Michelle Obama, much like her husband, is a hypocritical piece of garbage. Much like her husband, she wants to get away from the “politics of fear” and so on (most likely so she can be proud of her country for only the second time in her adult life).

This, my friends, is not the politics of fear.

Michelle Obama mixed a story about how her husband, the Democratic presidential candidate asked her out, with a solemn assessment of U.S. economic and social conditions during a visit to the Denver area Wednesday.

Obama spoke before a crowd of about 150 that paid from $1,000 to $10,000 apiece at a private fundraising dinner at a downtown Denver hotel. She earlier spoke briefly to volunteers for the Democratic National Convention after landing at Centennial Airport in the south-Denver suburb of Englewood…

…”I wish we had time to be divided. I wish we had time to be upset. To be angry. To be disappointed. I wish we did,” Obama said. “Because if we had time for that, then things wouldn’t be so bad right now. Instead, we’re in a place where another four or eight years of the world as it is will devastate the life of some child.”

Vote for us our your children’s lives will be ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuined!

Mwuahahahahaahahahaha

Yep. No fear mongering here. Nothing to see. Move right along.

via Michelle Malkin

Recession defined:

In macroeconomics, a recession is generally associated with a decline in a country’s real gross domestic product (GDP), or negative real economic growth. According to widespread definition, a recession occurs when real growth is negative for two or more successive quarters of a year.

Recession defined according to Reuters:

So… We have slow growth and a recession happening at the same time according to Reuters.

Nice one!

I’m tired of double standards, so I’m on a mission to shatter them.

Loren Feldman is back in the news again, but honestly, it’s for the same old thing he was in the news for once before. After the cancellation of his deal with Verizon due to an outcry over a video he made a year ago by some third tier Nation of Islam wannabe, NPR found themselves talking to Lynn D. Johnson, Senior Editor of Fast Company about the matter in which Johnson claims Feldman was wearing a dreadlock wig and blackface during the video.

Here’s the video. If at any time you notice blackface or a dread wig, please let me know.

Nothing there. Just a parody video. Might some people find it offensive? Of course. That’s the whole point. It’s edgy. Everyone finds something offensive. Idiots like Jerry Fallwell spent months warning us of the evils of the teletubbies becuase one of them was purple and had a triangle on it.

I digress.

There are a few points to note here.

Firstly, why is NPR talking to someone at Fast Company about Loren Feldman? And why aren’t they talking about Loren Feldman to Loren Feldman? So far just about every news story about this latest incident with Verizon has been lacking one thing. Feldman. They have, however, asked “experts” a lot, and in this case, asked someone from Fast Company what she thought; an obvious conflict of interest considering Feldman’s skewering of Fast Company’s big flop Fast Company.tv.

Secondly, in Lynn D. Johnson’s interview, she mentioned that Loren was wearing blackface and a dread wig. That’s all well and good, but it’s been pointed out that he wasn’t (although as you’ll see in her Friendfeed, one of her dumb boosters thinks it was some slick editing after the fact; the conspiracy nuts never give up!). You might consider that a throwaway comment, except for the fact that Johnson’s mis-recollection of the facts makes the story much more inflammatory. Blackface and minstrel shows are remnants of the Jim Crow era. For all intents and purposes, Johnson might as well have claimed that Feldman did the video in front of a confederate flag. Either way it isn’t truthful, but to say that the extra inflammatory nature of her “mistake” was purely coincidental assumes people watching are utter idiots.

Lynn D. Johnson works for Vibe magazine, a magazine that gives awards to and promotes rappers and their music from the likes of Ice Cube, Jeezy, Nas, and Lil Wayne, while wondering about what videos from Loren Feldman will do to hurt the black community. If that isn’t the ultimate in intellectual dishonesty, nothing is.

Loren Feldman is not a racist, and Lynn D. Johnson needs to apologize.

Now.