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But Michelle Obama's the one with the anger management issues.

Posted on February 28, 2012 by | 24 Comments

So apparently Ann Romney, wanna-be First Lady, said this about the media:

[It's] getting harder and harder to be cheerful…. I am so mad at the press [that] I could just strangle them! And, you know, I think I’ve decided there are going to be some people invited on the bus and some people just aren’t going to be invited on the bus.

As Mother Jones’s Adam Serwer rightly pointed out on Twitter today: Imagine what would happen if Michelle Obama had said anything even remotely similar, adding:

You know, for such an angry black woman, I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard Michelle Obama talk about strangling anyone.

But she does like to encourage kids to exercise, and we all know that’s straight-up Kenyan Communism, mirite?!!1!?

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ESPN Owes Jeremy Lin an Apology [updated]

Posted on February 18, 2012 by | 11 Comments

This is outrageous.

(via)

Open thread, if you like.

UPDATE: Looks like I’m late on this story. Here’s ESPN’s apology:

Last night, ESPN.com’s mobile web site posted an offensive headline referencing Jeremy Lin at 2:30 am ET. The headline was removed at 3:05 am ET. We are conducting a complete review of our cross-platform editorial procedures and are determining appropriate disciplinary action to ensure this does not happen again. We regret and apologize for this mistake.

Um, yeah — you’re going to need to do better than that, ESPN. “Conducting a complete review of our cross-platform editorial procedures.” What the what? What does that even mean? How about “the use of the term ‘chink’ was racist and offensive,” or “we apologize to Mr. Lin and to the Asian-American community for use of an ignorant and racist term steeped in historical racism against Asian-Americans, racism that is rarely if every discussed” or “Wow. We’re assholes. Can you believe we thought that referencing an Asian-American as “chink” was a good idea?”

And then maybe talk about what proactive steps you are taking to ensure that this doesn’t happen again and that the persons responsible are held accountable. Babbling about “cross-platform editorial whosywhatsits” isn’t going to cut it.

Hell, at least pretend you’re going to make your editorial department take a diversity seminar. Fail.

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Pete Hoekstra pulls racist website down, Debbie Stabenow raises over $150K from it

Posted on February 12, 2012 by | 5 Comments

Debbie Stabenow: 1, Pete Hoekstra: 0

After the devastating news coverage of the past week over the racist ad and website put up by Pete Hoekstra, he has now redirected Chinese-themed www.debbiespenditnow.com to his own website www.petespenditnot.com. The YouTube video is still up, however, with over a million views. Comments and ratings are still turned off for the very obvious reasons. On his new site is a new ad without the anti-China references.

Meanwhile, a money bomb for Senator Debbie Stabenow based on reaction to Hoekestra’s odious ad and website resulted in a big haul: over $150,000.

Donors have poured more than $150,000 into Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s campaign in response to an ad run this week by GOP rival Pete Hoekstra. [...]

Stabenow’s campaign asked donors to help her raise $144,000 in response to Hoekstra’s first ad, the amount his campaign planned to spend airing it.

Stabenow campaign officials report raising more than $150,000 as of Friday morning.

I’m chalking that up as a win for Debbie Stabenow. You can contribute to her campaign HERE.

Cross-posted from Eclectablog. Photo credit: Anne C. Savage

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WTF?! The CPAC Rap Everyone Is Talking About

Posted on February 10, 2012 by | 27 Comments

Yes, it’s that bad.

I made it to the two minute mark at which point my jaw dropped and I actually said out loud: “Holy fuck.”

The only good part is when the black dude drops his mic and walks out.  (As the “rappers” yell — well, you heard it.)  Holy shnikeys.

To John Cole who asked, “Is there any way I can publicly renounce my whiteness and become an honorary black person?”

Yeah. We’ll take you. The certificate is in the mail.

And now here’s a video of my dog to help wipe what you just watched from your brain-space:

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Funny or Die nails Hoekstra & GOP racism to the wall.

Posted on February 8, 2012 by | 4 Comments

There you go. Funny or Die has produced the best possible response to the Hoekstra Super Bowl ad (about which your Angry Black Bloggers have fulminated here, here, and here) — because honestly now, the GOP is nothing if not laughable these days. (Ok, they’re also a smidge bit terrifying, but you see what I mean).

Laugh with me after the jump!

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Dear Asian-Americans: I am so sorry that I didn’t warn you about the GOP.

Posted on February 7, 2012 by | 13 Comments

Or: The GOP – they really don’t seem to like much of anybody!

Last week, I wrote a post asking the GOP to just shut up about black people, a post which got a surprising amount of attention across the web.

In the aftermath of that, I found myself wondering: “Huh. Who is the GOP going to demonize and belittle next in this election cycle?”

And I knew: Asian-Americans. A post began to form itself in my head, one I intended to write sometime this week.

I mean, they’ve demonized and belittled gay people already:

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Racist Hoekstra ad reframes the conversation, but not how he wanted it to (& Dave Weigel is wrong.)

Posted on February 7, 2012 by | 7 Comments

Missed it by THAT much

Pete Hoekstra is nearly giddy about all the attention his racist ad had garnered.

Hoekstra, a former Republican congressman from Holland, stood his ground Monday, saying the ad did what he wanted: It drew a clear contrast between himself and Democratic U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow.

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“We knew we were taking an aggressive approach on this, but we’re in a time when people are fed up with the spending and we wanted to capture that frustration,” Hoekstra said. “It hits Debbie smack-dab between the eyes on the area where she is most vulnerable.”

Let’s have a look at the headlines to see if he has, indeed, reshaped the conversation to talk about Debbie Stabenow’s spendthrift ways.

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GOP Still Pretending Abortion is 'Black Genocide'

Posted on February 6, 2012 by | 18 Comments

Give it a rest already.

 I’ve written before about PRENDA (Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act) and the nonsense “abortion is black genocide” narrative (here).  As you may recall, it’s the basis for Operation Spite Babies.

I don’t have much to add on the matter, but I do want to point out this quote about which I have been laughing all morning:

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More on (Moron?) Pete Hoekstra's racist Super Bowl ad

Posted on February 6, 2012 by | 14 Comments

You’re in a hole, Pete. Stop digging.

The fallout from Senatorial candidate and racist Pete Hoekstra and his offensive, xenophobic political ad continued unabated today.

Another GOP consultant, Mike Murphy, tweeted that the ad was “really, really dumb”. According the Washington Post, “Foreign Policy magazine managing editor Blake Hounshell called the ad ‘despicable.’”

Ironically, the ad, which seems to blame U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow for the outsourcing that is sending jobs over seas, was not produced in Michigan. Rather, it was made by media strategist Fred Davis of California-based Strategic Perception Inc.. In other words, he outsourced it to another state.

Joan McCarter at Daily Kos reports that Hoekstra spent $150,000 on this monstrosity that, as she put it, “Offend[s] most of the state of Michigan”.

MaddowBlog linked my piece in a post titled “Pete Hoekstra’s viral bait”:

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