Letters to the Editor
LT Bohica
Published Letters: 284 Editor's Choice: 4
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From ABC - the 2 hoes joke
[Read the article: Your prissy mainstream media at work]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why does the M$M hate to acknowledge Misogyny? The headline below should be -- Bernie Mac Makes Misogynistic "Jokes" at Obama Fundraiser.
Bernie Mac Makes 'Inappropriate' Jokes at Obama Fundraiser
July 12, 2008 10:50 AM
ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: Chicago native Bernie Mac may have been a little too loose with the jokes at a Barack Obama fundraiser Friday night, leading some ticket goers to heckle the comedian about his jokes about women at the presidential candidate's event.
Mac introduced Obama for the $2,300-a-head fundraiser at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Chicago and opened with his typical humor.
"My little nephew came to me and he said, 'Uncle, what's the difference between a hypothetical question and a realistic question?'" Mac told the crowd, "I said, ‘I don't know,’ but I said, 'I'll tell you what you do. Go upstairs and ask your mother if she'd make love to the mailman for $50,000.’”
The joke continued with the mother saying she'd sleep "with anyone" for $50,000 -- and then continuing to include Mac's daughter hypothetically answering the question in the same way.
"Hypothetically speaking, we should have $100,000. But realistically speaking we live with two hos,” Mac said delivering the punch line that solicited a few hecklers in the political crowd.
"It's not funny. Let's get Barack on," someone shouted from the crowd.
Mac introduced Obama shortly after, and Obama called him a "great friend."
Near the end of Obama's remarks, the Illinois Senator included a rebuke of his comedian friend in a regular stump speech riff about divisions that still exist in America.
"We can't afford to be divided by race. We can't afford to be divided by religion, or by region or class. Or by gender. That means, by the way, Bernie you got to clean up your act. This is a family affair. … I'm just messing with you," Obama said.
The Obama campaign was equally quick to distance themselves from Mac's off-color comments, with Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki saying, "Sen. Obama told Bernie Mac that he doesn't condone these statements and believes what was said was inappropriate."
Link to original source:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/07/bernie-mac-make.html
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What else can we do to help?
[Read the article: Accountability Now and Strange Bedfellows: The strategy and rationale]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Again, thank for doing all of this, GG. I think you may be the lever that moves the world.
I wish I could do more to help.
What I have done to date: 1) Donated a couple of times to the Act Blue FISA page. I will keep pitching in a portion of my pizza and beer budget. 2) I've pledged for the money bomb. 3) I've circulated information about this campaign to my friends and family and have encouraged them to get involved. 4) Placed your banner on all the myspace pages I have access to and bulletin'd out info on FISA and the Accountability Now PAC to my network there. 5) Donated to elected reps and candidates who stood up against FISA like Rick Noriega, Cindy Sheehan, Darcy Burner, Chris Dodd, etc. 6) Wrote emails before each FISA vote to my Congressional Rep and Senators and called their offices.
If you or others here have more ideas/suggestions - please post'em.
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O/T -- but not really since Sheehan is against warrantless wiretapping
[Read the article: Accountability Now and Strange Bedfellows: The strategy and rationale]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...and Speaker Pelosi deserves to be one of Accountability Now PAC's targets in the house.
You may think Cindy Sheehan doesn't have a chance in hell against Nancy Pelosi this November what with Pelosi's overstuffed war chest courtesy of telcoms and her other corporate masters, but Sheehan should at least be allowed a place on the ballot.
I've worked in Texas to get independents on the ballot and it is a hard, expensive and time consuming slog. Controlling the ballot is one of the ways the Dems/Reps maintain their lock on power.
Please sign for Cindy Sheehan if you live in Cali's 8th District. (Essentially San Fran) Please encourage any friends who live in that district to sign as well.
Signing the petition for Sheehan is not a promise to vote for her. It will just get her on the ballot which alone might threaten Pelosi enough that she might start acting right on issues like FISA, rolling back the Patriot Act, Impeachment, etc.
Message from Sheehan's campaign:
Hey Friends!
My campaign has until August 8th to get 5657 more signatures to get my name on the ballot here in San Francisco for my run against failed Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.
If you live in San Francisco, we need help gathering the signatures on petitions and we also need you to sign if you are a registered voter.
Our office is at 1260 Mission (between 8th and 9th) and we are open every day from 8am to 8pm during the week and 10-4 on weekends.
We have volunteer meetings at 6:30 PM every Tuesday at the campaign office.
If you would like us to mail you a petition, please call:
415 621 5027
Please spread this to all your friends. It is getting to be an urgent situation.
Only 5 other candidates have attained ballot status as independents here in California which has draconian and democracy-suppressing hoops to jump through to give the working and middle class voters a choice.
Sign for democracy!
Sign for peace!
Sign for political and corporate accountability!
Sign for economic equality!
Sign for universal-single payer health care!
Sign for jobs!
Sign for affordable housing!
Sign for a clean environment and sustainable future!
Sign for human rights (including same-sex marriage and immigrant rights)!
Sign for more and cheaper public transportation!
Sign for excellent education for everyone!
Sign for decriminalizing cannabis!
Sign for humanity!
Sign to give the people of California's 8th district a choice.
Thanks!
Cindy Sheehan
www.CindyforCongress.org
A PDF version of the petition will be available to download soon on our website.
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Lizza's article
[Read the article: Lizza defends New Yorker cover]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is too much focus on fluff and not enough on facts. Why must the lowest common denominator be the concern?
Everyone should stop venting about the cartoon and read the New Yorker article already.
Perhaps people will finally see the machine behind the man.
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