A Holocaust Float? What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

9:02 pm EST January 31st, 2008 | Uncategorized | Comments Off

Somebody thought this was a good idea.

A Brazilian judge has banned a controversial Carnival float that depicted Holocaust victims and was to be accompanied by a samba dancer dressed as Adolph Hitler.

The creators said the float was a protest against genocide, but judge in Rio de Janeiro backed a complaint from the Jewish community, saying the festival “cannot be used as a tool in the cult of hate or for any form of racism … or for the banalization of barbaric events.”

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Chris Berman Monday Night Football Meltdown

8:27 pm EST January 31st, 2008 | Sports | 4 Comments

Lots of swearing. Funny. Especially when you consider the guy works for Disney.

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Republican Bigot Eruption, Red State Edition

6:56 pm EST January 31st, 2008 | News | 5 Comments

At the flailing Kos-wannabe site Red State, they’ve taken to begging their readers to stop using racist rhetoric.

What is not fine, okay, or within the bounds of the rules, is to use Latino names as an insult. We are speaking, specifically, of “Jorge Arbusto” and “Juan McCain,” although it’s certainly possible that others are floating out there or may yet be invented. Allow me to clue anyone who thinks these names are funny or clever in to something: racism isn’t clever or funny. If you think you’ve really zinged someone by calling them by a Latino name, that’s a pretty reliable (nearly infallible, in fact) indicator that you don’t like Latino people.

If you have to tell them that, haven’t you already lost?

 

Obama Money

11:48 am EST January 31st, 2008 | News | 3 Comments

Sen. Obama has raised a lot of money this month. I’d like to see Sen. Clinton’s numbers to compare.

The campaign of Barack Obama will report having raised at least $32 million in the month of January, a staggering amount for one month, campaign manager David Plouffe said this morning.

That included contributions from 170,000 new donors. That brings the campaign’s total number of contributors to 650,000, Plouffe said.

Plouffe said the money came in at a consistent pace throughout the month, but the campaign’s strongest day of fundraising came the day after the New Hampshire primary, which Obama narrowly lost to Hillary Clinton.

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links for 2008-01-31

7:22 am EST January 31st, 2008 | News | 1 Comment

 

One Of The Most Idiotic Things I’ve Ever Seen

1:12 am EST January 31st, 2008 | News | 7 Comments

Taylor Marsh is all a-twitter over the media going nutty over the faux “snub” during the State Of The Union (the video looks the same as on the night of the speech, no matter how many times you slow-mo it or change the headline). Should Sen. Clinton be the nominee I expect these same people to be up in arms when the press examines the trivial minutiae of Sen. Clinton (like “the cackle”) without a hint of shame about the role they played in further legitimizing this line of nonsense.

I’m still trying to figure what the root cause of this is. Is it that progressive female bloggers see the candidacy of Sen. Obama as illegitimate because he’s a man? Or that because he’s black but not female he needs to sit down and wait his turn? More than a couple liberal bloggers sound just like Fox News when the target is Sen. Obama.

UPDATE: This picture verifies what Sen. Obama and Sen. McCaskill have been saying. I hope the anti-Obama bloggers feel very stupid and very ashamed.

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Sen. Clinton And Iraq

12:35 am EST January 31st, 2008 | News | 9 Comments

I said this months ago. Sen. Clinton just echoes John Kerry in her version of her position on the Iraq War. Certainly 2008 is not 2004 and the votes on the war won’t loom as large. But this sort of mythology just won’t pass the smell test.

Sen. Obama and Hillary have identical voting records on the Iraq war.

That may be true if you pretend that 2003 never happened. Sen. Clinton voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq. She’s been good on providing support to the troops, providing body armor and even on redeployment from the region.

But she voted to authorize the use of force (Aka The Iraq War). And Sen. Obama opposed it as he ran for his seat. That’s a fact.

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Giuliani As A Running Mate?

7:03 pm EST January 30th, 2008 | News | 6 Comments

For once let these usually wrong people be right. It would be like getting to run against crazy Rudy after all! Please, God, make this happen.

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What Are You Gonna Do?

5:59 pm EST January 30th, 2008 | News | Comments Off

Obama sees Sen. Clinton with Black Elvis… and raises her a Hulk Hogan. (via)

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Today’s WTF Endorsement

5:29 pm EST January 30th, 2008 | News | 1 Comment

The New York Post, the right’s entertaining if always ideologically wrong broadsheet, has endorsed Sen. Obama. Isn’t this the kind of thing Sen. Clinton sought to curtail by wooing Rupert Murdoch? A Post endorsement isn’t worth much in a Democratic primary.

But it is weird.

Reminder: The Post endorsed Sen. Clinton for re-election in 2006.

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