brusselsjournal.com - 11/10/2008
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Whether a joke or comment is racist or not, highly depends on who makes it. When Barack Obama tells a racist joke, journalists are laughing tears, but when Silvio Berlusconi tries to make a compliment (though as usual in his own peculiar way), they hang him in the highest tree.
When asked ...
crooksandliars.com - 11/18/2008
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crooksandliars.com —
[From Creative Loafing .] As we predicted before
the election , Barack Obama's victory has loosed a
flood of hatefulness from the racist right in America. Digby yesterday had a detailed post laying out some of the cases that have erupted so ...
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The racist backlash to Obama's presidency
nytimes.com - 11/8/2008
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nytimes.com —
Many Italians reacted with incredulity and outrage after
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called the first African-American president-elect
in history “young, handsome and suntanned.” >
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Obama Joke by Premier Has Italy in an Uproar
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What Do Britney Spears And Sarah Palin Have In Common? This (given the McCain campaign commercial and talk radio hosts’ riffs on celebrity=vapidness, does this means those talk show hosts will oppose her if she runs in 2012 on the grounds that she’s a celebrity?).
Who Really Got Obama Elected? Some think this.
Should Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi Keep His Day Job? When is a joke racist?
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Not Voting For Obama? Then, You're Racist!
westernfrontamerica.com 10/23/2008 — Somewhere, sometime, somehow, somebody began the awful accusation that not voting for Obama is an act of racism. Now, we like to think of our scribbling as "family oriented" so I cannot use the language I'd like to use to describe my disgust with anyone who would make such a statement.
Please tell me this is a joke
sistertoldjah.com 3/1/2009 — Reusable toilet wipes ? Worse still, here’s how to “use them.”
Not sure if this is better or worse than Sheryl Crow’s “one square of TP per bathroom visit” suggestion .
I think I’m gonna be sick.
"Also, if you don't do it, you are a racist."
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New Congress: McCain's role? —
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The transition: The Bush-Obama meeting —
First Read 11/10/2008
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The agenda: Taxes, executive orders —
First Read 11/10/2008
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Obama to make first visit to Oval Office —
CNN Political Ticker 11/10/2008
President-elect Barack Obama will meet President Bush on Monday afternoon in the White House.
(CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama will set foot inside the Oval Office for the first time Monday as he meets with President Bush to talk about ...
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