Posted
Wednesday, September 20,
2006 11:30pm
Open
mouth, insert foot.
In case anyone's out
of the loop, incumbent Senator George
Allen in Virginia got in trouble a
few weeks ago when he called
one of his opponent's campaign workers "macaca".
The worker was dark skinned and "macaca" is
an old racial epithat for black people
derived from macaca monkeys.
Instead of apologizing
instantly, he first claimed he didn't
know that "macaca" was a
racial term. The blogosphere then dug
up some old pictures of Allen posing
with a bunch of guys who are/were suspected
Klan members.
Allen's polling numbers
dropped instantly. Instead of having
a comfortable lead over his Democrat
opponent, he was now several points
behind.
Then, he claimed that
he made up "macaca" on the
spot and had no idea it was an actual
word. To counter the claims of racism,
he held an "ethnic rally".
Seriously... he CALLED it that: AN
ETHNIC RALLY! He posted pictures of
the rally on his website with a link
to "Ethnic Rally"!
The latest twist,
an intrepid reporter did a bit of research
and found out that Allen's mother had
Jewish ancestry. She asked a simply
question about Allen's mom's background
ethnicity, in a totally non-offensive
way and he got super offended! To top
it off, his supporters booed as if
having Jewish heritage was bad! Allen
got angry at the reporter.
Later in the afternoon,
it was revealed that Allen's grandfather
was not only a Nazi prisoner during
the war, but <gasp!> a JEWISH prisoner.
Allen was surprised to learn this tidbit.
You'd think a guy would know if his
grandpa was a Jew imprisoned in Nazi
Germany. Unless of course he knew and
was trying to HIDE the fact that he
had Jewish ancestry.
So this morning, as
if Allen couldn't dig himself into
a deeper hole, he gave some choice
quotes to the local
paper. In light of the new
disclosures about his family's ethic
background, he said this...
Speaking with The
Times-Dispatch, Allen said the disclosure
is "just an interesting nuance
to my background." He added, "I
still had a ham sandwich for lunch.
And my mother made great pork chops."
We get it Georgie...
some of your best friends are.... Nice
work buddy!
Wow. Just... man.
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Posted
Wednesday, September 13,
2006 11:10pm
Fun
with iChat
During the course
of one's day, we all need to relieve
ourselves of the monotony of work.
Oftentimes, it's through IM. That Borat
icon... that's me. Enjoy.
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Posted
Monday, September 11, 2006 10:30pm
Matt
Lauer... JOURNALIST!
Since the so-called
journalist refuse to question our leaders,
maybe a morning talk show host can
do the job. For the second time in
the last year, Matt Lauer got all up
in Bush's grill. Bush got pretty pissed,
even poking and touching Lauer.
From this morning's
Today Show, courtesy of Crooks
& Liars,
who also has the video:
Matt Lauer: And yet you admitted that
there were these CIA secret facilities.
OK?
President Bush: So what? Why is that
not within the law?
Matt Lauer: The head of Amnesty International
says secret sites are against international
law.
President Bush:
Well, we just disagree with him.
Plus, my job is to protect you. And
most American people, if I said [to
them] that we had who we think is
the mastermind of the 9/11, they
would say, “Why don’t you
see if you can’t get information
without torturing him,” which
is what we did.
Matt Lauer: I don’t want to
let this “within the law issue” slip
though. I mean, if, in fact, there
was water boarding used with Khalid
Sheikh Mohammed, and for the viewers,
that’s basically when you strap
someone to a board and you make them
feel as if they’re going to drown
by putting them underwater, if that
was legal and within the law, why couldn’t
you do it at Guantanamo? Why did
you have to go to a secret location
around the world?
President Bush:
I’m not going
to talk about techniques. And, I’m
not going explain to the enemy what
we’re doing. All I’m
telling you is that you’ve
asked me whether or not we’re
doing things to protect the American
people, and I want the American people
to know we are doing so.
Up is down. Stewart,
Colbert, Lauer, Olbermann: the Murrows
of our time (hat tip to Connor McDonald).
Want
to feel even more depressed about Bush?
Read
it and weep....
Schoolchildren Spent 9/11 With the
President
Five Years Ago, They Became Part
of History
By PHIL DAVIS, AP
SARASOTA,
Fla. (AP) - Tyler Radkey
and other second-graders at Emma
E. Booker Elementary School didn't
know what to think when an aide leaned
in and whispered something to President
Bush on the morning of Sept. 11,
2001.
"His face just started to turn
red," said Tyler, now 13 and in
seventh grade. "I thought, personally,
he had to go to the bathroom."
For a puzzling seven
minutes, the youngsters read aloud
from the story "The
Pet Goat" while the shaken president
followed along in front of the class,
trying to come to grips with what
he had been told - that a second
plane had just hit the World Trade
Center and the nation was under terrorist
attack.
"He
looked like he was going
to cry," said Natalia Jones-Pinkney,
now 12.
Jesus.
And lest
you forget, here's
my first person account of
being in New York on 9/11.
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