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  2. 2.

    mamayaga

    I see Charlie Pierce is back in the job after an inter-convention break, and he’s in stellar form. A snippet:

    Tom Brokaw was there, too, possibly to make sure that the victims of Dutch Elm Disease were well-represented.

  6. 6.

    Joy

    I don’t usually watch network coverage of these things anyway. I don’t need a pundit telling me what they think the candidate is thinking. Just let me listen to the speech and make up my own mind, damnit! So thanks for the link!

  8. 8.

    Culture of Truth

    @Joy: The media has decided the storylines in advance.

    – Bill Clinton’s speech is a problem for Obama.
    – Joe Biden is a problem for Dems.
    – The jobs numbers will overshadow the President’s speech.

    via Andrea Mitchell, Director of the Office Political Pre-Crime

  13. 13.

    Applejinx

    Honestly did not see THAT coming. Heh.

    This is an interesting antidote to a MSM talking total crap and demanding to be taken seriously. Sort of jumping out of the system entirely and playing on people’s sneaking suspicion that it’s all ridiculous crap- you look up and oh hey, the Barack Obama campaign ALSO thinks this is ridiculous crap and is making fun of it too?

    …cool, a postmodern President. Who knew?

    Looks kinda like he doesn’t take himself too seriously- and in so doing, opens up the question of whether you can take ANY of this too seriously. Smart…

  14. 14.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @mamayaga: The only thing worse than watching that pompous old relic drone on about how he didn’t think Romney’s welfare ads are race baiting because they don’t fit into a “pattern” or “narrative”– you know, no apologies, Donald Trump, foreign, learn to be an American, doesn’t understand our country, that kind of thing would have tipped him off– was watching Lawrence O’Donnell and Joy Reid fawn over him after he said it. It was actually junior league Villager Jonathan Capeheart who mildly challenged Brokaw, who responded with, basically, “now, now young fellow, remember civility”, and Capeheart backed down.

  15. 15.

    Culture of Truth

    Is Paul Ryan a Marxist?

    Ryan was asked why he blamed Obama for failing to help a General Motors plant in Wisconsin, even though the plant largely shut down before the president took office.

    The promise is that he was going to open the plant, the promise is that he was going to lead an effort to retool the plant and people would go back to work and it would be open for another 100 years,” he said on the Today show.

  16. 16.

    PurpleGirl

    Reposting a comment (edited) from a previous thread:

    Obamacare is responsible for job creation

    I’m [just] hearing a commercial on the TV for a company hiring people to be insurance analysts to advise on and sell health insurance. Forget the company name right now but I’ve heard the commercial a few times.

    So, the government CAN create private sector jobs.

  17. 17.

    mamayaga

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    …watching that pompous old relic drone on about how he didn’t think Romney’s welfare ads are race baiting because they don’t fit into a “pattern” or “narrative”…

    Funny how that doesn’t seem to have worked for the Village — over at the Maddow blog, Steve Benen points out that the whole big welfare lie has suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from Romney ads, speeches, and surrogates, perhaps because it was not only debunked, but also publicly connected to the racist subtext. That may be too optimistic, but it’s possible polling at 0% among AAs helped underline the the fact that the rest of us can hear the dog whistles too. If Benen is right, it could give us hope that the Village elders don’t have such a stranglehold over what is acceptable discourse anymore.

  18. 18.

    Princess

    I saw Kal Penn talk at an Obama event in Chicago. He’s good at being a spokesman for the campaign.

  20. 20.

    The Moar You Know

    Steve Benen points out that the whole big welfare lie has suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from Romney ads

    @mamayaga: Yeah, that was rather abrupt. I thought I might just have missed something, glad others have noticed it as well.

  22. 22.

    quannlace

    First Lady tonight.
    It’s funny, in one the punditry’s droning, they said that Michelle Obama went from being one of his biggest liabilities during the campaign, to now being one of his greatest assests. That in 2008, she’d been too ‘harsh.’
    Funny, but beyond that ‘proud of my country for first time’ comment that got beaten into the ground, I don’t remember anything like that.

  23. 23.

    EconWatcher

    @mamayaga:

    Well, the amazing fact is that a decent number of villagers actually did call out the welfare ads as false and racist. That may be what caused Romney to back off (if he indeed has).

    Now if we could just get it clear that Ryan wants to cut the same $700 billion from Medicare providers, we’ll be back to where we started, with those guys flailing for anything to talk about.

  25. 25.

    Dennis SGMM

    @Culture of Truth:

    The promise is that he was going to open the plant, the promise is that he was going to lead an effort to retool the plant and people would go back to work and it would be open for another 100 years,” he said on the Today show.

    Back when the GM bailout was in process my wingnut friend sent me a barrage of forwarded emails referring to GM as Government Motors and demanding that all right thinking citizens boycott them. I can imagine their spittle flecked rants if Obama had involved the government at the level of retooling the auto plants. First they get upset because Obama didn’t let GM and Chrysler go under, then they get upset because he didn’t do enough. The only thing consistent about conservatives is that they aren’t.

  26. 26.

    Ann Rynd

    Ohh, so full of win it’s strobing in my brain and my poor, failing heart just beat out a ba- dum!
    Chuck Toad on am joe was looking like his ADD drugs were backing up on him. He is now in the pride goith before a fall stage of his career. Drowning in water three inches over his head. His flop sweat is sliming the whole joint up.

  27. 27.

    Culture of Truth

    GOP 2112, press release from the “USA One” Orbitating Station, on the closure of the GM Hypercar plant in 2109 due the fracking sinkhole that swallowed Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, upstate New York, and lower Reaganda:
    “Obama lied!”

  28. 28.

    EconWatcher

    I assume Obama’s got this, but both his and Biden’s speeches need to checked with a fine-toothed comb, to give them nothing legitimate to seize upon in claiming that “both sides do it” when it comes to misleading the public.

    Yes, yes, I know, they’ll twist something around or make something up, even if you don’t give them anything. But this year, you can tell their heart just isn’t in it. They don’t like the Mittster and aren’t too inclined to do him favors.

    So let’s take the high road, as is our wont anyway. I think it’ll work this time.

  29. 29.

    MattF

    Latest media joke is the whole business about the Republican Convention ‘bounce.’ Is it missing? is it obscured by noise? Is it there in spirit but not in actuality? How about the little problem of selling a lousy product? Oops, mustn’t say that.

  30. 30.

    BGinCHI

    Charles Pierce on Sunday’s Meet the Depressed (with David Gregory):

    It was a very tough weekend on Dancin’ Dave’s Disco Dance Party, wherein, apparently, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Tom Friedman constitute The Left. (Jesus, we draft worse than the Timberwolves do.) Tom Brokaw was there, too, possibly to make sure that the victims of Dutch Elm Disease were well-represented. They were tossed in against Newt Gingrich and Carly Fiorina, two conservative experts in destroying things, including their own respective political careers. (Fiorina’s got some sort of honorific with the Republican National Committee these days, giving her an office from which she can abuse the custodial help and hide from the demon sheep.) Anyway, that was your lineup for the morning’s jaw-fest and, inevitably, a glazed, cream-filled cluster of fk broke out. Gingrich kicked things off with the kind of balls-out lie that makes you wonder if his mother dipped him in the River Bullshit as a child, immunizing everything but his right ankle against attacks of conscience….

    That’s just too good.

  31. 31.

    mamayaga

    @Culture of Truth:

    the fracking sinkhole that swallowed Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, upstate New York, and lower Reaganda

    Won’t that be “South Reaganda”? And there will be no “North.”

  34. 34.

    EconWatcher

    @TT:

    I know Juicers from the Deep South like to brag, but I’m telling you, we have some high-quality wingnuts in our great Commonwealth of Virginia. I’ll take the Pepsi challenge with you any day.

    Yeah, I live in “occupied Virginia,” as they like to call Northern Virginia. But you get just a little south of here, and you can find a veritable cornucopia of frothing, foaming, screeching wingnut goodness.

    Just think of the institutions alone: Liberty University. CBN. NRA. National Right to Work. I could go on, but you get the point. We’re number one.

  35. 35.

    Culture of Truth

    @mamayaga: you’re forgetting the conquest of Canada initiated by President-Speaker Vanavar Hussein Walker Bush in 2075 over the Great Syrup Crisis of 2069

  36. 36.

    Cacti

    @mamayaga:

    I see Charlie Pierce is back in the job after an inter-convention break, and he’s in stellar form

    It’s a nice change from his pants-wetting over Romney’s acceptance speech.

  38. 38.

    Cacti

    And for a good post-labor day laugh…

    Nate Silver has downgraded Mitt’s chances 5.5% since the GOP convention.

  40. 40.

    eric

    I wonder what Ryan would say if challenged to support a bill of government money to support Janesville workers with longer and bigger unemployment benefits and credits and subsidies for education and retraining. hmmmmm. I think I know it would be a lie whatever he said

  42. 42.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    @PurpleGirl: That’s funny, I distinctly remember an NPR piece on how insurance brokers would definitely be out in the cold thanks to the ACA.

  44. 44.

    Cris (without an H)

    Am I naive to be surprised at the election-specific focus of the platform? I thought party platforms were supposed to represent a governing vision, a “here is what the world will look like if our side won” kind of thing. This one makes multiple explicit mentions of Mitt Romney and the choice Americans face in this election. Isn’t that going to look kind of funny after inauguration?

  45. 45.

    phoebes-in-santa fe

    Wow, I must be a little old white lady because the only one of the three I recognised was Obama! Who were the other two?

  46. 46.

    Suffern ACE

    @Culture of Truth: Good lord. What he’s mad about is that bondholders had to take a haircut. There was a bailout and the bondholders took a loss. Jeebus. He’s complaining that Obama didn’t actually take over GM and run it like some kind of Italian socia11st enterprise circa 1974? Really?

    Although there is probably more truth to that than I care to note.

  48. 48.

    No One of Consequence

    I’m with Phoebes-in-santa-fe, that video did less than anything for me. Which is sad, cause I am quite partial to stoners.

    Thing is, I am pretty sure I am not the target demographic for that video piece.

    So, I will have to rely on the kiddies to tell me if that worked for them.

    Meh.

    – NOoC

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