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Mitt Romney's Awkward Honesty Tour
The opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympic Games began Friday along with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s global tour, and it’s been a bumpy road thus far. In London, Romney insulted the British and their Olympics by saying he wasn’t sure if the country was prepared. Cultural critic Jay Smooth at IlllDoctrine looks at Romney’s…
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Mitt Romney's Strange Patterns With Blacks
Mitt Romney spoke before the NAACP this week, as many Republican presidential candidates have before him, but cultural critic Jay Smooth says on Illdoctrine that he didn’t do it with the right intentions. Instead of reaching out to black voters, Romney boasted after the speech that he expected the boos he received for his disparaging…
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Michelle Obama's a Beyoncé Fan — So What?
Michelle Obama recently told People magazine that if she could be anyone she would be Beyoncé. In response to Kelli Goff’s writing in Loop 21 that the first lady’s admiration for the scantily clad “Bootylicious” singer would drive away voters in November, cultural vlogger Jay Smooth accuses Goff of slut-shaming. Watch Jay Smooth make his…
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Where Mayor Cory Booker Got Confused
Cory Booker appeared on Meet the Press last week and supported private equity, and in doing so he sounded as if he were attacking President Obama, argues cultural vlogger Jay Smooth. As the likable mayor of Newark, N.J., Booker has many fans and is part of Obama’s list of surrogates who are expected to champion…
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Gay Activism Ushered in Obama's Decision
President Obama created a historic precedent by declaring his support of gay marriage this week. Culture vlogger Jay Smooth of Illdoctrine.com argues that it was pressure from the left that created the culture for Obama’s announcement. Because LGBT and left-wing activists “held his feet to the fire,” Smooth says, Obama was encouraged to support marriage…
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