LIz Cheney's Excellent Tee Vee Machine Adventure

By GottaLaff

Bob Cesca gives us the full itinerary, but here's a small sample:

• On the June 4 edition of Fox News' Your World

• On the June 1 edition of CNN's Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull

• On the May 22 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe

• On the May 17 edition of ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos

I wonder if she'll include the Universal Amphitheater on her Big World Tour. Dick Cheney on drums!

Why, again?

By GottaLaff

Why is this allowed to happen, again?

A.I.G. is preparing to pay more than $100 million in bonuses to executives which brought the company to the brink of collapse.

And why should something this personal be any of our business, again?

Without a Pastor of His Own, Obama Turns to Five: President Obama has been without a pastor or a home church ever since he cut his ties to the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. in the heat of the presidential campaign. But he has quietly cultivated a handful of evangelical pastors for private prayer sessions on the telephone and for discussions on the role of religion in politics.

North Carolina cops investigated for MySpace slurs toward Obama

By GottaLaff

Two posts in a row on racism by the police make Laffy a very sad blogger:

Police in Durham, NC, are investigating derogatory and potentially racist Web postings from at least two of their officers directed at Barack Obama.

Details of the investigation remain murky, and Durham's chief of police has insisted that a "racial slur" is not the subject of the investigation, but civil rights groups are demanding more information.

The local NAACP says police need to release copies of the Web postings, which appeared on officers' MySpace or Facebook pages.

Durham's NAACP president Fred Foster Jr.:

"We believe that if these comments are against people of color, then it will be hard for those officers to serve and protect without prejudice and that they should not be allowed to wear the uniform representing public trust." [...]

"There's no exact words that were said," said Police Chief Jose L. Lopez Sr. told the paper. "It wasn't a racial slur, but we're still investigating it."

Why? ::heavy sigh::

VIDEO-- Lawsuits: Chicago cops engaged in election night hate crimes

By GottaLaff

This video is from CBS 2 Chicago.

Why?

As the Illinois senator ascended to the highest office in the United States, a family on Chicago's west end allegedly met the business end of racial hatred enshrined by law. The family is suing the Chicago police department.

Niger Arnold claims that as her neighbors celebrated Obama's election in the streets, police fired pepper spray into the crowd. As she and her family scrambled indoors, five white officers burst into her home with guns drawn.

She claims that no reason for the forcible intrusion was given, and instead the officers cursed at her, and made racist remarks.

CBS 2 has more details here.

VIDEO: Idaho elementary school kids chant "assassinate Obama" on school bus

By GottaLaff

This video is from KIDK 2 News, broadcast Nov. 11, 2008.
The full KIDK story can be read here.

Gee, now where in the world did the kiddies pick this little phrase up, hmmm?

Matthew Whoolery told KIKD News he found out about the chanting from his second and third graders, who had no idea what the word "assassinate" meant. [...]

Whoolery, a psychology professor at Brigham Young University in Rexburg, is not an Obama supporter, but he was shocked that any public official would be threatened in that way. "I don't think that the majority of people in Rexburg have extreme ideas like that, but we were just surprised that it would go that far," Whoolery told KIKD.

The Madison County School District has sent out an email saying that students are to be told this sort of behavior is unacceptable. [...]

The population of Madison County is not only heavily Republican but also 97.7% white. One of Rexburg's lone Democrats, a professor at the university, told Salon that "she remembers the time when a group of classmates followed her third-grader home, shouting out 'baby-killer' all along the way. She took it up with the teacher, who didn't seem to mind."

Appalled doesn't even begin to say it. They're what, eight?

Per the article, "In the 2004 presidential election, 93 percent of Madison County's votes went to George W. Bush or minor-party conservative candidates -- arguably the reddest result of any county in the entire country."

"Red" doesn't have to mean "bigoted". How sad that they're becoming synonymous.