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Here is an ill advised video made posted by the Minnesota GOP.

The Minnesota GOP webmaster explained, “It wasn’t intended to be fair. It was intended to be funny.”

Left: Tough manly loner has unexpectedly unmanly butterfly tattoo. (Clooney, The American)

Right: Tough manly loner has unexpectedly unmanly butterfly tattoo. (McQueen, Papillon)

Also, after the jump, Clooney joins the pack of brooding back-tattooed actors (Penn, Liotta, Hawke)

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The New York Daily News Editor’s Picks column finally destroys reality by folding in on itself, like an editorial MC Escher work. It asks the impossible, and then answers it!

Did NBC do this last year? Those down and yard marker ice cream coned with a scoop of the offensive team’s logo in them? Worst, they don’t even come off the screen once the play starts. Did NBC receive a bunch of letters from viewers complaining about not having enough childish garbage on the field during game play? Look at the below, is there really a need for more graphic design vomit on the field? Is Sunday Night Football for Idiots now? Please stop this.

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Hello genius. This is an email from the Colorado gubernatorial race. Full text after the jump but this is the best part:

“The McInnis Plagiarism Pen is a fine black pen with a rubber comfort grip, perfect for studying in school or writing the next Great American Novel. Best of all, the user will be constantly reminded of the importance of intellectual honesty.”

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Bradlee Dean of the You Can Run But You Can’t Hide “ministry,” supported by both Michelle Bachman’s and Tom Emmer, the recipient of Target’s backing for Minnesota governor, has issued a statement on Prop . Impeach the judge! Email below:

And after the jump, audio of Mr. Dean’s comments about how calling for the execution of American homosexuals is upholding the laws in the bible, a call that makes them “more moral.” (more…)

Here is the most irresponsible headline of the month courtesy of US News & World Report.

This is what I was worried about when I wrote about MoveOn.org’s involvement in the Target gay-rights controversy. I wrote at The Awl:

“Jumping aboard, MoveOn.org launched a petition calling for 150,000 consumers to commit to a boycott. While welcomed by many, there is reason to be wary of MoveOn.org’s particular involvement. For starters, its statement reads “If we don’t push back hard, this will just be the tip of the iceberg. Other corporations will learn that they can pour money into elections to buy the outcome they want.” It essentially lessens the anti-gay rights part of the Target donation outrage in exchange for a focus on a larger battle about the post-Citizens United campaigning world… one in which MoveOn.org’s side benefits greatly. Some, like me, might use a stronger word than “lamentable” to characterize MoveOn’s failure to even once use the term “gay” in its petition”

Now, right-leaning Washington Post finally picks up on the Target story and what do they print?

 ”The campaign against Target was orchestrated by liberal-advocacy group MoveOn.org. It included a note on the retailer’s Facebook page that said, ‘Boycott Target Until They Cease Funding Anti-Gay Politics.’

‘We made Target the target,’ said Ilyse Hogue, the group’s director of public advocacy. Ms. Hogue said MoveOn and its members plan to gin up bad publicity for any company venturing into political campaigning.”

Congratulations to Ilyse Hogue for walking right into that trap. Extra points for your shitty pun. How do we know Hogue isn’t up to speed? WaPo: “Ms. Hogue said MoveOn.org wouldn’t let up until Target stops ‘meddling in our elections.’” Maybe she should hit the FEC database to see where, as I covered at the Awl, Target’s been meddling for a decade.

China Smack has a collection of photos of an oil clean up worker in Dalian, China drowning in the spill. It’s shocking and disturbing and everything one would expect.