CNN WTF

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This is the current top story on CNN:



They had a halfway normal pic of Wright up earlier. I guess it didn't convey 'scary black preacher' well enough. Have they stopped even pretending to be impartial? They might as well photoshop in a glowing force-ghost of Malcom X at this point.

Comments

[neuro42.livejournal.com]

It's a good thing we're safe from that "liberal media" these days.

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

The funny thing is, I actually have little to no problem with the Wright quotes I've hard paraphrased. I've not watched any of the clips--hasn't seem relevant. Did see some of the stupid questions in the last debate.

For me, the fact that Obama has an ex-Weatherman-now-college-professor as a supporter, and a preacher who calls America on it's self-righteous BS are reasons to vote for the guy.

Come'n, is anything Wright said actually untrue? No. There is still racism, and the hangovers from racism and slavery, in our nation. There is a good argument to be made that the 9/11 attacks were due to US's foreign policy.

It pains me that Obama has to distance himself so completely from these folks, but I know it's political suicide not to.

But Clinton playing off it all? She's not getting any love from me.

-B.

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

the fact obama wants a federal ban on concealed carry licenses is a better reason NOT to vote for him!

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

While I do think the Dems need to just drop the whole gun control issue and ignore it forever more (for tactical reasons), I refuse to fall for that one-wedge-issue kind of politics.

There are things I'm a lot more worried about frankly. And there is not the political will to pass such a ban, regardless of who is president.

The Republicans (and the extremist wing of them that is now in charge) have managed to leverage those wedge issues (is that a mixed metaphor?) to divide and conquer--e.g., guns, abortion, Israel. The dems need to keep from getting baited into talking about those issues.

Seriously, is Obama's views on one peripheral issue, gun control, worth letting the right-wing reactionaries drive this country into the ground and take away all our civil liberties? Nope.

-B.

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

exactly, which is why i'm voting for Wayne Allyn Root!

[stolen-tea.livejournal.com]

Dude. We *so* need to photoshop that into a Force Lighting war with Donald Rumsfeld...

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

:-)

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

I thought Obama's big speech on the subject handled it very well. Why the hell are we (as a nation, not you in particular) *still* going over this?

I love the idea about the Force Lightning War.

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

I looked when you first mentioned it on MOO, and I really still don't see what's so scary about the image.

To me, the first thing it registers as is "ballet pose". Or maybe "interpretive dance".

[caladri.livejournal.com]

Did you see the clip it's from? The thing about marching bands? I just sort of stared, baffled.

[callmem.livejournal.com]

Hee!

Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Force-Ghost Malcom X.

I don't think the mainstream news has ever been impartial, but they sure have shifted way the hell to the right in the last ten years.

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

I'd be so tempted to vote for a Force-Ghost Malcom X.

-B.

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

But wait, what are you saying about Malcom X? His views weren't that extreme given the times (and maybe not given todays times either). Self-defense is a very valid right for any people. And, as the assassinations of all the progressive leaders of that era shows, they needed more of it.

-B.