On Tuesday, conservative commentators sprang into actually to “fact check” Michelle Obama’s remark about the White House being built with slave labor, successfully missing the point of her story to note that, hey, lots of non-slaves worked on it too. Bill O’Reilly went one further, however, weirdly stating that the…
Nestled amongst the rubble of Amy Pascal’s digital life was, it turns out, a deep, dark secret Hollywood actor Ben Affleck and his agent hoped might stay buried forever. Here, condensed into three acts, are the five stages of Ben Affleck’s antebellum grief.
A year-long AP investigation reveals the global fish market feeds off a robust slave fishing trade benefitting everyone involved except the slaves, who are reportedly kept in cages and whipped with toxic fish when they get tired. Sounds pretty bad!
Here we have South Carolina Senate president pro-tempore Glenn McConnell dressed up in a Confederate general's costume, alongside two African-Americans in "historical" garb. Oh man. What kind of slave party were they throwing down in Charleston, recently?
CNN anchor Rick Sanchez, who's always sayin' the nuttiest things, called Barack Obama the "the cotton-pickin' president" today. This enraged his Twitter followers, because didn't black slaves used to pick cotton? Sanchez testily apologized shortly thereafter. Sanchez's latest flub below.
We're of two minds about "The Hills" star Lauren Conrad's new fashion line. Poorly-made cynical cashing-in by a brand-person-entity? Or the realization of a delicate young girl's lifelong dream? You've heard the con. Now hear the pro.
