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.
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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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Gone are the days of Hunter S. Thompson tagging along on Nixon's press plane just for a goof while covering the election for Rolling Stone. Now, only the most affluent publications can afford to send their most reputable reporters into the sordid muck of the campaign trail, where expenses can run in the range of $10,000 per week per person. And even then, what you're paying for is the chance to rub elbows with top campaign aides that remain inaccessible from the regular press folks who don't have enough time to thumb-reply a BlackBerry response to other muckrakers. Well, there's also the flow of high-end booze.
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Retired UNC-Chapel Hill men's basketball coach Dean Smith, who once coached Nike Jesus Michael Jordan, has spent a huge part of his life looking up to black guys. Thus, it makes perfect sense that he's come out in support of Barack Obama's bid for POTUS.
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Sarah Palin's weekly assertion that she's not of "the elite" and is instead just a plain old hockey mom is one that should be called into question even more after Saturday night's Flyers game in Philadelphia, where the Alaskan governor dropped the first puck. That's because the chorus of boos Palin elicited from the thousands of "normal hockey folk" in the audience that night, the very people she swears to identify with completely, was loud enough to be described as "deafening." [In the style of Nelson Muntz] Ha ha!
See those maniacs at right? The ones a-hootin' and a-hollerin' about how, if they had their own country, the blacks and gays and A-rabs wouldn't be able to take their women and bars and money, respectively? Ironically, those clowns calling for a Southern nation in America seem to have a lot more in common with the North than they think. The far North, that is. And you know we wouldn't be talking about the crazies in Alaska right now if it had nothing to do with witchy ding-dong Sarah Palin.
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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.
