Category Archives: television

The Not-So-Secret Plan :)

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So, does anyone really believe that the conservative radio hosts and talking heads, including author-columnist-flame-thrower Ann Coulter, are not going to support McCain?

Being perpetually gullible and naive, I ALMOST did—until I saw her on this morning’s “Today” show. She held her position (“I’m going to vote for the most conservative candidate,” she said, as I winced for McCain), but then she added that she would consider voting for McCain if he picked Romney as his running mate (read: if McCain’s running mate is sufficiently conservative).

AH-HA!

So the rallying in unison will begin almost immediately after McCain grabs some arch-conservative governor adored by the radio right.

FEBRUARY 25TH UPDATE: Ulp! The New York Times organized the Right for McCain. As Forrest Gump would say, “One less thing.” 🙂

The Return Of "Eyes II"!

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Check out what else PBS will air this month here.

P.S. WETA, my public television station, aired the return of “Eyes I” in primetime last year (and aired all of it on MLK Day of this year), but regulated the somewhat-stronger-in-tone, more Black Power-oriented “Eyes II” to 2 p.m. Sundays. So the opening episodes, the ones dealing with Brother Malcolm and the Detroit rebellion, air today—Super Bowl Sunday. Whatever. 🙂

The New American Dream?

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All year I’ve been amused by the journalistically fostered idea that white Americans, the (voting) majority of this country, are ready to actually go into small booths in November 2008 and, privately and deliberately, elect a Black male as POTUS. Before he gets assassinated.

Late last night, I was in bed with the great passion of my life—Rolling Stone.  🙂 It documented the overdose of optimism that is part of Obamaland. I read this article days after watching an interview Bill Moyers did with esteemed political scientist Ron Walters. Our brother seemed, well, cautiously optimistic about Barack Obama, too.

I just have a hard time believing it. I know I’m not the only one. Yes, this is the America of Condi and Oprah and Will Smith, but it’s also the America of Jena 6 and Megan Williams and institutional, if not blatant, racism in every aspect of American life—especially politics. Remember the McCain “slur” in South Carolina? Or “Harold at the Playboy party?”

Yes, the Oprah thing LOOKED impressive. But in America, it’s those angry “Washington Journal” (white) callers who actually vote. Ask Karl Rove about this.  🙂

If Walters hadn’t said what he did on Tee Vee about Obama’s chances, I’d just dismiss all of this as media hype generated by the yearning for the End of White Guilt. Let’s see what Iowa, New Hampshire and especially South Carolina will yield.