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Ace: What the Media Decided For Me About Wright

Posted 30 Apr 2008 in 2008 election, Barack Obama

Ace wraps up this whole Wright controversy and translates the MSM’s cheerleading. Let the healing begin: 1. Wright’s anti-semitic, anti-American, hardcore Marxist radical hatred was entirely occluded from Obama, the world, and most especially the NYT until yesterday. It came as a complete shock to one and all, and no one should hold it against Obama that he cultivated a mutually advantageous political partnership with a Nazi for 20 years. Now he’s “repudiated” the Nazi, and we all know that you can consort with Nazis for almost all of your adult life and then simply “repudiate” them at a press availability and the issue goes away entirely. 2. Obama’s 20 year political partnership with Wright may raise questions about...

New movie posters for The Dark Knight

Posted 30 Apr 2008 in movies, pop culture

(New bootleg trailer and info added. Scroll down for updates.)—UPDATE: Here’s the HD version of the official trailer.—UPDATE: Holy bootleg, Batman! The second trailer for The Dark Knight was scheduled to release this Sunday but has already hit the web:MTV has a shot-by-shot analysis of the trailer. If that wasn’t enough, the first 6 minutes of the movie have leaked and can be seen here.

Daily Kos: ‘Uncle Tom’ Obama

Posted 30 Apr 2008 in Barack Obama, Democrats, liberals

Looks like some in the Daily Kos hard left are doing an about-face on Barack Obama. Could it be because they don’t like him making public statements against 911 conspiracies, anti-American rants and race-baiting? I have been a huge supporter of Barack. He is the guy I’ve been behind for quite awhile now. Check my older diaries if you wonder about that. And while I’ve been steeling myself for a Barack loss in November, because I think the Repug machine is too good for him to beat, I had resigned myself to still working hard for him and for the Progressive cause! But today something changed for me… Today, the scales fell from my eyes and I saw Barack...

Roger Waters litters for Obama

Posted 30 Apr 2008 in 2008 election, Barack Obama, environment, liberals

Liberals doing their part to save the planet litter in the cause of their vacuous candidate: confetti flyers and parts of a vinyl pig courtesy of former Pink Floyd lead singer Roger Waters. (h/t: Michelle Malkin) A stream of tiny fliers endorsing presidential candidate Barack Obama was released from a plane flying over the Empire Polo Field during Roger Waters’ Coachella-ending set late Sunday evening, Indio officials said. But the plane missed its target. Instead, fliers drifted over a two-mile radius area northwest of the field, according to Indio Police Department spokesman Ben Guitron. But, but, but I thought liberals cared more about the environment than the rest of us do! Pieces of the white, spray painted pig were...

The wheels on the bus go "thump thump thump" over Rev. Wright.

Posted 29 Apr 2008 in 2008 election, Barack Obama, hypocrisy, racism

Although he’s avoided it for weeks (“I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.”), Obama finally did it: threw his pastor under the proverbial bus. It’s been humorous today watching Barack Obama desperately attempt to distance himself from the venomous mentor he’s followed for the past 20 years. His “spiritual leader” harbors a deep hatred for America (and his wife publicly espouses several similar views): America is a “mean” country, our Marine Corps are like the Roman legionnaires who crucified Christ, the U.S. government secretly carried out the 9/11 attacks and engineered the AIDS virus to wipe out black people, the American flag stands for the same things as does Al Qaeda. This whole...

More "context" from Rev. Jeremiah Wright

Today’s a busy one for me today, what with an early doctor appointment, a mid-afternoon interview, and trying to keep up with my freelance work in between. But this was just too much to let slide. There’s been a lot of controversy in the media for the past several weeks regarding speeches made by Barack Hussein Obama’s “spiritual mentor”, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Claims have been made that his bigoted and anti-American comments are being taken out of context. Rev. Wright took time this weekend to offer further “context” in diatribes to the NAACP and the National Press Club (accompanied by bodyguards from the Nation of Islam). In retrospect, he might have been smarter to heed the words of Lincoln:...

Victor Borge’s Phonetic Punctuation Routine

Posted 27 Apr 2008 in humor

When I was a kid, this was one of my favorite bits on The Electric Company.

What Would Hancock Do?

Posted 26 Apr 2008 in movies, pop culture

This looks like it could be cool. It’s Will Smith’s new summer blockbuster Hancock, where he plays a homeless superhero.

Quote of the day

Posted 25 Apr 2008 in wise quotes

From a good post today about Los Angeles banning bacon-wrapped hot dogs. “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” – C.S. Lewis

Creepiest. Photo. Ever.

Posted 25 Apr 2008 in 2008 election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton

My eyes! My eyes!

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