John McLaughlin getting off lightly? “Does it frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, that…an Oreo should be the beneficiary of the long civil rights struggle which Jesse Jackson spent his lifetime fighting for?” McLaughlin asked his panelists. Hahahaha! You know what you are, cracker? Double-stuffed. Who’s frosted now, motherfucker? CNN, ever helpful with the background, adds: The term “Oreo” is often viewed as a derogatory term toward some African-Americans who appear not

keeps the cameras rolling as fierce Taliban freedom fighters murder two women. Oh, the pornography! Meanwhile, OMG, John McCain’s wife hates St. Louis! Cindy McCain, wife of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, is set to get a huge payout from the sale of Anheuser-Busch Cos., brewer of Budweiser and hundreds of other brands, to Belgian beverage giant InBev NV. You just know she must be the Worst Person in the

Appearing before La Raza (“The Race”) today, John McCain finally decided to own his immigration stance and went after Barack Obama’s immigration votes: I spoke recently at both the NALEO and LULAC conferences, as did Senator Obama. I did not use those occasions to criticize Senator Obama. I would prefer not to do so today. But he suggested in his speeches there and here, that I turned my back on

The Politico reports on the efforts of Ron Fournier, head of The Associated Press’s Washington bureau, to encourage first-person writing and emotive language in AP’s wire copy.  Fournier cites the media coverage of Hurricane Katrina as inspiration: A dispatch Fournier filed in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina began: “The Iraqi insurgency is in its last throes. The economy is booming. Anybody who leaks a CIA agent’s identity will

the repulclusive, closed society so often in the news: While it is true that the ratio of Obama-to-McCain bumper stickers in West L.A. is about 250-to-1, there are untold closet Republicans in the entertainment industry who dare not advertise their beliefs in movie studio parking lots. (Unfortunately, car keying is a tactic wielded liberally by the self-described “tolerant.”) But in this land of superficiality and augmented assets, the inconvenient truth

Ryan Lizza’s in-depth look at Barack Obama’s political career in Illinois for the New Yorker has something for most everyone — right and left — to chew over. Folks right of center seem to be focusing first on Obama’s response to the 9/11 attacks, published on September 19th in the Hyde Park Herald: Even as I hope for some measure of peace and comfort to the bereaved families, I must also hope

Why is it an empty gesture? U.S. President George W. Bush plans to lift a ban on offshore drilling on Monday to combat soaring energy prices, a largely symbolic move unlikely to have any short-term impact on the high cost of gasoline. Because it’s not a short-term solution.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s Foreign Ministry has condemned remarks by Republican presidential candidate John McCain that exporting cigarettes could be a way of killing Iranians. The state-owned English language IRAN daily has quoted ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini denouncing the remarks as “inappropriate” and describing McCain’s attitude as “regretful.” Last week, McCain was asked about an Associated Press report that the U.S. exported $158 million worth of cigarettes to