This is for those who say I’m too hard on Obama:
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After Dedicating Crass Song to McCain/Palin, Jay-Z to Rally Obama Supporters in Ohio (by Jake Tapper at Political Punch, ABC News)
The Obama campaign announced today that Jay-Z and NBA star LeBron James will hold a "Last Chance for Change" concert in Cleveland next Wednesday. The announcement about Jay-Z comes a few days after he dedicated his 2003 song "99 Problems" to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. The lyrics to "99 Problems" include the famous line: "If you're havin' girl problems I feel bad for you son / I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one."
Yes, and that was the song Obama played at his Iowa victory rally—thereby calling Hillary Clinton a bitch.—Caro
Which is more repugnant: the misogyny or the silence about the misogny? (Heidi Li's Potpourri )
If Senator Obama cannot make it clear that he either truly understands misogyny and its pervasiveness in American culture or that he sincerely wants to learn about it and use his political platform to oppose it with all his might, he does not deserve the votes of true humanists, people who work to rid our culture of all forms of illegitimate assaults on human dignity, including not only racism, but misogyny. His silence on the topic will cost him my vote, and I believe it should cost him the vote of anybody who expected more and better from the candidate who kept promising us a new kind of politics and a better brand of leadership.
Friday: If Obama doesn’t condemn misogyny, we will resist (by riverdaughter at The Confluence)
The Democratic party has been revealed to take no real interest in the wishes of women. 18 million voters, many of them women for Hillary Clinton, were easily dismissed and their votes relegated to the circular file… They are so used to taking us for granted that they feel they don’t need to try to win us over and they have no comprehension of the damage they have done to their most faithful constituency… That is why we resist the Democratic party this year. We want real change and we’re not going to get it with Barack Obama as president after he has unleashed the monster of sexism that lurked beneath a thin veneer of comity. It is on his shoulders to do something about it. We hold him personally responsible because misogyny sells and he has reaped the benefits all season long at our expense.
Mad Men Makes a Splash Bigger Than Its Ratings (AP)
Mad Men draws a slice of viewers as slender as Don Draper's 1960s neckties, yet the TV drama unquestionably is all the rage. There was a Mad Men-themed category last week on Jeopardy! along with an online game, and a Mad Men homage is tucked like a fancy chocolate treat into the Nov. 2 Halloween episode of The Simpsons.
I wonder how big a part the blatant misogyny on Mad Men plays in its popularity among the cognoscenti. Sexism, after all, is so IN. And so is violence.—Caro
McCain Worker 'Confesses' She Made Up Attack Story (Fox News)
Campaign volunteer Ashley Todd, 20, reportedly admits she lied when she claimed a 'black man' beat her and carved a 'B' in her face because she was McCain backer
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Oh, Caro, I love this post but I suspect others might not. BO
was the master of the subliminal message in this campaign. When Hillary was being victimized, he was silent, subliminally intoning it was OK. Sometimes he was overt and suggested cat fights, female mood problems and fatigue.
When he wanted to scare the voters he suggested people might have a problem with him because he has a funny name or he doesn't look like the other presidents on the dollar bill, but, we know he was subliminally calling them racist.
Of course, now he's not so subliminal calling John McCain old and Sarah Palin stupid.
Welcome to the post partisan world. Ain't it grand?
I love this job!
I love this job!
Elixir, please revise and extend your comments
so that I can understand how 72 is not old. It's well into the definition of 'elderly' promulgated by the CDC (that is, people 65 years of age and older).
Because a thing is fact does not make it a pejorative.
Some extraordinarily smart and active people (for example, Dr. Bernhard Mittemayer, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center) who are even OLDER than 72 will tell you that 72 is OLD.
He's 78, and he says he plans to live to at least 95.
OLD is not the same thing as e.g. feeble, stupid, etc.
OLD is not young. That's all it is.
As far as how smart Sarah Palin is, or whether it's cunning, intelligence, or some kind of appeal to some ... organic response I've fortunately escaped (and I'm as subject to testosterone overload as anybody) ... well, I'll let you speculate.
My conclusion is that she's good at the same sorts of things W and Co. are good at -- charming the people who have the money and power to put her forward as a candidate -- and, frighteningly to me, bad at the same sorts of things W is bad at -- e.g. thinking through the consequences of doing whatever the hell he (or his puppetmasters, more likely) wants to at the moment.
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! Knowing that we’re not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18
Actually...
this is how I now feel about Obama (after getting to know him since I originally hopped briefly on his bandwagon in February), and why he horrifies me.
[Well, Obama also has the "leveraging misogyny" thing going for him. Jay-Z, eh?]
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We can't afford not to have single-payer!
I knew I was right about Ashley's mugging
A straight replay of a similar incident at Princeton. (I deleted the original material; no point giving it play.) Here's the AP link.
Another illustration of the idea that all the smart Republicans have joined the Democrats. In order, naturally, to push for progressive policies.
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Self mutilation is a sign
A disturbed mind in need of treatment, not a sign of stupidity, lambert, regardless of politial affiliation.
i can haz hillary nao?
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
- Sir William Drummond
There were other instances mentioned ...
... in what you deleted. They appear to be true.
Let's not mistake the illumination
of misogyny that "Mad Men" artfully accomplishes with condoning misogyny.
That's why I just stick to Bones
And Star Wars The Clone Wars.
i can haz hillary nao?
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
- Sir William Drummond
You don't think some of the bozos ...
... watch it and enjoy the sexism, wishing we could go back to that?
I do.
Hmmm
My son watches Mad Men, and likes it. (He works in advertising, which I think has a lot to do with why he likes it.) And he's a pretty strong feminist. I'll have to ask him about this. I've never seen it, myself.
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We can't afford not to have single-payer!
I enjoyed "A Modest Proposal"
but don't want to eat children any time soon.
The same can be said of most
historical fiction. "Mad Men" is quite sophisticated in its exploration of the ways and values of the day, like a good Western or Victorian drama is, and it's unthinkable for me to shun a worthy piece of art because someone might be attracted to the wrong elements of it.
Not saying it should be banned.
Just that some folks may like it for the wrong reasons. Like many other things.
I actually really like "Bones" -- I think the character
in charge, who looks uncannily like my latest ex-boss only younger, may have a touch of Asperger's, but I love some of the lines Emily Deschanel delivers about things like "common superstition." (and David Boreanaz's constant gentle but insistent saving-the-day subject changing is frequently hilarious IMO).
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! Knowing that we’re not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18
I'm told by many people
My boss in particular, who is also a fan, that I remind them of Bones, usually because of my droll delivery of oddball trivial information.
And David Boreanaz, love him. Loved him as a vamp, love him as Booth. I especially love him as I watch his character open up from his close minded, if flamboyant FBI guy, to a more open minded tolerant guy.
i can haz hillary nao?
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
- Sir William Drummond
oh, yeah!
In an interview somewhere, Emily Deschanel said that she intends the character to come across as a little Asperger-y. She actually reminds me of a lot of people I know in the sciences (including myself, I have to admit). The characters are all wonderful in that show.
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We can't afford not to have single-payer!
no regret for war crimes--Powell & Obama moving on
"change we can believe in" (if we're imbeciles)
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