Unloading What’s Left at the Bottom of the Bag
The Pennsylvania GOP sends out a release entitled “A Terrorist’s Best Friend“. See if you can find the punctuation mistakes in said release.
When McCain asks “who is the real Barack Obama” someone in the audience yells out “terrorist”. McCain pauses, but keeps going without commenting on the accusation.
When Sarah Palin mentions that Barack Obama is an acquaintance of William Ayers’, someone in the audience yells out “kill him!“.
Palin also goes after that mean, old, nasty media that - you know, asked her questions.
Palin’s routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric’s questions for her “less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media.” At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, “Sit down, boy.”
If you vote for McCain and Palin, change is comin’, alright. But it’s change backwards. Far backwards.
mike Says:October 7th, 2008 at 8:11 am
Hello hank? This post is in need of spinning, please add your rant!!
The Humanist Says:October 7th, 2008 at 9:07 am
McCain-Palin: Building A Bridge To The 19th Century.
“Sit down, boy”….that’s the strategy, isn’t it? Lee Atwater nods approvingly from his box seat in Hell.
Snarky Snarkmore McSnarkamaphone Says:October 7th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Where he sits at the right hand of Barry Goldwater, natch.
The Humanist Says:October 7th, 2008 at 9:56 am
@Snarky - I don’t know about that….Goldwater, while he’s purported to be the father of the modern conservative movement, had something of a progressive streak. He opposed the rising domincance of the Religious Right on issues like abortion and gay rights and, let’s not forget, he broke with his party and convinced Nixon to resign. In fact, you can call him the real “Maverick”, not Old Man Yelling At Clouds and Inciting His Base To Call His Opponent A Terrorist McCain.
“When you say ‘radical right’ today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican party and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye”
“Do not associate my name with anything you [the right wing] do. You are extremists, and you’ve hurt the Republican party much more than the Democrats have.”
- Barry Goldwater, 1994
mike Says:October 7th, 2008 at 10:03 am
The daily show had a reporter in Palin’s home town during the debate. Try to catch the repeat today at 8pm if you missed it, priceless.