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A couple of years back, Keith Olbermann used an episode from Twilight zone to illustrate a point on how facts can be spinned to support any ideaology. It was poignant and brilliant. Below is an excerpt from his transcript and I cannot help but draw the starking similarites with this theory and how it relates to the current democratic campaign that seems to have democrats pitted against fellow democrats.

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Its all political correctness crap if you ask me. All this brouhaha over 30 seconds soundbites from a pastors sermon is just falling prey to the media’s circus. Since when does speaking out against American foreign policies considered unpatriotic ? but then again, Noam Chomsky, one of the leading American intellectuals and a powerful critic of America’s duplicituos foreign policies has been labeled unpatriotic and even received death threats that warranted police protection. Thats what caused the black eye in the statue of liberty in case you are wondering. (more…)

If Rove is the prince of cunning politics, Hillary would be its princess and the latest move by Ferraro was her crowning. Some might see this as another forgivable slip of a tongue while others might rebuke it as a blatant racist remark. But underlying these, discernible to the keen eye is the cold, calculative, treacherous and manipulative claws of Hillary scouring into a deeply rooted resentment shared by many white people. Even the progressive ones. The resentment that some black people are abusing the race card. And quite candidly, I as a black man sometimes share that resentment when I see knuckleheads like Nelly crying racism when a hostess denies him a pillow. (more…)

Im what one would describe as a “political cynicist”, if there is such a term like that. The peak of my political activity is probably during election times, especially this year which has caught my attention like an nba playoff series. Probably, its the 8 years of poor political leadership by Bush and his cronies that has flamed this seething urge to see people get their shit straight in the white house. Much have changed through eight years: The purchase of a trillion dollar war whose monthly payment is in billions, The surplus economy that has dwindled down to a deficit, The dollar being rudely scoffed at by the Euro, The 40 million people walking around with no health care coverage incase they fall sick from…say the beef recalled last month, The mortgage crisis looming ahead holding the sceptre of recession, the price of gas ratcheting up at the pump… In short, we are in deep shit, for lack of a better term.
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