Tancredo takes campaign ads to a new low:
Jihadists!
Open Borders!
Someone has to say it!
The sound you are hearing is the Malkin wing of the Republican party having a collective orgasm.
by John Cole| 89 Comments
This post is in: Republican Stupidity
Tancredo takes campaign ads to a new low:
Jihadists!
Open Borders!
Someone has to say it!
The sound you are hearing is the Malkin wing of the Republican party having a collective orgasm.
This post is in: Media, Popular Culture
Whenever I watch certain news broadcasts, I just know what the main topic is going to be for the night. For example: Tonight, on Lou Dobbs, we’ll take a look at the socio-ethnocentrists (Read: Mexicans) who are trying to blah, blah, blah…”
I actually liked Lou Dobbs before he realized Hispanic people were ratings gold! Of course, I used to hate Jack Cafferty. But there ya go. Leave your own examples in the comments. There’s gotta be plenty.
This post is in: Popular Culture, Religion
My guess is that most of the people who go there, do so just to laugh at it. But hey! Money’s money! My favorite comments from the Fark threads today:
warbond: To actually believe that every living thing came from the same point of origin is beyond delusional.
Dorf11: You mean like “God did it”?
Yabba-Dabba-Doo!
by John Cole| 24 Comments
This post is in: Politics, Republican Stupidity, General Stupidity
Without actually using the word idiot.
by John Cole| 45 Comments
This post is in: Previous Site Maintenance
Now playing on my iTunes: Big Audio Dynamite- This Is Big Audio Dynamite.
Go ahead, make fun of me. I don’t care. Up next is TP and the HB’s- Let Me Up I Have Had Enough.
Consider this an open thread, and since I have been out of town and otherwise occupied, fill me in on what I have missed.
*** Update ***
I am working and uploading more cd’s to iTunes at the same time, and one of the things that I found truly surprising is how much Tom Petty I have. I have always liked him, but I didn’t realize I liked him as much as I did- I have put in 5 albums this morning and I know I have double that amount at home. Weird.
*** Update #2 ***
In a strange turn of events, the comment spam (which you never see, but I get to delete out of the spam filter with an annoying regularity) has now switched from merely advertising penis enlargement procedures, but instead offers instructions on how to use said enlargement techniques.
*** Update #3 ****
Average White Band.
Go ahead- make my day. Punk.
by John Cole| 24 Comments
For those of you who are actually interested in straight talk, I would recommend you peruse yesterday’s Obama appearance on Meet the Press. Despite Russert’s incessant and unceasing idiocy, attempting one gotcha after another, to include even engaging in Dowdification of the first order to attempt to portray Obama as a hypocrite, the Senator calmly, rationally, and clearly answered the questions.
It was, in a word, refreshing. I felt like a candidate was actually treating me, the viewer, like an adult with a brain (in my case, this can be a risky assumption at times). My favorite exchange (which illustrates perfectly the sheer stupidity of Russert while demonstrating the endearing honesty of Obama), which I have cut from a larger segment on campaign fund-raising:
MR. RUSSERT: But if you say you don’t take federal lobbyist but you take state lobbyist money…
SEN. OBAMA: Well, Tim…
MR. RUSSERT: …or you take money from people who work for federal lobbying firms, or you take $2 million from people who work on Wall Street or hundreds of thousands of dollars from people who work in pharmaceutical companies, isn’t it just a word game?
SEN. OBAMA: Tim, I mean, this is the problem when you want to try to fix Washington is if you take certain steps to improve the process, then people will say, “Well, it’s not perfect.” Well, of course it’s not perfect. That’s the problem for running for president right now is you’ve got to raise millions of dollars in order to compete. We’ve got more small donors than every other candidate on the Democratic side combined. We have set out admittedly imperfect rules to try to reduce the influence of money in politics. But you are absolutely right. Most of the people that are writing $2300 checks are wealthy people, and that’s one of the problems with our political system. That’s something that I am intent on changing, and I’ve got a track record of actually bringing about change that I believe nobody else has.
Obama clearly believes money in politics is a problem (we can agree to disagree- I say let it all hangout and have immediate public disclosure), and has worked to “fix” this problem, yet what Russert is trying to do is to make him choose- have no chance at be elected because he takes NO money to finance his campaign, or to ackowledge he is a hypocrite.
It is, of course, insulting to anyone who actually listens to what Obama is trying to say, but typical of the sort of drivel that passes as hard questioning on MTP.
At any rate, I am still not inclined to vote for Obama (I am still holding out hope for Dodd), but I thought his performance yesterday was very solid. It is not too often that someone appears on MTP and I have a much higher opinion of them afterwards (Russert’s idiocy seems to sully everyone it touches). This was a rare exception.
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This post is in: Politics
Cute:
The so-called Wounded Warriors Act, legislation intended to improve health care for veterans, has attracted nearly unanimous, bipartisan support in Congress. So why would the newly formed Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America begin running a television commercial urging the citizens of South Carolina to tell Congress to pass it?
The answer lies in the commercial’s glowing images of Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican banking on a South Carolina victory to jump-start his cash-poor Republican primary campaign. The group that paid for the advertisement operates independently of Mr. McCain’s campaign, but was set up and financed by his supporters seeking to help him as much as possible up to the limits of the law.
***Mr. McCain has crusaded for years against just this sort of unencumbered political spending and has publicly called upon the foundation to stop the advertisement, a request competitors say seems half-hearted and the group’s leader has ignored.
Personally, I think this group should be able to do whatever it wants (despite the fact that I think it is exceedingly tawdry that a group is using wounded vets to engage in what is pretty clearly candidate advocacy). But John McCain doesn’t, and, as the article notes, has worked long and hard to make it very difficult for you, me, and everyone else to pool our resources to engage in political advocacy for the candidates WE like. It is just another example of John McCain’s slide from “principled” outsider maverick to the the candidate who really will say anything to get elected. John McCain’s behavior on all things, from CFR to torture to, well, you name it, has been nothing short of disgraceful since 2000. I am actually shocked he is not the candidate of choice for Greater Wingnuttia.
At any rate, hopefully this will soon pass, and we can get back to the really important issues of the day, like hyperventilating about a candidate planting questions at campaign stops (and no I don’t like it, but Christ, I thought I was supposed to be the naive one here). It is almost like people forgot about the Bush Administration ACTUALLY buying the press. Which is worse?
*** Update ***
The campaign disavows it. Will it stop?