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The Anti-Obama 'Metrosexual Black Abe Lincoln’ Ad Campaign Would've Been The Funniest Shit Ever
Mobutu Sese Seko · 05/18/12 12:32PMYesterday morning, the New York Times reported on a super-PAC plan submitted to Joe Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade and owner of the Chicago Cubs. Entitled, "The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama: The Ricketts Plan to End His Spending for Good," it proposed a $10 million series of ads tying Obama to Reverend Jeremiah Wright. By early afternoon, Ricketts had abandoned the plan outright.
'Stand Your Ground': Ladies, You Have No Ground to Stand on
Mobutu Sese Seko · 05/16/12 12:35PMAh, Florida, cradle of justice. One day, when they document the great codifiers of the law, the names will ring out: Hammurabi, Solon, Justinian, Blackstone, Napoleon, Tallahassee. Last Friday, the state that's hosted the politically ugly Trayvon Martin reality show handed down a 20-year sentence against Marissa Alexander.
Bullies For Life: The GOP's Ongoing Game of Smear The Queer
Mobutu Sese Seko · 05/11/12 12:57PMYesterday the Washington Post reported that, when he attended prep school, Mitt Romney mocked and assaulted students suspected of being gay. Call me a cynic, but I expect more from America's future sociopaths. When stories come out about non-consensual masturbation or the younger, feminine boys being expected to "do mouth stuff" on the seniors ("But no queer business or nothin'!") then it's a prep school scandal.
Mitt Romney and the GOP's Treason Whack-a-Mole
Mobutu Sese Seko · 05/09/12 03:10PMEven for conservatives, the Mitt Romney campaign provides a meeting point between high finance and low expectations. Now that the GOP nomination is all but officially wrapped up, Mitt is free to shake the Etch-a-Sketch, tack to the center and betray the perfectly reasonable people who wear felt hats, stockings and breeches to point out the villainy of, say, Head Start.
Mitt Romney's Case Against a Mitt Romney Presidency
Mobutu Sese Seko · 05/03/12 12:30PMAborting the Rebirth of Slick: Obama and the GOP's War on Cool
Mobutu Sese Seko · 05/01/12 01:33PMChuck Colson: Watergate Conspirator and God's Own Ratfucker
Mobutu Sese Seko · 04/24/12 12:04PMWinning the War Against Yesterday: Mike O'Hanlon's Afghan Mad Libs
Mobutu Sese Seko · 04/20/12 12:15PMEight days ago, the Wall Street Journal published another column promising a "stable Afghanistan" from the Brookings Institution's Michael O'Hanlon. It might as well have been assembled by playing Powerball. O'Hanlon cranks the hopper, opens the little cage and out comes another bromide: "Closer"! "Accomplishing"! "Goals"! "Exit Strategy"!
Romney and Bibi: Middle East Policy By Two Best Buds Walkie-Talkiing After Bedtime
Mobutu Sese Seko · 04/17/12 02:38PMTwo Sundays ago, the New York Times ran an article about Mitt Romney and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The two have known each other for about 35 years. They went through Boston Consulting Group's "boot camp" together. They "can almost speak in shorthand." They finish each other's sentences and once accidentally ate from opposite ends of the same long strand of spaghetti. Their lives are an endless geopolitical meet-cute: Romney wants to run the nuclear big-box store of the United States, but he has enough love in his heart that he'd never crush the beautiful Middle Eastern shop around the corner.
The Dog Whistle Has Sounded: How the Right Talks About 'Thugs' Like Trayvon Martin
Mobutu Sese Seko · 04/05/12 11:57AMOn Sunday, Bill Kristol, chronically incorrect steward of his daddy's magazine movement, dismissed liberals' and black activists' outraged response to the Trayvon Martin killing as "just demagoguery... mostly on the side of those who want to indict the whole society for this death." The following day, Rush Limbaugh said the response was "doing more harm to the black community than anything else." How blessed the black community must feel to have their best interests overseen by the living embodiment of everything wrong with white people.
Hoodies, Strip Searches, and College: A Salad Bar of American Dread
Mobutu Sese Seko · 04/03/12 03:35PMEven when one or two stories dominate a national news cycle, there are still thousands more circulating beneath them. Most of these are local, which is great luck for local journalists, who can use them to fend off angry senior-citizen complaints that nobody's explained why Dahlia's Café—the one with the all-afternoon early bird!—was replaced with a "Chipottle."
Dick's Got a New Heart: Why Cheney's Transplant Makes a Good Case For ObamaCare
Mobutu Sese Seko · 03/30/12 08:00AMLast weekend, America's subterranean war monster, Lord Kinbote Dick Cheney, received a new heart from a Virginia hospital. Apparently, he even got it legally, although we'll never know if the hospital in question first deferred him five times. The right got a new faintly Obamacare-related talking point, and the left—even as it worried about the invalidation of the most important health care reform in generations—well, it didn't really get it at all.
Occupy Wall Street and MoveOn Go Together Like Woodstock and 1999
Mobutu Sese Seko · 03/27/12 11:45AMDeath Games for Kids and the GOP's Kickin' New Sketchers
Mobutu Sese Seko · 03/23/12 02:30PMTrayvon Martin: All This Has Happened Before and Will Happen Again
Mobutu Sese Seko · 03/20/12 02:30PMLast night, the U.S. Justice Department announced that it would investigate the death of Trayvon Martin, after watching outrage build as Florida authorities appeared to do nothing for 23 days. The 17-year-old Martin was walking through a residential development in Sanford, Fla. and was chased down and shot by a 28-year-old man named George Zimmerman. If this sounds painfully familiar, it should.
White House Pours One Out for All the Dead Journos, Waterboards the Living
Mobutu Sese Seko · 03/15/12 02:00PMThe most recent article from The Nation's Jeremy Scahill profiled the imprisonment of Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye. For covering American cluster bomb strikes in Yemen and the radicalization of Yemeni citizens and their support for Al Qaeda, Shaye has been beaten and tortured, imprisoned for two years and, at America's request, seen a presidential pardon from Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh indefinitely tabled.
Madness: The Afghan Massacre is History's Dial Tone
Mobutu Sese Seko · 03/13/12 12:03PMAndrew Breitbart: Big Deal, Big Coronary, Big Corpse
mobutu & Gen. Ze'evi · 03/06/12 03:50PMThe Michigan Primary's Bumbling Duo: Failing Onward With Mitt and Rick
Mobutu Sese Seko · 02/29/12 03:27PMLast night's white glower rally in Michigan was supposed to tell us something novel and important, instead of mumbling vague phrases we've heard before. This time, we thought, a GOP primary vote would be decisive, recasting the narrative for the future, solidifying positions and increasing momentum.