Actually a pretty nice morning here- not as cold as it has been lately, so I am offto the rails to trails with her royal highness.
Late Night Open Thread
I have a ton to do tomorrow, so here are some earworms for you to tide you over:
I’m going to have weird dreams.
The Best Decision I Ever Made
Yes, I still love Tunch, and yes, I have had a cocktail or three, but hands down the best decision I have made in the last ten years was adopting Lily. Every time I come home, I’m treated like the king I think I am.
I just love this little doggie. And she loves me.
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Laphroiag on the rocks, also. With a Tunch hair in it! Which is the only way it has ever been served in my household.
Friday Night Open Thread
I’m off to watch WVU either get killed by a far superior team or stage a miraculous upset. Not going to be an in between, I’m afraid. I’ll leave you with this:
That is the “you know I’m cute gimme treats” look.
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This comment cracked me up, because I found it in the spam filter:
Woohoo! Multi-paragraph blockquote success!
Someone fights mightily with WP, manages to pull off a successful double paragraph blockquote, and their celebratory comment goes into moderation. That is all kinds of awesome.
FYWP.
Just Helping a Sister Out
This Palin book is going to be THE… GREATEST… THING… EVAH:
One of the whackiest claims Sarah Palin makes in her new book is that she agreed to her disastrous interview with Katie Couric — a central event during Campaign 2008 — because a top McCain aide told her Couric had low self esteem, leading Palin to take pity on the CBS anchor.
A McCain adviser I just spoke to adamantly denied the claim, and provided a counter story: Palin was repeatedly urged by McCain aides to prepare for the interview, but refused.
Palin claims in her new book that she agreed to sit down with Couric partly because she felt sorry for her, after senior McCain adviser Nicolle Wallace told her that Couric suffered from self-esteem problems. It’s understandable that Palin would try to deflect blame for the interview: It was a disaster that hastened her unmasking as unqualified for the presidency.
“It’s not true,” the McCain adviser I just reached said, laughing heartily at the claim. “It’s ridiculous.”
I’m positively fucking dying for Mark Halperin’s take on this, because this is devastating news for the Obama campaign.
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For God’s Sake, Not The Glasses
How could you people laugh at earnest rightwing civil servants like Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann? Just pause for a minute and think about the abuse dished out by cruel and terrible people.
The former governor, who in the book says her dream was to be a sportscaster alongside Howard Cosell, takes aim at ABC anchor Gibson, whose interview preceded Couric’s. He “peered skeptically” at her over his glasses, Palin writes, and had no interest in the substantive issues.
It must have felt especially galling to get peered at skeptically over glasses when so many reporters literally teabag John McCain.
BTW. Also. Here are some policy specifics about which Gibson showed no interest during the interview.
GIBSON: The administration has said we’ve got to maintain the territorial integrity of Georgia. Do you believe the United States should try to restore Georgian sovereignty over South Ossetia and Abkhazia?
GIBSON: Would you favor putting Georgia and Ukraine in NATO?
GIBSON: Let me turn to Iran. Do you consider a nuclear Iran to be an existential threat to Israel?
GIBSON: So what should we do about a nuclear Iran?
GIBSON: What if Israel decided it felt threatened and needed to take out the Iranian nuclear facilities?
GIBSON: Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?
GIBSON: No, the Bush doctrine, enunciated September 2002, before the Iraq war.
GIBSON: The Bush doctrine, as I understand it, is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense, that we have the right to a preemptive strike against any other country that we think is going to attack us. Do you agree with that?
GIBSON: Do we have the right to be making cross-border attacks into Pakistan from Afghanistan, with or without the approval of the Pakistani government?
GIBSON: But, Governor, I’m asking you: We have the right, in your mind, to go across the border with or without the approval of the Pakistani government.