http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=76645
Mind you, this is from Wing Nut Daily, here is another story on Faux News saying the McCain campaign didn’t know about the book….
http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2008/10/01/oh-oh-6/
Here is the book…
http://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Politics-Race-Age-Obama/dp/038552501X
There ain’t gonna be no debate tomorrow, because of these left-wingers and their gotcha journalism.
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Q: Homer, while you’ve been safety director, what new initiatives have you spearheaded?
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huh?
ok, I’m 100% voting obama, but someone explain this to me: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=76645
that doesn’t seem fair and looks really biased; and the debates shouldn’t even be the slightest bit biased.
Bias! Bias!
She’s black, too! We need a moderator who is a white hockey mom. Anyone else would just be biased and unfair.
Note that the black PBS lady probably thinks she’s better than Palin because Palin was an honest Joe Six-Pack sports announce, and not some elitist book-writing PBS lady.
I can read!
And therefore, am not qualified to moderate the debate either, because I would be too smart and disgusted-faced. However, I have seen Canada before, and consider myself a foreign-policy expert because of it.
I love the blogs as much as any of you dudes, but check this out before you get all, "Oh, the debate is cancelled!".
that makes it more
that makes it more clear. thanks!
GOPAC
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/1/13102/9139/493/612776
A good story from Kos on how Republican candidates even down to the local level are trained for debates. I expect nothing but Rovian spew, delivered in the most nasal, sarcastic voice possible.
I expect...
…to avoid watching it. I officially have complete election burnout. I know who I’m voting for. I don’t need to know what goes on between then and now, quite honestly, because it’s all just gonna be an aggravating dog and pony show. The Republicans will pull a bunch of dirty tricks. They may or may not have an effect. Everybody will spend a lot of time arguing over whether or not they’re effective, and will get all worked up and pissy and loud. I don’t need it. If I could get the time off work, I would officially disappear for the next month until it all blows over. DONE, I tell you, DONE!
yetibama
I agree dingey… although there is still this sorta perverse rubbernecking a car crash thing I have… I might try to listen in on c-span radio (so I don’t actually have to SEE it!)… but I’m sure that I’ll still flee in terror to a pool hall and drink steadily.
as an appreciator of the arts, you might dig these (assuming you’ve seen the Shephard Fairey/Obey Obama):
http://www.theserif.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/obama.jpg
and tim biskup’s yetibama!
http://www.theblogblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/obama_popup.jpg
seems that the *good* designers also have good sense. or they’re just jumping the bandwagon for their 15 minutes? (ouch! can’t avoid my cynicism!)
It is pretty well-known
It is pretty well-known that Gwen Ifill is BFF with Condoleeza Rice, and she has been criticized for going easy on Rice in interviews regarding Iraq, the 9-11 commission, and other related topics. I do not personally remember these interviews w/ Rice, but that is a critique I’ve read in the past couple days. Anyone that watched PBS regularly would probably agree that Ifill certainly doesn’t come across as a liberal partisan by any means.
Even reading the title of the book, I don’t really see how that can be conflated to a "pro-Obama book". I suppose it could be, but the title suggests a broader topic than "I <3 Obama". It was no secret that this book was coming out when the debates were scheduled, and the McCain camp has not posed any formal opposition to her role as moderator. It is only right-wing hack concern-mongers (e.g. Michelle Malkin) that are making an issue and pretending that there is an apparent card-stacking scheme against Palin in the works.
I read through a few links to conservative blogs and BBs that were linked on DailyKos and whatnot. It seems there are quite a few comments saying something like, "Who the hell is Gwen Ifill?" Here are all these accusations of what a partisan hack she is, but most of these people don’t even have PBS programmed on their cable boxes to even know who she is. The best they may have on her is that she made Cheney adhere to the agreed debate format (time limits on rebuttals) during the 04 Edwards/Cheney debate she moderated. I think is silly that this is now an issue only in the last two days before the debate happens, when it has been scheduled for weeks.
thinkprogress.org/2008/10/01/mccain-ifill/
Anyway, hi folks.
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Hi Graves!
HI! Hi! HI! Hi!
Meanwhile... back in this state...
From the link:
guih
I don’t know if I’ve talked to all of you about the fact that I have a really psychotic coworker who is driving us all batshit crazy. I seriously think she’s bipolar. Throw right-wing and evangelical Crxtian on top of that and you have some idea of what we’re dealing with. She just asked me if I was going to watch the debates tonight. I told her that I sincerely hope not, and that I’m burned out on the election.
“Oh,me too, oh, me too,” she says. "But I am curious to see how she handles herself tonight."
I just responded by saying something about my husband being busy tonight, and he’s really the political junkie in the house so I m ight get to miss it. “OH!" she says. " I’m a political junkie, too. I’m a news junkie. FOX news. I hope they’re fair and biased like they say they are, and are giving me both sides objectively.” Then, she WAITED.
I did not rise to the bait. "Yeah, well, goodnight," sez I. She is infamous for casting about looking for fights, and since she’s one of those people that doesn’t listen to anybody’s responses to her questions unless they’re the exact answer she was looking for, I figured it wasn’t worth it. Especially at 4:55 pm on a work day. Cripes. Baiter.
Master Baiter
I’m sorry to hear that. It’s never a good place for such things. The workplace, that is.
I did some work for a place that had various rightwing things on their bulletin board. When I saw tacked on there the image of the US flag where the sun was shining through and making a cross, I really had to restrain myself.
"nook-YOU-ler"
Really. Nu-cu-lear.
After 8 years,
that’s sort of starting to sound right, iddinitt?
darn right it’s starting
darn right it’s starting to sound right
pfft
elitists.
Heck!
A lot of Americans don’t ker a heck of a lot about the pronuncin’ of things. They ker about me talkin’ straight at ‘em (wink) without the filters and facts of the mainstream media gettin’ in the way.
Mixed feelings
I have mixed feelings about that, really.
Not in the case of our "leaders" though. if you won’t make the effort to say something correctly, when you know damned well that you’re saying it wrong in front of the whole world? Well fuck you.
But, I have family members that have trouble with certain words, common words, even though they really are quite intelligent. I assume they were just never corrected. Once you’ve got your speakin’ words all figgered out, well, anybody ever try to stop saying something that you know is annoying? Like, you know, like, um, like, "doncha know," or, like, "Really?" "Really? You really think that. Really. Really. You’re REALLY going there."
Anyway, (that’s one of my words) I don’t think much about that most of the time. I’ll correct them if I think it matters. If I think they might embarrass themselves. LIKE IF THEY WERE TRYING TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD WAS GOING TO LAUGH AT THEM!
o rly?
o rly?
Now is time for Palin to
Now is time for Palin to hide out again from that mean old GOTCHA mainstream (left) media. Biden’s totally a politician and he’s not somebody that I’d want my Grandma dating, but didja see the vindictive smarmy bitch-face that Palin used to deliver some of her OOOOOH-BURNS? A little more humility would have been good. I’m sure we could see Vicksburg’s equivalent of Palin tonight riding The Wild Bull with her qualifications on display.
Palin seems likeable enough but the gosh, hayseed shucks bullshit outta her mouth last night was laughable and totally fake to me. That means that she’s a real person to Fox News and talk radio and Mega McChurches now with more coffee shoppes and security guards!
Instead of sullying Heart’s "Barracuda" the Republican’s should use GG’s "Bite It, You Scum" for Palin’s rallys.
drudge poll
ok, clearly Drudge leans right (and sucks), but everyone should go there now! http://www.drudgereport.com/
he’s got a "who won" poll up, and it says Palin is at 70% and winning by a landslide…
hmmm…
that says more about his readers, than about who actually "won". but, still, let’s set it straight!
hey man
"I’m sure we could see Vicksburg’s equivalent of Palin tonight riding The Wild Bull with her qualifications on display."
Dude, come ON! I ALWAYS don my industrial-strength bra before I hop on the bull. Shut up!
Yo, Dinge ...
Did your psychotic co-worker try to bait you yet today?
"folky"
I believe somewhere it was said that she added a nice folkyness (I don’t know the exact term used) to the debate…COME ON, PEOPLE!! Why are they making this a good thing, simply because she is a woman? If that were a man talking like that the media would be all over it!
fo sho!
I’m waiting for the race-baiting to come out in full force over the next month. Ugh. No thanks.
I’ve been avoiding psycho coworker today as best I can, like every other day. She’s due to come up here and relieve me at the front desk AT ANY MINUTE, though….I’ll let you know what excitement ensues!
good point!
"Folky" woman = down-to-earth Mom.
"Folky" man = Hillbilly
You guys don't have to worry...
Obama/Biden are going to win. Dems proved more willing to bail out big business. They will be rewarded for their servitude.
Quantum, you are right on.
Quantum, you are right on. I am reading Zinn right now. Up to the Spanish-American war. Use the language of populism to promote elite agendas and racism to keep the working classes divided.
Also the Palin folksy shit is 100% play acting. Anyone ever see ‘A Face in the Crowd’? Probably Matlock’s best performance.
A Face in the Crowd
Great movie, Herb. Required watching for any constientious American. And that reminds me: my copy is on loan to somebody.
whoooo weeeeee!
Ol’ Lonesome wants ya’ll to git on over to the pool and cool yaselves OFF! Bring ya daaaawgs!
Blew me off I think is the
Blew me off I think is the technical term.
Gwen Ifill on MtP in response to the VP debate.
thinkprogress.org/2008/10/05/palin-ifill/
sarahcuda
worth a tiny laff: http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2008/10/garbagepalin.jpg
Now I did agree to stay away
Now I did agree to stay away from this section of the board, to keep things calm around here, but sometimes I just cant keep quiet and have to say whats on my mind so here goes.
I hear Sarah Palin was making remarks about Barak Obama saying his political career started in the living room of a terrorist.
I wanted to scream: I will say this loud and clear: BILL AYERS IS NOT A TERRORIST.
Now I dont agree with everything the Weather Underground did, but at least they had the balls to stand up to this government and try to change things. I wish more people today were like that. Also I hear all these asshole journalist saying Ayers should apologize. Are you fucking kidding me!??!?!?!?!?!?!
Apologize.
This government should apologize to him and to the Weather Underground
This government should alos apologize to anybody who was in the SDS
This government should apologize to the Black Panther, to anybody who was ever in the civil rights movement, to anybody whose life got fucked over during that McCarthyism bullshit, and to the American Indian Movement.
Alright thank you for letting me vent, and if anyone took offense or what I said the wrong way, let me now offer my sincerest apology.
Golly.
I would say that setting bombs, even though they weren’t trying to kill anyone, was a bad thing.
But I agree, the guy is no terrorist. Was he a terrorist 40 years ago? That’s up to debate.
But Palin and McCain would like you to believe he IS a terrorist. This Chicago college professor.
This is a rare case where I’ve been able to actually talk to the subject of controversy. Ayers did tell me that he now things blowing shit up wasn’t a good idea. But at the time the protesting in the streets just wasn’t working.
But see what we’ve been saying? See what McCain and Palin are saying? See their game of distractions?
Palin lies about Darfur
Palin lies about Darfur record during debate
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/10/7/115713/423