Tag Archives: racism

Poison from Austria

Posted on November 7, 2008 by Lee

If the public outpouring of mourning for the loss of fascist sympathizer Jörg Haider were not enough to injure your esteem for contemporary Austrian public affairs, here’s another such moment. Klaus Emmerich, the highly esteemed former editor of Austria’s state … Continue reading →

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Immunizing Sarah Palin

Posted on September 8, 2008 by Lee

(photo: Tom LeGro) Christopher Hitchens notices a pattern with anti-Palin rumors: their troubling tendency to turn out highly exaggerated or entirely fabricated, in a very short turn. [A]s often as I have forwarded some alarming e-mail about her from a … Continue reading →

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Christopher Hitchens on Robert Mugabe

Posted on August 31, 2008 by Lee

I’d heard that Hitch addressed the situation in Zimbabwe in his introductory remarks at the Freedom Fest 2008 debate with Dinesh D’Souza, but I hadn’t seen the video of it until today. It’s worth a watch. The subject of the … Continue reading →

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Smarty Pants

Posted on August 18, 2008 by Peg

Every day, Professor Keith Burgess-Jackson reprints a Letter to the Editor from the New York Times.  This offering left me gape-jawed. The Professor’s first point is well-taken. Where is the evidence that Barack Obama is more intelligent than John McCain? … Continue reading →

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Exposing a Media Fantasy

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Lee

Jon Stewart hilariously ridicules the notion that McCain’s advertising contains hidden racist and sexist messages.

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Two Voters

Posted on August 4, 2008 by Lee

David Gergen is the latest to detect hidden racist messages in McCain advertising. I’d say that there’s two types of voters on this issue. The sort who sighs at an “obvious” effort to invent an artificial racism for McCain, and … Continue reading →

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Running Against the New York Times

Posted on August 1, 2008 by Lee

Perhaps Mr. Riley’s allegation in Newsday that the McCain “Celeb” ad exposed some sort of crypto-racist subterfuge, is more widely shared among Obama’s media advocates than one might have assumed. For the queen of that kingdom evidently shares the sentiment: … Continue reading →

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Campaign Racism

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Peg

ABC’s Jake Tapper thinks it’s primarily being leveled by Democrats. There’s a lot of racist xenophobic crap out there. But not only has McCain not peddled any of it, he’s condemned it. What I have not seen is it come … Continue reading →

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Sonny Landham Falls

Posted on July 29, 2008 by Lee

Looks like the Libertarian Party of Kentucky has dumped Sonny Landham, previously their clinically insane pick for US Senate. Good for them. Even if given the psychopathic nature of Landham’s views, I feel a little like I’m congratulating them for … Continue reading →

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Is Obama an Elitist?

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Keith_Indy

Finally, someone else is bringing up the same point I’ve been making about Obama’s remarks at that SanFran fundraiser… For a man who clings to a racist black preacher as tightly as Obama has clung to Reverend Wright, it’s odd … Continue reading →

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Silk Purses and Sow’s Ears

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Peg

(Cross Posted at What if?) We all know that you cannot make a silk purse from a sow’s ear. Similarly, an anti-racism conference that features Libya as its chair, with Cuba as its vice-chair, has virtually no chance of achieving … Continue reading →

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The Fall of Paul?

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Lee

It looks like the revelations of racism and conspiratorial paranoia in The New Republic may have had a profound effect on the once fanatical Ron Paul movement. The Girl in Short Shorts notes something: “Now today, for the first time … Continue reading →

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The Glenn Greenwald Carnival of Fisking has some new entries

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Lance

First, let us all go and see Eric Scheie delve into the sock drawer and how the moth eaten brain now, amongst all the other charges, believes Glenn Reynolds is a racist! The puppy blending, mass murder and nuclear holocaust … Continue reading →

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