Michelle Obama Does Real News, Fake News
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Michelle Obama, whom Jon Stewart jokingly referred to as a "known associate of Barack Obama," made the talk show rounds yesterday, hitting up Larry King Live and The Daily Show. On the latter, she said that she prefers not to watch the debates because she gets "nervous." She also described Cindy McCain as cordial and […]
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Rage Of The Unpaid: Hip Hop Freelancers Revolt! [Email Disasters]
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Hip Hop Weekly is an execrable, half-assed attempt at a hip hop version of Us Weekly. HHW was founded a couple of years ago by Dave Mays and Benzino, the guys who ran The Source into the ground through sheer selfishness before being forced out. Suffice it to say there’s no reason to have a sympathetic view of the magazine’s existence. Which makes this epic email fuckup on their part—reprinted below!—that much more enjoyable:
HHW, we hear, has trouble paying its vendors, writers, and photographers. Or just doesn’t want to. Either way, lots of people who have done work for the magazine are pissed at it. So it was pretty dumb for HHW to (mistakenly?) blast out an invitation to its 50th issue release party to a long list of contributors who hadn’t been paid yet. Cue the responses!
And the kicker:
That’s why you should pay people for their work.
[UPDATE: And possibly there will be some sort of protest rally]:
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Non-American Wins Nobel Prize for Literature, As Promised [Books]
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Last week, Nobel Prize secretary Horace Engdahl sniffed that the prize for literature most certainly would not go to an American, as we are “too isolated” and don’t “participate in the big dialogue of literature.” He was right: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, an “‘author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy,” won. He is French obviously. [GalleyCat]
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Election 2008: A Time For Firsts
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Everyone is calling this year's election the most important vote in decades. And we kind of have to agree with this "Everyone." But not for the reasons you would think, like providing health care, saving retirement accounts, battling global warming, and making either Delaware or Alaska relevant. But because in the media industry, it's creating […]
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Being There [From The Archives]
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This isn’t the first time that a complete unknown has come so close to the presidency—at least not if one includes Hollywood fantasies. The best of them is Being There, a movie made during the last period of national distress in which a mild-mannered and subnormal gardener played by Peter Sellers stumbles into the political spotlight. His bromides on the seasons are taken as reassuring economic wisdom; his television interviews test off the charts; and in the final scene the party establishment clutches at him as their savior much as the McCain campaign selected Sarah Palin. After the jump, a clip crosscut with moments from this year’s campaign; but first, some dialogue.
“What do we know about the man?”
“Absolutely nothing.”
“We don’t have an inkling about the man.”
“That could be an asset.”
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Vizzini Jr. Looks On In Approval As Fezzik’s Twin Boys Steal Away The Princesses [Open Caption]
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[Minimoguls Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen arriving at the airport in New York City last night; image via Flynet]
es-ki-mo’s new line beats the original, “Our Bodyguards Are Twins Too! We Found Them At a Bar In Southie.”
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Deep Breath [The Panic Of ‘08]
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If I run another illustration of the end of the world, I’m going to shoot myself. So, instead, here’s a chart with some perspective. Note how miniscule a bump markets experienced during the supposed “crash” of 1987. Even after the today’s drop in the Dow below 9,000 the index is roughly where one would expect it to be if the economy had grown modestly and the two asset bubbles—dot-com stocks last decade and real estate this one—had never happened.
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Your Grievance For the Next Four Years: “Voter Fraud” [Predictions]
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If the Democrats pull this off and win the presidential election, the Republican “noise machine” will not simply give up and devote themselves to charity. They will need to undermine and delegitimize President Obama as much and as loudly as possible, non-stop, for the entirety of his term. Early predecessors of this strategy include claims that John Kennedy stole the 1960 election with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley’s corrupt machine and reminding everyone that Bill Clinton didn’t win a majority of the vote in 1992. But the 2008 version will be even nastier and so much more toxic! Thanks, then, to Roger Stone, old-school GOP Political Operative, for giving us a sneak preview of the complaints you’ll be hearing until 2012:
Democratic voter fraud will be greater this year than in any Presidential election since Mayor Richard Daley stuffed the Chicago ballot boxes for JFK in 1960 while Lyndon Johnson had hundreds of thousands of Texas absentee ballots burned before they could be counted.
ACORN, a left-wing activist group that supports Obama, is literally dragging homeless people, people from drug rehab centers, soup kitchens and women in domestic abuse shelters to the polling places for early voting. In Ohio any warm body can register and vote on the same day-an open invitation for voter fraud.
Yes, Voter Registration Drives are indicative of massive fraud! Homeless people may be humans but that doesn’t mean they should be allowed to vote. Some of them might be immigrants or something!
The conservative obsession with ACORN obsession has already crossed from the wingnuttier right-wing sites to the slightly less wingnutty right-wing sites and soon it’ll be part of the almost-legitimate conversation. With FBI raids of ACORN offices already underway, the very name of the occasionally shady low-income housing community organization will soon become shorthand for the voter fraud that stole the election for Obama.
While Democrats complain of Diebold and voter suppression, Republicans have their terrifying visions of poor black homeless junkies dragged to polling places in exchange for needles. Republican state legislatures have been passing or trying to pass Voter ID laws for years now.
But their campaigns are barely concealed rehashes of the Poll Tax. There’s no epidemic of voter fraud, and, as Slate pointed out in 2006, where there is voter fraud it’s the kind that isn’t stopped by asking everyone to have a birth certificate and drivers’ license.
Regardless! It’s an easy line for people shocked, shocked that 51% of the country likes Barack Obama. And so, just as for four tedious years liberals bitched about how Bush stole the election just because he lost the popular vote, conservatives have already pre-approved their anti-Obama argument. And more power to them! Because it worked so fucking well for us in 2004, right?
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Anna Wintour’s Perfect Man [Theories]
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Earlier today, following the news that Vogue editrix Anna Wintour has a little crush on actor Gerard Butler, Radarcompiled a list of some of Anna’s known paramours. It’s a strange mix of gents. B-baller LeBron James, country club hero Roger Federer, Monty Python’s Eric Idle, Condé Nast chairman Si Newhouse (oohhh..), and, um, Bob Marley. Yes! Bob Marley. Heh heh. Well, because it’s such a varied group of dudes, we got to wondering… who exactly would be Anna Wintour’s perfect man? We tapped our Photoshop whiz Steve Dressler and employed some of our own inductive reasoning and have come up with a fellow called Archie Bronson, a writer and public speaker. Read a little about Archie and see a photo after the jump.
So yes this is Archie Bronson, the celebrity professor, writer (been on Charlie Rose), and public speaker. A visiting fellow at Columbia, Archie spends most of his time hitting the celebrity circuit, regaling the glitterati with his infamous bon mots and ribald stories. His area of expertise is “the linguistics of economic popular culture,” which means he likes to talk about money and famous people and the media and the Hamptons. But, you know, intellectually. Lookswise he’s a combination of all (or at least many) of the fellows she’s loved. Mr. Dressler breaks it down:
Head/hairline: Eric Idle
Glasses: Shelby Bryan
Eyes: Roger Federer
Nose: Lebron James
Lips/Jaw: Si Newhouse
Beard: Gerard Butler
Anna are you reading? This is him, right?
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When Dark-Haired Men Were Kings [From The Archives]
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“4 out of 5 men want Oxfords…in these new Van Heusen styles.” And the fifth one is a god damn pipe-smoking blond homosexual who wears Brooks Brothers! Oh racist ad from 1952, you remind us how far we’ve come in our quest for equal rights for blond dudes. Click to enlarge. [Copyranter at Animal]
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