Ha! We give you Sarah Palin Parking Lot. It's just like Heavy Metal Parking Lot, but the cool, stoned kids have been replaced by ignorant bigots. The haircuts are equally bad in both.
Can someone please take the camera away from Diddy? The obnoxious mouth-breather took to the Internets again last night in hopes of encouraging all the "boys and girls" to vote for Barack Obama after John McCain referred to him as "that one" during the latest debate. Does Diddy have a right to be angry about this? Sure. But the way he refers to his viewers as "boys and girls" reminds us of John McCain's usage of "my friends": Both send us into fits of blind rage.
Most assessments today of last night's presidential debate are grim. Under a picture of Barack Obama and John McCain squared off in Tennessee, the Drudge Report presented a single-word critique: "Boring." Politico is calling it the "worst debate ever."
We beg to differ. Instead, how about worst electorate ever?
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1. (idiomatic) to fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
I blew it and forgot to start the spaghetti, so I had plenty of sauce and no pasta.
Paris Hilton confuses us, because 90 percent of the time she is an insufferable twit who puts out crappy music and perfume — but then there's that other 10 percent where she's actually slightly funny and seem to be in on the joke.
Insert obligatory Palin reference, after the jump:
The executives behind right-wing comedy flick An American Carol, which the Philadelphia Enquirer called "about as not-funny as a comedy can get," are claiming that fraudulent sales practices at movie theaters around America are preventing Carol's box office tallies from reaching the astronomical levels they would otherwise.
Did all the conservatives decide to go batshit insane at the same time?
Does it strike anyone else as a bit odd that the most spirited political discussion these days is coming for those five overly percolated women on The View? Sure, Bab's show has always been fun to watch, in that "what would Sex and the City be like if they were all old and didn't like each other and not everyone was white" sort of way, but never before this election show actually contained something resembling a serious political discourse that is being as closely monitered in the papes and blogs as, oh say, an Olbermann/Matthews feud.
We're on Day Three of resident Republican and stereotypical blond Elizabeth Hasselbeck's futile promotion of John McCain and the Republican party. Once again, the usually ditzy Sherri Shepherd is on the attack, playing off yesterday's feud, and now she has Joy to back her up again, and threatening to flash everybody.
This is a Joy Behar nation folks, we just live in it:
Sherri Shepherd, bless her heart, reared her slightly empty head today on The View to stand up to resident crazy Elisabeth Hasselbeck. The ladies' Friday show was pretaped, so today they threw in extra chirping about Thursday night's debate. Can you guess who Elisabeth thought did the best job? She tried to convince the other women, which is when Sherri "I haven't thought about whether the earth is flat or round" Shepherd got riled up and spewed some semi-coherent thoughts for the first time in her life. We never thought we'd say this, but: Good for you, Sherri!
Here's something new: A clip of Sarah Palin looking like an uninformed twit as she is asked fairly basic questions about politics. This scenario was brought up Tuesday, when we said Sarah couldn't name any Supreme Court cases, but the video shows she just can't name any with which she disagrees. Minor difference, but you know she couldn't even name a single one if she tried. Hell, she couldn't even name a newspaper when asked.
Let's say you worked your whole life, or at least a few months, campaigning and fundraising to get yourself elected to one of those enormous Neoclassical buildings in Washington D.C., where you pass bills and have lunch with lobbyists. As it so happens, if you are one of these people — senators, we think they're called, or congress-persons — you also find yourself in one of two positions: Favoring or hating the economic bailout package. For those of you senators, you've already made your choice: You finally "put partisan politics aside" and voted for the thing yesterday. Now it's up to the House to get this thing done and on President Bush's desk. This was after a dubious bout of wrangling on Monday that left the bill, and supposedly, the economy, in peril. But what if things never had to be like this? What if those who wanted the bailout package to pass had done things a little bit differently and, rather than having to rally support from their political colleagues, they had simply done a better job selling the idea? Some argue it was possible. And part of that solution included, for starters, not calling the thing a "bailout" in the fist place. CONTINUED »
This, ladies and gentlemen, is why I watch The View morning after morning in hopes of witnessing something amazing. Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the moron who gives Republicans everywhere a bad name, had a minor meltdown during the show's first segment today. She was so beyond help that not even Barbara Walters came to her rescue. The topic, of course, was the idiocy of Sarah Palin, which turned into another session of Elisabeth spouting off nonsensical remarks to defend her beloved McCain/Palin ticket. After Barbara correctly likened Palin's preparation for the debate to a high school student cramming for an exam, Elisabeth became extremely angry, which is when this happened (inciting a round of boos from the audience):
The world of advertising has become a hovel of ineptitude as finance the world over very quickly crumbles, thus proving what we've known for years: ad people are cowards who will break under pressure.
At right is a Fox Business ad, complete with a lie about being LIVE when the bailout happened (the bailout didn't happen, of course). Then there's the world's banks, most of which are trying in vain to sound rock-solid as they collapse like castles made of sand.
And the political advertisers aren't doing any better. Twice now McCain's camp has screwed up by sending out ads that never should have been. First was an Internet ad proclaiming on Thursday that Senator McCain won Friday's debate, and next was an RNC TV spot whose main point assumed the bailout went through. Of course, McCain didn't win the debate and, again, the bailout didn't go through, but those facts didn't stop some marketing dolts from brainstorming them and then loosing them on a confused public.
Nice to see that in times of crisis people are quicker than usual to abandon facts and good sense.
Whoops, the GOP keeps failing on their ad campaigns, so whether you agree with them or not, you're just going to have to grin and bear it for awhile whilst we marvel at the incredible inanity of this wall street melting business:
Is it unethical to run political ads during newscasts that discuss politics, especially if the newscasts decry the ads, calling them lies? Um, duh. Definitely. That's a ridiculous question. Then again, television advertising revenues have fallen precipitously as of late. And when there's money involved, ridiculous, easily answered questions have a tendency to become complicated gray areas necessitating really involved articles looking into the matter. Yuck:
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Even the Republicans have had enough. Here's an excerpt from "Palin Problem," an article by writer and frequent Bill O'Reilly guest Kathleen Parker, published today on National Review Online:
It was fun while it lasted.
Palin’s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League.
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