18 July, 2008 | 4 Comments

Just when I begin to worry that too many of my fellow Americans have lost their minds, Jon Stewart saves the day.

Obama’s campaign responded to the NY’er cover by calling it “tasteless and offensive.” Jon Stewart thinks they should have responded like this:

“You know what your response should’ve been? It’s very easy: Barack Obama is in no way upset about the cartoon that depicts him as a Muslim extremist. Because you know who gets upset about cartoons? Muslim extremists! Of which Barack Obama is not. It’s just a f*cking cartoon!”

See the whole video here. The joke about Wolf Blitzer is a must-see…

15 July, 2008 | 3 Comments

Yesterday, I wrote about how Obama considers it a smear when people say he’s a Muslim. Well, above you can see the proof, taken directly from Obama’s official website. “The smear” is that “Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim.” You’ll notice it doesn’t say “Muslim extremist” or “Muslim fundamentalist.” It just says “Muslim.”

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14 July, 2008 | 3 Comments

Obama’s campaign responds to the controversial New Yorker cover that has everyone buzzing today: “The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Sen. Obama’s right-wing critics have tried to create. But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree.”

Oh, boo hoo!

From ABC News: “This is as offensive a caricature as any magazine could publish,” says a high-profile Obama supporter, “and I suspect that other Obama supporters like me are also thinking about not subscribing to or buying a magazine that trafficks in such trash.”

Trash? Liberal bloggers are also frothing at the mouth, which is beyond disappointing…and just a bit scary. Here’s an idea: Why don’t you all get a big bonfire going and burn every issue of The New Yorker you can find. I’m sure the Republicans have some lighter fluid you can borrow.

It’s not surprising that HRH Obama and his media supporters are upset about the cover. Most of the liberal media have their noses shoved so far up Obama’s ass that they haven’t seen sunlight in months. How dare the New Yorker publish a provocative, satirical image of the Obamas! We can’t have any sort of intellectual culture in America! Americans are just too stupid for that! Everything must be dumbed-down to a Fox News level of good vs. evil stupidity. The New Yorker’s editors’ attempts to defend the cartoon and justify it are highly disappointing. No no no! Just shut up, you bunch of weenies. Stand up to the Obama machine by waving the Constitution in their faces.

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8 July, 2008 | 3 Comments

From a Telegraph article titled: Toddlers who dislike spicy food ‘racist’:

“Toddlers who turn their noses up at spicy food from overseas could be branded racists by a Government-sponsored agency.”

I honestly don’t think it’d be possible to make this stuff up.

8 July, 2008 | 1 Comment

Courtesy of William, who is dismayed that it now costs $70 (£35) to fill up his jeep with gasoline:

“I’m still floored by how much it cost to fill my tank…And we’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars to fight that war in Iraq and we can’t get any of the oil? Isn’t this why we went over there?”

Excuse me while I wipe the tears from my eyes. I haven’t laughed this hard in ages.

26 June, 2008 | 3 Comments

Buy it here. [Hat tip Bitch PhD.]

And check out this video if you need a laugh - a news reporter totally loses it on camera. [Be warned it's filled with the f-bomb.]

7 June, 2008 | 8 Comments

A few people have asked me why I haven’t commented on Hillary’s exit from the race. I missed her speech. I am just frantically busy because I leave for my trip on Monday and have many things to get done. I will catch up on all the news soon, I hope, but what I will say is this: I already see many pro-Obama bloggers who trashed Hillary and her supporters for months now saying how great they think Hillary is and how she opened doors for women and set a good example for young girls. You know what I have to say to this?  Spare me.  You may think that you’re being dignified, but you forfeited the right to be dignified long ago.

19 May, 2008 | 6 Comments

There are a couple articles in the NYT about Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the deep-rooted misogyny it has revealed in American society. Unless Obama turns out to be an ax murderer, I guess Hill’s campaign is over. One of the NYT articles asks:

“If many of Mrs. Clinton’s legions of female supporters believe she was undone even in part by gender discrimination, how eagerly will they embrace Senator Barack Obama, the man who beat her?”

I certainly won’t be embracing him. I am going to write in Hillary Clinton’s name on my ballot. My choice has already been made. This will be a protest vote against all those sexists in the Democratic party and the so-called “progressives” of American society who have acted in a disgraceful way throughout this entire campaign. It is also a protest against many of Obama’s supporters. During this campaign, I have been literally shunned by Obama supporters who I thought were friends. I’ve also witnessed [young white male] Obama supporters saying vile sexist things about Hillary in my presence with no qualms whatsoever, as if they are entitled to say such things because this is war and Hillary the bitch must be crushed, lest someone without a penis move into the Oval Office. I’m not too keen on Obama himself, either. The whole Obama camp leaves much to be desired and they’re all quite delusional if they think they can win this election without the support of Hillary’s voters who’ve they’ve pissed on and offended throughout this campaign. Perhaps their smug behavior is about to come back and bite them in the ass. Though I won’t be following the campaign closely, given that I’ve already made up my mind about who I am voting for, it will still be interesting to watch how this plays out.

I’ve already had Democrats warn me that if I don’t vote for Obama, I am essentially voting for McCain. First of all, I am not a Democrat and as such, I have no loyalty to the Democrats. I am no longer registered as a Democrat. Why? There are many reasons, but it’s mostly because of their spinelessness. They stand for nothing. They elected as their Senate Majority Leader a man who is “pro-life” and against gay marriage. If that doesn’t sum up the Democrats, nothing does.

Of course I am not a Republican and I would not vote Republican, but if McCain wins because me and other Hillary voters desert the Democrats, so be it. Obama and his supporters have no one to blame but themselves.

Link:

Devil in a Pantsuit or the Demonization of Hillary Clinton 

2 May, 2008 | 2 Comments

Is Obama giving Hillary Clinton the finger? You can see the offending moment here. CBS News offers a longer and clearer video, but you have to watch a commercial first. On the CBS video, you can also see Obama doing another gesture — pretending to wipe dirt off his shoulders (the dirt being Hillary Clinton’s negative comments). According to The Atlantic’s blogger, this action is a reference to a Jay-Z song (a song which is filled with the n-word). I’m not hip enough to comment on this aspect of it.

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21 April, 2008 | 3 Comments

In March, I wrote about a former grad school classmate of mine, Bill Ayers, and his connection to Barack Obama. My post gets tons of Google hits each day. Ayers was a leader of the terrorist group known as the Weather Underground. Apparently, Obama’s connection to him got a prominent mention in the recent debate with Clinton in Pennsylvania. Now New Yorker writer George Packer has weighed in on the NY’er blog. Packer was an instructor at Bennington College at the same time Ayers and I were students there. Given this connection, Packer’s musings are particularly interesting to me.

21 April, 2008 | 5 Comments

Don’t you just love this photo of Hillary Clinton currently displayed very prominently on the homepage of the Times:

I can just imagine them publishing such a photo of Obama or McCain. When Hell freezes over. This may seem like something silly, but it’s not. As someone who has worked as a photo editor and seen her fair share of contact sheets, I know for certain that a rather large percentage of photos from any shoot or spontaneous news event will look unflattering or weird like the one above. Such photos are usually always deleted, not placed on the homepage of a “reputable” newspaper like the Times. But then, Hillary Clinton is not always afforded the same respect that her male colleagues receive. For shame.

Good luck tomorrow, Hill!

14 April, 2008 | 4 Comments

This video on YouTube is a must-see (particularly the first half).  It’s a really chilling look at the vile, misogynist mainstream media attacks against Hillary Clinton.  Just a warning for Hillary supporters: It’s very demoralizing.  The sexism we’ve seen in response to Hillary Clinton’s run for the presidency represents a disgraceful chapter in American history.  Sadly, it’s not just from right-wingers but also from so-called “liberals” and from Obama supporters.  I recently had an Obama supporter tell me Hillary would lose this nomination “because she is a bitch.”  At this point, I have no plans whatsoever to support Obama if he wins the nomination.  I obviously won’t be voting for McCain either.  Perhaps I just won’t vote.

30 March, 2008 | 11 Comments

I’m a little late on this, but I wanted to write something about the state visit to the UK last week by Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni. The media and politicians made fools of themselves by falling all over “Mrs. Sarkozy.” It was sad, really. Apparently MPs were all dying to get a glimpse of her. Her image was splashed across the front page of every newspaper and she was the subject of endless column inches. Political news took a backseat to what Bruni was wearing, from her laughable Jackie Kennedy imitation to her shoes (featured on the front page of The Independent, above). Based on the coverage, you would think that Britain is just some hillbilly backwater where they’ve never seen a woman with a full set of teeth.

I really doubt the average person on the street gave a care about any of this. I certainly have no interest in Bruni and I don’t understand the allure of someone who looks like a cat. I’ve been thinking about the hysteria she caused, though, and why people reacted the way they did.

The British news media views women in a very simplistic way — women are either saintly models of womanhood or whores (or, even better, crazy-whores). There’s really no in-between. The Queen: Saintly. Camilla Parker-Bowles: Whore. Heather Mills: Crazy-Whore. Angelina Jolie: Originally a Crazy-Whore, now firmly a Saint. Princess Diana: Originally a Saint, but then a Crazy-Whore. Most female victims of crime in this country are reduced to one of these categories as well. Meredith Kercher: Saintly. Scarlett Keeling: Whore. [Ladies, for a bit of fun, imagine you were brutally strangled to death by a psycho. How would the British tabloids portray you? Saint or Whore? Hmmmm?]

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8 March, 2008 | 1 Comment

What has Obama won?

“Obama has won the small caucus states with the latte-sipping crowd. They don’t need a president, they need a feeling.” –A Clinton aide quoted in the Times

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7 March, 2008 | 8 Comments

“He’s not an attractive character for a president to hang out with.”

– Fox News Channel on Barack Obama’s friendship with Bill Ayers

There have been some rumblings in the press recently regarding Barack Obama’s association with Bill Ayers. Mr. Ayers is influential in left-wing Chicago political circles, particularly in Hyde Park, which Obama represented in the Illinois State Senate. (Apparently, Obama used to be a lot more “left-wing” than he is now. Ahem.) Nowadays Bill Ayers is a distinguished professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, but in the 1960s he was a prominent member of the Weather Underground, a left-wing radical group that was by any definition a terrorist organization. From Wikipedia: “[The Weathermen] carried out one of the first domestic terror campaigns in the United States, including bombings, jailbreaks and riots.” Ayers participated in bombings of the Pentagon and the Capitol.

Media reports of Obama’s connection to Ayers are interesting to me because when I did my MFA in creative writing at Bennington College, Bill Ayers was a student there as well. He was in the non-fiction program and I did fiction, but I had a few conversations with him. He was always very nice to me. Given my level of naivety back then, I had no idea he was a notorious figure. Once I found out (from my older classmates), I was quite shocked. He really didn’t look like the type (not that I have experience with such types). He was a little dude with an earring. An ex-hippie? Sure. An ex-terrorist? Um, no.

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5 March, 2008 | 5 Comments

Yay Hillary!  I think she’ll go all the way. I can feel it.

You know what annoys me? Women who think that by voting for Obama, they are somehow proving their feminist credentials. It’s like, “See, I’m such a feminist that I’m voting against the female candidate!” Oh, how clever. You know what I say to this?

Yawn.

Meanwhile, my favorite quote of the day:

“Come on guys; I answered like eight questions.”

–Barack Obama in response to being grilled, for once, by the media. He said this before he walked out of a press conference while being shouted at by reporters.

Gotta love it!

19 February, 2008 | 5 Comments

After reading my previous post, my sister sent Hillary’s campaign $100!  I only sent $20.  Now my donation seems rather loser-ish.  Oh well.

17 February, 2008 | 4 Comments

I’ve never donated to a political campaign before. I’ve always been hesitant to do it because I feel the amount of money spent on political campaigns in America is obscene. But it’s clear that money is important in this election and that Obama’s financial advantage is helping him tremendously. I only gave $20, which isn’t much, but these little donations add up and the next few weeks are absolutely crucial.

I want Hillary to win this nomination because I think she would make a great president. Also, I felt compelled to donate to Hillary’s campaign for two other reasons:

1) The vile misogyny directed at Hillary Clinton by the news media, the internets, the political establishment (including so-called “liberals”) and members of the public has made me very sad and very very angry.

2) The free ride Barack Obama has been given by the press is, quite frankly, sickening. It is not up to the media to select the Democrat’s nominee — it’s up to the voters and the delegates. The slanted coverage I’ve seen throughout this campaign so far is a disgrace to journalism.

Click here to contribute to Hillary [U.S. citizens and permanent residents only].

13 January, 2008 | 4 Comments

Is it just me or is French President Nicolas Sarkozy beginning to behave like Britney Spears? He seems to be having some sort of bizarre personal crisis/meltdown that he’s flaunting before the world’s media. He has no dignity.

11 January, 2008 | 9 Comments

I’m already sick of election coverage and it’s only January 11th. Sigh. I’m also…sick, but then who isn’t sick right now?

Most of the election coverage on both sides of the Atlantic has been barf-inducing and breaks down roughly as follows:

Obama = America’s only hope for change, an Oprah-endorsed modern-day Jesus, the answer to all of our prayers

Hillary = bitch

I think that about sums it up, at least observing it from over here. It’s been sickening.

Yesterday the Times, also known as The Misogynist Times, featured a front-page headline about Hillary’s New Hampshire victory that said ‘Liberated’ - Women voters seize the day. The print version featured a very unflattering and creepy photo of two fiftysomething white women embracing in happiness. The headline and cover image had the feel of a horror movie about it and you know what, I love it! There’s tons of coverage like this all over the place and what it represents is the worst nightmare of The Patriarchy™. It’s fun to watch them squirm. The fact that women might use their collective power as voters — finally — is scaring the hell out of them. They dreaded this day and they are wetting their panties in fear. This is why a vote for Hillary is so great. It’s a vote to f–k them up.

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