The Issues: October 2008 Archives
"Gosh! This dress is taking up the whole limo!"
-- Real Housewife of Orange County Lauri, overheard on a RHoOC rerun on a Jetblue flight yesterday.
That little mention of where I overheard Lauri's once-absurd, currently-totally-revolting exclamation isn't meant as a bit of snobby "I only watch that crap on long flights" self-distancing from reality TV, just as an indication of the only current circumstance in which I will watch that program.
I've been a frequent and fairly-grateful consumer of Bravo's particular brand of upscale lifestyle-porn for the past few years, but I've always wondered what it would take to render what should've been unwatchable anyway ACTUALLY unwatchable.
Voila! A massive recession seems to be doing the trick! I jotted down that quote yesterday with the intention of limiting the post to the quote and a one sentence reaction to it, just as a cutesy wow-times-have-changed observational tidbit. But there's a new NYTimes profile of Bravo exec Lauren Zalaznick, the genius behind Bravo's ascendency, and from the sound of it she's still operating under the old new economy model wherein conspicuous displays of televised hyperconsumption and cheery socioeconomic obliviousness (hey Lauri!) don't turn our collective gut and make us spew chunks all over our we-now-realize-way-too-late-far-too-expensive plasma-screen TVs.
I haven't read it all yet--still stuck on that amazing anecdote in which Zalaznick gives a hilarious pistol-whipping to walleyed gay puppydog Andy Cohen--but Jezzie's witty account seems to confirm my suspicions that Bravo's golden geese might be cooked.
-- Real Housewife of Orange County Lauri, overheard on a RHoOC rerun on a Jetblue flight yesterday.
That little mention of where I overheard Lauri's once-absurd, currently-totally-revolting exclamation isn't meant as a bit of snobby "I only watch that crap on long flights" self-distancing from reality TV, just as an indication of the only current circumstance in which I will watch that program.
I've been a frequent and fairly-grateful consumer of Bravo's particular brand of upscale lifestyle-porn for the past few years, but I've always wondered what it would take to render what should've been unwatchable anyway ACTUALLY unwatchable.
Voila! A massive recession seems to be doing the trick! I jotted down that quote yesterday with the intention of limiting the post to the quote and a one sentence reaction to it, just as a cutesy wow-times-have-changed observational tidbit. But there's a new NYTimes profile of Bravo exec Lauren Zalaznick, the genius behind Bravo's ascendency, and from the sound of it she's still operating under the old new economy model wherein conspicuous displays of televised hyperconsumption and cheery socioeconomic obliviousness (hey Lauri!) don't turn our collective gut and make us spew chunks all over our we-now-realize-way-too-late-far-too-expensive plasma-screen TVs.
I haven't read it all yet--still stuck on that amazing anecdote in which Zalaznick gives a hilarious pistol-whipping to walleyed gay puppydog Andy Cohen--but Jezzie's witty account seems to confirm my suspicions that Bravo's golden geese might be cooked.
My abilities in the witty French-joke headline writing dept. are limited by the fact that I don't speak a word of French besides 'oui'--like most Americans I am both obnoxiously proud and secretly ashamed of this fact--so let's hurry quickly on to the point of this post: two new French safe-sex PSAs from the folks who brought you those terrifying(ly erotic) spider+scorpion sex print ads (NSFW-ish) and Wilfred Brimo's (also NSFW-ish) astonishing, heartbreaking, altogether brilliant "Sugar Baby Love" safe gay-sex psa* and it's only slightly lesser heterosex equivalent.
These new clips are not quite the masterworks that Brimo's videos were--the lady version in particular seems like a kinda of inapt/inept representation of the female sexual experience, about which I have zero firsthand experience but thousands of baseless-but-strongly-held opinions--but they are certainly state-of-the-art CGI raunch. They're kind of like the WALL*E of erotic psas.
NSFW-ish clips after the jump.
* (Which BTW OMG how could I forget to place that video on our supposedly authoritative list of the Top 10 Feyest Videos? It's only my favorite gay internet vid of all time! If I could go in some kind of time machine and live my entire life over again, the first and only change I'd make to my otherwise flawless existence would be to get things right by putting that clip in its rightful place in the number 1 slot on that list. Sorry Samwell.)
Continue reading French Safe Sex PSAs: Quite Good, Oui?.
One more fabulous celeb endorsie for Barack Obama. Just look at the legendary Sarah Jessica Parker roll up her sleeves and work the phones! In another **Fey Friends EXCLUSIVE** we secured the script SJP has been using to explain the differences between each candidate for voters:
There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous.Meanwhile, on the west side, Obama announced he's going to be campaigning in Arizona! LOL.
The only thing Feys care more about than Melrose Place reboots and Slutty Halloween Costumes is Marriage Equality For All! That's why we are proud to (at the last possible moment) join the Write To Marry Day effort to raise awareness (icky phrase, but true!) about Proposition 8 in California.
As a performer at a No On 8 Improv Fundraiser I attended last night said, however California goes on this issue, so goes the rest of the country. If they pass 8, expect to see rollbacks in gay marriage and civil union rights all over the country; if we succeed in defeating Prop 8, other states will take heed.
If you still need proof that the Yes On 8 folk are a bunch of culturally tone-deaf Mormon assholes, check out our previous coverage here.
But if you haven't been LIVING IN A CAVE for the past few months, then you are already fully prepared to help defeat 8 through volunteering or donating by clicking here.
As a performer at a No On 8 Improv Fundraiser I attended last night said, however California goes on this issue, so goes the rest of the country. If they pass 8, expect to see rollbacks in gay marriage and civil union rights all over the country; if we succeed in defeating Prop 8, other states will take heed.
If you still need proof that the Yes On 8 folk are a bunch of culturally tone-deaf Mormon assholes, check out our previous coverage here.
But if you haven't been LIVING IN A CAVE for the past few months, then you are already fully prepared to help defeat 8 through volunteering or donating by clicking here.
Could Wendy Button be the
stupidest person in history? In today’s Daily Beast, the former Democratic
Party speechwriter and professional crybaby announced that she is voting for
John McCain because John Edwards was nicer to her than Barack Obama. And because the Democrats were meanies to Joe the
Plumber too!
Ms. Button’s rambling, illogical hissy fit is an embarrassment from start to finish. Here are some highlights:
On Pig Palin:
“And when someone can sit on a stage during the Sarah Palin rap on Saturday Night Live, put her hands in the air and watch someone in a moose costume get shot—that’s a sign of both humor and humanity.”
Yes,
sitting on the stage during SNL is an important qualification for the Vice
Presidency.
“Has she made mistakes? Of course, she’s human too.”
Um…SHE
BROKE THE LAW!!!
"When someone takes on a corrupt political machine and a sitting governor, that is not done by someone with a low I.Q. or a moral core made of tissue paper."
Okay. Except that Palin IS a corrupt political machine. And YOU have a low I.Q and the moral core of a USED TAMPON.
On Sexism:
The Democrats “They went after [Hillary Clinton's] cleavage.”
And by "Democrats," she means "Fox News."
"We have Republicans raising Ayers and Democrats fostering ageism with “erratic” and jokes about Depends. Sexism. Racism. Ageism and maybe some Socialism have all made their ugly cameos in election 2008."
So Republicans are racist and
running a despicable campaign and that’s why you are voting for them? Everyone knows ageism is way more offensive than racism!
"Before I cast my vote, I will correct my party affiliation and change it to No Party or Independent. Then, in the spirit of election 2008, I’ll get a manicure, pedicure, and my hair done. Might as well look pretty when I am unemployed in a city swimming with “D’s."
You are the
biggest D ever. I mean, who needs reality when you have
hurt feelings? Poor Wendy. She is so RIGHT! Why doesn’t anyone else see
that????
Speaking of fancy rats, in a Slate piece about the terrifyingly anti-science VP candidacy of Pig Palin self-described contrarian Christopher Hitchens has now made it clear to his readers that he is officially, at least for the time being, done with being the socialist cheerleader of the Republican Party!
Through some too-gross-to-contemplate combination of honorable dedication to the plight of the Kurds, sort-of-understable but-still-really-annoying joy in outraging former cohorts from The Nation, and shameless canine pleasure in rubbing up to powerful swine like Wolfie and Bush, Hitchens has for years been making it his job to make the rest of us feel like mediocre halfwits for calling a spade a spade.
Now we get George W. Bush in drag, a woman who is at worst only marginally stupider or more hostile to science and education than George W., and suddenly--and, I should add, a good month or so later than his supposed inferiors--he wants in on the middlebrow Palin-bashing?
Thank you, BUT NO.
Maybe it's an alcoholic British thing, but we Americans prefer our party lines nice and cleanly drawn--PICK A FUCKING TEAM ALREADY--or, at the very least, our political conversion stories with nice, clean arcs. Muddling through your witty, urbane, and hostile scribblings in vain search of the germ of a strongly stated political preference has become a chore whose punishments far outweigh their rewards.
We've considered your application for readmission into the ranks of the nose-breathing non-blowhards of the liberal status quo, and we're sorry to report that YOU'VE BEEN DENIED.
This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just "people of faith" but theocratic bullies. On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity.It would appear that being a professional contrarian and world-class intellect consists in waiting 5 or 6 years after the rest of the thinking world has diagnosed the Republican Party's intellectual and moral bankruptcy to weigh in on the matter IN PRECISELY THE SAME TERMS while, through willful omission, pretending that you haven't been obscurely sniping at THIS EXACT KIND OF MAINSTREAM LIBERAL CRITICISM from the safe perch of Paul Wolfowitz's lap the whole time.
Through some too-gross-to-contemplate combination of honorable dedication to the plight of the Kurds, sort-of-understable but-still-really-annoying joy in outraging former cohorts from The Nation, and shameless canine pleasure in rubbing up to powerful swine like Wolfie and Bush, Hitchens has for years been making it his job to make the rest of us feel like mediocre halfwits for calling a spade a spade.
Now we get George W. Bush in drag, a woman who is at worst only marginally stupider or more hostile to science and education than George W., and suddenly--and, I should add, a good month or so later than his supposed inferiors--he wants in on the middlebrow Palin-bashing?
Thank you, BUT NO.
Maybe it's an alcoholic British thing, but we Americans prefer our party lines nice and cleanly drawn--PICK A FUCKING TEAM ALREADY--or, at the very least, our political conversion stories with nice, clean arcs. Muddling through your witty, urbane, and hostile scribblings in vain search of the germ of a strongly stated political preference has become a chore whose punishments far outweigh their rewards.
We've considered your application for readmission into the ranks of the nose-breathing non-blowhards of the liberal status quo, and we're sorry to report that YOU'VE BEEN DENIED.
I know everybody's already seen this video of WFTV's Barbara West interviewing Joe Biden, but I was away when it broke (CAMPAIGNING FOR OBAMA, or DIDN'T YOU HEAR THAT I WAS DOING THAT?) and the ferret-eyed birdbrain Barbara West needs to be experienced by absolutely as many people as possible.
BW: "You may recognize this quote: 'From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.' That's from Karl Marx. How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?"
Line by line...
"You may recognize this quote." Oh man, what a subtle little dig! Of course Joe Biden recognizes that quote! He's got it tattooed on his ass, right next to the rendering of Lenin's face.
"That's from Karl Marx." Ooh, BURN! Seriously, when was the last time you heard "Marxist" used as an unironic slur? There's something very desperate and anachronistic about this line of attack.
"How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?" Um, DOES NOT FOLLOW. All of her questions are total non-sequituirs.
Also, wherever you stand economically, isn't that Marx quote actually kind of beautiful and profoundly UNscary, especially in a period of such stark economic uncertainty? Only a ferret-faced anchorlady from WTF-TV would find a sentiment that reassuring terrifying and damaging on its face.
With the election only days away, now is as good a time as any to post my favorite presidential campaign ad ever. A visibly drunk Pearl Bailey cut this ad for Gerald Ford in 1976 and her half-assed endorsement is truly LOLish. I particularly enjoy her persuasive closer, "That's why I hope...oh I don't know...just think about it."
Where are the sirens now, Drudgie Bear?
McCain campaign volunteer Ashley Todd just confessed that she fabricated her whole "I got mugged and attacked by a scary black man who hates McCain supporters like me so much that he slightly scratched a backwards B into my face in solidarity with Barack Obama" story. Stay classy, Ashley!
Speaking of Drudge Exclusives, he is now broadcasting this important alert:
PAPER: AN OBAMA PANIC? MARKETS FEAR HIS POLICIES...
What paper? The New York Post...editorial page! LOL.
McCain campaign volunteer Ashley Todd just confessed that she fabricated her whole "I got mugged and attacked by a scary black man who hates McCain supporters like me so much that he slightly scratched a backwards B into my face in solidarity with Barack Obama" story. Stay classy, Ashley!
Speaking of Drudge Exclusives, he is now broadcasting this important alert:
PAPER: AN OBAMA PANIC? MARKETS FEAR HIS POLICIES...
What paper? The New York Post...editorial page! LOL.
* Even though he is a committed bachelor, Tim Gunn still finds California's gay marriage repealing ballot measure Prop 8 "unattractive."
* This official NoOn8 spot makes the case a bit more dramatically, appealing to California's residual "get off our backs" anti-government conservatism to rally opposition to the bill.
* Ugh. A bespectacled, western shirt-wearing Altbro says he is voting "yes on 8" even though he has gay friends and he loves them but that's not inconsistent because he feels like it's not about rights and um bigotry it's he feels um it's about the family and strengthening and protecting that and yeah. It's probably a sign of progress that even vocal homophobes like Altbro and Pig Palin now feel obligated to preface their BS by referring to all the gay friends they have, but Palin and Altbro are still lying fuckbags.
* This "YesOn8" clip is even lulzier. Girl and her boyfriend are driving down the road, and she's trying to explain to him why she is considering voting for 8 even though she loves their mutual gay friend Richard to pieces. Girlfriend: "There's more to this same-sex marriage stuff than people realize." Boyfriend: "Like what?" Long, she's-stumped beat followed by a protracted "ummmmm." Then she admits she's "no good at arguing this stuff" and just tells her boyfriend (and us, the viewer) to check out preservestraightmarriage.com, it'll do the heavy lifting of actually thinking about this issue for her (and maybe hopefully for us!). Is this a first, an issue ad where the advocate figure is blatantly depicted as a moron incapable of thinking for herself? (h/t Videogum)
* If you care about this issue, show your support over at NoOnProp8. If you're currently broke, volunteer or put a donation on your credit card like we did.
As we all know, Ellen Degeneres is nothing less than a true American hero and I love her. I even own a copy of Ellen's classic early 90s memoir, "My Point...And I Do Have One" -- okay, it was a gift. B/c of my special feelings, I've decided to break my self-imposed Pig Palin moratorium today. So without further ado, watch Ellen get all political on the gay-hating antics of Sarah Palin and her support for a federal amendment banning gay marriage.
Via Think Progress.
This Access Hollywood clip, in which Barack and Michelle Obama talk extensively about their frugality when it comes to clothes shopping--Obama wears ten year old slacks; Michelle wears $30 Gap dresses...even on television!--is a transparently opportunistic dig at Pig Palin, who has recently found herself in hot water with financially-pinched Americans for her lavish $150K campaign wardrobe.
Or, it would've been an opportunistic dig if the clip hadn't been recorded back in July. How perfect is that?
I hope this clip gets wide attention, far beyond our regular, already-converted fag readership. (Sorry fags!) The Palin clothes scandal followed by the retroactive serendipity of this clip adds up to another gratifying 'pinch-me' moment from the campaign trail, of which lately there have been so, so many.
(via HuffPo)
Queerty has been covering the fascinating story of Jorg Haider, the Austrian nationalist politician who died in a car accident last week after being seen leaving a gay club; he was driving 88 miles an hour and was totes blotto when the car went off the road. All I knew about Haider before this was that his parents were Nazis, he has made pro-Nazi statements in the past, and that he was at one point the head of the FPO (Austrian Freedom Party.) Also that he was a rightwing xenophobic fascist in a part of the world where rightwing xenophobic fascists have a track record of being much worse than just windbag blowhard coots with wacky ideas.
It's come out in the wake of his death and the scandal of his appearance at the gay club (although apparently his sexuality and his habit of surrounding himself with attractive young twinks was an open secret in Austria; I suppose one look at what a leathery, vain faggoty fop he was gave it away) that his second-in-command at the Aliance for the Future of Austria Stefan Petzner (pictured) was more than just a comrade-in-political-douchebaggery: they were lovers!
It's come out in the wake of his death and the scandal of his appearance at the gay club (although apparently his sexuality and his habit of surrounding himself with attractive young twinks was an open secret in Austria; I suppose one look at what a leathery, vain faggoty fop he was gave it away) that his second-in-command at the Aliance for the Future of Austria Stefan Petzner (pictured) was more than just a comrade-in-political-douchebaggery: they were lovers!
[Petzner] effectively outed himself as the deceased’s gay lover while being interviewed on an Austrian radio breakfast show.“I had to go to him. I had to go to him,” Mr Petzner said in his highly emotional interview as he recalled how he rushed to the hospital where the dead body of 52-year-old Haider was lying after his fatal crash in early October.
Admitting that he felt a “magnetic attraction” for Haider, whom he met five years ago while working as a cosmetics reporter, Mr Petzner insisted: “We had a relationship that went far beyond friendship. Jörg and I were connected by something truly special. He was the man of my life.”
Eww! Is there anything grosser than German rightwing homosexuals?! I bet they were revoltingly, tediously fastidious lays...that or they were into really dirty scatplay.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about all this is the reaction it's generating on Queerty's ccomment thread. A bunch of fascist Jorg apologists (okay, two of them) have flooded it to pay loving remembrance to Jorg and to defend his Nazi ass from the haters. It's weird.
(via Queerty)
I've never seen a video before with quite this mixture of delightful and horrifying.
(h/t that place I get all my videos)
I refused to see that gay movie about Mormons Latter Days on the grounds that I didn't want to be forced to think about the sex life of Mormies...and also because the lead had really terrible, unattractive hair. But Mormons Exposed, an amazing website, brand, and annual shirtless calendar, might lead me to reconsider the erotic possibilities of temple garments, aka Mormon Longjohns.
The site is cleverly designed to look like the lightly cluttered workspace of a dedicated Mormon missionary, and the model profiles spend as much time highlighting their commitment to spreading the word about Mormonism and doing service to the world as they do on their Mormy model's shirtless torsos. As well, a portion of the proceeds from calendar sales goes to each Mormon model/missionary's charity of choice.
Unfortunately, those coots and codgers at Brigham Young University have gotten wind of site creator Chad Hardy's business, and just punished him by retroactively ganking his diploma! (He had already been excommunicated by the Church.) You can cheer poor Chad up by visiting his online store and buying one of his nicely designed T-shirts or calendars. I particularly like this graphic:
(h/t Walt)AHhhhh!! Bobo tells me that ALLISON from INTERVENTION is old and everyone already saw it except me but I don't care because I am watching it OnDemand for my first time ever and it is I swear the most crazy fucking thing I have ever seen in my life!!!!!!!! I am screaming! Ahhhh!!!!!! (That's a scream!!!!!)
Who does Allison remind me of? Don't say Ruth Stoops because Citizen Ruth is obviously 10 million times less crazy than this lunatic. Can I keep watching this? I think it might give me nightmares! Help!!!!! How is it that Alison is so scary yet so delightful?!
(FYI: Allison huffs 10 cans of computer duster every day and easily beats Christy and Laney as the most insane Intervention lady ever!)
It may be time to get out of the Palin-bashing business!
Yeah, it was fun two weeks ago, back when it was STILL TOTALLY EDGY, but now everybody's doing it...and it gets harder and harder to keep up! In doing one last late-night sweep of the internet in anticipation of Monday's punishing posting schedule, I've come across no fewer than 6 must-have, totally LOL Pig Palin videos, not to mention this nifty gif. (WhiteRabbitCult, via Funfriends.)
Feys, staring down the likely (but hopefully only temporary!) retirement of Sarah Palin from the public eye, it may be time to ask ourselves, "What is our exit strategy?"
In the interest of leading our transition from 24-7 Palin coverage to like-really-once-a-day-max-from-now-on-please-guys I am relegating our latest roundup of videos to after the jump. If we have the decency to do no. 2 behind closed bathroom doors, isn't it only fair to Ms. Pig that we do the same when we defecate on her?
Yeah, it was fun two weeks ago, back when it was STILL TOTALLY EDGY, but now everybody's doing it...and it gets harder and harder to keep up! In doing one last late-night sweep of the internet in anticipation of Monday's punishing posting schedule, I've come across no fewer than 6 must-have, totally LOL Pig Palin videos, not to mention this nifty gif. (WhiteRabbitCult, via Funfriends.)
Feys, staring down the likely (but hopefully only temporary!) retirement of Sarah Palin from the public eye, it may be time to ask ourselves, "What is our exit strategy?"
In the interest of leading our transition from 24-7 Palin coverage to like-really-once-a-day-max-from-now-on-please-guys I am relegating our latest roundup of videos to after the jump. If we have the decency to do no. 2 behind closed bathroom doors, isn't it only fair to Ms. Pig that we do the same when we defecate on her?
Continue reading Sad State of Fey: Palin Video Linkdump.
Like all middling intellects, the mediocre minds behind Feyfriends are interested not in big-picture political theory but in the brightly-colored lint at the margins of electoral--specifically, presidential campaign--politics. Without juicy scandal-fodder like Pig Palin and Racist Sock Monkey Obama to cackle or cry over, our attention will undoubtedly drift away from politics after November 4th, and turn back to the issues that truly concern Feys: TR Pescod issues, Real Housewives of NYC issues, Trashy Graves issues, as well as issues concerning pictures of men's Ds and Bs.
We hope that our readers come for the (not really) hardhitting campaign coverage and the (so not) in-depth political analyses but stay for the Druggie Girl news and the Willy Aames nude photospreads. But for now, enjoy the above image lifted from a recent newsletter of the Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated. The letter's writer, group president Diane Fedele, says she was making a harmless joke on Obama's "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills" comment. "It was strictly an attempt to point out the outrageousness of his statement."
Yes, it WAS outrageous of Obama to point out that if elected he would be the first black president. How Tacky! How Dishonorable! What shameless playing-of-the-race-card! And really what could be a more appropriate and restrained commentary on his shameless race-baiting than to slap his face on a fake food stamp (get it? Blacks are disproportionately poor! And quite frequently on government assistance! LOL) surrounded by African-Americans' archetypally favorite foodstuffs?!
The best part of this story is not even the racism of it, but the thrill of watching a small-time, two-bit, dime-a-dozen Republican racist thrust towards semi-national attention by her own bird-brained idea of a BIG FUNNY.
Alan Keyes! LOL! Also: Five question marks in a row????? Doesn't that like automatically make her eligible for Honorary Fey status????? On a more serious note, Ledele's Big Funny apparently made a number of the club's African-American members cry when they received it.
Oh wait, even that's LOL. What did these wimmin expect when they joined an organization of Inland CA Republican Women?!
(ThePressEnterprise, via TPM)
We hope that our readers come for the (not really) hardhitting campaign coverage and the (so not) in-depth political analyses but stay for the Druggie Girl news and the Willy Aames nude photospreads. But for now, enjoy the above image lifted from a recent newsletter of the Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated. The letter's writer, group president Diane Fedele, says she was making a harmless joke on Obama's "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills" comment. "It was strictly an attempt to point out the outrageousness of his statement."
Yes, it WAS outrageous of Obama to point out that if elected he would be the first black president. How Tacky! How Dishonorable! What shameless playing-of-the-race-card! And really what could be a more appropriate and restrained commentary on his shameless race-baiting than to slap his face on a fake food stamp (get it? Blacks are disproportionately poor! And quite frequently on government assistance! LOL) surrounded by African-Americans' archetypally favorite foodstuffs?!
The best part of this story is not even the racism of it, but the thrill of watching a small-time, two-bit, dime-a-dozen Republican racist thrust towards semi-national attention by her own bird-brained idea of a BIG FUNNY.
She said she doesn't think in racist terms, pointing out she once supported Republican Alan Keyes, an African-American who previously ran for president.
"I didn't see it the way that it's being taken. I never connected," she said. "It was just food to me. It didn't mean anything else."
She said she also wasn't trying to make a statement linking Obama and food stamps, although her introductory text to the illustration connects the two: "Obama talks about all those presidents that got their names on bills. If elected, what bill would he be on????? Food Stamps, what else!"
Alan Keyes! LOL! Also: Five question marks in a row????? Doesn't that like automatically make her eligible for Honorary Fey status????? On a more serious note, Ledele's Big Funny apparently made a number of the club's African-American members cry when they received it.
Oh wait, even that's LOL. What did these wimmin expect when they joined an organization of Inland CA Republican Women?!
(ThePressEnterprise, via TPM)
* But she says "NO" to Proposition 8...and SO SHOULD YOU! (via OMG)
* Further proof that Obama knows how to run a state-of-the-art presidential campaign: he has now begun advertising INSIDE XBox games. (h/t Towleroad)
* Depressed Republican David Frum appeared on Rachel Maddow's show on Monday and used the occasion to scold her for lowering "the tone" of our political debate. Coming from a total George W. Bush suckup, his attack reeked of concern trolling. Suck it Frumbag.
* The Humane Association-sponsored ballot measure Proposition 2 seeks to improve the lot of farm animals, but even a few animal-welfare sympathizers think it has some problems, namely that it will be ruinous for even reasonably humane poultry producers in CA. (I'm still voting yes, though!)
* Get ready for tonight's Project Runway finale by checking out video of Joe, Suede, and Jerrell's decoy collections here. (via BloggingProjectRunway)
* At a recent rally Pig Palin misheard a few McCain-Palin supporters cries for more volume as political protesting and started to smack them down until hubby (and secret string puller?) Hot Todd corrected her.
* Radar gets the memo that Family Guy sucks like five years late, acts like it's still breaking news.
Ack! Get outta our website! Ever since we posted that critical walkthrough of ProtectMarriage's ridiculous Prop-8 yeasaying-for-kiddies website iProtect, Googleads has been directing these heinous ads to our site, where they hog precious ad space while promoting hate, intolerance, and civil inequality in California! SO UNFAIR!
According to Gawker, we are not alone. Radar has also been hit by these ridiculously ill-placed ads; even Towleroad--the only site on the interbutt GAYER THAN US--has been getting bombed.
Ever vigilant and always proactive, Andy Towle has been snipping the ads somehow, but...I don't know how to do that! And I bet it'd take whole minutes to learn!
It's absolutely infuriating that ProtectMarriage gets to litter our beautiful site with impunity when not a single one of our readers would ever support such a vicious and stupid organization, and that they could possibly WASTE THEIR MORMON MONEY and EVEN PAY US for the pleasure of borrowing your gay marriage loving eyeballs!
Hmm, on second thought...CLICK ON THAT BITCH!