[EDITOR'S NOTE: I'm reassembling the missing blog posts that got "eaten" when Blogger went offline. Please forgive if the old posts come back, and these become duplicates!]
I don't know from Common. Seriously, I now know that he has a respected body of work, and that Sean Hannity doesn't understand it. But before today, if you said that Michelle Obama invited Common, I'd have no idea what you were talking about. But FOX "News" and the right-wing talk radio crowd thinks we should be really upset about it. And all good little conservobots are now duly outraged by a person they previously knew less about than I did. This is really what we're spending our time on?
Jon Stewart just ran a brilliant clip on this non-troversy on The Daily Show, which I'll have to put up as soon as it is available. But I'd like to point out to the tea baggers partiers that if they don't want to keep getting called "racist," that maybe they shouldn't get their panties in a bunch over the "scary" black people. Let something go once in a while.
[Excerpt]
"Very Positive": Fox News' Smear Of "Vile Rapper" Common Debunked By Own Reporting
Conservatives such as Fox News, the Daily Caller and Sarah Palin are criticizing the White House's invitation to rapper Common for a poetry event over the purported vulgarity of his lyrics. Fox Nation, for instance, called Common a "vile rapper. . ."
Read more at: Media Matters
Friday, May 13, 2011
Latest Faux Outrage: A Poet in the White House!
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Sarah Palin was so successful as a governor, she graduated early (the Bitter Quitter), she real is a “Dan Quayle” in heels. She clearly loves “dishing it out” but real can’t take it because she loves playing the victim card, poor thing. She fail as a VP candidate (her lie that her daughter was engaged was such a farce), her stand-up comic fiasco on the Jay Leno Show, please, her TV show canceled after declining rating, I guess running for Prez is the only thing she can look forward to, but since she is a coward she will only throw small minded rocks, poor thing. Since we already had an idiot “W” that caused our current economic debacle, America knows not to trust in fools who think they are brilliant.
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