Manufactured Dissent

I must say I was enjoying reading about/watching my predictions come to light regarding the infighting among Republicans. They did a good job, as usual, of keeping a good public face and appeared as if they were about to marshal in the herd and have them all chewing the same cud.
Then, President Obama tweaked Rush [...]

This Week in Race (ism): Michael Steele, Montgomery Bell Academy and the Nashville Scene

Okay, perhaps much to your surprise, Obama’s win did not signal an end to racism as we know it, or even an end to people talking about race and ethnicity. What with Nashville embroiled somewhat interested in a battle over legislation that sought to make the city less hospitable to those from other nations, you [...]

Whose House? Our House!

Found at Dub Dot Dash

Wes Freeman, I Take it, Will Not Be Taking MLK Day Off

This person, whom I tend to doubt has any real power, said in the comments section of a post I made about the post-election state of the national GOP that he would not be giving any “blacks” an “even break.” He will never even hire another Black, because of their vote for Obama.
Wes, hate [...]

Relax, Howard

Howard Kurtz, WaPo appointed media watchdog falls in line with the contrarian point of view over Barack Obama’s win. He whines:
Are the media capable of merchandizing the moment, packaging a president-elect for profit? Yes, they are.
What’s troubling here goes beyond the clanging of cash registers. Media outlets have always tried to make a few bucks [...]

Obama is Smart to Keep the Traitor

With Harry Reid ready to give Joe Lieberman the boot and take away his Homeland Security chairmanship, President-elect Obama sends signals that maybe it’s okay if Joe sticks around awhile. Lieberman, who stood with a stupid grin on his face behind McCain at campaign events and attacked Obama in the media, would ordinarily be disciplined [...]

The Republican Party’s National Death Rattle

Foresight was never a strength of the hard right, especially those of the chat show class. Apparently, neither is hindsight. Phil Valentine, Mona Charen and others are spreading the idea that “racial guilt” led to President-elect Obama’s win. Racial guilt, if you can’t sort it out, would be White folks feeling bad for slavery and [...]

Palin Heard the Rain Down in Africa

I am going to give Palin the benefit of doubt as to whether she knew Africa was a continent and not a country. I have heard more people than I care talk about Africa as if it were a country though surely they knew it is actually a continent. It is a function of our [...]

There Are No Words . . . Well, A Few

We spend the latter half of the afternoon making GOTV calls to New Mexico and Virginia at Obama HQ in Nashville, with a quick sprint out to Napier Park to do some “visibility.” Even though intellectually I thought Obama had the election in the bag there was a sense of something . . . nerves, [...]

Sarah Palin’s Foreign Policy Experience with French and Canadians

A comedy team out of Canada, the Masked Avengers, played a pretty funny prank on poor lil Guv’nah Palin over the weekend. They called her, pretending to be French P.M. Nicolas Sarkozy.

1) How did this call get through her staff? No verification? No one looked at caller ID?
2) The first tip [...]