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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Scanner : mike Huckabee</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/mike+Huckabee/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: mike Huckabee</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20910.1126)</generator><item><title>While You Were Sleeping: Fake Boobs, Fake ID</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/25/while-you-were-sleeping-fake-boobs-fake-id.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:08:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:189244</guid><dc:creator>Brian Fairbanks</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=189244</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/03/25/while-you-were-sleeping-fake-boobs-fake-id.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/03/23-End/penis%20soap.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/03/23-End/penis%20soap.jpg" border="0" height="286" width="361" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;The continued success of &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/23/AR2009032302972.html?hpid=sec-artsliving" target="_blank"&gt;National Public Radio&lt;/a&gt; proves that there are at least a handful of people out there still interested in brain stimulation. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Margaret Cho &lt;a href="http://www.starobserver.com.au/entertainment/2009/03/25/theres-no-business-like-cho-business/5092" target="_blank"&gt;on Margaret Cho&lt;/a&gt; and her Cho Show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a target="_blank"&gt;Condoleeza Rice&lt;/a&gt; started to climb out of her shell on Leno, discussing Led Zeppelin and Obama... &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;The worst story of the month: a man claims &lt;a href="http://www.topix.net/news/weird/2009/03/deputy-accused-of-writing-ticket-while-mans-mother-dies-in-car?fromrss=1" target="_blank"&gt;his mother died&lt;/a&gt; when a police officer stalled the man&amp;#39;s hospital trip to write a ticket.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Thanks to Behrooz for reminding us about the woman who used&lt;a href="http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_11984083?source=rss_viewed" target="_blank"&gt; a fake ID&lt;/a&gt; to pay for fake boobs. Not much can be said about that. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Is this &lt;a href="http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/1102450.html" target="_blank"&gt;the best Mike Huckabee quote&lt;/a&gt; ever? &lt;span class="headline"&gt;&amp;quot;When it abolished slavery, the U.S. debated and
decided it was immoral for one person to have complete, life-or-death
power over another.&amp;quot; Obviously, Huckabee is against the death penalty... right?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;A Congressional candidate announced &lt;a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/PoliticalWire/%7E3/27cEaSfC-W8/candidate_announces_via_twitter.html" target="_blank"&gt;via Twitter&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We understand why it&amp;#39;s on the market, but we&amp;#39;re still &lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/24/Musical-SpongeBob-Rectal-Thermometer.-Fun-for-Your-Kid_1920_s-Butt_3F00_-.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;uncomfortable&lt;/a&gt; with it. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Jennifer Hudson will have her &lt;a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1607655/20090324/hudson__jennifer.jhtml?rsspartner=rssMozilla" target="_blank"&gt;revenge&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;i&gt;American Idol&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;And there&amp;#39;s no story to go with the above photo. We just assumed you would appreciate it.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Related:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/10/while-you-were-sleeping-carrie-underwood-s-dress-was-too-short.aspx" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank"&gt;While You Were Sleeping: Carrie Underwood&amp;#39;s Dress Was Too Short&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/11/today-in-wtf-man-having-sex-with-or-in-a-dumpster.aspx" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank"&gt;Today in WTF: Man Has Sex with or in a Dumpster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/16/while-you-were-sleeping-the-rihanna-nightmare-continues.aspx%20" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank"&gt;While You Were Sleeping: The Rihanna Nightmare Continues&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/25/while-you-were-sleeping-more-grey-s-anatomy-turmoil.aspx"&gt;While You Were Sleeping: More Grey&amp;#39;s Anatomy Turmoil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=189244" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/music/default.aspx">music</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/dead+people/default.aspx">dead people</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/jay+leno/default.aspx">jay leno</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/Led+Zeppelin/default.aspx">Led Zeppelin</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/congress/default.aspx">congress</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/condoleezza+rice/default.aspx">condoleezza rice</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/american+idol/default.aspx">american idol</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/abortion/default.aspx">abortion</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/mike+Huckabee/default.aspx">mike Huckabee</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/slavery/default.aspx">slavery</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/national+public+radio/default.aspx">national public radio</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/twitter/default.aspx">twitter</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/while+you+were+sleeping/default.aspx">while you were sleeping</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/police+are+idiots/default.aspx">police are idiots</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/margaret+cho/default.aspx">margaret cho</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/jennifer+hudson/default.aspx">jennifer hudson</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/nun/default.aspx">nun</category></item><item><title>RNC Candidate Produces "Barack the Magic Negro" Song</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/12/29/rnc-candidate-produces-barack-the-magic-negro-song.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:02:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:159674</guid><dc:creator>Brian Fairbanks</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=159674</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/12/29/rnc-candidate-produces-barack-the-magic-negro-song.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/08/01-07/slavery.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/08/01-07/slavery.jpg" border="0" height="237" width="268" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;If you think the historic and decisive victory of Barack Obama has dealt a death blow to this country&amp;#39;s racial intolerance, you&amp;#39;re going to want to see this...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Chip Saltsman, the genius who turned Mike Huckabee&amp;#39;s win in the Iowa caucus to a triumphant defeat down the road, is running to be the head of the Republican National Committee. Since, as is the case with Sarah Palin, the vilest candidate should win here and, with the unfunny &amp;quot;parody&amp;quot; song he handed out to colleagues at Christmas and the huge uproar over the weekend, we would peg him as the new front runner for the job.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Here&amp;#39;s a video someone made set to the song. Our second favorite, way less amusing, is &lt;a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/575124/barack_the_magic_negro/" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. There&amp;#39;s nothing to say here except these people are incredibly sad... just sad...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vxYDnYTvmfU&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vxYDnYTvmfU&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;...with caveats: 1) The video opens with Paul Shanklin, an Al Sharpton impersonator (more like &amp;quot;mocker&amp;quot;), letting everyone know this is closed captioned for the &amp;quot;thinking &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;impared&lt;/span&gt;.&amp;quot; Yes, that&amp;#39;s how he spelled it. Oh, and there are no captions in the video whatsoever. 2) Even if the rest of the ignorant lyrics fail to turn you off, just keep reminding yourself that Saltsman is white and the use of the word &amp;quot;Negro,&amp;quot; his defenders argue, is completely acceptable because he&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;being funny.&amp;quot; 3) The smack-yourself-in-the-forehead break in the song, which either Saltsman or Shanklin use to claim that people vote for Obama because &amp;quot;this is about justice&amp;quot;-- as if those tens of millions of votes were all because people feel sorry for the Civil Rights Era (yeah, tell that to the Jesse Jackson &amp;#39;84 and &amp;#39;88 campaigns, and to George Bush, who would be relieved to know it had nothing to do with him. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;If the video gets pulled (it has been once already), please email us at &lt;a href="mailto:scanner@nerve.com" target="_blank"&gt;scanner@nerve.com&lt;/a&gt; and we&amp;#39;ll 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Series</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/12/16/this-week-in-gayness-the-coming-out-tv-series.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:15:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:156707</guid><dc:creator>Brian Fairbanks</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=156707</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/12/16/this-week-in-gayness-the-coming-out-tv-series.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/12/16-22/conan-and-stewart.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/12/16-22/conan-and-stewart.jpg" width="333" border="0" height="243" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Sioux City, Iowa decided not to &lt;a href="http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20081216/NEWS/812160374/1001/" target="_blank"&gt;vote on gay marriage&lt;/a&gt; because they&amp;#39;re not sure they have the authority to do so. We wish Prop 8 supporters had realized the same thing. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Arizona can&amp;#39;t even decide whether it wants to support &lt;a href="http://www.topix.net/bigpic/mini-4ec629952d313abb07cb6cd052b2977b" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;i&gt;equal judicial representation&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of gay people. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Headline of the week: &amp;quot;How gay are &lt;a href="http://www.topix.net/news/gay/2008/12/how-gay-are-philly-athletes?fromrss=1" target="_blank"&gt;Philly athletes&lt;/a&gt;?&amp;quot; Answer: very.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.topix.net/news/gay/2008/12/also-known-as-completely-demeaning?fromrss=1" target="_blank"&gt;State Department&lt;/a&gt; has find an interesting way to stop gay marriage...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;I&amp;#39;ve now seen a couple of different reports (here and now here) about
how same-sex couples who legally change their names on their marriage
certificates are unable to get the State Department to recognize that
name change on the couple&amp;#39;s passports. In these cases, the State
Department takes the position that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)
prevents the government from recognizing a name change effected in
conjunction with a same-sex marriage. Nonetheless, the State Department
will recognize the name change if the couple takes the separate (and
completely unnecessary) step of going to court to get a judicial name
change or if the new name is used publicly and exclusively for a period
of at least five years (and you can document such use).&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Showtime is producing a reality show called &lt;a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/GoodAsYou/%7E3/rMnI8NJi2LU/mom-dad-camera.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Coming Out&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which is, you guessed it, about people who come out to their bizarrely-clueless families.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;New Jersey may have &lt;a href="http://www.topix.net/news/gay/2008/12/n-j-civil-union-review-commission-recommends-marriage-upgrade?fromrss=1" target="_blank"&gt;marriage equality&lt;/a&gt; in the near future. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;quot;Religion is far more of a &lt;a href="http://www.mrcharlietodd.com/post/64112778" target="_blank"&gt;choice &lt;/a&gt;than homosexuality.&amp;quot; - Jon Stewart &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Melissa Etheridge and Elisabeth Hasselbeck got into &lt;a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/%7Er/jezebel/full/%7E3/w4LWNpgN-OI/etheridge-calls-elisabeth-out-for-her-support-of-prop-8" target="_blank"&gt;a fight&lt;/a&gt; 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They&amp;#39;ll be edited as scenes and sound bites into documentaries and mainstream news stories the way old footage of the first civil rights movement is still very present in the media today. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So who wants to be the asshole who preached &amp;quot;separate but equal&amp;quot; again, only to look like an ignorant hate-monger a few decades later? Bigoted born-again Fred Flinstone does.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jon Stewart must be having one hell of a week. We can&amp;#39;t stop posting clips from &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;The Daily Show&lt;/span&gt;, but we promise this will be the last one of the year (&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;The Daily Show&lt;/span&gt; is on hiatus until 2009). &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is it us or does Mike Huckabee look like he was molded by the creators of Gumby? His clay skin, the odd way he expresses himself with his prominent eyes, that creepy laugh...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Watch Stewart enlighten Mr. God.:&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="cc_box" style="position:relative;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-style:solid;border-width:1px 1px 0px 0px;overflow:hidden;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;float:left;width:299px;height:31px;"&gt;&lt;div class="cc_show" style="overflow:hidden;position:relative;padding-left:3px;height:14px;padding-top:2px;"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/" target="_blank"&gt;The Daily Show With Jon Stewart&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="position:absolute;top:2px;right:3px;"&gt;M - Th 11p / 10c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="cc_title" style="padding:1px 3px 3px;overflow:hidden;font-size:11px;line-height:14px;height:21px;"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=213349&amp;amp;title=mike-huckabee-pt.-2" target="_blank"&gt;Mike Huckabee Pt. 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:213349" style="float:left;clear:left;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="window" flashvars="autoPlay=false" width="360" height="301"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="cc_links" style="border-style:none solid solid;border-width:0px 1px 1px;float:left;clear:left;width:358px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="width:177px;float:left;padding-left:3px;"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=166515&amp;amp;title=Barack-Obama-Pt.-1" target="_blank"&gt;Barack Obama Interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=167938&amp;amp;title=John-McCain-Pt.-1" target="_blank"&gt;John McCain Interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="width:177px;float:left;"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?searchterm=Sarah+Palin&amp;amp;searchtype=site&amp;amp;x=0&amp;amp;y=0" target="_blank"&gt;Sarah Palin Video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?searchterm=indecision+2008&amp;amp;searchtype=site&amp;amp;x=0&amp;amp;y=0" target="_blank"&gt;Funny Election Video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Related: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
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someone else, it means they&amp;#39;re &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/GoodAsYou/%7E3/464456757/anti-gays-rise.html" target="_blank"&gt;haters&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;There&amp;#39;s nothing like &lt;a href="http://media.www.thenews.org/media/storage/paper651/news/2008/11/21/News/acts-Shock.Students.Bring.Awareness-3555993.shtml" target="_blank"&gt;harmless satire&lt;/a&gt; to show people that homosexuals are just as laid-back, easygoing, and as boring as everyone else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mike Huckabee, &lt;a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/18/huckabee-gay-rights/" target="_blank"&gt;eternally stupid&lt;/a&gt;. Now he claims that gays aren&amp;#39;t having their civil rights violated because there hasn&amp;#39;t been enough violence against their kind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did you know an unusually high percentage of gay men &lt;a href="http://queersunited.blogspot.com/2008/11/gay-american-smokeout-112008.html" target="_blank"&gt;smoke&lt;/a&gt;? And we don&amp;#39;t mean after sex...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A police officer in Memphis plead not guilty in the beating of a &lt;a href="http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid66677.asp" target="_blank"&gt;transgender person&lt;/a&gt; he was supposed to have simply locked up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A rundown of &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/GoodAsYou/%7E3/464154632/from-richard-ni.html" target="_blank"&gt;the gay marriage struggle&lt;/a&gt; since 1970.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And Dr. Phil did a show about gay marriage. As you can imagine, it was a &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/GoodAsYou/%7E3/461182982/video-todays-dr.html" target="_blank"&gt;completely lackluster&lt;/a&gt; piece of crap. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;UPDATE: This just in.. a Florida court has ruled the state&amp;#39;s ban on gay aboption is unconsitituional.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Cindy Lederman Tuesday declared Florida&amp;#39;s
50-year-old ban on gay adoptions unconstitutional -- a ruling state
lawyers immediately said they would challenge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ruling sets the stage for Frank Gill, a gay man from North Miami, to adopt two foster children he has raised since 2004.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In
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We were deceived,&amp;quot; said Dwight
Duncan, president and CEO of Four States Fair Grounds in Texarkana...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The day after the cage fight in Texarkana, a similar gay-themed prank was pulled in nearby Fort Smith, featuring&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;a character named &amp;quot;Straight Dave&amp;quot; would goad a planted audience member into the ring for a fight.&lt;/i&gt;
	&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The
two men would then wrestle, rip away some of their clothes and share a
brief kiss reminiscent of one between Baron Cohen and &lt;a href="http://www.starpulse.com/Actors/Ferrell,_Will/"&gt;Will Ferrell&lt;/a&gt; in the film &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://www.starpulse.com/Movies/Talladega_Nights:_The_Ballad_of_Ricky_Bobby/"&gt;Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
	&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Producers
said &amp;quot;it
was kind of to essentially make fun, poke fun at wrestling— two guys rolling around on the floor, all sweaty.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
	&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;An
elaborate array of mounted and handheld video cameras caught the crowd
of 1,600&amp;#39;s reaction as the two men &amp;quot;went right up to the line&amp;quot; of the
city&amp;#39;s morality laws.... The two men stripped down to their
underwear, kissed and rubbed on each other, the sergeant said.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;As soon as the audience realized they&amp;#39;d been duped, they started lobbing beers at the participants... ha ha, suckers-- the pranksters saw this coming and only handed out plastic cups. The wrestlers, meanwhile, had been hastily removed from the building, unscathed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Those in attendance were told by several signs on display that
they&amp;#39;d be filmed, Holland said, and signed waivers before the event.
Convention center sales director Karin Hobbs declined to name the
event&amp;#39;s sponsor Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;But the Associated Press is dead certain that Sacha Baron Cohen is behind it, possibly filming for &amp;quot;Bruno&amp;quot; or even a new, unknown production beyond that.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;If
the cage match visits came from Baron Cohen, it wouldn&amp;#39;t be the first
time Arkansas fell for a practical joke. In 2000, then-Gov. Mike
Huckabee fell for a prank and congratulated Canada for preserving its
icebound Parliament, calling it a &amp;quot;national igloo.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;And that guy&amp;#39;s being considered for the 2nd-in-Command of the &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;United States?!&lt;/span&gt; Reason enough to vote for Bob Barr, for God&amp;#39;s sake...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/07/08-15/sc%20full.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/07/08-15/sc%20full.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Via &lt;a href="http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/07/08/fake_ark_bouts_showing_men_kissing_draw_" target="_blank"&gt;Starpulse/AP&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=107625" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/gay/default.aspx">gay</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/stephen+colbert/default.aspx">stephen colbert</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/internet/default.aspx">internet</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/funny/default.aspx">funny</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/hollywood/default.aspx">hollywood</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/comedians/default.aspx">comedians</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/comedy+central/default.aspx">comedy central</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/mike+Huckabee/default.aspx">mike Huckabee</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/Lenny+Kravitz/default.aspx">Lenny Kravitz</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/joke/default.aspx">joke</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/movie/default.aspx">movie</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/sacha+baron+cohen/default.aspx">sacha baron cohen</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/pranks/default.aspx">pranks</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/jon+stewart/default.aspx">jon stewart</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/andy+dick/default.aspx">andy dick</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/practical+jokes/default.aspx">practical jokes</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/kevin+spacey/default.aspx">kevin spacey</category></item><item><title>Top 5 Things Obama Should Do Now</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/06/05/top-5-things-obama-should-do-now.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:18:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:98929</guid><dc:creator>Brian Fairbanks</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=98929</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/06/05/top-5-things-obama-should-do-now.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/06/01-07/obama10207_narrowweb__300x387,0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/06/01-07/obama10207_narrowweb__300x387,0.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Inspired by several recent lists, including Robert Creamers &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/ten-key-steps-to-put-obam_b_105126.html" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;quot;Ten Key Steps to Put Obama Over the Top in November&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; from Wednesday&amp;#39;s Huffington Post, we decided to put together a list of what we hope Obama does next to beat McCain. Of course, there will be a McCain list in the coming days for the three of his supporters still reading this blog...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;5. Get the Vice Presidential choice out of the way so, even if he doesn&amp;#39;t announce it for months, it does not bog down his campaign&amp;#39;s time. For the record, Senators Dodd, Edwards, and Webb are fine choices, while Senator Clinton and Governor Richardson would bog the ticket down with their respective baggage, Clinton with her high negatives plus Bush-Clinton fatigue and Richardson&amp;#39;s poor campaign skills plus New Mexico&amp;#39;s likely Democratic swing this year should rule them both out. This is nothing against them personally-- it&amp;#39;s all about weighing advantages versus disadvantages of the way that Obama-? bumpersticker reads. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;4. Gather uncommitted female superdelegates and Governors like &lt;a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&amp;amp;address=132x3816156" target="_blank"&gt;Kathleen Sebelius&lt;/a&gt; (Kan.) and Janet Napolitano (Ariz.) to follow Hillary Clinton&amp;#39;s endorsement and shore up the female vote that is still out there and less than thrilled about another male President.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;3. This is an obvious one, but key: use elder party surrogates to make the case. Perfect examples would be Joe Biden and especially Jim Webb, with his experience, Republican background, and excellent TV &amp;quot;presence.&amp;quot; This will balance Republican/McCain attacks on Obama&amp;#39;s experience and lack of authority on foreign policy.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;2. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Stone#Stone.27s_Rules" target="_blank"&gt;As Roger Stone says: &amp;quot;Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; and &amp;quot;Attack, attack, attack-- deny everything&amp;quot; (the last one is not an exact quote, but the point is the same.) The Republicans have won with these words time and again since 1972 and the Democrats cannot afford to ignore these rules this year. For one thing, we&amp;#39;d be talking about the reelection of John Kerry if he&amp;#39;d paid attention to them the last time around.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;1. Fuck the swing states-- go after everything remotely in play. If he did so well in Montana, Virginia, and even Alabama, he should run hard there. This is a new Presidential election-- it would suck to wake up the day after and find out he could have won if only he&amp;#39;d spent any money in, say, Alabama-- &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#AL" target="_blank"&gt;where he had 56% in the primary and McCain lost to Huckabee&lt;/a&gt;-- he would&amp;#39;ve taken the electoral college. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Previously&lt;/i&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/06/04/the-top-5-moments-in-the-career-of-hillary-clinton.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Top 10 Moments in the Career of Hillary Clinton&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=98929" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/politics/default.aspx">politics</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/hillary+clinton/default.aspx">hillary clinton</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/Barack+Obama/default.aspx">Barack Obama</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/mike+Huckabee/default.aspx">mike Huckabee</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/elections/default.aspx">elections</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/virginia/default.aspx">virginia</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/michelle+obama/default.aspx">michelle obama</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/bill+richardson/default.aspx">bill richardson</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/joe+biden/default.aspx">joe biden</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/montana/default.aspx">montana</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/roger+stone/default.aspx">roger stone</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/jim+webb/default.aspx">jim webb</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/chris+dodd/default.aspx">chris dodd</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/alabama/default.aspx">alabama</category></item><item><title>More WTF: Obama Assassination Hints And Jokes</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/27/more-wtf-obama-assassination-jokes.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 17:44:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:96644</guid><dc:creator>Brian Fairbanks</dc:creator><slash:comments>6</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=96644</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/27/more-wtf-obama-assassination-jokes.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/05/23-End/Bobby2_001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/05/23-End/Bobby2_001.jpg" border="0" height="324" width="498" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When did it become okay to joke about someone, anyone, getting assassinated?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;First, there was the non-joke Hillary made about her campaign continuing because &lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California
primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all
remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.&amp;quot; &lt;/i&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/05/23/2008-05-23_hillary_clinton_slammed_for_robert_kenne.html" target="_blank"&gt;NY Daily News&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Again, &lt;i&gt;huh?&lt;/i&gt; He was assassinated in June in California, yes, but what does that have to do with &lt;i&gt;this&lt;/i&gt; campaign at all? Did it meant that the &amp;#39;68 race was thrown in the air by the assassination and therfore was &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;also&lt;/span&gt; unresolved in June? We&amp;#39;re not even sure this reference to Bobby Kennedy is offensive because we don&amp;#39;t quite understand her point.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then there was this, also over the weekend. From the &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-seitzman/is-the-secret-service-inv_b_103565.html" target="_blank"&gt;Huffington Post&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;					

					
					&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Fox
News political pundit Liz Trotta jokingly suggested this weekend that
someone should assassinate an American presidential candidate. She had
first &amp;quot;mistakenly&amp;quot; referred to Obama as &amp;quot;Osama&amp;quot; while discussing
theories that Hillary Clinton&amp;#39;s recent comments about the RFK
assassination was in fact a suggestion that someone &amp;quot;knock off Osama.&amp;quot;
When she was corrected and reminded that she meant &amp;quot;Obama,&amp;quot; she then
said, &amp;quot;Well, both if we could.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#39;d think Trotta would&amp;#39;ve learned from &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/19/huckabee-encourages-nra-members-to-shoot-obama.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Mike Huckabee&amp;#39;s idiotic joke&lt;/a&gt;, but then again, &lt;a href="http://www.upcheer.com/images/foxnews/" target="_blank"&gt;Fox News was never known for paying attention to real news&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of course, McCain escapes any sort of danger because whatever perceived enemies he might have will just wait for him to keel over. (Sorry, Scanner Emily!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=96644" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/hillary+clinton/default.aspx">hillary clinton</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/fox+news/default.aspx">fox news</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/Barack+Obama/default.aspx">Barack Obama</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/scanner+emily/default.aspx">scanner emily</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/john+McCain/default.aspx">john McCain</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/mike+Huckabee/default.aspx">mike Huckabee</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/assassination/default.aspx">assassination</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/democratic+primary/default.aspx">democratic primary</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/huffington+post/default.aspx">huffington post</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/bobby+kennedy/default.aspx">bobby kennedy</category></item><item><title>Scanner Highs and Lows: In Which We Consider Prancing Around in Stripper Shoes to Survive the Recession</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/23/scanner-highs-and-lows-in-which-we-consider-prancing-around-in-stripper-shoes-to-survive-the-recession.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 22:01:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:95881</guid><dc:creator>Emily Farris</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=95881</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/23/scanner-highs-and-lows-in-which-we-consider-prancing-around-in-stripper-shoes-to-survive-the-recession.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/05/23-End/strippershoes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/05/23-End/strippershoes.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was a long, cold winter and nothing says fuck me (and tip me) like a pair of stripper shoes, right? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Highs:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We got to &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/19/new-issue-of-pinups-gets-us-all-hot-and-bothered.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;look at&lt;/a&gt; naked, bearded, burly men. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/19/crush-of-the-week-veggie-pride-paraders.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;crushed on vegetarians&lt;/a&gt; even though we obviously &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/23/oprah-s-book-cult-where-s-the-beef.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;love meat&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have so many feelings about &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/20/lucille-bluth-is-on-the-new-quot-90210-quot-reboot.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;the new &lt;i&gt;90210&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; we&amp;#39;re not sure whether it goes in highs or lows. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/21/field-trip-the-icelandic-penis-museum.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;cyber-visited&lt;/a&gt; the Icelandic Penis Museum.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We looked at some &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/21/scarlett-johansson-and-her-boobs-breasts-lips-in-italian-gq.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;old pictures&lt;/a&gt; of Scarlett Johansson. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We learned you really, &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/21/who-would-you-rather-stephen-colbert-vs-jon-stewart.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;really love Jon Stewart&lt;/a&gt;. And Stephen Colbert, too. Just not as much.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/22/utilitarian-stripper-shoes-finally.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;briefly considered&lt;/a&gt; purchasing a pair of stripper shoes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This woman is probably going to have some seriously swollen breasts—a small price to pay for &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/23/woman-in-china-breast-feeds-babies-after-earthquake.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;saving so many lives with them&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ellen Degeneres very politely made John McCain &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/22/mccain-on-ellen-quot-touche-quot.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;look like an ass&lt;/a&gt; (who really didn&amp;#39;t look like he believed in what he was saying, right?)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lows:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For the first time in our lives, the New Kids on the Block &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/19/were-the-new-kids-on-the-block-always-such-bad-singers.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;let us down&lt;/a&gt;. But only just a little.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Um, did Mike Huckabee &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/19/huckabee-encourages-nra-members-to-shoot-obama.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;encourage shooting&lt;/a&gt; Barack Obama? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Father-Daughter Purity Ball really &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/20/the-father-daughter-purity-ball-is-one-party-scanner-will-not-be-attending.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;freaked us out&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apparently Hulu.com is &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/21/hysterical-regis-philbin-tampon-commercial-buried-in-otherwise-crummy-snl-sketch.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;too pure&lt;/a&gt; to allow embedding at Nerve.com.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We learned that R. Kelly&amp;#39;s sex tape was &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/21/r-kelly-sex-tape-set-to-the-tune-of-the-spice-girls-and-backstreet-boys.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;set to the tune&lt;/a&gt; of the Backstreet Boys and the Spice Girls.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And that he&amp;#39;s &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/23/r-kelly-is-so-screwed.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;probably going to jail&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#39;re glad we had no part in &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/22/guy-lucky-quot-online-date-from-hell-quot-didn-t-have-a-body-count.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;this date&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href="http://myredhead.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/strippershoes.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;Image]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=95881" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/stephen+colbert/default.aspx">stephen colbert</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/Barack+Obama/default.aspx">Barack Obama</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/highs+and+lows/default.aspx">highs and lows</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/R+Kelly/default.aspx">R Kelly</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/penis/default.aspx">penis</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/scarlett+johansson/default.aspx">scarlett johansson</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/john+McCain/default.aspx">john McCain</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/mike+Huckabee/default.aspx">mike Huckabee</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/new+kids+on+the+block/default.aspx">new kids on the block</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/ellen+degeneres/default.aspx">ellen degeneres</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/nkotb/default.aspx">nkotb</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/Oprah/default.aspx">Oprah</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/jon+stewart/default.aspx">jon stewart</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/vegetarians/default.aspx">vegetarians</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/90210/default.aspx">90210</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/stripper+shoes/default.aspx">stripper shoes</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/hulu/default.aspx">hulu</category></item><item><title>Huckabee Encourages NRA Members To Shoot Obama</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/19/huckabee-encourages-nra-members-to-shoot-obama.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 15:07:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:94673</guid><dc:creator>Brian Fairbanks</dc:creator><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=94673</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/05/19/huckabee-encourages-nra-members-to-shoot-obama.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/05/16-22/huckabee.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/05/16-22/huckabee.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Correct us if we&amp;#39;re wrong, but there &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; laws against this sort of thing, are there not?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We were in the middle of reading &lt;i&gt;Vanity Fair&lt;/i&gt;&amp;#39;s story on the pre-assassination campaign of Bobby Kennedy when we heard TV&amp;#39;s talking heads jabbering about the inane/insane remarks of one Mike Huckabee. Huckabee would have been, in happier times, jailed on the spot for threatening the President of the United States. Unfortunately, it appears law enforcement doesn&amp;#39;t consider &amp;quot;future Presidents&amp;quot; as being protected from said law... &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Reports differ on whether or not the audience approved of his remarks. The earliest reports we saw indicated murmuring and no laughter followed the following, which came after a loud thump or bang from behind the stage:  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;“That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he&amp;#39;s getting ready
to speak,” said the former Arkansas governor, to audience laughter.
“Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.”&lt;/i&gt; [&lt;a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/16/huckabee-jokes-about-obama-ducking-a-gunman/" target="_blank"&gt;CNN&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Doesn&amp;#39;t that encourage shooting the Presidential candidate? Especially when you encourage that shooting in front of hundreds of NRA members?! You can &lt;i&gt;bet&lt;/i&gt; Huckabee would&amp;#39;ve hounded Obama with this remark, had their roles in this been reversed, all the way to the inaugural, whereas Obama takes the customary high road and refused comment. (We thought he should&amp;#39;ve used this as a golden opportunity to drive the final stake in Huckabee&amp;#39;s political coffin, but then again, we&amp;#39;re not wimpy Democratic operatives.)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;More on this at &lt;a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/16/huckabee-jokes-about-obama-ducking-a-gunman/" target="_blank"&gt;CNN&lt;/a&gt;, including video.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=94673" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/politics/default.aspx">politics</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/Barack+Obama/default.aspx">Barack Obama</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/mike+Huckabee/default.aspx">mike Huckabee</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/vanity+fair/default.aspx">vanity fair</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/assassination/default.aspx">assassination</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/cnn.com/default.aspx">cnn.com</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/nra/default.aspx">nra</category></item><item><title>Analysis: A Clinton Victory Would Fracture The Democratic Party</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/03/24/analysis-a-clinton-victory-would-fracture-the-democratic-party.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:80128</guid><dc:creator>Brian Fairbanks</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=80128</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/03/24/analysis-a-clinton-victory-would-fracture-the-democratic-party.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/03/23-End/convention_vid.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/03/23-End/convention_vid.jpg" style="width:203px;height:227px;" alt="" align="" border="0" hspace="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/03/23-End/courtroom_.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/03/23-End/courtroom_.jpg" alt="" align="" border="0" height="230" hspace="" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;The Washington Post had a very insightful story on Sunday called &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/22/AR2008032202229.html?nav=rss_politics" target="_blank"&gt;8 Questions That Will Shape Where The Race For The Democratic Nomination Goes From Here&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;quot; Despite the Lawrence of Arabia-long title, it&amp;#39;s actually a decent layman&amp;#39;s guide to the next several months in this electoral steel cage match.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/22/AR2008032202229.html?nav=rss_politics" target="_blank"&gt;The Post&lt;/a&gt;, as well as other observers, conclude that Hillary&amp;#39;s near-impossible uphill battle involves winning more contests, more of the popular vote, fare better in head-to-head matchups with McCain, and convince superdelegates that somehow her nomination wouldn&amp;#39;t cause a huge uproar with Democrats:&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Clinton must persuade uncommitted superdelegates to deny the nomination
to the candidate who has more pledged delegates. But to side with her
would almost certainly offend African Americans, the party&amp;#39;s most loyal
constituency. How many superdelegates will be prepared for that? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Aren&amp;#39;t Clinton supporters concerned that to choose an establishment candidate, not entirely favored for the nomination, who gains in the polls when she hints that her Republican opponent would be better than her primary one, would be all but fatal to the party, fracturing it basically in half and disenfranchsing and disenchanting African Americans? Take a look at 1968, a year eerily similar to the one this one is shaping up to be, in which the anti-war outsider/youth candidate (played in that instance by Eugene McCarthy) was bested by an experienced Capitol Hill insider less interested in change and not as likely to energize the base (Vice President Humphrey.) That contest also came down to a controversial convention, one which historians generally agree was the beginning of the end for a resurgent Democratic Party, an outfit which has seldom since controlled the government.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Think about it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;PS We can&amp;#39;t resist stonewalling your defense of Clinton&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;experience&amp;quot; with this gem from Governor Huckabee: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;quot;To say that being married to the president gives you the experience to be
president would be like me saying, you know, that being married to my
wife gives me the capacity to explain childbirth because, after all,
I&amp;#39;ve been married to her and she&amp;#39;s given birth to our three children.&amp;quot; [&lt;a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/03232008/gossip/pagesix/endquote_____endquote_____103123.htm" target="_blank"&gt;New York Post&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Before responding to the above, check out the full story in the &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/22/AR2008032202229.html?nav=rss_politics" target="_blank"&gt;Washington Post&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=80128" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/hillary+clinton/default.aspx">hillary clinton</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/police/default.aspx">police</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/Barack+Obama/default.aspx">Barack Obama</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/mike+Huckabee/default.aspx">mike Huckabee</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/Chicago/default.aspx">Chicago</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/washington+dc/default.aspx">washington dc</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/democratic+primary/default.aspx">democratic primary</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/dan+rather/default.aspx">dan rather</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/1968/default.aspx">1968</category></item><item><title>Caption This: Huckabee's Got His Wife On A Thin Rope</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/03/03/caption-this-huckabee-s-got-his-wife-on-a-thin-rope.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:10:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:75509</guid><dc:creator>Brian Fairbanks</dc:creator><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=75509</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/03/03/caption-this-huckabee-s-got-his-wife-on-a-thin-rope.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/03/01-07/huckrope.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/03/01-07/huckrope.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hasn&amp;#39;t this woman suffered enough?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See if you can best the captions already posted via &lt;a href="http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2008/03/caption-this-photo.html" target="_blank"&gt;Shakespeare&amp;#39;s Sister&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
	Campaign Manager--&amp;quot;Nooses are offensive, so let&amp;#39;s use a lasso to degrade your wife.&amp;quot;  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
	It was all fun and games until Janet Huckabee realized the next step was Chuck Norris going kung-fu on her.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Come on, you guys can do better than &lt;a href="http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2008/03/caption-this-photo.html" target="_blank"&gt;these&lt;/a&gt;!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=75509" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/republicans/default.aspx">republicans</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/chuck+norris/default.aspx">chuck norris</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/mike+Huckabee/default.aspx">mike Huckabee</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/elections/default.aspx">elections</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/primary/default.aspx">primary</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/spouses/default.aspx">spouses</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/politcs/default.aspx">politcs</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/lasso/default.aspx">lasso</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/abuse/default.aspx">abuse</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/janet+huckabee/default.aspx">janet huckabee</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/hogtie/default.aspx">hogtie</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/campaigns/default.aspx">campaigns</category></item><item><title>Huckabee: Heteros Wed to "Train Replacements"</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/02/27/huckabee-heteros-wed-to-quot-train-replacements-quot.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:44:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:74557</guid><dc:creator>Brian Fairbanks</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=74557</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/02/27/huckabee-heteros-wed-to-quot-train-replacements-quot.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/tyrabanks.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/tyrabanks.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gov. Mike Huckabee had lots of amusing, cute, evasive things to say about the gays on The Tyra Banks Show. Plus: does politics affect your sex life? And how&lt;i&gt; The West Wing&lt;/i&gt; created Barack Obama before it was cool... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;From the transcript of Mike Huckabee&amp;#39;s appearance on the Tyra Banks program:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;BANKS: Do you want the gay vote?   &amp;nbsp;  HUCKABEE: Sure, I want
every vote. Seriously, I want to be president of everybody. And I can
disagree with people over a choice they make in their life or over a
lifestyle and still be their president and still say I want to keep you
free, I want to keep your country safe, I want to make your taxes lower
not higher.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;And so on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;BANKS: I&amp;#39;m asking you so many questions about this because I love the gays and the gays
 love me. And I know I cannot walk down the street here in New York City if I didn&amp;#39;t press that issue and truly ask you that.   &amp;nbsp;  HUCKABEE:
I think you should. I think people will respect my views on that; I
respect theirs. The great thing about America is, we can have totally
different viewpoints and we can do it without having animosity and
hatred. This is one of the great countries where you can have sharp
disagreements without killing each other over it.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Huckabee clearly emerged not only unscathed but on top of this one-- he actually sounded like a guy who cares about gay people, which is incompatible, to be sure, with the the image of the President (or should we say &lt;i&gt;Vice &lt;/i&gt;President?) we see him being.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In othere news, a new study in Spain shows it&amp;#39;s not the commies, anarchists, or right-wing fascists that have the best sex, but the &lt;a href="http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_15304.shtml" target="_blank"&gt;agnostics&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And below is a lil&amp;#39; video from Slate about how Jimmy Smits, er, Barack Obama became the President:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;embed src="http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/271557392" flashvars="videoId=1434027921&amp;amp;playerId=271557392&amp;amp;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://services.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&amp;amp;servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&amp;amp;cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&amp;amp;domain=embed&amp;amp;autoStart=false&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="412" width="486"&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Photo: Film Magic]&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=74557" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/politics/default.aspx">politics</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/Tyra+Banks/default.aspx">Tyra Banks</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/Barack+Obama/default.aspx">Barack Obama</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/sex/default.aspx">sex</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/mike+Huckabee/default.aspx">mike Huckabee</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/gay+couples/default.aspx">gay couples</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/west+wing/default.aspx">west wing</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/jimmy+smits/default.aspx">jimmy smits</category></item><item><title>Sloppy Seconds: Huckabee Rips off Boston, Paris Hilton's Pups, Pyrex Dildos, and Good Riddance to Bush</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/02/15/sloppy-seconds-huckabee-rips-off-boston-paris-hilton-s-pups-pyrex-dildos-and-good-riddance-to-bush.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:72093</guid><dc:creator>Emily Farris</dc:creator><slash:comments>5</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=72093</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/02/15/sloppy-seconds-huckabee-rips-off-boston-paris-hilton-s-pups-pyrex-dildos-and-good-riddance-to-bush.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/02/08-15/ph_blog_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/02/08-15/ph_blog_1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is Mike Huckabee ripping off Boston (the band, not the city)? One former member &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080215/ap_on_el_pr/huckabee_boston_band" target="_blank"&gt;thinks so&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Did you know that one is only allowed to own three dogs at a time in L.A.? Neither did we. &lt;a href="http://usmagazine.com/paris_hilton_under_investigation_for_owning_17_dogs" target="_blank"&gt;Neither did Paris Hilton&lt;/a&gt;. Well, actually, she&amp;#39;s just dumb and doesn&amp;#39;t get them spayed and neutered.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Eco-friendly &lt;a href="http://sprig.com/videos/stylish-safe-sex-accessories-nookie-cookies/" target="_blank"&gt;dildos&lt;/a&gt; are all the new rage. Pyrex??!? (Also, how come that girl gets free dildos and we don&amp;#39;t? Shouldn&amp;#39;t the casserole queen/sex blogger get a free Pyrex dildo and possibly one &lt;i&gt;named after her&lt;/i&gt;?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Say goodbye to Dubya with &lt;a href="http://www.farewellmrpresident.com/beta/index.php" target="_blank"&gt;your own farewell video&lt;/a&gt;. We have a few things we&amp;#39;d like to say to him, ourselves. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=72093" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/paris+hilton/default.aspx">paris hilton</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/sloppy+seconds/default.aspx">sloppy seconds</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/puppies/default.aspx">puppies</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/eco-stuff/default.aspx">eco-stuff</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/George+Bush/default.aspx">George Bush</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/dildos/default.aspx">dildos</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/mike+Huckabee/default.aspx">mike Huckabee</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/casserole/default.aspx">casserole</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/boston/default.aspx">boston</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/pyrex/default.aspx">pyrex</category></item><item><title>Video of the Day: Huckabee Girl</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/02/04/video-of-the-day-huckabee-girl.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:22:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:68913</guid><dc:creator>Emily Farris</dc:creator><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=68913</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/02/04/video-of-the-day-huckabee-girl.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;We all know Obama wouldn&amp;#39;t have made it as far as he did without &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKsoXHYICqU" target="_blank"&gt;Obama Girl&lt;/a&gt;. So it&amp;#39;s only fair that ultra-conservative Mike Huckabee has a girl of his own. And hey, her song is kind of catchy: &amp;quot;So sure about creation / you didn&amp;#39;t need no facts/ and I know it&amp;#39;s the best way/&amp;nbsp; to kick the Democrats&amp;#39; ass.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.superdeluxe.com/static/swf/share_vidplayer.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="FlashVars" value="id=D81F2344BF5AC7BBF10D89679C1B620A014D35576FA505B0"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.superdeluxe.com/static/swf/share_vidplayer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="id=D81F2344BF5AC7BBF10D89679C1B620A014D35576FA505B0" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=68913" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/video+of+the+day/default.aspx">video of the day</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/vod/default.aspx">vod</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/Barack+Obama/default.aspx">Barack Obama</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/videos/default.aspx">videos</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/mike+Huckabee/default.aspx">mike Huckabee</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/super+deluxe/default.aspx">super deluxe</category></item><item><title>Jesus Christ To Endorse Huckabee At 4pm Press Conference</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/01/29/jesus-christ-endorses-mike-huckabee.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:67610</guid><dc:creator>Brian Fairbanks</dc:creator><slash:comments>3</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=67610</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/01/29/jesus-christ-endorses-mike-huckabee.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;embed src="http://godtube.com/flvplayer.swf" flashvars="viewkey=fe89a7a2bfaf3abd34b6" wmode="transparent" quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" align="middle" height="270" width="330"&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Mike Huckabee truly believes he&amp;#39;s Holier-than-thou. He thinks if he says God the most times per sentence per speech, he&amp;#39;ll be nominated for President by the Republican Party. It was scary for a while thinking the Governor of Arkansas could actually win, following his short-lived triumph in this month&amp;#39;s Iowa caucus.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Think this video is &lt;a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/01/christianity-ne.html"&gt;scary&lt;/a&gt;? Wait till you see what GodTube is trumpeting as their new favorite video, after the jump.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Seriously, folks, WWJD? Would he support an evangelical preacher like Mike Huckabee... or would he be more inclined to choose a tree-huggin&amp;#39; Denny Kucinich as his running mate? &lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-01-27-jesus-election_N.htm?csp=34" target="_blank"&gt;USA Today&lt;/a&gt; has the story on &lt;a href="http://www.jesusin2008.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Jesus in 2008&lt;/a&gt;, a new website devoted to this very debate.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=67610" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/politics/default.aspx">politics</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/republicans/default.aspx">republicans</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/GOP/default.aspx">GOP</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/dennis+kucinich/default.aspx">dennis kucinich</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/mike+Huckabee/default.aspx">mike Huckabee</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/elections/default.aspx">elections</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/primary/default.aspx">primary</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/jesus+christ/default.aspx">jesus christ</category></item><item><title>Who Would You Rather: Rambo vs. Walker, Texas Ranger</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/01/28/rambo-vs-walker-texas-ranger.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:28:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:67130</guid><dc:creator>Brian Fairbanks</dc:creator><slash:comments>3</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=67130</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/01/28/rambo-vs-walker-texas-ranger.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/chuck-norris-002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/chuck-norris-002.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="284" width="214" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/stallone-cobra-poster021.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/stallone-cobra-poster021.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="264" width="236" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;FoxNews is &lt;a href="http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/01/24/sylvester-stallone-endorses-mccain-coolest-endorsement-yet/"&gt;running a poll&lt;/a&gt; to determine who wins in a fight, Sly Stallone, who just endorsed John McCain, or Mike Huckabee supporter and &lt;a href="http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2008-01/34570296.jpg"&gt;bad-ass angel on his shoulder&lt;/a&gt; Chuck Norris. Hell yeah!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We decided to run our own poll: Who would you rather? Not between Sly &amp;#39;08 and Norris &amp;#39;08 (that&amp;#39;s an easy
one-- have you guys seen Rocky 26? I&amp;#39;m not even sure that was really
Stallone in it-- maybe he died before shooting and they just moved his
mouth with stop motion animation.) &amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;How about McCain-supporting Stallone in Cobra... vs. McCain-&lt;i&gt;style&lt;/i&gt; but-Huckabee-supporting Chuck Norris in Missing In Action 2? For the straight guys (like me, thank you very much), whom would you rather take on in an, um, in-no-way-homoerotic fight? For the rest of you: who would you rather...? &lt;/font&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=67130" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/politics/default.aspx">politics</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/chuck+norris/default.aspx">chuck norris</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/fights/default.aspx">fights</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/john+McCain/default.aspx">john McCain</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/mike+Huckabee/default.aspx">mike Huckabee</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/stallone/default.aspx">stallone</category></item><item><title>Scanner Survey: What About the VP?</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/01/22/scanner-survey-what-about-the-vp.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:33:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:65610</guid><dc:creator>Brian Fairbanks</dc:creator><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=65610</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/01/22/scanner-survey-what-about-the-vp.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.usnews.com/dbimages/master/1583/FE_DA_070904huckabee.jpg" alt="" align="" border="" height="260" hspace="" width="440" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Texas Hold &amp;#39;Em is so 2006, yo. This year, the Mafia and drunk old ladies in Atlantic City are rallying around one exciting gamble:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The CNN GOP Vice-Presidential Prediction Poll…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Check out the &lt;a href="http://politicalmarket.cnn.com/market/show/8098"&gt;monetary rankings&lt;/a&gt; and then:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As it stands, ultra-scary Mike Huckabee aka &amp;quot;Damien, from the Omen&amp;quot; is running second to &amp;quot;None of the Above,&amp;quot; which is what Democrats can only pray for. We&amp;#39;d like to know:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Who would you pick? (Whether or not you’re a Republican.)&lt;br /&gt;2) Who do you think the likely nominee will pick? I’m guessing McCain will pick Thompson, for example. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your answers in the comments below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=65610" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/politics/default.aspx">politics</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/republicans/default.aspx">republicans</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/GOP/default.aspx">GOP</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/VP/default.aspx">VP</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/mike+Huckabee/default.aspx">mike Huckabee</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/elections/default.aspx">elections</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/vice+president/default.aspx">vice president</category></item></channel></rss>