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May 31, 2008
McCain? Seriously?
(h/t Jane)
09:16 PM | Comments (7) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Assassination Dreams
But Senator Clinton didn't mean anything sinister with her RFK remarks.
09:11 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
2118
The DNC has reached a compromise to seat half of Michigan and Florida.
2118 is the magic number now and Senator Obama is 66 delegates away.
Also -- and I really, really hope I'm wrong -- this gives Senator Clinton an awesome excuse to leave the party and run as a Liebercrat. Harold Ickes:
"There's been a lot of talk about party unity _ let's all come together, and put our arms around each other," said Ickes, who is also a member of the Rules Committee that approved the deal. "I submit to you ladies and gentlemen, hijacking four delegates ... is not a good way to start down the path of party unity."
A protester shouted:
"How can you call yourselves Democrats if you don't count the vote?" one man in the audience shouted before being escorted out by security. "This is not the Democratic Party!"
Again, I really hope I'm wrong.
07:36 PM | Comments (6) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Stating the Obvious
Today's blustery hooplah at the DNC wouldn't be happening if Senator Clinton was winning.
That kinda pisses me off.
12:42 PM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Counting Florida
Two sources, including a high-ranking official with the Florida delegation, have confirmed that the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee (RBC) reached an agreement last night and will seat the state's entire delegation but give each delegate half a vote
Tomorrow's reaction from the Clintons: Florida doesn't matter.
12:36 PM | Comments (4) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Oh Happy Day!
Never in a bazillion years did I ever think I'd wake up one morning thinking, "Oooh, the Democratic Party Rules and By-laws committee is meeting today!!! Gotta get up now!"
Yabba dabba do.
08:28 AM | Comments (3) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
07:09 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
May 30, 2008
Mrs. Obama One Week Later
It's been one week since Senator Clinton's most infamous quote about RFK's assassination. And Michelle Obama says:
“Send us good vibes. Pray for us. Think positive thoughts. But most of all, be vigilant. Be vigilant about stopping this kind of talk. It’s not funny. You don’t have to like Barack to dislike that kind of talk. Be vigilant about stopping that kind of talk.”
Right on.
08:41 PM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Deliverance
Who will this guy vote for?
05:17 PM | Comments (6) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Born On This Day...
...TRex!
Happy birthday, you old so and so.
01:29 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Another Image For Our Daughters
Hillary Clinton took time out from her punishing campaign schedule to enjoy a glass of whiskey with a group of journalists.
At least it wasn't barbeque.
12:23 PM | Comments (7) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
06:22 AM | Comments (4) | Posted By Bob Cesca
David Gregory Asking Tough Questions
MATTHEWS (reading McClellan's text): "The 'liberal media' didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served." David...GREGORY: I think he's wrong. Uh, he makes the same kind of argument a lot of people on the left have made. Uh, I tried not to be defensive about it. I've thought a lot about this over a number of years. And I disagree with that assessment. I think the questions were asked. I think we pushed, I think we prodded. I think we challenged the president... If there wasn't a debate in this country, the American people should think about 'why not.' Where was Congress, where was the House, where was the Senate, where was public opinion about the war. What did the former-president believe about the pre-war intelligence... The right questions were asked.
03:45 AM | Comments (3) | Posted By Bob Cesca
May 29, 2008
Awwwww
Just got this e-mail from the DNC:
Unfortunately, your blog will not be credentialed at 2008 Democratic National Convention.
Weird. I'm literally an elected member of the Democratic Party. But evidently there has been some controversy about the credentialling.
08:22 PM | Comments (5) | Posted By Bob Cesca
New Huffington Post Epic
Sorry for the light blogging today. I was busy writing this epic.
Feel free to come back and comment here.
04:26 PM | Comments (9) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
05:40 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
May 28, 2008
Stretch
David Gregory, who, in fairness, was one of the few White House reporters who routinely challenged McClellan, just said on Hardball:
"I mean this notion that we were somehow easy on [McClellan] or on the run-up to the war, I mean it just doesn't jibe with the things he was saying at the time. [...] I don't think that's a credible charge."
Seriously? The goddamn press was catatonic until Katrina. September, 2005.
UPDATE: Continued with video from Oliver:
SERIOUSLY? Evidently Stretch is STILL catatonic.
07:05 PM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
They're Not In A Big Truck, Either
Senator Ted "Series of Tubes" Stevens:
Al Qaeda's not just in Iraq. They're in Iran. They're in the Philippines. Sen Inouye and I went down to [indistinguishable]. They're over in Indonesia. They're all over.
Al-Qaeda is Sunni, Senator. Iran is Shia. They hate each other, Senator. You peawit.
More from Cliff here.
05:48 PM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Worst Person In The World
"I'm very disappointed to hear that Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts is near death because of a brain tumor. I always hoped Senator Kennedy would live long enough to be assassinated." --ESPN Talk Show Host Mark Madden
ESPN fired this guy.
(h/t AmericaBlog)
04:29 PM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Afternoon Awesome
03:25 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Half
Via BooMan, Pickler is reporting:
Democratic National Committee rules require that the two states lose at least half of their convention delegates for holding elections too early, the party's legal experts wrote in a 38-page memo.The memo was sent late Tuesday to the 30 members of the party's Rules and Bylaws Committee, which plans to meet Saturday at a Washington hotel. The committee is considering ways to include the two important general election battlegrounds at the nominating convention in August, and the staff analysis says seating half the delegates is "as far as it legally can" go.
This cinches it. I'm betting that the ruling on Saturday will determine that half of the delegates will be seated.
02:50 PM | Comments (4) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Awesome Priorities
Far-right psychonaut Michelle Malkin has successfully convinced Dunkin Donuts to pull a Rachel Ray ad -- not because Rachel Ray is talentless -- but because...
...some Americans would be sent into the streets in a pants-wetting panic that someone in a donut ad might be wearing a black and white scarf that looks sort of like something a Palestinian jihadist would be wearing. You know, if it wasn't a scarf but was a headdress. And if it had a different pattern. And if you were mind-rapingly insane to begin with.
Yep. Rachel was wearing a scarf that Malkin felt was way too not-American. You decide:
Image from the Boston Globe.
I'm so glad that pressing issues like Rachel Ray's neckware are being addressed by the paranoid/schizo far-right. Every second they spend on these topics is a second they're not pissing on the Constitution and unilaterally invading other nations.
02:37 PM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
McBush Bundler Loves Outsourcing
One of Senator McBush's fundraising "bundlers", Randy Altschuler, co-founded a company that specializes in the best ways to ship your job overseas.
More from Cliff here.
11:48 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Destroy That Commercial
The extent of my cable news -- and commercial television -- viewing consisted of Olbermann at 8PM, with a little bit of a bleed into the earlier and later (Matthews and Abrams) shows. But since around November and the serious ramping up of the primary campaign, I've been watching much more cable television than usual.
And you know what sucks more than some of the horseshit that passes for "news"? The commercials, of course. At this point, the commercial that I want to destroy more than any other is the one for the credit report company -- the kid in the pirate costume singing about "selling fish to tourists." Make it stop! That jingle is haunting me in my sleep. And I want to punch that dude right in his punch-me face.
The other commercial that pisses me right the hell off is the Cadillac commercial with the rich woman talking about her "favorite things." Talk about a slap in the face of everyone struggling to fill up their cars with $4 gasoline. A rich lady speeding around in a huge Cadillac talking about how rich she is. Then she pulls up to "the boy's club in one of these." The underlying message is of course that you must buy "one of these" irrespective of whether you can afford it. Why? So you can feel rich and luxurious. Smart!
Then when you're broke, you can use the annoying pirate-themed credit report company to determine how broke you are.
Any others you'd like to destroy?
08:53 AM | Comments (10) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
This will be one of the biggest movies of the Summer. And I can't wait.
05:38 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
May 27, 2008
Scott!
Just in from the Politico and Scott McClellan's new book... (in my best Frau Farbissina voice) SCOTT!
• McClellan charges that Bush relied on “propaganda” to sell the war.• He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the run-up to the war.
• He admits that some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be “badly misguided.”
• The longtime Bush loyalist also suggests that two top aides held a secret West Wing meeting to get their story straight about the CIA leak case at a time when federal prosecutors were after them — and McClellan was continuing to defend them despite mounting evidence they had not given him all the facts.
• McClellan asserts that the aides — Karl Rove, the president’s senior adviser, and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the vice president’s chief of staff — “had at best misled” him about their role in the disclosure of former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity.
Two reactions:
1) DOY!
2) Now he tells us.
3) Is it over yet?
08:25 PM | Comments (4) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Senator Obama On The McBush Fundraiser
03:48 PM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Oy
$3.85 for regular at Wawa.
01:23 PM | Comments (6) | Posted By Bob Cesca
What's Wrong With People?
McCain (R) 47%, Obama (D) 44%
Seriously? 47 percent? McBush is leading?
If McBush wins, the people who voted for him have to pay for the rest of the war.
01:17 PM | Comments (6) | Posted By Bob Cesca
CNN Continues To Broadcast Propaganda
Your very serious corporate media...
Lt. Gen. David L. Grange doesn't wear the two stars on his shoulder much since his retirement in 1999. But he's on the list of retired officers the Pentagon has cultivated in an effort to influence domestic news coverage of military matters.
General Grange appeared on CNN late last week.
01:11 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
Happy birthday to Richard Schiff. 53 years old today.
08:01 AM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
May 26, 2008
Memorial Day
"Remember what you see here."
(The rest of the battle here.)
10:26 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Hey Look! It's Mars!
The Phoenix has landed. More images at NASA.
10:09 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome 2
This is much more awesome than the optical illusion dude below.
Also, could Senator Obama be the first presidential candidate whose speeches we "collect" like we do music and books?
09:54 AM | Comments (4) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
05:48 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
May 25, 2008
Warning: This Is Beyond Awful
Via Crooks & Liars... Former Washington Times NY Bureau Chief, Liz Trotta, deliberately confuses Senator Obama and Bin Laden, AND suggests that both be "knocked off":
…and now we have what some are reading—as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama , umm, ah… Obama, well both if we could…haha…
Seriously... Isn't this a matter for the Secret Service?
If any of us ever made such a joke about President Bush on the telephone or via e-mail, you can bet that we'd be flagged by a variety of federal law enforcement agencies.
11:34 PM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Recount
Republicans on HBO making Hulk very angry!
GRRRRR! RRRROOOWWR!
10:06 PM | Comments (3) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Middle Name
I'm watching the Chris Matthews Show and the pressing topics of the morning?
Hussein and Muslim.
10:04 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
The Truth
Instead of glad-handing with dreams of dirt-cheap gas and a return to big SUV sales, Senator Obama is being honest:
"We've seen that this quarter. People are changing their behavior and we've seen a slump in the sales of SUVs and big trucks and a drastic spike in cars both medium size and small," he told reporters on his campaign plane.Obama put responsibility on car makers to make vehicles more fuel efficient.
"They've done a better job of investment than they have in the past. There's still more work to do, and the federal government should help them do it," he said.
Or... what about a gas tax holiday? That was a fun idea for a week or two there.
09:30 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
09:13 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
