We Got Both Kinds, Country and Western

""I think the fact that Mitt Romney succeeded as much as he did and remains an important and central figure in our Republican Party -- and I wouldn't be surprised to see him run again -- is a testimony, I think, to the inclusiveness of the Republican Party," said McCain, R-Arizona." Yes, the Republican party is very inclusive in taking all wealthy, white, christian men.

A Celebration!

So Obama won. Election over. Time to get back to what we do best. LOLcats:

i think we know who we're talking about here

This was on Wonkette yesterday, but I only had a chance to watch it with sound today ... and it's so insane it requires re-broadcast here ... This guy (McCain spokesman Mike Goldfarb) is seriously at the end of his rope, making accusations of Obama with no backup ... the whole time with a very George W Bush-ish smirk on his face ...

brilliant.

fox news elects john mccain!

reeeeeaaaallllllly? fox news polls find mccain making a comeback? no! really?
come on EVERY OTHER MEDIA OUTLET, get with it!

fun with wording

So by now we all know that crazy McCain campaigner wasn't really attacked by OJ Simpson wielding a knife and carving fertility symbols into any and all McCain supporter's cheeks ... or whatever it was she claimed ... but this is just the kind of story that headline bias is quite susceptible to. And since most American's get their news in headline format ONLY, I think this is kind of an important phenomenon to investigate. So let's take a look at the way different media outlets covered this story ...

The Dallas Morning News
One Texan's tall tale debunked: McCain volunteer admits making up attack story

I tried to find information on any bias this paper might have, but came up with nothing. This is still interesting though. Calling this story a "tall tale" doesn't exactly give it the weight that I believe it deserves. "Tall tale" brings up images of Paul Bunyan and Joe Henry, not crazy bitches lying about having their faces carved by eccentric Obama supporters as a political ploy to discredit Obama.

FOXNews.com
McCain Campaign Volunteer Admits Alleged Attack Was a Hoax

This one's a lil' more clever. By putting the word "alleged" into the title it sort of twists the whole thing into a whole "yeah, well, we didn't think it was real either." Obviously not typical FOX News behavior, but it does follow suit with their Executive VP's quote that "If the incident turns out to be a hoax, Senator McCain’s quest for the presidency is over, forever linked to race-baiting." Is FOX News getting their ducks in-a-line in anticipation of an Obama victory?

USA Today
Reports: McCain volunteer lied about partisan-fueled attack

Yeeup. USA Today, arguably the worst national newspaper tells it rather straight. For a newspaper that's 90% headlines, this really shouldn't be that surprising.

CBS Texas
McCain Volunteer Changes Story About Attack

Yeah, no real commentary on that. Vague and ambiguous. Did she change it to say that she made it up, or possibly that the black man who attacked her was the sheik of all muslimhood BARACK OBAMA!?

Blacknews
Desperate McCain Supporter Faked Black Attack

Ha! You tell 'em Blacknews.

that's enough right?

Batman Obama

John McCain learned his debate style from The Penguin



And just in case you still don't totally buy the McCain = Penguin conceit, check it

Obama can tell the future

also, in honor of driznastic's old skool hip hop flava

..... tumbleweed noise ..............

hello ?
does anyone else post on this blog?

boo.

anyway, Doesn't this look photoshopped? and why is there a security perimeter around the McCains? Cause its not ... here's the story I saw it at ...

maybe i should get a tv

speakin of mccain ... so as previously noted in yesterday's post i had opportunity to watch some tv this past early part of the week ... being in madison at my gal's place and sick i didn't have a whole lot of options or energy so the ol' picture-radio was the way to go ... in addition to the daily show, i watched an episode of the x-files on the sci-fi network, which included a run of ads for the new "battlestar galactica" series currently airing on that network ... it took a few plays of the same ad until i finally realized ... hey! that guy looks like john mccain! not being a fan i had to look him up ... colonel saul tigh ... YOUR gop candidate for 2008 ...





all the fun i miss by not owning an idiot box ...

Election talk

Clinton and Obama are always fighting.

John McCain is old.

Fuck those three, I'm voting for this guy. Kneel before your new President.

Autism Awareness is Important

but damn, CNN, you gotta cool your jets. Top 3 stories (1 - 2 - 3) (at 11:30 today) all on autism? Isn't there other important stuff going on today? Or any other day? I mean, yeah, your Health page is littered with autism related articles which is fine. Autism is a hot topic in Health-related news. But do you know what else is important? Shit that you buried like we might be going into a recession or the release of the torture memo or even some good news like we might be getting some military help in Afghanistan. I shouldn't blame it all on CNN's fixation with autism. Other stories that trumped that follow the lines of The Banshee Whore out sells the King and there's a really big dog. Serious, that's all there really is to the story. The dog is really big. You know, like really, really, really big. But, still, it's not like it ate a horse.

So where was I . . . . oh yeah, autism and CNN.

If you go to CNN's Health Page, nestled 'twixt two blog entries by the good Doctor Gupta addressing (you guessed it) autism, there's an article on McCain's health. Is McCain autistic? Gupta's inconclusive on that, but from my nonmedical opinion I think it would explain a lot. Check out the symptoms. Repeating phrases, odd play, acting as if deaf, not wanting to cuddle, throwing excessive tantrums, having no fear of dangerous situations . . . . Still, not the point I was going to make. So Gupta decides that he can diagnose McCain's health based on 8 year old records and visual evidence. Kind of like Senator Frist, but McCain's not in a persistent vegetative state.

Here's an important line from Dr. Gupta's blog entry regarding McCain's health, particularly in response to McCain's cancer. Some doctors said that the scars on the left side of his face that were left from surgery to remove the cancer were much larger than would be needed for the type/severity of cancer that McCain has disclosed. "Other doctors disagree, saying McCain’s aggressive operation may have been done out of an abundance of caution, where doctors removed more lymph nodes and other tissue than is normally done, because he is, well, John McCain." In other words, if you're not John McCain, your doctor might not very well be all that cautious to remove all the cancer from your head. Cause you're not John McCain. Chump.

Now, for being such good readers I give you two gifts:


the Gupta Squad, coming to ABC this Fall!


Apparently there's (another?) Sanjay Gupta who's a director and this is an actress from his film, "Koena Mitra wear[ing] an arabic styled dress consisting of loose coins."