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This is great. –> http://election-projection.net/
A methodical look at the statistics of the election.
Sure we’re 60 days out from when we can actually cast a vote… But the news cycle and the news media is driving me insane with the steady beat of the never ending ratings war… I mean advertising sales… I mean the election.
Keep the faith, we’re almost there.
Thanks Diddy. Well said.
… and the video is off line, damn it
What? Well said?
What was well-said in there? “My name is P-Diddy, Sir Rock Obama [Jeez, he remixes other people's names too?], and John McCain is bugging the fuck out. Alaska? John McCain is bugging the fuck out. Alaska? John McCain is bugging the fuck out. Alaska? There are no black people in Alaska! John McCain is bugging the fuck out. Alaska? John McCain is bugging the fuck out. Alaska? John McCain is bugging the fuck out. Alaska? There are no black people in Alaska! John McCain is bugging the fuck out. Alaska? John McCain is bugging the fuck out. Alaska? John McCain is bugging the fuck out. Alaska? There are no black people in Alaska!”
That’s well-said? You have lower standards than I thought you did.
Sean Puffy Comes, or P-Ditty, or Puff Daddy, or what ever his name is, actually has something to say. And in his own way of saying it is voicing the anger, frustration, pain, and embarassment of a huge segment of the population.
Sure, he’s off color, sure he makes some wild statements, but behind it is a real feeling.
A feeling that America is in a really bad place, and its being led by really bad people, and its getting worse.
He’s a rapper, writer and musician. He has a channel to share those feelings, and he’s using it.
Sarah Palin is a stark, blinding example of how unprepared and extreme John McCain is, and his over arching obsession with winning this election, and how its destroying his standards and making him just as bad if not worse then George W. Bush.
Puff Daddy is just sharing his view on that.
And, since I agree with him, even if its off color, and a little hyperbolic at times…. I want to help spread the word.
And yeah.
John McCain IS bugging the fuck out.
No doubt, P-diddy has something to say. There’s no doubt he has the money, he has the forum, he has the audience. (”Tell ‘em diddy said BK is open late.”)
I’m saying, in 4 minutes he pretty much said almost exactly what I quoted above.
Now, he’s since apologized (having been shown actual black people who lived in Alaska. I’m watching the apology, and hell, he sounds sincere enough. He explains his motives (”I wasn’t being serious”) and gets to the meat of the message. IIRC he had to explain himself with the gas prices vidblog, too. If you have to explain yourself multiple times to your audience, I posit that you either (a) are saying it wrong, or (b) need to find a new audience. As an aside, I’d also imagine that most of his fans will take him literally. It’s a side effect of the dumbing down of America, which is part of his livelihood.
You know what? I’d have a bit more respect for his message if he said it better. Repeating the “bugging the fuck out” and “no black people in alaska” lines over and over don’t articulate his position as well as, say, you did. Heck, have him put it in a rap with a catchy beat and some 1960s rock riffs behind it like he does with other songs.
Basically what I’m saying is that I don’t disagree with what Diddy was TRYING to say, I disagree with his claims that he actually SAID it. But still, he’s no Kanye West, so I’ll give him credit.
OBTW. I’ll give him much credit for his comments about moving the young to register and vote. I hope he is successful where most of the other movements seem to have fallen by the wayside.
Straight up copy from Americablog, to spread the word…
Here’s the transcript, courtesy of TPM:
CHUCK TODD: Mike Murphy, lots of free advice, we’ll see if Steve Schmidt and the boys were watching. We’ll find out on your blackberry. Tonight voters will get their chance to hear from Sarah Palin and she will get the chance to show voters she’s the right woman for the job Up next, one man who’s already convinced and he’ll us why Gov. Jon Huntsman.
(cut away)PEGGY NOONAN: Yeah.
MIKE MURPHY: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor world: Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. I mean, these guys — this is how you win a Texas race, just run it up. And it’s not gonna work. And –
PEGGY NOONAN: It’s over.
MIKE MURPHY: Still McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good.
CHUCK TODD: I also think the Palin pick is insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, too.
PEGGY NOONAN: Saw Kay this morning.
CHUCK TODD: Yeah, she’s never looked comfortable about this –
MIKE MURPHY: They’re all bummed out.
CHUCK TODD: Yeah, I mean is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?
PEGGY NOONAN: The most qualified? No! I think they went for this — excuse me– political bullshit about narratives –
CHUCK TODD: Yeah they went to a narrative.
MIKE MURPHY: I totally agree.
PEGGY NOONAN: Every time the Republicans do that, because that’s not where they live and it’s not what they’re good at, they blow it.
MIKE MURPHY: You know what’s really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical.
CHUCK TODD: This is cynical, and as you called it, gimmicky.
MIKE MURPHY: Yeah.
For the purpose of humor, I’ll ignore how flawed her energy plan is, and just celebrate the great joke
Tell Senator Obama: Hang up on Big Telecom
This week, Senators Dodd and Feingold won a battle in the fight to stop the FISA capitulation. In an attempt to stop retroactive telecom immunity, they delayed a vote on the bill until after the July 4th recess. This buys us more time to shore up the votes needed to defeat the bill. However, it’s unlikely we’ll succeed without real support from leaders in Congress, most of whom have already abandoned us.
Senator Reid caved in long ago, and Speaker Pelosi folded just last week. There is one leader left who could make a difference and support our cause: Senator Barack Obama.
Back in December, Senator Obama’s office released a statement that he “unequivocally opposes giving retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies.”1 On Wednesday, however, Obama said in a press conference that “My view on FISA has always been that the issue of the phone companies per se is not one that overrides the security interests of the American people.”2
Senator Obama still has time to make this right, but it won’t happen unless we all work together to hold him accountable.
The delay in the FISA vote gives senators a new chance to stand up for the Constitution — will Senator Obama stand with them? Sign this petition and urge Senator Obama to vote his conscience and stand by his previous statement: No retroactive immunity for telecoms. No caving on the constitution.
Sources:
1 Senator Obama’s statement on retroactive immunity from December 17, 2007.
2 Video and selected text of Senator Obama’s press conference from June 25, 2008.
My nightly blog trawl brought me along to this…
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/04/19/priest-pwns-bill-oreillys-minion-on-rev-wright/
And that’s what America really looks like. Which is why you normally don’t get to see it on TV.
Turns out the man in the video above is a Catholic priest by the name of Rev. Michael Pfleger, and apparently Bill O’Reilly did use a part of the interview above on his show. Approximately 5 seconds of it. On April 2. And yet, despite how well Pfleger deflects the nonsense tossed at him by O’Reilly’s ambush reporter (as seen in the above, not on his show) O’Reilly has been flogging the same “racist, hate-monger� nonsense for weeks.
As if that’s not bad enough, after the 5 seconds shown from the above interview, O’Reilly went on to do a full 6 minute segment discussing whether or not…wait for it…Pfleger should be sanctioned by the Catholic Church!
watch the video, its absurdly awesome.
Hit the jump to see exactly The Daily Show read my mind…
It turns out that Rev. Wright, the retired pastor in Barack Obama’s church, who’s caused a lot of blowup recently, has a much longer political history then anyone is really talking about.
If he’s such a symbol of racism, and bad things in this country, then why is he shaking hands with Bill Clinton? Check the video… (More …)
Gosh, THAT changes everything.
Jeremiah Wright hates you, because you have held him down for over 400 years.
Snarky replies don’t open up the conversation.
Why not step up and ask a question, and not hide behind a random login…. (yes I know who H. Dean is…)
It changes nothing. It doesn’t remove what was said, it just provides a little back ground in to what is really going on that the news media doesn’t want you to see.
Howard Dean are discussing.
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