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Premature edyookashun: NY government school renames itself after Obamessiah

From New York:

It was only a matter of time. A New York school has been renamed in honor of President-elect Barack Obama.

The former Ludlum Elementary School, in Long Island’s Hempstead Union Free School District, was renamed at a school board meeting Thursday – effective immediately.

School officials say most of the 440 students there are black or Hispanic, and Obama’s victory is a source of great pride.

Isn’t it usually customary to name schools after a person only after (a) that person dies and (b) that person actually accomplishes something first?  Oh, well, it only makes sense: the school is average, just like its new namesake.

November 21, 2008 Posted by | Obama, public education | Leave a Comment

More MSM losses

The Kamikaze Media, sacrificing their souls on the altar of Obamania, are reaping what they sow.  The AP is cutting 10% of its jobs (and that’s a conservative estimate).  The Old Gray Hag is cutting their dividend and “reevaluating assets”…which is a fancy way of saying “stopping the hemmorhaging of red ink.”

It couldn’t happen to a better bunch of propaganda machines.

November 21, 2008 Posted by | media bias | Leave a Comment

Another “Whitey” conspiracy revealed: a technological device is “racist”

Oh. My. Stars.  From Connectikook:

A lawyer representing a man charged with drunken driving has claimed Connecticut’s breathalyzers discriminate against blacks.

Attorney James Ruane represents 40-year-old Tyrone Brown, of Norwalk, who was arrested April 9 by Connecticut State Police on Interstate 95 in Fairfield.

In a motion filed Tuesday in Bridgeport Superior Court, Ruane asked a judge to suppress his client’s breathalyzer test results.

He contends the device used by state police and most local police departments, the Intoxilyzer 5000, discriminates against blacks.

Ruane said research shows the lung capacity of a black man is 3 percent lower than a white man’s and, therefore, black men’s test results vary from the sobriety standard set by the device.

Assistant State’s Attorney Mark Durso declined comment. 

Lower lung capacity?  Has dude never seen a black man run with the football, flee from the po-po, or shatter Olympic sprint records?

Seriously, I may have officially just seen it all.  A machine that measures drunkenness is racist?  Not the engineers or the designers of the machine, but the machine itself is racist?

Exit question:  Can we infer that the ambulance chaser making this claim is racist by implying that blacks get drunk (then get behind the wheel) more often than non-blacks?

November 21, 2008 Posted by | ambulance chasers, bigotry, bizarre | 3 Comments

Time, Inc., sold flattering coverage of Pitt-Jolie

I don’t care that a magazine gives glowing coverage of a Hollyweirdo power couple.  But is this yet another blow to the already dying MSM?  Details:

When Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt negotiated with People and other celebrity magazines this summer for photos of their newborn twins and an interview, the stars were seeking more than the estimated $14 million they received from the deal. They also wanted a hefty slice of journalistic input — a promise that the winning magazine’s coverage would be positive, not merely in that instance but into the future.

According to the deal offered by Ms. Jolie, the winning magazine was obliged to offer coverage that would not reflect negatively on her or her family, according to two people with knowledge of the bidding who were granted anonymity because the talks were confidential. The deal also asked for an “editorial plan” providing a road map of the layout, these people say.

The winner was People. The resulting package in its Aug. 18 issue — the magazine’s best-selling in seven years — was a publicity coup for Ms. Jolie, the Oscar winner and former Hollywood eccentric who wore a necklace ornamented with dried blood and talked about her fondness for knives before transforming herself into a philanthropist, United Nations good-will ambassador and devoted mother of six.

In the People interview, there were questions about her and Mr. Pitt’s charity work and no use of the word “Brangelina,” the tabloid amalgamation of their names, which irks the couple. …

Naturally, Time, Inc. denies the claims.  But I’m not buying their denial at all.  It’s hard to believe that there was once a time that the MSM favored independence and did not allow anyone outside of their own newsrooms to dictate coverage.  That era is all but over.

Exit question:  How do you think Time, Inc., or any other MSM outlet would have responded if, during the campaign, McCain or Palin would have tried to enter into a contract with an “impartial” media outlet for favorable coverage?

November 21, 2008 Posted by | Hollyweirdos, media bias | 1 Comment

   

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