Hey look, it's President McCain

Jeebus, are there truly no other politicians in America available on Sunday besides this guy, Lindsey Graham, and Joe Lieberman?

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has been booked for yet another Sunday talk show appearance this weekend — this time on CBS’ Face The Nation. Despite a “wildly unsuccessful presidential campaign” last year and his comparative irrelevancy in the U.S. Senate, this will mark the 15th time McCain has appeared on a Sunday talk show since January.

I didn't know some barbecue could merit so many reach-arounds.

It's possible I suppose that some of these appearance were double-dips (especially if he and Lieberman were on at the same time...hiyoooo!) but if not, in the roughly 38 or 39 weekends since Obama became the actual President, McCain has been on the boob tube (as Meghan McCain calls it) almost half the time pretending to be one.

Vain much?

Shorter Krauthammer: The "news" organization that employs me and pays me a shitload of money is AWESOME and FAIR and BALANCED and I have no obvious bias for saying so whatsoever -- and in the meantime, look at all the conflict of interest bullshit I can get away with at this rag?

Defend Fox from whom? Fox's flagship 6 o'clock evening news out of Washington (hosted by Bret Baier, formerly by Brit Hume) is, to my mind, the best hour of news on television. (Definitive evidence: My mother watches it even on the odd night when I'm not on.)

Well, it must be empirically true then.

What a jackass.

Thanks right-wingers

Sarah Palin has joined the fray of folks saying that what the Northeast needs are Republicans that don't believe what their constituents do. Shine on you crazy diamonds. In the traditionally Republican NY-23rd here are the poll numbers:

Research 2000 for Daily Kos, New York's 23rd District, 10/19/09-10/21/09, Likely Voters, MoE +/- 4%

Bill Owens (D) 35
DeDe Scozzafava (R) 30
Doug Hoffman (C) 23

As promised earlier in the week, DK polls the contentious three-way battle in upstate New York to replace Republican Congressman John McHugh. Our findings, as it happens, mirror fairly closely the results of the other public poll (PDF file) in the race, which was released last week by Siena College.

Democrat Bill Owens is rapidly becoming the beneficiary of a brutal schism between the GOP and movement conservatives, and it is growing more plausible that the Democrats may pick up yet another House seat as a result.

Tales from Iowa

Funny, they never show this sort of thing in the Home Security Commercials:

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa – A woman surprised by a man in the front room of her home near Council Bluffs grabbed a plastic toy bat and hit him repeatedly until he ran out the front door.

As described it was actually a frightening scene, but those plastic bats are not exactly WMDs. Good for her.

Good thing it wasn't a felony

Or that would be one less member of the GOP base that could vote:

A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair while drunk. A criminal complaint says 62-year-old Dennis LeRoy Anderson told police he left a bar in the northern Minnesota town of Proctor on his chair after drinking eight or nine beers.

Something for the Blue Dogs

From El Gato Negro:

Dear Dr. Atta J. Turk -- The Spam Files

To:attaturk2004@yahoo.com
Date: October 22, 2009, 4:33 a.m.

Subject: Hot MILF's in Heat

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First of all, I would assume something that is "hot" will also contain "heat".

Second of all, "MILF" what a delightful phrase (rolling eyes) to enter the popular lexicon in the last decade. Thank you shitty movies.

Third, it's nice that pornographic actress has gone from a short-lived profession that was the parlance of drug addicts, sex addicts, and desperate runaways to be a full-fledged career. Who are the Rolling Stones or the Who of the porn industry anyway?

Behold the new economy. Middle-age based sex videos and tattoos, the great new American industries. All ironically arising during the Era of Bush.

Fourth, what is MILF porn anyway? It's a way for older men to jerk off without feeling EVEN more like a pervert. "Hey, at least I'm objectifying someone nearer my age!"

Thanks SPAM. Whether emanating from Nigeria or the University of Tennessee College of Law, there's always a post in there somewhere.

Oh dear...

Somebody's freudian slip is showing.

A graphic representation of self-immolation

Via the Great Orange Satan, New Jersey where the Republican is plunging against an unpopular incumbent.



And in other races that also have little to do with Obama -- as will be pontificated upon as being so by the Village -- but very much to do with shitty Candidates, Virginia has the opposite problem. Two awful candidates -- but the Democrat Deeds matches cluelessness with a supreme lack of charisma. Politicians with that combination usually are not, what would you call them, oh yeah, politicians.

Accountability

Never forget it doesn't exist for right-wingers.

Jonah Goldberg, April 23, 2002, crying out for going to war in Iraq:

"Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business."

Something just above "Operation Reinhard" and on par with "The Commissar Order" in historical morality.

Professional consequences suffered?

None. Just a book contract to Liberals the real fascists.

Somehow I missed this

I have to imagine some blogger noticed this exactly nine months ago, but in doing my little shitty-photoshop on Bernie Kerik's mugshot I remembered that its wearer was a woman from Texas named Pat Peale, who in mocking Kerry's war wounds pissed on every wounded veteran.

So I hit "the google" and found out ol' Pat Peale made one last visit to infamy at the end of the line of Bush when he returned to Texas to begin a career of flipping-coins and getting paid to attend "self-help seminars" (Step One: Have a famous, wealthy and powerful Daddy):

Peale said she got a chance to talk with both Laura Bush and George Bush.

“I saw Laura, and she looked up and said, ‘Pat, I can’t believe you came all the way from Gainesville,’” she said.

She and some companions also managed to get a few photos with both the Bushs.

George Bush, stopping by to talk for a moment with Peale and some of his Crawford neighbors, made a promise, she said.

“He said, ‘We love you and we’re going to be seeing a lot of you now,’” Peale said Bush told them.

Missing something

Other than Rudy giving him a big burly "bear" hug, I knew the Bernie Kerik mug-shot was missing something.



There, all better.

Touching stories from Lee Greenwood's America, Vol. I

In the annals of football and sacrifice, Pat Tillman has nothing on this poor soul who has had the league of Pat Patriot soil his love of 'Murica more thoroughly than his hero's pants soiled were in rehab.

Mark Muller, owner of Max Motors and wannabe arms dealer (he saved Missourians from having to make the hard choice between a pickup truck and an assault rifle this summer by giving away free AK-47s with purchase of a truck), is now claiming that he's canceling his Kansas City Chiefs season tickets because the NFL supposedly blocked Limbaugh's attempt to buy the St. Louis Rams.

And in the most laughable story of prioritizing one's life ever...

Muller told the Cybercast News Service that Limbaugh was the reason he first went to an NFL game. Muller claimed that he heard Limbaugh endorse the NFL on his radio program in the '80s. Muller supposedly talked to his wife, and they "gave up everything in our life at the time [so] we could buy two season tickets, no more dinners out, nothing."

They gave up EVERYTHING! Suck it Arbys!

Poor me, I chose an NFL club the ol' fashioned way. I lived in the general geographic area of one (and as this was the Minnesota Vikings I don't want to go into too much depth over how that has worked out for me).

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]

Place Your Bets

Which dumbass hack will be first to ask Gibbs what Obama's opinion is of this at tomorrow's gaggle?

Will it be self-aggrandizing tool Jake Tapper -- or has Jakie made enough of a fool of himself this week? Maybe someone from Tapper's beloved "sister organization" Fox "News"?

Guesses in comments, please.

We can all do this

Jake Tapper defends FoxNews as "real journalism"

...


Jake Tapper defends Bukkakke as real act of making love.

Jake Tapper defends Wal-Mart as small town America.

Jake Tapper defends RuPaul as real lady.

'Cause I'm a Lazy Bastard*

All you get is a link to some extra-special Pareene (who is ordinarily extraordinary, but who today is extra-specially so).

And speaking of extra-special, when has Jake Tapper been anything other than an extra-special self-aggrandizing tool?

*Ten points and a big fat sloppy virtual kiss to whomever can name the person who immortalized this phrase. Bonus points if you can name the venue in which it was uttered.

Update: Look, you might as well read everything Pareene is writing today (here and here). He is obviously brilliant (and not a lazy bastard).

Bernie applies the broom-handle to himself

Well, I guess this will be something for perennial under performer Rudy Giuliani to ignore as he loses his next election.

Judge revokes Bernard Kerik bail, sends ex-NYPD top cop to jail for trying to taint jury pool

(via Atrios)

Taint is a word that is always applicable to Bernie Kerik.

No word on Judith Regan and conjugal visits.

Aspirational Elitist that I am...

I naturally watch "Mad Men".

I must say things are spinning out of control -- only 3 episodes left of the year 1963.

Something tells me that the JFK Assassination either happens as everything finally blows up in Don Draper's face. Or it squelches it all and he avoids dire consequences.

But the fact that 11/22/1963 was seen as a turning point in the Nation's culture, I have to think it is a catalyst for Don and Betty (and Don and the Twix Commercial Lady*) etc..

And there it is, confirmation that on occasion I watch some elitist TV.


(*"OMG I love blogging!")

Oh Hoo-hah-ray!

Sarah Palin will be appearing on OPRAH! (legally obligated to write it that way) next month sans the wingnut that actually wrote her book "Going Rogue".

Meanwhile, Rich Lowry has just signed up to be the charter member of "Oprah's Book Rub".

I just hope the pages are of high enough quality to avoid too many sticking together.

The sad sad state of the Ultra-Rich

To paraphrase Jeopardy Record Holder Wolf Blitzer:

"Those poor people, so incredibly rich and so white."

America's most oppressed minority.

Oh, how they whine in their wine cellars:

Dr. Daniel E. Fass, another chairman of the [Obama fundraising] event who lives surrounded by financiers in Greenwich, Conn., said: "The investment community feels very put-upon. They feel there is no reason why they shouldn't earn $1 million to $200 million a year, and they don't want to be held responsible for the global financial meltdown."