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Michelle Shocked to discuss anti-gay comments on Internet radio

Kevin Allman — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:26:00 -0500

UPDATE: Shocked has released a statement to Fox News, which says in part, "When I said… ‘Michelle Shocked says God hates f**s,’ I was predicting the absurd way my description of, my apology for, the intolerant would no doubt be misinterpreted. But I am damn sorry.…

Report: Michelle Shocked tells concert audience "God hates fags," denounces same-sex marriage

Kevin Allman — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:28:00 -0500

Folk singer and former New Orleans resident Michelle Shocked created a firestorm at a San Francisco concert last night when she delivered a homophobic tirade from the stage, according to observers:

The crowd had come, presumably, to hear songs like “Come a Long Way” and “On the Greener Side,” which got airplay on MTV back in the day. (“Greener Side” was even up for a VMA against Madonna’s “Vogue.”)

Instead they were treated to a tirade that allegedly included Shocked announcing “God hates fags.”

Matt Penfield, who was live-tweeting the show from onstage called her rant, delivered during her second set, “totally sincere [and] super anti-gay and hateful.”

We’re still trying to get the full text of her speech, but apparently she told fans “you can go on twitter and say Michelle Shocked said ‘God hates fags.’”

Another Twitter user posted that Shocked “said she lives in fear that the world will be destroyed if gays are allowed to marry.”

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VIDEO: Bobby Jindal speaks at CPAC

Kevin Allman — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:00:00 -0500

Gov. Bobby Jindal spoke at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) annual meeting today in a speech that appears to have been a mashup of a January speech to the Republican National Committee and some of the jokes from his turn at the dais at last weekend's Gridiron Club roast in Washington, D.C.

Among the topics of Jindal's jokes: his skinny frame vs. the not-skinny frame of N.J. Gov. Chris Christie, Jindal's Indian-American heritage and waterboarding. Take it away, Atlantic Wire:

The speech delivered by the Republican Governor of Louisiana at the Conservative Political Action Committee on Friday afternoon borrowed heavily — literally paragraph by verbatim paragraph — from his January 24 speech at the Republican National Committee's winter meeting in Charlotte, where Jindal implored his colleagues to "stop being the stupid party" in a forceful speech otherwise seen as bolstering his 2016 credentials.…
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Gridiron shows: Bobby Jindal and Stacy Head

Kevin Allman — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:18:52 -0500

Gov. Bobby Jindal's performance at Saturday night's Gridiron Club Dinner in Washington, D.C. went over well — at least with President Barack Obama, who praised Jindal's material and delivery at the ~~logrolling~~ annual chance for politicians and the D.C. press corps to share a laugh:

"I have to say, I thought Bobby (Jindal) was incredibly funny this evening. I thought he was terrific," Obama said last night at the high-profile Gridiron Dinner, in his remarks after Jindal made a highly impressive speech full of fun and jokes, wiping out his 2009 lacklustre speech which was in response to the first State of the Union Address by Obama.

Jindal's entire speech has been posted online by The Washington Post.…

CNN: Lack of communication aboard Carnival Triumph = Hurricane Katrina

Kevin Allman — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:18:00 -0600

Last night I saw a bloated vessel filled with crap dock in Mobile, Ala. — but enough about CNN. The story, of course, was the arrival of the Carnival cruise ship Triumph, which had an engine failure that stranded it in the Gulf of Mexico and turned it into the Good Ship Lollipoop for a few days.

But for CNN's Martin Savidge, the lack of communication aboard the ship was equivalent to the lack of communication on the ground in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures ...…

Q: What was the best part of the Super Bowl?

Kevin Allman — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:51:39 -0600

The Winnipeg Sun asked its readers what they thought was the best part of the Super Bowl ...

Agreed.

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Roundtabling and logrolling

Kevin Allman — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:41:00 -0600

Corporate Realty newsletter, Sept. 6, "NOLA Media Group Leases Top Floors of One Canal Place":

Mike Siegel represented NOLA Media Group in its office space search and lease negotiations in One Canal Place, which is managed by Corporate Realty. “This is a significant lease that will establish a major presence for one of the leading businesses in our region in the Central Business District,” Siegel said.…
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Happy Birthday, Y@ Speak!

Lauren LaBorde — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:18:00 -0600

This week marks the one-year anniversary of the beginning of Y@ Speak, in which we capture notable 140-character bon mots, newsworthy items, gaffes by Saints players and local politicians and whatever else pops up on the New Orleans Twittersphere. To celebrate this occasion, I've rounded up some of my favorite or most memorable tweets — like a multi-layered digital birthday cake of sorts — and divided them by categories: we got NFL players saying dumb stuff, #neworleansproblems, anguish over the Saints' challenging year, reactions to the Times-Picayune cutbacks, interesting celebrity encounters, deep thoughts from Ray Nagin and so much more.…

Bobby Jindal, newly compassionate conservative, gives interview to Politico

Kevin Allman — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:20:00 -0600

Observers of Gov. Bobby Jindal have much to unpack from a 45-minute interview (!) the guv gave to Politico's Jonathan Martin yesterday.

The GOP is still reckoning the reasons for its losses on Election Day one week ago, and two general but contradictory schools of thought have emerged among the chattering classes:

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A Tale of Two Headlines (and one tweet)

Kevin Allman — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:24:17 -0500

Five minutes later ...

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Michael "Encyclopedia Brownie" Brown on Hurricane Isaac

Kevin Allman — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:18:00 -0500

Michael Brown, who bounced from a job as an incompetent FEMA chief to a job in Denver as Mainstream Media Radio Host Who is Well-Compensated for Railing Against Mainstream Media, used that mighty brainpan of his over the weekend and ferreted out Mainstream Media Bias when it came to Hurricane Isaac:

... which might have made a better point if CNN and Anderson Cooper weren't here, or if CNN hadn't done the story on power outages before Brownie raised the question, and followed it with another one today.

As for O'Brien, she had already been covering Isaac for more than a week.…

Family Research Council head Tony Perkins: "I think that Todd Akin is getting a really bad break here"

Kevin Allman — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:46:50 -0500

Since yesterday, when Missouri Rep. Todd Akin's remark about "legitimate rape" and miscarriages caused a firestorm, many fellow Republicans have distanced themselves from Akin, and some have outright condemned his statement. Akin, who is leading in a Missouri Senate race against Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill, was even told to step down by GOP senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Scott Brown of Massachusetts.…

This essay regarding the Saints' "classless" charge is a thing of beauty

Kevin Allman — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:55:00 -0600

Oh, we are tired of the whining. We are tired of the puling.…