This has been making the rounds by email and I’ve seen it posted a couple of places. After reading it, my thought was that if all of it were true, Obama wouldn’t even have cleared the primary hurdle. What do you think, and if you agree that he wouldn’t be in the running, what does it say about America?
Seriously, WTF is up with Tony Harris? Why does he always interact with reporters and guests like he’s asking them cute questions about their pubic hair?
RELATED: While we’re on the subject of CNN, WTF is up with Campbell Brown? How did marrying Dan Senor make her cooler? Can we get Dan Senor to marry every person in Our Stupid Media?
“I voted for Bush, father and son, but this time I’ll vote for Obama,” [Dennis Hopper] told journalists at the opening of a show on his life and work at the Paris cinematheque.
Hopper is to be handed France’s order of Commander of Arts and Letters by the culture minister later Monday.
“I was the first person in my family to have been Republican,” he added. “For most of my life I wasn’t on the left.”
“I pray God, Barack Obama is elected,” he said, criticising the current administration’s many “lies.”
As if the makers of An American Carol didn’t need more bad news, now one of their stars is praying for the terrorist to win. Too funny.
Anyone want to take bets on which prominent conservative will fold next? Have at it in the comments.
RELATED: When I was researching this story, I came across this hilariously spintastic post about An American Carol by the winner of our Sexiest Newsbuster contest, Warner Todd Huston. My favorite part is when he complains about Wonkette’s “typical unprofessional style.”
Could Bill Kristol be right for once in his life? Nah. But he could be serving as a GOP apparatchik, which would be entirely in character. An excerpt from his latest NYT column:
It’s time for John McCain to fire his campaign…
What McCain needs to do is junk the whole thing and start over. Shut down the rapid responses, end the frantic e-mails, bench the spinning surrogates, stop putting up new TV and Internet ads every minute. In fact, pull all the ads — they’re doing no good anyway. Use that money for televised town halls and half-hour addresses in prime time.
And let McCain go back to what he’s been good at in the past — running as a cheerful, open and accessible candidate. Palin should follow suit. The two of them are attractive and competent politicians. They’re happy warriors and good campaigners. Set them free.
Kristol advises press conferences for both McCain and Palin, which is clearly absurd. Palin can’t handle Katie Couric. She’s gonna do press conferences? Not bloodly likely.
But McCain might adopt part of such a strategy, repudiating negative campaigning, holding press conferences himself and allowing Palin to continue doing Fox infomercials to keep the base on board. He might be convinced that the base will vote for their Queen Esther regardless of how angry they’d be with McCain himself for junking the slime strategy.
Nate Silver over at 538.com also detects a whiff of wingnut media outlet coordination —both in Kristol’s column and in the recent touting of McCain’s polling numbers by Drudge:
“It took a Democratic president to clean up after the last President Bush, it’s going to take a Democratic president to clean up after this President Bush.”
I know Hillary and others have pointed this out before, but I’m still not hearing it anywhere near enough. Just program that notion on auto-loop and let it play over and over until the 4th. It’s easy to understand, it’s the truth and it will resonate with the last few voters we need.
I’ve had one eye on Brokaw ever since 2003 when he cleverly smeared Wes Clark in the Democratic primary. Unlike most journalists who wear their bias on their sleeve, Brokaw is subtle in the way he lends currency to the outlandish. To see this point, and before watching the video below, consider how the existence of any measurable association between Barack Obama and William Ayers has been thoroughly debunked.
Smear groups and now a desperate McCain campaign are trying to connect Barack to William Ayers using age-old guilt by association techniques. Here’s the truth: the smear associating Barack to Ayers is “phony,” [Chicago Sun Times] “tenuous,” [Washington Post] – even “exaggerated at best if not outright false.” [Associated Press]
William Ayers is a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, with whom Barack served on the board of an education-reform organization in the mid-1990’s. According to the Associated Press, they are not close: “No evidence shows they were “pals” or even close when they worked on community boards years ago …”
Smear groups and the McCain campaign are trying to connect Obama to acts Ayers committed 40 years ago – when Barack was just eight years old. Here’s what the New York Times reported on the connection:
“But the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called “somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.”
Now watch how today on Meet The Press, Brokaw allows any viewer to conclude there could be something to an Obama-Ayres association. He does this by not questioning why the McCain campaign would push a discredited story, but by simply asking if the McCain attack on Obama is working. In doing so, he allows the empty-headed WSJ writer Paul Gigot to tell us why associations are important, as in “they go to character and judgment.”
Brokaw allowed Gigot’s comment to stand without any further probing or critical follow-up. Brokaw knows exactly what he is doing and he’s quite skilled at pushing stories for his favorites. He’s a journalistic fraud.
When Hillary Clinton realized she was losing the primary election to Barack Obama, she had a choice to make: stay on the high road, or go dirty. She chose the low road. So did her husband. In the process, her campaign whipped the dumbest Americans into a frenzy of prejudicial fear and hatred.
John McCain faced the same choice. Behind in the polls and losing to a superior candidate, could he convince Americans that electing a rotting old Republican corpse was in their best interest?
No, he could not, so he too chose the low road. And once again the low information, bigoted, American Idiots, have been whipped into a frenzy and appear ready for acts of violence.
A case in point is that red-faced nutball policeman who stoked the crowd by using Obama’s middle name as a warning signal. Yesterday, an ill-informed woman asked McCain if Obama was an Arab. McCain told the lady he wasn’t but ‘forgot’ to mention that it shouldn’t matter if he was.
Well, guess what might be stopping this malicious campaigning? There seems to be a firewall within the dirty politician’s own peer group. First we saw long time supporter James Clyburn call the Clinton’s on their bullshit, and now McCain is getting it from both sides of the political aisle. The stories of defection are all over the place. Here’s one that’s interesting because McCain made a comment about this person a couple of months ago:
In August, while appearing at a forum on faith, McCain was asked to name three “wise people” he would listen to. He cited [Rep. John] Lewis [D-GA] as well as Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. troops in Iraq, and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, a top adviser to his campaign.
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In a statement yesterday, Lewis said McCain and running mate Sarah Palin were “sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.”
“George Wallace never threw a bomb. He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights,” said Lewis, who is black, noting Wallace also ran for president.
“Because of this atmosphere of hate, four little girls were killed on Sunday morning when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama,” Lewis said, referring to the Sept. 15, 1963 bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church, a seminal event of the civil rights movement.
McCain responded with this: “I am saddened that John Lewis, a man I’ve always admired, would make such a brazen and baseless attack on my character.”
You got what you deserved, John.
MORE: Another incident this morning. See the CBS video and report below the break.
I will join my wife (who will proudly be sporting a “Puck Falin” sign with the “P” as the Flyers’ logo) and a whole lot of others in hurling verbal abuse your way. You are out of your league, governor. Go back home.
If you’d like to take a tour of how this decision is playing out with Flyers fans you can check out these message boards here and here. If you’d like a brief sample, here ya go:
i estimate a 95 mph slapshot is needed to knock the stupid out of her.
