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“Join me, Barack, and together, with Bill, we can rule the galaxy as the more experienced president and the less-experienced vice-president. Though you have more delegates.”
May 6th, 2008 — Animation, Entertainment, Film, Humor, Politics, Pop Culture, Science-Fiction
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Is Oprah Taking One for the Team?
May 6th, 2008 — Controversy, Culture, Entertainment, Media, Politics, Race, Religion
Actually, no: Cartoonist Daryl Cagle underestimates white backlash
How has Oprah Winfrey’s standing with her overwhelmingly white audience been affected by her association with Barack Obama?
In her piece for The Root.com, “The Trouble With Transcending Race: Why the Double O’s are standing on shaky ground,” Majorie Valbrun expands on what most Black women probably long expected, even before Fordham professor Costas Panagopoulos’s Politico.com piece, which she quotes, below, made it explicit:
“Ten days after she went on the stump for Obama, Oprah’s favorability ratings dropped to 55 percent, the lowest level of favorability ever registered for Oprah in opinion surveys,” the article states. “Oprah’s negatives also spiked, with one in three respondents (33 percent) reporting unfavorable impressions of her.”
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Lost Works That Should Have Stayed Lost: MC Skat Kat, “Skat Strut”
May 5th, 2008 — Animation, Black Music, Dance, Entertainment, Hip-Hop, Music Video, Pop Culture, Sex, TV
“Now, pretend that you’re Corey Clark”: Paula and Skat role-play
Was Paula Abdul on drugs?
Not last week, when she tried to judge American Idol contestant Jason Castro’s non-existent second performance. No, was she high in the early ’90s, when she agreed to a cameo in the video for MC Skat Kat’s solo debut, “Skat Strut,” a Fresh Prince-ish piffle over Earth Wind & Fire’s “Let’s Groove” bassline.
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I Guess They Just Didn’t Know Where That Finger Had Been.
May 5th, 2008 — Advertising, Controversy, Design, Fashion, Magazines, Media, Photography, Pop Culture, Sex
Further proof that, especially planetarily, there’s no accounting for taste: The above ad, notes Boinkology, for Tom Ford Sunglasses, has been banned in Italy by that country’s Institute for Advertising Self-Discipline (IAP).
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Me and My Shadow…and My Heckler & Koch MP5 w/ Suppressor
May 5th, 2008 — Art, Design, Entertainment, Film, Photography
The next James Bond flick, Quantum of Solace, may have the corniest title of any 007 movie to date, but the filmmakers are totally not sleeping in the advance poster department. This double-sided German piece, slightly smaller (23.25″ x 36.2″) than an American one-sheet (27″ x 41″), is $25 at MoviePoster.com.
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Would You Wash bin Laden’s Feet?
May 2nd, 2008 — Art, Controversy, Design, NONFICTION, Politics, Radio, Religion, Terrorism
Would you wash the feet of Saudi terrorist, supposed Al Qaeda founder, and alleged 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden?
That’s the question implicit in the above piece of Christian art titled Servant to the World. Created by artist Lars Justinen, the image depicts Jesus Christ, dressed in the manner described in his Last Supper of John 13, washing the feet of prominent world leaders: Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, former British PM Tony Blair, Manmohan Singh, prime minister of India. In His hands is the right foot of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
In the implied sequence, bin Laden is next. He’s seated beside George Bush, President of the United States, the very man who has promised to hunt him down.
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“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, FRIENDS AND DISTINGUISHED GUESTS!!: The Honorable Mrs. Dr. Michael Eugene Misick, First Lady of Turks and Caicos Islands!”
May 2nd, 2008 — Controversy, Crime, Entertainment, Government, Magazines, Music Video, Photography, Politics, Sex
I’m not exactly a huge LisaRaye fan.
I think she’s really pretty, and, in some instances, astonishingly so. When she’s lit well and in motion—like she is in this ignominiously titled YouTube clip, “Lisa raye lookin sexy big butt”—her face has a sculptural quality, an interesting-from-any-angle form. I loved her in 2Pac’s “Toss Is Up” video, much less in The Players Club…and don’t even mention the execrable All of Us.
But when I first saw the inside-gatefold cover of Smooth, issue #36, above, I have to admit I was actually a little disappointed.
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The Empire Strikes Back
May 2nd, 2008 — Africa, Controversy, Journalism, Media, Politics, Race, Religion
Photo by ProtestShooter.com
“Hillary ain’t never been called a n-gger!”
Have you noticed that, of all Jeremiah Wright’s decontextualized quotes, this one has been completely dropped out of the mediated discussion of his statements?
When USA Today‘s Donna Leinwand, vice-president of the National Press Club, moderated the now-infamous Q&A with him on Monday, she asked him about Farrakhan, AIDS, “chickens coming home to roost,” etc., but not one question about this statement.
Why?
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The Devil Wears Payless: Anna Wintour’s Doppelganger Writes In
May 1st, 2008 — Controversy, Fashion, Internet, Media, Photography, Race
Twice as nice: Somebody’s pretending they run VOGUE
Thought I’d show faithful MEDIA ASSASSIN readers something that came through here last month.
On April 10, I received this. You can click on and read it:
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Will Barack Obama’s Raceless Race Be Erased by Race?
May 1st, 2008 — Controversy, Government, Politics, Race
Bravo to Black Agenda Report executive editor Glen Ford for his smart analysis of the Obama-Wright debacle. Titled, “Obama’s ‘Race Neutral’ Strategy Unravels of its Own Contradictions,” the piece argues that, in the wake of pastor Jeremiah Wright’s three-day, “televised Black Liberation Theology tour de force,” Obama is withering, not from what Wright hath wrought, but from a fundamental disconnect built into Obama ’08.
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