WOW... I just caught this as I was getting ready to get off here and go to bed. I'll have to post more later about it, but I thought it was certainly worth sharing before I nod off...

Back to the Drawing Board for Disney’s First Black Princess

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As many of you know, CNN will be launching its series "Black in America" on 23 July with its Black Women and Familes program. The second day will focus on Black men.

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Kee-rap!

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Here's talkshow pundit, Mr. Glenn Beck, holding forth on Senator Hillary Clinton on GMA:

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"He is a rock star. It's fantastic."

"I love what he is saying about education."

"I don't think he will win Florida.....but he will win in Ohio and the election".

"I am anxious to meet him."

"I want to see if he will walk the walk."

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OK, Last week, trying to out cute herself, pundit Liz Trotta made an "oopsie" when she suggested that, essentially, killing anyone whose name rhymed with "drama" (Osama, Obama...) and then giggled like a kindergartner on cookie detail.

Shit-fire (a technical term).

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Paul Krugman used to be one of my very favorite columnists, and I've been pained to read his increasingly unpersuasive defenses of Hillary Clinton.

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This certainly seems inappropriate!

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Chris Matthews performed a public service on his show, taking on one of the all-too-common rightwing bloviators that populate the airwaves. His guest--a particularly obnoxious representative of the genre--was screaming about how right Bush was to call Obama an appeaser. Matthews did what too few reporters and television hosts are willing to do, and the results were delicious.

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I'm getting ready to head out the door to Sheila's. We're going to watch the election results come in. I, the wine spritzer drinker, am going to be drinking gin...from my niece's silly straw.

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Have trusty cellphone, will audioblog, ya'll. Listen to me try to figure out who the hell I'm going to vote for...and, um, what happened to my precinct. Seems that, in my zeal over the presidential primary, I neglected (read: didn't give a flying fig about) who was running in the other matchups.

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Reverend Wright is never going to disappear. He's found a national pulpit and he's reveling in his notoriety and isn't going to step away lightly.

In case you missed it, here's the good reverend at the National Press Club this past Monday.

Part 1

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I was watching Morning Joe (I like a side of indigestion with my morning smoothie). For six weeks, Scarborough has been touting what looked like a Clinton blowout with poll numbers having her lead Obama by 20 or more points.

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