Why is Charles Osgood yelling?
I deserve to feel like this.
*** Update ***
If you are watching CBS Sunday Morning, what is wrong with the woman in the plaid story? Is that too many facelifts and too much botox?
Pain
by John Cole| 67 Comments
This post is in: Election 2008, Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?
Conservatively Liberal
Because you have the TV cranked up all of the way?
Good Morning John! How are you feeling?
:D
LIL Q
I feel for you John. I felt like that yesterday morning. Because I am not a spring chicken any longer and I think that I can still go out and party (at my sister’s 50th surprise birthday party) until 3 oclock in the morning, I paid the price for it yesterday. If your day is anything like mine yesterday, you won’t do anything but lay around all day and waste the entire day thinking What if I hadn’t had that shot that someone forced me to drink at the bar.
ploeg
You wouldn’t be having this feeling if you were a drinker of Blatz Beer.
Jake
Obama was just on ABC with George Snuffaluffagus. Good interview.
Tax Analyst
Withoutreadingdownfurther I sense thatsomeone has a monumental hangover this morning. Apologies for the missing spaces between so many words, I’m on the road with my new laptop and my fingers are missing the space bar about 3 times per sentence. I’ve been going back to fixit all morning, butI’ve given that up for the time being and just accepted that Ihave to buy a separate keyboard or somehow learn new typing habits. I learned typing in the 8th grade, so I think the new keyboard is the answer. Other than that I’m jazzed about the laptop, etc., etc.
Hope your head settles into a more comfortable place as the day progresses, John.
Birdzilla
Liberals can be the biggist bunch of wackos ever
dslak
Seems it’s too early for Birdzilla, too.
Conservatively Liberal
This must be the sedate version of Birdzilla. I want the real BIRDZILLA!
Birdzilla, why are you mocking BIRDZILLA?
t jasper parnell
Dowd is really beneath contempt.
dslak
Also, the sky is blue.
John S.
Seriously, what is this bullshit Bush is pulling with Fannie & Freddie (and already pulled with Bear Stearns)?
Maybe I should be allowed to go to Las Vegas and play high stakes craps without any risk! Every time I make money, I get to keep it. But every time I lose money, the house covers it and lets me keep gambling. Of course, I won’t have to use any of my collected winnings to repay any of that – we’ll just charge it to the other visitors of the casino. And of course, I’ll just keep making riskier and riskier decisions regardless of consequences – because there are none! I’ll walk out with billions of dollars in earnings (despite trillions in losses) and the casino will just have to suck it up.
This is a fucking FRAUD.
dbrown
More lies on the surge this morning – the real reason the surge worked is that we paid the Sunni off and they stop killing. We dealt with terrorist who killed US soldiers and paid them big bucks not to continue to murder US soldiers… that is the real surge.
It worked but the crap about the extra soldiers that stopped all the violence is a lie that they hope to turn into a myth that will continue until McInsane puts a fundamentalist creationist a heart beat out until McInsane suddenly dies from (fill in the cause) after his first month.
Damned at Random
Plaid woman has too many facelifts – pulled way too tight. The really creepy thing is only her lower lip moves when she talks – can botox do that? She talks like a ventroliquists dummy.
Tim
Ugh, watching Biden is driving me nuts. He looks like he was out drinking with John last night. Please don’t compliment Palin’s speech again – it was cynical and devoid of any substance. You know someone else who was good at one-liners? George Fucking Bush. The Oprah “controversy” – it’s a distraction from the fact that Palin is avoiding all real interviews.
Can someone give a copy of Friday night’s Daily Show to the Obama campaign, please?
Tim
Okay, he was just warming up. I feel better now.
Davis X. Machina
I think Biden’s point is that Palin only has good lines. That she’s only a spokesmodel.
Tim
True, but there’s no point in trying to take the high road by complimenting her on anything.
Clearly Biden is most comfortable and persuasive in discussing Iraq.
chopper
hey, you should feel lucky, john. at least you got to drink to feel that bad. i’m on day three of a bout with some kind of food poisoning.
JL
Biden did an okay job. If he had called Palin, a liar then he would have earned an A.
Bob In Pacifica
The high road should be short. “Good speech but…” is enough. “Good speech but without any real substance. No mention of the debt racked up by the Repubs, etc., etc…” The high road should be very short.
Reports of Palin calling Obama “Sambo”. Miss Congeniality my ass. Palin’s husband having a union card is offset by the fact that he’s married to Palin.
jones
Too much botox? When will people leave Nancy Pelosi alone?
She can’t help it she looks like a reanimated corpse. Stick to the issues.
harlana pepper
That used to be Sarah Connor!
John H. Farr
Jesus, John: WATER, a glass of water in between each drink. You can drink hard liquor all night long that way. Who gets drunk on beer any more, anyway? For that matter, who drinks?!?
The revolution will not be barfed.
dr. bloor
Biden isn’t talking to us. He’s talking to the voters he was put on the ticket to persuade–ReaganDemoHillaryRepubLowinfo types who Palin and McCain reach on an emotional level, and he isn’t even trying to convince them to change their minds right now. Joe is (effectively, I think) acknowledging that their style is just great, but then giving them something meatier to think about/toss into their conversations with friends and coworkers, etc down the line. Very good “foot in the door” technique.
ploeg
I think Biden’s point is that Palin only has good lines. That she’s only a spokesmodel.
Biden needs to get the point faster. He’s not in a Senate committee where he gets 20 minutes to make a point.
Jake
Check out Chris Wallace, on Fox News this AM, actually doing a halfway decent job pushing back on the river of bullshit spewing forth from Rick Davis’ mouth.
PaulW
Question: If Sarah Palin is supposed to be the pitbull going after the libruls… why is she unavailable to talk to the media? And no, People magazine doesn’t count.
Your attacks dogs never go into hiding, Republicans. You of all people should know that…
Palin should be at least popping up on GOP-Friendly places like Hannity or Limbaugh. And yet… and yet she’s not even able to meet with *them* yet?? How unprepared is she???
dr. luba
The secret to not having hangovers is not to drink alcoholic beverages. Barring that, it helps to have the right genetic make-up. When I was younger, I used to get really, really drunk (world spinning so bad you can’t stand up drunk) and still feel great the next morning.
Now I am fifty, and notice a bit of a dry mouth and feeling a bit out of it–then again, I often feel a bit out of it in the morning even when I haven’t drunk. Age is not our friend, but beats death hands down.
Oddly, none of my relatives have this resistance to hangovers, so perhaps I’m just a mutant.
On a different tangent, there’s TV on Sunday mornings? I don’t think I’ve ever been up early enough to find out…….
kae r
Apparently in Alaska they’ve rescinded Newton’s laws so there isn’t an opposite and equal reaction to things like, ohhhh, slamming into other cars on the road.
when you hit the moose or car, your baby will be fine. OR maybe Palin’s got the commonsense of a 16 year old and/or Britney?
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/7/91133/36287/63/589815
ed
Stop picking on Sarah Palin. With 5 kids, a creationist certainty and the ability to lie to herself convincingly, she is also a POW. A right wing prisoner of the cultural war, that is.
Just out of vile left wing curiosity, do you think Sarah and Bristol’s tramp stamps match or are they completely different? Perhaps a pool is in order.
Jake
There’s now a Facebook group entitled
“I have more foreign policy experience than Sarah Palin.” Good times.
dr. bloor
I’d bet the name “Levi” figures prominently in both.
ploeg
Sarah Palin is not unprepared and is not dumb. The issue is that she is constitutionally unable to talk for more than thirty seconds without spouting a whopper of a lie (or worse yet, without telling the naked, unadorned truth about her views). The McCain campaign is simply hoping that, if they keep Palin off the stump for a month, people will forget about her and move on.
harlana pepper
No, no, no! How can anyone with a wicked hangover watch the Sunday bobbleheads the very next morning? Well, at least it might have helped you hurl and that usually makes one feel a bit better.
kae r
And just when your blog lets me post again, I get stuck on moderation. I swear, life and your blog just aren’t fair.
Screamin' Demon
I don’t drink anymore, but when I did, I always took two aspirin, ate a spoonful or two of sugar and drank two full glasses of water just before going to bed. Minimized headache and dehydration, and kept up the blood sugar. Didn’t prevent hangover but reduced its severity.
When I was seventeen I could pound down a half rack of Oly stubbies and jump out of bed bushy-tailed and ready to go the next morning without aspirin, sugar and water. If I tried that now at 45, I’d be in bed for a week, assuming I actually survived it.
dbrown
The secret to not getting hangovers without needing your ability to have the pleasures of alcohol is drinking water (about equal measures) after each drink. Always 100% effective and prevents all the down sides; hangovers are due to the booze causing you to be dehydrated. Note: drinking water the day after is way too late – helps later in the day but so does the hair of the dog that bite you.
Bubblegum Tate
Last wingnut idiocy:
this clip from the ABC interview = “ZOMG! Obama admits he’s a Muslim!”
Seriously. Between this and the “thrown-away flags from the DNC” bullshit, they’ve gone into Stupid Overdrive. Sad thing? It’ll work on more than a few folks.
Seanly
John, do you mean CBS reporter Erin Moriarty? I think she’s spends her evenings in a dehydrator or something…
Brachiator
The Republicans also know that having people continue to talk about Palin while she is kept from the press is a win.
And of course, she is really not in hiding. She is on the road with McCain, and ringing up the bucks at various fund raisers. She is merely being kept from the press, most of which is simply jealous that they are not yet able to kiss her ass. Yes, I know that some of them are storing up their tough questions to hit her with when she finally re-surfaces (who does your hair? Do you get your eyeglasses at lenscrafters? can I be your friend?), but it’s a Bizarro world when we have to depend on the National Inquirer to do the journalistic heavy lifting, while the mainstream media pouts.
Meanwhile, Palin is making points in the anti-intellectual culture wars. I just heard a dissident caller to a progressive radio talk show ask why our leaders have to come from Harvard or Yale? Why not just a community college where, presumably common sense reigns.
Here, the Republicans are obviously getting their message out, which is that qualifications matter — except when they don’t.
When opponents pointed out that Dubya was an idiot, the Republicans replied, “Oh, no. He went to Yale and has a Harvard M.B.A. He must be smart enough.”
And now, when people point out that Palin’s modest background hardly makes her a good VP pick, the response is, “Why are you being so elitist? Running the local PTA is exactly the kind of experience you need to be a heartbeat away from being commander-in-chief.”
And I’ll bet that Palin knows some nifty hangover remedies.
Shorter: Palin is the perfect Republican candidate.
Huh?? Forget about her? Move on to what? Palin is the best thing to happen to the Republicans since Ronald Reagan rescued them from the political junk heap.
smiley
Just heard that Charlie Gibson will get the first interview with Sarah Palin later thus week. Why am I not surprised.
Jake
Even worse are the number of morons I’ve seen at DKos and other lefty sites, suggesting that out-of-context clip will translate into Obama losing the election.
LiberalTarian
I have to take a break on the political stuff today. There’s a long time to go to the election–I’m sure I’m registered correctly (so my vote can’t be challenged). I just need some time to relax. Worry about the election is NOT relaxing.
BFR
Fox has either lost a step or they’re hedging their bets this year. It’s been shockingly neutral coverage – at least from what I saw of the convention coverage.
I think Vanity Fair or something had a writeup on the sit-down that Obama had with Murdoch and Ailes, so there may be something afoot.
jake
I call fake Birdzilla.
Or possibly over-medicated Birdzilla.
Make S your middle initial and change your last name to McCain.
I’ve been hearing for a couple of weeks (from various sources of various dubiousness) that China told the U.S. to offer the bailout guarantee because their economy would suffer if FM/FM failed. “Sorry to hear your economy’s not doing too well. Be a shame if it were to get drowned in a sudden flood of U.S. dollars, knowwhatImean?”
Too bad BushBrat couldn’t be content with an X-Box.
Walker
A quick Google of this only returns far rightwing blogs (with Malkin the top hit). There are no actual hints of the incident, only righty blogs decrying the rumor as fake.
I suspect that there is no there there, and that this is classic Malkin vapors (either making up something that the left did, or “nutpicking” a random commend — from a possibly right wing poster — on a left-leaning blog).
ploeg
Huh?? Forget about her? Move on to what? Palin is the best thing to happen to the Republicans since Ronald Reagan rescued them from the political junk heap.
True, Palin excites the base. That doesn’t make her a good thing for the Republicans. She’s an Ollie North type. She puts on a good show, but the more you see of her, the less there is to like. The fundies have already made up their minds about her, and if anything, they would probably like her better if she didn’t talk to the press. She’ll probably put in a few softball interviews and a press conference, just so that they can say that she did it, but the Republicans are better off if they can minimize Palin’s exposure.
Jon H
“and if anything, they would probably like her better if she didn’t talk to the press.”
Yeah, they could just roll her out with Trig in an unspeaking Madonna and Child display.
SGEW
AFAIK, this story comes from LA Progressive, a heretofore unheralded liberal blog. The piece was written by a Canadian journalist, and based almost entirely on hearsay and anonymous Alaskan “sources.” One step up (maybe) from an anonymous DailyKos diary.
But, of course, Ms. Malkin and her ilk will see it as no different than the New York Times, or other “liberal media” sources.
Helping. They’re not doing it right.
Martin
Sure, Obama has the big stick here. I’m sure it boiled down to something like:
“I’m going to win in November. We both know it. If you fuck with me now and spread lies and in 6 months I’m running the executive branch, your reporters won’t be able to get inside DC city limits and I might just ask the FCC to fine you every time you say the words ‘Republican’, ‘conservative’, or any pronoun. Or, if you act like responsible members of the media, I’ll treat you like I do everyone else. Choose wisely, because Hannity threw everything he had at me and I’m still here and I’m still winning, and I won’t forget the attacks against my wife.”
Charity
We enjoyed when Obama called Snuffleupagus on his bullshit: “No, no, you’re conflating the argument.” (The idea that somehow Obama is less worthy because he’s voted with the Dems 97% of the time.)
He just needs to use a less-fifty-cent word like “conflating.”
Brachiator
She is if she helps McCain win in November.
Her appeal goes beyond the support that she automatically gets from evangelicals. Her appeal as an “ordinary” hockey mom and lifetime NRA member resonates big time in swing states.
And this whole “not talking to the press” thing is a distraction, a deliberate feint by the GOP. There is no way that a VP candidate can avoid some press scrutiny. But the GOP can ramp up the contempt that they always have toward the supposedly liberal, biased and now sexist mainstream media while they cynically prepare for the most dazzling media debut for Palin that ever was. They may even hire the guy who directed the Olympics Opening Ceremonies to give them a hand.
On the other hand, Palin’s lack of press scrutiny is absolutely irrelevant to the Democrat’s main task regarding Caribou Barbie: they need to expose the sham of Palin’s public record, and the issues of her temperament and political judgment.
ploeg
Yeah, the Republican candidate shoring up his NRA cred is a master stroke.
The anti-media storyline is just the Republicans trying to put lipstick on this pit bull. The Dems are getting a massive amount of time to define Palin to the general public before Palin shows her face outside of Republican pep rallies, and the Republicans will have less than two months to get that perception changed before the election. If they thought that they would get any benefit from exposing Palin to media scrutiny, they’d have done that.
srv
I’d like to point out that Palin has really brought out authentic 28 percenter trolls that we have not seen since 2006. BJ is not getting their fair share.
Jim Henley has already been put on a list!
John, please shit on a flag-pin or something next week.
The Other Steve
I agree with srv. We do not have our fair share of 28% trolls.
What can we do to enrage redstate.com or something?
SGEW
Let’s throw some miniature American flags in a hefty bag!
Then they can be outraged as they go twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.
Bubblegum Tate
Well, the sad truth is that it just might.
SamFromUtah
Liberals can be the biggist bunch of wackos ever
I’m no biggist! Truly, size does not matter.
Conservatively Liberal
Interesting take on the McBush/Mooselini ticket from the Asian Times. I hope that McBush doesn’t start having POW flashbacks now that the asians aren’t impressed with his choice.
They really slam Palin and McCain but good.
Maybe his campaign ought to put out a new bumper sticker:
mccain/PALIN ! ! ! ’08
Think that is subtle enough? ;)
kate r
Betty Bowers is selling a “Mccain-Spears” bumpersticker. heh.
Person of Choler
I was indeed aware that John McCain was a POW. They tell me he stood up pretty well to 5 years of mistreatment and outright torture.
The guy he’s running against, on the other hand, thinks he is being bullied when (as Jim Treacher puts it) “…a cute lady with glasses make fun of him on TV.”
I’m sticking with McCain.
Conservatively Liberal
Still trying to make a BLT out of that shit sandwich? Good luck with that.
McBu$h/MOOSELINI ! ! ! ’08
We’re Unsteady and Unready ! ! !
John
You are begging the question here. There is no particular evidence that Palin is some kind of electoral miracle worker for the Republicans. The basic fact is that this election isn’t going to be, and shouldn’t be, a referendum on Sarah Palin. They shouldn’t be afraid to go after her, but running the whole campaign against her would be totally absurd.
Sigh…
Brachiator
Well, you’re just wrong here. Palin’s selection has translated into the two most important things that the Republicans need: money and votes. McCain got $7 million in the cycle after Palin was selected, and is sending her out on 16 or so fund raisers. Conservative and evangelical voters who had no enthusiasm for McCain and who might have either sat out the election or veered toward Ron Paul or Bob Barr are now coming home to the GOP.
And you know that the GOP is going to work the race angle, “Vote Palin. She’s one of us.”
None of this guarantees the Republicans a victory, but it pulls them part way out of the hole that they had previously dug for themselves.
No one has suggested this.
But the wild card is that the Republicans have built Palin’s introduction on a bunch of lies (i.e., that she has been an effective reform politician who hates earmarks and government pork) and a core of enthusiastic voters have bought into the lies, hook, line and sinker. The Democrats don’t need to focus everything on Palin, but if they could find something on her to knock her out of the race or at least seriously scramble the GOP BS Express, then so much the better.
jones
All the fantasy snide remarks ya’ll are writing for Biden to deliver to Palin are hilarious, but back to reality, who the fuck is going to go to a Biden rally? Who gives 2 shits about Joe Biden or anything he has to say? Who EVER has?
Meanwhile, Palin is pulling in crowds like Obama used to before the lustre wore off his pearl. You think the Dems aren’t running scared? Willie Brown, of all people, has declared the election all but over and Obama dead in the water.
McAuliffe rose from the dead and pronounced a few months ago that if the Dems can’t win this cycle they need to pack it in. I’d contribute by kicking them in the ass the first 50 feet on their way to France or Canada, wherever they’d prefer to relocate.
jones
All the fantasy snide remarks ya’ll are writing for Biden to deliver to Palin are hilarious, but back to reality, who the fuck is going to go to a Biden rally? Who gives 2 shits about Joe Biden or anything he has to say? Who EVER has?
Meanwhile, Palin is pulling in crowds like Obama used to before the lustre wore off his pearl. You think the Dems aren’t running scared? Willie Brown, of all people, has declared the election all but over and Obama dead in the water.
McAuliffe rose from the dead and pronounced a few months ago that if the Dems can’t win this cycle they need to pack it in. I’d contribute by kicking them in the ass the first 50 feet on their way to France or Canada, wherever they’d prefer to relocate.
Conservatively Liberal
Keep chewing away at it dude. I hear that it tastes better if you chew each bite for at least a day, and it lasts longer too.
Enjoy!