This is fucking hysterical, another example of trying to say the same thing over and over in the hope that it will become truth. I think this might finally be a year when that shit don't fly.
That the guy even says Allen has a good record on this is the sort of thing that should land you on the psychiatrist's couch. I mean, doesn't using a racial slur publicly kind of make it tough to have a good record on diversity?
I love the defense that because most Americans probably don't know what "macaca" means, calling him out is really a smear.
Personally, I think using obscure racial epithets only shows one to be a connoisseur of the genre.
This will soon to be followed by the GOP using Pat Buchanan to recruit Jewish people and Lou Dobbs to recruit Latinos.
BTW, I'd like to thank the republican party for the comedic gold that they have provided in the past week. It has taken my mind off the market crash-- and also reminds me not to let these fools anywhere near the levers ofo power.
Am I the only one who thinks the Republicans are in for a rude awakening come November?
McCain looks more and more out of touch these days, bumbling, fumbling over cue cards, fidgeting and phasing out during interviews, and a shrinking violet behind Palin on the stump.
Palin's losing her appeal to, even within her own party (a big ouch from Chuck Hagel today).
The spinsters are even losing their grip on the spin.
And now they send out George Allen (George Allen!?) to evangelize the party's commitment to minorities. What a joke. And a mistake.
It might seem ridiculous to make predictions at this point in the election cycle, but I think Obama is going to win, and win big in November.
And the GOP wonders why they can't do better with "minorities." That's because they they are 1. so clueless as to send George Allen and/or 2. truly don't care and so send George Allen.
Oh, but by their lights, they are trying. That's the scary thing. Allen is a sort of sports figure, in a way, right? And the coloreds love sports, right?
Am I the only one who thinks the Republicans are in for a rude awakening come November?
No. My pet theories for the past few months are that the race is only this close because the undecideds haven't made up their minds about Obama and that they're going to break late and big towards Obama if he does well in the debates.
No my friends, the GOP is counting on racism to pull it through--read the AP polling story that came out this morning. Tho' the AP says it is "racial misgivings" that may cause many White people to equate a US Senator, who's grandfather fought in Patton's army and great uncle helped liberate Nazi concentration camps, who is a former president of the Harvard Law Review, who worked and loaned his way through school, who is a devoted husband and father with these words: "lazy, boastful, violent and irresponsible" I call it what it is--racism. My question is what the hell did we do (I am an African American of Hispanic descent) to White Americans to make you think like this? Full disclosure: I have worked at the highest levels of GOP government ( Bush pere et fils, Senate, House) and corporate America.
Here's a piece no one cared about. Meh, whatever, probably the most enjoyable article I did during my stint at TIME. Premiered a month before I got laid-off. The nail in the coffin? Ya think?
Here's me going after Al. I didn't so much have a problem with him, as I had a problem with media acting like this dude was the go-to guy for everything black.
This was my first real story at time. I was writing for the Business section, a real change of direction for me. At any rate, it's about Wal-Mart's attempts to colonize the inner-city. As much as I enjoyed this piece, I mostly enjoyed going out to Chicago, which is a beautiful, beautiful city.
This a piece I did about the cops just outside our nation capitol, in Prince George's County, a few years back. I wanted to offer a counter to the dumb, conventional wisdom that if you paint your police force black, you could eradicate police brutality. In fact, Prince George's--one of the richest, blackest counties in the country--also had one of the most brutal police force's in the country.
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood 
This is fucking hysterical, another example of trying to say the same thing over and over in the hope that it will become truth. I think this might finally be a year when that shit don't fly.
I can't even laugh at this, it's so pathetic.
it was definitely a WTF moment.
The Onion wouldn't even joke about that because as a joke it is too obvious.
Oh, you can't make this shit up. Beautiful.
That the guy even says Allen has a good record on this is the sort of thing that should land you on the psychiatrist's couch. I mean, doesn't using a racial slur publicly kind of make it tough to have a good record on diversity?
I love the defense that because most Americans probably don't know what "macaca" means, calling him out is really a smear.
Personally, I think using obscure racial epithets only shows one to be a connoisseur of the genre.
TNC
This will soon to be followed by the GOP using Pat Buchanan to recruit Jewish people and Lou Dobbs to recruit Latinos.
BTW, I'd like to thank the republican party for the comedic gold that they have provided in the past week. It has taken my mind off the market crash-- and also reminds me not to let these fools anywhere near the levers ofo power.
Am I the only one who thinks the Republicans are in for a rude awakening come November?
McCain looks more and more out of touch these days, bumbling, fumbling over cue cards, fidgeting and phasing out during interviews, and a shrinking violet behind Palin on the stump.
Palin's losing her appeal to, even within her own party (a big ouch from Chuck Hagel today).
The spinsters are even losing their grip on the spin.
And now they send out George Allen (George Allen!?) to evangelize the party's commitment to minorities. What a joke. And a mistake.
It might seem ridiculous to make predictions at this point in the election cycle, but I think Obama is going to win, and win big in November.
Why? Am I missing something or are Republicans absurd? Is there seriously no one else they could find?
One can only hope that SR Sidarth is back in Virginia and available that day to attend the event.
this is the definition of
cold blooded contempt. What? Michael Steele was too obvious?
And the GOP wonders why they can't do better with "minorities." That's because they they are 1. so clueless as to send George Allen and/or 2. truly don't care and so send George Allen.
And to think you were upset when Al Sharpton was the black spokesperson.
Freedom Fry, it's one of the many moments this season when I've thought "That isn't fair. Make the Onion think up it's own headlines."
Oh, but by their lights, they are trying. That's the scary thing. Allen is a sort of sports figure, in a way, right? And the coloreds love sports, right?
No. My pet theories for the past few months are that the race is only this close because the undecideds haven't made up their minds about Obama and that they're going to break late and big towards Obama if he does well in the debates.
No my friends, the GOP is counting on racism to pull it through--read the AP polling story that came out this morning. Tho' the AP says it is "racial misgivings" that may cause many White people to equate a US Senator, who's grandfather fought in Patton's army and great uncle helped liberate Nazi concentration camps, who is a former president of the Harvard Law Review, who worked and loaned his way through school, who is a devoted husband and father with these words: "lazy, boastful, violent and irresponsible" I call it what it is--racism. My question is what the hell did we do (I am an African American of Hispanic descent) to White Americans to make you think like this? Full disclosure: I have worked at the highest levels of GOP government ( Bush pere et fils, Senate, House) and corporate America.