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-I don't have cable, and therefore only watch MTV for about 10 minutes per year. Today, at my girlfriend's house, I got my 10-minute fix, and it was a delight. 

Sway interviewed Obama. Obama said a couple things that he probably shouldn't have said on TV as a presidential candidate. He told Sway that his dreads "look tight." And answering a question about some local legislatures making sagging pants a punishable crime, Obama stated that such laws are a waste of time, however, "brothers need to pull up their pants." Sway, getting down to the nitty-grizzly.

The interview was spliced into an episode of MTV's Made. Made is one of the best shows ever, and I forgot about it. They take a kid who can't do shit, give him eight weeks to learn how to do shit, and then prove that he still can't do shit. It is a self-esteem suicide. I love the formula. On one episode, a kid tried to go from "guy who has never played basketball" to "guy on the varsity basketball team." Did he love basketball? No. He just wanted to be popular.  Every episode is about vanity. It's never, "I need a 1500 on my SATs, so I can get into UVA." It's always, "I need to get down to 3% body fat, so I can be on Girls-Gone-Wild with Snoop."

Today's episode, and I only saw the end, featured a fat kid who wanted to become a body builder in eight weeks. Try to find this on MTV.com. The other guys in the contest looked like body-builders. Then this kid came out, at least 40 pounds overweight, wearing a Speedo and glasses. Body-builders don't wear glasses. His flab rolled over his waist-band. He had absolutely zero muscle tone. Basically, they waxed his chest and told him to flex. And boy did he ever flex. I can't describe the poses with words. Just look it up. It was hysterical. Star-Wars kid funny.

-Brad (who is black), the CNN iReporter: I'm the only minority here. My question is, how can you encourage more people in the future to show up? How will you make that happen?

Sarah Palin: We've got to be all about equality. The Constitution preaches. Todd is Alaskan, and if you go up to Alaska, we have a problem with Todd being a minority up there. We live it. We got to do a better job about that. Thanks, Brad.

At this point, does anyone still think she isn't dumb? Really? This is about as bad as it gets.  A couple years ago, Rep. Jack Kingston, of Georgia, was on the Colbert Report, calling himself a "real African-American," because he lived in Africa, where his family had "help." He's white. But living in Africa somehow made him the victim of Jim Crow, slavery, poll-taxes, and lynching. A candidate for VP has now made an equally ignorant statement. Todd Palin is, I believe 1/4, Innuit.  I don't think that's the same as being called the n-word, or being accused of "taking our jobs." I don't think she has the intellect to manage a McDonald's.

That's like me claiming to be a minority, because I'm one of only a few white people in my immediate family.

Why did she throw in the line about the Constitution? Where was she going with that? I think we should take every sentence fragment from her interviews and make her finish the thoughts. And the ending... "We got to do a better job about that." My 3-year-old nephew, Jason, knows the difference between got/have, and about/with. Then again, he's pretty smart for a 3-year-old. Maybe that's not a fair comparison.

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