No, they weren’t.

(she’s actually a blonde)

She’s a natural blond I believe...she just dyes her hair red.

No.

At some point people are just going to start duct-taping pitchforks to our hands. It was a never going to happen but these “updates” will probably not stop until the movie comes out.

I am pretty sure they didn’t and that it was just pre-emptive pitchfork toting. Which makes the continued coverage all the more eye-roll inducing.

I don’t think they were ever going to cast a white actress as Mulan. Even when it was an animated film, they still cast Ming-Na Wen as her voice actress. The outrage machine was already humming along when they announced this would be a live action film and while there is precedent for white-washing in films, this was…

So Hollywood finally does something good... and you’re still snarky as hell about it?

Remember in 2004 when John Edwards got slammed by Cheney in theri debate with something to the effect of: “I’m here trying to be vice president and you’re here trying to be president.”?

The point of Tim Kaine is to make sure you know that right-leaning white guys will always have a seat a the table.

He also ticks off another key Clinton box: “liberal, but tough on crime.” Witness him bragging about reducing crime as Richmond mayor and VA governor (via policies that disproportionately hurt African Americans) and going out of his way to reassure everyone that he supports the death penalty (again, disproportionately…

A minor quibble with one part of the article: Bill has been a disaster as a campaign surrogate this time around.

The point of Tim Kaine is reassure you that Reagan’s political legacy is alive and well. It’s like it’s the 1980's again!

Worth mentioning http://www.snopes.com/tim-kaine-dnc-deal/

Tim Kaine is Clinton screaming “FUCK YOU” to the progressive left.

Great piece Alex.

if you try hard and believe in yourself anything is possible

That gives him a hook—it does!—but unless those falsehoods are of actual consequence, I don’t really care.

That’s fine, just seems weird to see like 4 posts about this on the Gawker sites.

Do you think it’s fair to conclude that this stance means that you are, in general, basically not in favor of reporting?