Enjoy:

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/...

Warning this clip features Ann Coulter and even worse, you will probably agree with her when she says, "Why is this news?"

The comment to listen for is "Black baby Jesus."  You heard that right.  Damn I hate Faux News Opinion Media.

Yes, this is a lame diary, but I'm in Vegas and frankly I have better things to do, such as supporting a local economy that is collapsing under my feet.  It's been a longstanding rule in Vegas that casinos do not lay people off and they are now laying people off.  Several of the towering construction projects in the city have simply been abandoned.

Meanwhile Faux News Opinion Media is talking about Obama, pancakes and calling him "Black baby Jesus."  I think I'm going to go puke up the meal I was just comped.

Yeah, Obama must have hit a nerve because on of the Internet's greatest centers of pride in ignorance — Free Republic — is just having itself a hissy fit over this remark. (Sorry no links — if you want to see the Freepers being whiny crybabies, you can go there yourself.)

I think Obama really hurt their feelings and maybe we should send them a fruit basket or some scented bath oils or something.  They are so mad that they are swearing never to vote for Barack Obama ever.

That's right, folks.  By insulting the deliberately ignorant, Obama has lost the Freeper vote.  What is he thinking?!  Look what happened in the primaries!  Free Republic threw its weight behind Fred Thompson and he ended up doing better than "America's Mayor," Rudy Giulliani.  Insult them at your political peril, Senator Obama!

Choice quotes below the fold.

Dear Future President Obama,

I wrote you a speech.  Please feel free to use it without attribution.

It's been so long since the Republican party succeeded at anything that now they don't even know the word 'success' anymore; they call it arrogance.

When George W. Bush travels abroad, he draws crowds — of protesters.  His supporters, like John McCain, tell us that this is because that is 'just the way things are.'  I know that the world wants to love America.  When I saw 200,000 Germans waving American flags, I called it success; they call it arrogance.  They call it arrogance to believe that Americans can succeed.  

I believe that Americans can succeed in developing alternative energy sources.  I believe that Americans can succeed in providing every citizen with health care.  I believe that Americans can fight terrorism without spending 100 years in Iraq.  They want to tell you that believing these things is 'arrogance.'  They want to tell you that failure is 'just the way things are.'

I believe, you aren't going to fall for that.

Fantastic.

I would like to like to send a particular thank you Wolfman Spike and Wolf for their hospitality and friendship during the conference.  These two guys became instant celebrities at the event and I had some of the most entertaining, enlightening and valuable discussions with them over several days.  They made the effort to take me, my wife, and several other people to a couple of their favorite local restaurants (the ones that weren't mentioned in any of the Austin visitor guides) and we got to ride in their sweet custom van, too.

Wolfman Spike promised at least one diary about digital TV, and I'm researching some of the rather alarming regulatory issues that he revealed to me (Oh boy!  More issues!  Just what we need!).

Note: At the end of this anecdote is some advice about gasoline.

Yesterday afternoon, I set out from Dallas toward Austin intent on making it to the Hilton in time to meet up with fellow Kossacks for a trip to the highly-regarded Austin Land and Cattle Steakhouse.

Before setting out, my spouse and I stopped off at the ghetto 7-11 and filled the tank with not-quite-as-expensive-as-the-suburbs gas and set off.

We made it as far as Italy.

There's been a lot of heated discussion about the rather — ahem — provocative cover of this week's New Yorker magazine.

According the the editors at the New Yorker, the intent of the cover is to satirize the ridiculous rumors circulating about the Obamas.  I'm a big fan of satirical humor, but satire always runs the risk of misfiring because it doesn't make it clear who the butt of the joke is.

So, are those of us who are offended simply being thin-skinned whiners who can't take a joke, or did the New Yorker publish a cover that looks more like an attack on Obama than his detractors?

Let's asked the Freepers.

The Republican National Committee has put up a web site where users can submit ideas for its platform.  Obviously, they have figured out that "more of the same" isn't going to win in November.  We all know, however, that the GOP has no interest in platform ideas from anybody who doesn't have a corporate jet, so it can be safely assumed, as one Freeper put it, that this site exists to collect "your email address and VISA card number."

Well, it does require an email address.  Whether you contribute some ideas or just read the one's there, the site, http://www.gopplatform2008.com, is a laugh riot.

Free Republic has been rather dull lately.  They hate our candidate, they hate their candidate and they hate Chimpy.  Of course, all of this is for different reasons than we hate our candidate, hate their candidate and hate Chimpy, but that's politics.

Today, I clicked on three articles, looking for something new and diary-worthy.  "Move-On calls on Obama to keep his word," "Most Whites say Obama a 'risky' choice," and "Obama Bows to Muslim Demands."

Thank Jeebus I did because I've discovered who the most dangerous people on the planet (besides Barack and Michelle Obama) are.  And you won't be surprised!

According to an alert I just received from Red State, Laura Ingraham has been taken off this air without warning or explanation.  They are terribly upset by this.

UPDATE: From Adam B in comments:

It's just contract negotiations.

So this is much ago about nothing.  (Gasp!  Wingnuts freaking out over nothing?  Whodathunkit?)  Clearly Red State is intent on cultivating the least effective grass root network ever.

My wife an I decided to have lunch at a favorite Tex-Mex restaurant.  It was crowded, so we were seated in the bar area, right under a monitor with horse race coverage on ESPN (an actual horse race, not the election).  During a break, the monitor burst forth with a men's choir singing in German and my wife dropped her inauthentic, but yummy, Buffalo Chicken taco and began cursing in Yiddish.

For about a month now, the militant racists at Larry Johnson's "No Quarter" have been talking about a "secret tape" of "Michell Obama ranting against 'whitey.'"

Today, they revealed the tape!

Everybody is venting today.  Venting must be terribly important.

Well, if the etymology of "vent" is any indication, it has been important for probably 10,000 years.

Let's not say that the Freepers were idle on this holiday weekend.  In fact, freeper kdun came up with a sure-win campaign ad for McCain.  Here it is:

Ad Idea for the general election, but don't really know how to pass on the idea.

Have a picture of Hussain Obama on one side wearing the turbine(the turbine picture) and to the right of that have a picture of John Mccain as a younger man in his uniform or after he was freed. Have the pictures side by side and on top either of the following

1. "What part of this don't you understand" or

2. "The choice is clear"

A great ad idea that goes right to the core of peoples fears. How do I get this idea to the powers to be or can you just do it for me?

Sure, kdun I can whip that right up with the GIMP.

Enjoying something from the grill this weekend?

It's a long weekend.  I'm posting a fluffy diary.  More of this after the fold, if you're into that kind of thing.

This is a rant.  It has nothing to do with Obama or Clinton, so there's that.

Last year some time, I signed up at RedState.com so I could leave a comment about something.  It was almost certainly a waste of my time.  I do know that it was after the outrageous and false totally true allegations of plagiarism on behalf of RedState's Ben Domenech — this had triggered a call to "circle the wagons" and defend Ben from these liberal smears totally founded accusations.

Althought I've given up commenting there, I've been rewarded for signing up with what is an increasingly-frequent sequence of emailed appeals from RedState.  The latest is a beg for $10 to donate to a Republican candidate in Alaska.

Text from the email, with commentary after the fold.

This is going to be my last Freepology post on the horrid HillaryIs44 blog.  Really, anything that can (and should) be said about this cesspool is being said here.

Meanwhile, there is a lot of anxiety about Hillary supporters voting for McCain in November if Barack wins the Democratic nomination.  Recent exit polls reveal large percentages of Clinton's supporters pledging to vote for McCain over Obama.  In other news, two women in Columbus, Ohio, have launched a movement for women to boycott Obama:

Ruccia tells ABC News that she believes "millions" of women share her group's views, though they have only begun to make contact with like-minded women.

Are there really millions of women?  Should we really believe anything posted on Jake Tapper's blog?

One of the emblematic "net roots" sites for people who hate Obama more than they hate McCain is HillaryIs44.  In this diary, I run some numbers and the results show that while Big Pink may be plenty pink, it's nothing close to big.

Reading Free Republic is disturbing, but as unsettling as it is to think that people like that exist, there is always comfort in the knowledge that they're not like us; we're better than them and we don't belong to their gang.  This is not quite the case with sites like "Hillaryis44.com," the rabidly pro-Hillary site.  These are supposedly progressive partisans who support a Democratic candidate that many of us would also unhesitatingly vote for in November.

Still, there is no getting around the nauseating similarity between the comments on the two sites.  Freepers were beside themselves with glee making fun of Obama's "57 states" gaffe — as were the denizens of HillaryIs44.  The shared dislike of Obama is no surprise, but does it end there?  Seriously, the Freepers call Senator Clinton names like "Hildabeast" and "Hitlery" (oh, how clever).  How similar could the viewpoints of these two groups of people possibly be?

You tell me.

What follows are quotes from the two sites.  Try to guess which site each quote came from.  The answer key will be in a comment below the post.

I went to the gym this morning (and for that alone, I deserve tips) where I can gaze along a bank of monitors showing various television feeds.  The three most prominent and newest fancy flat-panels were showing the major network morning news/bullshit shows and I found myself having a "what's wrong with this picture moment."