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Gracie Gets a Little Brother, MSNBC Yanks a Tweet, RWNJ Has a Ragegasm

Dan Savage
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And now I don't have to tune in to the stuper bowl at all, since the only interesting part has already been leaked online.
treehugger on January 30, 2014 at 8:21 AM Report this
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Looking forward to the ongoing adventures.
fletc3her on January 30, 2014 at 8:29 AM Report this
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that is so adorable!
passionate_jus on January 30, 2014 at 8:31 AM Report this
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The Fox show doesn't apologize because Freedom! and First Amendment! and Cold, Dead Hands!

Fox show watchers love when Fox puffs out their chest, swings their dick around, and bellows forth their arrogant ignorance.
Urgutha Forka on January 30, 2014 at 8:34 AM Report this
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@4
do you know that because you have family who are Fox News watchers? Or are Fox News watchers the social scene you roll with?
dnt trust me on January 30, 2014 at 8:54 AM Report this
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@5 As the new token idiot that infests Slog with idiot comments, you really have no place trying to call out anyone else at all. But keep trying, you just look stupider and stupider by the day. Related to Bailo, I guess.
Dr_Awesome on January 30, 2014 at 9:05 AM Report this
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@6
NEW token idiot? I've been on Slog a helluva lot longer than you have.
And yes, Bailo and I were born as Siamese twins. When they chainsawed us separate at birth, he got the brains, and I got the heart.
What's the harm in asking Urgatha about these Fox News watchers s/he knows? I have cousins who watch the trash.
dnt trust me on January 30, 2014 at 9:11 AM Report this
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Only the most crusted fermented white supremacists are unnerved by interracial marriage these days. Republicans, conservatives and libertarians certainly don't care and have their own interracial marriages. Such as Mitch McConnell and his Asian wife.
Phoebe in Wallingford on January 30, 2014 at 9:25 AM Report this
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@9
oh shit, what evidence? please answer, i won't snark and respond, I'm done for the morning with responding to stinky insinuations.
dnt trust me on January 30, 2014 at 9:30 AM Report this
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I demand an apology from Sean Hannity for looking like his face was grafted onto his head. Outrageous.
Clara T on January 30, 2014 at 9:37 AM Report this
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@12 Hannity: "I will NEVER apologize for my looking like my face was grafted onto my head!"
The Beatles on January 30, 2014 at 9:41 AM Report this
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@5 Fox News is popular so some segment of the population does in fact enjoy watching it. It hardly seems like breaking news.
fletc3her on January 30, 2014 at 9:43 AM Report this
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@13 The Beatles! I learned this week you came to America at some point in the past. All the news sites and a big magazine rack at Barnes and Noble told me about it. Kudos to you for jumping across the pond.
fletc3her on January 30, 2014 at 9:44 AM Report this
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@15 Man, a half century sure does go by fast. Come on, stop making me feel old!
The Beatles on January 30, 2014 at 9:55 AM Report this
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10@: Why would you say that someone is a white who has an Asian wifewould supremacist McConnell?
Phoebe in Wallingford on January 30, 2014 at 10:03 AM Report this
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Seriously strange truck commercial. I now associate their product with cows having sex. Is that the intention?
Sterno on January 30, 2014 at 10:07 AM Report this
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@8 Not everyone who's against interracial relationships is a white supremacist, there are plenty of black nationalists that don't support it, and of the few billions people who are ethnically Asian, I'm sure a lot of them are against it as well.
North by Northwest on January 30, 2014 at 10:08 AM Report this
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@17 LOL wut?
The Beatles on January 30, 2014 at 10:10 AM Report this
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Looks like that kid's going to business school.

Cute, but, like most sequels, not as good as the original.
ScrawnyKayaker on January 30, 2014 at 10:18 AM Report this
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I still can't figure out what MSNBC is apologizing for. Speaking the truth? And since when does"right wing" imply Republican? Is that how they identify? Because if it is, we can have a whole lot of fun with that!
Pope Peabrain on January 30, 2014 at 10:28 AM Report this
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@5,
When I lived in Florida, 99% of the crowd were Fox show watchers, so I got a lot of first hand witnessing experience.
Urgutha Forka on January 30, 2014 at 11:04 AM Report this
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That ad made me squee. Gracie's a sharp one. Love her.
Hanoumatoi on January 30, 2014 at 11:43 AM Report this
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@22: They apologized because it is incorrect to equate racism with the political left/right as such a broad generalization; or to use the vernacular (which I'm sure you would prefer) to play the race card.
raindrop on January 30, 2014 at 11:55 AM Report this
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Let's all just retweet MSNBC's deleted tweet! I did, and so should you.
LukeJoe on January 30, 2014 at 11:59 AM Report this
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As a dad who is wrapped around his daughter's little finger, I LOVE the new Gracie ad. And kudos to Cheerios for bringing back the name Gracie.
Jerry M. Ander on January 30, 2014 at 12:02 PM Report this
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Should have edited the tweet to say "Richard Cohen" instead of "the rightwing."
sugar7898 on January 30, 2014 at 12:02 PM Report this
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@8: Oh really?
People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children.

From that hotbed of "crusted fermented white supremacists," the Washington Post op-ed page.
Backyard Bombardier on January 30, 2014 at 12:06 PM Report this
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@23
yeah, when i watch my cousins watch Fox News, yeah, almost more than myself watching the news I watch them watching the news. I wonder if someone is watching me watch them watch the news?!?
dnt trust me on January 30, 2014 at 12:12 PM Report this
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@7 none of your schtick is worth reading, and that you can't be arsed to maintain your idiot online persona with any consistency any longer is telling.

How's your dead grandpaw doing these days?
Dr_Awesome on January 30, 2014 at 12:26 PM Report this
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@18: "people with conventional views" what in the world does that mean? Define "conventional". Seems antithetical considering how that paragraph begins "Today's GOP is not racist...". Then he goes on to say the NYC mayor's wife "used to be a lesbian"? Didn't he get the memo that sexual orientation is not chosen? Best to leave that hot potato and the mayor's wife out of his stream of consciousness post 'n go amateur style.
I think Richard Cohen either needs an editor or is having issues.
raindrop on January 30, 2014 at 12:30 PM Report this
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Darn. @32 refers to @29.
raindrop on January 30, 2014 at 12:32 PM Report this
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But notice the SStranger didn't say anything when MSNBC made fun of Mitt Romney's adopted grandson for being black. No one on Fox news to my knowledge said anything about the Cheerios commercial, but only a few white nationalist trolls living in their mother's basement did. But REPORTERS for MSNBC VICIOUSLY mocked a BABY because of the color of his skin and his adopted parents, and the SStranger didn't say anything. Wonder why?
collectivism_sucks on January 30, 2014 at 1:31 PM Report this
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@34- Nobody ever made fun of the kid for being black. They made fun of the rest of the family for being white as hell.
dwightmoodyforgetsthings on January 30, 2014 at 1:37 PM Report this
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@35
So you would be okay if some idiotic white nationalist didn't make fun of the Cheerios girl but instead just mocked her mother? Would that be progress?
collectivism_sucks on January 30, 2014 at 1:45 PM Report this
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@30,
Not watching people watch news so much as hearing the guys a couple tables down in the local restaurant say stuff like "O'Reilly said those muslims should stick to their own country if they wanna build a mosque on grounds people were murdered on... and I agree! I'll throw those ragheads on the boats back to Iran myself!"

I don't know about Fox show watchers everywhere else, but the ones in the south aren't afraid to loudly proclaim their blind, ignorant worship of it at any opportunity, whether you want to hear it or not.
Urgutha Forka on January 30, 2014 at 1:53 PM Report this
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Always wondered how RWNJ's manage to get out of bed or leave their houses.

Oh right, tin foil hats....
despicable me on January 30, 2014 at 2:19 PM Report this
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@36- If her mom was ostentatiously displaying her biracial daughter in an attempt to win votes from minorities, then yeah, that'd be fine. The Right Wing Noise Machines reaction to the multiracial group of MSNBC commentators pointing out that the black kid was going to be raised in an atmosphere of overwhelming whiteness (which is a problem according to several of my adopted-by-white parents friends) was a hilarious attempt at victimhood claiming.
dwightmoodyforgetsthings on January 30, 2014 at 2:37 PM Report this
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OMG Chevrolet! That ladykiller of a hereford took a ride across the Pennebacker bridge!

512 REPRESENT.
slinky on January 30, 2014 at 3:02 PM Report this
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I agree with you, Dan. MSNBC shouldn't have apologized for that tweet. But, of course, Phil Griffin has already contacted Reince Priebus to personally apologize so that is that.

I just wonder whose head is going to roll at MSNBC to satisfy the ravenous, racist rightwing's blood thirst. Since Bashir's termination, I barely watch MSNBC anymore.

By the way, I've heard that Republicans are going to boycott going on MSNBC. That's fine with me but I wonder if Joe Scarborough will quit his show in solidarity with his rightwing pals. Would be nice.
Patricia Kayden on January 30, 2014 at 3:08 PM Report this
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I find it telling that Chevy chose a bull and cows whose coats all had the same color combination. Was that pure accident or a deliberate attempt to avoid any interracial imagery?
cressona on January 30, 2014 at 3:45 PM Report this
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slinky @40: 512, Eastside!
Ophian on January 30, 2014 at 4:26 PM Report this
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@42: From a husbandry point of view, it makes sense. Cattle have been bred for centuries to be specialized for different purposes; some produce very good beef, some produce lots and lots of milk, some deal with harsh climates better than others. It makes sense to keep cows more-or-less purebred if you want them for a specific use.
venomlash on January 30, 2014 at 4:44 PM Report this
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@44, also it is TX. So miscegenation--bovine or otherwise--is frowned upon.

Bonus speculation: I believe the BBQ joint that's featured to be Iron Works, just across I-35 from Hipsterville...so Mr. Handsomecattleman might be on the prowl for some emo twink in skinny jeans.

It's a better spot with some subtext, I think.
Ophian on January 30, 2014 at 7:51 PM Report this
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@42, what 44 said, plus those are Beefmaster herefords....the most common breed 'round these here parts.

Although you see some black cattle and some white cattle here, red cattle are most common in Texas because of the climate. The sun is harsh and unforgiving, desperately hot for the black-coated animal and white-coated animals develop skin conditions.
slinky on January 30, 2014 at 9:20 PM Report this

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