This Week In The News

This week, David Gergen, the right hand man to three presidents and virtual symbol of the Washington establishment called John McCain's campaign racist. According to Gergen, Mccain uses code words to identify his opponent as an uppity black man: "I think the McCain campaign has been scrupulous about not directly saying it, but it's the subtext of this campaign. Everybody knows that. There are certain kinds of signals. As a native of the south, I can tell you, when you see this Charlton Heston ad, 'The One,' that's code for, 'he's uppity, he ought to stay in his place.' Everybody gets that who is from a southern background. We all understand that. When McCain comes out and starts talking about affirmative action, 'I'm against quotas,' we get what that's about." This week the McCain campaign has been atacked by two of his former advisors, uber operator Gergen, McCain's own mother, and Kathy Hilton (a GOP donor whose duaghter Paris was featured in McCain ad). McCain responded tersely, "Racist? Pshaww. Like many in my generation, I know that you cannot be racist unless you say n--ger, pickaninny, porch monkey, coon, or jigaboo. Anyhthing else you can just write off as a genral comment about a specific person. Otherwise, I mean c'mon, all sorts of white people would be racists."


This week, in a story widely reported in the alternative media, the Republican Party scrapped its plan to use the phrase, "The Change You Deserve" at its Minneapolis convention. It seems the GOP found out that phrase was already trademarked by the makers of the anti depressant/anti anxiety medication, Effexor. According to sources contacted by TWN, GOP operatives tried to bargain with the drug maker, arguing that being a Republican and taking Effexor have some similar effects: both make the world a very simple place that revolves around you, both lead you to think everything is just fine, and both can lead to completely unwarranted arrogance. In response the drug maker refused the GOP's offer, stating that unlike Republicanism, Effexor does, "not make you shoot up the world like you are in Rambo II, choose myth over fact, and there is no link between Effexor and an insatiable urge to enrich yourself at the expense of others."