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Enough with the debate performance

Enough of the debate performance blathering from the talking heads. Are we really judging a presidential debate by how well they "performed?"

I love Lawrence O'Donnell's new debate rules. I want to know how these candidates think and make decisions, not  perform.

Lawrence says it best.

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Romney Economics

It will be fun to see how the Obama team uses social media during this election cycle. I just got notice of this site called Romney Economics, telling the "truth" about Romney's record as an entrepreneur and business man.

 

"You can't rehabilitate the hoodie"

Here comes Geraldo with another wince-inducing statement.

"The hoodie was as much responsible for Trayvon's death as Zimmerman," says Geraldo.

He warns parents of Black and Latino children not to let their kids go out wearing hoodies and other clothes that look "gangsta".

"You can't rehabilitate the hoodie. Stop wearing it," he says to the attendees of the hoodie march protests.

The other Fox News hosts nodded knowingly.

Here's another viewpoint. The hoodie doesn't need rehabilitating. Since white parents don't need to warn their kids not to wear a hoodie, apparently the garment alone isn't the problem.

Geraldo went on to discuss the visceral reaction he has when he sees someone with dark skin wearing a hoodie and how he connects it with surveillance video of crimes. The mental connection and reaction are all his own, and rather than owning them, he wants Black parents to do the changing.

I agree that you can't rehabilitate the hoodie. You shouldn't. The hoodie didn't shoot anyone. Stereotypical attitudes like Geraldo's killed Trayvon.

Black children should be just as safe in hoodies as white teens.

Rehabilitate the grownups who don't recognize that.

Sponsors abandon Rush. Finally!

I just ran across this headline

Rush Limbaugh Scandal Proves Contagious for Talk-Radio

Advertisers Ninety-eight major advertisers—including Ford and Geico—will no longer air spots on Premiere Networks’ ‘offensive’ programs. Insiders say the loss will rock right-wing talk radio.

Rush is learning the hard way...even if you are an arrogant Republican white man, you can't call a prissy white girl from Georgetown a slut. Too far, Rush. Too far.

The tide is turning in America, Rush. If Don Imus can't call black women, nappy headed hoes, you definitely can't slur an educated white woman who is speaking out on an issue ALL women care about.

Sooner or later all provocateurs overreach. Rush's absolute power over the Republican party absolutely corrupted him. Somewhere he is in a dark room cursing the liberals, while Ann Coulter shakes her head knowingly.

Too far, Rush. Too far.

On behalf of all the sponsors who have abandoned you, I'd like to proclaim a collective and long over due STFU award. Rush, shut the fuck up!

Who Dat! Live Blogging

Ok, I’m in the lobby of the Marriott Hotel New Orleans on Canal Street. How cool is this?

Chicken Little: The end is near

It seems Chicken Little was right after all. The sky really is falling...and has been falling for at least six months now. Chicken Little must have known that after 30 years of living like the sky was the limit, eventually it was bound to come crashing down. So he hunkered down and warned us.

We didn't believe. We spent and squandered. Now Washington and Wall Street want us to put up a trillion dollars to bail them out. We have to do it right now because the sky is falling...and quickly. Why are they so pressed? We're the ones with our you-know-what's in the air.