Creative Writing Under Obama

It has been a great season for creative writers in the political realm. Today's US NEWS Headline:
Why a Rising Unemployment Rate is Good News is a good example of how Democrats have been tap dancing for over a year now explaining to us why spending is necessary. Why unemployment would've been worse, and how it's Bush's fault anyway. Imagine where we'd be without Barack. In the story In Search of an Adjective we visited a little bit of how creative these writers can get, as they seek to label, somehow, the enormity of electing a white person into the Presidency. Or, wait a minute. Is he black? Who decides that? Is there some magic skin ratio formula used to decide who gets the affirmative action goodies? (h/t Steve Sailer)

But it has been a season for creative liberal writers, and for thinking on your feet among liberal guests on cable. The best strategy seems to be to mention that a Republican seemed to agree, therefore... "Well, Lindsey Graham yada yada, therefore how can you say that?"

Is it fair to say that these creative writing jobs are saved jobs? Although isn't the term du jour preserved? Good to know that the Daily Show wrote some stand up material for BHO's performance at the Correspondent's dinner, but one has to wonder if they're not also writing his speeches, because they are a joke! Obama's speeches as of late sound much more J. Stewartesque than they do presidential. Bash the Republicans, Fox, Palin, Wall Street, BP, coal miners, banks... pretty much anyone that lives in the world of factual information. And how about Gibbs misquoting FOX repeatedly re: the oil spill? "They said we did it on purpose. Yes they did. Yes they did." No, but they may have said you put it in your ignore pile until it was too late. They may have said that, and when I say they, I mean the former FEMA Director,  Michael Brown. Any story on that will inevitably digress over to Katrina bashing. Another creative strategy of avoidance.

By the way, I started writing this story BEFORE Rush Limbaugh brought it up, and before I realized Obama was actually using these 9.9% unemployment figures to celebrate. But it's good to know I was in the right zone. Let we wrap by saying how disappointed I'd be if the unemployment rate had dipped to 6%, or any similar Bush-era number. How can you build an historic crisis agenda around numbers like that? No, 9.9% is a really good number, and heightens my creative juices.

Ann Coulter Captioned by CNN

funny - I posted an old story today I wrote under the name Typical White Person called Extreme Advertising that was about an Ann Coulter controversy that originated in 2007. And looking over the CNN story that covered the whole thing, I saw that they described Coulter like this:

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter has been widely criticized for calling presidential candidate John Edwards a 'faggot.'

 That's how they described her. Not bestselling author, not popular commentator, mind you. CNN that bastion of fairness.  That story was from 2007, and I don't know about you, but I'd say that since then Edwards has been called a lot worse. I'd have to say that Coulter was some kind of oracle to have that kind of insight into Edwards future personality, but at the time "she was widely criticized." FLASHFORWARD 2010 he also lied about the child. Now this guy was a Democrat on the ticket for Vice President of the United States. But all you hear about is PALIN, PALIN, PALIN in a negative fashion of course. Stories such as this where CNN leaves a comment on their respectable journal calling Palin an ignorant twit. No way to edit those pesky comments I guess.

At least Edwards earned it.

Cool thing was AnnCoulter.com linked to my Extreme Advertising article from her front page and left it there for over a month. Thanks Ann, popular commentator and bestselling author. I dug getting the additional traffic. American Sentinel was shut down because some guy living on a yacht in DC claimed ownership of the name. But what was once TWP is now Soo Do-nim. Although I'm still a *typical white person.

Speaking of which here are a couple of campaign slogans I'm willing to share with the Democrat Party:

Keep Racism Alive! 

Join the Democrat party, where we still care (VERY much) 

about the color of your skin.

or

Join the Democrat Party, where you're not an American, 

you're a hyphenated-American.

That's on the house, no extra charge.

*This was my TWP bio back then:

My journal's name TWP was inspired by Barack Obama's grandmother whom he referred to as a typical white person during his attempt to explain why he'd portrayed her as a racist during a speech designed to explain his 20-year relationship with Rev. Wright. During his campaign he needed to prove he was more 'down with black folk' than Hillary Clinton, whose phony gospel accent wasn't playing well to audiences in Selma. Seems like it worked as Obama carried 96% of the black vote in November. How many half-blacks voted for him is TBD.
~ TWP

Extreme Advertising

Monday, April 6, 2009 at 8:39PM
TWP in Coulter, Coulter, Verizon, double standard, hypocrisy, hypocrisy

Back in 2007 upstanding companies (barf) such as Verizon, Sallie Mae and Georgia-based NetBank were taking their marching orders from "mainstream" political Web site the Daily Kos, as they retracted in horror upon discovering that some of their ads had appeared on an "extreme political Web site," AnnCoulter.com. May it never be!

Could there be a more hypocritical stance for a company to take?

A spokesperson for NetBank said Coulter's page "is not the kind of site we want to be on." To know that, he/she/trans would have to have read it, and you know that didn't happen. Since NetBank was the 1st bank to fail, it's good to know that their ads don't appear ANYwhere these days, including AnnCoulter.com.

"Per our policy, the networked Web site ad purchases are supposed to be stripped of certain kinds of Web sites," said a Verizon spokesperson. "This one could be considered an extreme political Web site, should be off the list, and now it is off the list." Good for you, Verizon! It would be a shame to have your alleged "deceptive and misleading" ads that got you sued by the state of New Jersey run on a Web site so extreme as Ann Coulter's.

Update on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 1:54AM by TWP

When I first wrote this I missed that the source article for this was posted on CNN in 2007. A friend shared the story with me just yesterday and I thought it was a current news item and jumped on the story and posted this. Then I rewrote it once I realized it was pre-Socialism. Now it makes sense why NetBank was out there spouting off. In 2007 they actually thought they had some swagga. Perhaps they didn't give enough to Obama, and now they're history.

Regardless, it's still funny to me.