I was sitting in the lounge of my residence hall going through my email and editing my campaign platform for my run for student government. As I sat typing, two students were in the lounge with me watching P. Diddy’s show Making the Band. P. Diddy (who you may know as Puff Daddy or Sean “Puffy” Combs) came on and said these words: “There’s an outbreak of bitch ass-ness in the Democratic Party.”
He said this during a commercial for his Vote or Die campaign, which targets the young generations of America especially those who are into rap and hip-hop music. During his jest about “bitch ass-ness”, he was wearing a shirt that had the words in big letters stylized in the same way his “Vote or Die” slogan looks.
The two students watching the television busted up laughing. I, too, found it hard to control my laughter after hearing this deft message that Diddy was using to characterize the presidential race in the Democratic Party.
I consulted the inimitable Urban Dictionary on the web to find out what “bitch ass-ness” meant.
According to the dictionary, “bitch ass-ness” is: 1. term used by P.diddy on the show making the band
2.meaning cocky,ahead of yoursel
3.to put your self on a pedestal
4.very contagious, easy to pass on
This disease of “bitch ass-ness” has certainly infected Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and their campaigns. Their Democratic supporters especially those who are elected leaders are displaying a huge amount of “bitch ass-ness” lately.
The Chicago Sun-Times (which is a newspaper that should be referred to as the Chicago Sun-Times rag and not the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper) reports today that Barack Obama has told voters Hillary is trying to “bamboozle” or “hoodwink” him into being her running mate. He reminded people that he was running for “commander-in-chief” as if people had forgotten.
This was a clear sign of “bitch ass-ness.”
Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton spent the past weekend talking about how a Clinton-Obama ticket would be an “unstoppable force.”
This was a clear sign of “bitch ass-ness.”
In the past 10 days, the two fought over who would keep America more safe and prosperous. They exchanged words through what the Agence France-Presse has called “Cold War style ads.”
We’re all familiar with the ad by now.
“'It's 3:00 am and your children are safe and asleep. But there's a phone in the White House and it's ringing,'' the male narrator says.
Kevin Gosztola goes to Columbia College in Chicago where he is studying film. He hopes to become a documentary filmmaker. He is currently working as a production assistant on a documentary called "Seriously Green" which traces the development of the Green Party throughout the 2008 election. He has a passion for journalism and writes articles or press releases in his spare time. Kevin Gosztola is also a student activist who believes in questioning the way America's systems work(its electoral system, its military-industrial complex, its foreign policy of American exceptionalism, its media which has become the Fourth Branch of government,etc.)
His ambitions have him currently organizing and raising money for a Chicago Conference for Media Reform in April or May of 2009. It will be organized by college students to promote youth involvement in media reform and justice. Those interested in attending or helping with the organization of the program should contact him.
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