What's the Difference between a Journalist & a Watchdog? RABIES!i

The NYT begins the quadrennial bugle call to signal retreat. [h/t: Taranto at WSJ]. Here's the lede that is so stupid that they should throw in the towel now & spare the country a lot of money & bs:

Mr. Obama and his campaign have seemed flummoxed in trying to figure out how to deal with [Sarah Palin]. His aides said they were looking to the news media to debunk the image of her as a blue-collar reformer.

A colossal open-zipper revelation that Obama is a scaredy-cat of strong females---as if we already didn't know that!!!

Mickey Kaus has the nut flush draw on the river:

Mark Halperin's three pieces of advice for Obama seem sound. (They are 1. Ignore Palin; 2. Get in McCain's head the way McCain's getting in Obama's; and 3. Refocus on the economy in an accessible way.) ... To which I'd add:
4. It's a good week for point 3!

5. The current lib blog-MSM-campaign tack--getting outraged by McCain's "lies"--is a total loser strategy. Why?
a) MSM outrage doesn't sway voters anymore. It didn't even back in 1988, when the press tried to make a stink about George H.W. Bush's use of "flag factories," etc. After this year's failed MSM Palin assault, it certainly won't work;
b) When Dems get outraged at unfairness they look weak. How can they stand up to Putin if they start whining when confronted with Steve Schmidt? McCain's camp can fake umbrage all it wants--the latest is that an Atlantic photographer took some nasty photos that the mag didn't run!--and nobody will accuse MCain of being weak. That's so unfair. A double standard. Dems can learn to live with it or complain about the unfairness for another 4 years. Their choice.
c) It's almost always impossible to prove that a Republican attack is a 100% lie. Either there's a germ of truth (Kerry did hype his wartime heroism at least a bit) or the truth is indeterminate (i.e., there's no way of knowing what Obama meant by "lipstick"--just because he and McCain used the word earlier doesn't mean he didn't think using it now, after Palin's speech, didn't add a witty resonance).
d) Lecturing the public on what's 'true" and what's a "lie" (when the truth isn't 100% clear) plays into some of the worst stereotypes about liberals--that they are preachy know-it-alls hiding their political motives behind a veneer of objectivity and respectability.
e) Inevitably the people being outraged on Obama's behalf will phrase their arguments in ways well-designed to appeal to their friends--and turn off the unconverted. ('This is just what they did to John Kerry and Michael Dukakis!' As if the public yearns for the lost Kerry and Dukakis Presidencies. 'Today's kindergarteners need some sex education. Just because Republicans are old fashioned ...' etc. Or 'These are Karl Rove tactics,' which signifies little to non-Dem voters except a partisan rancor they'd like to put behind them.)

Lots of people like bad Disney movies, and don't like the kind of people who sneer at bad Disney movies. [Hollyweird weasels, please note[/sarc]

6. There must be some way to disillusion the conservative base with McCain, at least a bit. I know the CW--Palin has locked in the base, freeing McCain to move left. But jeez, McCain isn't moving to the left just on immigration, and he isn't moving subtly. Listen to this new radio ad, which might as well be titled "Stem Cell Research, Stem Cell Research, Stem Cell Research, Stem Cell Research." That's how often the phrase is repeated. How much more Screw-You-I'm-Taking-You-for-Granted can McCain get? Are conservatives complete suckers?

7. McCain's made great progress with independents by going against his party. Obama can do the same thing. Obvious areas of potential anti-Dem apostasy: Charter schools, firing incompetent teachers, class-based affirmative action, welfare. At least express some doubts about liberal legalism or the headlong rush to immigrant semi-amnesty. Last Tuesday Obama may have tried to make waves by talking about "schools filled with poor teachers"--a Dem no-no if there ever was one. It got buried by the lipstick pig. So don't complain. Say it again! ...

And Kaus is an Obama supporter, albeit a sane one.

Commentary's Jennifer Rubin expatiates:

They are preparing their excuses for defeat. No matter how foolhardy the Democratic primary voters in selecting a high risk candidate, no matter how bizarre the policy choices of that candidate, no matter how outlandishly wrong the conventional press wisdom and no matter how inept the campaign operation there is a cure-all excuse: McCain lied, our hopes died.

I am not saying Barack Obama is going to lose; I am saying the Obama Gang of Three (i.e. the mind-melded bloggers/MSM/campaign operation) now thinks that is a distinct possibility. So how to explain how they all messed up? When in doubt, revive the Lee Atwater/Karl Rove/Gore v. Bush/Swiftboat rationale which is “It is never our fault.”

The problem, of course, is that doesn’t work if the aim is to win elections. In fact the opposite occurs: the cures (e.g. violent partisan counterpunches, media whining) usually turn off key Independent voters. But if the aim is to save face with your peer groups (e.g. fellow journalists, campaign donors, political operatives) who want to know what the heck went wrong, it works as well as anything.

Finally, Tarantohas the last word too:

Can it really be true that the Democrats and the media are concentrating on assigning blame for a defeat that hasn't even happened yet?

Come to think of it, that was the approach they took to the Iraq war.

[my emphasis: H/T: Harry Reid]

Gibson Demonstrated to be a Total Two-Faced Hypocrite

Ed Morrissey quotes The Anchoress to show just what a go-fer stockboy Gibson was in his interviews with Barack Obama, whom he threw a bunch of billets doux and air kisses compared to his barely civil interrogation of Sarah Palin [marred by his own misinterpretaion of and outright distorting of a couple of gotcha questions.] Here's the comparison: [h/t: The Anchoress]

Obama interview:

How does it feel to break a glass ceiling?
How does it feel to “win”?
How does your family feel about your “winning” breaking a glass ceiling?
Who will be your VP?
Should you choose Hillary Clinton as VP?
Will you accept public finance?
What issues is your campaign about?
Will you visit Iraq?
Will you debate McCain at a town hall?
What did you think of your competitor’s [Clinton] speech?

Palin interview:
-Do you have enough qualifications for the job you’re seeking? Specifically have you visited foreign countries and met foreign leaders?
-Aren’t you conceited to be seeking this high level job?
Questions about foreign policy
-territorial integrity of Georgia
-allowing Georgia and Ukraine to be members of NATO
-NATO treaty
-Iranian nuclear threat
-what to do if Israel attacks Iran
-Al Qaeda motivations
-the Bush Doctrine
-attacking terrorists harbored by Pakistan
-Is America fighting a holy war? [misquoted Palin]

I'd like to see the Golden One's answer on public financing [which he often said he would accept, until he flipped & decided to raise his own campaign cache---not that changing his "mind" seems to bother any of his DNC affiliates in the MSM. Or the town hall answer, which the unaccountable Oprah protege probably dodged with his usual hemming & hawing.

Of course, Gibson had an insufferable patronizing air during the Palin interview which demonstrated the media elite's disdain for people who actually worked with their hands [first mate on her husband's fishing boat] or had a small business [she licensed a consulting firm before running for mayor.]

Somehow, the MSM seems to think that being a lawyer and passing the bar exempts candidates [like John Edwards] from tough questions. The flagrante delicto $400 haircut VP was cosseted and verbally fondled by Gibson in '04:

Newsbusters, meanwhile, has Gibson’s interview with John Edwards in 2004 after being selected as John Kerry’s running mate. Edwards had less than a full term in the Senate as his entire political background, and no foreign-policy, military, or executive experience at all. Yet Gibson didn’t press Edwards on these points at all. In fact, the entire interview consisted of a hard-hitting interrogation … on how mean Republicans are:

GIBSON: You speak with such equanimity this morning. Didn’t they make you mad last night?

EDWARDS: Oh, I thought they were over the top, completely over the top. And, and actually what bothered me more than anything was in the midst of -I mean, there was, if you, if you got up and went to your refrigerator to get a Diet Coke, you would -you would miss everything Dick Cheney had to say about health care and everything he had to say about jobs. I mean, this is the first, we’ve had 11 straight presidents in this country, Charlie, who have created jobs. This is, until George Bush. You know, we’ve got all these folks who are having trouble with their health care premiums going up, 26, 27 hundred dollars, and what do they have to say about it? Nothing. I mean, don’t people deserve to know from their president and vice president what it is they’ve done and what it is they’re going to do? And instead, all we hear is a lot of rhetoric about, about their opponent. I mean, I just think leaders in this country, the American people deserve leaders who are better than that and do better than that.

GIBSON: Did you get mad, though?

EDWARDS: Oh, yeah. I was, I was, especially about the personal attacks against John Kerry, because they’re false. I know this guy and I know what he’s made of inside and he’s ready to lead this country.

"Angry" would have been the better term, as John Hair-and-Makeup was mad about Rielle [oops, that came later!]

Newsbusters is one of my daily reads and keeps the fire to the feet of the fawning obsequious pandering the MSM does to all Democrats on an hourly basis. Accountability is something only Repubs need to worry about.

Libtard MSM in complete tizzy about Sarah Palin

Bill Kristol has a nice short piece in The Weekly Standard which promotes the obvious idea that liberal lies and exaggerations and misleading statements are found out almost immediately in the current internet-drenched Ocean of Ideas & Emotions. Kristol spanks pathetic ddwwb Howie Kurtz, who used to be a sensible reporter, for starters:

he liberal media are angry. Very, very angry. How do we know? Howard Kurtz, the Washington Post's chronicler of all things media, says so:

The media are getting mad. Whether it's the latest back-and-forth over attack ads, the silly lipstick flap or the continuing debate over Sarah and sexism, you can just feel the tension level rising several notches. Maybe it's a sense that this is crunch time, that the election is on the line, that the press is being manipulated (not that there's anything new about that).

Of course, politicians are always trying to manipulate the media. And the liberal media are always allowing themselves to be manipulated by liberal politicians. So why the foot-stamping snit by liberal journalists? Not because "the press is being manipulated." Rather, because the American people are resisting manipulation by the media.

For, as Kurtz goes on to say, the media "are increasingly challenging false or questionable claims by the McCain campaign." In other words, the media are going after McCain. In his piece Kurtz cites two allegedly false claims from McCain ads that are in fact basically true--or, at least, no more one-sided than dozens of other campaign ads. Back when Barack Obama was coasting toward victory, normal campaign exaggerations ("You know, John McCain wants to continue a war in Iraq perhaps as long as 100 years") didn't fill the media with loathing for Obama. Now the McCain camp's exaggerations do.

Why? Because McCain is doing well. And because Sarah Palin is surviving--even flourishing--in the midst of

the liberal media onslaught.

When the media get mad, they don't just pout. They pounce. How? By any means necessary. The day of Kurtz's article, September 11, ABC's Charlie Gibson conducted his first interview of Sarah Palin. Gibson asked: "You said recently, in your old church, 'Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.' Are we fighting a holy war?"

Palin responded, "You know, I don't know if that was my exact quote."

"Exact words," Gibson triumphantly retorted.

Not so fast. As Palin explained, quite eloquently, what she was saying was in the spirit of Lincoln: "Let us not pray that God is on our side in a war or any other time, but let us pray that we are on God's side." The tape of Palin's church appearance bore out her interpretation and revealed Gibson's mischaracterization. "Pray for our military men and women," she had said, "who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God." Gibson had made it sound as if Palin were claiming to know God's will, rather than praying that U.S. actions might be in accord with God's will and in a cause worthy of God's blessing.

No doubt the mere fact of Palin's asking for any kind of blessing on our troops and our national leaders at some backwoods Alaska church was sufficiently distracting to the scripters of Gibson's questions that they didn't look closely at the wording. God knows (so to speak) what they believe at a place like that! Why, their kids probably even enlist in the Army to fight our enemies.

In the culture war, the libtard version of "reality" in the "Reality Based Community" is that normal people with traditional values exist to be taxed and shut up about the policies their intellectual betters & elitist political mentors instruct them are best for them, like a parent in the past telling a child to swallow cod-liver oil. It'll all be over shortly. But the libtards have a problem with national security issues and are flummoxed when confronted with the universe beyond our borders where very real enemies of the USA exist and are working tirelessly to attack us overseas and right here at home. When Charlie Gibson asked [in a donnish tweedy patronizing way] about the Bush Doctrine, then talked down to her as he elaborated on which version of the Doctrine he was inquiring about, Sarah's first response might have been to refer to Pearl Harbor, as that was an occasion when a preemptive move of some sort might have caused the militarist regime in Nippon to reassess. Anyhow, she passed the interview with a minimum of less-than-magic moments. Kristol ends his comments on the MSM & their palpable appetite to deconstruct Sarah this way:

Within hours of the ABC interview, the Washington Post distorted straightforward remarks made by Palin that same day to U.S. soldiers deploying to Iraq. She praised them for going over to help "defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans." Palin clearly meant that our soldiers would be fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq--a group connected to the al Qaeda central command responsible for 9/11. The Post claimed to believe that Palin was asserting a connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11--as if she thought soldiers now heading to Iraq were going to fight Saddam's regime--and triumphantly noted that even the Bush administration no longer asserted such a connection (it never did, in fact).
Palin's remarks should have been unexceptional: We've been fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq for several years now. But the media are desperate to try to make her look foolish. In the same interview, she praised Ronald Reagan for having won the Cold War. What a gaffe, some media watchdogs barked. The Soviet Union didn't collapse until three years after Reagan left office! Gotcha!

Not a chance. Sarah Palin is quickly proving to be more than a match for the mad, mad media. Having foolishly started a war with her that they can't win, the liberal media would be well advised, for once, to implement their own favorite war-fighting strategy: cut and run.

To ask the ravers and demented arrogant collection of agenda-driven libtards to cease & desist probably is like King Canute commanding the tides to stop coming in---but it is important to remember that the majority of Americans still seem "normal" and fair-minded enough that McCain/Palin have a chance to pull an amazing upset November 4th.

Obama A Creature of the Drive-By Media

The Media Research Center has done an extensive report on how Barack Obama soared past presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to win the Democrat 's nomination for president. The exhaustive study came up with startling conclusions from its research:

It was the closest nomination contest in a generation, with just one-tenth of a percentage point — 41,622 votes out of more than 35 million cast — separating Barack Obama from Hillary Clinton when the Democratic primaries ended in June. Obama’s margin among elected delegates was almost as thin, just 51 to 48 percent.

Why did this young man vault from relative obscurity to a stunning victory over the hither-to thought impregnable Clinton "Machine?" You know the answer already---a total and complete media bias in favor of Obama & against any opponents:

Barack Obama had a crucial advantage over his rivals this year: the support of the national media, especially the three broadcast networks. At every step of his national political career, network reporters showered the Illinois Senator with glowing media coverage, building him up as a political celebrity and exhibiting little interest in investigating his past associations or exploring the controversies that could have threatened his campaign.

This study will be relegated to the non-news section if at all, but it does bear very much attention because it is so thorough:

the key findings of the Media Research Center’s exhaustive analysis of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news coverage of Barack Obama — every story, every soundbite, every mention — from his first appearance on a network broadcast in May 2000 through the end of the Democratic primaries in June 2008, a total of 1,365 stories..... found that the networks’ coverage — particularly prior to the formal start of Obama’s presidential campaign — bordered on giddy celebration of a political "rock star" rather than objective newsgathering.

Although any sentient being with an IQ over 80 might have noticed the same conclusion, the actual numbers are mind-boggling:

# The three broadcast networks treated Obama to nearly seven times more good press than bad — 462 positive stories (34% of the total), compared with only 70 stories (just 5%) that were critical.

# NBC Nightly News was the most lopsided, with 179 pro-Obama reports (37%), more than ten times the number of anti-Obama stories (17, or 3%). The CBS Evening News was nearly as skewed, with 156 stories spun in favor of Obama (38%), compared to a mere 21 anti-Obama reports (5%). ABC’s World News was the least slanted, but still tilted roughly four-to-one in Obama’s favor (127 stories to 32, or 27% to 7%).

# Barack Obama received his best press when it mattered most, as he debuted on the national scene. All of the networks lavished him with praise when he was keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic Convention, and did not produce a single negative story about Obama (out of 81 total reports) prior to the start of his presidential campaign in early 2007.

# The networks downplayed or ignored major Obama gaffes and scandals. Obama’s relationship with convicted influence peddler Tony Rezko was the subject of only two full reports (one each on ABC and NBC) and mentioned in just 15 other stories. CBS and NBC also initially downplayed controversial statements from Obama’s longtime pastor Jeremiah Wright, but heavily praised Obama’s March 18 speech on race relations.

# While Obama’s worst media coverage came during the weeks leading up to the Pennsylvania primary on April 22, even then the networks offered two positive stories for every one that carried a negative spin (21% to 9%). Obama’s best press of the year came after he won the North Carolina primary on May 6 — after that, 43 percent of stories were favorable to Obama, compared to just one percent that were critical.

# The networks minimized Obama’s liberal ideology, only referring to him as a "liberal" 14 times in four years. In contrast, reporters found twice as many occasions (29) to refer to Obama as either a "rock star," "rising star" or "superstar" during the same period.

# In covering the campaign, network reporters highlighted voters who offered favorable opinions about Obama. Of 147 average citizens who expressed an on-camera opinion about Obama, 114 (78%) were pro-Obama, compared to just 28 (19%) that had a negative view, with the remaining five offering a mixed opinion.

The Executive Summary merely tells us what a colossal mountain of factitious and tendentious dishonesty was committed by the broadcast networks:

Perhaps if he had faced serious journalistic scrutiny instead of media cheerleading, Barack Obama might still have won his party’s nomination. But the tremendously positive coverage that the networks bestowed upon his campaign was of incalculable value. The early celebrity coverage helped make Obama a nationally-known figure with a near-perfect media image. The protectiveness that reporters showed during the early primaries made it difficult for his rivals to effectively criticize him. And when it came to controversies such as the Wright affair, network reporters acted more as defenders than as journalists in an adversarial relationship. If the media did not actually win the Democratic nomination for Barack Obama, they surely made it a whole lot easier.

I'm going to dive into the PDF version later when I get a little spare time, but right now I must go to worship at my Sarah Palin altar in a corner of my house, where the candles and incense & print-outs from my Apple allow me to contemplate the MSM's humiliation while listening & reading to the gnashing of teeth in their outer darkness.

Life is good, but Sarah has made it much much better.

Why Palin [Short Putts] the Democrats Bat Guano Caa-raazy

Morris & McGann have a great little NYPost piece on the current hysterical hyperventilating frenzy the Dems are experiencing imitating a grand mal seizure.[h/t: Clayton Cramer]

Democrats can't stomach seeing the feminist movement's impetus for greater female political participation and empowerment "hijacked" by a pro-life woman who espouses traditional values. They must obliterate her, lest her popularity eat away at their party's core.

So the Democrats are hysterical in their attacks on her. South Carolina's Democratic Party chairwoman, Carol Fowler (wife of a national party chairman), said that the only qualification Palin had for vice president was that she hadn't had an abortion. Tabloids are digging up dirt on Palin's children. And liberal bloggers have suggested that Palin would neglect her children if she were elected (while the Democratic candidate has young children at home, too).

That liberals would resort to such blatant sexism shows their desperation.

But the Fox News poll of Sept. 8-9 indicates a deeper reality of Palin's popularity. On the question of which of the four candidates best understands what day-to-day life is like in America, Palin finished first, with 33 percent. (Obama drew 32 percent, McCain 17 percent and Biden 10 percent.)

She's not popular because she's a radical feminist or pro-choice advocate. It's because she understands what it's like to be a woman in 21st century America.

The elitist snobs in the limousine liberal leftist Dems are trying to sell [that word again!] America a "pig in a poke."
Obama's record has been airbrushed or ignored unless it fits the Anointed One's too-good-to-be-true sanitized bio. They hate Hannity because he has brought Ayers & Rev. Wright out from the shadows---Obama seems to bring up Sean inordinately often. The fact that Obama has less executive [or even business] experience than Sarah Palin grates on them. He is truly an "Invisible Man" of the Ralph Ellison novel. His transcripts & thesis at Columbia U. have "disappeared," like the Rose Law Firm re cords in Little Rock. His legal work for Rezko has been kept under wraps, although the convicted felon does not now have any need for privacy---why can't the country know how Obama was financed by Rezko. Oops, turns out most of Obama's State Senate race records are also "lost." And the records of the Annenberg Project which Obama & Ayers worked on are "unavailable. Who's kidding whom? As for Sarah:

She's never ascended to the elite, so she doesn't need to stoop to conquer as most well-heeled feminist leaders must. She lives far from the plastic pseudoreality where a fossilized ideology substitutes for human compassion and empathy. As such, she rises above the slogans of both the left and the right and proposes to bring to Washington a dose of reality - a taste of real life.

She may become the first woman in national office - yet the Democrats, feminists and liberals can't control her, and that burns them up.

Elections come and go, but Palin is a far more fundamental threat to the Democratic Party. And that's why they fear her so.

Sarah is the breath of fresh air this country needs, not a confection invented by the MSM with more hidden records [remember Kerry's promise to release his Navy records?] than any previous candidate, and a paper-thin resume of a two-year Senate term before he ran for POTUS.

The Dems' carefully crafted applecart and the dirty tricks that got them Congress in '06, all unexamined by the MSM, are also unexamined in '08. Not one major MSM outlet has done more than a cursory nod toward digging into Obama's past, yet Wasilla is crawling with Dem operatives.

Sarah has saved the country from buying a pig in a poke, and for that we should hold her in high regard.

Sarah Threatens Adversarial Feminism---Off With Her Head!

Jeff Bell has a succinct explanation for the collective grand mal seizure that the left has suffered as it flails writhing on the ground with saliva-flecked lips---ever since Sarah Palin got McCain's Veep nod:

It was the turbulent 1960s that proved a strategic turning point for the left. The worldwide social and cultural upheavals that culminated in 1968 were felt as a crisis of confidence by institutions in the West. Some institutions (universities, for example) defected to the rebels, while others saw their centuries-long influence on the population greatly weaken or drain away virtually overnight.

In the short run, most political elites weathered the storm. A big reason, the left gradually realized, was that socialist economics had become an albatross. Increasingly, the democratic parties of the left in Western countries downplayed socialism or even decoupled from it, leaving them free to pursue the anti-institutional, relativistic moral crusade that has been in the DNA of the left all along.

This newly revitalized social and cultural agenda made it possible for the left to shrug off the collapse of European communism and the Soviet Union nearly two decades ago. Even in countries like China where the Communist party retained dictatorial power, socialist economics became a thing of the past. Attempts to suppress religion and limit the autonomy of the family did not.

For the post-1960s, post-socialist left, the single most important breakthrough has been the alliance between modern feminism and the sexual revolution. This was far from inevitable. Up until around 1960, attempts at sexual liberation were resisted by most educated women. In the wake of the success of Playboy and other mass-circulation pornographic magazines in the 1950s, men were depicted as the initiators and main beneficiaries of sexual liberation, women as intolerant of promiscuity as well as potential victims of predatory "liberated" men.

With the introduction of the Pill around 1960, things abruptly began to change. Fears of overpopulation legitimated a contraceptive ethic throughout middle-class society in North America, Europe, Japan, and the Soviet bloc. China, which discouraged contraception and welcomed population gains under Mao Zedong, flipped to the extreme of the One Child policy in 1979, shortly after pro-capitalist reformers took charge and fixed on strict population control as an integral and unquestioned part of the package of Western-style development.

The fact that the Pill was taken only by women gave them a greater feeling of control over their sexual activity and eroded their social and psychological resistance to premarital sex. "No fault" divorce, a term borrowed from the field of auto insurance, in reality amounted to unilateral divorce and began to undermine the idea of marriage as a binding mutual contract oriented toward the procreation and nurturing of children. Contrary to nearly every prediction, the ubiquity of far more reliable methods of contraception and the growing ideological separation of sex from reproduction, coincided with a huge increase in unwed pregnancies.

Though earlier versions of feminism tended to embrace children and elevate motherhood, the more adversarial feminism that gained a mass base in virtually every affluent democracy beginning in the 1970s preached that children and childbearing were the central instrumentality of men's subjugation of women. This more than anything else in the menu of the post-socialist left raised toward cultural consensus a vision in which the monogamous family was what prevented humanity from achieving a Rousseau-like "natural" state of freedom from all laws and all bonds of mutual obligation.

If this analysis is correct, the single most important narrative holding the left together in today's politics and culture is the one offered--often with little or no dissent--by adversarial feminism. The premise of this narrative is that for women to achieve dignity and self-fulfillment in modern society, they must distance themselves, not necessarily from men or marriage or childbearing, but from the kind of marriage in which a mother's temptation to be with and enjoy several children becomes a synonym for holding women back and cheating them out of professional success.[emphasis mine]

Sarah Palin's success in scaling the political ladder to the top while having a "normal" family makes her a walking talking rebuke to the barren crones like Jong, Steinem, Dowd et al who are specimens of a busted paradigm, sports of nature whose lives have been rendered meaningless by Sarah's having it all, her way, the traditional way of Kirche, Kinder, Kuche plus political and professional success as the first female Republican VP candidate.

One can hear the gnashing of teeth in the outer darkness [and read the feminist despair between the lines on the lib Op-Ed pages.]

Obama & Biden Voted For The Bridge to Nowhere---Palin Dropped it From State Budget

Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) a non-partisan citizens-action group, finally clears away the garbage & lies the MSM/DNC/Obamaniacs have been putting forward to slime Sarah Palin concerning The Bridge to Nowhere. Indeed, Obama & Biden voted FOR the bridge before Palin after election DROPPED it from the State Budget:

There has been much debate and even more speculation about how funds for the Bridge to Nowhere were first provided, Congress's role in changing the nature of the funding, and the various options the state of Alaska had to build the bridge," said CCAGW President Tom Schatz. "Many in the media and the public are providing an opinion when they should be providing the facts. We intend to continually update this document on our website as additional verifiable information becomes available."
The Bridge to Nowhere was first funded in August 2005 through the 2005 SAFETEA-LU Act through a $223 million earmark inserted by then-House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Don Young (R-Alaska). In October, 2005, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) offered an amendment to the fiscal 2006 Transportation Appropriations Act to transfer $75 million in funding for the Bridge to Nowhere, along with money for the Knik Arm Bridge in Alaska, to support the rebuilding of the Twin Spans Bridge in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. His amendment was defeated by a vote of 15-82. Senators Biden (D-Del.) and Obama (D-Ill.) voted against the amendment; Sen. McCain (R-Ariz.) was not present for the vote. Get that?
Senators Biden (D-Del.) and Obama (D-Ill.) voted against the amendment; Sen. McCain (R-Ariz.) was not present for the vote. IN OTHER WORDS, BIDEN & OBAMA VOTED AGAINST AN AMENDMENT TO TRANSFER THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE MONEY TO NOLA.
In November, 2005, Congress included language in the final version of the fiscal 2006 Transportation Appropriations Act that allowed the state of Alaska to either spend money on the two bridges or on other surface transportation projects. In October, 2006, Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski included $91 million for the Gravina Island Bridge in his budget submission for fiscal year 2007. As a candidate for governor, Sarah Palin expressed a mixture of support and doubt about the bridge, particularly about how the project would be funded. As governor, she submitted her budget on January 17, 2007 without any money for the bridge. On July 17, 2007, the Associated Press reported that "The state of Alaska on Friday officially abandoned the 'bridge to nowhere' project that became a nationwide symbol of federal pork-barrel spending." Governor Palin said in a statement that "Ketchikan desires a better way to reach the airport, but the $398 million bridge is not the answer."
"Media reports that Congress killed the Bridge to Nowhere are not accurate," said Schatz. "The 2006 transportation appropriations bill allowed Alaska to decide whether or not to move forward. Governor Murkowski said yes; Governor Palin said no. Any discussion about the project should begin with facts."

The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste is the lobbying arm of Citizens Against Government Waste, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government.
SOURCE: Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW)

The monstrous prevarication machine of Obamaniac MSM/DNC hacks and ink-stained wretches will predictably ignore the above and spew their poisonous drivel non-stop---following their mentors Joseph Goebbels and his great admirer, Joe Stalin. Stalin's politics were different, but he did like Hitler's BIG LIE, BIG SMEAR agitprop & had Beria & his underlings mimic the German Communications czar.

The left likes authoritarian dictatorial means to achieve their idyllic end of government becoming a giant ATM that equalizes income rather than opportunity. The lies go right past what used to be their consciences because they actually believe what they are saying----psychologically & clinically, this is a manifestation of a mass psychosis.

But Mark Steyn explains it much better than me.

Obama's "Lost Years"

The Wall Street Journal might have asked the question: Why do we know more about Trig Palin, a six-month old, than we do about Obama's years at Columbia U.?

I do believe that the McCain camp has a lot of potentially "fissile" material in the "lost" Obama Columbia U. thesis on confronting the Soviets on nuclear issues. The WSJ mentions the "lost" thesis & Obama's missing academic records [while the leftist MSM trumpets far and wide McCain's position near the bottom of his Annapolis class].

The WSJ doesn't ask about the "lost" records of his race for State Senate in Illinois, the sequestered Annenberg Project materials in which he worked with Bill Ayers & B. Dohrn, the legal work Obama did for his convicted felon friend and financier Rezko.

Also, while supersleuths in Wasilla & Juneau & Anchorage pore through archives and dumpster-dive for any stuff on Sarah & Famly, the Chicago Trib & Sun-Times have unearthed zilch, nada, rien de tout, zippo about the mentoring of Michelle by B. Dohrn at Kirkland & Ellis, a brownshoe lawfirm in Chicago, and Michelle's bringing Barack to the same firm, with Dohrn still supervising the "interns" as a "paralegal" a year later. [So Michelle & Barack were "mentored" by a convicted felon in their internship in a law firm, though the media hasn't managed to find that out in 19 months!]

There are a lot of missing pieces in Obama's background the pliant and complicit MSM have "overlooked."

On purpose.

Why not investigate these things instead of Track Palin's alleged abuse of oxycontin & cocaine?

And six-month old Trig's resume is about as thick as Obama's, as an opaque veil continues to hang over large chunks of his past. Indeed, nobody at Columbia in '81-83 [when I was a monthly member of The Columbia Middle East Seminar] seems to remember him. Does he have something to hide or was he merely a C-student like GWB, Kerry, & Al Gore [GWB had the highest GPA of these three academic mediocrities.]

We won't find out from questioning by the MSM. Bill O'Reilly gave it a good shot on some subjects, but softballs are all anyone else lobs at BHO. Lil SNL Brian, Keith-O, Tweety & Wolf-man & Larry Stillalive sure won't probe at all.

Maybe Katie Couric has the balls to ask him about "the lost years!!"

Fuad Ajami on US Foreign Policy & the Candidates

The WSJ has a good piece on foreign policy, the sort of tour d'horizon of the abyss between the two perspectives in play.

The celebrated political scientist Samuel Huntington, in "Who Are We?," a controversial book that took up this delicate question of American identity, put forth three big conceptions of America: national, imperial and cosmopolitan. In the first, America remains America. In the second, America remakes the world. In the third, the world remakes America. Back and forth, America oscillated between the nationalist and imperial callings. The standoff between these two ideas now yields to the strength and the claims of cosmopolitanism. It is out of this new conception of America that the Obama phenomenon emerges.

The "aloofness" of Mr. Obama that has become part of the commentary about him is born of this cultural matrix. Mr. Obama did not misspeak when he described union households and poorer Americans as people clinging to their guns and religion; he was overheard sharing these thoughts with a like-minded audience in San Francisco.

Nor was it an accident that, in a speech at Wesleyan University, he spoke of public service but excluded service in the military. The military does not figure prominently in his world and that of his peers. In his acceptance speech at the Democratic Party convention, as was the case on the campaign trail, he spoke of his maternal grandfather's service in Patton's army. But that experience had not been part of his own upbringing.

The cosmopolitan veneer BHO exudes has the EU-nuchs all aquiver.

The crowds in Berlin and Paris that took to him knew their man. He had once presented his willingness to negotiate with Iran as the mark of his diplomacy, the break with the Bush years and the Bush style. But he stepped back from that pledge, and in a blatant echo of President Bush's mantra on Iran, he was to say that "no options would be off the table" when dealing with Iran. The change came on a visit to Israel, the conversion transparent and not particularly convincing.

Mr. Obama truly believes that he can offer the world beyond America's shores his biography, his sympathies with strangers. In the great debate over anti-Americanism and its sources, the two candidates couldn't be more different. Mr. Obama proceeds from the notion of American guilt: We called up the furies, he believes. Our war on terror and our war in Iraq triggered more animus. He proposes to repair for that, and offers himself (again, the biography) as a bridge to the world.

McCain has an entirely different mindset and point of view:

Mr. McCain, well, he's not particularly articulate on this question. But he shares the widespread attitude of broad swaths of the country that are not consumed with worries about America's standing in foreign lands. Mr. McCain is not eager to be loved by foreigners. In November, the country will have a choice between a Republican candidate forged in the verities of the 1950s, and a Democratic rival who walks out of the 1990s.

For Mr. McCain, the race seems a matter of duty and obligation. He is a man taking up this quest after a life of military and public service, the presidency as a capstone of a long career. Mr. McCain could speak with more nuance about the great issues upon us. When it comes to the Islamic world, for example, it's not enough merely to evoke the threat of radical Islamism as the pre-eminent security challenge of our time. But his approach and demeanor have proven their electoral appeal before.

Barack Obama may think that his enormous standing with the Hollyweird, academicide, MSM elites gives him a pass:

For Mr. Obama, the race is about the claims of modernism. There is "cool," and the confidence of the meritocracy in him. The Obama way is glib: It glides over the world without really taking it in. It has to it that fluency with political and economic matters that can be acquired in a hurry, an impatience with great moral and political complications. The lightning overseas trip, the quick briefing, and above all a breezy knowingness. Mr. Obama's way is the way of his peers among the liberal, professional elite.

But not so fast. Voters also have a say-so in the national debate about nationalism, imperial duty, cosmopolitanism & the valences among these three poles of attraction/repulsion:

Once every four years, ordinary Americans go out and choose the standard-bearer of their nationalism. Liberalism has run away with elite culture. Nationalism may be out of fashion in Silicon Valley. But the state -- and its citadel, the presidency -- is an altogether different calling.

As Sarah Palin put it in her pellucid manner: "The White House isn't the place for a stop on one's journey of self-discovery."

Pew's Latest Numbers Show McCain/Palin Boost

"Levitation" might be the best way to describe the Palin Effect on the McCain Campaign.

The hyperventilating hyperbolic excesses of the ultra-left blogosphere and MSNBC & its NBC colleagues have only served to make white women and Catholics move dramatically toward McCain & away from Barack. Even the independents have moved markedly in the direction of the Change/Reform ticket & away from the Hope/Change mantra.

Unless BHO can get Sarah out of his melon & stop the lipstick references, which might have been a snarky stand-up line or a Freudian slip, but had negative effects on his image [recalling his flipping Hillary the bird way back in one of the debates] & making him seem fearful of strong women.

The Pew numbers demonstrate that the Dems are in a mild tailspin & had better start soon to pull out of their aeronautical mistake before it becomes a nosedive.

Gallup Daily Keeps Five Point McCain Lead

The RNC bounce engineered by McCain's choice of Palin as VeeP candidate is beginning to harden and the Dems are frantically flailing and throwing mud trying to disguise the fact that Emperor Obama is devoid of clothing.

The Junior Senator from Illinois appears to have allowed Sarah Palin to have lodged somewhere between his ears---his lipstick remark was probably a subliminal Freudian slip of sorts that revealed his obsessive preoccupation with the greatest mistake of his campaign---overlooking Hillary to pick a B-List candidate for Veep, the amiable goofy Joe Biden, a lightweight who can make a political stemwinder but is hard to keep under an hour & prone to gaffes---as is Boss Barry. But if you're explaining, you are losing and meanwhile the silliest writer in the UK explains how harsh the world's verdict will be if the USA dares to elect John McCain/Sarah Palin.

Even Andy Sullivan took a time-out with his husband to get his fudge packed for a while, he was so verklempt and meshuginah over the Palin choice.

My guess is that the Obamaniacs will regroup and try to collect their senses---they've not yet recovered from being hit by the Sarah Palin freight train.

Palin a Dea ex Machina Who is a Rouge Cou

Sarah Palin wanted to go into consulting a while back and started a firm called "Rouge Cou," which she called "a classy way to say Redneck." The French still haven't got a clue as to the type of Supermom Sweet Sarah is and will be sure to look down their longish noses at what should be "Cou Rouge" in the language of Louis Quatorze.

I'm reading an excellent book The Discovery of France," and it is full of the development of mapping, geography & communications all across that beautiful country, which 300 years ago was simply a collection of several hundred pays, each with its own cheese, of course. Dialects from Languedoc north are studied and the book meanders through time and space in a well-read depiction of France through the eyes of its own and English writers over the last three centuries. But I digress.

What is it about Sarah Palin that makes her tick? I believe that she is Everywoman, American Style, to the nth degree. She is an Aquarius [Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars, Saturn] and has a Neptunian hold on the American population, with an earthy charisma oozing out of her fingertips. Simply an American original and her son Track, who is off to Iraq Sept 11th, is about the handsomest young man I've seen except perhaps for her star athlete son-in-law to be, Levi.

This has been the most tumultuous election since 1968, which I participated in from the Wisconsin Primary through the Chicago Convention all the way to a Senate race in New York State. Wearing my McCarthy National Staff badge, I met Bobby Kennedy, who asked me to join his national staff in LA while speaking in Watts/Compton with a pick-up full of Green Bay Packers [and Roosevelt Grier]. A week later, he was dead & I was in NYC outside St. Patrick's Cathedral.

I went back to the U. of Michigan & got into SDS politics & all sorts of illegal activities, until asked to join the State Dept. as an FSO. I spent two years as Vice Consul in Lyon & was invited to be junior political officer in the Paris Embassy but declined.
I have since regarded the French with mixed feelings, as they are weird and illogical beyond belief, despite their fetish for Cartesian thinking.

French readiness to take a dark, even irrational, view of America was on display again this week when Jean-Marie Bigard, a popular comic and actor, proclaimed his belief in the conspiracy version of September 11 2001.

"It is absolutely sure and certain now that the two planes that crashed on the (Pennsylvania) forest and the Pentagon never existed. There was never a plane... It is a vast lie", he said on Europe 1, a popular national radio station. After a dressing down by his managers, Bigard apologised today but he did not retract the view, which is shared by many in France as we have seen here before (The New York Times had a good piece yesterday on the consensus in the Middle East that 9/11 was a US conspiracy).

You can dismiss Bigard's ideas as provocation by a loud-mouthed celebrity except that some people take him seriously. President Sarkozy is a friend and even invited him along on a recent trip to the Vatican and presented him to Pope Benedict XVI.

To take the argument full circle, Sarkozy is a good example of the French Americophile. He loves the ideal United States to the point of excess, as he showed in his rapturous speech to Congress last autumn. He admires the power, the can-do outlook and the style (His Hungarian-born father has even said that he would have preferred his boy to be president of the USA.)

But Sarko has trouble understanding the real America. He has never learnt its language. Carla Bruni, his supermodel wife, a one-time New York City resident, has been briefing him. She offered a telling glimpse the other day in a Europe 1 interview. She said that Sarko did not listen much to "Anglo-Saxon" music. He prefers French pop and rock artists because he understands the words, she said. One of his favourites is Johnny Hallyday, the evergreen rock idol. Known once as the "French Elvis", Hallyday has of course spent nearly 50 years perfecting his act as France's idea of an American.

Johnny even customized one of his great hits in Sarkozy's honour. Its title, Quelque chose de Tennessee became Quelque chose de Sarkozy.

Par exemple.

One can understand an ignorant benighted collection of Arabs thinking of 9/11 as a conspiracy, but for the French to do so demonstrates their fundamental incapacity for rational thinking, despite their high-falutin' philosophical semiotic nonsense & feedback loops.

Back in the 19th century after the Franco-Prussian War, there was a political shibboleth "Can 40 million Frenchmen be Wrong?"

Mais oui, bien sur

Paglia on Palin

Camille likes Palin a lot. Here's where she settles a couple of scores along the way by ridiculing the barren [physically & intellectually] Gloria Steinem:

Now that's the Sarah Palin brand of can-do, no-excuses, moose-hunting feminism -- a world away from the whining, sniping, wearily ironic mode of the establishment feminism represented by Gloria Steinem, a Hillary Clinton supporter whose shameless Democratic partisanship over the past four decades has severely limited American feminism and not allowed it to become the big tent it can and should be. Sarah Palin, if her reputation survives the punishing next two months, may be breaking down those barriers. Feminism, which should be about equal rights and equal opportunity, should not be a closed club requiring an ideological litmus test for membership.

Bravissima!

But what of Palin's pro-life stand? Creationism taught in schools? Book banning? Gay conversions? The Iraq war as God's plan? Zionism as a prelude to the apocalypse? We'll see how these big issues shake out. Right now, I don't believe much of what I read or hear about Palin in the media. To automatically assume that she is a religious fanatic who has embraced the most extreme ideas of her local church is exactly the kind of careless reasoning that has been unjustly applied to Barack Obama, whom the right wing is still trying to tar with the fulminating anti-American sermons of his longtime preacher, Jeremiah Wright.

The witch-trial hysteria of the past two incendiary weeks unfortunately reveals a disturbing trend in the Democratic Party, which has worsened over the past decade. Democrats are quick to attack the religiosity of Republicans, but Democratic ideology itself seems to have become a secular substitute religion. Since when did Democrats become so judgmental and intolerant? Conservatives are demonized, with the universe polarized into a Manichaean battle of us versus them, good versus evil. Democrats are clinging to pat group opinions as if they were inflexible moral absolutes. The party is in peril if it cannot observe and listen and adapt to changing social circumstances

The Democrats are beginning to see that their secular religion aping the EU-nuch self-castration is not the American way. But it may be too late, because Sarah Palin will be nominated President after the McCain election---she's just the Queen of the Age of Aquarius [Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Saturn].

Will Sarah Palin Bring McCain to POTUS job on her "Coattails?"

Jim VanderHei asks this fascinating question on Politico's site. She is dominating the media at an unprecedented rate as her Aquarian charisma eats up Obama's paper-thin resume. I can't wait to see Charlie Gibson follow her around Alaska for two days while the gnashing of teeth in the outer darkness at NBC & CBS can be heard in the background!!! Nice bet with MSNBC, Zucker & Immelt!!!

Ha Ha Ha!

LGF Finds A PDS on Ebay

Little Green Footballs links to Sewer Rat Central over at DUmmies Underground. Why the Left is the sinister side of the political balance beam.

Sowell: Pellucid Prose Every THINKING American Should Read

Thomas Sowell is along with Michael Steele, the black American who should be at least in the cabinet & as far as Steele is concerned, in the White House.

Real Clear Politics has a brilliant piece worthy of reprinting whole:

Conservatives, as well as liberals, would undoubtedly be happier living in the kind of world envisioned by the left.

Very few people have either a vested interest or an ideological preference for a world in which there are many inequalities.

Even fewer would prefer a world in which vast sums of money have to be devoted to military defense, when so much benefit could be produced if those resources were directed into medical research instead.

It is hardly surprising that young people prefer the political left. The only reason for rejecting the left's vision is that the real world in which we live is very different from the world that the left perceives today or envisions for tomorrow.

Most of us learn that from experience-- but experience is precisely what the young are lacking.

"Experience" is often just a fancy word for the mistakes that we belatedly realized we were making, only after the realities of the world made us pay a painful price for being wrong.

Those who are insulated from that pain-- whether by being born into affluence or wealth, or shielded by the welfare state, or insulated by tenure in academia or in the federal judiciary-- can remain in a state of perpetual immaturity.

Individuals can refuse to grow up, especially when surrounded in their work and in their social life by similarly situated and like-minded people.

Even people born into normal lives, but who have been able through talent or luck to escape into a world of celebrity and wealth, can likewise find themselves in the enviable position of being able to choose whether to grow up or not.

Those of us who can recall what it was like to be an adolescent must know that growing up can be a painful transition from the sheltered world of childhood.

No matter how much we may have wanted adult freedom, there was seldom the same enthusiasm for taking on the burdens of adult responsibilities and having to weigh painful trade-offs in a world that hemmed us in on all sides, long after we were liberated from parental restrictions.

Should we be surprised that the strongest supporters of the political left are found among the young, academics, limousine liberals with trust funds, media celebrities and federal judges?

These are hardly Karl Marx's proletarians, who were supposed to bring on the revolution. The working class are in fact today among those most skeptical about the visions of the left.

Ordinary working class people did not lead the stampede to Barack Obama, even before his disdain for them slipped out in unguarded moments.

The agenda of the left is fine for the world that they envision as existing today and the world they want to create tomorrow.

That is a world not hemmed in on all sides by inherent constraints and the painful trade-offs that these constraints imply. Theirs is a world where there are attractive, win-win "solutions" in place of those ugly trade-offs in the world that the rest of us live in.

Theirs is a world where we can just talk to opposing nations and work things out, instead of having to pour tons of money into military equipment to keep them at bay. The left calls this "change" but in fact it is a set of notions that were tried out by the Western democracies in the 1930s-- and which led to the most catastrophic war in history.

For those who bother to study history, it was precisely the opposite policies in the 1980s-- pouring tons of money into military equipment-- which brought the Cold War and its threat of nuclear annihilation to an end.

The left fought bitterly against that "arms race" which in fact lifted the burden of the Soviet threat, instead of leading to war as the elites claimed.

Personally, I wish Ronald Reagan could have talked the Soviets into being nicer, instead of having to spend all that money. Only experience makes me skeptical about that "kinder and gentler" approach and the vision behind it.

Thank God for giving us Ronald Reagan.

Sarah's Destiny Written in the Stars [and Planets]

With the conventions over, the US election has abruptly turned on a dime and gone rapidly towards McCain/Palin with independents and women now "swinging" two to one for the Republicans. I figured there had to be something astrological and sho'nuff, Sarah is an Aquarius with Gemini rising & a grand trine in the earth signs [her Capricorn moon is in the same house as her sun]. But, if that weren't enuf, RIGHT NOW, Neptune, the planet of glamour, aura, and indefinable attractive mystery, is sitting SMACK DAB on her birthdate in 20 degrees of Aquarius, giving her an irresistible attraction that for the next month or so will make people be drawn to her as though by magnetic force. She is being elevated by Neptune [which was prominent in charts of stars like Marilyn Monroe].

And to sum it all up, Aquarius is the sign where the moon is for July 4, 1776 & for the ratification of the US constitution in 1787----the US birth chart is attracted to Aquarius types [Babe Ruth, Abe Lincoln, FDR, Ronald Reagan] ] as if by magic. And if that all weren't enuf, Sarah's personal Neptune on her birth chart is in the middle of Scorpio, which gives her an indefinable sexual attractiveness particularly appealing to Americans, since voting day is on the day of her natal Neptune in Scorpio [Nov 4, '08].
Astrologically, this appears to be one of those cosmic configurations---ten years ago she was head of a PTA & just got elected mayor of a town of 7000, took on the Repub crooks in Juneau, beat the incumbent Repub gov in a primary, became guv, and is probably going to be the first female VP.

Scorpio Hillary is probably eating her tiny deformed heart out. [BTW, I watched Sarah Palin's speech live and aside from a speech of MLK's, it was THE BEST SPEECH I'VE EVER HEARD, at least for timing and sheer nuanced stiletto-in-the-heart while smiling. She is what they used to call a "force of nature." Sort of like Napoleon in stiletto heels. Neptune was his strongest chart indicator, too. [And Bonaparte also had moon in Capricorn, which gives incredible endurance.]

I'm so happy a BBC poll has 22 different countries that prefer Obama. So happy they don't get to vote on our future. I think the US is the best place in the world for all our faults---so do Eastern European countries formerly under the USSR, which strangely weren't polled by the BBC. Wonder why?!

MSNBC Removes Olbermann, Mathhews from Anchor Duties

Howie Kurtz has a somewhat obsequious column describing the ascension of David Gregory to top political anchor at MSNoBodyCares and the welcome demotion of KO & Tweety to "analyst" status. However, continuing its bid to be lefter than the rest, the cable network has promoted a strange openly-lesbian veteran of Air America to replace Dan Abrams, a move that reflects the network's fundamental disconnect with reality.

When even a stalwart lefty like Tom Brokaw thought out loud that the cable outlets's coverage of the conventions was too biased, it appeared that the dysfunction had reached boiling point. Both the obnoxious disseminator of every liberal trope KO & the narcissistic Matthews, an aspiring political candidate for Arlen Spector's seat in PA in 2010, have simply gone over the top in favor of Obama too many times.

Matthews to his credit gave Sarah Palin well-earned kudos for her knock-out convention speech, while the surly KO noted mordantly that "people who like that sort of thing will like that speech." But KO is going back to NBC Sports after having alienated every single person at ESPN---KO happens to be as obnoxious off-air as he is on his Countdown comedy of errors.

Tucker Carlson should be put back on-air for a semblance of even-handedness, though the ideologues in charge of MSNBC are unlikely to regard that as a desirable goal. I'm just hoping Joe Scarborough takes out KO on-air, and remember to lead with your left, Joe!

Sarah to Oprah: "You broke me into A Million Little Pieces!"

Oprah Winfrey will retain a base viewership of semi-libtarded females & gays, but she is hurting her brand by refusing to admit Sarah Palin Superstar onto her program because she is a political hack's supporter.

Sarah should just mention in her speeches that she is broken into a Million Little Pieces by not making it to the Tom Cruise trampoline couch. That will remind everybody that Oprah loves to invite frauds onto her program and then hawk their stuff---maybe that's what she's doing with Obama?

Taranto Hits High Points of Giuliani/Palin Tag Team

The WSJ forgets to mention Palin's telling line about Harry Truman, who came from a small town with no foreign policy experience & quickly became president---but she was very subtle, which is why we can hear the gnashing of teeth in the outer darkness of the left. She mentioned only growing good people in small towns---Independence & Wasilla.

Read the entire Taranto piece for a great excursion through an historic speech seen from the Alaska delegation on the floor.

Nielsen Flash! 37.2 million watch Sarah Deconstruct The Empty Suit

Sarah Blows away the Obamanable Showman and the Dems are collectively releasing ginormous amounts of what they are full of, while quickly contributing to Obama who broke his promise on public funding.

Dare to lie, cheat and steal, they think, and that might give them a shot even after Sarah showed what a poseur their no-resume community activist remains in the eyes of the American people---at least the ones who work and pay taxes!

I was a community organizer once in a housing project named Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis. Google the name to find out P-I's well-earned fate!

Sarah will field dress this moose & his loony tune promise-breakers who want to tax & spend & turn the USG into a giant ATM.

I am going to enjoy watching the process.

EU-nuchs Revert to Default-Mode Balance of Power

The Economist has a long article on the "wobble" the EU is exercising with Russia after its vicious aggression into a democratically elected country [Hitler in 1938? Even the Swedish PM thinks so.]

Read the article to understand that Putin, who wants to keep Russian troops in Poti, a Georgian port far from disputed zones, is really in charge in Russia. The EU-nuchs, among them world-class right-wing crook Berlusconi, are tut-tutting and tsk-tsking away as Sarkozy heads to Moscow Sept. 8th.

Hope he won't come back waving a piece of paper promising "Peace in Our Time."

Sarah Palin got it right when she made her speech in St. Paul----Russian aggression must be stopped. The EU-nuchs collectively have fewer balls than this one Alaska mom!!!

State by State

Biden Family Under Investigation

That squeaky clean hair-plug plagiarist from a state with about 50K more people than Alaska, Delaware's Joe Biden, may have a financial scandal on his hands, but the Washington Post buried the story on A-9 [h/t: Ann Coulter]

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden is facing some questions about his family's lobbying and financial dealings.

The Biden family's connections to SimmonsCooper, an Illinois law firm that specializes in representing asbestos victims, is detailed today in a Los Angeles Times investigation by Chuck Neubauer and Tom Hamburger.

The Times reports that the firm promised to finance a hedge fund deal for Biden's son, Hunter, and brother, James (which ultimately fell through); picked the law firm of another son, Beau, to work on dozens of asbestos cases in Delaware; and that SimmonsCoopers employees donated about $200,000 to Biden's campaign efforts since 2001, making the company his top donor.

Hunter Biden is a Washington lobbyist. Beau Biden, the attorney general of Delaware, gave an emotional introduction to his father at the Democratic Convention last night.

The Times' report follows several stories this week documenting Hunter Biden's lobbying connections and financial dealings:
-- The Post reported yesterday that as a U.S. senator, Barack Obama sought more than $3.4 million in congressional earmarks, including $192,000 for a suburban Chicago university, for Hunter Biden's clients.

-- Hunter Biden received consulting fees from MBNA Corp. over a four-year stretch to work on online banking issues, as his father helped the credit card industry push through a law that made it harder for consumers to file for bankruptcy protection, The New York Times has reported.

"Campaign officials acknowledged that the connection between the Bidens and MBNA, the enormous financial services company then based in their home state of Delaware, was one of the most sensitive issues they examined while vetting the senator for a spot on the ticket," The Times reported.

-- Hunter Biden and Joe Biden's brother, James, have been accused in two lawsuits of defrauding a former business partner and an investor of millions of dollars in a hedge fund deal that went sour, The Post has reported.

Of course, this isn't news, although an Alaskan trooper who threatened to shoot Sarah's hubby & who tasered his own stepson seem to have got three stories on the front page of the NYT---or was that Sarah's pregnant daughter? It's so hard to keep track!

Why Sarah Palin Scares Ginormous Amounts of Fecal Material Out of Liberals

Here are a few [only slightly exaggerated] Sarah Palin Facts:
Sarah Palin is the reason compasses point North.
Sarah Palin isn’t allowed to wield the gavel at the convention because they’re afraid she’ll use it to kill liberals.
Sarah Palin once won a competitive eating contest by devouring three live caribou.
Sarah Palin once carved a perfect likeness of the Mona Lisa in a block of ice using only her teeth.
Sarah Palin will pry your Klondike bar from your cold dead fingers.
Sarah Palin pick retroactively makes the theme of #DNC08 “Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead”
Sarah Palin doesn’t need a gun to hunt. She has been known to throw a bullet through an adult bull elk.

Sarah Palin was to walk out to the singing of Angels, but convention organizers thought it might come off as showing off.
Sarah Palin’s suit is made from 100% dead liberal skin.
Sarah Palin prepped for this speech with a ritual sacrifice of Susan Estrich.
Sarah Palin has actually travelled backwards in time from after the roll call to accept the nomination retroactively.
Sarah Palin doesn’t actually have an accent, it’s distortion from her telepathic broadcast directly into your brain.
In 2003, the US considered deploying Sarah Palin to Iraq as a 1-woman commando squad, but wanted to make it a fair fight.
As head of Alaska’s Nat’l Guard, Sarah Palin taught troops in a training exercise to scare a grenade into not exploding.
Sarah Palin drives herself to work everyday - in an M1A1 tank
Sarah Palin believes in change, too. She takes it from your pockets after striking you dead.
Sarah Palin wears three quarter length sleeves to keep from getting blood on her clothes when she kills liberals.
Sarah Palin isn’t allowed to wield the gavel at the convention because they’re afraid she’ll use it to kill liberals.
Sarah Palin once won a competitive eating contest by devouring three live caribou.
Sarah Palin once carved a perfect likeness of the Mona Lisa in a block of ice using only her teeth.
Sarah Palin will pry your Klondike bar from your cold dead fingers.
Sarah Palin pick retroactively makes the theme of #DNC08 “Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead”
Sarah Palin doesn’t need a gun to hunt. She has been known to throw a bullet through an adult bull elk.
Sarah Palin begins every day with a moment of silence for the political enemies buried in her yard.
Sarah Palin always beats the point spread.
Sarah Palin once bit the head off a live Osprey snatched from the air as it tried to fly off with a fish she caught.
Sarah Palin uses French Canadians as bait to catch giant king salmon.
When Sarah Palin booked a flight to Europe, the French immediately surrendered.
Sarah Palin plays Whack-a-Mole with her forehead, and always gets a perfect score.
Sarah Palin knows who was on the grassy knoll.
Sarah Palin’s finishing move in the VP debate will be pulling Biden’s still beating heart from his chest & taking a bite.

Some other great ones.

Little known fact: Sarah Palin makes Andrew Sullivan regret some key life choices.

@PetCobra - (SPOILER ALERT): Ted Moseby marries Sarah Palin. (I’m a big How I Met Your Mother fan)
@importantinfo - Sarah Palin drives a Zamboni to work.
@mayjah - Sarah Palin was kicked off Survivor for killing a man and eating his entrails.
@FreeRangeMom - Sarah Palin has asked the CIA to investigate, find and dispatch the person who started Little Known Fact (I’m hoping this isn’t true)
@RedheadWriting - Sarah Palin is actually Kaiser Sose.
@wugou - Sarah Palin can divide by zero.
@davidsinger - Sarah Palin can read EBCDIC (I liked this because I actually used to have to deal with mag-tapes with EBCDIC encoded data. Ugh! I’m old.)- Sarah Palin coded the original prototype for Facebook.
@moveableHype - Queen Elizabeth II curtsied when she was introduced to Sarah Palin
@RichardMahoney - Sarah Palin’s image already appears on the newer nickels
@JonBurg - Fox is starting a new reality show… when Sarah Palin Attacks
@Rammi - Sarah Palin wants you to LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!!
@JonHenke - Sarah Palin’s enemies are automatically added to the Endangered Species List
@lagonmorph13 - Sarah Palin as VP increases Depends sales among scatalogically frightened Democrats
@RogHaak - Sarah Palin is what Willis was talkin bout
@arratik - When Sarah Palin attends ritual blood orgies, she always brings the most delicious ambrosia salad
@robertgorell - To prep for her role as Tracy Flick in “Election,” Witherspoon spent the ‘98 seal clubbing season with Palin
@jstueve - Ben Linus does Sarah Palin’s bidding
@aefoley - Jesus has a bracelet that says, “WWSPD?”
@coreyclayton - Death once had a near-Sarah Palin experience
Also @coreyclayton - Sarah Palin can win a game of Connect Four in only three moves!
@jtoeman - in the original version, He-Man had the power of Sarah Palin, but the writers felt this would make him way too powerful
@mayjah - Sarah Palin can keep a Twitter meme going on and on like a rave kid on X.
@KurtLuidhardt - Sarah Palin was not flown to Ohio in charter jet- she ran as part of morning workout.
@johntabin - N. Alaska is sunny half the year and dark half the year because Sarah Palin needed the reading light, then wanted a nap
@kurtluidhardt - Glasses sales up 150 percent since Sarah palin became nominee.
@kevinbinversie - The diamonds in Sarah Palin’s earrings were crushed with her very hands.
Also @kevinbinversie - Sarah Palin’s use of the word “Haberdashery” will bring it back in style.
@apophistoledo - Sarah Palin can roll a natural 20 on a d6 (gamers, you know it!)
@seanhackbarth - Sarah Palin loves opening up a can of whoop-ass.
@AndTheRest - It’s not over until Sarah Palin says it’s over.
@lagomorph13 - wants to be President but is too kind to cut in front of John McCain, so now we get her for 16 yrs!
@moveableHype - Queen Elizabeth II curtsied when she was introduced to Sarah Palin
@RichardMahoney - Sarah Palin’s image already appears on the newer nickels
@JonBurg - Fox is starting a new reality show… when Sarah Palin Attacks
@Rammi - Sarah Palin wants you to LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!!
@JonHenke - Sarah Palin’s enemies are automatically added to the Endangered Species List
@lagonmorph13 - Sarah Palin as VP increases Depends sales among scatalogically frightened Democrats
@RogHaak - Sarah Palin is what Willis was talkin bout
@arratik - When Sarah Palin attends ritual blood orgies, she always brings the most delicious ambrosia salad
@robertgorell - To prep for her role as Tracy Flick in “Election,” Witherspoon spent the ‘98 seal clubbing season with Palin
@jstueve - Ben Linus does Sarah Palin’s bidding
@aefoley - Jesus has a bracelet that says, “WWSPD?”
@coreyclayton - Death once had a near-Sarah Palin experience
Also @coreyclayton - Sarah Palin can win a game of Connect Four in only three moves!
@jtoeman - in the original version, He-Man had the power of Sarah Palin, but the writers felt this would make him way too powerful
@mayjah - Sarah Palin can keep a Twitter meme going on and on like a rave kid on X.
@KurtLuidhardt - Sarah Palin was not flown to Ohio in charter jet- she ran as part of morning workout.
@johntabin - N. Alaska is sunny half the year and dark half the year because Sarah Palin needed the reading light, then wanted a nap
- Sarah Palin had the original idea to drop the “e” from Flickr

- Sarah Palin writes low level device drivers for Linux

- Sarah Palin knows why Twitter doesn’t scale but she wants us to have the joy of finding out on our own

- Sarah Palin doesn’t have a favorite web framework. She is a web framework.

- Sarah Palin was the first one to know that Scoop sucks

Looks like Paul Bunyon has an Alaskan counterpart whose scaring those hysterical, hyperventilating, hypocritical Dems out of their Depends, as seen in the Sarah Conner Chronicles---soon to come in an Oval Office near the Potomac!!!

More Scary Sarah facts which will strike fear into the MSM Joker, causing him to OD in Mary Kate's Loft one more time.

Victor Davis Hanson on Why America Will Love Sarah

Hanson's War Like No Other on the Peloponnesian is wonderful, but among many awestruck reviews of Sarah's speech at The Corner, Classics scholar Hanson has two of the best observations.

Why do we Like Palin?

Much has been written why Palin both brings strength to the McCain ticket and is a gamble at the same time. Why then the growing wave of popular sentiment in her favor?

Various reasons, but one I think is that millions of Americans are simply tired of being lectured at by smug elites. Jetting Al Gore made tens of millions finger-pointing at us about our global warming. Obama's America, apparently unlike Rev. Wright's Trinity Church, is a cruel, downright mean and dysfunctional place. John Kerry's United States is one of the half-educated in need of Ivy-League enlightenment and tutorials.

So along comes someone (unlike Biden's vastly inflated middle-class biography) who really is from the working class. She likes it—and finds snowmobiling, hunting, fishing and living in small-town America not as a wasteful use of carbon-emitting fuels, cruelty to animals, gratuitous depletion of our resources, or proof of parochial yokelism. Instead it is a life of action in an often harsh natural landscape, where physical strength is married to intelligence to bring us food, fuel, and progress.

Palin's symbolism is the antithesis of the metrosexual wind- or body- surfing politican, and hair-plugged, neurotic TV pundit So at this time, right now, millions apparently like Palin's atypical 19th-century profile. Again, it's a pleasant change of pace from Harvard Law School, DC politics, "community organizing" and the can't-do, 'they raised the bar on me' collective complaint.

If she can beat off the frothing Newsweek/MSNBC/New York Times inbred rabid wolves, and do it with the grace she has shown so far, she will fill a deep yearning among Americans for someone like her. A lot of Americans, if they watch reality shows, prefer truckers on ice or Bering Sea crab fishing to endless psychodramas of thirty-something suburban whiners.


So apparently they are eager to see a rare politican who is unapologetic about America's past achievements (cf. Obama's "tragic history" and need for more "oppression studies"), and who reminds us with pride that a muscular world of action, not community organizing, creates the bounty that others use and take for granted but so often sneer at the methods of its acquisition.

Right now, there are millions rooting for her in a way not true of Biden—and many who are criticizing her don't have a clue why that it is so. [Hanson follows this piece with the following:]

Tonight I flipped to CNN and was struck by the talking heads flipping out about the Giuliani/Palin mocking of community organizers—as if the Obama team's dismissals of "small-town" mayors was fair play. The MSM networks are going ballistic at her speech and apparently never imagined that anyone would dare bite back—and also at them, the 'elite media' of the press, no less!

Compared to what Kerry et al. said about McCain, Palin was no tougher on the other side, so it is odd to hear CNN female pundits suddenly shocked, shocked that a "woman" would dare attack a man like that, and that it may "not play" outside the hall. Like it or now we are back in a cultural and populist war, brought on by a week of liberal character assassination.

The Left made a terrible mistake in the manner they have smeared Palin, and now they seem appalled at the red-state authentic populist backlash which is a different sort than studied Bidenism, where one recalls a distant childhood, not the recent past, or the living present, to prove they are one with the people.

[I do believe that the frantic flailing by the Democrats & their MSM puppets to control the national dialogue will ensue with even more intensity, until the Hillary/Wolfson Dems finally pull the plug and call the sexist feminazi BS out for what it is.]

Sarah is the best female orator since Thatcher, better than Hillary ever was, and might be a Reagan in spike heels if she can continue the fantastic debut---a true opening night in a Political Opera greater than any before in history---a succes d'estime even among Dem hacks like Michael Crowley, who admits that libs are beginning to panic because of Sarah's obvious equality as "the Republican Obama."

BRAVISSIMA!!!

Sarah Palin Pitches Shutout, Hits Grand Slam Home Run In Stunning Debut

George Stephanopoulos & Diane Sawyer on ABC raved about Sarah Palin's spectacular introduction to the top rung of American politics. Okay, these two are fair & relatively experienced [never forget Sawyer worked in the Nixon WH]. Then I checked out PBS to get the truly mediocre gasbag p.o.v. Brooks did give Palin credit, though Lehrer was his usual colorless self, and the Jurassic Park Mark Shields whined about how mean she was to Obama.

What a joke! The media are crawling all over her record & bio like a column of army ants and Obama, whose relatioship with Rezko has gone entirely unexamined [let's see, a crazed state trooper who threatens to kill her husband & tasers his 11-year old stepson is subject to feverish speculaiton versus a criminal Syrian of immense wealth who started BHusseinO up the political ladder with opaque funding---no news there?]

Then two has-been Repubs from Shields' Jurassic era, Noonan & Murphy, are heard on a hot mike disparaging Palin. I wonder if Peggy now thinks Sarah ain't ready for prime time? I switched over to MSNBC just for laughs and got a bellyful. Only Pat Buchanan & Tweety were making sense---but the strange sport of nature of indeterminate gender was whining about how unfair & cruel remarks about the Obamanable Showman---how hurtful. Maybe she can visit Oprah for a cry-in. Robinson, the WaPo affirmative action figure, did allow how the speech was "okay, ok, maybe better than okay" and got all excited that the WaPo had a story in tomorrow's rag about Troopergate---be still, my heart!

The overall difference between snide KeithOdorboy & Brian Williams was that although both were completely focussed on process, and not on the "a star is born" aspect that Chris Matthews of the "shivers up my leg" fame was giving to Sarah, Williams kept a slight tilt toward MOR while KeithO simply did his odious Repub-basher routine. How the FCC lets NBC remain on air without having to report DNC guidance is beyond me.

But the females on CNN & MSNBC---not the indeterminate Maddows of DNA wild-side---like Campbell Brown & Nora O'Donnell did allow that the shots of baby Trig [without mentioning movie-star looking eldest son Track] got their maternal juices flowing. Tom Brokaw began pontificating that he saw Palin's outstanding performance coming "a few days ago" as though the Sybil had whispered it in his ear. Williams shillied and shallied because he knows he, like Obama, is much more style than substance.

Palin was at her best showing off her Eskimo-husband Todd & five adorable kids, and slipping in a stiletto deftly into the Obama hot-air balloon. How is it that he completely escapes accountability for never sponsoring a bill either in the State House or in the US Senate, yet writes two memoires? Could this gasbag be as empty as Al Gore,the guy with a D+ on his only science course who now pontificates on Science issues?

The best line of the entire night went to Rudy however, when he noted that Obama had voted "present" 130 times in the State Senate in Springfield---funny how the MSM never bring up his no-show career resume. Rudy said that he liked best about Sarah that she was a mayor. She in turn had the second best line of the night. "

"Community organizer, is that like being a mayor, but with no responsibility?"

The man with no resume versus what Krauthammer called "Obama on the other Side, a new rock-star of America's Heartland."

I can't wait to see the media try to tell the American people to just ignore their lyin' eyes!!! Sarah is for real---even Hillary has got to admire her deep down inside Hillary's Scorpio soul.

MSM Under Attack For Total Bias Pro Obama/Anti Palin

The National Review forgets to mention Obama's neglect of his dying mother, whose deathbed he refused to visit because of "scheduling conflicts." At the same time, he was writing an effusive bio of his bigamist daddy, who disappeared into drunken obscurity soon after leaving his 18-year old mom [some say 17] to raise his unthankful ass---with a lot of help from WHITE grandparents.

This empty suit said that "I am my brother's keeper" during his acceptance speech. Guess that leaves out his half-brother in a Nairobi slum who earns a dollar a month [& has received ZERO money from "brother's keeper"] across the water. No News there.

Let's not inspect Obama's dealings with a Syrian con-man billionaire named Rezko with suspicious funding sources & with Chicago mobster/politicians/crime bosses who helped him up the ladder. Richard & William Daley are the two chief crime bosses in question. No news there.

Here is the National Review's take on the disgraceful lack of journalism now being practiced by sock-puppet stooges like David Gergen [who five minutes after the Lieberman speech was already claiming that "almost all" Dems were turned off] & Campbell Brown, a sexist bimbo who is further left than MSNBC crap-slingers, two of many KO imitators on the nutjob left media cabal:

"But unsavory as all this is, it can't hold a candle to Andrew Sullivan. Once a respectable journalist, The Atlantic's self-declared champion of respect for privacy and of civil discourse now obsesses over Miss Palin, airing baseless and abhorrent questions about the motherhood of Trig, Gov. Palin's infant son, born this year with Down syndrome. One wonders if David Bradley bought The Atlantic -- a venerable institution that once published Mark Twain and Martin Luther King -- so that he could associate it with the most despicable ravings of the left-wing blogosphere. What price in reputation is Bradley willing to pay for increased unique-visitor numbers from among the fever swamps?

"This shameful but predictable media performance stands in marked contrast to the rigorous 'hands-off' privacy policy dutifully honored by the press throughout the Clinton years for the president's then-teenage daughter, Chelsea. Indeed earlier this year, though Miss Clinton was now well into her twenties and an impressively poised surrogate for her mother's campaign, NBC News suspended reporter David Shuster for asserting that Sen. Clinton's campaign was 'pimping' her daughter -- a classless formulation, to be sure. But where's the hyper-sensitivity about a candidate's child now?

"When Al Gore's son was arrested on narcotics and speeding charges in 2007, moreover, the national press was a model of sympathetic restraint. The muted coverage was devoid of calls for a national "teaching moment" on drug abuse or responsible driving. The message was plain and correct: No news here, move along. The Republican base and other people of good will are angry over this grotesque display. It is obvious what the media and Democrats are up to here. They want to define Sarah Palin as a failure before she even has a chance to succeed.

"The New York Times's webpage on Tuesday led with no fewer than three stories about Bristol Palin's pregnancy. CNN has tried to exploit Miss Palin as a laboratory specimen for a high-profile examination of sex-education. MSNBC and the Huffington Post are titillating viewers with exposes on Miss Palin's boyfriend. Slate, owned by the Washington Post, is running a 'Name Bristol Palin's Baby' contest. US Weekly has 'Babies, Lies, and Scandal' on its cover.

Don't forget the NYT hit-piece on McCain vis-a-vis V. Iseman which was a front-page disaster.
Sullivan makes the National Enquirer look like The New Criterion. There is no accountability on the leftist fringe of media hyperventilation, and some hope Pulitzers will result from their one-sided pimping and touting of Obama.

Even the moronic Jim Lehrer of PBS Evening News is lapsing into aggressively senile attacks on Palin & McCain.

The American people are smarter than the cretinous ideologues of the ultra-left media, who actually are grandiose enough to believe their pompous exhalations on behalf of Obama & attacking McCain/Palin will succeed.

I can remember when Reagan was called inexperienced, stupid, and just a washed-up movie actor.

I think Sarah Palin is old Ronnie come back in drag!!!

Palin a "Blue Collar Mom" Who will win PA & OH & Elsewhere for Friendless "My Friends" McCain

Adriaan Lanni and Wesley Kelman may have nailed the reason the political elites, including stuffed shirts like David Frum & David Brooks on the right, have condescended to Sarah Palin. The leftists hate her because she is a genuine small-town blue-collar woman who made it on her own, not by attaching herself to a cheatin' hubby's coattails.

Like Clarence Thomas, who disliked affirmative action, Sarah Palin dislikes feminism & its outlier lesbian man-hater doctrines [except of course if said man is a "girly-man" in the Schwartenegger phrase that describes most Dem commentators of the male persuasion.]

And unlike the political elitists who live in gilded cage ghettos, Sarah & family live in the greatest outdoors in the USA:

Their hometown may be a dingy Anchorage exurb, but it has cheap, plentiful land bordering a vast and beautiful wilderness, which is crisscrossed by Todd (the "Iron Dog" champion) and the Palin children all winter. (By comparison, in the Northeast many leisure activities are brutally segregated by income: Martha's Vineyard vs. the Poconos, the Jersey Shore vs. the Hamptons.)

Her husband is a union member who also works for an oil company, and commercial fishes during the season. And she has a biographical narrative that only the phony elites who serve as Lenin's "useful idiots" can be stupid enough to attack.

Palin certainly has more credibility than McCain to attack Democrats' economic policies. More subtly, Palin embodies a notion that Republicans can create a society like Alaska—where the culture has a heavy working-class influence, state taxes are nonexistent, economic prospects are good for people regardless of formal education, and bricklayers can make the same money as urban lawyers (and have more fun in their spare time).
While Democratic policy tries to help blue-collar workers by making it easier for them to attend college and get office jobs—that is, by encouraging them to cease to be blue-collar—Palin's Alaskan story offers hope from within the blue-collar culture. She validates the goodness of life in rural America because she has embraced a particularly exotic, turbocharged version of this life. Her biography, bound to be emphasized by Republicans, thus makes a powerful appeal to one of the country's most decisive constituencies.

Real blue collar people don't like those who consider themselves their "betters" patronizing them as Joe Biden, who long ago graduated from working class to blathering lawyer to inside-the-Beltway posterchild, and of course the superior Obamanable Showman does effortlessly. Even though their credentials are fake and Palin's are real, fighting big oil as Alaska's Oil Board Commish & corruption in a state riven by earmarked pork of colossal dimensions. She has an 80% approval rating for a reason----the tough as nails Alaskans spot a fraud a mile away and she is the real thing---unlike the ethereal Obama & his America-hating spouse. And Biden is as real as his hair-plugs.
Just to show that I'm not totally partisan, the constant repetition of "my friends" simply is beginning to wear down my patience with McCain's impulsive quirkiness. Slate has an article on previous "M-F'ers," including the inimitable chameleon-on-plaid FDR. It belongs to the age of William Jennings Bryan & tends to make John-boy look like Bob Dole, personally likeable, but unfathomably attached to tics & mannerisms that simply are off-putting if not pruned from the candidate's repertoire.

We're not asking McCain to wear earth-tones and undergo numerous personality changes like the clueless Al Gore. Just some self-editing, please. "Fellow Americans" did in LBJ & I don't want that to happen to a real American hero.

Hockey Mom Should Tear Feminazis' To Pieces

Bill Kristol has this illuminating anecdote:

A nervous young McCain staffer took it upon himself to explain to Palin the facts of life in a national campaign, the intense scrutiny she'd be under from the media, the viciousness of the assault that she'd be facing, etc.:
Palin: "Thanks for the warning. By the way, do you know what they say the difference is between a hockey mom and a Pit Bull?"
McCain aide: "No, Governor."
Palin: "A hockey mom wears lipstick."

I can't wait to see her defenestrate the infanticide barren crones like Steinem et al. who hate a REAL woman who stands for family and country.

The MSM is launching a full-bore attack on McCain & he should make this campaign about the one-sided biased mass media, and destroy the already hemorrhaging NYT in the process [first the Iseman smear and now three stories on Palin's daughter on the front-page!]

Reagan destroyed the USSR; McCain can finish off the Communist nutroots & MSM by siccing Palin onto those hypocritical phony loo-zers.

Flopping Aces on OUT-OF-CONTROL nutroots & trooper

Flopping Aces put up this on AK State Trooper 24 hours ago. I just watched solemn fraud Gergan & Borger both say "we sure have to look into this more thoroughly" even though it isn't even up to Biden's hair-plugs & plagiarism importance.

Is CNN a bottom feeder like most MSMs or a scum sucker like MSNBC? Hard to tell!

4-11-05: Investigation of Mike Wooten by AST (Alaskan State Troopers) over two year allegation of misconduct involving family members commences.
5-1-05: Domestic complaint incident involving Mike and Molly Wooten, Sarah and Todd Palin. Transcript of Sarah Palin with troopers. Also, Trooper notes on the same interview.
SUMMARY: Molly calls Sarah (not yet Governor) in fear from husband. They leave an open phone line where both Sarah and Molly’s son hear Wooten threaten Molly and Sarah’s father (he’ll “eat an f*#king bullet). Palin doesn’t call police because she doesn’t want to hurt Wooten’s trooper career, nor make the situation worse…. Providing it didn’t get physical. Other incidents with Wooten noted.
8-18-05 Re’interview of both Sarah and Todd Palin. Trooper notes on Sarah interview. And Trooper notes on interview with Todd Palin, plus with bartender of Mug Shot Saloon.
SUMMARY: Sarah confirms an email on Aug 10th, 2005 to Col Julia Grimes, Director of AST (Alaska State Troopers) complaining of Wooten’s negative representation of the department. Wooten’s abuse of his authority and position in various instances. His racist attitudes towards native Alaskans (Todd Palin is a native Alaskan…), abuse of state resources (free gas/credit), illegal hunting activities, and Sarah’s daughter (Bristol) being a witness to Wooten’s tasering of his 11 year old stepson (verified)
SUMMARY: Todd also confirms Wooten’s disparaging remarks about Alaskan natives, his consistent abuse of authority and position, plus his hunting violations. Bartender confirms Wooten involving himself in bar fight, misusing his position as a trooper. Also bartender confirms Wooten with “girlfriend” at the bar, who was later arrested for DUI.
This is no means a complete picture of all that happened… but enough to give you a picture of an “out of control” trooper.
~~~
NOTE: Palin was not Governor of the State at this time… and this transpired BEFORE her primary campaign against GOP [see party affiliation correction at end of post, please]competitor, Andrew Halcro. Coincidently, the same man leading the pack screaming “scandal” over the “firing of Monegan”.
The investigations against Wooten started more than a year before she was elected governor, and about two months before launching her campaign”.

Can anyone believe fat freak-of-nature AS about Palin's faking her Down's Syndrome Child?

EU-nuchs Split on Response to Russian Aggression

Germany is the worst country in EU-nuch land. It's Kanzler speaks Russian & its Foreign Minister is a treasonous ex-PM named Schroeder's LEFT-hand man trying to overturn Merkel. Of course, Putin, the poisonous toad who was a KGB colonel in the GDR effectively running [ruining] that drug-addled sports empire, speaks perfect German & is able to turn this collection of drunks who occasionally make good cars into a totally befuddled mess.

Merkel's own party, the Christian Democratic Union, is pushing her to confront Russia to improve its record on human rights and democracy. Her Social Democrat coalition partners, including Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, stress dialogue over sanctions or confrontational rhetoric because they don't want to risk Germany's place as Russia's No. 1 European trading partner.

However, the Hobbits to the east of Mordor actually have spines and are far braver than the craven addicts of the worst nation of the 20th century.

To the east, however, Estonian Premier Andrus Ansip said on Aug. 26, that Georgia should be allowed to join the EU and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ``speedily.''

And I would be even happier had PM Ansip added Ukraine to the list of NATO & EU candidates....

Has everyone forgotten that Ukraine, whose president was poisoned by Putin about three years ago & almost died, has offered NATO its missile bases to install a defense platform?

But the EU-nuchs will cower and mutter "Sieg Heil" to their German masters, who in this situation are the weakest link in the EU chain!