Barack Obama's Giant Schlong!

We couldn't really call this a "Retro Garlic", being it has turned around with such lightening speed.

We posted on Saturday "Bob Herbert Calls Out Stumblin' Bumblin John McCain!", where the NYT columnist "kicks Stumblin' Bumblin John McCain's ass today, than knocks his teeth out for mumbling about it."

Herbert (accurately) contends how the Stumblin' Bumblin' McCain Campaign has gone the extremely low road, going racist, playing the race card, especially with the now-infamous Celebrity Ad, featuring white tabloid girls Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.

Perhaps, if we had known, we could have waited, for Herbert came back this morning, on the Morning Joke show, to further pummel McCain, pointing out, in the Celebrity Ad, the use of phallic symbols in the ad, namely the Victory Tower in Berlin, and the Washington Monument.

From Raw Story;

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski talked with New York Times columnist Bob Herbert who has written a column criticising the GOP for exploiting race in politics. Herbert sees a racial component to the recent advertisement from John McCain’s campaign that is critical of Barack Obama’s celebrity appeal. Herbert believes that the McCain campaign included footage of the Victory Tower in Berlin as a phallic symbol in the commercial to exploit negative racial themes.

Here's the video of it;



Hey, like the old adage goes, you lay down with Rove, you wake up with fleas.

And, man, this is only the beginning of August, before the VP picks, before the conventions, and before Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain (assuming he comes out of Minneapolis with the nomination, officially) starts falling behind in the polls by double-digits.

And the day Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain eschews humor, and lets loose with his infamous temper.

Bob Herbert Calls Out Stumblin' Bumblin John McCain!

Make no mistake about it.

Bob Herbert kicks Stumblin' Bumblin John McCain's ass today, than knocks his teeth out for mumbling about it.

In his column, "Running While Black", Herbert eschews the games most of the MSM pundits have been playing all, week, looking at this issue as if there were two sides of it, and calls out the McCain Campaign (and RNC as well) for what they are doing - playing the race issue on Obama, no If, Ands, of Buts about it.

Spare me any more drivel about the high-mindedness of John McCain. You knew something was up back in March when, in his first ad of the general campaign, Mr. McCain had himself touted as “the American president Americans have been waiting for.”

There was nothing subtle about that attempt to position Senator Obama as the Other, a candidate who might technically be American but who remained in some sense foreign, not sufficiently patriotic and certainly not one of us — the “us” being the genuine red-white-and-blue Americans who the ad was aimed at.

Go read "Running While Black" ... It's excellent, and so dead on the money (you know, those dollar bills with the presidents that don't look anything like Barack Obama).


Bonus Riffs

BooMan: Who Got Dealt the Race Card?

John Cole: Bob Herbert Absolutely Nails It

Jill at Brilliant at Breakfast - Saturday Big Blue Smurf Blogging: What They Said

Maha: Playing the Race Card

Creature: Bob Herbert steps up to expose McCain's disgraceful campaign

Melissa McEwan: McCain blows the dog whistle - By linking Barack Obama with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, Republicans tap racist fears of black men and white women

Top Ten Cloves: Interations of New McCain Ad, Before Settling On Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and the Biggest Celebrity In The World

News Item: New McCain Ad Attacks Obama As A "Celebrity"


10. The Biggest Somalian-dressed candidate in the World

9. The Biggest Defeatocrat in the World

8. The Biggest Bitter Person in the World

7. The Biggest Worst Bowler in the World

6. The Biggest Friend of William Ayers in the World

5. The Biggest American with a Muslim name in the World

4. The Biggest Arugula Eater in the World

3. The Biggest Ears in the World

2. The Biggest “Arrogant” Martini Drinking Country Club Member in the World

1. The Biggest Cousin of Dick Cheney in the World


Bonus Stumblin Bumblin McCain Ad Links

Bill Press: John McCain Plays the Race Card

McCain: 'We're Proud of That Commercial'

Wonkette: Hilton Family FURIOUS Over McCain Insulting Paris Hilton

Warren Street: McCain Will Have to Go With Pity Before Too Long

Oliver Willis: McCain’s Britney Moment

Marc Ambinder: Weaver, McCain's Former Strategist, Calls "Celeb" Ad "Childish"

Hmmm ... I Wonder ... Would She Rather Be In Philadelphia?

No word on where she'd rather be, but this has to be - despite Mike Huckabee and what he might say at any given moment - the head-shaker-of-the-day story;

EXCLUSIVE: The AP Has Written Britney Spears' Obituary

I'm half-surprised the Cable News networks haven't tossed their 24/7 political coverage aside to run hours of loops of the same footage of Britney, accompanied by a parade of Tinsel Town talking heads - the B-Journalists - who, in truth, are very much part of Britney's problems and, exponentially, increase the coverage by running the loops of Anna Nicole Smith, rehashing her sad life and the parallels to Britney ...

Too bad this isn't a Sweeps Month, or that may very well have come to fruition.

I wonder if, like a racetrack's tote board, this jostled the betting at the Dead Pool?

Now, it's time to kick back and wait for the other shoe to drop ... Paris Hilton, complaining that no one has written her obituary yet, or worse, as with her singing, she's going to do it herself ...

Tell-Britney-To-Stay-Away-From-Green-Bananas Links

Attytood: Thank God the AP is ready for the biggest story of our lifetime

Attaturk: Alert the Pulitzer Prize Committee

The Death Pool - Chronicling Death in Pools since 2007

The Home Of The Celebrity Dead Pool

The Dead Pool

Gerald Ford Dana Carvey SNL - Dana Carvey impersonates Tom Brokaw in a mock news broadcast on SNL as he enumerates the ways that Gerald Ford could die

Top Ten Cloves: Other Possibilities Being Investigated, As To Iranian Radio Transmission That Threatened U.S. Ships

News Item: The U.S. military inflicts more damage on its own credibility

10. Britney Spears, trying out her Iranian accent

9. President Bush, messing around with the intercom system on Air Force One

8. A couple of sailors, below deck on one of the ships being threatened, playing Battleship

7. When analyzed, second-by-second, could be either John Boehner and Mitt Romney, or Hillary Clinton, crying

6. Someone is reporting Vice President Dick Cheney, alone in the Situation Room, playing with the radios around the same time that the transmission was made

5. Some Iranian, playing with toy boats and rubber duckies while taking a bath, who, inadvertently, left his CB radio on

4. Ashton Kutcher ... U.S. Navy ... You just got punk'd!

3. Rich Little, working on new material, in hopes of being asked to host again, the White House Correspondents Dinner

2. Oops! ... Opie and Anthony did it again!

1. Same, mysterious person that asked Dan Rather "Kenneth, what is the frequency?"


Bonus Links

Top Ten Cloves: Surprising Things About Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's New Blog

Breaking News! New White House Discord Pits Neocons Versus Bush, Baker; Cheney Launches Iran Study Group; Planning To Up Ante, Outgun Baker’s Recommendation; Rumsfeld Installed As Co-Chair; WHIG Moves Into Secret Bunker, As Neocons Draw Line, Choose Sides

Breaking News! Confusion, As Ahmadinejad Claims He's Enrolling In Columbia, Wants "Campus Life Experience"; State Department Says No Defection Or Asylum Requested; Levi's and Girls Gone Wild Videos Factor In Iranian President Decision