by hilzoy
A lot of right-wing blogs are abuzz with the news that there was a web page for the New Black Panther Party on Barack Obama's website. Sam Graham-Felsen of the Obama campaign tried to weasel out of this one: he noted that it's easy to create your own web page; over 700,000 people have. And this one, he said, was created without the knowledge of the Obama campaign, and was deleted as soon as they found it.
A likely story. I know that if I were running for President, I would employ whole legions of people whose job it was to scour the hundreds of thousands of blogs and accounts people put up on my website. It's not like they would have anything better to do.
In any case, through a combination of intrepid sleuthing and, well, more intrepid sleuthing, I have found something that leaves Mr. Graham-Felsen's pitiful excuse in tatters:
Another Panther endorsement on the Obama website!
Explain this away, Sam Graham-Felsen. If you can.
[UPDATE: Apparently, they do have people scouring their website fulltime. They've taken my post down, in about an hour. That was fast. Sorry, Obama campaign.]
(h/t Steve Benen. It took me about three minutes, and that's only because I actually wrote some text.)
(PS: I am very tired of all this idiocy.)
Screenshot of part of my vanished post:
I don't know why I hvae to keep convincing you people. If this doesn't, nothing will!
Posted by: Jay Jerome2 | March 20, 2008 at 10:27 PM
Yes, but does his dog bite?
Posted by: russell | March 20, 2008 at 10:46 PM
And has he a lisannse for his meunkey?
Posted by: ral | March 20, 2008 at 11:45 PM
Pink Panthers...? Hmmmm, perhaps they was afeared you was TEH GAY.
Posted by: xanax | March 21, 2008 at 12:36 AM
I can see a resemblance. Big ears, lean, alert, serious gaze. Some color in the complexion. Sure.
Posted by: felix culpa | March 21, 2008 at 12:54 AM
Funny.
Posted by: Frank | March 21, 2008 at 03:40 AM
*snorgle* *gives you Easter cake*
Posted by: Jesurgislac | March 21, 2008 at 04:37 AM
Thank you, reading this brightened my day (the pink panther bit) =)
Posted by: Jason Williams | March 21, 2008 at 12:52 PM
Speaking of endorsements, it's no surprise that Richardson, like all the states that went for Obama, is insignificant.
Posted by: KCinDC | March 21, 2008 at 01:57 PM
the Pink Panthers ?
is that a working group formed of Code Pink and the Black Panthers - gay pacifist black power advocates ?
Posted by: cleek | March 21, 2008 at 02:04 PM
Surely this is a deceptively innocuous figurehead for the pink-pistoled lesbian terrorist gang that O'rlly warned American about!
Posted by: KRK | March 21, 2008 at 03:18 PM
I'm highly amused at P.Z. making the news this way, with Richard Dawkins, no less.
Posted by: Gary Farber | March 22, 2008 at 03:51 PM