Florida Congressman Hastings Boycotting Democratic Convention

Florida's U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings of Miramar says he will boycott the Democratic Convention in Denver. Here's an excerpt from his powerful statement:

Florida Democrats have been serially abused and the DNC is the latest of offenders. How the DNC has the authority to ignore the votes of ‘Jack and Jane Lunch Bucket’ is beyond my understanding. The insiders who actively sought to disillusion and disenfranchise the more than 1.75 million Florida Democrats who voted on January 29 give new meaning to collective arrogance.

The DNC’s decision today ignores the core principle of our great democracy: the right to vote. I know that the 1.75 million Democrats who voted on January 29 count and don’t give a damn what the DNC rules pronounce. . .

I suppose the DNC has the right to block Democrats in Florida from attending the National Convention. They also have the right to be stupid, and stupid they are. At the beginning of our great country’s history my ancestors were counted as only 2/3 of a person. Until passage of the 15th Amendment in 1870, they weren’t allowed to vote. During that same time and until 1920, women could not vote. White men who did not own property could not vote at one point in our history as well.

Now, on May 31, 2008, a group of elitist insiders of the DNC have effectively said that some of my ancestors’ progeny equal only 1/2 and that men and women in Florida who voted on January 29th are 1/2 also. For a Party which will crown its historic nominee on the 45th anniversary of Dr. King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, the DNC’s decision today is tragically ironic.

As a matter of protest, I do not intend to attend the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

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More Anger than Unity at DNC Meeting: Hillary May Take it to Denver

Harold Ickes was mad as hell. Ickes said that Hillary reserves her right to take it to the Credentials Committee -- which is as good as saying she may take it to Denver. If anything, the crowd of Hillary supporters were even angrier than Ickes. Some were crying. Throughout the tense DNC meeting, Hillary's supporters repeatedly chanted: Denver! Denver! Denver!

(AP) — Democratic Party officials agreed Saturday to seat Michigan and Florida delegates with half-votes. . . [Harold] Ickes angrily informed the party's Rules Committee that Clinton had instructed him to reserve her right to appeal the matter to the Democrats' credentials committee, which could potentially drag the matter to the party's convention in August.

"There's been a lot of talk about party unity — let's all come together, and put our arms around each other," said Ickes, who is also a member of the Rules Committee that approved the deal. "I submit to you ladies and gentlemen, hijacking four delegates ... is not a good way to start down the path of party unity."

"This motion will hijack, hijack, remove four delegates won by Hillary Clinton and most importantly reflect the preferences of 600,000 Michigan voters. This body of 30 individuals has decided that they are going to substitute their judgment for 600,000 voters."

He noted sarcastically, "Now that's what I call democracy."

"How can you call yourselves Democrats if you don't count the vote?" one man in the audience shouted before being escorted out by security. "This is not the Democratic Party!"

"We just blew the election!" a woman in the audience shouted. . "This isn't unity! Count all the votes!" another audience member yelled.

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Democrats Protest Outside DNC Meeting (Video)

In the following video, Democrats -- mostly women, supporters of voters' rights and supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton -- rally for voters' rights outside the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting in Washington D.C. Lanny Davis is on the video too!


video of DNC protesters via the Washington Post

NY Times: Several people inside the room arrived with tape over their mouths, a sign of their contention that they were being silenced in the current Democratic presidential primary. . . A woman paced back and forth along the sidewalk, holding a sign that declared, “Count our votes or don’t count on us in November!”

Surprise. Donna Brazile is arguing for the rights of non voters. And CNN's Obama lovin' sham of a "neutral" pundit, Donna Brazile is getting boo-ed.


Angry protesters, and they are overwhelmingly women, make the radical demand that every vote be counted! Isn't that just like a woman? -- Photo via New York Times

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DNC Meeting: Are Florida and Michigan Voters 'Real' Voters?

Women protesters rally in D.C. to demand that the DNC count every vote! And the DNC meeting continues. . . one of the more riveting questions raised this morning: How to fairly punish Florida Democrats/voters for the Republicans' crime of moving up the Florida primary date?

Punishing Democrats for the deeds of Republicans. Wow.

Obama advocates are arguing for the need to be fair to all those Florida and Michigan voters who did NOT vote. They did not vote because they were told the election would not count, so the argument goes. And after the DNC finds a way to be fair to the folks who did NOT vote in the Florida and Michigan primaries, will they then find a way to be fair to the millions of voters who did NOT vote in the caucuses?

Democrats were hashing it out until 2 am last night. Katharine Seelye at The Caucus has the great photo above of the ongoing demonstration outside the DNC meeting. And she has this telling quote from Allan Katz, "chief advocate" for the unity candidate:

"There’s a strong push from the Clinton campaign to try and make believe that those primaries were real primaries, that everyone competed in them like they did in everything else. And there’s a strong push back from the Obama campaigns that, well, the rules were that this is not how we were going to select the delegates."

Yeah, because all those dumb voters in Michigan and Florida actually thought they cast "real" votes.


"There have been very tough disagreements and ugly moments. Emotions have run very high. There have been blatantly sexist comments, particularly by some members of the media. And blatantly racist remarks. And we know that those comments have no place in our society."

-- Howard Dean

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Gov. Granholm Thanks Hillary for Keeping Her Name on the Michigan Ballot

Blast from the past - October 10, 2007: Gov. Granholm is disappointed with Obama

Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who signed the bill setting the Jan. 15 primary date, said she was "very pleased that Sen. Hillary Clinton has chosen to keep her name on Michigan's presidential primary list.

"I am deeply disappointed with the other Democratic candidates who chose to remove their names from Michigan's presidential primary ballot," she said.

"There is no road to the White House that doesn't pass through Michigan, and Michigan voters will remember who chose to stay on the ballot and who chose not to."

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10,000 Hillary Supporters To March On Washington Saturday (Video)

Reportedly, some 10,000 Hillary supporters will march on Washington D.C. on Saturday. Bus loads of fired-up Hillary supporters will rally outside the DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee Meeting.

Appearing on Fox News (see video below), Hillary supporter Christie Atkins asserts that the message to the DNC is: Count EVERY vote or we will bolt the Democratic Party!

Saturday's speakers include, Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones (OH), NOW president Kim Gandy, Congresswoman Corrine Brown (FL), Lulu Flores, president of the National Women’s Political Caucus, and more. For further details, see Hillary 1000.


Visit www.HillaryResponders.com/CountEveryVote to register for the DC Rally or e-mail CountEveryVote08@gmail.com to connect with people in your area traveling to Washington.

Related: Poll: White Women Left Cold by Sweet Talkin' Obama
NOW's Kim Gandy to Speak at DNC Rally

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Poll: White Women Left Cold by Sweet Talkin' Obama

Pew Research staggers us with the news that white women are left cold by sweet-talking Barack Obama. Well, do tell.

According to the Pew Research Report, half of white women don't think much of Barack Obama.

Forty-nine percent of white women view Obama unfavorably, while only 43 percent hold a favorable opinion. In February, 36 percent of these women viewed Obama unfavorably, while 56 percent had a positive perception of the likely Democratic nominee.

Fifty-seven percent of white women favor Clinton as the party's nominee, while just 38% favor Obama - virtually unchanged from a month ago.

Currently, just 46% of those who support Clinton for the nomination say the party will unite behind Obama if he is the nominee. In March, 58% of Clinton supporters said the party would rally behind Obama if he is the nominee. Recent declines in Obama's image have been pronounced among whites - especially white women. . . Obama now trails McCain among white women (by 49% to 41%), who were more evenly divided in previous surveys.

[A]mong Democratic voters. . Women are more likely than men to say Clinton's gender has hurt her (29% vs. 17% of men). And among Clinton supporters, 39% of women say Clinton's gender has hurt her prospects compared with 23% of male Clinton supporters.

[T]he proportion of Clinton supporters saying the party will be divided if Obama is the nominee has increased from 32% in March to 44% today.

And it seems like only February when Barack Obama was steeped in arrogance: "I am confident I will get her votes if I'm the nominee. It's not clear she would get the votes I got if she were the nominee."

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Hillary Issues Post-Primary Schedule!

Be still my beating heart.

From ABC News:

The press traveling with Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign received an email Thursday afternoon informing reporters they could sign up for travel through June 6 on the campaign website.

Given the speculation surrounding plausible outcomes from this Saturday's DNC Meeting and the final Democratic primaries on June 3, many confused looks passed between reporters on the back of the press bus.

When asked for comment, Clinton spokesman Jay Carson looked past Tuesday's primaries to the general election.

"There are a lot of places for us to go between June 4 and November," Carson said.

Meanwhile Pelosi is vowing to 'step in' and prevent the fight from going to the convention. Some are now calling Pelosi the new Kathryn Harris. [via ]

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Obama's Church Attacks Hillary Again

And the politics from the pulpit at Barack Obama's church continues. Behind the pulpit at the Chicago Trinity Church, Father Michael Pfleger jeers and ridicules Hillary Rodham Clinton. And the congregation laughs. Maybe the boyz at NBC/MSNBC would like to give Trinity Church its own teevee show? Or Chris Matthews could always broadcast live from the divisive Hillary hating church. Well, actually, the attack seems to be aimed at pretty well all white people. Do we feel unified yet?


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Strange Bedfellows Update: For obvious reasons, this is spreading like wildfire among Obama's diverse and many opponents. Michelle Malkin has a transcript.

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NOW's Kim Gandy to Speak at DNC Rally

Bus loads of fired-up women from some 26 states will converge in D.C. to rally outside the DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee Meeting this Saturday. The National Organization for Women is among the many women's groups that will be represented. I so wish I could be there. I will, however, be seriously glued to the C-SPAN coverage!!

The cracks in the divided Democratic Party just got a little deeper.

A group of high-profile Hillary Clinton supporters, Democratic fundraisers and Florida Democrats is planning to hold a day-long rally Saturday outside the Washington hotel where the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee Meeting will be considering the fate of votes cast in the Michigan and Florida primaries to call attention to what they say is the exclusion of women's voices from the democratic -- and Democratic -- process and the disenfranchisement of Michigan and Florida voters.

Announced speakers so far include National Organization for Women President Kim Gandy and Florida Democratic congresswoman Corinne Brown. Organizers say that they expect individuals to come in from 26 different states for the rally, as well as some major celebrity speakers, and that they are receiving logistical assistance or other support from the pro-Clinton United Federation of Teachers and EMILY's List. The group Florida Demands Representation, organized by James Hannagan, will also be there.

Obama's campaign told its supporters in an e-mail to stay away. Currently within 45 delegates of clinching the nomination, Obama wants to avoid a spectacle that could harden the divide within the party. . . The rules committee is scheduled Saturday to hear from both campaigns and come up with a settlement, but its ruling could be appealed to the credentials committee at the national convention.

Women are appalled and we are threatening a walkout at the national convention if Obama is forced on us as the nominee and we will work to unseat every Representative who defied our choice of HRC.

Visit www.HillaryResponders.com/CountEveryVote to register for the DC Rally or e-mail CountEveryVote08@gmail.com to connect with people in your area traveling to Washington.

"I guarantee there will be a fourth wave of feminism rising in this nation."

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Margaret Thatcher Would Never Have Survived The Misogyny

From Canada -- one of numerous countries that has actually had a female prime minister -- journalist Janet Bagnall observes that if Margaret Thatcher had run for office in America, it is unlikely the woman would have survived the misogynistic crap:

The demonization of Hillary Clinton has reached such a pitch that when she tried to remind Americans that presidential nomination contests have often carried on into the summer months, she found herself accused of waiting to see whether her opponent, Barack Obama, would be killed. . .

[T]here's only one question that needs answering at this point: What woman in her right mind would ever run for a nomination again?

The fight for a U.S. presidential nomination is far more punishing than anything most female leaders face anywhere else in the world. Margaret Thatcher, inevitably held up as the example to which all ambitious women should aspire, won her party's leadership. Only afterward did she become British prime minister. If the merciless British media had months of primaries to devote to analyzing Thatcher's every move, wardrobe change and political pronouncement, it is unlikely even she would have survived such a sustained assault. But, she didn't have to.

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Carville Hints the Fight May Go to the Convention (Video)

James Carville hints that the fight may indeed go to the Convention. Carville also observes that the dirty Obama campaign trick of pushing the beyond-the-pale assassination story was not exactly a winning strategy for unifying the party or winning over Hillary's supporters!


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"There’s a real problem Barack Obama now has which is there’s now a genuine, angry, committed Hillary Clinton movement in this campaign. She has this army out there. These people, particularly women who are committed to her candidacy, are saying, 'No we won’t surrender.'" –CNN
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WomenCount said it will press its position before the Democratic National Committee Rules Committee when it meets Saturday in Washington to consider what to do with the two states that lost their delegates as punishment for violating party rules and conducting early primaries.

Visit www.HillaryResponders.com/CountEveryVote to register for the rally or e-mail CountEveryVote08@gmail.com to connect with people in your area traveling to Washington.

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If The DNC Strictly Applies The Rules, Obama Will Lose

Big Tent Democrat (Obama supporter) has the must read post on the upcoming DNC Judgment Day:

To recapitulate, a strict interpretation of the DNC Rules that follows the reasoning of the DNC Memo circulated today would require the following results:

A. The stripping of 50% of the delegates of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Michigan.

B. The full seating of the Florida delegation.

C. Should the DNC RBC reject the safe harbor provision for Florida, then Florida would have 50% of its delegations stripped, but Barack Obama would be entitled to no delegates from Florida due to his violation of Rule 20c.1.b. .

By my math, a strict interpretation of the DNC rules would result in a net gain of 80 or 89 pledged delegates for Clinton.

Read the whole thing. .

The May 31st DNC meeting will be broadcast on C-SPAN. Chris "Ugh" Matthews will actually be at the meeting.

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"Nominating Obama is like watching HBO's recount and reliving the nightmares that were the Kerry and Dukakis campaigns, and watching the DNC in 2000 make every boneheaded move that led to Bush's win in the recount battle. If the Democrats make the wrong choice again in 2008, we just don't know who's going to want to remain in this party, and suffer through these ridiculously shortsighted and foolish moves again and again." -- HillBuzz

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MSNBC, Are You Insane?

Yesterday, MSNBC continued its daily Hillary is an Evil Bitch programming. Not content with the full holiday weekend press coverage portraying Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as a monster with visions of assassination plots in her murderous head, the Obama News Network stenographers continued to peddle the She-Devil Assassination Drama. Eugene Robinson showed up on Chris Matthews' Hardball for yet another session of good-old-boy jeering and ridiculing the woman who just won't quit, dammit. Robinson actually read aloud from his latest melodrama column which was, um, about how Hillary the Evil Bitch is losing her soul.

And we remember why Al Gore used to roll his eyes so much.

Apparently, MSNBC is going to continue to be woman-hating tabloid trash teevee until we make them stop it!!

People are working on that:

Friends, I sent the following to bigwig Steve Capus & to Chris Matthews. I hope others will ewrite in a similar vein. I'm agog.

Steve Capus <steve.capus@nbc.com>; Chris Matthews <hardball@msnbc.com>

Subject: Are You Insane?

Dear Mr. Capus & Mr. Matthews, ANYone who imagines that Hillary was referencing anything but the primaries going into June with her 'my husband & RFK' remarks has lost their moorings in reality. That grownups would sit around so-called seriously debating "what she might have meant" -- "Could she have meant she's waiting to see if Mr. Obama is assassinated" is simply insane & hysterical. I'm ashamed of MSNBC and any commentator who would brook such nonsense for one second. Get a grip. That I would have to write such a comment in 21st century America is embarrassing and shameful for you. Sincerely, contact caucusdebacle@gmail.com

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American Idol Obama vs. Supergirl Clinton (Video)

Here's another great video from GeekLove!


"I will get the people who voted for her, now the question is can she get the people who voted for me?"

-- Barack Obama

When someone calls Hillary Clinton a bitch, it's not just about her. It's about me and my fellow MOMocrats and my sister. It's about my mother and my aunts and my daughter. It's about mothers and friends and women who haven't even become the next generation of leaders, yet. . . The most famous and infamous TV pundits aren't reserving their 'looks are everything' moments to talk of Hillary's cleavage or wrinkles. There are no limits. We are all fair game. -- PunditMom

Obama can't beat John McCain without large chunks of Clinton's core constituency: women, Hispanics and the white working class. Dumping on their candidate is one step removed from dumping on them -- and some of the Obama people don't even bother with that step. Rove must be enjoying the show. -- Froma Harrop

Lanny Davis: Four Things the Obama Campaign Couldn't Resist Doing To Anger Clinton Supporters

Hell, if Obama can go after fundamentalist voters, there's no reason for McCain not to court the ladies. -- Jane Hamsher

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Obama Sees Dead People

Another day, another Obama gaffe:

"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."

-- Barack Obama

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Obamanation: Change You Can Choke On

Well, is the latest hate-fest about whether or not Hillary is the Assasination Anti Christ done yet? Is the evil bitch gone yet? Did America the beautiful send enough hate to Hillary to make her quit yet?

In the words of New York Daily News columnist and frequent CNN guest, Michael Goodwin: "We have seen an x-ray of a very dark soul. One consumed by raw ambition to where the possible assassination of an opponent is something to ponder in a strategic way. Otherwise, why is murder on her mind?"

There are more and more days when the insane tabloid adolescent state of this nation is too mortifying to watch. I suppose we've never been all that mature, but the problem does not appear to be getting any better. Maybe a nation can't hate a president for some 7 1/2 years without falling into deep deep mental derangement. That may be, but what bothers me most is that the male dominated Obama Media hate and the male dominated ‘progressive’ Obama Netroots hate is now aimed squarely at women.

I know the popular culture meme says that there is no difference in a politics led by men and a politics led by women, but, um, how do we know? The dire absence of women in positions of power leads to a politics that views the world with a grossly skewed male view. You know, like the skewed violently-macho-male movies at Blockbuster. And like the hopelessly skewed male views on cable news channels where panels of all male and mostly male pundits sit around and seriously discuss important questions like whether or not Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is indeed a white bitch.

When we notice the problem in fraternities, football teams, and military academies, it's because the macho culture has led to a crime like gang rape. These days, the Obama News Network and the Obama blogs look just like the Men's Daily News. Every week is Hate the White Bitch Week, and, yes, it looks a whole lot like gang rape.

What would happen if a panel of female pundits sat around on prime time discussing the important question of whether or not Barack Obama is a black prick? If women weren't tokens in government, tokens in media, etc., if we had as many female pundits as we do male ones, who knows? The women might sit around discussing the possibility that we’ve already had enough pricks in the White House.


"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."

-- bell hooks

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DNC Rally May 31: Count Our Votes Because It's the People, Stupid (Video)

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TalkLeft-Obama Calls FL/MI A Clinton-Contrived Controversy: Democrat Barack Obama accused rival Hillary Clinton on Saturday of "stirring up" a controversy over the disqualified Florida primary election because it was her last hope of winning their party's presidential nomination.

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Reliable Sources: The Media and Misogyny (Video)

Don't faint, but here's a video clip of the media actually critiquing the media. Even more startling, Howard Kurtz, um, listens to women! Marie Cocco (Misogyny I Won't Miss), Carol Costello and Blanquita Cullum testify to the media hatred of the women and girls of America. (When was the last time you saw a cable news panel with more women than men????)

Along the way, the women note that much of the most extreme misogyny comes straight from our former friends in the formerly progressive blogosphere. And Howard Kurtz is exactly right -- there is indeed a monumentally mean backlash brewing. And it's coming for the misogynistic media and the malicious and cowardly and allegedly progressive Democrats too.


[I]f you ever saw the language, the vulgarity, the vitriol that is hurled at Hillary Clinton by liberal Democrats, by the liberal blogs, largely by, frankly, Obama supporters, you'd be appalled. I mean, you'd punish your children for this.

--Marie Cocco

Thank and congratulate CNN for the groundbreaking idea of letting women speak! Send your thanks and encouragement to: mariecocco@washpost.com; and Cullum at: 703.799.3737. If you find contact info for Costello, please leave it in the comments.

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Related, by Kurtz: The Sisters Are Steamed

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Gallup: Hillary Beats McCain; Obama Doesn't

Gallup Poll Daily tracking from May 20-24 finds Hillary Clinton maintaining a significant 49% to 44% lead over John McCain when registered voters are asked about their preferences for the fall general election, while McCain has a slight 47% to 45% advantage over Barack Obama.

And, Swing State Polls Have Bad News for Obama

And, Where Things Stand: Clinton Has the Better Chance to Win the General: David Epstein, Reflective Pundit, -- "The point of a primary is to pick the candidate with the greatest chance of winning the general election. Period. And to this end, Clinton has the strongest cards on her side of the table." Also: Clinton's Argument in a Nutshell

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Obama Campaign Mails Olbermann's 'Hate Hillary Screed' to 'Entire Political Press Corps'

Let's see now, the New Holier-Than-Thou Politics of Barack Obama is about taking your cues from Republican hacks like Drudge and the New York Post and then smearing your opponent with every hate-inspired hysterical sick low-life drama-queen interpretation that Republicans send your way.

Hillary refers to LBJ and poof she is a vile racist. Hillary mentions 'white people' and poof she is a super-dooper double vile racist. Hillary references RFK's assassination, and OMG, the Evil Bitch wants Obama and all black people to die!!!

Or as John F. Harris at Politico admits: "The truth about what Clinton said — and any fair-minded appraisal of what she meant — was entirely beside the point. . Clinton's RFK comments provide a vivid example of how modern journalism has become a hyperkinetic child."

So naturally Obama's Holier than Hillary Campaign sent out to "the entire political press corps" the entire hateful transcript of Keith Olbermann's latest 'Hate Screed for the Obamanation,' otherwise known as: 'The Evil Bitch IS The Anti-Christ and That's Why You Must HATE HER!'

Orwell called it the Two Minutes Hate. Keith Olbermann calls it a Special Comment. The right-wing may own the market on hate-talk radio, but the left-wing has hate-talk teevee. It turns out that the premise of the New Politics of Obama is that the only way to beat Republicans is to be exactly like them. And no where is this sick premise better demonstrated than in Keith Olbermann's Two Minutes Hate.

You remember Keith Olbermann? The hate talk jock who has been spotted reading Obama campaign memos aloud, verbatim, on air, and calling it MSNBC programming? The hate talk jock who has suggested that the only way to get Hillary to quit the race is for a person with a penis to physically beat the bitch senseless?

And, yeah, the Obama campaign that boasts about its New Politics of Hope is the very same Obama campaign that sent out those dirty memos portraying Hillary and Bill as evil racists.

I don't know about you, but I've had all the New Politics of Hate I can stand. Obama's New Politics of 'Change You Can Believe In' would be better termed:

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Katharine Q. Seelye at The Caucus:


Howard Wolfson, Mrs. Clinton’s spokesman, said that both the media and the Obama campaign had been fanning the flames.

The Obama campaign had sent an e-mail on Friday to reporters saying the remarks had no place in a presidential campaign. It was relying on a faulty online report in the New York Post that said Mrs. Clinton was “making an odd comparison between the dead candidate and Barack Obama.” By immediately jumping into the story, within a matter of minutes, the Obama campaign fed suggestions that Mrs. Clinton had somehow made a link between Mr. Obama and Mr. Kennedy’s death.

In addition, the Obama campaign sent the entire political press corps the transcript of a searing commentary about Mrs. Clinton by Keith Olbermann on MSNBC.

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Cannonfire: Now they're going after RFK Jr! -- Keith, See a Shrink!


"But I was deeply dismayed and disturbed that my comment would be construed in a way that flies in the face of everything I stand for — and everything I am fighting for in this election.”

-- Hillary Rodham Clinton

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Fox News: "Women Need to Back Other Women . . Remember the Sisterhood" (Video)

If you thought pigs would fly when your liberal cable news channel morphed into the vilest woman-hating channel of them all, well, there's more.

Here's Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly -- in a discussion of body image/snarking -- advising women to "back other women" because "we're all in it together" and we should "remember the sisterhood."

Yep, the political winds are blowing in a strange new direction when no self-respecting feminist watches the liberal MSNBC, but Fox News has its singularly feminist moments. Of course, we think Megyn Kelly was wisely telling women to back Hillary Rodham Clinton. But there's one more excellent way to remember the sisterhood, and that is to persuade all your friends and relations to girlcott the woman-hating MSNBC and all its NBC affiliates. Especially during the hours that belong to Chris Matthews and Keith Obamaman.



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Media Misogyny: A Tsunami of a Feminist Backlash Brewing (Video)

The Women's Media Center and Media Matters produced this video in their ongoing effort to make women's voices AUDIBLE to the out-of-control mostly-adolescent-male sexist media. Sign the petition: Sexism Might Sell, But We're Not Buying It!

There is a tsunami of a feminist backlash brewing, and it's not going to be pretty. Be part of it!


I call on the national broadcast news outlets (CNN, FNC, MSNBC and NBC) to stop treating women as a joke; to stop using inherently gendered language as an insult or criticism; and to ensure that women's voices are present and accounted for in the national political dialogue. Sexism isn't a partisan issue. Sign the petition!

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Quote of the Day

"What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first. ... And, for women, me is fourth, and that's not healthy." [emphasis added]

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Hillary's Outrageous Plot to Count Every Vote

The Philadelphia Inquirer editorializes that the Obama camp's increasingly shrill and hysterical calls for Hillary to drop out stem from the certain fearful knowledge that she not only leads in the most inclusive popular vote count, but she stands on the verge of capturing the popular vote in every conceivable vote count.

Let's see now, what has the Obama camp shouted from every rooftop and every media outlet in the nation? Oh yeah, the super-delegates absolutely must follow the will of the voters!!!!

Lost in the excitement of Barack Obama's coronation this week was an inconvenient fact of Tuesday's results: Hillary Clinton netted approximately 150,000 votes and is now poised to finish the primary season as the popular-vote leader. In some quaint circles, presumably, these things still matter.

To understand how razor-thin this majority is, consider that if the Puerto Rico turnout is slightly larger than we have imagined - or Clinton's margin is slightly greater - then Clinton would finish the primary process leading in every conceivable vote count. With two million voters, a 28 percent victory would put Clinton over the top even in the count, which excludes Florida and Michigan and includes estimates for Obama's caucus victories.

It is this looming prospect which explains the tremendous pressure Obama partisans and the media are putting on Clinton to drop out of the race. They want her gone now because they understand that she has an excellent chance of finishing as the undisputed people's choice.

Partisan voters almost always come home after their candidate loses. The problem arises when a candidate's supporters believe that their guy (or gal) didn't lose. Expect the chorus calling for Clinton's withdrawal to grow louder over the next week, with people insisting that she has no "path to victory."

Clinton's path is both obvious and simple: Win the popular vote and force Barack Obama and his cheerleaders to explain why that doesn't matter. -- via HillBuzz


"Just so I understand the Obama blog argument, they say that calling for counting the votes is the most vile, most outrageous, most heinous act in the history of politics. Did I get that right?"

-- Big Tent Democrat

Obamanation Condemns Hillary for Outrageous Plot to Count Every Vote:

Josh Marshall: Toxic
CBS News Fernando Suarez: Clinton Desperate to Count Votes
Jonathan Alter: Popular Vote Poison
The New Republic: Clinton's Shocking Florida Gambit
TIME: Clinton Makes Baldest/Boldest Appeal to Florida and Michigan Voters

Count Every Vote Rally in DC: May 31st, 2008
Questions or suggestions? Email counteveryvote08@gmail.com

The Democratic Party is corrupt to the bone. Only a corrupt political party can give more delegates to the ID caucus winner than to the PA primary winner, and then with a straight face defend it as "party rules". Only a party that does not care about the voters can defend taking away the voice of millions of voters from two states. -- Prabhata

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With Love to Every Obama Girl in the Nation (Video)

From Sapphocrat comes this Folgers Coffee sexist blast from the past illustrating the pathetic nature of life for women and men before 2nd wave feminists kicked patriarchal butt. Ah, if only we'd had more Obama girls back then, this old time commercial would describe their pathetic lives today.


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Obama Not Favored In The General Election

Chris Bowers looks at the numbers and determines that with Obama as the presumptuous nominee, we are screwed. Or: "the inescapable conclusion [is] that the general election should be considered a toss-up at this point."

Obama Not Favored In The General Election

And a new set of Quinnipiac polls indicate that Hillary Rodham Clinton is indeed the best general election candidate:

Florida: Clinton 48%, McCain 41%; McCain 45%, Obama 41%.
Ohio: Clinton 48%, McCain 41%; McCain 44%, Obama 40%.
Pennsylvania: Clinton 50%, McCain 37%; Obama 46%, McCain 40%.

Count Every Vote Rally in DC: May 31st, 2008
Questions or suggestions? Email counteveryvote08@gmail.com


“You are going to count us now or don’t count on us later.”

-- Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL),
May 2008

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MSNBC Michelle Bernard: “There Will Be Race Riots in the Street” (Video)

Nominate Barack Obama Or Else!
OR - When Right-wingers Use Race to Divide Democrats


Michelle Bernard, one of MSNBC's new "political analysts," recently caught my attention with this profound political analysis:

"There is no way the super-delegates can take this away from Barack Obama. There will be race riots in the street."

Okay, this is a pretty shockingly irresponsible statement. It's true that throughout the course of Obama's campaign, MSNBC pundits have promoted the network's beloved Democratic candidate by making numerous veiled threats of race riots in the streets, but this is the first time I've heard the threat stated so explicitly. My initial reaction was the thought that Hillary would surely drop out of the race now. I mean surely even the all-powerful Evil Hillary wouldn't want to be responsible for causing race riots in the street.

After that thought, I wondered what kind of person would demean and insult not only the entire African-American population, but also the very concept of democracy itself, by speaking so approvingly, and thereby promoting, violence in the streets?

So I googled Michelle Bernard. And, yep, she is that kind of person. Michelle Bernard is the CEO of the rabidly conservative anti-feminist Independent Women's Forum - a group with strong ties to the Bush Administration. Good f#@king grief! MSNBC, we hardly knew you.

But seriously, we've said it before, when the corporate media is shoving your Democratic candidate down your progressive throat, it may be time to ask yourself: Are you are indeed on a bandwagon, or are you in a flock?



For an answer to the riveting question: Have some conservatives been supporting Barack Obama because they think he would be the easier Democratic candidate to beat?, see Wayne Barrett's piece at the Village Voice: Hillary and the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

And the inestimable Bob Somerby has some fascinating details about Michelle Bernard's career at MSNBC, as well as some gems about the IWF, such as the fact that IWF Directors Emeritae include Lynn Cheney, Wendy Gramm, Midge Decter and Kate O’Beirne.

But I've saved the best for last. IWF was founded in 1992 for the purpose of getting Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court. You remember Clarence Thomas? That black guy so infamous for 'reaching out' to Republicans.

But really folks, the number of right-wing Black political analysts who are promoting Barack Obama and who are also paid by the corporate media is downright creepy. See some of them here. More on this later.

Michelle Bernard: There Will Be Race Riots

"In prime time coverage of a White House election, no cable news network has ever been as propagandized as MSNBC currently is."

--Bob Somberby

video clip via Howling Latina
Related: Do Cable's Pundits Reflect Diversity of Presidential Race?
Graphics: #1 Michelle Bernard, paid MSNBC 'political analyst'; #2 Condi Rice speaking at the Independent Women's Forum.

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