Blogcritics Author: Heloise

Jesse Jackson Drops "Hate" Bomb on Barack Obama

Heloise — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:46:46 EDT

Jackson wields the knife, The New Yorker provides cover.
Peter Abelard, Heloise’s medieval counterpart, was never threatened with castration; he was castrated as he lay asleep, waylaid by relatives of Heloise. It reminds us all that one is more likely to be hurt, maimed, castrated or killed by one of our own, under our roof, in the camp, so to speak. Jackson uses four-letter word...

Why Some Blacks Don't Get Rove

Heloise — Tue, 1 Jul 2008 21:56:18 EDT

The face of fear gets a makeover -- still ugly, but not �uppity.�
What exactly did Karl Rove say in a recent interview about Obama?Q: Do you see the elitist thing in other ways?Rove: Obama is coolly detached and very arrogant. I think he's very smart and knows he's smart, but as a result doesn't do his homework.Rove and the Christian conservatives are all about religion — who has it and who does...

Tim Russert's Passing Leaves Big Political Shoes to Fill

Heloise — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:09:10 EDT

Russert will be missed, but most of all he will miss the 2008 November election. He wouldn�t like missing something big.
Journalism lost a big player tonight. Journalists, especially those who cover the political beat and in Washington, got a shock to the system when Tom Brokaw interrupted NBC's normal schedule earlier today to report the death of his friend and colleague Tim Russert.NBC reports that Tim Russert was working on some recordings for Sunday’s...

Oil In The Rock

Heloise — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:12:01 EDT

Cash in, gas out: The �crude� joke Wall Street is playing on plain folks�markets making bank on your back.
Bought gas lately? Could be that you are buying more than gas--you could be buying a speculators speculation too. Are we being sold a swamp about crude oil and gas prices? Congress is trying to do something about what's called "dark markets." But the bill was defeated. If politicians and legislators don’t reign in the...

Book Review: All About The Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America by John McWhorter

Heloise — Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:25:24 EDT

The author argues that hip-hop is metaphysical at best, mystical at the least, but a political tour de force? Not yet, and maybe never.
On one side I hear John McWhorter, and on the other side I hear Michael Eric Dyson. In this book their voices come together because McWhorter has put forth his hip-hop apolitical argument in sharp contrast to the many political ones. In fact, Dyson provided the title of the book from a debate when he said hip-hop was “all about the...

Last Tango in Texas: Obama Dances Across History

Heloise — Wed, 4 Jun 2008 10:12:26 EDT

We have a Barack-solid Democratic Presidential nominee. It�s all about Barack, now baby.
With all the hoopla surrounding the headlines of an historic moment and Barack Obama waiting quietly in the wings to claim victory before a crowd of 17,000 in St. Paul, Texas’ final convention is forgotten. Obama is finally the party-elect nominee. The primaries of South Dakota and Montana provide the music for this waltz across the finish...

Movie Review: Sex And The City

Heloise — Mon, 2 Jun 2008 07:08:22 EDT

From size zero to sexy in less than two hours and 20 minutes - this film is sexy, funny, and touching.
Yes, I am proudly the last virgin on the Sex And The City block. Why? Because I never saw even one episode of that wildly popular HBO sitcom set in New York City. So, what’s the attraction now? Two things piqued my interest: good movie press and its autobiographical base. A little research on the net described the book (Sex And The City) and...

Mouth Bush Erupts in Israel and Other Stump Stories

Heloise — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:53:02 EDT

Yes, this week Hillary �Rocky� Clinton and other Democrats circled the wagon and fired back to help Obama stave off the short knife of a weak am-Bush.
The news cycle of the past month was rich with stories of cyclones, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions around the world. So the last thing we needed in the US of A was a neo-political eruption from the unpopular George “Gushing” Bush. By his own admission and my own chronicle he has trouble with the English language see Rove Resigns,...

Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Heloise — Wed, 7 May 2008 17:33:01 EDT

It's all over Hillary. Face the music gracefully, while the super delegates do the right thing.
CNN was able to declare Obama the primary winner of North Carolina as soon as the polls closed there. The prism that split the light into a Barack rainbow was no mystery. He has won that state by double digits and the black vote has abandoned Hillary Clinton as predicted and won’t be returning. Obama has garnered upwards of 92% of the black...

Dam Wright!

Heloise — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:39:48 EDT

Rev. Jeremiah Wright seeks to explain the inexplicable with the unsupportable before the NAACP and the National Press Club.
If Rev. Wright doesn’t shut the fuck up there will be a dark night of the poll. Senator Obama will lose whatever lead he holds in both Indiana and North Carolina. He could lose the nomination. Wright is not helping the country, the Democratic Party, Obama, black and white people by spouting his brand of history of black Americans in America....