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McCain’s “Town Hall” Meeting

by Michael D.|  June 13, 200812:56 pm| 59 Comments

This post is in: Election 2008, Republican Stupidity

It was a good town hall meeting, so I’ve heard – if, that is, you believe there’s a town in America where everyone in that town happens to be a McCain supporter or invited guest:

as Fox News reported, McCain’s campaign misled the public about the nature of the event. The forum was “billed by the McCain campaign as a town hall with independent and Democratic voters,” but Fox News noted at the end that the audience was actually “made up of invited guests and supporters,” the Democratic National Committee said in a statement.

I think Barack Obama should just decline all invitations to debate McCain. We don’t need to see McCain debate Barack Obama to see what an idiot McSame is. He does fine all on his own.

Update: He strongly disagrees that people held in US custody have rights. The Supreme Court decision yesterday, he says is, “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.”

The worst, of course, being the decision the Court made on December 12, 2000.

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Open Thread

by John Cole|  June 13, 200810:27 am| 101 Comments

This post is in: Previous Site Maintenance, War

I got nothing.

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Yeah, This

by John Cole|  June 12, 200811:15 pm| 50 Comments

This post is in: Election 2008, Excellent Links, Media

John Scalzie presents:

“Fox News Would Like To Take a Moment To Remind You That the Obamas Are As Black As Satan’s Festering, Baby-Eating Soul”

I keep forgetting to add Scalzi to the permanent links. This time I will not, and I still remember how much I love this Scalzi post about Huckabee’s ridiculous covenant marriage nonsense.

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Open Thread

by John Cole|  June 12, 200810:04 pm| 109 Comments

This post is in: Previous Site Maintenance

Look, I am not saying I disagree with the general content of Olbermann’s “Special Comments,” but they are so god damned smug and overwrought that they are completely unwatchable for me. And I genuinely think the guy is a good thing for the news, and love his normal Countdown’s.

And I know have agreed and disagreed with him in the past, but really, when I watch these special comments, all I can think is “You should have stayed with “Put the biscuit in the basket.””

Flame on.

John +4

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Ohforchrissakesyouhavetobeshittingme

by John Cole|  June 12, 20086:56 pm| 61 Comments

This post is in: Election 2008, Media, Assholes

I give up:

Larry Sinclair is one of the most outrageous anti-Obama smear merchants. So why is the National Press Club hosting him this coming Wednesday? Apparently Jeff Gannon wasn’t available.

Sinclair’s story about having used cocaine and having sex with Obama in 1999 is not credible. As Stoller says, it’s another “whitey” style rumor and we all know how quickly this stuff makes the leap from the right wing smear machine to Sean Hannity to Fox News and then alley-oops its way into the AP.

I really don’t know what to say. If the media is now going to talk to every crackpot out there, there used to be a lady who walks up and down High Street here in Morgantown with a bottle of bleach talking to herself. Maybe she can speak next month.

*** Update ***

Hrmm:

Some of the comments in the Kos post explain that if you call the NPC, they’ll tell you that the NPC rents event space to anyone and that they’ve got nothing to do with this guy: he reserved a room to speak and so his event automagically shows up on their calendar.

What is the over/under his presser ends up on Hardall anyway?

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They Got Nothing

by John Cole|  June 12, 20085:15 pm| 98 Comments

This post is in: Election 2008, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To

Via memeorandum, this may be the most wingnuttiest blogpost yet this election cycle:

Kos Tries To Pass Off Obama’s Birth Certification As Birth Certificate

Take that, Obamabots!

In the comments of the post, we learn the following:

By concentrating on the word African, you’re all missing the REAL real point: they didn’t have laser printers back in 1961. This document has to be a phony. That, or a legally qualified custodian of the original record issued a certified transcript of the original and adopted the modern usage of the term African where it said Negro or something else in the original.

This is going to be the most awesomest election EVAH!

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The NSA Is In Your Base and Spying on Your DOODZ

by John Cole|  June 12, 20081:40 pm| 46 Comments

This post is in: Popular Culture, War on Terror aka GSAVE®

Bill Moyers Journal reports on government proposals to spy on… your Warcraft and Second Life activity:

What is weird about the WoW footage in the piece is that it features AQ events stuff, which is from several years ago. Guess that was the only file footage they had.

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