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My First Presidential Election and a New Face for America
I was pan-frying ground turkey when it happened. I added some basil and a pinch of pepper, and turned to glance at the TV. Plastered in red and blue lettering across the bottom half of the screen: “CNN Prediction: Obama Wins Presidential Election.” I turned the gas off—turkey be damned—and stood with my hand over [...]
Daily News Roundup: The President-Elect Barack Obama Edition
Be careful what you ask for: Barack Obama won the US presidency in convincing fashion, taking 53% of the popular vote and snagging the lion’s share of the electoral college (349 with North Carolina and Missouri still hanging out there, according to CNN). With plenty of “this is breaking down racial barriers” stories already on [...]
Daily News Roundup: Hate, Heroism and a Hair Scare
Meet Dube Egwuatu. He was shot three times with a pellet gun for wearing an Obama t-shirt in the streets of . . . London? We get it: Not everyone abroad is banging the Obama drum, but pulling a trigger isn’t exactly the best way to make one’s case.
Barack Obama was cool as a cucumber [...]
Bogus Bailout Plans Populate the Peanut Gallery
I am not a financial guru. I am not in investment banking, money lending, or, really, anything that has to do with your money. I personally don’t have any.
However, when I see a headline, on CNN, which is not noted for being an Op-Ed platform, that says: “What Would You Do with $700 Billion?” it [...]
James Carville En Fuego On Larry King Live
UPDATE: YouTube video after the jump
When debating with a hapless McCain supporter in Rep. Michelle Beachman (R-MN) on Larry King Live tonight, James Carville unleashed the following response to her claim that Gov. Sarah Palin has actually “done something instead of running for president her entire life”:
Let’s go through the facts here. There are [...]
Dating white guys and my beef with CNN’s Black in America
Our columnist Ryan Barrett dishes on dating white guys and disses CNN’s “Black in America.”
Afternoon snacks: Daily News Round-up, Republican edition
USC Fake Republicans in the News: CNN ran an interview with a man named Eric Perlmutter who claimed that he was part of University’s College Republicans organization. He claimed:
“We try to get people out to our college Republican meetings, but … we can’t seem to draw the same kind of vocal support.”
It seems that CNN [...]
The Obama biracial question
The question has finally wafted over to CNN – is Barack Obama Black or Biracial?
Biologically, White parent + Black parent = Biracial.
But culturally, it’s a different issue altogether. An issue that plays itself out both within the Black and White community.
Inside the Black community, I think there’s a simultaneous and seemingly illogical embrace and sharp [...]
CNN’s mystery horror theater
CNN’s chief international correspondent and all-around news celebrity Christiane Amanpour delivers a three-part report on politicized religious fundamentalism beginning tonight. No doubt the series will be entertaining and informative, but probably mostly for what it says about Amanpour and the timidity and provincialism of CNN. The ads, of course, look a heap of Hollywood cliche, [...]
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