Here's something Sarah Palin will besuper angry aboutuntil somebody (Willow?) tells her Haley Barbour is a Republican: Mississippi white pig Haley Barbour's press secretary sends out a heehawlariousemail news roundup "to Barbour's staff and other allies" with fun jokes about Janet Reno looking like a man and all those Japs getting killed by the earthquake/nuclear apocalypse. Palin might even type a "Half u no shamez, Halle Barber?" on her Twitter or whatever! But Haley Barbour's press secretary wants you to know that Haley probably doesn't even read these things, because he is a six-hundred-poundklan-whale who can't figure out the 'puter, so he gets "printouts" of the email, and the jokes are probably not visible on the printouts because of ... white southerners are dumb? Yes, let's go with that, which is all we can figure from thisPoliticoitem.
Ben Smith pastes a chunk of these dumb, offensive emails into thePoliticocontent management system:
Otis Redding posthumously received a gold record for his single, "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay". (Not a big hit in Japan right now.)
In 1993: Janet Reno was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the first female attorney general. (It took longer to confirm her gender than to confirm her law license.)
Ha ha, Otis Redding. Sounds like a colored name! ("But if he's black, why did his mama name him 'Redding,' haw haw.") Anyway, there's your news item about Haley Barbour's email list which is written by Haley Barbour's press secretary and not Haley Barbour himself, because come on, Haley Barbour would have as much chance of success trying to type as a walrus would, using flippers, because Haley Barbour is so fat and racist. Anyway, nobody apologized or anything, because it'syour faultfor always trying to cause trouble. God, it's just an email making fun of the Japs getting killed in earthquakes. Did everybody forget Pearl Harbor already? [ Politico ]
it used to be that even republican politicians running for office (or thinking of running) kept their inside voices, you know, inside.
Don't forget Stevie Ray Vaughn, Reba McIntyre's band, or Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins (who took Billy Walker's seat).
If you read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" you'll learn about the aircraft deaths of several Central and South American political leaders who disagreed with American economic dictates.
If it's a bad idea to fly in a small plane in bad weather, it's a very bad idea to get on an airplane after you've told the USA or the IMF (if there is a difference) that you're not going to follow the economic policies laid out for you...