The Best Post So Far On the "Texts From Hillary" Tumblr (Photo)

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During the 2008, then Sen. Hillary Clinton was severely lacking in online buzz and coolness. After all, then Sen. Barack Obama was sucking up all the memes and hype with things like "Obama Girl" and "I got this" and hilarious Obama themed folk art that ranged from awe inspiring to hilarious to delicious to vomit inducing. So, poor Hillary. She didn't get to have any of the coolness fun.

Then came these incredible pictures of the now Secretary of State, doing her thing in the cargo hold of a plane as she heads off around the world to represent the US of A ... holding a cell phone, rocking a pair of sunglass.

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Herman Cain Is Ready To Rock After Block Puts Out That Ciggy

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Yesterday the pundit class was a-chatter over Herman Cain's quixotic YouTube ad featuring his smoking man chief-of-staff, and comics Stephen Colbert and Conan O'Brien responded with their dual parodies. But my favorite thing about how easy it is to squeeze a giggle out of Cain comes from this Scorpions related image on the left. The things you find lingering in comment sections on blogs. And for you kids (or non-rockers) who don't get the classic rock reference. Here it is. In all it's glory.

Antoine Dodson Performed "Bed Intruder" At BET Hip Hop Awards (Video)

Tuesday night accidental internet star Antoine Dodson performed his accidental hit "Bed Intruder" in skinny jeans and a do rag with one of the Gregory Brothers from Autotune the News. Apparently Dodson thought he was going to present an award, but wound up performing. BET can be sneaky like that sometimes. (Via Jezebel)

Antoine Dodson Viral Vid Makes Way Into Political Attack Ad (Video)

Just watch and wait for it so you too can see what they did there. Also, what the hell? How are you going to work in references to Antoine Dodson's viral video about his sister's near sexual assault in a POLITICAL ATTACK AD!?!?!?! What's next? Ads for bug spray? ("They're climbing in your windows, spreading Lyme Disease, trying to kill you so you better spray the yard! Spray the house! Spray the yard! Spray the house! And use some OFF too because they biting everybody out there!") I give up. I give up on everything. (Via Mediaite)

Antoine Dodson Continuing to Make Best of "Bed Intruder" Fame

Photo via APThe Snob was quoted in a recent Associated Press story on Internet meme and accidental star Antoine Dodson. Errin Haines of the Associated Press interviewed Dodson to get an update on how he and his sister Kelly are doing since she was attacked and how the notoriety from the song "Bed Intruder" is helping their family.

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The Accidental Fame of Antoine and Kelly Dodson

About two or three weeks ago when a friend first told me about the video of an angry Antoine Dodson on a local TV news report, voicing his concern about his sister Kelly's near rape, I had a hard time wrapping my head around what could possibly be funny about that. I don't find attempted rape or nearly strangling a woman to death funny. And if I'd stumbled upon one of my sisters being attacked I would have responded the same way Antoine did. Then I learned almost all the unintentional humor was derived from the fact that Antoine Dodson didn't relay his anger with stereotypical, black male machismo, but with a certain Southern patois and flamboyance that many people deemed "feminine." So then I was all, "Oh, great. So we're not just making light of a family's pain, but people are cracking gay jokes too? Priceless."

Finally, I learned that from all the attention, subsequent YouTube remixes, iTunes downloads, merchandise and Dodson's new Web site that the Dodsons had made enough money to move out of the projects.

This has to be the most amazing instance of taking the lemons of life and making lemon drop martinis ever.

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#BrownTwitterBird Is On Your Timeline, Wannabe Startin' Sumpthin

Grace Jones as a Twitter Bird. The greatest of all the #BrownTwitterBirds. I love it. I want to marry it. It is that funny. (Via @iamthenublack)I don't think this is what Slate.com had in mind when they wrote their story about people who use Twitter who also happen to be black. But we, in Blackland, took an annoying slight from an article that seemed hopelessly lame and turned it into #BrownTwitterBird Christmas. It's all Alicia at InnyVinny.com's fault, as she was the one who took the original bird, illustrated by Alex Eben Meyer for Slate, and turned something cute but slightly offensive into a glorious, multifaceted display of the many diverse aspects of things you use in Dozens jokes.

What was the result?

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