Some folks are Cali are worried that Prop 8 — the ballot measure that would amend the state’s constitution to ban gay marriage —- could get a boost from the large numbers of black people hitting the polls to vote for Obama.* The AP finds that a big chunk of racist white people won’t vote for Obama because he’s black (duh?), but actually tabulates how many points that costs him in the polls (six, enough to play a big role in a tight election). Nate takes issue with the methodology, and says that Obama actually overperforms in the South, possibly as the result of a “reverse Bradley effect” among black voters who play their intentions close to the chest. JJP question why the article came out when Obama is ahead in the polls again, and points out that the article was written by Ron Fournier, a well-known McCain supporter. Still, folks would rather watch football with Obama and have him teach their kids.*** Ann Woolner of Bloomberg is pissed at the government’s trillion-dollar bailout of Wall Street. (Headline : “Sue Them, Jail Them, Make Them Pay for Meltdown.”) Having explored every other avenue of spreading mistruths, the McCain camp is now lying pre-emptively. Now that’s talent. Palin says that she would push for more governmental transparency by putting the “government’s checkbook online.” Um, turns out Obama already did that. Epic Fail. In going after Palin, Margaret Cho ends up employing the same sexism that she would typically condemn. Shakesville (rightly) calls her on it. (I, for one, hope someone calls Cho on her pathological unfunniness.) In a similar vein, your boy Charlie Rangel called Palin ‘disabled.‘ Stay classy, Chuck. Obama keeps saying that 600,000 people have lost their jobs since January. But says he’s actually off by 19.4 million. [Ezra] The Respectable Negroes list of news media euphemisms for white folks reaches 40. Can they make it to 60? Three strong pieces in the New Yorker: Steve Coll’s feature looks at Sarah Palin in the context of Alaskan politics, a dope profile of Spike Lee, and a must-read essay on the way history has treated the story of Sally Hemings as well as Annette Gordon-Reed’s new book on her descendants. The Ethicist says strip shows are to gender what minstrel shows are to race. David Simon, the angry genius behind The Greatest Show in the History of Television, sets his sights on the Lincoln assasination. Saudi women love them some Oprah. Ta-Nehisi laments the shitty way Hollywood has treated female superheroes (and realizes that Michelle Obama is Storm). *This deserves its own post. I’ll get to it later.
** Ditto, this.
*** Comprehensive ex education!
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