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The Blogger Who Cried "Racism!"
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] The recent McCain ad where he makes fun of Obama's celebrity status, happens to feature a picture of Britney Spears to illustrate its point about the vacuousness of fame for fame's sake. Of course, here's the ...

Dana Milbank, Crypto-Racist?
Ross Douthat — That's the takeaway, so far as I can tell, from this Josh Marshall post, which starts with the dubious claim that this McCain ad - which Ramesh and John Weaver rightly call childish - is actually playing on white America's subliminal fears that Barack Obama wants to sleep with promiscuous white starlets, and proceeds to the claim that any pundit (like Milbank, say) who uses the word "presumptuous" to describe Barack Obama is just playing along with the McCain campaign's vile attempt to caricature Obama as an "uppity young black man whose ...

Obama Launches 'Low Road Express'
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — ... to debunk ads and statements by the McCain campaign. The name comes from a New York Times editorial published yesterday that was critical of recent campaign tactics by McCain. Highlighted on the site now are newspaper editorials and videos that were critical of McCain's latest " Celeb " ad. On an afternoon conference call announcing the site's launch, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said the site would be updated regularly and hopes the public and media use it often. "Unfortunately we think that the tenor of his campaign is unlikely to change," Plouffe said about the ...

I hear their gentle voices calling Old Black Joe
SteveAudio — ... in John McMaverickypants' campaign, what with his latest insulting ads. Oh hell, here's the first: Celebrity? Young, vacuous, slutty white women? Of course, serious Villagers like Ross Douthat don't see it that way: That's the takeaway, so far as I can tell, from this Josh Marshall post, which starts with the dubious claim that this McCain ad - which Ramesh and John Weaver rightly call childish - is ...

LOL Quote of the Day
Sister Toldjah — ... - h/t: Captain Ed): But the set is designed to evoke the White House and the Lincoln Memorial, not the Acropolis, said staging supervisor Bobby Allen, a Spears set vet. “We’ve done Britney’s sets and a whole bunch of rock shows, but this was far more elaborate and complicated and we had to do it in far less time,” said Allen, of RDA Entertainment. Uh … ahem? “Andy Warhol said we all get our 15 ...