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We’ve taken another step closer to the ni-CLANG! Event Horizon. Gird your loins, people:
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A two-minute version of the new spot is already available on the group’s website, though the group promises a one-minute version is forthcoming. In it, he says:
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As the granddaughter of a school teacher who was fired from his job in the Philadelphia school district because he refused to “name names,” I’m going to need people to stop making dumbass comparisons of the mundane to McCarthyism.
I’m looking at you Eric Fehrnstrom:
“His charges are baseless and untrue. I would ask him one simple question. Do you have no sense of decency, is there nothing you won’t do to debase the office you hold in the name of dirty politics?” Romney’s chief strategist Eric Fehrnstrom told Fox.
His references to former Sen. Joseph McCarthy didn’t stop there. “Again, this reminds me of the McCarthy hearings back in the 1950s, and it was another son from Massachusetts then, Joseph Welch who finally asked the question that should be asked of Harry Reid, which is, have you no sense of decency, sir,” Fehrnstom said. “Is there nothing that you won’t do in the name of dirty politics?”
On the Senate floor Thursday morning, Reid doubled down on his recent claim to have an anonymous source who says Romney didn’t pay federal taxes for 10 years.
“So the word’s out that he hasn’t paid any taxes for ten years,” Reid said. “Let him prove that he has paid taxes, because he hasn’t.”
Riiiiight. Harry Reid is JUST LIKE MCCARTHY!
Except he’s not. Harry Reid is simply asking Mitt Romney to do what Mitt Romney keeps promising he will do — be open and transparent. Harry Reid is also asking Mitt Romney to do what Mitt Romney’s own father did – release his fucking tax returns.
Joe McCarthy, on the other hand, did actual damage to actual families — families like mine.
Here’s a blurb about my grandpa (which I just found on the Internet! I never thought to google my grandpa before!):
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More racist stupidity from Iowa Rep. Steve King:
KING: We went down into the Library of Congress and we found a microfiche there of two newspapers in Hawaii each of which had published the birth of Barack Obama. It would have been awfully hard to fraudulently file the birth notice of Barack Obama being born in Hawaii and get that into our public libraries and that microfiche they keep of all the newspapers published. That doesn’t mean there aren’t some other explanations on how they might’ve announced that by telegram from Kenya. The list goes on. But drilling into that now, even if we could get a definitive answer and even if it turned out that Barack Obama was conclusively not born in America, I don’t think we could get that case sold between now and November.
They’re never going to shut up, are they? They’re never going to get over the fact that there’s a black man in the White House? Criminy.
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Vanessa Gyan at She So Major flagged a story that makes me want to yell at somebody.
Express Night Out, a WaPo publication, conveniently left out Gabby Douglas from its coverage of the women’s gymnastics team gold medal win yesterday. The article, a PDF copy of which can be found here, fails to mention Gabby at all. No photo, no mention — nothing:
We were all so proud of 16-year-old Gabby Douglas as she lead the United States Women’s Gymnastics team to win gold yesterday [July 31] during the London Olympics.
Tweets, headlines, text messages! Everyone was beyond excited for this young woman of color who dominated her sport. The sport she has loved for many years.This morning [August 1], I was baffled by the mention of Douglas being omitted from, The Washington Post publication, The Express Night Out, that was printed this morning congratulating Team USA on their incredible win.
A picture of Express Night Out’s article was tweeted and Gabby’s name was not mentioned and the publication chose to use a picture that did NOT include Gabby. Oh wait, Gabby was in the picture but in the background.
Jordyn Wieber, Aly Raisman, Kyla Ross and McKayla Maroney are photographed and praised but why not Gabby?
Someone explain to me how this isn’t blatant discrimination. Please.
UPDATE: Gabby, or rather, an unnamed black girl doing a backbend, is featured in the upper right hand corner of the cover. So, perhaps it is not as egregious as I thought, but that doesn’t explain why the team picture chosen is of Gabby’s back, nor does it explain why she is not named in the article or on the cover. So, no, I will not delete this thread.
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The IRS needs to rescind this church’s tax-exempt status immediately:
Now, the couple wants answers, and the church’s pastor is questioning the mindset of some of members of his congregation who caused the problem in the first place.
They had set the date and printed and mailed out all the invitations, but the day before wedding bells were to ring for Charles and Te’Andrea Wilson, they say they got some bad news from the pastor.
“The church congregation had decided no black could be married at that church, and that if he went on to marry her, then they would vote him out the church,” said Charles Wilson.The Wilsons were trying to get married at the predominantly white First Baptist Church of Crystal Springs — a church they attend regularly, but are not members of.
It’s not racist because we have a black president.
(h/t @JoshuaHol)
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So, remember how Mitt Romney went and gave a speech before the NAACP, he got booed, and he stood there looking like his emotions processor chip had malfunctioned? And then later, he essentially called black people lazy because they want free stuff?
It was like, two weeks ago — how can you not remember?
Let’s recap:
First, Romney went and gave a speech before the NAACP and he got booed.
Then, Romney went on Fox News and said he has double-seekrit black supporters.
Then Romney went to a fundraiser in Montana and talked smack about black people. As Zandar aptly put it:
Because it seems to me Mitt Romney here is saying that black voters only care about getting free stuff, and that he’s more than happy to advance the most awful stereotypes about the “lazy welfare parasites” of black culture while dripping with privilege himself. More importantly, it reveals that Romney was never interested in speaking to black America, but speaking down to us, which is a huge difference if you’ve ever been in a situation like that. Of course Romney was going to get booed when his speech was laden with red state red meat and delivered in a tone where the Superior White Male is telling us Poor Dumb Black Folk what we need to know, and if we knew what was good for us, we’d vote Republican.
Now, Mittens is doing what he does best — lying his ass off:
Mitt Romney’s speech at the NAACP was defined in the media by the resounding chorus of boos he elicited from the crowd. Campaign staffers had a different interpretation, insisting that he received “thunderous applause over and over again.”
[full post at ABLC]
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