Day: December 14, 2011

Guest Hosting on “Opinionated” on Citizen Radio

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I had the pleasure of filling in for Samhita Mukhopadhyay on Opinionated, the new podcast hosted by Samhita and Amanda Marcotte on Citizen Radio, which is hosted by Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny. Here it is

Bro Down and Out

Published December 14, 2011 | By Opinionated

Samhita’s out of town, so Katie Halper steps in to make fun of Newt Gingrich in her place. Gingrich pledges on to cheat on his wife in exchange for voter support. Andrew Breitbart suddenly claims to have developed a single moral belief, which is bizarrely that you shouldn’t out gay men who support homophobic propaganda. Abortion doesn’t make you crazy, though anti-choicers might. Brits can’t tell the difference between rapists and men’s magazine writers, but then again, neither can Amanda.

Listen now!

We’re Not Racists! We Just Scream the N Word For Good Luck

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By KATIE | Published: DECEMBER 13, 2011

Next time someone says we live in a post-racial world, you can share this gem which shows us that good old fashion racism is still as American as Apple Pie.

Tyra Batts, the only African American on her varsity girls basketball team in Buffalo, New York, felt a little uncomfortable when her team-mates engaged in what is apparently a non-racist 5-year old tradition of chanting “1, 2, 3, N****r.” read the rest of the post here at Feministing