Courtesy of the LA Times blog.
October 2, 2008
VP Debate Open Thread [UPDATED]
Fair. Balanced. Dignified. — Well, provided Reuters manages to have Palin checked for a secret earpiece — you know, just to be sure. And if that proves a dead end, perhaps Ms Ifill will be good enough to check Governor Palin’s oversized breeder pooter for some sort of walkie talkie connecting her directly to the Lord. Because let’s face it: this queen of the doublewides may be remarkably stupid. But
Tailgating the VP debate
First up on the grill, Cynthia McKinney Crazywursts. No need for a bun. Just eat ’em au naturale, like you might a freshly killed black woman were you trapped inside the Superdome hoping to God Spike Lee finds you before you either starve to death or Bushco passes word along to his clandestine mercs the “go ahead and liquidate the cattle.”
signs of intelligent life?
“Radio reporter fired over Obama T-shirt”: Longtime Metro Detroit radio reporter Karen Dinkins has been fired after wearing a pro-Barack Obama T-shirt while covering a rally for the presidential candidate Sunday at the Detroit Public Library. Dinkins, who has worked at WWJ (950 AM) for 13 years, acknowledged that the radio station fired her Monday, but she did not elaborate. “I don’t want to comment at this time,” she said.
blog sorbet: the return
The leaves, they’re turning red and orange! Oh! How I do so love autumn…! — and bunnies. Fuzzy, hoppy, twitchy-nosed little bunnies!
in which I despair. again.
Aldo points me to this bit from Glenn Reynolds in which Professor Reynolds notes, as I too have been noting for some time now, that, on the whole, the mainstream press has abandoned the last pretense of objectivity and is openly advocating for an Obama presidency, and so for complete “progressive” control of the government (with the SCOTUS being a temporary outlier). And this advocacy on the part of the
Teach your children (and your low-intelligence voters) well
First, His supporters liked to teach the world to sing — using kids as political pawns. Now this, from the New York Post: The teachers union has been handing out thousands of Barack Obama campaign buttons to its members, sparking a clampdown by education brass. The Department of Education – which has a long-standing policy barring teachers from wearing campaign buttons in schools – is set to send out an
Indexicality
From Bob Reed, in the comments to yesterday’s ACORN post: Here in NYC I just saw a new bumpersticker: Obama One Nation One People Kinda creeped me out; I wondered why it seemed so familiar… Poster from 1930’s — from you know where… Deutschland Ein Volk Ein Reich Ein Fuhrer I told you all that Axelrod was taking pages from Goebbles playbook… Plus —* (Incidentally, I don’t think Obama is
