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Re: Why Black Bloggers Speak Up

The_Black_Snob — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:58:52 -0000

I'm just going to reinterate what I told Rikryah and Gina ... cowards. The person who wrote this article should have either called out the blogs BY NAME or interviewed Gina. Seriously. Instead they wanted to print this "feel so sorry for poor wittle me" screed. Please. Man up. Woman up. Human being up and face your critics.

LAME!!!

Re: State of the Black Union Afternoon Session Open Thread

The_Black_Snob — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:06:40 -0000

Anytime! Gotta watch each others backs (especially when we're getting misrepresented anonymously in mainstream press stories).

Once again. Why did they have to be a punk about it? Why not just call out WOAD and MOW? They couldn't shoot an email. Ask Gina a question? PUNKS!

Re: State of the Black Union Afternoon Session Open Thread

The_Black_Snob — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:59:46 -0000

OT:

Rikryah, did you see this Newsweek story? It calls out MOW and WAOD without mentioning the blogs on HuffPo "getting clobbered" on calling Sasha Obama "Sassy" without naming the sites on their story, "No Apologizes."

Don't know why they didn't just name the blogs if they're all unapologetic and shizz.

Re: Let’s Find Some Faux Obamas for Madison Avenue

The_Black_Snob — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:25:12 -0000

Thanks for the link, guys. I truly, truly want to both embarrass the person who made such a foolish statement AND create a loving piece of journalism to all young black girls everyone to tell them to eff the industry! YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL! I'm going to put together a lovely internet gallery/slide show, plus a story and post it for everyone to share in.

Keep spreading the word!

Re: Beware of Distractions This Week

The_Black_Snob — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:41:55 -0000

The problem is perception. Because people still see the NE as a tabloid despite being right on the Edwards story. People are just going to ignore it unless something else happens. They're ignoring it right now, just like they ignored the John Edwards story when it broke.

I'm not saying the story's false, I'm saying the press probably won't pick up on it unless they have to, unless they're pressured and that pressure happens and builds over time. With John it took months and he wasn't even running anymore. The election is in November. That's not a lot of time to convince CNN to run with what will be labeled by the opposition as a hateful smear and make Palin out as a the victim.

Democrats, unless they've recently changed, are not going to hype this in the next six weeks for fear of blow back. Something else would have to happen to make it "acceptable" to discuss it in the open.

Re: Beware of Distractions This Week

The_Black_Snob — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:27:04 -0000

Her best bet is for someone to get hurt or sick to get out of that debate. Either her daughter has to miscarry or have a premature birth. Those are the only things that could get her out of it short of her husband getting in a near fatal car wreck or one of her parents dying.

Or a terrorist attack. Or another natural disaster. It has to be HUGE. So huge the press will be shamed into not asking follow questions with she asks to post-pone. (not that they'd ever let them ask her questions).

Re: Beware of Distractions This Week

The_Black_Snob — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:17:35 -0000

If we're playing conspiracy theory, her daughter "was" pregnant before. The other rumor about the baby was true. And they made up this present "pregnancy." But that's crazy conspiracy theory stuff. If you're among the many who think Bristol's pregnancy was thrown out there to distract us or cover something else up ...?

Personally, I find the likelihood far-fetched because I would like to believe that a VP candidate wouldn't be running around like a lost episode of Falcon's Crest. But if they wanted to kill the debate, for reals, that would be the best and most efficient way of doing it because no one would question her decision to bow out.

Or her daughter could just go into labor early. But that would only give her some time to post-pone, not kill, the debate. A wedding would not be a good excuse to kill the debate because a wedding can happy anytime. She needs "disaster" to strike. Todd needs to be diagnosed with cancer. Her mom needs to be in a near fatal car accident. She can't just throw up her hands and say "The dog ate my debate." The excuse has to be plausible and F'ed up enough that the press will back off.

And the National Enquirer ran with a story on her cheating on her husband and all we got were crickets. Maybe that one will build steam, but I doubt it. The John Edwards thing had months and months of build up before anyone took it seriously in the press and the NE doesn't have that same amount of time for Palin.

At the end of the day, they're still a duplicitous, trashy tabloid.

Re: Beware of Distractions This Week

The_Black_Snob — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:23:29 -0000

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the ULTIMATE distraction that could get Palin out of the debate indefinitely and the sympathy of everyone and their grandmother:

Her daughter Bristol has a "miscarriage."

I'm not saying it'll happen ... but I wouldn't be surprised either.

Re: Saturday Open Thread

The_Black_Snob — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:17:39 -0000

I actually think she is out of her league. Not dumb. Just in over her head because she's never had to think about national or international issues before. All she has are the basic talking points.

Truth is, if she was brilliant the McCain campaign wouldn't be hiding her. They'd have her on everything from Larry King to The View to show off their prized, confident, intelligent, youthful superstar. They would NEVER want someone to come off as stupid. That doesn't help McCain. Sure they want to lower expectations, but if she was a dynamo on the national/international issues they wouldn't be hiding her from anyone. They'd play down expectations, but they would shield her when she was such a media sensation when she first came out. Strategically it's too risky to have someone garbling their talking points and looking clueless. Never mind her 101 personal problems.

McCain just saw a tempting, hot commodity. He never checked to see what was going on upstairs or in her life. She was young, Republican and attractive with ovaries. He didn't think any harder about her than he did about "suspending his campaign." McCain is a desperate man pulling tricks hoping people will fall for them ... and they are genuinely worried about the debate. And as crazy as Biden is, he's no joke. He doesn't stutter. He's concise and likable. This is deadly for them. Conservatives are turning on him for picking her with her every sparse interview that reveals how poorly she understands the issues. I'm sure she's cramming around the clock for the debate.

She's just lucky the bar is set so low it's in the basement. It'll be a win for her if she just pronounces the names right.

Re: Saturday Open Thread

The_Black_Snob — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:09:55 -0000

The problem is they DON'T know if the bailout will work. They don't know what letting the banks fail will do. They just know both options are bad and as usual the Bush Administration waited so long, by the time they realized they needed to do something Bear Sterns collapsed and shit has been rolling downhill ever since.

If they don't do the bail out several banks are on the chopping block to fail without the help (see Washington Mutual who fell apart last week and was scooped up by Merrill Lynch) and the markets will go into disarray and credit is likely to freeze up with no one loaning anyone money for anything and the government would end up spending billions to cover the losses of US citizens in FDIC backed banks.

BUT if the go with the bailout they risk screwing up inflation. We don't actually have $700 billion. We're going to sell T-bills or whatever to foreign governments to raise the cash, then the treasury is going to start printing dollars to inject them into the market to encourage investment and spending. The only problem is there will be so many dollars out there the value of the US currency could drop dramatically and inflation could skyrocket.

Plus, the taxpayers would inherit all this worthless real estate we would have to sell for a loss.

There's just no good answers and Congress, the president and the Fed are just throwing up $700 billion and a prayer and hoping this will stop the bloodletting, then cross their fingers that inflation won't get higher. Or that more money won't be needed for the bailout (because no one knows how much these mortgage securities are worth).

So, long story short. Either way, we're all screwed.

Re: Saturday Open Thread

The_Black_Snob — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:01:17 -0000

I kept wondering where King was getting that stat from. How did he know the bulk of the audience was Dem? Seems like SOME conservatives and Republicans watched something because there is chatter all over the Web about this debate and the upcoming VP debate. I swear. I get that CNN wants to be the opposite of whatever FOX and MSNBC are, but damn. Slow ya roll, homie. What was that?

Re: Saturday Open Thread

The_Black_Snob — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:59:54 -0000

Chris suffers from chronic foot in mouth disorder. You can not take his verbal thuggery seriously. Most of the time he just comes off as clueless anyway. He cracks me up when he tries to talk like he understands black people, the black experience or women. He usually just comes off as a totally troglodyte. I don't know why he bothers. Oh that's right. They pay him.

Re: Saturday Open Thread

The_Black_Snob — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:56:47 -0000

Re: James Fallows Breaks it Down about McCain’s Choice & The Bush Doctrine

The_Black_Snob — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:14:22 -0000

He did ask her about the whole church thing where she was on video tape talking about the war in Iraq and he questioned her on whether it was a holy mission from God. Then they discussed whether she thought God had a plan for Iraq.

Re: James Fallows Breaks it Down about McCain’s Choice & The Bush Doctrine

The_Black_Snob — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:44:13 -0000

Seriously. All I remember from her interview was Georgia, Ukraine, NATO, John McCain, Alaska, Strategic Reserve, Russia, Putin, Abraham Lincoln ... did she say Jesus? I can't remember. But pronouns. I remember there were a lot of those. Like all strung together connecting to nothing and leading to no point.

Yeah, she did great.

Re: James Fallows Breaks it Down about McCain’s Choice & The Bush Doctrine

The_Black_Snob — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:17:35 -0000

You could tell that she'd been coached on a breadth of subjects but it was all superficial and she couldn't go very deep on any of the questions posed. All she had were pronouns and talking points. Any time she had to venture outside of those she was a babe in the woods. Deer in the headlights. Dan Quayle. Use whatever euphemism you like.

Re: RNC08: Black Republicans Not In Love with Sarah Palin

The_Black_Snob — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:09:38 -0000

Priceless. Bravo, angry black Republican, bravo! I realize that he'll probably flip back McCain anyway, but that Jer-ry, Jer-ry was priceless. Only I would have used a Maury Povich reference since he's the king of "You ARE the father!"

Re: Peggy Noonan On Hot Mic: “It’s Over” Because Of Palin Pick

The_Black_Snob — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:46:51 -0000

This should be an ad. No doubt. I would play it all day, everyday over pictures of Palin and McCain with excerpts from newspaper columnists questioning McMaverick's sanity.

Re: Peggy Noonan On Hot Mic: “It’s Over” Because Of Palin Pick

The_Black_Snob — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:45:32 -0000

RNC rules state that McCain can withdraw Palin, but he has to do so before she is voted on and approved. If he wants or tries to dump her after that it has to be voted on by the delegation.

And that vote will be a blood bath if it comes to pass.

Re: VP Nominee Palin Thinks The Founding Fathers Wrote The Pledge Of Allegiance

The_Black_Snob — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:30:17 -0000

I read that over the weekend. ... She keeps getting better and better, I tell you what!

Re: VP Nominee Palin Thinks The Founding Fathers Wrote The Pledge Of Allegiance

The_Black_Snob — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:29:36 -0000

LOL. So appropriate. So scary.

Re: McCain’s Trying to Make History, too, But It Won’t Save Him

The_Black_Snob — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:05:39 -0000

And she had that same, frozen, cave woman face the whole time. And the white headband? Oy!

Re: McCain’s Trying to Make History, too, But It Won’t Save Him

The_Black_Snob — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:02:13 -0000

LOLOLOLOL!!! I wish I'd come up with that line!

Re: If You Read One Non-JJP Post Today…

The_Black_Snob — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:17:00 -0000

Thanks for the shout, JJP! And yes. It's getting ridiculous. It makes me want to revive my old, "I hate working here with all you crazy white folk" anthem, DMX's "Party Up." Man, that song got me through some dark days in Texas.

Re: When I say TRIFLING, you say KWAME….TRIFLING…KWAME

The_Black_Snob — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:54:01 -0000

I concur with everything you wrote. There is no defense for this man's actions. I pity the few black people who keep trying to invoke the 11th commandment, "Thou shalt not speak ill of another Negro." How can you defend the indefensible? That's as lame as that "stop snitchin" BS.