She kinda reminds me of a hockey mom.

To borrow from that great speech in The American President:

“These are serious times, Sarah, and your fifteen minutes are up.”

Pumalicious!, did you see the original airing? This appears somewhat edited, so I might look for another version, if this isn’t exactly what aired.

I get lost in a blizzard of words

The quote of the day by Charlie…lol

Jesus fucking Christ ... it is now clear and unarguable that our national media talking heads live not only on a different fucking planet from the rest of us, they’re in their own goddamned universe.

The idea, after watching McCain and then Obama at the Columbis Service Forum and claiming, as David Gregory did on MSNBC, that it was high-minded and well done by both men boggles the fucking mind.

Did they see a tired, confused old man muttering his way through simple questions, appearing as if he wished he could be 500 miles away fucking a moose?

No.

Gregory saw an even-steven matchup. No matter that Obama has concrete ideas, can put them forth in a thoughtful, coherent and interesting manner, whereas McCain continually looks as if he expects Joe Lieberman to lean in and give him a prompt before he answers.

The motherfucking contrasts between these two men could not be more clear.

Is it me? Am I a complete and utter idiot? Am I missing something here? Isd Iceberg gonna smash me in the head with a frying pan?

Humboldt, they are the characters on Green Acres, and we are Oliver Douglas.

FYI roasters, I switched out the videos and put the “Bush Doctrine” clip on top (gotta hand it to Charlie for nailing hisself a hockey mom).

Humboldt, I’m relatively sure that David Gregory is less concerned with calling it like it is than he is being taken off the air by the General Electric suits.

That’s true Puma ...

She got her pronunciation of “nuclear” from Bush Jr.  I cannot—nay, will not live through another four years of NUKE-YOU-LER.

Reminds me of this old saying we have in South Dakota: You can’t polish a turd….  er wait…you can polish a turd but it is still a turd….no no wait….you can put lipstick on a turd but it is still a turd… wait…you can teach a turd to float but you can’t tuna a piano…oh fuck it, in a word she is Stoopit.

I think we may have already reached “Brand Collapse”.

I’m convinced we are watching people who have the ability and the will to make a horse race out of this. The contrasts are so glaringly obvious, the talent, the intelligence of the candidates could not be further apart.

When you read a poll tomorrow, just picture Andrea “I crawl on top of Alan Greenspan for fun” Mitchell talk about how close they are in their views. How close they are in their visions for the future of our country. How odd it is they are so close in the polls.

This is nothing more than a game for them. They don’t have to suffer the raages of criminal economic policies that fatten their pocketbooks and portfolios. They don’t have to worry if their sick child will get adequate health care, that their cghildren attend a school that adequately prepares them for life.

They are the shit people of our nation. They’ve got theirs. so they shit on those who haven’t got anything.

Isd Iceberg gonna smash me in the head with a frying pan?

Humboldt, in my line of work we use saute pans.  They are kind of like a “hauteur” frying pan but they work just as well for smashing a person in the head. (or is it on the head, never can remember)
And by the way the answer is yes I am going to smash you in/on the head with a saute pan, but only after beating the entire main stream media senseless, so it could be awhile.

Saute pans ... sounds pretty goddamned girly-man-French to me.

And one other thing about today, 9/11. I understand this is a Brooklyn blog, but lemme tell ya, 9/11 didn’t change a fucking thing for those of us who were in L.A. (me), or San Diego or Ottumwa.

We watched from afar, agahast at the destruction, horrified at the bleeping of movement alarms on the bodies of firefighters (I was bawling like a baby watching that live video feed and listening to that awful screech… I’m a former firefighter and remain a union member, my brother is a union rep and fire captain), but it didn’t change a goddamned thing.

What it allowed to happen, however, was the criminal acitivity that we’ve seen since 9/12.

I was at the WTC in March of that year, attending a journalism conference in Manhattan. I rode the train to the WTC to meet my brother who worked on the 20th floor of tower one.

It gave me a morbidly clear picture of what I watched when I awoke that day to his phone call, screaming at me to turn on the TV.

He had been transferred from the WTC to an office in North Jersey, closer to where he lived (Scotch Plains).

But once the towers came down, the dead were collected, the evidence of what actually happened cleaned up, that was it.

I wasn’t traumatized. I wasn’t out of work, trying to rebuild my house following an erathquake or flood. I wasn’t affected in the least.

I find it mawkish that this day has been turned into some sort of modern day Pearl Harbor, and please, I mean no insult, I write honestly and openly.

I’ve been on scene for natural disasters. I’ve endured flood, fire and earthquake. They changed my outloook much more than an isolated incident, as deadly and horrific as it was.

I’ve picked up pieces of broken and burned bodies. I’ve pulled people from raging waters, scrambled to empty a house that was home to the mentally disabled while a broken gas line filled the structure, awaiting that simple spark that would send us all to Valhalla.

I don’t downplay the horrific nature of what happened that day. No one who watched, as I did, in tears of frustration as my fellow human beings roasted to death because some fucked up knuckleheads believed they would meet virgins in their vision of heaven, could remain unmoved.
Anger, righteous anger welled up inside of me just as quickly and just as fiercely as it must have in the breasts of firefgighters, EMTs, office workers, cops, insurance men, bankers, cooks, janitors, chefs and journalists.

But it passed for us ... for me. I understand I may sound callous, but after 7 years of hearing that piece of shit Giuliani, that wanker of a man George Bush, invoke the memory of that day as if it were the repeat of the invasion of Normandy boils my blood.

9/11 didn’t change a goddamned thing. The bankers have fucked more Americans than Pam Anderson. The insurance brokers have screwed over more humans than Bob Vila on a meth-fueled rampage with a cordless Mikata.

It changed NYC. It changed those who were directly affected by the death and horror.

But it has only led to more death and horror for more innocent human beings.

That is never something to memorialize. I resent it.

A few pages shy of a short story Palin is turning out to be eh?

“In what sense Charlie?” (in her head shes going, “Oh fuck OH FUCK what did that shithead Lieberman tell me to say here? Ummm Ummmm SHIT!)

Mercy…

Her views on Israel are shocking.  She’s willing to prioritize Israel’s national interest over America’s.  No matter what Israel decides to do—even if it’s not in our national interest—it’s okay with Sarah.  Absolutely scary.

Humboldt, I hear you guy.  Because what has all that suffering that day actually led to?  An invasion of Iraq which has drained our resources beyond belief.  But has not even come close to finding the real perpetrators.  But, as you say, an occasion for Bush & Co to wave the flag and talk about national unity (not really there) and everybody forget what’s gone wrong in this country in a great orgasm of “we are the defenders of freedom”.  I guess the spattering of applause that Bush got is telling.  But it’s less about him than where this country is.  It’s really time to turn the tide and move forward.  While politicians make points about 9/11, people are still losing their houses, still losing their jobs, still losing hope.  Barack gets it.  McCain (as he has now said more than once) is pissed that Barack wouldn’t go along with his town halls proposal and as a result has sold his soul to the devil (named Karl Rove) to get his revenge.  What’s he going to do if Putin pees on him?  That is the really scary stuff.  The future holds much greater perils.  And Gov. Palin has said she’s fine with going to war with Russia.  This is scary beyone belief.  Time to hunker down and work for Obama/Biden.

Man, there are a lot of edits in this, at least I hope they’re edits because both of them are jumping around like frogs on a hotplate. I’d love to see the whole thing unedited. 

Having said that, I think Palin is extremely dangerous and a megalomaniac.

Palin scares me because she has no insight and does not question anything she has said or done.  When she was asked if she questioned whether she was ready for this job she responded that she didn’t have any doubts.  ??????  Wouldn’t someone who really wanted the best for our country, who wanted to be a great leader at least ask him or her self whether they could do it; whether they were really up to the call?  You don’t have to ask god or anything if that’s not your belief (not mine anyway) but at least ask yourself - is this something I am able to do?  Do I have the courage, the knowledge, the leadership skills?  Well I would have asked myself that and I think most intelligent, credible people would have but not Gov. Palin.  She just said “you betcha” and climbed on board.  The arrogance, the self centeredness, is truly, truly scary.  (Almost reminds me of ummmm, George Bush?)

What’s truly funny is that this was a mostly softball interview - though Gibson stuck to his guns at certain key points - and she still totally fucked the moose on it.

I cannot wait for that first press conference.

This interview was almost as entertaining as the Will and Darragh show on Hardball.  Nothing will ever top that, but this was a close second.

It changed NYC.

Humboldt, as a New Yorker I would say that ultimately it didn’t even change NYC.  Yes we are minus a couple of buildings but New York and those New Yorkers not directly affected by it were pretty quickly back to normal.  Surprisingly quickly.

I am pretty much right there with you on the rest of your post. And you as well Marin.

That is never something to memorialize. I resent it.

It was news to me, when I finally found out about it, but you know it’s actually a ‘holiday’ now, right?

Freedom Day or some schlock like that.  Seriously.

Oh, I should add - where’s that Freedom Tower, Rudy?  Where’s our monument, George?

Billions of dollars later….

Moose in the headlights.

Seriously , when she said “in what sense Charlie”, my wife (who’s as apolitical as they come) picked up her head from reading to my daughter and said “she’s done”.

Off to the PUMA sites to see how sexist Charlie Gibson is….

Off to the PUMA sites to see how sexist Charlie Gibson is….

Hoo boy, Riverchucky went “full retarded”

One thing that continues to bother me about both McCain and Palin is their phony smiles.  Compare McCain’s “gee, I hope my face doesn’t crack” forced smile and Palin’s “smile for the camera, sweetie” smile to Obama’s “I love you back” and Biden’s “Are we having fun or what?” smiles. When our guys smile at us they are including us in the happy moment.

Just sayin’

My god, the frivolous disregard for substance, the loyalty bullshit, the vapid aggressiveness!  I’ve always considered the “McSame” stuff to be something of a useful exaggeration, but this woman genuinely is Bush with a bush.

It was news to me, when I finally found out about it, but you know it’s actually a ‘holiday’ now, right?

9/11 is now officially Patriot’s Day in California. Seriously. Even more maudlin, September is now Heroes of Flight 93 Month

Those Al Qaeda types are experts at symbolism. They knew to do the greatest damage to American psyche, they would need to go after our most treasured things: the twin towers, the world’s largest phallic symbols.

On The Bush Doctrine:

“I have never read that book, Charlie, or ‘The Vagina Monologues.’ I do, however, believe that 13 is too young to get a Brazilian Wax.”

On Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac:

“I have never met them, although I understand they are both lovely people—the salt of the earth.”

On the Economy:

“Part of our problem, Charlie, is that US dollar is a ‘fiat’ currency, which means that it is small, parts are expensive and the steering wheel is on the wrong side. I agree with Senator McCain that America needs to transition to an ‘audi’ currency, which will hold its resale value better. Overall, I think it’s imperative that we find ways to make the dollar more affordable for working-class Americans.” 

On Climate Change:

“Do I believe in man-made climate impacts? Pull my finger. Ha—just foolin’!”

On the Iraq War:

“I believe that the future of the Navy’s Littoral Combat Fleet is in serious doubt, owing to rampant quality flaws and cost overruns that forced us to cancel production on the next-generation Freedom-class vessels. In the short run, at least, it makes more sense for us to extend production of the proven Arleigh Burke-class combat ships, but updated and modernized using best-technology upgrades developed for use with the Freedom-class hulls.

“Oh, fuck—that was the answer to an entirely different question. You were supposed to ask me these in order, you shit.”

LOL, Strange!

Pressed about what insights into recent Russian actions she gained by living in Alaska, Palin answered: “They’re our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.”

A response found on the interwebs:

And when I look out my window I can see the moon. Doesn’t make me a fucking astronaut now, does it?

Priceless

And when I look out my window I can see the moon. Doesn’t make me a fucking astronaut now, does it?

Does make you a space cadet though.  Or a Thunderbird!

Hahahahahaha, Bonnach. You’re a funny one!