Update: ALLAHPUNDIT appreciates Hanks’ self-deprecation and candor:
There’s no nutrootsy pretense here about having closely studied anyone’s platform; he wants a black president and he likes what he’s seen of the guy’s character, case closed.
True enough, although I think a truly self-deprecating celebrity–especially one of Hanks’ magnitude–would just keep his or her opinion to his- or herself.
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The Only Legitimate Result Now For The November Election Is A Win By Obama
Published April 17th, 2008 in Effluent Rants, Politics and Media. 1 CommentUpdate: Serr8d at The Cutting Edge has the same idea about Liberal Fascism as I do. Check out his Obama logo.
Original Post: I repeat: The only legitimate result now for the November election is a win by Obama.
Who do you think uttered that gem of an “analysis”? Chris Matthews? Keith Olbermann? Jack Cafferty? Tim Russert?
No, […]
When Is A Behavior Typical, And When Is It Not?
Published April 9th, 2008 in Effluent Rants, Politics and Media. 0 CommentsWe all know that Democratic senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama recently painted an oral picture of his maternal grandmother—a white woman—in blatantly stereotypical terms:
The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, but that she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she […]
More “In An Absolut World” Hilarity
Published April 6th, 2008 in Effluent Rants, International and Media. 2 CommentsRemember that “edgy” advertisement that recently came out from the good folks at Absolut Vodka that redrew the map of América del Norte and gave a good chunk of the Estados Unidos back to the Mexicans? You know: the one they ran in Mexico thinking that 300 million “dumbass gringos and gringas” would never see […]
Where Do Corporate Loyalties Lie?
Published April 3rd, 2008 in Effluent Rants, International and Media. 3 CommentsFrom Michelle Malkin, Mi blog es tu blog, and a variety of other sources on the Internet comes this gem of an advertisement for Absolut vodka that recently ran in the print version of the Mexican magazine Quién:
Note that the bint (she goes by the modest moniker “latinbeauty”) at Mi blog es tu blog seems […]
Anderson Cooper In The Tank
Published March 15th, 2008 in Effluent Rants, Politics and Media. 0 CommentsHere’s Anderson Cooper of CNN practically falling over himself to appear apologetic as he reports on the Barack Obama-Jeremiah Wright situation:
Is this just the kind of thing that happens in campaigns? It seems we’re almost at a point now where it’s this or other issues for […]
From Drudge.
So that’s Ben Stiller on the right, and a blonde Jack Black on the left. This picture was taken as they filmed a new movie called Tropic Thunder.
The operative question: Who’s the actor in the middle?
Here’s a closer look at his face.
Still can’t guess? Never seen him before? When I looked at it, I […]
The “Gray Lady” Or Simply Another Liberal Whore?
Published February 23rd, 2008 in Effluent Rants, Politics and Media. 0 CommentsUPDATE: Karl at Protein Wisdom has some words on the tenets of basic journalism and the inverted pyramid, slams NYT ombudsman’s criticism of the article.
ORIGINAL POST: Jim Rutenberg, Marilyn W. Thompson, David D. Kirkpatrick, and Stephen Labaton. Remember those four names. They’re the four reporters whose bylines appear at the top of the already-infamous New […]









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