Elisabeth Hasselbeck was invited to introduce Sarah Palin at Florida rallies over the weekend, presumably because the McCain camp knows Lissy is the best attack dog available who still believes the nonsense the right wing has been spewing. This time around she defended Palin's wardrobe, saying it doesn't matter how much money she spends as long as she wears that tiny flag pin, the sign of a good president or vice president. This was an obvious dig at Barack Obama, who is clearly a terrorist who wants to blow up America because he chose not to wear the flag pin. Genius, this lady. The most laughable aspect of this is Elisabeth's hypocrisy, claiming that Democrats refuse to focus on the REAL ISSUES when day after day she sits on The View and spews that Bill Ayers/terrorist agenda.
We like freedom of speech. Hell, we've made a living on it, but some right-wingers are clearly abusing their American right when it comes to Barack Obama's short campaign break, which he's using to visit his ill grandmother:
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So! Heard about this Ashley Todd, the young white Texas woman who says she was mugged, beaten and mutilated by an angry black criminal/Obama nut in Pittsburgh Wednesday night? Todd, a volunteer for the McCain campaign in Pennsylvania, says a six foot four, 200 pound black guy approached her at an ATM, put a knife to her throat and demanded $60. After giving the robber the money, Todd says he then became enraged over a pro-McCain bumper sticker on her car, prompting him to kick and punch her to the ground and carve a B (for black king Barack Obama) into her face.
Strangely, the wild assailant cut the B into Todd's cheek backwards, the same way she might have if she had cut it herself while looking in a mirror. And what a gentle knife mutilation! Not only does Todd not have to bandage the wound, she refused medical attention from police.
Things get even more plausible from there.
Lord almighty, Bloomberg got the terms laws changed so he can run for mayor a third time. The City Council vote passed 29-22, which overruled to separate public votes in the 90's to establish term limits for the mayor.
Bloomberg says: The city needs stability in times of crisis, and also he has money experience. Also, Ed Koch did it so why can't I?
Others say: The city is for sale! And you're disgusting!
What do we say?
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One day after we questioned the lack of conservative media outrage about an attack on a McCain supporter in Manhattan, the flagging Matt Drudge is going ALL CAPS about the alleged "mutilation" of a McCain volunteer in Pennsylvania. THE KING MUCKRAKER IS BACK, BABY!!!!!
The rotund gent you see at right is being indicted in the city of New York for snatching a McCain campaign sign from the hands of a middle-aged woman, snapping it in half and then punching the GOP supporter, who's been described as "small" and "quiet," in the face. Witnesses to the assault said the man gave no indication as to why he was attacking the lady, to whom he said only, "You people are ridiculous!"
What a crazy man. But what's even crazier is this…
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The View was awesome yet again this morning, thanks partly to Elisabeth waking up on the wrong side of the bed and also because of Whoopi's absence. Poor Barbara Walters had to mediate between Joy and Elisabeth, which was ineffective and led to one of the more intense shouting matches we've seen as of late:
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Hey trembling Americans who have allowed themselves to be pummeled into fearful submission by our government's vague terror alerts and arbitrary mentions of 9/11 (this means you, GIULIANI), have we got some news for you. Recently, Al-Qaeda terrorists endorsed their pick for president via some terrorist Web site (they have those?), and you might be surprised by their choice:
Well I'll be! Turns out that not all McCain-Palin rallies are heady hives of sticky-faced clown people calling Barack Obama a terrorist ACORN nigra.
Click through to see video of some Republicans at a Virginia rally – a few of them Muslim – swarming and haranguing two jackasses who are defaming Obama by saying he's an Islamic Communist. Surprisingly, the guy with the sticker on his head is one of the rational folk.
Seth McFarlane is like that dude from high school with A.D.D. who sits in the back of the class fidgeting all day and blowing bubbles of his own spit. The more attention you pay to him, the worse it's going to get.
So it's with a tremendous amount of eye-rolling that we mention that some people (Fox News) are getting up in arms for last week's episode of Family Guy, where it was insinuated that the Nazi's would have voted for McCain-Palin.
Ooh, how racy and provocative and not at all the same type of offensive tactics being employed at the McCain-Palin rallies themselves, where they attempt to paint Barack Obama as "the other". The only problem with condemning McFarlane for his heavy-handed political statement? That's exactly what he wants you to do:
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The greatest thing about seeing Barack Obama and John McCain roast each other at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner, an annual fundraiser in honor of the first Roman Catholic to run for president, isn't the speeches themselves, though they are decent (even McCain's!). The best part is watching how quickly partisanship goes out the window in front of Manhattan's wealthiest plutocrats/donors. Politics is so screwy and sad.
Click through for the roasts.
If raging skinhead plumber Sam Joe Wurzelbacher is what we're now considering an "average American," things are much worse than we thought.
In an interview with Diane Sawyer today, not only did Sam Joe admit to lying directly to Barack Obama, telling the Democratic nominee at an Ohio campaign stop that he makes $250,000 (he does not) and demanding to know why he should pay more taxes because of it, he then goes on this really crazy tear about how rich people work harder than poor people and shouldn't be punished for their intense labors. That, of course, is an opinion only crazy morons have. And it's especially nutty when it's the opinion of a moron who's not even rich! Oh, and check out that still of Sam Joe sizing up Obama as if he were about to throw down in some shitty roadhouse instead of listening to the answer of a question he asked. What a patriot!
A clip of this bald, angry, simplistic, tax-cheating, lying American hero Sam Joe, after the jump.
Is that young man the preacher from There Will Be Blood? Nope, just a Sarah Palin supporter. Though the difference might only be in the clothing.
"I don't think he likes the fact that he thinks us white people are trash." That's just one of the many, many idiotic, racist and downright despicable comments made at a recent Sarah Palin rally in Ohio.
Another attendee griped, "When you've got a negro running for president, you need a first stringer. He's definitely a second-stringer." For that quote, we're going to hope the speaker said "negro" and not "nigger." The accents a bit rough. (God, we never thought we'd be praying for "negro.")
So, David Gergen remarked that John McCain's performance at last night's debate looked like "an exercise in anger management."
At least one video-savvy voter agrees, because they took the time to create this montage of McCain's huffs, puffs, eye-rolls and visible irritation - all set to Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy:"
Why can't McDonald's be straight with the gays?
The American Family Association last week claimed victory in a boycott against McDonald's, which the right-wing organization claimed endorsed same-sex rights because their vice-president of communications, a gay man Richard Ellis, donated to the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. McDonald's was also once listed as a sponsor of a NGLCC event.
The queer connections rubbed the AFA the wrong way, of course, but they're now insisting McDonald's crumbled under conservative pressure and has committed to their cause. McDonald's, however, refuses to agree - or disagree - with the AFA's take.
So yesterday brought us the news that Christopher Buckley resigned from the National Review after be given a cold-freeze from his employers/ Daddy's employees for his pro-Obama piece. Instead of enticing the son of founder William F. Buckley to stay, the editors accepted his resignations with little more than, "yeah you better."
But? Apparently hindsight doesn't exist over at the magazine, or else someone probably would have taken down this little gem on the state of conservatives being forced into silence by liberals after firing one of their own for coming out for Obama:
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Damn! David Frum, who once made money writing speeches for President George W. Bush, turned the tables on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow last night.
Hoping to discuss the apparent disorganization within the Republican party, Maddow asked Frum to explain his "reservations" on the John McCain's campaign. Rather than addressing Maddow's question, Frum comes out with this:
Hey guys, sorry we're late, did we miss anything with that whole Karl Rove interview with the New York Times? I know we were all looking forward to the day when the Fox News commentator and former Deputy Chief of Staff opened up to the world and revealed his true identity as a giant three-eyed snake with wings, but…what's that? Rove refused to answer most of the journalists questions, even over email?
Well, did he give any indication of why he would refuse to talk to the Times, other than the paper's blatant liberal bias?
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