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By Mrs. Snoop

 Snoop and I have been catching up on TV lately. Awhile back he started watching a show made for “Showtime” called “The L Word.” And now I’ve been watching it with him.For those who haven’t seen this show before, it’s all about a bunch of women in LA who are lesbian. The characters are all beautiful (pretty much); not a butch lesbian in the whole bunch. They party all the time. They sleep together the night they meet and they move in together the next day (or week). And they all behave like they are incapable of being stable or faithful, no matter how much they love their partner(s) or how hard they worked to “hook up” in the first place.

I don’t know hundreds of lesbians personally, but the handful I do know (some quite well) do not look like this women, nor thank God do they act like them. However, in checking with my closest lesbian friend (is that like having a black friend I wonder?) she says that the show is actually more true to life then I think. She said that the population in question is largely unstable, overly-sex-obsessed, and unfaithful, despite her relationship’s longevity. We’ve talked about that trend in the past, and she believes that some of it is due to the fact that there is very little societal encouragement for such couples to stay together; on the contrary.

But I don’t know. Society supports hetereo-couples marrying and staying together. And yet, over 50% of all married couples now end in divorce. So societal support does not seem to discourage break-ups. So I’m not sure if society can be blamed for the choices people make or how they behave in their sex lives and relationships.

The “L word” is not a bad show. The show has some heavy hitting actresses in it, the plot always has something new to say and the music they choose is good. But I do get tired of seeing people who can never be happy in their relationships. I get tired of seeing people throw happiness away with both hands. I get tired of people looking for love everywhere but in their own relationships. I get tired of seeing and hearing about self-destructive behaviors and the worship of instant (or sexual) gratification.

It makes me sad to see so many people unwilling or unable to find and stay in healthy relationships. Whether gay or straight. Whether on TV or in real life. If anyone ever figures out a guaranteed way of choosing a mates who last for a happy life time, that person will contribute more to humanity then anyone since Jesus Christ.

“The L-word.” No it’s not love. But maybe it should be.

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(link) Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on “Gilligan’s Island,” is serving six months’ unsupervised probation after allegedly being caught with marijuana in her car.

She was sentenced Feb. 29 to five days in jail, fined $410.50 and placed on probation after pleading guilty to one count of reckless driving.

Under a plea agreement, three misdemeanor counts — driving under the influence, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance — were dropped.

On Oct. 18, Teton County sheriff’s Deputy Joseph Gutierrez arrested Wells as she was driving home from a surprise birthday party that was held for her. According to the sheriff’s office report, Gutierrez pulled Wells over after noticing her swerve and repeatedly speed up and slow down. When Gutierrez asked about a marijuana smell, Wells said she’d just given a ride to three hitchhikers and had dropped them off when they began smoking something. Gutierrez found half-smoked joints and two small cases used to store marijuana.

The 69-year-old Wells, founder of the Idaho Film and Television Institute and organizer of the region’s annual family movie festival called the Spud Fest, then failed a sobriety test.

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America’s next top model? Singing sensation? Trailer court junkie?


If you are an Amy Winehouse fan, don’t read, but then again I doubt that anyone who peeps this blog could possible be a fan of this white crackhead drug fiendI watched some of the Grammy Awards; Mrs. Snoop was able to tolerate far more of it than I could. I tried to watch the performance of this Amy chick; I have read some amusing stories about her recently.As I’m typing this I started to say the obligatory “I can’t understand how people, bla, bla bla, totally amazed bla bla bla that a person, bla bla bla who is a self destructive, ugly crackhead skank can be so celebrated in the music world.

She is exceedingly untalented, skinny, just ugly, and perpetually fucked up.
Our society continues to amaze me at the type of skanks, skeezers, ratheads, checkenheads and bums we prop up and make stars out of.

This Winehouse skank was initially denied a U.S. visa to perform live at the Grammy’s due to the “use and abuse of narcotics”. This was subsequently reversed but not in time for her to perform at the Grammy’s in person. Instead she was “forced” to perform from London.

She, as is Paris Hilton, is rewarded for her less than stellar behavior, basically letting her know that her abuses are fine and that she can and will become even more famous by simply snorting some more power and adding a few more tattoos to her bony ass body.

I read that during a recent concert of hers, the bitch spat at fans while they exited during the show. She got pissed, wacking her own head with the microphone when she kept forgetting the lyrics to her own damm songs!.

Wait, you mean fans of hers paid money to see this skank, knowing that she likely never performs sober or not drug induced and they got mad when she acted “normally” in her mind? I love it!

As this society continues to degrade I recognize that many artists do bizarre and different things to make a name for themselves, but bizarre and different is a long way from drunk, stoned and obnoxious.
But forget about that, the bitch is not even remotely talented yet we celebrate her lifestyle and mediocre talent by giving her awards and finding a way for her to perform before a national audience. Amazing!

It’s the same thing with this Heath Ledger dude. He assumes room temperature from an “accidental” overdose of drugs yet the public feels sorry for him. “He had such promise as an actor” or “We are going to miss him in the movies”. No we won’t, he was a fucken drug fiend too, and his demise was inevitable.
Making a goddamm saint out of some prescription junkie white dude yet he is no different than a crackhead in the hood who “accidentally” overdoses and ends up with a tag on his toe as Leroy or Lekisha Doe in the morgue.

However I guess it explains these young morons screaming and crying at Obama rallies or Hillary’s supporters who swear that her presidency will bring “change” or a “new direction.”
I guess that if you believe that some skank like Winehouse is “talented” then you too would think that Obama or Hillary is “qualified” to be president.
It makes you cringe when you think about the voting age being 18.

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Here is an interesting discussion this morning on The View and the subject taxes.
Whoopi basically says it bullshit that she can’t leave her “stuff” to her kids without the gubment jacking it (taxing it) again.

Joy (the ultimate bimbo), God this lady is such a retarded fuck, between her and Sherri the I.Q level on that show, not to mention the audience, should apply for gubment intelligence benefits.

Anywho Joy, the typical liberal thinks the Gubment taking your money is ok, shit, she thinks they need to take more!

I love to listen to liberal talk about taxes and the playa hating mentality that goes along with it.
I’m a broke ass median income Negro, and although I would love to have so much money that I could wipe my ass with it, I have never understood the moronic mindset of some liberals who think that it tis perfectly ok for the Gubment to jack your hard earned dollars.

Anywho if your bored and frozen in, watch the clip tis amusing.

Oh the tax 411 below is from Rush’s essential stack of stuff pile, slightly dated, but useful.

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*Data covers calendar year 2003, not fiscal year 2003
- and includes all income, not just wages, excluding Social Security

This is the data for calendar year 2003 just released in October 2005 by the Internal Revenue Service. The share of total income taxes paid by the top 1% of wage earners rose to 34.27% from 33.71% in 2002. Their income share (not just wages) rose from 16.12% to 16.77%. However, their average tax rate actually dropped from 27.25% down to 24.31%

Think of it this way: less than 3-1/2 dollars out of every $100 paid in income taxes in the United States is paid by someone in the bottom 50% of wage earners. Are the top half millionaires? Noooo, more like “thousandaires.” The top 50% were those individuals or couples filing jointly who earned $29,019 and up in 2003. (The top 1% earned $295,495-plus.) Americans who want to are continuing to improve their lives, and those who don’t want to, aren’t. Here are the wage earners in each category and the percentages they pay:

The top 1% pay over a third, 34.27% of all income taxes. (Up from 2003: 33.71%) The top 5% pay 54.36% of all income taxes (Up from 2002: 53.80%). The top 10% pay 65.84% (Up from 2002: 65.73%). The top 25% pay 83.88% (Down from 2002: 83.90%). The top 50% pay 96.54% (Up from 2002: 96.50%). The bottom 50%? They pay a paltry 3.46% of all income taxes (Down from 2002: 3.50%). The top 1% is paying nearly ten times the federal income taxes than the bottom 50%! And who earns what? The top 1% earns 16.77% of all income (2002: 16.12%). The top 5% earns 31.18% of all the income (2002: 30.55%). The top 10% earns 42.36% of all the income (2002: 41.77%); the top 25% earns 64.86% of all the income (2002: 64.37%) , and the top 50% earns 86.01% (2002: 85.77%) of all the income.

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Wanted to post something funny. Besides I missed this episode and can watch while I think of some rants. LOL!

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This from the website News Bloggers. I had not heard Berry’s comments nor see that particular Tonight Show.
This political correctness bullshit is getting out of hand.

Okay, let’s get controversial. Halle Berry was on The Tonight Show and while she was showing Jay Leno a picture of her face distorted to make it appear that she had a large nose, she said, “This is like my Jewish cousin.”Racism alert! Racism alert! Or in this case, anti-semitism! Whose worse Halle Berry or Ann Coulter? Does Halle have to go to the same rehab clinic as Mel Gibson and Michael Richards?

I happen to think that context matters a tremendous amount in these type of statements. I gave Don Imus a lot more of a break because he does a show that involves humor. I give the Fox News Channel guys a lot less of a break because they say these type of things as serious commentary on social events.

Comedians get almost complete license to make jokes that involve stereotypes in my mind. Michael Richards went over this line because he was so over the top and wasn’t really kidding when he heckled the black audience member during his now infamous rant at the Laugh Factory in LA. If Ann Coulter finally admitted she is a comedian and has been putting on gullible conservatives for the last ten years, then I would give her a free pass on all of her comments.

We joke about race on our show all the time. I make jokes about Muslims blowing things up with impunity. But I also joke about other races. It’s all in the family because we know that all these stereotypes are gross over-generalizations and typically nonsense. But it would be different if you were actually perpetuating the stereotype rather than mocking it.

Where does Halle Berry fall into that spectrum? I think pretty far toward the joking end. So, I pardon her. Am I not merciful?

In the video below, a black, a Jew, a Turk and an Armenian (… walk into a bar, sounds like the beginning of a racial joke, right? but they actually all walked into our studio … well, actually because they work there) all discuss whether Halle Berry’s comments were acceptable or unacceptable:

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Funny

 From Sister Toldjah

Another day, another example of rampant idiocy on the set of ABC’s The View.

Just one day after View co-host Whoopi Goldberg declared to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that she’d enjoy a threesome with her and Pelosi’s husband Paul, who was sitting in the audience, Goldberg saw fit to chide conservative co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck over her anti-abortion views. Justin McCarthy writes:

Is Whoopi Goldberg becoming the Rosie O’Donnell type bully? It appeared that way on the October 3 edition of “The View.” A discussion about Hillary Clinton’s $5,000 a baby entitlement plan quickly descended into a heated exchange between Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Whoopi Goldberg about abortion.When Hasselbeck noted that $5,000 a baby could lead to fewer abortions in the world, Whoopi told Hasselbeck to “back off” because Hasselbeck has never “been in a position” where she “had to make that decision.”

Read the rest here - You can watch the video here

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Ok, I’m kind in a shitty mood and I’m sick of political stuff for now and I needed something funny, this will do.

This from E News An otherwise forgettable reality-TV affair resulted in turnabout—and then some—for Johnny Fairplay.

The former Survivor contestant, occasional wrestler and self-proclaimed Most Hated Man in Reality Television was hospitalized following Tuesday’s Fox Reality Channel’s Really Awards, when an onstage scuffle with Danny Bonaduce apparently escalated.

Fairplay, who infamously faked his grandmother’s death to win an immunity challenge on the Pearl Islands installment of the CBS show, filed a report with the Los Angeles Police Department at 1:45 a.m. Wednesday, after officers were dispatched to his room at the Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital.

According to the report, Fairplay, whose real name is Jon Dalton, 33, alleged that he was presenting an award onstage when fellow reality show has-been Bonaduce walked unannounced and unexpectedly onstage. Fairplay said he attempted to hug the VH1 star, only to have an unprovoked Bonaduce grab Fairplay and flip him face first onto the stage.

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‘BRADY’ STAR’S STEAMY SEX WITH TV SIS JANStory Link

Here’s the story - of a Sapphic love affair?”Brady Bunch” star Maureen McCormick - who played the TV family’s oldest girl Marcia Brady - will reveal in a new tell-all book how she had a steamy on-set sexual relationship with the co-star who played her younger sister Jan.

The book, titled “Here’s the Story,” will detail how a small crush blossomed into a romantic and physically intimate relationship between McCormick and Eve Plumb, according to published reports.

Due out next year on HarperCollins imprint William Morrow, the bombshell biography will also touch on topics such as McCormick’s battles with bulimia, cocaine addiction and depression.

But what will likely shock most fans of the 1970s hit TV series are the details of the budding love affair between the two co-stars who played the highly competitive sisters.

It’s not the first time salacious details of behind-the-scenes sex have emerged in the years since the campy classic went off the air.

In 1992, co-star Barry Williams, who played Greg Brady, wrote in his tell-all tome, “Growing Up Brady,” how he dated not only his on-screen mom, Florence Henderson, but engaged in several romps with McCormick as well.

And in 1997, McCormick hinted at a lesbian tryst between her and Plumb when she told a Los Angeles radio host about the crush she developed for Plumb while the two worked closely on the smash series that ran from 1969-1974.

“We had really good times together,” she playfully said at the time.

When asked if that meant the two had been “pattycake close or Ellen DeGeneres close,” McCormick coyly revealed the two had swapped spit.

“Yeah, we kissed,” she said.

Her publicist later clarified that she meant simply on the cheek.

But all the while, McCormick - like many of her young co-stars - was under serious emotional stress trying to balance her TV fame with the strains of being a teenager.

Now 51, McCormick is married with an 18-year-old daughter and lives in Southern California.

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By Cathy Beers - National Ledger

Barry Manilow performed at ‘The Today Show 2007 Summer Concert Series’ on NBC held at the Rockefeller Plaza on Monday. But the cowardly singer slash songwriter won’t be making a scheduled appearance on the ABC morning gab fest ‘The View.’ It appears the washed up singer is afraid he may get the Rosie O’Donnell treatment.

Who is he afraid of - the resident and token Republican on the show Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Can you believe it? Elisabeth was once the meek voice overpowered by blowhards like Rosie O’Donnell until she finally stood up to her towards the end of last season.

After an explosive on screen fiery debate, Rosie ran way never to return to the program. Now it appears that Barry is as big of a coward. In a predictable and an exclusive statement to TMZ, Barry says, “I strongly disagree with her views. I think she’s dangerous and offensive. I will not be on the same stage as her.”

Manilow is currently on a press tour promoting the release of his new album, “Greatest Songs of the Seventies.” One must wonder if Barry will sack it up and return any money from people that think like Elisabeth and still buy his album.

Here’s an idea - it’s already thee or four to one on every show against Hacklebeck, maybe Barry could go on and hide behind Whoopi Goldberg’s skirt.

Fucken piece of shit liberal coward, are you serious!?
Elizabeth is seriously outnumbered on that damm show and this old musical hack retard wants to make some bullshit political statement.
Good luck on promoting your suck ass album. Sure, alienate half the country, and the small percentage who may consider buying your elevator music.
I don’t listen to your shity ass music anyway.

First the Flying Nun goes ballistic and now this.
Who will be the next retard Hollywood limousine liberal to say something stupid?

Hey Barry get a clue: Offenders forced to listen to Barry Manilow

A COLORADO judge has sentenced people busted for noise pollution to one hour of listening to unpopular or unusual music.Mostly young adult offenders were kept in a room and made to listen to Dolly Parton’s I Will Always Love You, Karen Carpenter and Barry Manilow with the volume up loud, CBS4Denver.com reported.

Most offenders, who were not allowed to eat, drink, read or sleep, found the punishment funny at first. But then the boredom set in.

“At about 20 minutes into it, I was trying not to fall a sleep,” offender Luis Cano said.

Judge Paul Sacco, who carries out the punishment about four times per year, said the sentenced fit the crime.

“When you have a person playing rap at extreme volumes all over the city, and they have to sit down and listen for an hour to Barry Manilow, its horrible punishment,” he said.

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Mrs. Snoop loves this show, I told her from the first time I saw it that something was not right. I knew it was a fraud. Damm I hate to be right all the time!!

By Andrew Wallenstein - link

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - First there was Santa Claus. Then came the Tooth Fairy. And just when you thought no one could fool you into believing in mythical figures again, along comes Bear Grylls.

Grylls is the star of “Man vs. Wild,” an increasingly popular series on Discovery Channel that recently concluded its second season. Each episode he parachutes into a different uninhabited territory without a map or much else in the way of camping equipment and spends several days trying to find his way back to civilization.

But this British adventurer is now the subject of an investigation by U.K.’s Channel 4, which already has confirmed that Grylls checked into motels on a few occasions when he was depicted on TV having slept under the stars. Other allegations have been made suggesting that the crew that records Grylls in action isn’t as hands-off as it might appear to viewers.

Knowing what we now know, it will be a challenge to watch “Wild” with the same zeal again. Naive as it now seems, viewers bought the notion that Grylls really was roughing it. If he cut corners here or there, what’s to stop fans from doubting every facet of the show?

Discovery has made vague allusions to moving forward with the series, but repackaged with greater “transparency.” What exactly that means will be an interesting question for the network, which hasn’t had a headache like this since Steve Irwin decided to dangle his own infant child within the reach of a hungry crocodile.

If Grylls thought the barren landscape of the Outback was a challenge, wait until he faces the ultimate endurance contest: celebrity notoriety. With a handsome face and endearing accent that makes him a dead ringer for Christian Bale, Grylls has more than star quality; he exudes integrity. There was an effortlessness to his appeal, he was charming without being a charmer.

Perhaps the appeal of this series has always been that its verite style reverses a subtle untold effect of shows such as “Survivor” and “Lost.” The way they depict average Joes living off the land with relative ease has made the specter of being stranded in the wilderness not as scary as it once was. Heck, even Gilligan managed to subsist on coconuts and bamboo.

But “Wild” restored a sense of realism to being marooned and sold us on the fantasy that we could learn the actual skills for survival.

Truth be told, though, “Wild” isn’t so much 21st century “Gilligan’s Island” as it is a hybrid of “McGyver” and “Jackass.” Grylls has a knack for improvising solutions to dangerous predicaments and isn’t above grossing out everyone in the process.

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Nothing earth shattering, just found it somewhat interesting.

You can learn a lot about a politician by how they hold their hands—or how much they talk about the future, or their feelings, or themselves. We live in an age of relentless focus-grouping, but a candidate’s unvarnished attitudes and values still peek through in every microexpression and personal pronoun. Content analysis can ferret out aspects of a person’s political agenda and personality based on word and gesture alone. Psychology Today asked a range of experts to scrutinize the 2008 front-runners. They uncovered a great deal, from the messages candidates want voters to know—Giuliani won’t let you forget that he’s a crisis manager, Hillary wants to seem middle-American—to the traits they’d rather hide: a negative worldview, a meandering message, an inability to connect with voters emotionally. And just for fun, we also asked graphologists to examine the candidates’ handwriting to see what they could glean about their personalities. Handwriting analysis is not rigorous or scientific, but we thought it would still be interesting to see if the graphologists’ conclusions matched those of the other experts.

The rest of this story from Psychology Today

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First post on this last week: A big ‘Mess’ for BET

Late Monday EUR received notice that BET changed the name of its controversial new show, hosted by Charlie Murphy, from “Hot Ghetto Mess” to “We Got To Do Better.”The program, which premieres tomorrow night, Wednesday, spurred at least two advertisers, State Farm Insurance and Home Depot, to change their minds over mounting criticism that that the then named “Mess” promoted racial stereotypes.

Here is the statement in its entirety:

This week, BET will be launching a new series called WE GOT TO DO BETTER, a half-hour video clip show that, at its core, is pure social commentary.

The show’s original title was HOT GHETTO MESS: WE GOT TO DO BETTER. We’ve decided to change the name because we want to highlight the show’s real intent, which is to offer social commentary in a context that sparks dialogue, debate, and most importantly, change.

Additionally, the early misperceptions about the show and its title were diverting attention from the overall original programming strategy we’ve begun implementing at BET Networks – which is to deliver smart, creative shows that explore the full range of the Black experience. Our 2007 slate is the most ambitious and diverse aggregation of Black programming in television history, and it features a wide range of genres – from inspirational shows like EXALTED!, to animated comedy shows like BUFU, to family entertainment like SUNDAY BEST. As we move into the fall season and 2008, you’ll continue to see the increase in the quality, quantity and breadth of shows that we have to offer at BET.

In his “Journal-isms” column, Richard Prince informed that Gina McCauley, creator of the protest blog Whataboutourdaughters, wrote: “we’ll be watching on Wednesday and writing down advertisers with the rest of y’all, but the WAOD rapid action BET attack force is standing down, but we remain ready to respond in the event this ends up being the train wreck I think it is.”

Speaking of the Whataboutourdaughters blog, a click to the site finds the following headline: BREAKING NEWS!- - WE WON! “Hot Ghetto Mess” is “Hot Ghetto GONE!”

Not quite.

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From Sister Toldjah

The title of this piece says it all:

During all-white-male Meet the Press panel, Novak claimed “woman or an African-American” Dem nominee would give GOP “hope”

The article included “facts” like these:

Neither host Tim Russert nor any of Novak’s fellow panelists, Bloomberg News Washington managing editor Al Hunt, Republican strategist Mike Murphy, and Democratic strategist Bob Shrum — all of whom are, like Novak, white men — commented on or challenged Novak’s assertion. As Media Matters for America documented, the four Sunday-morning talk programs on the broadcast networks, Meet the Press, ABC’s This Week, CBS’ Face the Nation, and Fox Broadcasting Co.’s Fox News Sunday, feature guest lists that are overwhelmingly white and overwhelmingly male.

A breakdown of the guests on Meet the Press from 2005 to 2006 shows that 76 percent of the guests on the program were white men.

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I posted a few words on this a few months ago.

Whites dominate US news talk shows, duh…er uh DUH!

C’mon folks, news and talk shows are like a country club.

All of these old white dudes hang out together, drink, bullshit, gossip on the latest piece of ass they tackled.
None of these dudes you see on these shows hang out with any black folks of substance, surely not Tim Russert or George Stephanopoulos or the Fox News homies.

Appearing on talk shows is a closed society and there are perks involved with keeping mindless talking heads in the limelight and pretend that they have something of substance to say. They promote each other.

If talk shows were about discussing a variety of ideas thoughts and opinions you would not see the same fucks on the shows every damm week.

There is this complete bimbo who appears often on ABC This Week, Katrina Vanden Heuvel Editor and Publisher, The Nation, she is a fucken dolt.

You mean George can’t find a more reasoned, articulate and less ranting liberal to fill the occasional void,
or a black woman to discuss relevant issues?
If I had a talk show I would never consider her, so who benefits by her being on the show?

Let’s get real, bottom line, white people are only interested in listening to other white people they are familiar with.
Listening to what some angry Negro has to say on just about anything would be considered offensive.

My rants are authentic; I don’t say anything on this blog that I would not say to some inquiring individual in person.
I don’t do the Ann Coulter bomb throwing just to get attention or to be quirky.
But she gets on TV because she is a blonde right wing right wing white woman, she is adored and fantasized by millions or adoring right wing white men, she gets ratings. What black woman could fill that niche?

For example: I said back when Obama first announced her was running for president that no black man will ever be considered for president.

I told this to an individual I work with who has worked in political campaigns going back to Jimmy Carter and he looked at me like I was the anti-Christ. But it’s true. It was not a racial statement nor is it racist.

I don’t give a shit how much money dude has raised; a lot of his political contributions come from people who will never vote for him, REPUBLICANS who hate Mrs. Bill.

Any media type who would utter such a thing would be hung out to dry, but it’s the truth.

Instead the talk shows dance around the issue by saying “is the country ready for a black president” and not have a single Negro there to answer truthfully.

Bottom line, keep the country club types in the revolving door system, pretend you are engaged in meaningful discussion and completely ignore people of color because their ideas don’t count and they are not part of the club.

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By Greg Braxton, LA Times Staff Writer - Link

The new series about socially inappropriate behavior has revived criticism of how the network depicts blacks.Sunday had been targeted as a red-letter day for BET executives. That’s the day they’d set aside to unveil an ambitious slate of series showcasing the cable network’s move into more diverse programming aimed at a wide range of black viewers to a Beverly Hills gathering of national TV writers.

Those plans are still set. But on the eve of that presentation, BET is also grappling with an uproar over an upcoming series that has reawakened charges against the network of perpetuating negative African American images.

State Farm Insurance and Home Depot have pulled ads from “Hot Ghetto Mess,” a series inspired by the website of the same name that features pictures and videos featuring outrageous and socially incorrect behavior, mostly by blacks. Among the images on the photo-heavy site are overweight, tattooed people in revealing outfits, a dog with cornrows, babies drinking out of beer bottles and a pregnant teen wearing a prom dress with a hole cut out for her protruding stomach.

Borrowing the website’s mantra, “We got to do better,” the show, scheduled to premiere July 25, is designed as a humorous but stinging critique of repellent behavior and appearance. BET says few outside the network have seen the show. But based largely on the website and its hot-button title, the series “Hot Ghetto Mess” has already sparked a furor among bloggers and others who feel it will glamorize racial stereotypes.

BET President Reginald Hudlin insists that “Hot Ghetto Mess” is being prejudged — and wrongly so. When the public finally does get a look at the show, they’ll wonder what the controversy was all about, he said. “There’s this presumption that BET has ill intent…. Nothing could be further from the truth.”

And while some advertisers have already pulled out, the creators of the What About Our Daughters website, dedicated to combating “destructive portrayals of African American women in popular culture,” are urging others to boycott the series.

State Farm Insurance spokesman Fraser Engerman said company executives had screened the show, and “because of the nature of the programming, we felt it was an inappropriate place for our advertising to appear. We just feel that the nature of the show is inappropriate,” though he declined to specify what State Farm officials found objectionable. Engerman said that the company was reacting to the content, not the protest, and that State Farm would continue to support other BET shows.

But Hudlin said that no one from State Farm has seen the series, which is still being tweaked by the network. He compared the series to “The Daily Show,” the film “Dr. Strangelove” and other projects that use socially conscious humor to make a serious statement — that ridiculous and irresponsible behavior by anyone, not just blacks, should be denounced.

The furor over “Hot Ghetto Mess” once again puts BET in the spotlight over its depiction of black people.

The network for years has been the target of criticism from blacks and others who claim BET has given too much attention to raunchy music videos featuring scantily clad women and brash rappers bragging about their bling and sexual appetites.

It’s precisely those images that Hudlin, a filmmaker (”House Party,” “Boomerang”), was hired to revamp when he was brought in two years ago after the resignation of BET founder Robert Johnson. Since then, the network’s focus has been on developing shows that present different and more upscale aspects of black life, such as the new reality series “Baldwin Hills,” about the lifestyles of the teen set in that affluent neighborhood, and the upcoming “Sunday Best,” an “American Idol”-style search for “the next great gospel singer.”

Still, Hudlin said that despite those new shows, BET continues to be haunted by its past: “My frustration is on the relentless focus on the negative. We show the whole range of the black experience. Don’t define us by one show that you don’t like.”

Jam Donaldson, the creator of the website and an executive producer of the show, was particularly exasperated by the outcry against “Hot Ghetto Mess.”

“Yes, the origin of the show is the website, but the show is very different,” she said. “These folks are just expecting a bunch of videos of ignorant black people. That’s not what it’s about at all. We do show clips, but we put into context, saying, ‘This is not who black people are.’ “

The tone of the website is far more audacious than the premiere episode, a copy of which was screened this week by The Times. The premiere episode revolves around a fairly benign mix of crude slapstick footage in the vein of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” and blooper shows, man-on-the-street interviews and commentary by host Charlie Murphy, a former cast member of “Chappelle’s Show.” Some of the sequences feature white participants.

Murphy said the protest could be traced to “hypersensitivity and an undercurrent of phoniness” about racial humor in the wake of shock jock Don Imus’ firing, Michael Richards’ anti-black comedy club rant, and concern over rappers’ use of the N-word.

“Where are these people,” he added, “when it comes to shows like ‘Flavor of Love’ or ‘Maury,’ when the 25th man is being tested as a baby’s daddy?”

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Story from Hot Air, I remembered the story by Myers which makes this more interesting to me at least. 

On May 17, NBC reported a blockbuster exclusive on the superiority of Dragon Skin body armor over Interceptor, the body armor that the US Army issues to soldiers in combat zones. But NBC’s story has a major flaw: It’s wrong about nearly everything.

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If you are reading this you are clearly bored, and you certainly are not drinking and relaxing.
Me? Instead of mowing my lawn (still too wet) I’m posting this from Meet the Press this morning.
I actually stayed awake during MTP this morning.

Nothing noteworthy, your typical liberals on TV executing their offensive against the right wing folks, a few observations from the Snoop point of view after the clip.

I totally ignored Lehey, I never pay attention to what he has to say.
He is one of these old white guy Democrats that need attention from time to time to show he is doing “something”

Part 1 (above) focused on the “Bush defeat of the immigration bill” and how as Tavis Smiley puts it: How much did “the Republican Party lose” by not passing amnesty for illegals.

Apparently Tavis Smiley is himself a amnesty pimp, see this as a loss for not only Bush but America as well.
According to Smiley black folks don’t mind illegal immigrants screwing black folks out of jobs.
Dude needs to take a trip to LA sometime soon. The black folks in the audience at Howard University could not possible understand the problem posed by illegal immigration.

I loved the line uttered by Ms. Woodruff when she said “most Americans supported most parts of this bill.” I’m wondering where does she get this bullshit from.

Last point Chuck Todd, a fucken dunderhead, how this dude is NBC’s chief political dude is beyond me.

While speaking on the low approval ratings for the (Democrat controlled Congress)
Todd actually says “Congress is being hurt by the President’s approval numbers.”
I have not heard this from leader Pelosi or Harry Reid. They are now conveniently linked because the Democrat controlled popularity ratings are actually below President Bush’s, Amazing.

Part 2 Timmy played a couple of clips of Mrs. Bill and Obama that showed the contrast between the two candidates.
Obama who carefully crafts his words and Mrs. Bill taking advantage of being the wife of the first black president, screeches out racial rhetoric that fires up the Negro audience.
Smiley points out that Mrs. Bill clearly won the debate, (NO SHIT) these Negros are paid big money and are given huge perks for riding the Mrs. Bill slave train.
Smiley even scoffed at the notion that Obama’s fund raising numbers are over hyped.
He clearly is in the Mrs. Bill camp.

Part 3 briefly talks about a website called “Hillary is 44 dot com” an anti Obama site.
Young voters turning to the Democrat Party, no shit, young skulls full of mush who are confused and delusional.
Also Rudy and Republicans on Iraq.

Part 4 touches on Black Voter issues (Tavis’s words) I guess as oppose to white voter issues.
Health Care, Jobs….welfare! Is that a black issue? Democrats see it that way.
Congressional Pay Raises, now over $177,000 a year, WTF!?
Finally new guard vs old guard Democrats, the pending battle.  

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Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gzueLVcJp0

Hardball: Ann Coulter vs. Elizabeth Edwards - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Di1dsTq_g8

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UPDATE: Fundraising scammer Elizabeth Edwards sends sob story letter to idiot supporters.

Last night I had an important talk with Ann Coulter and I want to tell you what happened.

On Monday, Ann announced that instead of using more homophobic slurs to attack John, she will just wish that John had been “killed in a terrorist assassination plot.”

Where I am from, when someone does something that displeases you, you politely ask them to stop. So when I heard Ann was going to be on “Hardball” last night, I decided to call in and ask her to engage on the issues and stop the personal attacks. I told her these kinds of personal attacks lower our political dialogue at precisely the time when we need to raise it, and set a bad example for our children.

How did she respond? Sadly, perhaps predictably, with more personal attacks.

John’s campaign is about the issues—but pundits like Ann Coulter are trying to shout him down. If they will not stop, it is up to us cut through the noise. Help us fight back—please give what you can today.

There are just over 3 days left to hit our $9 million goal for the end of the quarter. If we make it, we can directly reach voters in Iowa, New Hampshire, and all over the country with our detailed plans on the issues that matter. Please give what you can right now to help raise the dialogue and show that Ann Coulter-style politics will never carry the day.

Why do Ann Coulter and other right-wing pundits keep attacking John? Because John’s bold, specific plans hit them where it hurts: solving global warming, ending the war, building a fair economy—John’s agenda threatens everything these talking heads and their corporate cronies stand for.

And they know John can win—just last week a new poll showed that John is the only Democratic candidate who beats all the possible Republican challengers—by an average of 13 points. So they are trying to take John down early. Their strategy is to sling mud and manufacture scandals—about houses, haircuts and anything else they can think of—to discredit John and take down our movement for change.
The best way to beat them is also the right way—take our message of substance straight to the voters. And that is exactly what this campaign is all about.

But we need your help to hit our goal. Please give what you can today.

And thank you for all that you do to support this cause.

Sincerely,

- Elizabeth Edwards
Wednesday June 27, 2007

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Ok this is funny.
I have access to TV and I usually have some sort of news on while listening to Rush.
I checking out Fox News and most of the morning and there is this story about this Girl fight that was posted to You Tube (since removed) two teens (white girls) fighting over some thug ass black dude.

This is a clip with one of the girls in the video with her dad.
Now as you will see the dad is more outraged over the video being posted to You Tube as oppose to trying to figure out why his daughter would be hanging out with a bunch of thug ass felons.

I love how the Fox anchor babes are acting like they are outraged as well but the clip of this has been playing on Fox all morning long dozens and dozens of times even during news teases.

I don’t know if it was getting as much play on any other channel ( I did watch MSNBC for over 90 min, did not see)  but I just loved how the Fox anchor babe said “I hope they pull this off of you tube” while they continue to play over and over.

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This video was not up yesterday, this was the clip from MSNBC with this dude lying about who was on the final credits and talking about some conspiracy theories.
I added the credits to this clip, so if you keep reading crap about who was in the final credits you know now that was bullshit.

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Wow you switch from all of the furor over that skank Paris Hilton getting out of jail on Friday to this nationwide outrage over the ending to the Sopranos.
Although I was like “what the fuck” when the screen went black, frankly I thought was brilliant.
Millions of people will now wait for the DVD’s with alternate endings some with decapitations and others with dancing girls and confetti.
Nothing will satisfy everybody, so screw it use your imagination and get on with your lives.
Shit I was far angrier at the ending of Rome than I was about this.
The sad thing is the level of TV quality on HBO has dropped considerably.
The series opener for that sorry show that followed the Sopranos was the worst I have seen from HBO, it sucked big time.
HBO has far more to worry about than angry Soprano fans.

On this clip, I thought it was curious because the TV critic was talking about the characters in the diner in the last scene and the names in the final credits, and if you look at the credits then name he mentions is nowhere to be seen.

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Nikki Finke’s – Deadline Hollywood
The line to cancel HBO starts here. What a ridiculously disappointing end lacking in creativity to The Sopranos saga. But if you’re one of those who found it perversely interesting, then don’t bother to read on. Even if David Chase, who wrote and directed the final episode, was demonstrating the existential and endless loop of Tony’s life or the moments before the hit that causes his death, it still robbed the audience of visual closure. And if it were done to segue into a motion picture sequel, then that kind of crass commercialism shouldn’t be tolerated. (See my Does Chase Have ‘Sopranos’ Movie Idea?) There’s even buzz that the real ending will only be available on the series’ final DVD. Either way, it was terrible.

Apparently, my extreme reaction was typical of many series’ fans: they crashed HBO’s website for a time tonight trying to register their outrage. HBO could suffer a wave of cancellations as a result. (Already, the pay channel’s replacement series like John from Cincinnati are getting panned.) Chase clearly didn’t give a damn about his fans. Instead, he crapped in their faces. This is why America hates Hollywood. Unlike some network series that end abruptly because broadcasters pull the plug without warning, The Sopranos has been slated for years to go off the air tonight. But instead of carefully crafted, this finale looked like it had been concocted in a day or two. (Some of the scenes were cut so abruptly, they caused whiplash.) Let’s not forget that, in later years, Chase had to be dragged kicking and screaming back to the computer to write more episodes against his will even though The Sopranos made him rich beyond what’s reasonable.

 Especially now that it’s in syndication. (See my A&E’s Profanity-Free Tony Soprano A Hit.) Chase needed to exert himself to a concoct an artful denouement. But he took the lazy way out. The show we all loved deserved a decent burial. Instead, it went into a black hole. Already, some TV critics like The New York Times‘ Alessandra Stanley are claiming that Chase fulfilled expectations by defying expectations. And the blogosphere is busy dissecting every final moment, with some wanting to see profundity in the screen going black because of Tony’s conversation with Bobby — you wouldn’t even know it had happened: everything would just go black. Or making a game of the foreshadowing moments – the jukebox song below ”Don’t Stop Believing” was ”Any Way You Want It”. Phooey. The Nielsen reality is that people don’t watch TV closely anymore, much less remember what went on from week to week, to give such a subtle ending its proper due. Besides, The Sopranos was not a show that went on inside your head. It was a richly visual series whose most memorable moments were graphic and in your face and damn proud of it. Like Tony, it was defiant. This was whimpering. If you’re angry at wasting an hour, complain with your wallets. 

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“Station hires bathing-suit model, WWE diva to anchor news, turn tide on low-rating woes”

She wants to be the next Katie Couric, oh really??
I swear men are such pigs!!!

Some might say KYTX president and general manager Phil Hurley has decided to pull his station’s news ratings out of the toilet by stepping into the gutter.  

The Tyler, Texas, CBS affiliate will premier its latest news anchor next week – Lauren Jones, an actress, bikini model and former World Wrestling Entertainment wrestler with no journalism training or experience.

While Hurley admits his decision to hire Jones will attract criticism, he sees it as a smart business move.

“We think this will accelerate our growth and that people will see this as entrepreneurial,” he told the Longview, Texas, News-Journal.

Jones’ 30-day contract is a tie-in with the new Fox reality show, “Anchorwoman”, scheduled to broadcast in August.

Fox is paying KYTX to film the five-episode “comedy/reality hybrid” in its studios. KYTX news ranks behind the regional leader, KLTV.

“It’s not about the money,” Hurley said. “We want our newscast to grow.”

Lets get to the point shall we…

As WND reported, bikinis and newscasting seem to go together at Fox.

Fox News Channel, frequently criticized for focusing on glitz and sex, hired swimsuit model and host of “World Poker Tour” as a substitute anchor and host of “Fox & Friends Weekend.”

Fox’s Jane Francis told the entertainment trade paper Variety the show had mapped out a basic storyline and a wish list for camera scenes, but beyond that, she wants the action to be as spontaneous as possible.

“We agreed internally that we don’t want to rig anything, or overproduce it,” Francis says.

“Anchorwoman” director Mark Jacobs is sold on Jones as the inexperienced novice suddenly thrust into the news environment.

“She is serious about this,” he said. “She wants to be the next Katie Couric.”

Having “the next Katie Couric” may not be enough to pull Hurley’s ratings out of the toilet.

According to Media Life Magazine, CBS’s “Evening News with Katie Couric” was third for the week ending June 3, with another all-time low of 5.50 million total viewers. ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” was No. 1 among total viewers for the sixth straight week with an average of 7.86 million tuning in.

Read the full story here, but why bother.
Hey I’m not gonna bitch about having a hot news anchor, as long as she can read and does not say “like” every other fucken word.
Frankly I’m tired of hearing the news from graying old white dudes.

The people bitching about the mixing of serious news and a little cleavage coverage are the same people with annual subscriptions to the Spice or Playboy channels. Shut the fuck up!

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I found this clip via a blog post on Lawrence.com our local blog hub here.

This was my two cents….

I peep so many You Tube clips, but few leave me speechless. This is the most embarrassing and one of the most ignorant ass commercials I have ever seen.
However even more amazing is that someone actually finds this shit funny, but who am I to critique someone’s humor index.

I could go the “this is racist” road but that is way too easy. Clearly some idiot white advertising execs thought the ad was “amusing.” and likely some token Negro in the company said “yesa boss that is funny”, think of Uncle Ruckus on the Boondocks.

However, black folks have been producing equally offensive rap videos and other ghetto minstrel shows for BET, VH1, MTV and they obviously don’t care about that, Oh unless some redneck white dude on a radio show, utters “nappy headed hoes”

That idiot show, the Flava of Love I think it’s called and that stupid reality TV show, College Hill, shows the typical ghetto behaviors celebrated in the black community, weaves and grammar hacking in full glory.

One episode in the Flava Flav drama actually had this one chicken head black girl accidentally taking a dump on the floor and many black websites simply yucked up the incident to funny television.

It’s always amusing to ghettoize black folks particularly in advertising. How many times do you see a McDonalds commercial with black folks singing some rap jingle while chomping down on a Big Mac.

Amusing white folks is what we do best.

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Below are the full paragraphs of the three controversial sections. The bold text is the portion O’Reilly highlights giving fuel to the controversy. Without reading the entire text it does sound bad, but any reasonable person would see that what these people said although somewhat inappropriate was certainly not over the top.

Watch the clip, then here is the link to the transcript

But, they’re tricky. And even through in your teens, even when your 16 and 17, you could have thousands of erections, sometimes 50 in a day, and you know because you counted (laughter from audience), [indecipherable phrase] the act of putting on a condom, for me at least, makes me lose my erection almost every time. That’s the thing they don’t tell you about condoms. If you’re lucky enough to get them on, and you still stay hard, it’s hard to stay hard. (laughter from audience) And it doesn’t feel as good. And sometimes you hurt the woman because you can’t feel her, because you didn’t know, when you were 16, that lubrication like KY helps you stay hard and makes her feel better. And I know how hard it is to talk like that to a girl. It’s even hard now for me as an adult. So I don’t know how it is for you to be able to say so.

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Joel Becker: I would add onto what Sanho said in terms of that same thing I was talking about, in terms of your emotional development. I mean, I agree with Sanho that the human animal has seemed to want to change its consciousness to some other consciousness since the beginning of time, and I think that people are going to continue to do that. But, I think we have to find a way for people to do that in the safest way possible—harm reduction. And there’s no question that people’s worlds are changed after their consciousness is changed. Well, you have to really sort of think, am I ready to have my world changed? I’m 14 years old. Maybe I’m not ready to see what one sees on LSD. Maybe I’m not ready to have the feelings that mescaline provides in my body, or ecstasy, because a lot of those feelings have to do with feelings of being out of control, and they can be very scary to a person who doesn’t have a strong enough sense of themselves, and that’s why people end up having bad trips at young ages. They’re just not ready. As a psychologist, I know the history of the use of psychedelics. There’s a very famous man named Timothy Leary at H