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May 2008
- Rap Anti-Gay? Try Oh-So-Gay, Claims Exposé
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | May 11, 08 7:36 PM CDT
  
  Many rappers tout anti-gay attitude, but some are secretly gay too—or so claims a former MTV exec in his upcoming memoir. “The book is not about outing people,” said Terrence Dean, author of Hiding in Hip Hop . “I wrote it so that people realize the industry has a gay subculture and we are part of this music.” His exposé uses code names to keep artists’ double-lives hidden—unless readers can read between the lines. More »
  
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  hip-hop • discrimination • MTV • rap music • memoir • homophobia • bigotry
September 2007
- Obama Finds Advice Can Carry a Price
  
  newser | Politico | Sep 12, 07 11:43 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama may get foreign policy credit for traveling with Zbigniew Brzezinski, but having the Carter-era hand to hold won’t help with Israel boosters. The former national security adviser’s in the doghouse after defending the authors of an article that claimed the “Israel Lobby” has outsize influence in the US, Politico ’s Ben Smith notes. And Obama’s now parsing his support closely. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • election 2008 • AIPAC • Alan Dershowitz • Zbigniew Brezinski • bigotry

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