And we continue to be the laughingstock of the world:
“Awesome speech, your Holinesss.”
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Today’s Idiocy
Is it November yet:
After losing the debate tonight, Obama gave Hillary the finger today. I don’t know if he intended to do that hand gesture in his pause while talking about Hillary, but it is obvious the crowd thought it was an intentional raising of the middle finger.
Another take:
I cannot believe that the official campaign for Barack Obama put this video on YouTube to show off the candidate. 1) His language and behavior on this video are juvenile, and 2) He flips off Hillary Clinton in the video.
For fun, try to guess which one of the above descriptions is from Red State, and which one if from Larry Johnson’s House o’ Crazy.
At any rate, it is pretty clear to me he was just scratching himself, but I will throw this out there- if anyone can prove that he actually did give the middle finger to Hillary Clinton, it is worth 100 dollars to the campaign from me.
Obama’s campaign, that is. If anyone deserves to be given the finger, it is Hillary Clinton and her supporters.
*** Update ***
From the comments, this side view of Obama “flipping off” Hillary:
Notice something problematic? Like a few extra fingers? What a total joke.
We
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I think Al Gore’s “we” campaign is awesome – especially the Al Sharpton/Pat Robertson and the Gingrich/Pelosi commercials. Nearly 8 years after “losing” the presidency, Al Gore is doing more than Bush ever did as president to be a uniter, not a divider.
The more I see and hear from Al Gore, the more disgusted I am that I ever wrote anything in support of this clusterfuck of an administration.
Update: It just occurred to me that my work visa is in the process of being renewed. BUSH IS AWESOME!!
Love It!
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday that whoever wins the presidency in November, “at least we’ll have an adult in office who can lead and accomplish something.”
The Debate
It sure seemed weird that the moderators of a Democratic primary debate picked up interrogation tips from Sean Hannity. Is this some sort of aberration for ABC? A self-described industry insider at Kos says no.
I have had, over the years, some interactions with top ABC executives. At a funeral, the then-president of the network stormed off after we got into a discussion of the Iran/Contra scandal. He declared that Bill Casey was “the greatest patriot this country has ever known” (George Washington, Abe Lincoln, FDR, MLK… chopped liver compared to Casey), who apparently did the country a great service by undermining the constitution.
In short, last night’s debate was not so much a change in the media’s outlook, but rather a change in that ABC no longer feels the need to maintain any pretense of objectivity and wisdom.
Is the guy right that ABC is run by right wing nuts who describe selling arms to Iran as the height of patriotism? How the hell should I know. But I think it is a funny coincidence that ABC is the same network that paid an acknowledged rightwing activist to direct a comically slanted “documentary” that blamed Clinton’s penis for 9/11. The handling of that episode by ABC News (advance screenings for conservative pundits only, fabrications and known myths all knocking Democrats, no pet goat, etc etc) demonstrated as well as any story could that the network’s executives have a personal slant only a few degrees removed from horizontal.
The partisan disease doesn’t permeate ABC News like it does over at FOX; nonetheless whatever recessed boil produced Path to 9/11 clearly hasn’t gone away. It won’t shock me if the stakes/pressure of this election kick out a few more embarrassments on the same level as yesterday’s “debate.”
Thursday Open Thread
I got nothing.
*** Update ***
There is this:
If the terrorists are smart, they will give up on trying to attack us and just sit back and wait, because eventually our entire country is going to be so stupid that people will start sticking their tongues in wall sockets just to see what electricity tastes like.
Hrmm.
Posting It Before John Does
Scientific conferences are now happening inside World of Warcraft. That should help with travel costs, but on the downside it’s harder to get smashed and wake up in a competitor’s hotel room*.
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(*) Seriously, the bar is the most underrated part of a conference. Sex isn’t even an essential point – I missed out on that part, but I did get propositioned once, for a postdoc job. Both of us were Dan Rather plus eight (i.e., not sober) and we’d had one of those free-ranging, loopy scientific conversations that can’t happen in front of a poster or during the Q&A after a talk. That’s also why small conferences are more productive than the mega-attendance kind – most of the important people all go to the same bar.