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The New Yorker's 'Tasteless' Obama Cover

This is the New Yorker's new cover, depicting Barack Obama and his wife Michelle in the Oval Office. It accompanies a big article about how Obama maybe was not always about CHANGE but in fact may have been a skilled Chicago politician at some point. The cover promises to become an election flashpoint, and the presumptive Democratic nominee's campaign has already called it "tasteless and offensive." The caricature, according to the Huffington Post, "combines every smeary right-wing stereotype imaginable" about Obama. Ha ha, as if. Sure, the stereotypes about Obama being a flag-burning terrorist muslim and Michelle being an ashamed-of-America black power revolutionary are all there, but shouldn't Obama somehow also be an aloof Harvard elitist who hates "bitter" working-class whites? Instead, he's in rags and robes, with no jewelry or caviar or sociology texts and so forth. Anyway, the cartoonist said he's trying to mock the stereotypes, not perpetuate them: More »

10:52 PM on Sun Jul 13 2008
By Ryan Tate
18,900 views, 210 comments

Latest by n/a: Hmm -- It doesn't seem to me that the issue is whether or not this cover is tasteless: of course it's tasteless. Nor does it seem to me that the issue is whether or not it's offensive: it is certainly more »

god, it's just too much

5WPR Busted For Even More Blog Fraud; Uses Apology As Slimy Sales Pitch Opportunity

At the risk of sounding earnest, there is simply no end to the incompetence and ethical failure at 5WPR, profane superflack Ronn [sic] Torossian's comically inept PR firm. FailedMessiah.com finds 11 more fraudulent, sock puppet blog comments, dating back to last month, that came from the IP address of the home computer of Juda Engelmayer, the 5WPR VP already busted for one earlier fake comment. I guess the evidence has now become overwhelming enough that Ronn himself has issued a statement—possibly the most laughable, inadequate apology-turned-sales pitch I've ever heard from a PR guy: More »

11:50 AM on Fri Jul 11 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
2,987 views, 50 comments

Latest by Saxon 212: The problem over at 5WPR is that smell of cum and leather coming from the secret windowless dungeon behind Ronn [chaps] Torrosian's office. more »

god damn america

Jesse Jackson To Threaten Obama's "Nuts" Tonight On Fox News

Oh hey look everyone, Jesse Jackson said terrible things about Barack Obama while a microphone was on, and now, oddly, Fox News has this tape! Sean Hannity talked about it on the radio today, and Bill O'Reilly will be playing the tape tonight, on his show. OMG they are creaming themselves. Drudge already has the apology and no one has heard the tape yet! Reportedly, the Reverend is upset that Obama "talks down to black people on matters of faith," and then, more colorfully, he says he wants to rip Obama's nuts off. Maybe? "Hannity would not say 'nuts,' but based on his description (portion of the male anatomy beginning with an 'n') I believe that’s the word he was going for." So this is basically great news for everyone! More »

5:13 PM on Wed Jul 9 2008
By Pareene
4,982 views, 55 comments

Latest by n/a: Jesse Jackson don't like Black people more »

god, it's just too much

Caustic 5WPR Employee Pimps Own Wedding Out To The Media

Back in March, we wrote a long post about incompetent superflack Ronn [sic] Torossian of 5WPR calling his former HR director Melissa Weiss a "stupid cunt," and being generally disreputable. The lone defender of Ronn in that case was one of his employees, Christine Garabedian. She wrote in to say Ronn is a great boss, and called (the victim!) Weiss a "jealous" single girl, ending with, "PS Melissa I just got engaged- Now are you even more jealous of me :)." LOL! At the time, several people urged us to go after Garabedian for her meanness, but we refrained, because she seemed like a peripheral figure. Well, we tried. But now she's out there pitching her own wedding to celebrity magazines as a "great story." Poorly! Oh, this is just pure gold: More »

2:40 PM on Tue Jul 1 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
7,044 views, 115 comments

Latest by mathnet: @Sarcastro: WHIRL MAGAZINE haaaaaa! more »

OMG GUYS TakeBackTheInternet.com

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Science Tuesday The universe is expanding, and in fact accelerating as it expands, though why and towards what no one has any clue. Just FYI. [NYT]

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under god

J-School Grads Pledge Allegiance to Not Making Stuff Up

Journalism students in Reno, Nevada (they have schools there?) are all going to sign a symbolic ethics pledge tomorrow, thus guaranteeing forever the survival and viability of journalism in America. The story is kind of too sad to even make fun of. Except not really! They're having a reception in the atrium of the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada and all the seniors will solemnly promise to not make stuff up. If they ever get jobs. That's what's been wrong this whole time! We forgot to make all the reporters put their hands on bibles before filing stories! More »

4:20 PM on Thu May 15 2008
By Pareene
687 views, 19 comments

Latest by PaisleyPajamas: Oddly enough, when I graduated from J-school we were asked to pledge to never work for a company/corporation/entity that showed irresponsibility toward the environment (Hey! No judgment. It was CU Boulder in the 90s!). All of you can see how more »

god damn america

Uh...

A Dallas man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for spitting at a cop. He was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, because he's HIV-positive. So his spit is made of death!!! Except, uh... we were taught many years ago that much as you can't get pregnant from oral sex, you can't actually get the AIDS from fucking spit. Look, here's the CDC: More »

10:46 AM on Thu May 15 2008
By Pareene
3,940 views, 87 comments

holy war

Old White People Know the Truth About Barack Obama

West Virginia just keeps outdoing itself! The state—which is separate from regular Virginia because they used to like black people—is expected to overwhelmingly support Hillary Clinton in tonight's primary. Because Senator Clinton has been quite effective in drumming up support among older, blue-collar voters, yes, but also because Barack Obama is a Muslim and a terrorist who will enslave the white race and probably suicide bomb the White House. In the clip above, a voter explains that she can't support a Muslim. The reporter half-assedly attempts to correct her. Our voter will have none of it. Doesn't anyone remember Barack Obama's crazy black Christian preacher? There's more! More »

12:22 PM on Tue May 13 2008
By Pareene
32,973 views, 131 comments

Latest by n/a: I grew up in the South. In the 1950's and early 1960's, overt racism and segregation was normal and acceptable. The most vehement racists were those who had little education and marketable job skills. I remember one poor White woman more »

shut up, brooklyn

Our Plan For The Real World: Brooklyn

Oh good Christ. The next season of The Real World, MTV's drunken, disease-riddled dinosaur of a reality series, (the 21st!) will be set in Brooklyn. The current season, which threw a bunch of damaged wannabe stars into a "green" sound studio in Hollywood, is getting annoyingly high ratings. So, the network has decided to sally forth with yet another installment, apparently continuing the smaller-part of an already done city trend, and will dump a bunch of yokels and rubes in our trendiest and irritatingest borough. Now, we don't know for sure which little enclave of Brooklyn the producers are thinking about, but we assume it's somewhere real and gritty, like off the Bedford L! Yes, it seems fairly inevitable that our broken Zelda Fitzgeralds will be plopped into some gorgeous crash pad in hipster Disneyland Williamsburg, but we have a better idea! Why, not the notorious Bushwick McKibbin dorms?? More »

10:41 AM on Tue May 13 2008
By Richard
10,995 views, 126 comments

Latest by n/a: I hope they move in to Williamsburg. Nothing will make me happier than watching my hipster neighbors AND my yuppie neighbors freak the f@#$ out over this. more »

the internet

GodTube: "Man Watching Porn Caught By Jesus"

Godless Gothamites, meet GodTube, which according to the Times was the Web's fastest-growing site when unveiled in August and which just garnered a $30 million hedge fund investment. It's sort of like YouTube, except all videos are pre-screened by site operators in Plano, Texas; you can't promote religions other than Christianity and you can't mock Christianity, which makes sense since "God" is obviously synonymous with "Christian God" (*cough*). The whole operation is of course destined to implode when the new hedge fund investors push for less censorship to goose traffic and ads for items a bit more risque than "Bible software and degrees from online universities," but in the meantime enjoy this GodTube clip of a man "caught" looking at porn by Jesus. (In the interest of religous plurality I did run a seach for "porn" on JewTube and the only hits remotely responsive included one titled "Neil Diamond And Carol Burnett", which I refuse to watch, and this video of two Jewish supermodels in bikinis backed by a Biggie Smalls song.) More »

5:52 AM on Mon May 12 2008
By Ryan Tate
2,907 views, 23 comments

Latest by n/a: jesus looks like hell! and he's wearing a bird's nest on his head. more »

god damn america

Why Did Everyone Get Upset When Barack Obama Said Poverty Made Poor White People Go Crazy Again?

Local politicians say it will take more than a well-decorated storefront for Obama, the Illinois senator, to make headway. "He's going to have to visit," says Bob Pasley, who adds that Obama should come prepared to answer "tough questions," including some about his religion.

"Is he Islamic or is he not?" Pasley says of Obama, who is Christian. "I know he's tried to talk about it but he hasn't looked anybody in Wayne in the eye and told them."
[USAToday]

1:21 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By Pareene
4,432 views, 111 comments

Latest by Mediahohoho: @WV.Hillbilly: Besides, what are you so sensitive about? When all is said and done, you're the ones who always get pandered to when it comes time for the elections every four year. more »

ringtones

Is Your Ringtone Annoying Enough? No? Replace it With Hillary Clinton!

Do you hate everyone around you? If so, you may wish to download one of Slate's political ringtones. No, seriously. This is what they're doing. Ringtones made of soundbytes taken from the never-ending 2008 primary elections. Like Hillary's odd laugh, John McCain calling someone a jerk, and "Yes We Can!" If you download these to your phone, you will get beaten up. But! They forgot a couple! Like, all the good ones, basically. Allow us: More »

6:03 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Pareene
2,542 views, 13 comments

classic ads

Back When America Was Goofier

Pop culture is always a step behind the real cutting-edge culture that defines what's cool in the current zeitgeist. And mass media advertising, with its drive for universal appeal, is generally made from an even weaker brew than pop culture. What that means for us is that these ads from the 1950s and 60s—which lack not only today's sense of political correctness, but also their own era's sense of cool—are an entertaining lens through which to view the age of beatniks and free love. Groove your way to the hippie party with a 1969 stereo in your new General Motors automobile! Six classic examples [via Flickr/ Coudal], after the jump. More »

3:53 PM on Fri May 2 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
4,855 views, 48 comments

Latest by famousauthor: Funny thing: I just saw that dancing couple on the golf course. They're still wearing the same clothes, though they've greyed and shrived a little. more »

the hills

The Hills Are Alive With The Sound of Absolutely Nothing

I'm not sure why I do this to myself. My roommate joined me as I watched The Hills last night and, having never seen it, was shocked by just how miserably bad the show is. Part of her distaste came from the fact that, yes, she was not inured to the show's particular brand of "nothing ever happens" and "what?", but also last night's episode was just plain bad. What exactly did we see? The old fake-out of the Stephen and Lauren "relationship" and some ridiculously staged Heidi/Spencer/Stephanie gobbledygook. While I am loathe to use that tired idiom about leaping over sea creatures, I do think that last night's episode issued something of a death rattle for the three year old series. More »

10:47 AM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Richard
4,123 views, 35 comments

Latest by iodine: "the hills: 30 minutes of awkward chewing" more »

god damn america

Reverend Wright A Clinton Supporter's Trick?

Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's controversial former preacher, spent the weekend on media blitz, and the end result is that the press doesn't really like him. Except where before they were just harping on him because it was a great, easy story, now it's personal, because Wright expressed deep disdain for the entire journalistic class during each of last weekend's appearances. NOT DONE, REVEREND. You're supposed to be all penitent and you're expected to curtsy to whichever 60 Minutes dinosaur they unfreeze to drag out your meek apology. But Errol Louis in the Daily News—alarmed though he is that Wright acted at the Press Club "as if nobody in the room was learned enough to ask him a question"—did discover that Wright was actually invited to the Press Club by an enthusiastic Hillary Clinton supporter. Barbara Reynolds voted for Clinton in Maryland, criticizes Obama on her blog, and "organized" the Wright event at the Press Club. Hah. Well, if Obama's "scary" black preacher actually dooms his candidacy, we'll happily join the "god damn America" bandwagon, but that will probably surprise no one. After the jump, the Daily Show's bit on Wright's weekend performance. Stewart's "I'm scared of the black man" routine gets less funny every time he employs it but the clips are decidedly enjoyable. More »

10:32 AM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Pareene
2,349 views, 54 comments

Latest by n/a: Here is another Clinton tall tale... [www.mcclatchydc.com] yeah yeah yeah, I know politicians lie, blah blah blah but how can she go up against McCain like this in the fall? This is complete lack of integrity.And wouldn't we all agree that integrity is important? more »

Why Is This Why. Why would anyone make this. David Brooks is admittedly the best illustration for "corporate dude" basically ever, but that is exactly why this is so terrible and wrong.

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white and lazy

Important Notice

Rhino's remastered rereleases of the first three-and-a-half Replacements albums came out today. Read this and then buy them to help pay for Paul's kid's college fund. Attached is a clip of the Mats accidentally inventing alt-country in 1981.

3:04 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By Pareene
710 views, 27 comments

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