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May 17, 2008
Polltucky
Via Mr. Schecter:
ARG conducted two polls over the past few days and found Obama with a small lead in Oregon, 50% to 45%, and Clinton with a West Virginia like 65% to 29% lead in Kentucky.
Meanwhile, Senator McCain will likely win Kentucky in the general. Wait until they discover that McCain is really a Muslim.
04:05 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Senator Kennedy Airlifted to Hospital
Ted Kennedy might have suffered from stroke this morning. No confirmation yet.
More here.
And, naturally, MSNBC has Pat Buchanan on to talk about it. Buchanan worked for the Nixon White House which considered the Kennedys mortal enemies. Smart casting, MSNBC.
11:28 AM | Comments (5) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Here's A Crazy Question...
Would you give up your right to vote for $1,000,000 USD?
According to the new Harper's Index:
Percentage of NYU students who say they would "permanently forfeit" their vote for $1 million: 50
Would you do it? Be honest.
10:27 AM | Comments (12) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
05:32 AM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
May 16, 2008
Here's A Shocker
Just in...
President Bush failed to win the help he sought from Saudi Arabia to relieve skyrocketing American gas prices Friday, a setback for the former Texas oilman who took office predicting he would jawbone oil-producing nations to help the U.S.
George W. Bush? Reduce oil and gas prices? That's rich.
And...
[National Security Adviser] Hadley suggested the White House was satisfied with — or at least accepted — the Saudi response. However, he said the Bush administration will see if the explanation "conforms to what our experts say."
Experts? In the Bush administration? That's rich.
09:16 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Bill O'Reilly's Producer
I love it and I wish I thought of it first. Genius.
08:30 PM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
The Return Of Huckacrazy
"That was Barack Obama," Huckabee quipped, "He just tripped off a chair. He was getting ready to speak. Somebody aimed a gun at him and he...he dove for the floor."
Hoo-hoo! If I wrote the same thing about President Bush in an e-mail message or said it on the phone, I'd probably be targeted by the NSA and arrested by Homeland Security.
UPDATE: Video via Paddy:
08:12 PM | Comments (4) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Senator Obama Responds To Bush
This is a pretty great response.
03:17 PM | Comments (5) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Markos Gets Hate Mail
I love the wingnut mail and Markos gets lots of it. Here are some winners:
You have gone too far with this liberal, fascist bullshit....sit down and SHUT UP and stop posting despicable stories to further your own ends. I am sick and tired of the radical left and I hope people like Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck can exert their influence to SHUT YOU DOWN!!!!! If you don't like America, get the fuck out!
Hey asshole if I ever run across you in public I am going to really gonna give my best attempt to beat the living dogshit out you!!! Especially if I see you fly through DFW or if I go through O'Hare and run into you there. You suck!!!!
ive given ur actual city, state address to al qaida websites...i do believe they will be taking you out very shortly and not a soul will care...not even ur mother......now i know why u dont go driving around or walking around in public...ur the skinny, nerdy high school kid who gets punched out for just being stupid looking and im sure that would still happen....after all, cowards are always cowards....
You classless fucktard. You're the fucking problem with this country you cocksucking asshole. I hope some one beats the living shit out of you and that Mahler3 scumbag soon.Drop fucking Dead!
More here.
07:58 AM | Comments (3) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
07:52 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
May 15, 2008
It's About Time
From Sullivan's "Face of the Day" feature:
Gay American Lee Moulton reacts to a California Supreme Court decision to overturn the ban on same-sex marriage at the California Supreme Court May 15, 2008 in San Francisco, California. By Justin Sullivan/Getty.
07:26 PM | Comments (3) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Wingnut Talk Show Host Gets Owned
I hope C&L gets this video up asap. Wingnut talk show host Kevin James was just smacked down by Chris Matthews on Hardball. Matthews wanted to know specifically what Chamberlain did wrong prior to World War II and James didn't know. "He was an appeaser!" he kept saying, and he finally conceded that he didn't know what the hell Chamberlain did wrong.
Sometimes, Matthews kicks some ass. Sometimes.
UPDATE: Thanks to Paddy and Intoxination for tracking this down. C&L video here.
07:20 PM | Comments (6) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awful
“Remember,” Davis writes, “Hispanic voters are a swing group in this election and future elections. John McCain, being from a border state, may be out of sync with many Republicans but he has standing among Hispanics. Barrack Obama has not made the sale to Hispanic voters. Thus, this issue is a tar baby for anyone who touches it, with land mines everywhere.”
Tony Snow likes to use that phrase, too.
09:10 AM | Comments (7) | Posted By Bob Cesca
George Bush: The Sacrificer
President Bush wasn't sacrificing anything in 2005 either. Here's something I wrote for the Huffington Post during one of the President's ridiculously long vacations.
09:07 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Olbermann: "Shut the Hell Up!"
This was a doozy.
08:44 AM | Comments (6) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
05:35 AM | Comments (3) | Posted By Bob Cesca
May 14, 2008
Edwards Endorses Senator Obama!
Awesome. Awesome. Awesome.
Former Sen. John Edwards is endorsing Sen. Barack Obama's presidential candidacy Wednesday evening, in a dramatic attempt by the Obama campaign to answer concerns regarding Obama's appeal to working-class voters, several senior Democratic sources tell ABC News.
Now they ought to discuss running as a ticket.
05:57 PM | Comments (13) | Posted By Bob Cesca
I'm Moving to West Virginia
I swear to frickin' holy hell... I'm moving to West Virginia and I'm going to sell lots and lots of robot insurance and monorails to people like Janice:
Wow. She's not smart.
04:08 PM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Fear Mongering Lost
Republican fear monger Greg Davis lost by 8 points yesterday to Travis Childers in the Mississippi District 1 special election. And the Democratic majority in Congress grows larger.
Oh and Greg Davis played the Wright / Race card against Childers and lost anyway. Remember this commercial?
That's not a parody.
07:51 AM | Comments (5) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Don't Sweat West Virginia
Senator Obama may have only won 26% of the vote, but it's not so bad if you look at it this way...
In West Virginia's Republican primary back in February, Senator McCain only won 1% of the vote.
07:43 AM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
Next time on American Chopper...
(One of mine today. Thought you might dig it.)
07:37 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
May 13, 2008
What's Whose Problem?
Here's something to think about today as we look at West Virginia.
We've learned recently that certain fringe groups of white people won't vote for a candidate simply because he's black. Not many, but enough to become an issue (thanks to the Clintons).
And yet when this electoral dynamic is discussed in the corporate media, it's defined as a "problem" for the black candidate (here, for example).
Why can't that black guy win the racist white vote? they ask. What's that black guy's problem? they repeat.
Just once in this campaign, I want the corporate media to ask the racists in this country what their problem is, instead of simply taking their antiquated, ignorant racism as a given.
Sorry. This ridiculous dynamic isn't "a problem" for the black candidate -- this dynamic is a problem for the white racist.
ADDING... So instead of asking the black candidate why he can't win the racist white guy vote, why not ask the racist white guy why he won't vote for the black candidate. And -- for once -- don't accept the answer: "Just because he's black." Find out why. Make the bastards use their brain for a change. That's what I want Pat Buchanan and all the rest of the pundits to talk about tonight.
10:45 AM | Comments (11) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Holy Crap! A Bushism!
And I understand that for some, however, Mother's Day is a sad day for those who lost their lives in Oklahoma and Missouri and Georgia because of the tornadoes, are wondering whether or not tomorrow will be a bright and hopeful day.
When we die, is it possible to worry about whether tomorrow will be a hopeful day?
10:40 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
West Virginia Coverage
Which network will have the most race-baiting tonight? I say it'll be FOX News like always, but that's a given. MSNBC, since they continue to allow Pat Buchanan on the air, will be a close second.
Also, I expect to hear too much Manchurian talk.
09:00 AM | Comments (3) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
Happy 71st birthday to one of the greatest living Americans: George Carlin.
08:56 AM | Comments (3) | Posted By Bob Cesca
May 12, 2008
Bill O'Reilly Goes Apeshit
From John Amato at C&L (NOT SAFE FOR WORK):
This is one of the greatest videos ever.
10:52 AM | Comments (14) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Paging Lionel Hutz
“I heard that Obama is a Muslim and his wife’s an atheist,” said Mr Simpson, drawing on a cigarette outside the fire station in Williamson, a coalmining town of 3,400 people surrounded by lush wooded hillsides.
I swear -- I'm driving to Williamson, West Virginia. There's lots of robot insurance to be sold. Maybe I could sell them a monorail, too.
10:32 AM | Comments (4) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
08:14 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
May 11, 2008
Whoops!
Terry McAuliffe on Meet the Press today:
MR. McAULIFFE: Absolutely. We will be together. This is--we're in a primary, we're both trying to win the nomination. But it's not impossible for Hillary Clinton to win. A lot of people have said that. Big Russ, if he were sitting here today, nothing's impossible. Jack McAuliffe, if he were with us today, they both--they're probably both in heaven right now, Tim, probably having a scotch, looking down and saying, you know what, this fight goes on. It's good for the Democratic Party. Millions of people coming out to vote. It's exciting.
Big Russ is still alive.
See previous "nervous breakdown" remarks.
06:07 PM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
SNL
It's funny because it's true.
11:59 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Someone Call An Ambulance
I'm watching McAuliffe on Meet the Press. I'm not a doctor but this dude's on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
10:38 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
And Robots!
Second only to the corporate media's cushiony approach to Senator McBush, this ridiculous and misguided paranoia about Senator Obama is going to be the most frustrating aspect of the coming general election. Via Sullivan:
"They're convinced [Obama] is a Muslim, a terrorist, a guy who's coming to take away their guns. It's just sad," - an Obama supporter in West Virginia.
I'm going to seek out these pockets of Americans, and then I'm going to sell them lots and lots of Robot Insurance.
10:09 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Oh Please Let This Happen
I turned on FOX News Sunday in time to hear Bill Kristol suggest that Senator McCain ought to propose a "surge" for the economy in the same way he supported the Iraq surge.
Please oh please keep giving the McCain campaign advice like this. Tie everything to Iraq and the Bush administration. Winner!
09:53 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
Happy Mother's Day!
09:49 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
