September 23, 2008
— DrewM One of the joys of this campaign (and for conservatives there have been damn few) is watching all the effort McCain put into courting the press (often at the expense of Republicans and conservatives) go down in flames.
After weeks of on going sniping between the press and the McCain camp over access to Palin and even McCain himself as well as the McCain camp's shots at the press, the media have decided to strike back. They are in effect boycotting Palins meetings at the UN.
Reporters are currently being kept away from Palin's meetings tomorrow with world leaders. (Palin is scheduled to meet Afghan President Karzai and Colombia President Alvaro Uribe, among others.)The campaign is permitting a camera -- with no editorial presence -- inside the meetings. In protest of the McCain camp's edict to refuse to allow an editorial presence in the room, the news networks voted Tuesday to ban use of photographs/video of Palin's meetings.
Lets get this straight. After three weeks of claiming everything about Palin is news, demanding access to her and pointing out she has little to no foreign policy experience, they are refusing to show images of her meeting with two American allies? Are photos of her at these meetings really not newsworthy? Of course they are. The media are simply skewing their coverage because they dont like her, and they are mad they arent getting to talk to her. Talk about not even pretending any more.
So Senator McCain, was it worth kicking Republicans and conservatives in the balls all those years simply to curry favor with the press?
Sadly, it probably was. McCain is where he wants to be and thanks to the fact the Democrats have nominated an unreconstructed leftist, conservatives will probably stand by McCain.
God I hate the media.
UPDATE: McCain Camp backed down.
The McCain campaign eventually relented after the television networks threatened to ban and not use any footage of Palin meeting with leaders....After the television networks strenuously objected to the McCain campaign's effort to block any editorial presence from the room, the McCain campaign finally allowed one CNN pool camera and one pool producer into the meeting room.
As she arrived for her meeting with Karzai, Palin avoided reporters who were camped out at the main front entrance of the hotel, instead pulling up in a motorcade to a side entrance and quickly sneaking inside.
If only conservatives could get that kind of influence over McCain!
Related (well, related enough): Joe Biden rewrites the timeline.
Let's play a game of..."If Palin had Said This". No, there won't be any breathless pieces about how dumb Biden is, it's just Joe being Joe. Oh and remember...he's got a higher IQ than you do.
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Posted by: rockmom at September 23, 2008 07:26 AM (iZqUY)
Posted by: Slublog at September 23, 2008 07:27 AM (R8+nJ)
God I hate the media.
And how.
Big Media's totally dishonest refusal to cover both sides of the political spectrum evenly has lead us to a defensive weak Republican Party, while at the same time to allow massive dishonesty and corruption by the Democratic party to flourish.
For the latest disaster caused in no small part by this dishonesty, see the implosion of the financial markets caused by the Democrats' 2 favorite piggy banks - Big Media darlings (until very recently) Fannie and Freddie.
Posted by: maxxman at September 23, 2008 07:27 AM (OYeDg)
Posted by: Anti-Trust Division of the DOJ at September 23, 2008 07:27 AM (evdj2)
I mean after all why would you want your VP nominee to talk to the media? Its not like you're running for office or anything.
Pathetic.
Posted by: dixiecrat at September 23, 2008 07:27 AM (VvF51)
I think McCain finally realized that the love affair was over when the NYT refused to publish McCain's rebuttal to Obama's editorial on the war.
McCain is playing a dangerous game here. Most of the country do not frequent the blogs.
Posted by: SQM at September 23, 2008 07:28 AM (ig0MT)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at September 23, 2008 07:28 AM (B+qrE)
The McCain campaign are like little children.
Do tell. And what were all those rules for Michelle Obama to appear on "The View" pray tell? Mote. Beam. Eye.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at September 23, 2008 07:31 AM (B+qrE)
If price-fixing is illegal, at what point does this become collusion type of illegal?
Are they serious about this? Do they not think that this might be seen as a slightly biased decision? What happened to simply reporting the fucking news and not having to have an "editorial" position on each and every fucking event?
Posted by: wiserbud at September 23, 2008 07:31 AM (IHbof)
McCain/Palin 08!
Posted by: Sue at September 23, 2008 07:33 AM (Jol77)
Posted by: Farmer Joe at September 23, 2008 07:33 AM (nYv/9)
Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
You go Old Media! The New Media will completely follow your lead and refuse to print these pictures. Really they will, Ace emailed me and said how he plans complete solidarity with the MSM. Pajamas are totally on board too. At least I think it was Ace. I assume it is because he said he was a Winner.
Posted by: Rocks at September 23, 2008 07:34 AM (Q1lie)
Posted by: Ryan Frank at September 23, 2008 07:35 AM (c52rb)
Posted by: Sue at September 23, 2008 07:36 AM (Jol77)
Posted by: Farmer Joe at September 23, 2008 07:36 AM (nYv/9)
Posted by: Some Guy at September 23, 2008 07:36 AM (lPxkl)
Posted by: wiserbud at September 23, 2008 07:36 AM (IHbof)
Posted by: Larry Sheldon at September 23, 2008 07:37 AM (OmeRL)
I mean after all why would you want your VP nominee to talk to the media? Its not like you're running for office or anything.
Pathetic.
It's none of your business, retard. The campaign decides what to do, the press' job is to report, not to dictate to the campaign what to do. They can report the campaign is refusing to talk to press, they can't fucking force the campaign to do their bidding via threats of boycott.
Posted by: Ah Maddini Jab at September 23, 2008 07:37 AM (78q2X)
Posted by: Pianobuff at September 23, 2008 07:37 AM (nZwEh)
Posted by: jim huffer at September 23, 2008 07:37 AM (uCEFy)
Posted by: Rightwingsparkle at September 23, 2008 07:37 AM (KMyh5)
Posted by: Sue at September 23, 2008 07:38 AM (Jol77)
Posted by: Molon Labe at September 23, 2008 07:38 AM (kYpqT)
Posted by: The Raving Atheist at September 23, 2008 07:42 AM (VKn7o)
McCain complaining about the NY TIMES takes the cake, as they endorsed him.
Liberals knew exactly what they were doing by empowering McCain in the GOP Primary.
He is a disaster, and his latest meltdown, hysterically yapping about firing the SEC Chair, and preferring the disastrous Andrew Cuomo is par for the mindless Maverick course.
McCain is a lackluster Liberal Populist at heart, who will say anything to win.
It is all embarrassing.
Posted by: hnav at September 23, 2008 07:43 AM (3UgGF)
I mean after all why would you want your VP nominee to talk to the media? Its not like you're running for office or anything.
Pathetic.
You know what's really pathetic, though?
Posting under multiple nicks on the same site:
Posted by: phillip at September 22, 2008 01:41 PM (VvF51)
Posted by: dixiecrat at September 23, 2008 12:27 PM (VvF51)
Go practice your astroturfing elsewhere, troll.
Posted by: Slublog at September 23, 2008 07:44 AM (R8+nJ)
Could someone please explain what the fuck the difference is whether someone is there or not? They won't be taking questions and each network will produce the footage as they want, so what's the big deal?
Posted by: Rocks at September 23, 2008 07:45 AM (Q1lie)
Posted by: HawaiiLwyr at September 23, 2008 07:46 AM (Mt4OE)
Posted by: Phillip at September 23, 2008 07:46 AM (uCEFy)
After reading the snit by Ben Smith of "The Politico" last night, I left reminded that in this political season the 4th estate has done the American public a disservice.
After the Iraq War started, the 4th estate spent months before they finally decided that maybe they were vigilant enough with their reporting running up to the war.
In this election, the 4th estate repeats it's error by falling into the same trap.
Fool me once, shame on you .. Fool me twice, shame on me
In this election, the 4th estate has actually allowed one of the candidates to write his own narrative, based on two auto-biographical books, that is full of holes for large time sequences.
Today, with only 40 some days remaining till the election, a bit of one of those 4 year holes is filled in, but much is still left unknown.
Will the 4th estate be contemplating their navel for that time or will they begin to ask the questions that will give the American people a complete story ?
Not only does the future of their craft stand in balance, the future of the country demands better.
If they are not up to the challenge .. we will look elsewhere.
Posted by: Neo at September 23, 2008 07:47 AM (Yozw9)
Facts and reality be damned! They've got a Democrat to elect!!
I sure hope this works out well for our side, but I think the media is just too damn powerful and too damn committed to their guy to allow anything positive to come from this meeting.
Posted by: wiserbud at September 23, 2008 07:47 AM (wWwJR)
Posting under multiple nicks on the same site:
Yeah, troll! No more sock puppets....
Posted by: Rocks at September 23, 2008 07:47 AM (Q1lie)
Posted by: Garry the great at September 22, 2008 11:33 PM (uCEFy)
Posted by: Phillip at September 23, 2008 12:46 PM (uCEFy)
Have some dignity for crying out loud.
Posted by: Slublog at September 23, 2008 07:49 AM (R8+nJ)
"McCain should just turn her loose."
It's called always leave them wanting more. You don't want to go the boy band direction of the O'man.
Posted by: RFC at September 23, 2008 07:50 AM (Sx0vj)
Posted by: estee at September 23, 2008 07:51 AM (51h4I)
Dude, you really need to settle on one name. Honestly, it would look a lot better for your team if it didn't look like there were so many fucking assholes like you on your side.
Posted by: wiserbud at September 23, 2008 07:51 AM (wWwJR)
Douchenozzles.
And to our astroturfing chaperones, I bid you a big hello!
Posted by: Jazz at September 23, 2008 07:51 AM (hnq5i)
Posted by: Andy at September 23, 2008 07:52 AM (C3mTI)
Oooooooo! You sneaky sneak! Why does that turn me on somehow?
Posted by: Rocks at September 23, 2008 07:52 AM (Q1lie)
Posted by: Slublog at September 23, 2008 07:53 AM (R8+nJ)
Palin avoided reporters who were camped out at the main front entrance of the hotel, instead pulling up in a motorcade to a side entrance and quickly sneaking inside.
Which was the path the SECRET SERVICE CHOSE FOR HER. This kind of crap drives me absolutely nuts.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at September 23, 2008 07:54 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: Rocks at September 23, 2008 07:54 AM (Q1lie)
Posted by: railwriter at September 23, 2008 07:56 AM (nwEiU)
For weeks they have been falling all over each other to crap on Palin.
Make em wait till she is good and ready.
It plays right into McCains hands.
Everyone knows the Media is totally pro obama and anti palin, the more they squack and scream and threaten to ban coverage the more that gets out to middle america and convinces them that the media is well...hang on, middle america already knows the media is a bunch of spineless turdbuckets...so whats the point except to piss em off?
Oh wait, pissing em off is actually worth it. GO MAC!
Posted by: Jeremiah God Damn Amerikkka Wright at September 23, 2008 07:56 AM (4VfjU)
Posted by: wiserbud at September 23, 2008 07:56 AM (wWwJR)
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 23, 2008 07:56 AM (Fn1HE)
Posted by: Jones in CO at September 23, 2008 07:57 AM (VkNlv)
jim huffer at September 23, 2008 12:37 PM (uCEFy)
Phillip at September 23, 2008 12:46 PM (uCEFy)
Are you playing "Eve" or what?
Posted by: Jazz at September 23, 2008 07:57 AM (hnq5i)
This lets the media mouthpieces start to believe in their own bullshit re: Palin's abilities and intelligence. Which will only make her look even better when she fucking destroys Biden in the debate.
Posted by: wiserbud at September 23, 2008 07:58 AM (wWwJR)
Dixiecrat,
I haven't met any actual self-proclaimed dixiecrats before, especially since they haven't run a candidate for President in decades. Are you trying to say you're a conservative Democrat from the South or a George Wallace fan or are you a Strom Thurmond campaign staffer from 1948 that stepped out of a time machine and hates federal anti-lynching laws?
Posted by: Matt at September 23, 2008 07:58 AM (ecpMe)
Posted by: Jazz at September 23, 2008 07:59 AM (hnq5i)
Posted by: Booben at September 23, 2008 08:00 AM (tyxqh)
Posted by: Shaitan at September 23, 2008 08:00 AM (65WaW)
Strom Thurmond campaign staffer from 1948 that stepped out of a time machine and hates federal anti-lynching laws
Coke Zero up the nasal cavities is right up there with painful rectal itch on the discomfort scale. Just sayin'....
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at September 23, 2008 08:01 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: HawaiiLwyr at September 23, 2008 08:03 AM (Mt4OE)
We don't like racists. Get lost.
Posted by: Booben at September 23, 2008 08:04 AM (tyxqh)
Posted by: George Orwell at September 23, 2008 08:05 AM (AZGON)
Posted by: George Orwell at September 23, 2008 08:07 AM (AZGON)
I think Franklin Roosevelt said it best when he reached the top of San Diego Hill:
"Walk softly and keep a firm grip on your big stick."
We have big sticks you know, Obama is black and I'm tall so you know.
McCain is short with a little stick and Palin is a girl.
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 23, 2008 08:09 AM (Q1lie)
Posted by: Glenn Ellensburg at September 23, 2008 08:10 AM (ATBwB)
"The McCain campaign are like little children." That's why my fellow Whig party members are supporting Obama this year.
Posted by: Matt at September 23, 2008 08:13 AM (ecpMe)
"The alternative is complete financial Armageddon and a great depression," said a former Federal Reserve official. "Where do they go after this? Well, the U.S. government could nationalize the banking system outright."
If this week's bailout doesn't work, the government will probably have no choice but to continue to buy assets. There's no one left to pick up the tab. "The private sector got us into this mess," said House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.). "The government has to get us out of it."
This is the meme that will dump us quickly into socialism.
Posted by: krakatoa at September 23, 2008 08:13 AM (/FUhT)
What the hell is Biden doing to that poor girl in the video anyway? Greco Roman wrestling? What Republican would ever be allowed to get away with calling women sweetie and touching them anywhere other than their hands or a hug from a fan?
Posted by: Rocks at September 23, 2008 08:14 AM (Q1lie)
Shaitan, ae you a Christian? If so, are you Concernedtm?
More importantly, do you honestly believe we are so stupid as to not see through your pathetic attempt to astroturf? After all of the attention that has been given to idiots like you, you really need to think about stepping up your game.
Seriously, it's been done before and by much more creative people than you.
Posted by: wiserbud at September 23, 2008 08:15 AM (wWwJR)
Posted by: George Orwell at September 23, 2008 08:15 AM (AZGON)
Posted by: PaREP> at September 23, 2008 08:16 AM (dWdDN)
The MSM never liked McCain. He was just a useful fool to them whenever they needed a moderate Republican to bash Bush or conservatives over the head.
McCain just lives under this delusion that the Democrats can be trusted and that they're really just misguided and good at heart.
Posted by: El Kabong at September 23, 2008 08:16 AM (41KxF)
I dunno. Pissing off the media probably keeps them interested in swarming around you instead of Obama.
And everyone knows that Hairplugs just needs one or two around to record the gaffe of the day.
So maybe Team McCain is simply keeping its ememy close, so to speak.
Posted by: ArandomPerson at September 23, 2008 08:17 AM (MSMPS)
Heh. I believe the word 'Shaitan' is either Persian or Arabic for 'Satan'.
Posted by: OregonMuse at September 23, 2008 08:18 AM (FO+YO)
Asking Barney Frank and Chris Dodd about policy prescriptions for the financial crisis is like asking Barney Frank and Chris Dodd about policy prescriptions for the financial crisis.
Yeah, it give a wicked, icepick-behind-the-left-eye headache.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at September 23, 2008 08:20 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: OregonMuse at September 23, 2008 08:21 AM (FO+YO)
I hope they follow through with their illegal boycott.
Posted by: Nom de Blog at September 23, 2008 08:22 AM (nOQ1R)
It's Arabic for "enemy" or "adversary". The muzzies use it as a term for the devil as well...
Posted by: Achmed at September 23, 2008 08:23 AM (x7T2O)
Posted by: OregonMuse at September 23, 2008 08:25 AM (FO+YO)
@51
Dixiecrat,
I haven't met any actual self-proclaimed dixiecrats before, especially since they haven't run a candidate for President in decades. Are you trying to say you're a conservative Democrat from the South or a George Wallace fan or are you a Strom Thurmond campaign staffer from 1948 that stepped out of a time machine and hates federal anti-lynching laws?
Phillip started posting as Dixiecrat last night, after somebody mentioned Dixiecrats. His first post quoted George Wallace. Phillip Gary CockHuffer is a liberal astroturfing fuckwit.
Posted by: POTL at September 23, 2008 08:27 AM (mD4t/)
Posted by: mark at September 23, 2008 08:32 AM (fzZwa)
I'm pretty sure Shaitan actually meant to use the name Sharmuta. Seems a bit more appropriate...
Posted by: Achmed at September 23, 2008 08:32 AM (x7T2O)
Posted by: steve poling at September 23, 2008 08:33 AM (hnq5i)
"the news networks voted Tuesday "
That is a pretty bi smoking gun. Where is the anti-trust suit being filed?
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 23, 2008 08:35 AM (CiVat)
Spot-on.
So my question, since we're on the topic of media, is: How can it be that there is virtually NO awareness of this fact in this country? Sometimes I honestly do think I must be in the Twilight Zone, some alternative parallel universe. Because, in the REAL universe, there's no way the United States of America would be on the verge of electing a genuine COMMUNIST!
I keep waiting for someone to wake me up from this bad dream/B-movie/sci-fi/alternative reality/whatever it is.
You guys on these blogs (and AoSHQ is DA BOMB!) help keep me sane---but how we gonna WIN this fucker in November.....
Sarah, Sarah, Sarah---an angel sent from God!
Posted by: Kathy from Kansas at September 23, 2008 08:36 AM (Jn1FY)
Posted by: Bugler at September 23, 2008 08:39 AM (YCVBL)
Posted by: POTL at September 23, 2008 08:43 AM (mD4t/)
What's Biden's IQ anyway? What proof is there that it is as high as he claims?
I'm seeing a lawyer who's dumb enough to be caught plagarizing. Pardon my skepticism.
Posted by: MarkD at September 23, 2008 08:47 AM (MMy4A)
# 50: Wiserbud
This lets the media mouthpieces start to believe in their own bullshit re: Palin's abilities and intelligence. Which will only make her look even better when she fucking destroys Biden in the debate.
Hell, at this point all Palin has to do is sound intelligent and draw even. I imagine there is a good chance Palin will easily win, but there is a reason why campaigns try to always downplay expectations. So you can potentially blow them out of the water. To have the press do this on their own for Palin, just like they did with her nomination speech, which she absolutely nailed, just shows how un-self aware they are in their bias and attitude.
If she shows well in the debate, (or hell, even just holds her own) the entire past month of time and resources bad-mouthing Palin is completely and irrepairably wasted.
Dumbasses.
Posted by: Lee at September 23, 2008 08:48 AM (TxTIh)
Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at September 23, 2008 08:50 AM (6BgmB)
I dunno. Pissing off the media probably keeps them interested in swarming around you instead of Obama.
This philosophy worked for the Pitt-Jolie babies, when they were denied access. How much was a photo going for then?. Nothing makes that hornet nest as mad as saying "No access".
Posted by: roy at September 23, 2008 08:53 AM (cB77O)
"Remind me what the checks and balances on the Fourth Estate are?"
Subscriptions and ad revenue. That simple.
Posted by: Lee at September 23, 2008 08:53 AM (TxTIh)
Posted by: SQM at September 23, 2008 08:53 AM (ig0MT)
And the prestige is when Obama screeches "Why Me. Why MEEEEE?"
Posted by: krakatoa at September 23, 2008 08:55 AM (/FUhT)
Bugler: Forget the drugs of your foolish yoot. Try the new ones, like sniffing lines of WD 40.
Bizarro World is reality. Enjoy.
Posted by: mikeyslaw at September 23, 2008 08:55 AM (QMGr1)
Posted by: nord at September 23, 2008 08:56 AM (azL8r)
Obama's dad was Mulim, Tradition is to take the religon of the father(since women are less than zero). He also registered at a Catholic scholl as a Muz.
He may not be Muslim now, But he sure as hell was.
Posted by: Russel Ziskey at September 23, 2008 08:57 AM (LlaBi)
POTL- I hadn't seen Slublog's definitive outing of the guy as a sockpuppet so I was trying to subtly show Dixiecrat was full of crap.
His attempt at sockpuppetry is hilarious on many levels. The left actually believes the ridiculous caricatures they've made of the right- scratch a McCain voter and you'll find a Klansman. Their depictions of Bush as a puppet of his billionaire oil company paymasters could be taken right out of the old Soviet propaganda posters that had Uncle Sam hanging out with fat guys with top hats and spats, smoking cigars.
Posted by: Matt at September 23, 2008 09:01 AM (ecpMe)
Good analysis. Especially your point that the people who will really suffer the most from an American decline will be the billions in the hovels of the Third World. Obama will consign billions outside of America to permanent poverty. That is the compassion Obama represents. Well, this is the millionaire Hyde Park guy, after all, who has a half-brother living in a shack in Kenya on $1 a day and who can't be bothered to give him a little financial support. "We are the world," yeah, right.
Orwell, I would only add a few dimensions to the picture you present. America under Obama will not only be a poorer, duller, grimmer place, it will also be a more brutal place. We're talking about the guy who repeatedly voted in favor of allowing infanticide to continue in Illinois hospitals. (www.bornalivetruth.org) Even NARAL did not oppose the legislation Obama opposed (they were "neutral" on it). The guy has got some kind of serious mental obsession on the whole thing of babies. "I don't want my daughter punished with a baby," etc.
Add to that the proven historical fact that nationalized health care always leads to rationing of health care--which always leads to euthanasia. Already many insurance companies are wanting to make prenatal genetic testing mandatory for continued coverage, then if you choose to have a "defective" baby anyway, they discontinue coverage. (One reason, perhaps, that there are so many "wrongful birth" lawsuits.) Under Obamacare, the current rate of abortion of Down syndrome babies--90 percent--would probably come very close to 100%. Hell, in the Netherlands, they're euthanizing "defective" newborns--often without the parents' consent. No more Baby Trigs....
In England, they're talking publicly now about the possibility of "putting down" the senile elderly as a cost-cutting measure. Obamacare (or Hillarycare, for that matter) will lead logically--and, I suspect, more quickly than you think--to the same scenario here. If I didn't have a farm to take care of, I'd move to Mexico. Really. It may be crazy down there, but it's not an "organized" crazy like the Brave New World of Obamacare or Hillarycare would be. Isn't that precisely why the Holocaust has a unique horror, even when there have been equally massive slaughters in human history? What horrifies us about the Shoah is not just the murders themselves, but that the whole thing was so organized, so technical, so efficient. (not the first descriptors that come to my mind when I think "Mexico")
I'm brushing up on my espanol.
Posted by: Kathy from Kansas at September 23, 2008 09:08 AM (Jn1FY)
Posted by: Fred at September 23, 2008 09:14 AM (0XpI7)
He may not be Muslim now, But he sure as hell was.
What the bloody hell does 'used to be(when he was six)' have to do with anything with a man in his 40s in the U.S.A?
I'm not going to even argue with you. Just, go ahead, start digging, and when I get interested again, I'll toss some dirt down on you.
Posted by: krakatoa at September 23, 2008 09:16 AM (/FUhT)
Posted by: Damiano at September 23, 2008 09:19 AM (sPMuE)
Obama's dad was Mulim, Tradition is to take the religon of the father(since women are less than zero). He also registered at a Catholic scholl as a Muz.
He may not be Muslim now, But he sure as hell was.
And? So don't vote for him, because he used to be Muslim? Or is he some kind of sleeper double-Muslim now? There are plenty of good reasons not to vote for the guy. Thats not really a factor. I'm Jewish because my mother is Jewish. I don't celebrate any Jewish holidays, or keep kosher and I believe in Jesus Christ. Barry is probably about as Muslim and I am a practicing Jew.
@94 Matt its cool. Whatever they hope to accomplish by astroturfing is really lame. Dude probably has nothing better to do between pulling his pud to a Che poster.
Posted by: POTL at September 23, 2008 09:20 AM (mD4t/)
Really. Did she tiptoe? Did she look left, and then right, and duck her head down? What factual basis does this nitwit have to back up the claim that she was "sneaking"? Maybe she simply walked inside quickly. Maybe she just entered the building. Sneaking is what Snidely Whiplash does. Sneaking is what Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky did. Sneaking is what Sandy Burger did. I'd bet good money that Sarah Palin was not sneaking.
Posted by: Z as in Jersey at September 23, 2008 09:21 AM (kZT4X)
Just a thought.
K
Posted by: Kestrel♠ at September 23, 2008 09:26 AM (Ky6RR)
Posted by: POTL at September 23, 2008 09:26 AM (mD4t/)
Head meet sand.
Plenty of reasons not to vote for Barack Hussien Obama. Plenty of reasons not to vote for McCain in my opinion. I will be voting for Palin.
Posted by: Russel Ziskey at September 23, 2008 09:26 AM (LlaBi)
Posted by: krakatoa at September 23, 2008 09:31 AM (/FUhT)
Posted by: Brian72 at September 23, 2008 09:49 AM (h6lGQ)
And let's not forget about the one that got away. BeJebus, that goddamn monster is the granddaddy of all of God's other fish in the entire world! ...And after looking it in the eye at arms length, after a three hour fight, and two broken poles, it damn near sunk the boat and escaped with half of the tackle box attached to it's lower lip, like Dennis Rodman.
Posted by: Fritz at September 23, 2008 09:50 AM (UU4Hu)
Posted by: toby928: Caesarist at September 23, 2008 09:53 AM (evdj2)
Let the muslim communist win. I don't want conservatism tainted with whats coming down the pike in the next 4 years. Its gonna be ugly and there is nothing that anyone can do to avoid it/soften it/ignore it/make it go away. I would rather that this fool and his band of shabby minstrels be in charge when this tsunami comes ashore.
Posted by: Bubba Gump Investments Inc at September 23, 2008 09:55 AM (r/CWb)
Bubba Gump, there are only three problems with that line of reasoning:
1) Supreme Court.
2) Supreme Court.
3) Supreme Court.
Obama might only be in there for four years, but the two and possibly three Supreme Court Justices he'll appoint we'll be stuck with for 40 years.
Oh, and one other little problem: Obama will not keep us safe from a major terrorist attack. Think: bye-bye, New York and L.A.
(OK, I know what you're thinking....but let's try to be civil here!)
Posted by: Kathy from Kansas at September 23, 2008 10:10 AM (Jn1FY)
I'm a little late to discussion. Let me get this straight: the press voted not to cover a story? There wasn't one news organization willing to buck the boycott in order to get a scoop? What the fuck is this, the Information Collective?
Posted by: Brown Line at September 23, 2008 10:16 AM (VrNoa)
Well, yes it is, now that you mention it. Resistance is futile.
Posted by: Brian72 at September 23, 2008 10:21 AM (h6lGQ)
Its like waking up in a Ayn Rand novel isn't it?
Posted by: toby928: Caesarist at September 23, 2008 10:24 AM (evdj2)
Posted by: Noel at September 23, 2008 10:35 AM (4gHqM)
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at September 23, 2008 10:49 AM (MHCX4)
Posted by: texette at September 23, 2008 11:02 AM (W6h8V)
Posted by: yuengie at September 23, 2008 11:16 AM (GAXO5)
Noel, let's not get carried away. I like Palin, a lot, but she's a politician, not some plaster saint. Let's leave the hagiography to the disciples of Teleprompter Jesus.
Posted by: Brown Line at September 23, 2008 11:57 AM (VrNoa)
Mark D (#84) asked:
"What's Biden's IQ anyway?"
I don't know what Biden's IQ is, but he was smart enough to realize that his law degree from Syracuse U. is nothing to write home to mother about.
Years ago he said something to the effect of: "I went to a law school so bad they would give even me a degree." (He graduated 70-something in a class of 80-something.)
I live not far from Syracuse, and I remember some SU partisans being pissed at the time about this (truthful) statement.
The interesting thing about Joe is not his intellect (I would guess his IQ is maybe 120, also nothing to write home to mother about), but the facility with which he mangles the thoughts that he lacks the self-control to leave unspoken.
I always see guys like him as being kind of natural speed-freaks, with all kinds of disjointed thoughts flying around in their heads. Whichever thought is closest to his mouth when he opens escapes, and he has to listen to see what he just said!
I loved the "FDR on TV right after the 1929 market crash." It is something I would expect to hear from my bright 6-year-old granddaughter!
Posted by: doc_benway at September 23, 2008 12:05 PM (o1jjp)
Posted by: estee at September 23, 2008 12:44 PM (51h4I)
estee (#119):
Fox News rightly fears that a Democrap president and a Democrap congress would revive the soi-disant "Fairness Doctrine," which would be a disaster for them and us.
(The term soi-disant if Frog French for "I have my head up my ass.")
Posted by: doc_benway at September 23, 2008 01:09 PM (o1jjp)
Posted by: doc_benway at September 23, 2008 01:12 PM (o1jjp)
"Gives," not "give."
("Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose," which is Frog for "There he goes again! Christ, can't four big guys like you even keep Benway in his cell?")
Posted by: doc_benway at September 23, 2008 01:18 PM (o1jjp)
Totally bypass the PRESSSSident and let NewsMax, PJM and any other appropriately aligned blog video cover Palin. Then post the results on the internet conservative blogs -- with copyrights.
Let the PRESSSSident taste a bit of their own medicine and see how they feel about having their world turned upside down. Let AP and the PRESSSSident stew over paying some higher than thou price for broadcasting videos.
If successful, and there's no reason it wouldn't be, it could set a long over due trend away from the PRESSSSidential bias. One might even start asking for other long over due concessions, like having a political balance in their news and editorial staffing from the top down.
You've been dealt a good hand, you've got the chips under your control, make the play.
Posted by: drfredc at September 23, 2008 02:52 PM (9jraf)
I am so PISSED OFF to have this woman lie to my face. Sexism?!?! What the flying fuck?!
I know, I know, Ace has been asking us to keep it clean, but...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If I could vote any harder for McCain/Palin, I would!
Posted by: Ack at September 23, 2008 03:36 PM (qhAlm)
Would that McCain/Palin had just shrugged and said "okay."
How long do you figure it would take for a press corps boycott of one party, the party they always oppose, to backfire?
Hundreds of millions of people would realize what we already know - they're being lied to every day.
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