Geraldine Ferraro

John Edwards is not finished telling us about his dad

July 9, 2008 - Former vice presidential candidate John Edwards would accept if Barack Obama proposed. When asked, Edwards told NPR, "I would do anything that I felt I could do to serve this country." While conventional wisdom says that Edwards' place on Kerry's losing 2004 ticket renders him ineligible for 2008...

From The Feed: Geraldine Ferarro on "The Today Show" (video)

May 20, 2008 - Geraldine Ferarro gives voice to the American Grandmoms, on "The Today Show...

From The Room: TV Hosts, What the $#@! Are You Doing?

May 16, 2008 - Times are hard, and our trusted TV hosts, who should know better, are becoming unglued. New York WNBC's anchor Sue Simmons, who I have watched since puberty and always seen as a paragon of professionalism...

From The Room: My Apology

April 2, 2008 - I would like to take this opportunity to talk about recent inflammatory remarks made by my spiritual advisor--specifically, his statement that "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingd...

From The Room: The Black Elephant in the Room

March 20, 2008 - There's a great scene in John Waters' Hairspray where a frightened white mother goes to look for her daughter in a black neighborhood, pleading with the natives to leave her alone while they sit there and laugh at her idiocy. That reminds me of how conservatives are reacting to...

When Fox News sees a black man, they cross the street and file a report on gang violence

March 18, 2008 - Barack Obama gave a seminal speech on race Tuesday, in an attempt to end the controversy surrounding his former preacher, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. While the reviews have been overwhelmingly favorab...

From The Feed: Barack Obama is half-race, half-racist

March 18, 2008 - Barack Obama refuses to trash his racist black preacher or his racist white grandmother...

From The Feed: Barack Obama coins a new euphemism for white people

March 18, 2008 - Barack Obama warns that the message in a black church can sound frightening to "untrained ears...

Barack Obama's white grandmother sounds just like yours

March 18, 2008 - During his speech on race today, Barack Obama alluded to things that his white grandmother said which made him, "cringe...

Hillary Clinton apologizes for marginalizing that black candidate

March 17, 2008 - Hillary Clinton, speaking to a group of more than 200 black community newspapers, apologized for racial comments that supporter Geraldine Ferraro made about Barack Obama. Clearly on a roll, the senator also expressed regret for Bill Clinton's...

From The Feed: Geraldine Ferraro has some esplainin' to do on MSNBC

March 13, 2008 - Ann Curry interviews Geraldine Ferraro on "MSNBC" about her comments on Obama's campaign...

Geraldine Ferraro says Obama is super lucky to be black

March 13, 2008 - Former congresswoman and vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro has left her fundraising position with the Hillary Clinton campaign after her comments that Barack Obama wouldn't be where he...

From The Feed: The Bard of MSNBC

March 13, 2008 - MSNBC's Keith Olbermann unloads on Sen. Hillary Clinton during his "Special Comment...

Barack and Hillary: six weeks of non-stop fighting until inevitable make-out session

March 12, 2008 - In non-whore related news, on Tuesday Barack Obama beat Hillary Clinton in another boutique latte-sipping state that doesn't matter, Mississippi. Which leads up to wonder, why has nobody come...

Quick Quiz: Geraldine Ferraro

March 12, 2008 - Paul Slansky has some questions about the harridan whose name he didn't expect to see on the front page again until her obituary...