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There’s Something About Marky
My bad- the media probably will miss Palin’s “Liberals hate the troops” bullshit because our beltway insiders are busy photoshopping sperm into Senator Mary Landrieu’s hair:
But the other feature of “The Page” are the exceedingly juvenile photo illustrations that Halperin provides for his stories. For example! Take Mary Landrieu! She’s a moderate Democrat from Louisiana who was holding out on health care reform until she accepted a porky deal that would bring an additional $100 million of Medicaid subsidies to her state. There are lots of ways to serve up this news story! And there are lots of creative ways to put it together for web trawlers. How about, “Mary, Mary, quite contrary?” or, if you’re old-school retro, “Mary, Mary, why you buggin’?” Or you could just decide that the best thing to do is be straight about it. Not Halperin, though! Here’s the imaginative Photoshop that went along with his “story.”
Stay classy, Halperin.
This Never Gets Old
Any chance anyone in the media will call her out on this bullshit:
Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin on Monday accused President Barack Obama of not acknowledging the sacrifices made by the men and women in the U.S. military.
“There’s been a lack of acknowledgment by our president in understanding what it is that the American military provides in terms of, obviously, the safety, the security of our country,” Palin said during an interview with Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren. “I want him to acknowledge the sacrifices that these individual men and women — our sons, our daughters, our moms, our dads, our brothers and sisters — are providing this country to keep us safe.”
“They’re making sacrifices,” said Palin, who visited the Army base at Fort Bragg on Monday as part of her ongoing book tour. “They’re putting so much on hold right now so that the homeland can be safe and they can fight for democratic ideals around our world. I want to see more acknowledgment and more respect given to them.”
What a detestable human being. And seriously, how about a big FU to John McCain?
I’m seriously so sick and tired of these people. Visit the troops and you are accused of using them as a photo op. Spend one day not genuflecting to the troops, you are accused of ignoring them. I seriously hate wingnuts.
And again, where is the media? When did it become acceptable for this kind of rhetoric to be tossed around?
*** Update ***
Nevermind, the beltway class is really busy atm:
Your Liberal Media
Oddly enough, they still find ways to surprise:
Apparently, Castellanos makes enough money doing media work for private health insurance companies and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that he’ll be unpaid for his work as the RNC’s senior communications adviser. And since Castellanos won’t literally be on the Republican National Committee’s payroll, CNN is entirely comfortable paying him to offer “political analysis” on the air.
And here I thought the ethical/professional lines had already been blurred too much. Now, CNN — you know, the network that has positioned itself as above the fray — will feature regular on-air commentary from the Republican National Committee’s new message/strategy guy.
Here is some of Castellano’s handiwork:
I guess we can all figure out why the RNC needed to pick him up.
I wonder if Chuck Todd thinks I am being subjective when I say it was outrageous Castellano had a job at CNN in the first place, but now that he is officially working for the GOP, it is an appalling breach of ethics.
And if CNN won’t do anything about it, how about the liberals and Democrats who appear on CNN do something about it. Call him out every time you are on- make sure every chance you get you point out that CNN’s political commentator is an official GOP hack.
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Dobbisan choice
I know it’s silly to waste time discussing something like a Lou Dobbs presidency, but this made me laugh:
“I would assume he’s going independent, since he’s made a very strong case that that’s where he is,” said Bay Buchanan, who ran Pat Buchanan’s 2000 campaign for president as the Reform Party’s candidate. “There’s enormous movement out there, I think more so than when Pat ran. I think they’ve really given up on Republicans, they’ve given up on Democrats; so he would be stepping into something where a path had been laid.”
Buchanan added: “I think he can win.”
The idea that a xenophobe can win a three-way race with an electorate that’s at least 25% non-white is beyond ludicrous.
I imagine Bay is just angling to run his campaign. After the bang-up job she did in 2000….
Update. It took me a while, but I did think of a way that this can be good news for conservatives. Say that Obama wins 48-45 with Dobbs getting six percent of the vote (the other 1 going to the usual rogues gallery of XFLers). Forty-five plus six is a majority, so it proves we’re still a conservative country, conservatism is more popular than ever, Obama has no mandate, etc.
You’ve gone to the finest schools all right
I think Matt Taibbi is wrong about how the press treated Hillary about her Iraq vote (I think they went easy on her about it, though they did sandbag her in other ways), but there’s a lot of win in this piece:
When that does happen, when the press corps decides to abandon all restraint and go for the head shot, it usually tells us a lot more about the reporters’ bosses and what they’re thinking than it does about the reporters themselves. Your average political reporter is a spineless dweeb who went to all the best schools and made it to that privileged seat inside the campaign-trail ropeline by being keenly sensitive to the editorial wishes of his social and professional superiors.
[….]The tone for all this behavior is always set somewhere way up the corporate totem pole, and it always reflects some dreary combination of simple business considerations (i.e. what’s the best story and sells the most ads) and internalized political calculus (i.e. who is a “legitimate” candidate and who is an “insurgent” or a “second-tier” hopeful). It’s not that the reporters are making this judgment themselves, it’s that they have to listen to what the apparatus Up There is saying all day long — not just their bosses but the think-tank talking heads they interview for comments, the party insiders who buy them beers at night, the pollsters and so on.
[….]To illustrate the point via haiku:
Journos are pussies
Only attack when it’s safe
Lay off entrenched pols
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