Palin Humor (9)
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Sarah Palin seems to have been invented by Stephen Colbert - true believer, gun-lover, relentless foe of polar bears, sister with nine kids and no father in the house, caribou killer - but this Stewart clip is a pretty good kick-off to what will be a rich late-night comedy political season:
Who scrubbed Wikipedia's entry for Sarah Palin just before nom announcement? (38)
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Friday's edition of the NPR program All Things Considered included a piece by Yuki Noguchi on some suspicious whitewashing that went down in Sarah Palin's Wikipedia entry just before she was revealed as the GOP's candidate for vice-president. Snip: Someone — and apparently it was just one person — felt like the existing biography wasn't appropriate for a vice-presidential candidate. On Friday, 15 minutes before the rumor that John McCain had picked Palin as his ...
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Daltonsbriefs said:
So it's OK when liberals scrub and spin on wikipedia, but not conservatives
Palin and The Gays (2)
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More detail that takes the shine off her apparent embrace of gay friends: Some press reports following the McCain campaign announcement have repeated that right-wing rhetorical flourish that has Palin declaring that she has gay friends. That softer image is not what some Alaskans saw. "That's just completely wrong," said Allison E. Mendel, the attorney who brought the 1999 case. "She spoke on radio programs all throughout the campaign saying, 'I want a constitutional amendment, ...
Flashback: Palin Said She Didn't Like Hillary's "Whining" (2)
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Today in Ohio, new McCain veep pick Sarah Palin made a big play for Hillary voters by referencing her now-famous "18 million cracks in the glass ceiling" quote. But Newsweek reports that back in March, at a Women and Leadership event held by the mag, Palin's view of Hillary wasn't quite as charitable: Once onstage, together with Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, Palin talked about what women expect from women leaders; how she took charge in ...
Kevin Drum - Mother Jones Blog: Sarah Palin on Iraq (2)
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SARAH PALIN ON IRAQ....I thought that maybe if I transcribed this podcast it would make more sense, but no dice. Here is Sarah Palin a couple of weeks ago talking about energy supplies and the war in Iraq:The GOP agenda to ramp up domestic supplies of energy is the only way that we're going to become energy independent, the only way that we are going to become a more secure nation — and I say ...
Striking LAX workers return to jobs (1)
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Less than 24 hours after airport baggage handlers, security personnel and janitors walked off the job, they return following agreement on a 'cooling off' period brokered by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Striking Los Angeles International Airport workers returned to work this morning, less than 24 hours after baggage handlers, security personnel and janitors walked off the job Thursday following months of failed negotiations with their employers.
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jsb said:
whew, now I can use the LAX bathroom tomorrow without feeling as though I'm crossing a picket line
Flashback: Palin Said She Didn't Like Hillary's "Whining" (1)
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Today in Ohio, new McCain veep pick Sarah Palin made a big play for Hillary voters by referencing her now-famous "18 million cracks in the glass ceiling" quote. But Newsweek reports that back in March, at a Women and Leadership event held by the mag, Palin's view of Hillary wasn't quite as charitable: Once onstage, together with Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, Palin talked about what women expect from women leaders; how she took charge in ...
McCain's Angle (2)
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McCAIN'S ANGLE....I should add, in case it wasn't clear from my previous posts, that I certainly understand the political calculation behind John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate. Their thinking is that she's a hard-right conservative who appeals to the base (David Brody was just on CNN telling us that Christian conservative leaders were high-fiving each other over the Palin pick), but not a famous hard-right conservative who's going to scare off ...
The Great Communicator (1)
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By Al Giordano Ronald Reagan was called "the great communicator" in large part because he had two extremely skilled speechwriters, Pat Buchanan and Peggy Noonan, who understood that it's not enough for a leader to appeal to logic and reason, but has to connect with Americans in their emotions and guts and their deep sense of nationalism. (Those on the left uncomfortable with expressions of "American exceptionalism" of the kind made by Obama last night, ...
Time for the AP to look in the mirror (2)
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TIME FOR THE AP TO LOOK IN THE MIRROR.... About half way through Barack Obama's convention speech last night, he told his audience, "That's the promise we need to keep. That's the change we need right now. So let me...
West, Malveaux and Smiley (1)
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Here's a clip from the discussion last night This is the sort of thing that makes me afraid to blog. What I see there is a reaction more out of anger than any real consideration of strategy. The thing about Barack is that for all his rhetoric, he's a pragmatist, and he's a politician. Half the reason for having John Lewis, for having the film of MLK, for having MLK's kids is so that Obama ...
Yankees will drag you out of the stadium if you try to go to the bathroom during "God Bless America" (54)
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The Yankees are serious about their bizarre prohibition on going to the bathroom during the playing of "God Bless America" during the Seventh Inning Stretch: a man was dragged out of the stadium for daring to stand up and move around instead of singing a patriotic, religious song. I really like Tommy Smothers's formulation of the principle at work here: "America, where you're free to say anything you want, and you'd better not say what ...
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Ken said:
"Yesterday Red Sox fan Bradford Campeau-Laurion, a Queens resident, told us about his rough ejection from Yankee stadium at the hands of the NYPD after he tried to go to the men's room during the seventh inning's moment of mandatory nationalism Monday night."
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yooper1019 said:
"You may take my life, but you'll never take... MY FREEDOM!" Oh, what's that? You can take that too? This place sucks!
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vforrestal said:
you have got to be kidding me. this is what the bush government has turned this country into? a police state? and people thought his power grabs in the name of 'national security' were no big deal... land of the free my ass!
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ydant said:
what. the. fuck?
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CKL said:
Yet another reason to hate baseball.
"A Letdown" (1)
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Ross has the sharpest critique of the speech I've seen:The whole thing felt schizophrenic - part Clintonian laundry-list, part McCain-bashing polemic, part "beyond red and blue" peroration - and watching it I was left with the impression that Obama would have been better off just sticking with the high-flown inspirational style that got him here, and waiting for the debates to recast himself as the meat-and-potatoes guy who can throw a punch and get down ...
THE BIG DOG... (2)
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THE BIG DOG... Looking back at the contentious Democratic presidential primaries, it's probably fair to say that Bill Clinton didn't emerge from the process as revered and respected as he was going into the process. His standing in party circles is still arguably without equal, but it's not where it once was. That said, watching the maestro at work last night, it became surprisingly easy for Democrats to forget all about the unpleasantness. TNR's Michael ...
