New Mexican Republican Steering Committee
-Headline of the day-
"NM GOP leader under fire for 'Hispanics above blacks' slur."
New Mexico Republican party leader for Bernalillo County Fernando C' de Baca told BBC reporter Jon Kelly, "The truth is that Hispanics came here as conquerors. African-Americans came here as slaves... Hispanics consider themselves above blacks. They won't vote for a black president." Oddly, many hispanics took the suggestion that they're all as racist as de Baca badly.
Ralph Arellanes of the Hispanic Roundtable of New Mexico told CNN, "I'm insulted and I'm outraged."
Not only is de Baca a racist ass, but he's also a dumbass. You ever wonder why McCain's pulling 5% of the black vote and Obama leads in NM? Yeah, me neither.
For the record, "Bakka" is Japanese for "idiot." I don't think that's a coincidence. (Raw Story)
-Press grows a pair-
The media got sick of Sarah Palin's apparent belief that they work for her today and staged a short-lived and impromptu boycott. According to the report, "[T]he control rose to new levels Tuesday morning, when the campaign announced it would bar a Wall Street Journal scribe and a CNN producer from the small 'pool' of journalists allowed to cover the grip-and-grin photo ops [with Afghan President Karzai] before Palin went into the closed-door meetings with foreign dignitaries and international policy experts and advocates."
The two didn't like that and told Palin that if there wasn't any press, there wouldn't be any cameras. The possibility of being robbed of a photo op with a bona fide foreign leader made the foreign policy light Palin think twice. She relented and got her photo.
Remember media-folk, she needs you more than you need her. Her favorables are tanking and if she wasn't covered, I doubt anyone would even notice. Make a politician butter your bread for a change. (Politico)
-[Worst] headline of the day-
"Hope-a! Obama Ouzos Love at Greek-American Fundraiser in Chi-town."
The normally sane and reliable Jake Tapper of ABC News loses his freakin' mind. Let this be a lesson to everyone -- never blog when you're blotto on ouzo. Not even if you're a pro.
The consequences are just too gruesome. (ABC News)
