Tonight on Countdown, Keith Olbermann had an excellent Special Comment about Joe the Plumber, including an excellent clip of FOXNews calling Joe the Plumber out over the “Death to Israel” flap:
You know how the tagline for this site used to be “pop culture and politics?” Fuck politics. After this election is over I think I’m going to curl up with a bottle of bourbon and watch nothing but cartoons for about a month.
McCain tells people, with a straight face, that Obama and that liberal media outlet, FOX television, played politics with the World Series?
The Obama campaign did not ask that the game be delayed, said a spokesman for Fox, which broadcasts the World Series.
“They asked Fox to buy the air time,” the spokesman said. “Fox went to our partner, Major League Baseball, and asked if it would be OK to delay the game to take this important political advertisement. They agreed.”
Palin tells a crowd that Obama was, to paraphrase, palling around with Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi, whom the Mccain campaign insists was the spokesman for the PLO? The Huffington Post reports:
I’ve begun to feel like Wyatt Cenac on last night’s Daily Show.
Last week Presidential Wacky-Brother Hopeful Joe McCain, in his quest to be the new Billy Carter, called 911 to complain about traffic. According to the Washington Post:
This is where we insert a comment about the barndoor and the horse.
So tying up 911 wasn’t the problem, in his view? And, despite the fact that he was conversing with the 911 operator, he now claims, “I swear to you, I never, ever meant to say those words to a live voice. . . . The truth is, I had no idea there was anybody on the other end of the phone.”
Say it ain’t so, Joe! We’re gonna miss you.
My headache is still pounding, but I can see straight, so it’s horror movie marathon time for the rest of the day. I’m going to have to watch some really scary ones to shake loose the case of the wiggens given to me by PunditMom’s post, “Can You Say Senator Sarah Palin?” The thought crossed my mind earlier, but I was thinking about Palin’s long-term political career and hadn’t even considered this particular scenario.
Nothing could concern me more than the war on Science that Sarah Palin and her followers are intent on waging. Nevertheless, their, I don’t know…skirmish on math has to stop. I was happy to see Dana Milbank point out that their rallying cry – “Sarah in 0-twelve” – is a bit mathematically flawed. Technically, I think that’s a numerically flawed statement rather than a mathematically flawed statement, but whatever. It’s stupid-sounding and it annoys me.