"Organizations such as MoveOn promotes aggressive partisan tactics. It is in direct opposition to the post-partisan politics that Hillary Clinton has been attempting to play while she has been in the senate."

Hillary's post-partisan politics: she seems to transcend the partisan divide by becoming a Republican while nominally a Democrat. Hillary is the Lieberman of this election, only I don't think the U.S. population at large will make the stupid mistake people in Connecticut did.

Posted at April 19, 2008 1:19 PM in response to Hillary Clinton Caught Being Two-Faced, Offends 3 Million Die-Hard Grass Roots Democratic Voters

tnathan, please explain what's bad about those policy goals except that they are shared by Hamas.

Is returning to the 67 borders the equivalent to destroying the state of Israel? Is ending the occupation or the mass detentions (check the stats on how long an Israeli citizen can be detained without charge as opposed to Gazan or West Bank Palestinians--I believe it's something like a few days to a couple hundred), equivalent to destroying the state of Israel? Is halting the continuing expansion of settlements that push Palestinian people off the land violently equivalent to destroying the state of Israel?

If your answer is yes, what does it mean that Israel depends on a neo-colonial occupation built on the violent dispossession of another people and violations of human rights? I hope if the answer is yes, that says more about your idea of Israel than Israel itself.

Posted at April 18, 2008 4:55 PM in response to Caging Congressional Pander Bears: Why J Street in Necessary

That was supposed to look a little different...

Posted at April 18, 2008 11:40 AM in response to Obama, have you no shame?!

Hilarious! If only it were true...

Hey Hillary:

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Posted at April 18, 2008 11:39 AM in response to Obama, have you no shame?!

Oh my God, I think I just figured out the true significance of the whole Rezko issue! Barack Obama...is Saddam Hussein! No wonder people think he's Muslim.

Posted at April 17, 2008 5:42 PM in response to Give ABC a piece of your mind

Agreed. I don't know how you can reasonably accuse CNN of trying to muffle this nontroversy, not with their banners exclaiming "EXPLOSIVE COMMENTS BY SENATOR OBAMA", like he'd told us all to go f*** ourselves. And the way CNN gratuitously inflates this kind of irrelevant gaffe is the same kind of manufactured, zero-sum conflict that makes substantial debate and responsible journalism so difficult in this country.

Seriously, I know you hate Obama and all, but can we please, please try to keep the discussion on the subjects that will actually affect our country (examples include Iraq, economic policy, the housing crisis, poverty, our devastated inner cities, the health care crisis, rural poverty, crumbling infrastructure, global warming, etc., but do not include Rev. Wright, Bosnian snipers--unless you're Sinbad--, generalizing about white people, and anything else covered by Fox and Friends)? Or if not, can we at least be funnier?

Posted at April 13, 2008 6:48 PM in response to CNN Pulls a Fox SNEAKY

Hell Yeah, she's bringing back "Small Town"! Guns, the Coug, and crown royal go together like...well, pretty much like guns, the coug, and crown royal. That's a Saturday night worth MSMing about.

I think her new comic stylings are starting to win me over...

Posted at April 13, 2008 12:39 AM in response to Clinton: My Dad Taught Me How To Shoot

In a word, yes. That said, I think you have to give people leeway to use those stereotypes ironically.

I live in New Orleans, and one of the most famous Mardi Gras parades here is the Zulus (forgive me if you already know all this), in which African Americans put on blackface and march with a Zulu king. What makes the Zulu parade so uproariously funny is that its satirizing two things. First, the Zulus are sending up the old racist stereotypes about blacks (the parade club was founded in the beginning of the 20th century, when those stereotypes were much more common). But the Zulus are also using those stereotypes to lampoon the rich white parade clubs, like Rex and Comus, that set themselves up as dignified (sort of) medieval pageants, crowning kings, holding royal debutante balls, etc. This pageantry stems from the Old South tradition of chivalry--a bunch of slaveholding SOBs pretending to be characters in a Walter Scott novel--and I think the Zulus are implicitly pointing out the connection between that Romantic image of the Old South and its legacy of racism. So here, using those stereotypes ironically can be a way of criticizing racism and the social institutions that help create it.

I should say that I'm not sure that "Ask a Mexican" is doing something that sophisticated, but I think it depends on the intention and the context. I also know you asked for a yes or no answer, so sorry about that.

Posted at April 12, 2008 12:38 PM in response to Do You Think This is Racist? Yes or No?

Oh, the whiteman's outrage. It's so awful when someone generalizes about the behavior of white people, seeing as how they're the racial majority and hold most of the power and money in this country and all.

Sorry, but this is obviously a silly, trumped-up bit of absurdity.

Posted at April 11, 2008 7:06 PM in response to Obama's Hate and Racism Now Targets Pennsylvania

I think you mean "bupkis". Does that qualify as a Freudian slip?

Also, right on about the all caps titles. Reading them feels like getting yelled at.

Posted at April 11, 2008 1:19 PM in response to IT'S ABOUT NOVEMBER, STUPID: HRC LOST AND OBAMA WON AND IT IS TIME TO DESTORY JOHN BUSH-MCCAIN