History

Full recap of the evening to come later…

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Ballad of the Moose Queen

This requires neither explanation nor context:

“♫ Despite being someone with a very high opinion of both women and dinosaurs, I can’t say that Palin-McCain appeals to me.”

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Disjointed linkage

Alan Greenspan discovers that banks can’t regulate themselves. In other news, gambling has been discovered in Casablanca.

Former leader of the lunatic-right Austrian Freedom Party Jorg Haider died in a car accident on October 11.  Today, the new party leader confirmed in a radio interview that he and Haider had been lovers.  Sadly, Bruno could not [...]

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Making the candidate

Where’d Palin come from?  Lost in the bad press, McCathyism, and populist chicanery is the fascinating story of how Little Miss Wasilla charmed the pants off the Republican intellectual establishment*
*(Take the phrase under advisement when this fool is allowed onto the reservation.)
Jane Mayer of the New Yorker magazine, (now with more racism!) uncovers the gory [...]

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another Palin related sentence I can’t say without wanted to throw things

The RNC has spent $150,000 on clothes for her in less than 4 months.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, in the middle of the collapse of our nation’s financial institutions the party that claims the right to call themselves the only ‘true’ Americans thinks its perfectly acceptable to  swaddle its cultural populist  mouth peace in the [...]

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what’s wrong with the american right? aggressive ignorance

Steven Benen has a great post on how utterly mind boggling it is that Obama is being criticized for pronouncing Pakistan correctly, while Palin lauded saying “eye-rack”. Adam Serwer’s comparison of Palin and 50 Cent is absolutely dead on (something along the lines of the right loving her like a fat kid loves cake), as [...]

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Veep review #2

Palin’s debate strategy was dog-whistle white rural populism. Pure and simple Nixon playbook. Worked for him, worked for Reagan (Philadelphia and the welfare queens, set in the context of a long, racist record.) Race is significant but it isn’t everything: Bush Sr. could pull off the racism but couldn’t fake folksy [...]

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Veep, veep! A roadrunner like reaction to the debate.

On this blog I try my best to talk in an adult-like indoor voice because I think this is usually the most prodictive way to foster thoughtful discussion. The reason I did not liveblog the VP debate was because it is virtually impossible for me to be thoughtful during this type of head on political [...]

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The $64,000 question

Name a Supreme Court decision.
“Roe v. Wade.”
Point, wingnuts.  Now name another.
“…”
Seriously.  Jonathan Martin reports:
“Of concern to McCain’s campaign, however, is a remaining and still-undisclosed clip from Palin’s interview with Couric last week that has the political world buzzing.  The Palin aide, after first noting how “infuriating” it was for CBS to purportedly leak word about [...]

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Mad Max Beyond Palindome (with mid-90s R&B update!)

Moose enter; nothing gets out.  US News reports:
“In case you’ve missed it, Palin’s meetings with Karzai, Uribe, and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were supposed to get pool coverage—one television camera, that network’s TV producer, a print reporter, and a wire reporter would get to see first contact between Palin and these world [...]

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