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Geraldine Ferraro has become an angry white man


Somewhere, somehow, in the last 20 years, Geraldine Ferraro went nuts. (MySA )

The one-time vice presidential candidate said Sen. Hillary Clinton is being treated unfairly by the press because she’s a woman.

The former Democratic leader also said Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign benefits because he’s a black man. This would be a first, since this is a nation that once enslaved blacks; which had to call out troops 40 years ago to enforce integration; and which still deals with racism every day in every facet of life. Somehow, despite all of that, being a black man is a perk for Obama, at least in Ferraro’s mind.

Yesterday, with the grace of Dumbo on a tightrope, Ferraro told Fox Noise that she was being attacked for her comments because she’s a white woman and anyone who did so was a racist.

What a paranoid dumbass.

It’s always funny when two distinctly polarized groups of people — liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans — both blame the same media for being biased against them. Ferraro has fallen into the same trap of wingnut extremists on the far right. The truth hurts and she can’t hide from it, so she blames the press.

No sane person could make the argument that Sen. Clinton is treated unfairly. Barack Obama isn’t a creation of the press. Barack Obama is a better candidate — by a slim margin, according to the popular vote and delegate count — than Hillary Clinton, a better speaker and a better story.

Maybe Ferraro is angling for a job on AM talk radio. She’d fit in well there with the other whack jobs pumping hot air into moving cars across America.

Eliot Spitzer: WTF? OMG! LOL!

The Democratic governor of New York is the latest politician to cut his own political throat via text message. After reading this, I sent myself a text message as a reminder to not use my personal credit card when I subscribe to the Web site “Penguins In Bondage” later today.


Anything for ratings?

The family of a man suspected in a murder attacked a television news reporter on the story. It was caught on tape, and that’s disturbing. Why didn’t the photographer come to the reporters’ rescue? Rest assured that if that had been my co-worker, I would’ve been wielding that camera like a battle axe against the soft melons of the hillbillies attacking her. Police charged four hillbillies in connection with the attack.

CNN Video

Piracy hurting Hollywood? Not so much.

Remember the Hollywood that was trying to destroy innovation by destroying peer-to-peer technology because of the threat from piracy? That same Hollywood saw box office profits go up 5.4 percent last year. Congrats. If you bought the “piracy” story, you’ve been taken to the proverbial casting couch.

P2P Net (via Slashdot

Newest excuse for a “Pimp Your ______” headline: Mixers

Put “Hot Wheels” decals on your Sunbeam mixer bowl and you’ve got a snazzy new kitchen appliance. Also, you’re $20 poorer.

Gear Factor

Rare California wolverine caught on tape

If you look closely, you can see Magneto in the background.

CNN Science

You are your own Big Brother

A Boston phone company is using the “poor man’s GPS” technology of the iPhone to give you the opportunity of letting anyone know your location. If I downloaded this application to my laptop, it would answer, once and for all, the Alamo City’s essential question — “How many icehouses are there in San Antonio?”



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8 Responses

  1. Sara says:

    If Geraldine Ferraro is an angry white woman then whst is Barack Hussein Obama’s preacher? I guess all you educated white people are still going to vote for him even when you know he is going to get your white aXX.

  2. RR says:

    “Ferraro has fallen into the same trap of wingnut extremists on the far right.”

    Whats more amazing is that the liberal media is going after one of their own.

  3. Lisa says:


    I just checked the Google news results for both “Hillary Clinton” and “Barack Obama” at 12:00 p.m. News search results showed 65% articles mentioned Obama and 35% mentioned Hillary based on approximately 190,300 returns. And when you combine their names, you get about 5,250 articles. Scientific? No. But like you say, it reflects what is going on in both campaigns at the moment. I?m sure Hillary returned more news results the morning of March 5 after she won 3 of the 4 popular vote contests held the previous day.

    I watch MSNBC too, so you probably heard this last night: Hillary needs to win by at least 64% in all the remaining state primary contests in order to catch up and pass Obama in the delegate count. I also have found that both CNN and MSNBC tend to favor Obama in their coverage (I’ve seen anchors let his supporters have the last word more than once). But when I get tired of the biased Obama coverage, I simply tune into the FOX News Channel?they LOVE talking about the Clintons over there!

    I feel if the tables were turned and Hillary was actually ahead in the delegate count & popular vote by the same margin as it stands today, Obama would have been written out of this Democratic contest by the media much like they had written Huckabee out of the Republican contest when it was down to just him and McCain. I commend Hillary for seeing this through like Huckabee?until she or Barack secures the number of delegates needed to be nominated. However, with the odds against her and for her to achieve the amount of coverage that she’s still being given by the media is amazing to me.

  4. jessie says:

    Articles like this one is the reason that I no longer subscribe to the Express-News. Tasteless, unimportant.

  5. Gerald R. says:

    I doubt if she’ll get the “profiles in courage” award but Ferraro deserves it. Ferraro’s original statement about Obama (“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position”) is right on target. His popularity is due

    mostly to the fact of his race — plain and simple. He’s getting a good portion of the white vote because of those voters who simply want to see a black man as president.

    You have to remember, these are liberals voting. They vote on their “feelings” not rational thought. If Obama was a white guy these same voters would see his total inexperience and lack of any real accomplishments. You have to take into consideration that not only do they

    want to see a black man as president for the sake of seeing a black man as president but when they vote for a black man they “feel” better about themselves for doing it.

  6. Francine says:

    About the Geraldine Ferraro article. Get your facts straight – the media has been courting Obama since he announced he was running for President. I get Time weekly, I also read CNN and MSNBC daily. The articles in the magazine and in the daily news have been 90% about Obama and 10% about Hillary. Unless its about Hillary’s staff or a Hillary defensive remark – then the pendulum swings and she gets more articles written about her that day. The kind of negative press and vilification she is getting you’d think she was a bank robber running for president. The media has not been fair at all. I cannot say whether its because she’s a woman or not however, the fact that she is a woman and people feel the need in this day and age to even question “can a woman run for president?” Just shows that we still have many reporters who are bigoted and sexist. You would think she had a debilitating handicap the way some people perceive a woman running for the highest office. Its insane and really in this age uncalled for. There have been many women that have run for president or similar title in their country and have won. Aren’t we supposed to be a leader regarding democracy in the western world. What does this say about us?

  7. Frank says:

    There’s also this website for tracking down someone’s cell: