MSNBC daytime anchor Thomas Roberts reported today on a blog post from the progressive site Americablog.com linking Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney to a campaign ad with the slogan “Keep America American.” As Roberts notes, the phrase was used as a rallying cry for the KKK during the 1920s: However, it appears MSNBC and the progressive blog both missed the final 5 seconds of the “ad” which clearly reads “Mitt Romney does not actually support this ad.” Not to mention the youtube channel that the blog reports the “ad” to have originated from is not from the Romney campaign but kdipark, whoever that is.
Awwwwwwww yeah. Michael Moore isn’t the only one cashing in on the increasingly violent, deadly Occupy Wall Street Movement. He’s selling books . Rappyer Jay Z’s hawking t-shirts. And he’s got no plans to redistribute the wealth : Jay-Z is releasing a new line of T-shirts in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement Friday via his Rocawear clothing label, but he doesn’t plan to share any of the profits with the protesters. our editor recommends The rapper was recently seen wearing one of the shirts, which tweaks the phrase “Occupy Wall Street” by crossing out the “W” and adding an “S” to make it read “Occupy All Streets.” The protests, which started Sept. 17 in New York, have since spread to Los Angeles and other cities as demonstrators protest corporate greed and corruption. The Business Insider noted the “irony” in that Jay-Z has no intention to distribute any of the proceeds to protestors. Jay-Z has the support of fellow 1 percenter-posing-as-99 percenter Russell Simmons. $22 a pop . Come on, cough it up, progs. Occupy Jay-Z’s Wallet! Money Ain’t a Thang…
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Occupy Jay-Z’s Wallet!
A dorky video that went viral earlier this year got a nod by Sen. David Vitter (R-La) on the Senate floor Wednesday while he talked trash about this Saturday’s LSU-UA football game. “It really doesn’t matter who LSU’s opponent is, because, as we say in Louisiana, the honey badger takes what he wants, and we look forward to doing that on Saturday night,” Vitter said to Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala), according to the Washington Post. That “honey badger just takes what it wants” bit was made popular by a YouTube video (watch below) that parodies TV nature programs. “Honey badger” was given as a nickname to LSU’s cornerback Tyrann Mathieu and the school’s collegiate clothing store has slapped the phrase on fan shirts. UPDATE : Several errors have been corrected to this post (too many to point out) thanks to our astute readers. This will teach me to never, ever write about sports again.
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Sen. David Vitter uses honey badger meme on Senate floor
I remember having to take an on-line learning class about the Millennial generation, a long, long, long class about how to deal with them, coach them, train them, understand their feelings, which could all be boiled down to a simple phrase: “I’m entitled. Gimme.” Also, the phrase “It’s all about me” crops up. Obviously, it
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Department of Expectations Management: Tim Pawlenty’s campaign sends along this article in the St. Petersburg Times , making sure everyone sees the phrase “Underdog Tim Pawlenty” in the headline: The vast majority of Floridians couldn’t pick Tim Pawlenty out of a lineup. He barely registers in the polls. And there’s a decent chance he’ll have to quit the presidential race soon if he continues to show little momentum in Iowa. Keep reading this post . . .
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Pawlenty Campaign: Everyone Remembers We’re the Underdog, Right?
The message of this new video is clear: Obama doesn’t care enough about everyday Americans. The WSJ notes that Obama delivered the “bump in the road” quote earlier this month as the Department of Labor revealed sluggish job growth in May. There will always be “bumps in the road to recovery,” Obama told a crowd in Ohio. “That’s not a bump, that’s Americans,” Romney retorted soon after. Look for the early front-runner to reprise the phrase during tonight’s New Hampshire GOP debate.
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New Romney ad: Obama overlooks regular Americans
I have the occasional worry that Herman Cain, having never been elected to office before and with no real work in government in his career, may face a tough learning curve in some complicated areas of federal-government policy. But the idea that he’s committed some sort of epic gaffe by not being familiar with the phrase “right of return” in the context of the Palestinians strikes me as pretty weak tea as far as campaign stumbles go. Some guy at the Atlanta Journal Constitution goes so far to declare that Cain “forfeit[s] any claim as a legitimate candidate” by not being familiar with the phrase “right of return.” The exchange : CAIN: Right of return? Right of return? WALLACE: The Palestinian right of return. CAIN: That’s something that should be negotiated. When asked again about whether he believes in the Palestinian right of return, Cain seemed unclear about the Israeli position on the matter, as well as his own. CAIN: Yes, but under — but not under — Palestinian conditions. Yes. They should have a right to come back if that is a decision that Israel wants to make. . . . I don’t think they have a big problem with people returning. (Right of return: The argument that Palestinians who departed territory that became part of Israel in 1948 and 1967 will be able to resettle on the land that was theirs or their ancestors’. In other words, should many, many Palestinians (millions) be permitted to settle on land Israel currently believes is its own territory?) Most Americans don’t pay much attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There are many reasons for this, but as a result, the notion that the president of the United States is primarily responsible for creating peace between two peoples who have been in a life-and-death struggle for centuries is held only by a small, but vocal, slice of the elites. According to Gallup, only 30 percent think there will ever be peace in the Middle East. To the extent Americans think about the conflict, they have a clear favorite: According to Gallup, an entire 15 percent of Americans describe themselves as sympathizing more with the Palestinians than the Israelis; 63 percent describe themselves as sympathizing more with the Israelis. Among Republicans, 85 percent describe themselves as sympathizing with the Israelis more. It’s entirely possible that not knowing “right of return” will not cost Cain a single vote in the GOP presidential-primary process. Note the reaction on the left — including sites like the spectacularly misnamed “Moderate Voice” — has been to
