The latest news says that Moammar Gaddafi has been killed in Libya (the fourth time he’s died)…or at least that’s until his return in “Day of The Walking Dead Dictators 2.”
Speaking of, The Walking Dead returned to AMC this Sunday and has still yet to figure out the narrative algorithm for making one of their alive characters more interesting or three dimensional than one of their zombies.
In other television news, The Republicans held their 80th debate this past week. Having watched only partial clips on MSNBC, I think I can say the real winner of the night was…all the candidates who decided not to run like Mike Huckabee, Mitch Daniels, Chris Christie, and Donald Trump, who stumbled on to brief legitimacy this Spring by questioning if the president was an illegal alien…
Don’t worry though, Michelle Bachmann is there to keep the flames of ignorance alive and well when she said at this last debate that Obama had an “illegal alien” problem because many of his family members were undocumented and living in the U.S…Bachmann, once again making me question if there’s really no such thing as a woman I wouldn’t smack.
Asshole of the Week: The 45 percent of Hispanic voters that say they might not vote for Obama next term, and the staggering 35 percent that consider themselves Republicans. What, exactly, do the Republicans have to do to tell you that they don’t like Latinos? Herman Cain has to make another joke about an electrified border fence? Alabama/Arizona Republicans have to pass a more extreme anti-immigration law? Once Rick Perry was revealed to have given the children of illegal immigrants college tuition funds, his first-place poll numbers went into a free fall, and he and Romney spent the liveliest part of last week’s debate attacking each other’s record on being too immigrant friendly. Now sure some conservatives are screaming at me “We’re only talking about ILLEGAL Mexicans and not LEGAL Mexicans,” but that’s bullshit. The real truth is that people who overwhelmingly don’t want one in their country aren’t crazy about the other one either.
You should make “Asshole of the Week” it own post. Love it. Thanks