The Empire Strikes Barack
2 comments May 2nd, 2008
This is a pretty clever video, and it portends lots of really creative stuff in the general-election campaign:
Archive for May 2nd, 2008
Will you get the money from a gas-tax holiday, or will the oil companies?
15 comments May 2nd, 2008
 
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the Clinton-McCain proposal for a gas-tax break this summer is “about the dumbest thing I’ve heard in a long time from an economic point of view.”
Some economists SAY the oil companies might well be the ultimate beneficiaries of this scheme.
This ought to go over well in Indiana — not!
2 comments May 2nd, 2008
Warning: This video contains some offensive language:
NOTICE: The video I posted here this morning has disappeared from YouTube. It purports to show Hillary Clinton confidante Mickey Kantor disparaging Indianans as “s—” and “worthless white n—-rs” during Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign.
The clip is from a documentary film about that campaign.Â
Kantor vehemently DENIES using such language and says the video has been doctored as part of a conspiracy.Â
UPDATE: OK, the video is back, but without the subtitles that were in the earlier version:
So, how come the widely revered Billy Graham never got the heat Jeremiah Wright’s getting?
10 comments May 2nd, 2008
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In 1972, Richard Nixon’s infamous White House taping system captured the voice of the Rev. Billy Graham saying this:
“A lot of the Jews are great friends of mine. They swarm around me and are friendly to me…But they don’t know how I really feel about what they’re doing to this country.”
That remark came in a conversation Graham had with Nixon about supposed Jewish control of the media.
Graham said the Jewish “stranglehold (on the media) has got to be broken or the country’s going down the drain.”
Replied Nixon: “You believe that?”
“Yes, sir,” said Graham.
“Oh, boy,” responded Nixon. “I can’t ever say that, but I believe it.”
“No, but if you get elected a second time,” suggested Graham, “then we might be able to do something.”
Graham apologized for these comments when the tape of them was made public in 2002. The ensuing scandal didn’t amount to much and quickly faded.
Graham has never been subjected to the reprobation the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has faced in recent weeks and months for his controversial statements. Nor were any of Graham’s close friends and admirers said to be guilty by association with him.
I raise this issue because it came up last night on “The Daily Show,” as we see HERE.
