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Posts Tagged ‘o.j. simpson’

Finally, Finally, McCain Campaign Compares Obama To O.J. Simpson

Friday, August 1st, 2008

John McCain and his loser friends are all racists, which we know because they made an ad with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton but not Brad Pitt, Tiger Woods, David Beckham or The Police. Can you even believe it. Back here on Planet Earth, however, there actually was some pretty clear racial shit coming out of the McCain campaign yesterday — not necessarily in their accusing Obama of playing the Race Card, but in the cleverly chosen words they used to accuse him of this. Horrible subliminal racist anger over O.J. Simpson, meet the candidacy of Barack Obama. MORE »


Edwards, Obama, Iowa and… O.J. Simpson?

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Uh, whuhJohn Edwards was stumping in Iowa this weekend when an older gentleman wanted to know what Edwards would do about the crisis facing this country that had been “sticking in [his] craw” for a while. That crisis, which the man in question felt the President of the United States needed to solve was how, in the O.J. trial, “The black jury in Los Angeles, the reason they found O.J. not guilty was ‘payback.’” Edwards was all… um, what the fuck, dude, that was like 12 years ago! But the old guy pressed his case.

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Gossip Roundup: Friends in High Places

Monday, March 6th, 2006

* Washington Whispers: Kerry raises $250,000 for three Democratic candidates in 24 hours. . . Washington-based Al Jazeera news channel, which launches late this spring, finds “friends in the administration”. . . Anna Nicole Smith “has done for probate what O.J. did for illegal police search and seizure,” says Chris Lehane, Democratic strategist. [USN&WR]
* Inside the Beltway: National Black Republican Association launches a political magazine. [WT]