Fun DC factoid: laws passed by the DC Council do not apply to members of the DC Council, according to the, um, DC Council. (DCist)
The Second Amendment means you are allowed to shoot your political opponents when you lose elections, according to Virginia wingnut and House of Delegates candidate Catherine Crabill. (Not Larry Sabato)
The Jews who secretly run Hollywood are big Tina Fey fans, based on this year’s list of Emmy nominees. (LA Times)
Stephen Colbert will not rest until Keith Olbermann declares him the Worst Person in the World. (Huffington Post)
In the culmination of a racially fraught Congressional campaign in Memphis, a black candidate is linking her liberal-leaning white primary opponent in Thursday’s contest, Representative Steve Cohen, to the Ku Klux Klan in a television advertisement.
Mr. Cohen’s campaign said it was an unusually direct effort to inject race into the contest.
The advertisement for the challenger, Nikki Tinker, juxtaposes Mr. Cohen’s picture with that of a hooded Klansman, and criticizes Mr. Cohen for voting against renaming a park in Memphis currently named for the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Ku Klux Klan founder.
“This makes you wonder,” a black former county commissioner, Walter Bailey, says in the advertisement. “Who is the real Steve Cohen?”
Olbermann calls out Turner’s ad for what it is.
This is disgraceful, regardless of which side of the aisle it’s coming from.
As we loyal Americans all know, the president’s wartime powers under the Constitution gives the president the authority to do anything he feels necessary, even if it would otherwise be unconstitutional. There are some people in this country who, despite the fact that 9/11 changed everything, don’t realize that their hateful America-hating endangers our troops and strengthens the al Qaeda-Iran alliance. Therefore, I hope that you will use your unlimited constitutional wartime to authority to to rescind the following traitors’ right to freedom of speech:
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