Liberal Talk Radio

C’mon Lynn, I bet “uppity” isn’t what you say in private. I bet you want to say more, to tell the press all about Obama. C’mon, Lynn, let’s get it done. Your party needs your honesty!

No one seems to want to claim them:
Paris Hilton probably won’t be invited to Barack Obama’s home anytime soon, even though the celebrity heiress dug her nails into GOPer John McCain in a recent video spoof.
“Malia and Sasha are very down on Britney Spears and Paris Hilton,” said Barack Obama, referring to his 10- and [...]

Dan Savage elucidates something I’ve been thinking for a while. Noting the new attack ad on Al Franken that accuses him of being a latte-sipping elitist, Dan writes:
Do Republican politicians and campaign consultants ever actually go to the heartland they never shut up about? I travel a fair bit and there are Starbucks literally [...]

Obama in his Father’s Day Chris Rock spiel:
Accompanied by his wife, Michelle, and his daughters, Malia and Sasha, who sat in the front pew, Mr. Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, laid out his case in stark terms that would be difficult for a white candidate to make, telling the mostly black audience not to “just [...]

Bang-up piece, as per usual, from Mark Schmitt, this time on conservatives’ brand of identity politics: “we’re real Americans and the rest of you are, well…. not.” Hard to excerpt a money quote so you’ll have to go read the whole thing.

Fascinating two-part series on NPR this week on Muslim polygamy in the U.S., among a small number of Muslim immigrants, but also African-American converts to Islam.
While various conservative nitwits have gotten the vapors, what I find interesting is the fact that, at the root, this issue, like so many others in the world, [...]

Longtime reader Nihilist Easter Bunny wrote in with his own reinterpretation of Hillary Clinton’s comments about the strength of her white support:
White men! White women! Clinton is calling you! The Muslim is using the black as muscle against you. And you are left there helpless. Well, what are you going to do about it, whitey? [...]

I like’d Ezra Klein’s take on whether Wright would be a problem for Obama if he and Obama were white:
So here’s the thought experiment: If in 2004, it turned out that John Kerry’s minister of 20 years — a man who had been like a father to him, who had married Kerry and Theresa Heinz, [...]

The U.S. Air Force has adopted the phrase “Above All” as its new slogan.
My evidence is strictly circumstantial, but I regard the Air Force slogan’s similarity to the results of a Youtube search for the phrase as…probably more than coincidental. Really, how much less subtle could this be?

To paraphrase Mitt Romney, who let [...]

Jamal Simmons points out the similarities between an Obama-McCain election and the Santos-Vinick campaign from Season 7 of The West Wing:
Then there is Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who is perfectly filling the role Alan Alda played, Arnold Vinick, the older maverick Republican senator from the West (California in the show). Due to his willingness [...]