Arts & Culture

The right wing’s prediction of Islamic fundamentalists’ secret plan to infiltrate the United States has officially come into fruition. The toy making company, Mattel, has released a doll, “Little Mommy Cuddle 'n Coo,” which giggles, coos, and appears to mumble, "Islam is the light." Bush’s prediction that “if we don’t fight them over there, they’ll fight us here,” seems to be the most truthful words he has ever spoken, especially since we are fighting in the wrong country (President Bush, the hijackers were not from Iraq).  

What started as an innocent presidential campaign run by Senator Obama has turned into, as recent rightwing wackos have foretold, a ploy by people that hate America to take over the country. Remember those right wing wackos, who believe Obama was “raised in an Indonesian madrassah by radical imams”? What they fail to tell you besides this being just a racist, ridiculous claim, is that Obama learned how to make dolls at that time. Not just any old regular doll, but talking ones.

Right wing wackos, are you starting to see the connection? Do you see where I am going with this? Think about it…

Do you remember commentator, Andy Martin, on Fox News' "Hannity's America"?
I think a community organizer, in Barack Obama's case, was somebody that was in training for a radical overthrow of the government.

Right wing lemmings, are you connecting the dots? Obama knows how to organize--organizing usually involves a group of people--toy making companies usually have groups of people--Obama learned how to make dolls--Obama has two children--children like dolls. Are you following me? I hope you’re not…

Governor Palin, whom some may think isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, warned us this week:

Details are still sketchy, but this just in from the Hollywood Reporter:

Barack Obama has purchased a half-hour of airtime on CBS, sources
confirm.

The Obama campaign will air a half-hour primetime special on
Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 8 p.m.

Sources say the Obama camp is also in talks with NBC and Fox. NBC
is said to be very near a deal. With Fox, the matter is likely to
remain uncertain as the time period could conflict with Game 6 of
the World Series.

The national media watchdog group, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), yesterday released a report that looks at twelve of the most influential members of the right wing media and explains why are should be considered anti-muslim. The title of the report is "Smearcasting: How Islamophobes Spread Fear, Bigotry and Misinformation."

You can read the full report here. The list includes:

1) David Horowitz

2) Robert Spencer

3) Daniel Pipes

4) Michael Savage

5) Pat Robertson

6) Sean Hannity

7) Bill O’Reilly

8) Mark Steyn

9) Steve Emerson

10) Michelle Malkin

11) Glenn Beck

12) Debbie Schlussel

The Swedish Academy today at 7am EST announced that Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio has been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. 

From Wikipedia (which was updated within minutes of the announcement):

A great traveler, J.M.G. Le Clézio has been writing since age seven
or eight. After majoring in French literature, he became famous at 23
with his first novel, Le Procès-Verbal (The Deposition), which was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt and for which he was awarded the Prix Renaudot in 1963.

Since then he has published about thirty books, including short
stories, novels, essays, two translations on the subject of Indian
mythology, countless prefaces and reviews as well as a few
contributions to collective publications.

His writing career may be divided into two main periods:

The Telegraph brings news (a wee bit of days ago, but worth going back in time) regarding local elections in Brazil. Seems there are a lot of contenders for not much power and so to stand out among a crowded field, folks are adopting pseudonyms.

At present in the municipal sweepstakes there are no fewer than 200 candidates who have re-named themselves Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who enjoys 80% approval from Brazil's people. Barack Obama is popular, with four running. Other names floating around: Chico bin Laden, Jorge Bushi, and DJ Saddam.

Thanks to Claire Gutierrez of Harpers Magazine for the heads up.