come home to roost” remark to convey the message that intervention in the political battles of other nations is sure to bring retaliation in some form, which is not to justify the particular savagery of 9/11 but to understand that actions have consequences. My friend Bernard Weisberger, the historian, says, yes, people are understandably seething with indignation over Wright’s absurd charge that the United States deliberately brought an HIV epidemic into being. But it is a fact, he says, that within living memory the U.S. Public Health Service conducted a study that deliberately deceived black men with syphilis into believing that they were being treated, while actually letting them die for the sake of a scientific test. Does this excuse Wright’s anger? His exaggerations or distortions? You’ll have to decide or yourself. At least it helps me to understand the why of them.
But in this multimedia age the pulpit isn’t only available on Sunday mornings. There’s round the clock media — the beast whose hunger is never satisfied, especially for the fast food with emotional content. So the preacher starts with rational discussion and after much prodding throws more and more gasoline on the fire that will eventually consume everything it touches. He had help — people who for their own reasons set out to conflate the man in the pulpit who wasn’t running for president with the man in the pew who was.
Behold the double standard: John McCain sought out the endorsement of John Hagee, the war-mongering Catholic-bashing Texas preacher who said the people of New Orleans got what they deserved for their sins. But no one suggests McCain shares Hagee’s delusions, or thinks AIDS is God’s punishment for homosexuality. Pat Robertson called for the assassination of a foreign head of state and asked God to remove Supreme Court justices, yet he remains a force in the Republican religious right. After 9/11 Jerry Falwell said the attack was God’s judgment on America for having been driven out of our schools and the public square, but when McCain goes after the endorsement of the preacher he once condemned as an agent of intolerance, the press gives him a pass.
Jon Stewart recently played a tape from the Nixon White House in which Billy Graham talks in the oval office about how he has friends who are Jewish, but he knows in his heart that they are undermining America. This is crazy; this is wrong — white preachers are given leeway in politics that others aren’t.
Which means it is all about race, isn’t it? Wright’s offensive opinions and inflammatory appearances are judged differently. He doesn’t fire a shot in anger, put a noose around anyone’s neck, call for insurrection, or plant a bomb in a church with children in Sunday school. What he does is to speak his mind in a language and style that unsettle some people, and says some things so outlandish and ill-advised that he finally leaves Obama no choice but to end their friendship. We are often exposed us to the corroding acid of the politics of personal destruction, but I’ve never seen anything like this ? this wrenching break between pastor and parishioner before our very eyes. Both men no doubt will carry the grief to their graves. All the rest of us should hang our heads in shame for letting it come to this in America, where the gluttony of the non-stop media grinder consumes us all and prevents an honest conversation on race. It is the price we are paying for failing to heed the great historian Jacob Burckhardt, who said “beware the terrible simplifiers”.
Despite all of the personal and moral problems I have with Hillary Clinton, despite the fact that she will do anything to ensure that Barack Obama does not win the Democratic nomination or the Presidency, there is one thing, one giant thing that bothers me even more about her: her teeth. I mean seriously, Scope those choppers out.
My God, woman, you are running for President of the United Fucking States. I know you’re trying to appeal to all those blue collar and lower class folk, but gees, can’t you do it another way? There’s already something sinister about your smile (the cackle doesn’t help either) but those front teeth are reprehensible. How are you supposed to take care of an entire country if you can’t even take care of your own dental hygiene? What are you, an anti-dentite?
In a campaign where the media obsesses over superficial issues (hair cuts, flag pins, naps) why hasn’t this issue been brought up? They’ve talked about Hillary’s health insurance plan, but does she have a dental plan? What happens if Lisa needs braces?
It’s 3:00 am. The phone is ringing. It’s your fucking dentist!
The latest TDK viral marketing adventure culminates with the premiere of the new, official theatrical trailer — not a teaser trailer but a full-fledged trailer designed to wet our appetites. In twelve cities today, including Boston, a scavenger hunt of sorts will lead to a theatre in each city where the trailer will premiere. It shouldn’t be long before the trailer makes it online.
In the meantime, here are two new posters:
