
Our guest columnist is weird and creepy.
You’ve failed, media.
You’ve had over three years to vet President Barack Obama. Yet in three years in office and over a year of campaigning beforehand, you have either been oddly uninterested or purposefully ignorant of Barack Obama’s educational history. You were, however, quite interested in George Bush’s transcripts.
“Speaking in Chantilly, Va., at Exhibit Edge, a female-owned firm that designs trade show exhibits and displays, the presumptive Republican nominee was surrounded by women. More than a dozen female business owners and entrepreneurs were invited to sit behind Romney at the event, putting them directly in the camera shot, while dozens of other women were seated in front of him.”
Mitt Romney targets female voters in Virginia [Yahoo]
We finally figured out which switch you flip to control Shep Smith’s soul.
[via @elisefoley]

DRAMATIS PERSONAE
MICHAEL, an African-American poll worker.
UNIDENTIFIED POLL WORKER, an unidentified poll worker.
JODIE BRUNSTETTER, wife of North Carolina state senator Peter Brunstetter, who sponsored legislation to put an anti-gay marriage amendment on the state ballot.
CHAD NANCE, a Winston-Salem freelance journalist.
SCENE
An early-voting site at the Forsyth County Government Center in downtown Winston-Salem.
CURTAIN
MICHAEL: “I had my back to her like this. She said, ‘The reason my husband wrote Amendment 1 was because the Caucasian race is diminishing and we need to, uh, reproduce.'”


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