Statistics: Black people had nothing to do with Calif. Prop 8's passage.

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Well: very, very little to do with it.

Fox News and other media outlets have been harping on the fact that 70 percent of black voters voted in favor of California's Prop 8 (which bans gay marriage).

This stat is used to claim that black people, therefore, are responsible for Prop 8's passage.

In CA on November 4, black people comprised less than 7 percent of voters because black people make up less than seven percent of the CA population. Also, roughly half of the people in the US vote.

So maybe 70 percent of 5 percent of a certain demographic of voters were pro-8.

And this meager percentage was responsible for Proposition Bigot's passage?

Why was something so moronic as the above allowed on the air (teevee news) and in newspapers?

I can understand Fox News running with this: Their audience hates facts like they hate canker sores. And, likely, gays and blacks just as much.

But supposedly legit media broadcasting this guano?

...Did there have to be "another side" to the story so people wouldn't think nor care as much about the evil meddling the Mormon Church perpetrated in CA?

I want to hear the excuses for the media running with this story so I can die a bit more inside.

...And I suggest everyone Google "Mormon marriage." It's far scarier than gay marriage.
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Sarah Palin: complete, utter, hopeless, idiotic moron.

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The following is reprinted from HuffingtonPost.com. Click the title of this post to see the article I quote below:

Nicholas Graham

"According to Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron, there was great concern within the McCain campaign that Palin lacked 'a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, a heartbeat away from the presidency,' in part because she didn't know which countries were in NAFTA, and she 'didn't understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a series, a country just in itself.'

"Palin was apparently a nightmare for her campaign staff to deal with. She refused preparation help for her interview with Katie Couric and then blamed her staff, specifically Nicole Wallace, when the interview was panned as a disaster. After the Couric interview, Fox News reported, Palin turned nasty with her staff and began to accuse them of mishandling her. Palin would view press clippings of herself in the morning and throw 'tantrums' over the negative coverage. There were times when she would be so nasty and angry that her staff was reduced to tears.

"Cameron also reports, along with CNN, that McCain's senior foreign policy adviser was fired a week before the election for attacking, in defense of Sarah Palin, various McCain aides who he felt were undermining Palin."

Me again:

Watch the video below, which is the interview Nicholas Graham at HuffingtonPost referenced in the above article. I was going to post bullet points from the interview, but found myself transcribing everything Cameron said. Watch the video. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll hope Palin stays the fuck in Alaska for the rest of her life.

And oh my freaking gods the apologism O'Reilly engages in is so so so pathetic.

Best. Video. Ever.




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