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Barack O'Bollywood: Your Office Will Thank You

Barack Obama is sort of like Jesus in that you might hate the messiah-worship thing, but you cannot fucking deny the power of some of the art he's inspired. Suck it, Shepard Fairey, and check out the "Barack O'Bollywood" clip at left, briefly mentioned in this morning's Crappy Hour.


Related: Obama Graffiti Wars [Politico]
Barack Obama's Speeches Get Karaoke Treatment [Telegraph]

12:30 PM on Tue May 13 2008
By Moe
512 views, 33 comments

crappy hour

Your Jewish Mom Is Going To Have A Crush On Obama

Life, an esteemed Glamocracy editor said to me today, "is a suicidal act. It is just a more masochistic suicide than average." What differentiates us, then, is nothing but the barely visible variations of degree to which we flatter ourselves into thinking we are the navigators of that masochism, when really our parents are the only ones who can do that. So! Barack Obama's mom was smart enough to follow spent the summer after their years in Muslimstan with a stint a Jew-y summer camp! Barry read Philip Roth and the Talmud and learned to love Israel in theory. (The "in rationalist political expediency" love came later.) Oh yeah, and tonight Hillary Clinton is about to win a pointless landslide in West Virginia. And the rest of the world...well, it's trapped under the rubble of thirty seismic jolts or newly released from the Kafkaesque numerical metaphor that is the state of being a 20th hijacker, but whatevs. We tell ourselves stories in order to assist our own suicides as they say after the jump! More »

10:00 AM on Tue May 13 2008
By Moe
1,921 views, 126 comments

Latest by J.D.Regent: @westvillagegirl: if i emailed with bolton i would find some passive aggressive quote to use under my name in all my emails. Something like, "no one's buying the toupee, numbnut." more »

news roundup

Yeah, Your Day Wasn't Really That Bad After All

  • The Sichuan earthquake has probably killed 9,000 people, and let 80 tons of toxic liquid ammonia out into the streets, but if I know you guys it's the panda stuff that is really going to get to you. [Wash Post]
  • But — thanks investment banks! — it probably won't have that big an impact on the economy! [WSJ]
  • Or Beijing's standing as the number one toilet metropolis. [Xinhua]
  • Meanwhile in Burma the UN is projecting a death toll of 100,000, and Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon can't get junta leader Than Shwe on the phone so he actually just sent a letter, and the US is still trying to get them to accept aid at all...[Wash Post]
  • Hillary is going to win the white vote by landslide margins in West Virginia because they're still coming to grips with the notion of the first Muslim president down there. [FT]
  • Well it's about time Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson vowed lifelong commitment.[US Weekly]
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6:30 PM on Mon May 12 2008
By Moe
2,203 views, 71 comments

Latest by PoisonPixie: Um, people liked the Clinton economy/ideals/reforms. A lot of people I've spoken to that are Democrats feel that Barack doesn't have enough experience or they don't know him well enough to vote for him. For most, it isn't about him more »

crappy hour

It Was A Nice Day For A White Voter

Welcome back kids! How was el fin de semana? Because it sure sucked for a lot of our overseas amigos! A devastating earthquake on the scale of an earthquake that killed a quarter million people in 1976 just rocked China's Sichuan province; Burma's totalitarian military junta decided to grant itself unlimited totalitarian power and all the donated rice; no one can really protest the junta since they are mostly all dead and/or starving to death anyway; hopefully Jenna Bush did the sensitive thing and refrained from throwing rice at her wedding; two John McCain advisers did the sensitive thing and stepped down when it turned out they'd actually taken three hundred grand from the junta for PR services. Bob Barr and Ron Paul both launched separate attempts to do what voters are already doing anyway and sink McCain's campaign; Michelle Obama is nixin Hillary as a running mate (according to Bob Novak?!) and speaking of Nixon, there's a new book on him and the white voters who elected him and we read all about it sorta. All that and a Vito Fossella primer ATJ. More »

10:00 AM on Mon May 12 2008
By Moe
4,180 views, 118 comments

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The World, Too, Is Bipolar

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6:40 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By mcarpentier
2,806 views, 58 comments

Latest by treecut...will cut a beech: @alysbrangwin: I totally agree with this, and I wish there were transition policies that could be a little more targeted than just eliminating the gas tax. Because, in the long run, the only way to get more public transportation more »

crappy hour

Sometimes, Ignorance Is Bliss

Oh, Moe, what have you done to us? While you were (are?) sleeping the UN decided to halt aid to Burma because the junta just keeps taking it at gunpoint to sell it; Beirut has been at least partially taken over by Hezbollah; there's just too much smack to talk about Mark Penn to even begin to contemplate adding links and, frankly, I'm just a little sick of talking about the primaries. So the Windy's Attackerman and I, in all my morning Glamocratic splendor, take on things we probably should've ignored, like the primaries, Russian goosestepping, Spencer's favorite strip club in all of Canada and Arianna Huffington's secrets about John McCain. More »

10:00 AM on Fri May 9 2008
By mcarpentier
2,759 views, 156 comments

Latest by bria: @LinaLamont: [en.wikipedia.org] Folklore scholars regard the theory as baseless for several reasons: 1. the late appearance of the explanation means that it has no tradition, only the value of its content; 2. the facts described do not fit especially well at more »

news roundup

The "And You Thought Yesterday Was Bad" Edition

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6:30 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By mcarpentier
2,789 views, 97 comments

Latest by irishan0: Ugh, that euphoria thing made me wince on the train this morning. Some people in this world... more »

Toni Morrison would like to clear some stuff up about her now-famous anointment of Bill Clinton as the 'first black President'. She says: "I was deploring the way [he] was being treated, vis-à-vis the sex scandal that was surrounding him. I said he was being treated like a black on the street, already guilty, already a perp. I have no idea what his real instincts are, in terms of race." Morrison, by the way, is supporting Obama, but because of his "wisdom" and not his race. [Time]

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crappy hour

Hillary Wins Another Primary!

Done and done and done and yup, even the Wall Street Journal thinks done. Hillary officially halted her frenzied schedule of telling the cable newsiverse how Good she feels and what a Good Time she's having and how Good it feels to be taking policy advice from Joe Sixpack etc. etc. And how did Obama do it? And how did Peggy Noonan know?? We'd rather talk about Burma and Putin Jr. and the insane San Diego fraternity coke bust, but Megan and I will try to talk "delegate math" and the surreal CNN comment that gave us both inexplicable sex dreams after the jump. More »

10:00 AM on Wed May 7 2008
By Moe
8,095 views, 374 comments

Latest by JNOV: @SinisterRouge: Wow - I have love for Clark, but he's been kind of whiny of late. I dunno. more »

the end has no end

Looking Good, Elite!

Huh!? Despite supposedly massive turnout from Dittoheads, Barack Obama does not appear to be losing by huge margins (any more) in Indiana. Maybe Chris Hitchens didn't try hard enough to expose Obama's wife as the second coming of Angela Davis! Karl Rove is on Fox, crediting positive economic newsflow for Obama's win. (Because you would never vote for the candidate actually known for listening to economists unless you had evidence that the American economy was performing well without following a single piece of advice economists had ever given it!) Anyway, Hillary's campaign is looking imperiled. Mark Abinder thinks it's the new Great Schism! (Not to be confused with the New Decameron.) Barry is winning by a fourteen-point margin with everything but the racist vote favoring him. More »

10:30 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By Moe
7,988 views, 542 comments

Latest by DeafChick: @SinisterRouge: I did not make any attempts to debate and/or argue. They got defensive b/c they did not like my comment and call me unamerican. more »

news roundup

Oh Yay! Another Win-Win Situation!

  • "It was tough. I showered twice, I threw up a little bit in my mouth, but I did it." [Boston Globe]
  • "I'll probably go in there and flip a coin." [Wash Post]
  • What a surprise! Voters are primarily worried about the economy. [Yahoo! News]
  • Obama won North Carolina, but everyone knew that would happen! [Wonkette]
  • Clinton (probably) won Indiana, but everyone knew that would happen too! [WSJ]
  • Clinton probably won Indiana because a lot of people in Indiana are really old. [MSNBC]
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6:30 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By Moe
1,465 views, 42 comments

Latest by richcreamerybutter: @konstantConsumer: if you're a women's studies minor, you should know exactly which males I'm referring to (considering this topic has been exhausted lately). I'm not referring to "assumed misogyny," but the blatant sort that has been paraded by examples from more »

crappy hour

Barack Obama Doesn't Look Too Psyched About That Beer

Fifty thousand people are dead or close to it in Burma, and Barack Obama can state unequivocally that he does not drink designer beer. Seventy five percent of American adults will at some point be impoverished. The average American car owner really must save $30 this summer. Chris Hitchens believes Barack Obama may be pussy-whipped. Ellen Page believes Burmese dictator Than Shwe is a modern Hitler. And when tomorrow comes, Terry McAuliffe believes everyone will be saying that Hillary Clinton did better than they thought she was going to do in both the North Carolina and Indiana primaries tonight. Now there's a statement Glamocracy Megan and I can get behind! After the jump, an unusually hip-hop laden edition of Crappy Hour. More »

10:00 AM on Tue May 6 2008
By Moe
6,813 views, 375 comments

Latest by mowglicub: Never trust a man that only drinks one beer. And what will the WhiteHouse taps contain? We all know they already have PBR ;-) more »

crappy hour

Future VP Bobby Jindal's College Girlfriend Possessed By Satan? Or Just Horny?

Meet Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal! He's the frontrunner to be the running mate to the presidential candidate closest to death, so it will surely please you to know that, in his brief 36-year life, he has endured many difficult things, including the presence of SATAN HIMSELF. Well, it was either Satan, or a melodramatic college junior whose desire to fuck him made him worry he was gay or something. But we're going to go with Satan, since he's running for vice president, and what better proof that the Devil Remains At Large than the current holder of the vice presidency? That said Bobby's story, written about an episode that took place while he was a rather Jesus-y undergrad at Brown University, sounds a little too much like an emotionally unavailable twentysomething dude's account of a relationship with girl with "drama" to be quite convincing.Watch Glamocracy Megan and I parse Bobby Jindal's satanic verses — and the gas tax holiday bullshit! — after the jump. Seriously, it is so much awesomer than Kucinich with the UFO. More »

10:00 AM on Mon May 5 2008
By Moe
10,919 views, 124 comments

Latest by kppontrucking: @TaraIncognita: Lol, I'm glad I'm not the only one who has noticed this. Does the Republican Party have some sort of binding contract stating that Republican wives have to have hairspray at all times and wear frilly suits in public? more »

crappy hour

Did Hillary's Appearance On O'Reilly Actually Make Me Like Her More?

Fox is the only news channel that gets any audio on my cable box. This is something, like the interminable nature of this campaign, I generally regard as a negative. But yesterday I had a revelation. See, Hillary Clinton just went on Bill O'Reilly, and when they aren't rerunning clips of the really boring interview, the Fox News talking heads are creaming their pants over how well she's held up, what a "fighter" she is, etc. And it hit me: has Hillary Clinton's stubborn refusal to drop out maybe been good for America? All the phony, cynical and self-serving praise she's had heaped upon her pantsuited self from Rush and Ann and the Weekly Standard and the "Fair And Balanced" regime has started, ever so gradually, to convert into something genuine: respect. Anyway, The Indianapolis Star just endorsed Hillary, a Baptist minister got ushered out by Secret Service for asking John McCain if he really called his wife a "cunt", and Barack Obama drank shit beer at a VFW and the whole thing has lasted so long it's starting to feel like life itself, and Megan and I decided to look at it on the beer-glass half-full side today. More »

10:30 AM on Fri May 2 2008
By Moe
7,446 views, 290 comments

Latest by dylpickle: Used to be a Hillary supporter but after all her negative campaigning I've changed my mind about her. She's not a fighter but just a street savy political opportunist who will say anything to get elected. Her description more »

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Dear Elisabeth Hasselbeck: Get Over Yourself Already

It's pretty clear that Elisabeth Hasselback hates Barack Obama. And on The View today, she all but called the front-runner for the Democratic nomination a conceited asshole while getting into a very heated conversation with Whoopi Goldberg, Sherri Shepard and Joy Behar regarding Rev. Jeremiah Wright. It isn't just that she disagrees with what Rev. Wright has to say; she takes offense that Obama only made a move to "distance" himself from his pastor once Wright said that Obama was "acting like a politician." And when the other women of The View pointed out that what someone's pastor once said should not be a campaign issue, especially in the midst of a health care and economic crisis and a war, Elisabeth screamed, yelled, pouted and attacked Obama again. Clip above.

Earlier: Obama Asks, We Answer: The 5 Stupidest Things Elisabeth Hasselbeck Has Ever Said

4:00 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By jgerson
8,258 views, 150 comments

Latest by legacye: She really does come off as a pouty toddler among those women. I don't mind anyone making the case for Hilary or McCain being voted in - that's your right, but at least *try* to act like an adult when more »

friendship files

Friends: How Many Of Us Have Ones Like Jeremiah Wright?

So tonight, while Hillary Clinton dishes with Bill O'Reilly, Michelle Obama is going on TV to chat with Meredith Vieira about the Rev. Wright debacle in a segment to air tomorrow on Today, a segment I'm quite sure Michelle will be able to use as a meaningful opportunity to convey just what is so depressing about the whole Obama/Wright thing: it just taints your belief in friendship a bit. If reports are true, Rev. Wright felt betrayed by Obama and tried to fuck with his campaign on purpose. "After 20 years of loving Barack like he was a member of his own family, for Jeremiah to see Barack saying over and over that he didn't know about Jeremiah's views during those years, that he wasn't familiar with what Jeremiah had said, that he may have missed church on this day or that and didn't hear what Jeremiah said, this is seen by Jeremiah as nonsense and betrayal," a source told the NY Post. More »

2:00 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Moe
3,704 views, 95 comments

Latest by ElleL: @SinisterRouge: Just because Ive seen how ridiculous it gets, doesnt mean Ive accepted it. I watched Gore and Kerry lose, and I continue to hold out hope. Apparently that makes me in the minority. more »

Pigs On The Wing The huge, inflatable, pro-Obama pig sent soaring over the Coachella music festival during Roger Waters' set of Pink Floyd songs last weekend has finally been found (in pieces) in nearby Indio, California. Reports the AP: "Susan Stoltz found a plastic heap in her driveway Monday, but said she didn't know what it was until she read about the missing pig in the Desert Sun newspaper. 'My kids are going to think I'm so cool,' she said." [AP]

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Let's Be Honest Barry; He Kept On Playing Games And The Loving Was Not The Same

  • Barack Obama rejected/denounced his old friend Jeremiah Wright on television today on the advice of certain wise commenters and also prominent columnists and locking in a critical majority of my family members. Watching it was less fun than watching him shake the dirt off his shoulder but as Jigga would say "so necessary." [Wonkette]
  • So the question remains: why the fuck did Jeremiah Wright give all those damaging, yammering unyielding undermining speeches? Newt Gingrich thinks he's just jealous. [ABC News]
  • Though maybe he was just testing God? [Chicago Tribune]
  • And Barack Obama finally de-friended him...only after consulting some cynical pollsters? Take it from a Republican. [JohnLocke.org]
  • An African-American studies professor from a long line of Mormons wishes Mitt Romney was around so everyone else could be reminded how tame black liberation theology is next to some of the fun ideas Joseph Smith had. [TheRoot]
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5:30 PM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Moe
2,050 views, 79 comments

Latest by jdsoda: @Parasol at 11:27 PM on 04/29/08: just catching up on the posts from last night --and I wanted to relate about what you said: "You all are so clever and quick and witty that I can rarely keep up..." --this more »