A little over a week before the U.S. presidential elections, CNN, the cable new network, decided to start airing a “comedy show” hosted by the Black comedian D.L. Hughley. On the face of it, it does not look like much, but the bottom line is that in a very sensitive election cycle where a...
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Pimping D.L. Hughley
The Cowardice of the American Media
In the most profound show of lilly-livered, wimpy and cowardly display of journalistic ethos, the American media brazenly towed the official line of right-wing ideologues in suppressing the most powerful aspect of General Colin Powell’s endorsement of Senator Barack Obama’s candidacy for the U.S presidency this past week. In the course of the most...
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Political polls and the Race question
One thing that has become a constant in this political cycle is the barage of polls to which all of us have been subjected. While these are not necessarily bad, the nature of the recent polling procedure inevitably leads one to ask the question “Are polls racially biased”?
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Is Obama tough enough?
We have frequently heard this question mainly from mainstream media usually in reference to Senator Barack Obama’s ability to withstand the barage of negative information thrown out by the Republican opposition. On the face of it, this seems like a valid question to ask, to wit: is the senator tough enough not to self-destruct...
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