Sambo-Obama??!!! TMZ.com crosses the line of decency-- but who will call them on the slur?

For an operation that built its following by paying for exclusive stories on Mel Gibson's anti-Semitism, Dog The Bounty Hunter's racial slurs and Michael Richards' racist meltdown at a comedy club, the folks who run corporate porn-pushing gossip site TMZ.com have managed to mask their own bigotry behind the dental dam of celebutard ass-licking.

But leave it to the weekend crew to expose TMZ's... ahem... black heart. Obviously comprised of the same breed of youthful amateurs and Santa Monica Boulevard pickups who are sent out to harass celebrities with home video and cellphone cameras, this group of Harvey Levin acolytes has historically been the weak link in the Time Warner-AOL tentacle’s defense of its slimy tactics and cultural debasement (they spread the Will Smith-Hitler-loving lie and called Chelsea Handler a bigot, among other big boners).

Today, however, they've clearly gone too far, with a story headlined:

"SNL" Creating Sambo-Obama?
Posted Mar 1st 2008 11:26AM by TMZ Staff
Either "SNL" came back from the writer's strike completely color blind or extremely one-sided. The show debuted their new Barack Obama character, which as a surprise to many -- is played by someone who isn't African-American…

Sambo-Obama? The (non) story, oddly, is cribbed from a post here on TabloidBaby.com, a week ago, on Sunday morning February 24th, when we mentioned that the night before, Saturday Night Live had decided to use castmember Fred Armisen, who is of Venezuelan- Japanese descent, to portray mixed-race presidential candidate Barack Obama, thereby sidestepping the “blackface” issue (we pointed out that the SNL’s sole African American player, Kenan Thompson, was too fat for the role-- as did TMZ today).

In the days to follow, lazy columnists, missing out on the past decade of multiculturalism, accused SNL producer Lorne Michaels of latent racism for using Armisen, but the case was easily deflected-— in part because Armisen could portray Obama credibly, without the use of burnt cork.

Today, however, for some reason, the TMZ weekend crew picked up on the story a week late-— mentioning our points that they read while on duty last Sunday-- and ignoring Lorne Michael’s well-publicized defense earlier in the week.

It seems obvious that the TMZ weekend crew, like the LA cops that TMZ pays off, is faced with a quota-- in their case, of story posts and outrageous headlines. It’s also apparent that the week-old Obama item was planted so the TMZ boys could high-five over the noxious and, in Harvey Levin’s world, “clever,” “Sambo-Obama” headline.

The pathetic ploy three days before what could be a decisive primary vote also reveals a lack of historical context and knowledge. TMZ's use of the word “Sambo” is apparently meant to refer to “The Story of Little Black Sambo,” the children's book from 1899 about a resourceful boy named Sambo who outwits a group of hungry tigers and returns safely home, where he eats 169 pancakes for his supper.

The story is set in India (there are no tigers in Africa), and Sambo is obviously Indian-- not African American or Negro. Although the word “Sambo” has become a derogatory racial term targeted at blacks, it most frequently refers specifically to illustrated racist caricatures and not blackface performance.

Forget Jon Stewart and Gaydolph Titler. Let's see who's brave enough to make an issue of a totally gratuitous “Sambo Obama” headline for a week-old story on a site that’s known for up-to-the minute reports of Britney Spears’ bowel movements. The mainstream media likes to complain about “The TMZ effect." Now they can investigate which presidential candidate Harvey Levin, his corporate overlords and his chiropractor sent their checks to.

Is Jon Stewart part of Obama "smear" campaign?

Jon Stewart took time from his Academy Awards® joke monologue to point out to 30 million viewers that Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama's middle name is "Hussein" and that his last name rhymes with "Osama"? It came off as less a joke than a Hannityesque political statement attached to a lame punchline; far more blatant, and reaching far more viewers than Tina Fey's girlie Hillary Clinton diatribe on Saturday Night Live. Could Stewart be a Hillary supporter, as well?

Or, in light of the Obama "smear picture," circulated simultaneously by Clinton's camp and front and center on Drudge this morning, could this be part of something bigger-- and uglier?

Jan. 18th, HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher:

Newsweek international editor Fareed Zakaria: I think somebody wrote, “Imagine this Pakistani jihadi, you know, sitting there looking up at Barack Hussein Obama. It’s very tough to say to yourself, you know, I’ve got-- I’ve got to wage a jihad to bring down this guy.”

Maher: Right. He’d probably see “Hussein,” and go, “Hey…” [laughter] All right, so--

Zakaria: Do you know what? Actually, a couple of people in Pakistan actually did tell me-- and these were not militants, these were Pakistani businessmen – but they said, “You know what? I love the fact that somebody with the middle name, ‘Hussein,’ can run for president in America.” I said-- I said to them, “That’s because nobody in America knows his middle name is Hussein.” [laughter] [applause] Wait – wait until the Republicans bring that up in the – in the general election.

Maher: Right, well, wait until the Republican slime machine gets hold of that middle name. [laughter] Trust me, it won’t be quite as cute.

Feb. 24th, Academy Awards® broadcast
before 30 million American viewers:

Jon Stewart: You have to give Barack Obama credit, he’s overcome a great deal. Not just he’s an African-American. Barack Hussein Obama is his name. His middle name is the last name of Iraq’s former tyrant. His last name rhymes with Osama. That’s not easy to overcome. I think we all remember the ill-fated 1944 presidential campaign of Gaydolf Titler.

McCain and Palin: It's to laugh

Tomorrow we go to the polls and vote in a whole new American era with the election of President Barack Obama. You've got to admit, the guy proved over the past two years that he's got what it takes, he's got a vision for the future, the economy and ending the war, and he kept his focus on the real issues while his cynical, crotchety opponent, with his dangerously unqualified demagogue running mate and the dark forces behind them, couldn't do much more than try to make everyone afraid of him. One of our favorite things about Barack Obama is how he simply brushes off the phony outrage too many of us fall back on, a falseness as fake as the enthusiasm supposedly intelligent conservative displayed over Sarah Palin.


This weekend, old John McCain showed that he'd given up, thrown in the towel, when he appeared on Saturday Night Live. The New York Times writes today about how he's whiling the final days by telling Henny Youngman jokes in quick succession. So let's go to the master, Chris Bearde, for a few days worth of McCain-Palin-Bush one-liners, just to rub it in, because those motherf*ckers deserve it:

McCain campaigns in 5 states, Joe the plumber campaigns in 5 agent’s offices and Palin campaigns with 5 couturiers.

McCain and Obama on Monday Night Football... John will use his long bomb bomb bomb.

Because McCain’s was funnier than Palin on Saturday Night live, she has hired writer Dennis Miller who lost his sense of humor during the sale of his integrity.

Desperate McCain accusing the entire Eastern Seaboard of being next to the sea.

Desperate Palin accuses Obama of being pals with people who have never worn American flag lapel pins.

After a Bush loyalist said of W: “He’s a good man who got a bad rap”… police arrested him for being under the influence of Dick Cheney.

Truth about Obama kicking Washington Times reporters off his plane: Not political... Bean Burritos.

Palin tells Hannity:
“Sean, where’s the really hard news …?”
Sean taken to the showers!!

Mormons put big bucks into anti gay amendment, they think marriage should only be between a man and lots of women.

McCain/Palin/Joe trailing in polls and brains.

Palin’s claims her first amendment rights violated... Sean Hannity goers crazy over Sarah being violated!

When McCain said Joe the Plumber was his “hero” it confirmed reports his new medications hasn’t kicked in.

McCain will use the “Twinkie Defense” when he loses.

A converted beer truck will be on its way to Arizona Tuesday night with a full load of anti depressants and a straight jacket.

Until her prime time interviews Palin thought syntax was something the IRS charged the Porno Industry.

Arnold stumping for McCain was praised for having a better understanding of English than Palin.

Palin accuses Joe of pimping her ride.

New revelations show that Chuck Norris, Hank Williams Jr, and Dennis Miller will join forces for the first “Joe the Plumber Lollapalooza Toilet Bowl.”

Joe’s first major concert appearance sees him lip syncing to any voice other than his own. In his honor Ted Nugent will bite the head off as life sized dummy of Keith Olberman.

59% think Palin is not qualified to be president and 96% say she’s not qualified to act like she thinks she is qualified.

A quarter of the people in Texas think Obama is a Muslim, this is the same quarter of the people in Texas who think Pamela Anderson is a virgin.

Texas… a state with its head in the sand and it’s asshole in Crawford.

McCain had to bring in a bus load of people to fill up the empty spaces at his rally at Starbucks.

Sarah Palin’s crowds have dwindled down to religious fanatics, race baiters and fashion designers.

The last black guy at a Palin stadium rally got the day of the ballgame wrong.

With such a short time before the elections McCain is using Joe the Plumber to bring in the frontal lobotomy crowd.

LAST MINUTE ACCUSATIONS!!

Palin has accused the entire state of California of being kinda gay looking and untrustworthy.

McCain is accusing everybody about everything he can think of.

Joe the Plumber accused Giuliani of being an ugly woman.

Palin accused Joe the Plumber of getting an agent and a recording contract before she does.

The Obscure Radical Professors of America Society accuse McCain of cherry picking.

I’m accusing McCain, Palin and Joe the Plumber of being “The New Three Stooges!”

Palin accuses the kids of Democrats of being the spawn of Satan.

Elvira accuses Cindy McCain of stealing her makeup.

And be sure to check out The Chris Bearde School of Comedy!

Kurtzer to Baras to Obama: Israel baseball's link to the next President of The United States

For those of our readers who may feel that our coverage of the Israel Baseball League scandal and the Israel baseball saga has been a distracting diversion of little consequence to the world at large, we thought we'd point out that the constantly-developing story now has a direct connection to the 2008 United States Presidential campaign-- specifically the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate and, we would hope, the next President of The United States, Barack Obama.

Daniel Kurtzer, the former ambassador to Israel and Egypt, who, as commissioner of the Israel Baseball League helped rally support for Larry Baras and ease concerns among Israelis about his concern for Israel, is now an Obama adviser and a key member of “Obama’s Minyan,” the group of powerful, respected Jewish American leaders who are helping rally support for Barack Obama and ease concerns among American Jewish supporters about his concern for Israel.

Quotes: Barack Obama gives a lesson in journalism and Bob Dylan gives a lesson in politics

"We have seen this before. There is dirt and lies that are circulated in e-mails and they pump them out long enough until finally you, a mainstream reporter, asks me about it.  That gives legs to the story... It is a destructive aspect of our politics. Simply because something appears in an e-mail, that should lend it no more credence than if you heard it on the corner. Presumably the job of the press is to not to go around and spread scurrilous rumors like this until there is actually anything, an iota, of substance or evidence that would substantiate it."

--Barack Obama

"Well, you know right now America is in a state of upheaval. Poverty is demoralising. You can't expect people to have the virtue of purity when they are poor. But we've got this guy out there now who is redefining the nature of politics from the ground up... Barack Obama. He's redefining what a politician is, so we'll have to see how things play out. Am I hopeful? Yes, I'm hopeful that things might change. Some things are going to have to. You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future."
--Bob Dylan

Obama's Hair Design

We hear there are protests in New York City over fried chicken joints being renamed for Barack Obama. We were in Chicago last month and walked by this place downtown on South Dearborn. Obama's Hair Design features "styles by Egyptian."


We'd assumed the joint was black-owned, but a quick check shows that it's not, and believe it or not, used to be called "Osama's":

Al Aribaya News Channel
Egyptian gives Chicago salon Obama makeover

Osama just got an extreme makeover and will now be known as Obama. The salon that is.

An Egyptian barber changed the name of his salon from "Osama’s Hair Design" to "Obama’s Hair Design" in what American media called an ideological shift but which perhaps simply reflected good business sense.

Mahmoud al-Sheikh managed to get a license to change the name of his salon on Nov. 3, one day before Obama's victory, because he figured city officials would not have agreed to put the president's name on a barber shop, he told AlArabiya.net.

In repose to the media hype about his supposed “ideological shift” from fundamentalism to moderation, Sheikh said that the previous name of the salon had nothing to do with Osama bin Laden and that he was never one of his supporters.

"The previous owner of the salon was called Osama," he said. "American media took advantage of that to create a sensational story."

And he saw business drop off by half in the months following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks...

Sheikh pointed out that the main question posed by the American media was whether he changed the name of the salon to attract more African-American clients.

"I told them I am 100 percent convinced of this man. I met him and talked to him. His success was not haphazard. He had goals that he was keen on achieving."

Nudes: GOP scum target Obama's dead mother

"It may not be true, but fuck it! 'Cause they're both dead!
And if it ain't true, nobody'll know!"
--Tabloid Baby, pg 10

Everybody knows you don't go after a person's mother.
--Tabloid Baby, pg 428

We were waiting to see how low the McCain campaign would go in its desperate attempts to drag down Barack Obama, but of all the lowdown tactics pulled by the angry old prisoner of war and his embarrassing, shockingly unqualified, empty-vessel demagogue attack dog of a vice presidential candidate, we didn't expect they'd go after Obama's dead mother on the same day he'd taken time to visit his dying grandmother. The picture above and a couple of more like it were unearthed, probably doctored and leaked to some operative blogsite with the claim that the woman pictured could possibly have been Obama's mother, Ann Dunham Soetoro, with bizarre analysis equating jazz albums in the pictures to communist ties and possible questions about Obama's true paternity.

After all the scare tactics about Obama being a terrorist (and black!), this is what they were holding back? The photos have no potential possible effect on Obama's campaign, so the entire reason they were posted was to throw more mud. And with a week and a half until the election, it's frightening to consider what the GOP, Fox News and Bush family-- with their decades of connections to the bin Ladens of Saudi Arabia-- might try in an attempt to shift some votes away from the next President of The United States. These are the kinds of scumbags who've got to be left behind.

And so what if she did pose?

After Baras, Kurtzer pinch-hits for Obama

Daniel Kurtzer, former commissioner of the old Israel Baseball League, is leaving baseball behind-- but stepping into a new Israel-related controversy with an increasingly prominent role as foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama as he angles for a role in Obama's Presidential administration.

Kurtzer, a former US ambassador to both Israel and Egypt, was a very prestigious name for Boston bagel baron Larry Baras to add to the roster of sports and industry bigwigs that propped up a league that brought MLB-style play to Israel last summer. But days after Tabloid Baby revealed the details of a federal lawsuit that accused Baras of securities fraud in connection with the league's startup, Kurtzer resigned his post in November, leading an exodus of board members and helping ensure the fall of Baras' house of cards.

This morning, the JTA news service reports that Obama's camp is using Kurtzer ("the first Jewish U.S ambassador to Egypt and the first Orthodox Jew to serve as envoy to Israel") to bolster Obama's appeal among Jewish voters in advance of the April 22nd Pennsylvania primary:

"President Bill Clinton named him to the Cairo post in 1997, and President Bush sent him to Tel Aviv in 2001. Such credentials are important for a candidate whose Jewish campaign has been dogged by questions about the fierce criticism of Israel embraced by his former pastor as well as some advisers who counsel more balance in the U.S. ...

"Yet Kurtzer, 58, could prove to be more problem than solution, at least among the more established elements of the pro-Israel community. If anything, he is more pronounced in advising a balanced approach to Middle East peacemaking than any of the real and purported advisers to Obama already singled out for criticism by pro-Israel hawks..."

At the very least, in light of our exclusive report yesterday that THERE WILL BE NO PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL IN ISRAEL IN 2008, Kurtzer has a new job lined up.

SNL avoids the Obama blackface issue

Lorne Michaels’ Saturday Night Live has never displayed much worry about white castmembers playing “blackface” (think Darrell Hammond as Jesse Jackson). But in the case of Barack Obama, who made a cameo appearance in the last episode before the WGA strike, there was some hand-wringing in the media about the need for a regular, politically-correct Obama character, and, with young Kenan Thompson too fat for the role, rumours that a tall, lanky African-American Obama player was about to join the cast (instead, a chubby white girl was added to replace Maya Rudolph).

In the end, they used Fred Armisen. Any controversy was immediately deflected because the makeup was laugh-out-loud good. And they sidestepped the “blackface issue" on a couple of counts: Armisen didn't need more than a light bronzing, as both he and Obama are of mixed race heritage (Obama with a white mother and Kenyan father; Armisen is Venezuelan on his mother’s side and part Japanese).

By the way, last night's SNL episode was one for the time capsule: the first consistently- funny show since the fifth episode of the second season (and as a reminder, Steve Martin made an appearance). The sketches were tight and actually laugh-inducing, and with the exception of Carrie Underwood’s subpar performance (why do the musical acts always sound so bad on this show while there’s never a problem on Conan?) and Tina Fey’s desperate Hillary-flogging during the news segment, the show held up to the end! As it was the first fresh SNL since the start of the Writers Guild Strike, the solution to SNL's quality control problem is obvious (Ben Silverman take note): cut back Saturday Night Live to once every 16 weeks.

Phil Spector endorses Barack Obama

At a hearing in his murder case today.

His button reads "Barack Obama rocks."

Suddenly Rev. Wright is looking very appealing.

Exclusive! Dr. Ruehl on the Super Tuesday sham!

Tabloid Baby pal contributor and columnist Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D. is more than a music video star: he's a nuclear physicist and lecturer with a Ph.D from UCLA and his mind on even loftier matters than the music videos he's most recently starred in ("Coincidentally, I just shot another music video last night playing a janitor, and portrayed a teacher in another one last month!" the Doctor writes us this afternoon). In the thick of the political season, the Doctor turns his attention to the electoral process-- in this case Super Tuesday. (Tuesday, February 5th. Tuesday a week ago. Not yesterday's Mini Tuesday. Oh well, better late than never, we'd say):

Super Tuesday Was A Super Deception!
by Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D

It is absolutely absurd that Sen. John McCain nearly has the Republican nomination for President wrapped up based on the 21 primaries held on Super Tuesday! In only three of the primaries did he manage to exceed 50% of the vote (led by 55% in New Jersey, 52% in Connecticut, and 51% in New York). Indeed, he scored only 47% in his home state of Arizona! But because 17 of those primaries invoked a winner-take-all format, he was able to snare a majority of the delegates.

For example, McCain beat Gov. Mike Huckabee by only a mere percentage point in Missouri (33% to 32%), yet garnered all 58 of that state's delegates. Overall, McCain grabbed some 601 delegates on Super Tuesday compared to 176 for Gov. Mitt Romney and 142 for Huckabee. In order to determine what the delegate breakdown would have been in the fairer method of proportional distribution utilized in the Democratic primaries, I have recalculated the delegate numbers, based on the percentage of votes secured by each candidate.

The following chart shows that McCain and Romney would have been in a virtual tie, with McCain accruing 330 (losing 271) versus Romney's 323 (gaining 147), and Huckabee at 179 (gaining a modest 37).

Candidate Winner-take-all / Proportional
McCain 601/330
Romney 176/323
Huckabee 142/179

The totals differ slightly, as some delegates would have been assigned to other candidates, such as Ron Paul and Rudy Giuliani, but if proportional distribution had been in effect, the Republican contest would indeed be a hot race today. Of course, each party has the right to determine how to apportion votes and assign delegates, but the winner-take-all method is clearly unfair.

Had the Democrats invoked the winner-take-all approach instead of proportional distribution of delegates, Sen. Hillary Clinton would be clearly outdistancing Sen. Barack Obama, based on her winning the majority in the delegate-rich states of New York and California.

The following chart is indicative of those results:

Candidate Proportional / Winner-take-all
Clinton 739/928
Obama 679/508

For the record, I was shocked, absolutely shocked, that both Senators John Edwards and Giuliani dropped out just a week before Super Tuesday, showing they had no fighting spirit.

Both men would have been expected to pursue their quest for at least another week, considering the geographical distribution of the primaries involved and the fact that many voters would have wanted a choice other than the frontrunners. Edwards certainly would have accrued delegates based on proportional representation. While it would have been tougher for Giuliani with the winner-take-all format, he was still a viable candidate. True, he blundered in focusing on the Florida primary and taking himself out of the national picture by not actively campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire. But considering how quickly he lost his lead, it was certainly feasible that he, too, as McCain did, could stage a comeback with several months to go before the national convention.

Now I am going out on a limb with a prediction that I have not heard anyone else make and assert that Al Gore will be the ultimate candidate for the Dems, being drafted by the party to break a deadlock between Clinton and Obama at the convention.

Gore certainly has the credentials, and winning the Nobel Prize has definitely enhanced his pedigree and kept him in the national spotlight. While he has denied having any aspirations to the Presidency, I suspect that he still dreams of it, and what better way to bring his environmental plans to fruition than as holder of that highest office.

May the Power of the Cosmos be with You!

Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.

Thanks, Doc! Next stop: The Democrats' "Super Delegate" scam that quietly keeps the Presidential candidate-making power in the hands of the elite!

Fox News caught lying about Barney Frank

Even those of us who are fed up with Washington D.C. had to smile the other day when Barney Frank gave an eloquent verbal smackdown to a protester at one of those Town Hall meetings who compared health reform efforts to Nazi policy and and waved a photo of Barack Obama with a Hitler mustache. Frank's response to the Lyndon Larouche activist was all the more inspiring because Larouche is an antisemite and Frank is a Jew.

So Fox News did itself a real disservice yesterday morning when it spun the story against Frank by re-editing the video to make it appear that Frank was dressing down a nice lady in a funny hat, not showing the statement that led to his reaction, taking Frank out of context so it looked as if he was yelling at ordinary folks trying to have their say-- and using former DC weatherman and funny features reporter Steve Doocy to lie and claim that Frank was responding to two different people instead of the single Obama-Nazi protester. Doocy said Frank was "downright rude" and suggested that he might spend "a little too much time in Washington, D.C., away from real people."

Bad stuff. And way too obvious. Doocy probably never saw the original footage and was made into a fool by his producrs who were probably working off of Roger Ailes' talking points of the day. Doocy ought to apologize. And Fox News should save its lying for the O'Reilly and Hannity shows.

****

Transcript From the August 18th Town Hall meeting in Dartmouth, Mass:

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy, as Obama has expressly supported this policy?

FRANK: Well, let me --

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Why are you supporting it?

FRANK: Let me -- wait, I will --

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: A real solution.

FRANK: When you asked me that question, I am going to revert to my ethnic heritage and answer your question with a question: On what planet do you spend most of your time?

[...]

FRANK: Do you want me to answer the question?

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Yes.

FRANK: Yes. As you stand there with a picture of the president defaced to look like Hitler and compare the effort to increase health care to the Nazis, my answer to you is, as I said before, it is a tribute to the First Amendment that this kind of vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated.

Ma'am, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it.

"Phony outrage!" Obama's straight talk express

Barack Obama, this morning:

“Enough!

"I don’t care what they say about me, but I love this country too much to let them take over another election with lies and phony outrage and swift boat politics. Enough is enough.

“What their campaign has done this morning is the same game that has made people sick and tired of politics in this country. They seize on an innocent remark, try to take it out of context, throw out an outrageous ad because they know it’s catnip for the news media.

“I’m assuming you guys heard this watching the news. I’m talking about John McCain’s economic policies and I said here’s more of the same, ‘You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.' Suddenly, they say, 'Oh you must be talking about the governor of Alaska!’

“See it would be funny, it would be funny except, of course the news media decided that was the lead story yesterday. The McCain campaign would much rather have the story about phony and foolish diversions than about the future.

“Spare me the phony outrage. Spare me the phony talk about change. We have real problems in this country right now and the American people are looking to us for answers, not distractions, no diversions, not manipulations.”

Olbermann rips off our Stewart-Obama story

We took a little stick yesterday for calling out WGA strike scab Jon Stewart for sliming Barack Obama at the Academy Awards-- linking the name of Hillary Clinton's opponent to Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and Adolph Hitler on the world-viewed Academy Awards less than 24 hours after his fellow neolib Tina Fey (who, as headwriter, did more than anyone to neuter Saturday Night Live's political bite in favor of Harvey Levin celebutard worship) interrupted the SNL news for an overwrought Clinton appeal.

So it's funny to see pretentious, pompous, pear-shaped nutjob Keith Olbermann getting credit for his bravery after ripping off our story and highlighting it on his show on the Obamaphile MSNBC about twelve hours after we published. Of course, Olbermann had to muddy the waters by comparing Stewart to comedienne Ann Coulter, just so he could continue to link his own name to popular conservatives and carry on a phony Fred Allen-Jack Benny media feud, but an equally obvious point is that the mainstream media, most especially phony-Murrow autism cases like Olbermann, aren't good at giving credit where credit is due.

EXCLUSIVE: OBAMA WINS PRESIDENCY!

BARACK OBAMA
IS ELECTED
PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES!
HISTORIC VICTORY LAUNCHES
NEW ERA FOR AMERICA
TABLOIDBABY.COM IS FIRST
NEWS ORGANIZATION
TO CALL ELECTION
(based on analysis of early returns)

Let's get this party started.

Yes, that's Video Joe Guidry and his lovely family at a recent Barack Obama rally. We noticed this photo in an issue of LA City Beat a couple of weeks back and this historic and exciting evening is a good reason to bring it out. Joe was the original "kid with a camera," who in 1994 was sent out to ask questions and report, first for Premier Story, then A Current Affair. (His exploits are a highlight of the comprehensive tabloid television history, Tabloid Baby). Funny enough, when Joe was walking up to reporters outside the OJ Simpson trial and asking what organization they represented, local news reporter Harvey Levin sneered "I'm not going to talk to you!" -- and then ran away from him! We have the tape somewhere. Not so funny: Harvey perverted Joe's specialty by handing home video cameras to rent boys and street thugs so they could harasss celebrities for the corporate porn-pushing gossip site TMZ.com and its inconsequential whitewashed syndicated television sister. Anyway, it's Obama time.

Projections confirm our scoop: OBAMA WINS!

Call it, you cowards!

Pennsylvania... now Ohio... McCain's hopes dashed... There is no path to GOP victory without Ohio... as TabloidBaby.com reported one hour and twenty nine minutes ago... Barack Obama has been elected President of the United States.

Alaskan women reject embarrassment Sarah Palin

From today's Anchorage Daily News:

Anti-Palin activists stage their own rally

MIDTOWN: Hundreds show up when word spreads over Internet.

By SEAN COCKERHAM
scockerham@adn.com

A crowd of anti-Sarah Palin protesters gathered in Midtown Anchorage soon after the Republican nominee for vice president left Alaska to resume campaigning in the Lower 48.

The Saturday protest in front of the Loussac Library appeared bigger than any Anchorage has seen in recent memory. The crowd looked to be in the high hundreds at least, and organizers said they counted 1,500. It included roughly 100 counter protesters supporting Palin.

Planning for the protest began as discussions over coffee by a small group calling itself "Alaska Women Reject Palin." As recently as Friday, the group thought it possible that just 10 people would show up to the event. But it went viral on the Internet, with friends forwarding e-mails to friends, and people saying they saw a chance to vent their frustration over what several called the myth of Palin.

"Sarah Palin frightens the hell out of me. I don't want her anywhere near the White House," said Marybeth Holleman of Anchorage.

Protesters had a wide range of beefs with the governor. They included backers of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, abortion rights proponents, advocates for wolves and polar bears, opponents of the Iraq war, and people who said Palin is not ready to be a heartbeat from the presidency.


Alison Till, a geologist in Anchorage with the U.S. Geological Survey, said issues such as energy and global warming require solid and unbiased science to make good decisions. Palin's opposition to listing the polar bear as threatened under the endangered species act and her support of teaching creationism in public schools are not the hallmarks of someone who relies upon solid science, Till argued.

"She is unqualified," Till said.

Palin said in a 2006 debate during the governor's race that she thinks creationism should be taught alongside evolution in public schools, but she has not pressed that agenda in the governor's office.

Palin supporters at the protest said she has done a lot of good as governor, including the $1,200 energy rebate checks all Alaskans just received from the state.

"I'll bet on the other side none of those people are going to reject that and send it back," said Rick Case.

Many in the pro-Palin group said they heard about the event on the Eddie Burke radio show on KYBR AM in Anchorage.

Palin opponents said the Burke show also inspired many of them to show up after Burke gave out cell phone numbers of protest organizers on his show.

"We were bombarded with all kinds of hateful, abusive, intimidating phone calls," said Charla Sterne, one of the organizers.

Burke was at the Saturday protest, carrying a sign that said "Alaska is not Frisco." He said the women sent out the phone numbers in a press release about the protest, and he didn't realize they were personal cell numbers.

Burke said he's apologized for calling the Alaska Women Reject Palin group "maggots."

"I used the words socialist, baby killing maggots," said Burke, adding he's only taking back the part about maggots.

Burke said he didn't want the women threatened but thought it arrogant when they denounced Palin's record and position on issues important to "most women and families." As Burke spoke to a reporter at the protest, an angry group formed around him, and a woman declared he "deserves the man of the year award for beating up on women."

"Am I a maggot?" another woman asked.

The protest, which went on for over three hours, appeared peaceful despite the opposing camps. Police were at the scene but were taking a hands-off approach.

It took on a relaxed, almost carnival air. A man with a "Palin Power" sign stood agreeably next to a woman with a placard that said "McBush Palin = More Exxon Justices." One person strolled through the crowd wearing a polar bear suit. A dog was wearing a target that said "Sarah Slaughters Wolves."

There were signs that said "Bush in a Skirt" and signs that said "Palin for President."

Many chanted "O-bam-ah," while, on the other side of the street, the chant was "Sar-ah!" Drums pounded and drivers honked solidarity with one camp or the other.

The protest started about two hours after Palin gave a speech to enthusiastic supporters at a downtown rally. Palin enjoyed high approval ratings in polls as governor, but her candidacy for vice president seems far more divisive.

"Democrats don't like Sarah's conservative views. She's the ultimate of what they are opposed to," said Tony Patrone, standing in the pro-Palin camp. "They'll do whatever they can to keep her from winning."

Some of the anti-Palin protesters said she brought nastiness into the presidential campaign with jabs against Obama, including making fun of his past as a community organizer in Chicago. Others pointed to her support for the "Bridge to Nowhere" -- before she diverted the federal money to other projects -- and the federal earmark money that Palin pursued as Wasilla mayor.

"This election is too important be left to the smears, trivial issues and lies McCain and Palin are trying to make it into," said Rob Lipkin. "The myth (that) either McCain or Palin are mavericks, bringing reform and fresh air into Washington, it's nonsense."

Heroin, sex and Springsteen tour secrets

While Bruce Springsteen received The Kennedy Center Honor from President Barack Obama this week, other news causes us to wonder what secrets lurk behind the family man, All-American rock 'n' roll hero persona he and his determined imagemakers project. The tragic death of his cousin and (ten-year) assistant tour manager while on the road with Springsteen and The E Street Band in October has now been ruled an "accident," due to "acute amphetamine and heroin intoxication." The New York Times, in reviewing E Street band saxman Clarence Clemons' new memoirs last week, noted the book contains tales of "women... and tequila and cigars and recreational drugs and limousines and private jets aplenty."


Stories about Springsteen's alleged affair with a 9/11 widow flashed briefly before being extinguished suddenly a few years ago. We might suspect that Springsteen's world is a lot more interesting and not half as wholesome as his image might convey.

Sarah Palin lied about the Bridge to Nowhere

"Well, now, let’s get the facts clear here. When she was mayor, she hired a Washington lobbyist to get earmarks -- pork barrel spending –- all the things that John McCain says is bad, she lobbied to get! And got a whole lot of it.

"When it came to the Bridge to Nowhere, she was for it until everybody started raising a fuss about it, and she started running for governor, and then, suddenly, she was against it!

"You remember that? 'For it before you were against it'? I mean you can’t just make stuff up. You can’t just recreate yourself. You can’t just reinvent yourself.

"The American people aren’t stupid."

--Barack Obama, 8 September 2008

Read more about unqualified extremist party hack Sarah Palin-- shown using a t-shirt to promote the "Bridge to Nowhere"-- and her lies about the "Bridge to Nowhere" here.