Mike's Blog Roundup
democracyarsenal: While our national conversation has been focused on porcine makeup, a Maine television reporter - unlike the BBQ press - asked a baffled McCain some tough questions. Naturally, the Psychogeezer responded to the first question with a lie, then just kept spreading manure. Example: Sarah Palin..."knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America."
Open Left: Did McCain tamper with the Drug Enforcement Agency to protect his career?
Prometheus 6: Typical of a member of the Kouncil of Konservative Kitizens
Needlenose: Advice for Obama...
Clusterdouche! Matt Damon to produce "Hockey Mom" for Disney Channel; George Lucas will provide CGI-enhanced presidential gravitas
OFF THE BEATEN PATH: nihilix, TheZoo, Click Your Opinion, Blue Heron Blast
Stealing the White House: 2008 Edition
"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blew the lid off the Theft of 2004 in his masterful Rolling Stone article.
Investigative reporter GREG PALAST for BBC television exposed Katherine Harris’ “felon purge” which fixed the 2000 race.
Now Kennedy and Palast have teamed up to investigate THE THEFT OF 2008. They’ve uncovered the scheme to swipe votes by the millions.
So,what are you going to do about it?
That’s easy: STEAL BACK YOUR VOTE!"
http://www.stealbackyourvote.org/
Palin on global warming
Palin to Charlie Gibson last night: "Show me where I have ever said that there's absolute proof that nothing that man has ever conducted or engaged in has had any effect or no effect on climate change."
By that exacting standard, she's right.
But this is what she told the Fairbanks News-Miner last year: "I'm not an Al Gore, doom-and-gloom environmentalist blaming the changes in our climate on human activity."
Open Left: Did McCain tamper with the Drug Enforcement Agency to protect his career?
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Gee, I'm shocked...Another high-profile drug addict gets a slap on the wrist while thousands of average folk rot away in county jails and state prisons on much more minor charges, at taxpayer expense and many losing their voting rights.
Fuck you Gramps...
This raw, unedited cut wasn’t aired by ABC.:
http://cgi.fark.com/cgi/fark/vidplayer.pl?IDLink=3867243
Moose caught in head lights.
Joe Biden releases ten years of tax returns, a move to pressure Palin to do the same. There have been questions from tax experts of whether she did, or should have, declared some of her per diems as income.
Read Joe Biden's tax returns
Here they are.
He's reportedly the least well-off member of the Senate, so the returns are simpler than most.
More food for Nihilist thought!
Or
Nukes for Hockey Moms!
Obama fires back with new theme for attacking McCain as “out of touch.”
Find out how to retire a millionaire at age 40!
Is sarah palin gonna sue Matt Damon?
L.A. Confidential @ 8:
I'd have to invent a time machine.
L.A. Confidential @ 8:
Which CEOs can we
"disappear"retire?New election low: distorting the fact-checking http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-onthemedia12-2008sep12,0,3404...
News outlets and independent truth squads seem to agree that the McCain camp's distortions on Barack Obama have gone too far.
. . . It got so bad the day before the anniversary of the terrorist attacks that FactCheck.org -- one of the nonpartisan journalism websites heroically trying to strain truth amid all the sound and fury -- had to put out an extraordinary news release.
It chastised John McCain's campaign for -- now get this -- distorting FactCheck’s debunking of distortions. . . .
. . . PolitiFact rated the McCain ad [claiming Obama is sexist for the lipstick remark] “Pants on Fire” (as in "liar, liar") on its Truth-O-Meter. "If anyone's doing any smearing," the site concluded, "it's the McCain campaign and its outrageous attempt to distort the facts."
. . . Outrageous, but just a warmup for the smarmy untruth the McCain camp uncorked next --that Obama voted in his home state of Illinois to foist detailed sex education on kindergartners.
. . . It was the McCain team, however, that plumbed new depths this week by distorting a fact-checking outfit that had come to its aid. . . Superimposing FactCheck's "completely false, or misleading" finding over a photo of Obama, the Republicans suggested the Democrat had trumped up the charges.
FactCheck, however, found "no evidence" tying Obama to the anonymous Internet attacks. The muckrakers announced Wednesday that McCain & Co. had been "less than honest."
Clusterdouche was pretty funny.
Americablog
It's all about the rape kits.........
Email from Joe Sudbay:
And they wonder why people are panicked.
She's the most famous celebrity in Alaska...
Pay it forward.
cobsjo @ 7:
McCain was against mayors and governors before he was for them:
Why did Charlie fill in the very big blanks for Sarah? Why not let her continue to squirm and completely reveal for the public that she did not have a clue as to what the Bush Doctrine is? Why did he catch her. Let her fall so the public can see that she is not prepared in any way shape or form to deal with national security.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/11/ready-to-lead-palin-doesnt-know...
Jane and Marcy (emptywheel are on fire) over at firedoglake
http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/09/12/mccain-deeply-ashamed-of-...
McCain “Deeply Ashamed Of What He Did To His First Wife”
By: Jane Hamsher Friday September 12, 2008 7:18 am
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The BBC has a show called "Dinner with Portillo," and this week they decided it would be a good idea to take it on the road to New York and assemble a group which included me, Joe Klein and John Podhoretz.
Sort of like Pickett's charge -- seemed like a good idea at the time.
Anyway, we gathered in New York at the Waldorf where waiters in white jackets served us dinner while the cameras rolled. We were supposed to be talking about the relationship between Hollywood political product and real American politics, I suppose as a way to hook the British audience into the US election.
What became quickly apparent was that the BBC had no idea that JPod's Commentary Magazine and Joe Klein were currently embroiled in a bitter war, the former having accused the latter of being an antisemite. No sooner had the dinner begun than the two were screaming at each other over the table. "You're a shithead! You're a shithead!" screamed The Pod. "Why don't you just call me an antisemite? That's what you do!" retorted Klein.
I'm shoveling food into my face to keep from laughing and thinking "my kingdom for a Blackberry."
About 10 minutes in, Portillo stopped everything and said this footage wasn't ever going to see the light of day, and could we start over and talk more about the West Wing or something.
But this being the silly season, the conversation drifted back where it would. It was largely impenetrable, couched as it was in beltway conventionalism, but at one point it predictably wandered to the topic of what an honorable guy John McCain was.
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/
If you've been watching Sarah Palin's attempt to cover-up her abuse of power in TrooperGate, it may have reminded you of Bush's attempt to cover up his US Attorney purge: An executive wants to retaliate against those who have put the rule of law above partisan or personal grudges, so she fires people. And then, when people notice, she starts stone-walling and back-tracking on promises to cooperate.
Kagro X has already made this comparison explicit.
Warning to Democrats Americans: Republicans are fighting this investigation like it was Florida 2000. If you're harboring any thoughts of taking a hands-off approach, rising above the fray, and then doubling back to investigate it later if she gets elected, think again. At that point we'll be hearing nothing but how it was "thoroughly investigated" by the Alaska state legislature. The quashing of the subpoenas won't be mentioned, and all will be forgotten. You know it's coming.
This is a direct parallel to federal issues playing out as we speak in Washington, with Harriet Miers a no-show once again today on a subpoena that's now well over a year old.
Turns out, Kagro X isn't the first one to make such a comparison. One of Sarah Palin's own personal advisors is.
WSJ broke and CNN did a follow-up story on the warnings Palin's ethics advisor, Wevley Shea, gave her just as the story that she fired Walt Monegan started to break back in July.
BobbyG @ 15:
a rockstar
OFF THE BEATEN PATH: ... TheZoo ...
woo hoo!
funny story, that... and that the link takes you to the opening page, which is about "trolls"...
i watched it all happen, right there in the TP comments... the site had become so overrun with trolls that "zooey", known originally as "zookeeper" (as in, keeping a law office running), and several other TP regulars, decided, "hey, let's start our own blog!". and they DID and it's grown and progressed into a great place to get "news and views"...
i'm proud to have been there at the inception, and even know some of the critters personally.
good people.
Kathleen @ 17:
Two words: continued access.
#1 Lex Says: Stealing the White House: 2008 Edition
Well said Lex- awareness needs to be raised on this most crucial of issues. All the politics of Obama MCain and Palin is bollocks if the Republicans Party just steal the 2008 election. They did it twice before and they will do it again. They have prepared well in advance to do what it takes; fair means and foul, to skew the election process in their favor. If past performance is anything to go by they will engage in practices that are barely legal, and some that are downright dishonest, to get the result they want. Please Wake Up America - check the site Lex linked
http://www.stealbackyourvote.org/
McCain Pre-Palin: Mayors And Governors Can't Handle National Security.
When does being a governor or mayor for a short period of time not disqualify your credentials on national security? When you are John McCain and your task is to defend your vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
When does being a governor or mayor for a short period of time ABSOLUTELY disqualify your credentials on national security? When you are John McCain and your task is to defeat primary opponents Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani.
"I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't a governor for a short period of time."
BobbyG is quicker.
Sarah Palin:
Nukes for Putin.
We'll bring on the Rapture and solve climate change in one fell swoop.
Or
How I learned to stop worrying and to love religious whack jobs with the bomb.
#20 McMonkey said "Please Wake Up America!"
Thanks, McMonkey! Please, everyone, spread this link/meme as far and wide as you can .... this is about an unashamed attack on the very foundations of a free and democratic society.
Don't let them silence you -- http://www.stealbackyourvote.org !
The following is a message from BraveNewPC's Robert Greenwald
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/#98465
McCain's Distortions: I'm John McCain and I Approve This Message
Posted by Robert Greenwald, Brave New PAC on September 11, 2008 at 11:40 AM.
We have to spread the truth about McCain ourselves because it's clear the corporate media won't. NOW. FAST. FURIOUS. EVERYWHERE.
We are in the two-minute drill with no timeouts. No more sitting on the sidelines and allowing the McCain campaign to rack up points with countless distortions.
Watch the video and forward it to everyone you know.
more morning hitcount wood for Clusterdouche! Saaweet!
(LMAO, Mike.)
Rob Caldwell did an excellent job of showing the world the real grampa mcinsane and all he did was ask a couple of real questions. I have no doubt mcsame was waiting for some softball stupidity about his faux controversy of the week. Imagine his surprise when the interviewer asked a real question. And then expected a real answer! [how dare he! lol!]
The few times I've watched mcsame answering questions he always appeared to be very uncomfortable. He always looks like he's gritting his teeth and enduring every moment of it. Like the whole thing is below him.
Matt Damon's Disney analogy is really quite brilliant.
Thanks for the plug, Mike. I hope you and everyone else enjoys visiting TheZoo.
I appreciate the plug as well, Mike, from off the beaten path. Thanks for mentioning www.blueheronblast.com. Your cerebral high colonic.
Have you heard about this latest GOP scam?
Voters registered as Democrats in the battleground states are receiving absentee ballot forms from the McCaveman campaign. ?!? The catch is, the return mailing envelopes always have the wrong address printed on them. Ohio voters forms are sent to Pennsylvania, that kind of thing. So the unsuspecting voter thinks they're mailing in an absentee ballot, but the vote will never be counted. Story at Smirking Chimp
These pukes are so low they could pass under the belly of a snake wearing a top hat.
#19 katy, it's amazing the difference between then and now, considering how we started out.
"i’m proud to have been there at the inception, and even know some of the critters personally. good people."
I second that.
What Americans have against these::
Miss Russia - http://tinyurl.com/MissRussia
Secrets from Russia - http://tinyurl.com/Russian-Secret
Hot Russian Lady Army - http://tinyurl.com/Russain-hot-lady-army
Russian Secret Weapons - http://tinyurl.com/Russian-Secret-Weapons
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