Oklahoma Mocking, Day #2
By Byron LaMasters
Good stuff over at The Bonassus. First, Daniel mentions the tourism brochures promoting cow manure tossing, which I mentioned last week as well. Bonassus also informs us that Jesse Helms has been reincarnated, and he's resurfaced in Oklahoma:
Now from the ridiculous to the absolutely appalling: while the state government was busy living up to stereotypes of public sector incompetence and Oklahoman yokeldom, the national Republican Party was finding ways to pander to the racists they bank on for electoral support. The NRSC has produced a new ad attacking Oklahoma's Democratic candidate for Senator, Rep. Brad Carson, for his stance on immigration policy. The ad bears more than a passing resemblance to the infamous "White Hands" Jesse Helms ad from 1990, and the national Democratic party is trying to draw attention to this nasty little tactic. If you're as disgusted by the commercial as I am, head on over to Brad Carson's website and supply some countervailing resources.
Yeah, it's from last week, but even Oklahomans aren't stupid enough for me to provide mocking material everyday. Just wait until tomorrow... I'm sure Tom Coburn will open his mouth, and something surreal will come out within 24 hours.
Backing off of Oklahoma, Daniel has a good post on where 650 international relations professors (possibly even one from Oklahoma) agree: Bush's Foreign Policy is a Disaster:
We judge that the current American policy centered around the war in Iraq is the most misguided one since the Vietnam period, one which harms the cause of the struggle against extreme Islamist terrorists. One result has been a great distortion in the terms of public debate on foreign and national security policy—an emphasis on speculation instead of facts, on mythology instead of calculation, and on misplaced moralizing over considerations of national interest.
Check the whole thing out here.
Update: Yes there is! Three signatories from Oklahoma! Maybe they're coming to their senses as the latest poll shows Bush with only a twelve point lead in the state.
Posted by Byron LaMasters at October 12, 2004 03:54 PM
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OK, I'll give you a little material for tomorrow . . . the entire talk radio crowd up here is convinced that our over-the-weekend tracking poll is somehow biased because PEOPLE WERE AT THE OU/TEXAS GAME.
Yep, that's right --- an 18-point drop in the Bush lead is explained by the fact that 42,000 Okies were in Dallas with Big Tex. Never mind the 3.1 million people who stayed home, this evidently explains all the shift. Never mind sampling theory and the fact that the sample is every bit as Republican as the week before.
Yep. Evidently every frigging Republican in the state was at OU-Texas . . .
