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GOP postmortem reveals a failure to tap into America's inner racist

November 5, 2008 - The verdict is already in -- not just that McCain lost, but why. To the hardcore rightwing, the reason will be that McCain didn't use Reverend Wright enough. To them, McCain lost because he wasn't angry and rightwing enough. Sure, that always work. Sort of like the lunatic ex...

From The Room: Test Your Campaign Political Junkiness

May 17, 2008 - How closely have you been keeping up on the campaign news? A test to measure how you stack up-- 1. To demonstrate she's no elitist, Hillary: A) Is publishing, My Favorite Road Kill Recipes B) Bought an RV C) Drunk Crown Royal D) Is getting pant suits off the...

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: New Rule: Catholics Must Get Up Out of the Pew and Walk Out of the Church Forever

March 28, 2008 - When Barack Obama didn't hear Reverend Wright say those awful things about America, he still should have rushed the stage, smite Reverend Wright with the cross, and left the church. If there's anything the right wing can agree on, it's that. And that gays are going hell...

White people not yet finished hating Obama's ex-pastor

March 27, 2008 - The Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's garlic-nose-hating former preacher, has scrapped plans to speak at church ser...

From The Room: O'Reilly Attends Easter Services at Church Lead by Ex-Nazi

March 24, 2008 - The Huffington Post has learned that Bill O'Reilly -- who claims to love America -- spent Sunday at a "church" run by a former Hitler Youth named Joseph Alois Ratzinger. Ratzinger has gone to elaborate ends to hide this connection, including taking on the absurd pseudonym "Pope Benedict XVI." Whic...

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...