John McCain

Midget Zombies and Black Republicans: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, March 22 Help celebrate two (non-mutually exclusive) minority groups by attending the 10th Annual Outfest Fusion LGBT People of Color Film Festival, which starts its two-day run on Friday. The fest will open at 7 p.m. at REDCAT with the documentar ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Football, Violence, and America

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins: The GOP's Disdain for Women Is Appalling A few Sundays back, in a roo ... More >>

Mayoral Candidate Emanuel Pleitez Gets Aggressive with Rival Eric Garcetti and Hauls Out Immigration Politics

UPDATE: Emanuel Pleitez speaks out at press conference, after the jump. After seeing a bump in his polling numbers among Latino voters, Los Angeles mayoral candidate Emanuel Pleitez is getting aggressive and now looking to beef up that support by bringing the politics of immigration into the fold. ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The American People Kicked Your Ass, Republicans

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] I am in Washington DC right now. The time before the winner of the presidency was announced wa ... More >>

'Legitimate Rape,' the Art Exhibit? Yes, It Opens Tonight

"Legitimate Rape," an exhibition of political art that opens tonight at Katherine Cone Gallery, was largely inspired by one particular project. This past April, artist Jill Greenberg shot a film of white men in suits laughing in slow-motion. The film is dramatically lit, making the whites of their s ... More >>

Obamacare Was a Republican Idea! 5 Obama Issues The GOP Once Owned

Republicans are acting like the blue-haired lady at a four-star restaurant who spies what's on the table of a minority couple nearby: "I'll definitely not have what they're having." What Republicans once ate up like Charlie Sheen at a Peruvian farmer's market they now reject as wholly un-American ... More >>

Cannes Film Festival: Brad Pitt in Killing Them Softly and Gael Garcia Bernal in No

The opening credits of the Brad Pitt-starring Killing Them Softly are set to snatches of Barack Obama's 2008 Democratic Convention speech, focused on the notion of "the American promise," jarringly jump-intercut with scenes of Frank (Scoot McNairy) making his way through a tunnel onto a dismal Ameri ... More >>

The 5 Most Hilarious Republican Attempts To Co-opt Rock Songs

​The problem with being a Conservative, besides the fact that you spend all your time trying to ruin things for everyone else, is that, let's face it, you're really square. You probably have a million sexual hang-ups, you're always 50 years too late to claim credit for any social movements tha ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/7-6/11

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "She gets her cow, you can eat as low on the food chain as you'd like, and you all drink hoppy oceans of microbrew - everybody wins!"

OD Death of Dr. Dre's Son Sparks CyberRacist Oubursts

For those who believe "race doesn't matter" or that we've moved into a color-blind, post-racial America, think again. Last Friday the L.A. County Coroner's office announced that the August death of music producer and rap legend Dr. Dre's son, Andre Young Jr., was due to a drug overdose. (See Christi ... More >>

Top 10 New TV Shows From 2008: Hillary & Barack, Gavin & Stacey, Bernard & Doris

The way we watched

Yes We Did: What we know and what we don't about our new American era

Our moment of national redemption

Election Day 2008: Musical Oddities and Inspirations of the Election Cycle

Election '08: Nevada's Turn of the Wheel

BY MARC COOPER Some quick hits from the Bistro Buffet at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas: -- Never before I have ever seen so many people wearing political trappings at the gaming tables. More than 95% is Obama-Biden. -- Both Michelle Obama and John McCain are buzzing through opposite ends of town. ... More >>

Beards, Blazers & Glasses: How Fujiya & Miyagi Helped Mitigitate My Pre-Election Anxiety

Larry David articulated the maddening, finger-nail gnawing, pre-election neuroses far better than I can, so no need to reiterate. This final descent towards election day has been excruciating for us all, to the point where it’s nearly impossible to talk about anything else. Hell, on Friday nigh ... More >>

Queer Town: Field Poll Finds Proposition 8 Losing

While the margin is getting tighter, a new Field Poll, released this morning, finds that Proposition 8 will lose on Election Day. The poll, however, shows declining support for the "No on 8" campaign over the past month, which is when the "Yes on 8" side started a vigorous TV ad campaign. Based on t ... More >>

What Could Stop Obama: Secret Racist Democrats

The AP-Yahoo poll on race and what it says about our prejudices that still remain

Barack Obama's Slippery Fund-Raising Slope

Small donors aside, he's awash in cash from big labor and business. Can he say no?

Time Warp's Cool Science: What Mentos Wrought

Discovery Channel gives dude-friendly experiments the slo-mo treatment

French Philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy on McCain, Obama and the Left

... and the sexual differences between us and them (the French, not the politicians)

Sexual Orientation of McCain's Senate Chief of Staff Revealed

But it's Mark Buse's Freddie Mac connections that go mainstream

Election '08: Biden Does Tampa

When I asked the security guard stationed in the upper reaches of the Sun Dome on the campus of Tampa’s University of Southern Florida (home of the Bulls) how many people were on hand, he smiled and said, "I don't know, but a lot more than they expected. That's why this section is open." From wh ... More >>

Election '08: The Palin Power Girls

Election '08: A Day In The Life At The End Of The World

My head is spinning and not just because this is the third time I've tried to write this. Unfortunately, as far as clarity and fresh thinking is concerned, my computer kept crashing as I pecked away at these thoughts last night, trying to make some sense of a dizzying day. Maybe my laptop was having ... More >>

Election '08: Happy Days Are Here Again!

BY MARC COOPER Let's see Lehman Brothers goes bust, Merrill Lynch auctions itself off to B of A, WaMu circles the drain along with countless other banks, Wall Street itself is in the balance and with it the entire global economy teeters on the abyss. Other than that... Alan Greenspan, former Fed C ... More >>

Election '08: Palin By Comparison

Warning, this is a rant. I can't help myself. I'd like to ignore Sarah Palin, but I can't. The Palin factor is just too mind-boggling and too scary. Her popularity continues to drive McCain's presidential bid from moribund to vital to frighteningly possible. She's like a trick mirror in which Ameri ... More >>

The Latest Republican Cover-Up: The Presidency of George W. Bush

Ready to hit the reset button: At the GOP convention, plenty of Mac and cheese, no W

John Edwards' Rural Advocate Mudcat Saunders Pipes in From the Sidelines

The pugilist at rest

Storm Over Palin Blows McCain on the Bridge to Nowhere

Hurricane Sarah

Gramm Cracker Crust: John McCain's Surrogate Trouble

Indy Mac implodes and Johnny Mac's exposed, as econ guru suffers from recession of the brain

Dissonance: Obama's Middle Ground

White talk, God talk and how-to-get-elected talk

Hillary Clinton Wins, Republican Style

(Be afraid, be very afraid)

The (Yes, It's Arrived) Latino Factor: Latinos Choose Hillary...

... bum out Obama, and give a little nod to McCain

Why I'm Endorsing Hulk Hogan

Take That Chuck Norris. As you can see from his "Real American" video above, Hogan has the endorsement of the real JFK, not his younger, drunker brother and rest of the flotsam and jetsam that currently constitute the rest of the Kennedy clan. This displays Hogan's ability to transcend the real ... More >>

ELECTION NIGHT AT PINKS

Six Inches of Soul

Fashion on the Campaign Trail

Primary colors

Discovering the Candidates Through Their Playlists

It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To

Minutemen vs. Bush's Moderate Side

Republicans are fighting among themselves over immigration. Will Democrats have a voice?

5 Pitfalls for Progressives to Avoid in 2006

Don’t Mess With Texas

Gay governors, oil money, KKK fish camps and Karl Rove

Resoluter Than Kerry

Why Democrats shouldn’t panic — yet

GOP Action Heroes

Arnold, Rudy, John McCain and the Bush twins

The Fox Convention

Watching with O’Reilly and Kristol et al.

Letters

Let It Be John McCain

Why not choose a VP who can carry an election rather than just a state?

'The Main Problem Is the Role of Money in Politics'

Excerpts from an editorial-board interview with Arianna Huffington

Dumb and Dumberer

Why the FCC shouldn’t consolidate without concessions

Right and White

Why last week’s electorate does not portend the future of California politics

Bore and Gush

America’s nominees

Establishment Boys

Bush, Gore and the limits of orthodoxy