A surprisingly effective evening. Palin we believed delivered a triple blow to the Boy King and his loquacious Man At Arms. First, she showed up and didn’t crumple under the most brutal, hateful vindictiveness that Kool Aiders at Huff Post et al. could muster; no Quayle frozen in the headlights. She solidified her base and leveled the intensity gap between Dems and Repubs.
Second, she proved to be a charismatic mixture of professional accomplishment, commitment to family and her Movement connections. Legendary rock promoter Bill Graham once said in another context: “there are a handful of bands that on any given night are the greatest rock n roll band in the world. For that night.” All but Olbermann, Maddow, Campbell Brown and others at MSNBCNN knew a great performance when seeing one. Especially when surmounting a failed telepromptor. (Axyl Rose used to throw temper tantrums and cause riots when that happened to *him*). And her performance enraged them.
Third, Palin told the Dems ‘Your Kung Fu is weak.’ She is going to meet them head on. One wonders how Biden will handle that without coming across as a horse’s ass. We’ve always been fascinated by the misogyny of the Left while hiding behind feminist ideals. Our graphics here are designed to be fun or provocative. But the Left is away putting her on Playboy and Vogue covers, and in even more appalling circumstances. The dissonance, it burns! It burns! An attractive woman doesn’t yearn for a frappuccino on the Upper West Side. (Wait till they learn how conservative sexual icons like Jessica Alba are, etc.)
In-the-tank MSNBC team keeps asking if it is possible she can ever get up to speed on foreign policy. Questions they never dared ask the Boy King. Apparently, a white woman with conservative views goes in one murderous box and an inexperienced ‘community worker’ black candidate gets lauded even when he forgets the U.S. has 50 states instead of 57. Hilary truly and deservedly must be shouting in a mirror “I just can’t believe it !”
And how odd for the Left to say today that Sarah Palin can’t be VP because she can’t be Cheney. Just now, one of those idiots said ‘Sarah Palin would not be able to give the order to shoot down a terrorist plane heading to another target like happened in 2001’. We want a VP who can fill Cheney’s shoes?
The whole Dem spin machine at the moment seems stalling with too many feet pushing the clutch trying out different narratives. It’s all temporary and the ‘sweet sport’ of political boxing will settle down into defined strategies. Sarah Palin surely did knock the Dems off stride. Let’s see how the Dems come out of their corner with some eye-cutting.
She also had strong warm up acts. The chirping Carly Fiorina is dismissible for a variety of reasons, most prominently? She ran HP into the ground and was fired. Meg Whitman, however, showed basic skills which might position her future political opportunities. And then Rudy. He galvanized the base with electric humor and almost inverse Darth Sidious lightening. The Rudy we knew and worked directly with is gone. We felt disconcertingly inert watching him. No empathy or lingering memories remain. Yet he did ‘raise the roof’.
In the end, Sarah Palin began to take back her narrative from the mocking media and blistering Leftist blogs. Will it work? Watching last night, Bill Graham’s one night comment resonates. It’s possible – she may galvanize the base and keep Dems on their heels long enough. Along shot but possible. Something we did not expect as late 2 days ago.
Still, if the Dems blow this election they should be disbanded, their leadership hunted down like dogs and sent for rehabilitation working chicken farms. Maybe even for the Guangze Shengnong Enterprise Ltd.
Comment says
Another example of bias that’s structural and built into media bias is that media will never call Palin a liar – Even though she violated the political spin rules and made a number of direct lies. She lied about the stupid bridge in Alaska and she lied about a number of other things. But the best the media does is say she stretched things like other pols. But she was actually more egregious – but reporters are afraid of being called pro Obama and they are afraid of being called anti woman or elitist – She just lies her pretty head off. Yes. she is pretty.
Anon says
This is interesting – but it’s politically impossible right now to take advantage of the dishonest Georgia narrative that Rudy bellowed from his barstool in St. Paul
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bdffd9a6-7b71-11dd-b839-000077b07658.html
Comment says
Aldershot – we agree – the MSM did fall over themselves not to offend. It was quite bizarre sometimes – But our point was that the conceptual framework – the narrative, if you will – was not race neutral. The media praised Obamas so-so race speech so as to make up for bizarre endless re-loops of Rev. Wright. They asked him all sorts of questions that they would not ask a white. In fact, old fashioned Buchananish prejudice would have been preferred by the Obama campaign. Instead, they got this unctious clap trap from the media that paradoxically moved race front and center in a manner that was annoying and harmful.
Tweety – supposedly pro Obama – did more to spread false crap about him than any right wing emails.
Anyway – we’ll look for that KLo link – but if you just google the quote, it should come up on your browser,
Aldershot says
“One last thing on the whole sexism bit… bloggers throwing her face on Vogue, while reprehensible, is really (no, really) no worse than a lot of the racist bs about Obama that flooded the gutter a few months back.”
Hunter, no one here is giving Palin a pass, but only having a good laugh with her for having left the MSM slack-jawed, after so belittling her. Of course, she will be held up to scrutiny, but now the liberal MSM will be acting from a defensive posture in payment for their outrageous casting of her as the hotsy-totsy, trailer-trash bad mother. The question is, will the media fall in love with her or despise her?
I have to disagree that Obama was burned by racism in the MSM. To the contrary, they fell all over themselves not to offend.
Aldershot says
Great post, Dennis.
Aldershot says
“…they would recognize some of Michelle in Sarah.”
Excellent point. Both, Michelle, then, and Sarah now, out of their comfort zones, and full of spirit and ambition.
Aldershot says
Comment, will you please link to the 9/4 K-Lo article?
I don’t watch a lot of Daily Show, but from what I’ve seen, she’s pretty much a hoot. But I also like Rob Wriggle a lot.
Aldershot says
Is Oprah racist?!?
http://drudgereport.com/flash3os.htm
Anon says
Tweety – still singed – warns about how carefull he has to be to say “wonderful.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032553/#scroll_blog
Comment says
Hunter – FYI:
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/westmoreland-calls-obama-uppity-2008-09-04.html
Rudy – being a northerner – was more subtle
A Random Quote says
“Does John McCain know he’s leading a spiritual revival?”
~KLO, NRO
9-4-08
Comment says
..even the great Leon Hadar agrees with us …
http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2008/09/04/youre-not-in-a-summer-place-anymore-sarah/
Comment says
For the life of us, we cannot understand why Stewart and Daily Show has Samantha Bee on. She’s just not funny – We know plenty of woman comics far funnier than her – if that’s the issue. Maybe we are wrong – maybe others really do find her funny. But so far most people we know seem to see her as a weak link on the show – and her humor is predictable form of that light feminist-anti-feminist form you describe earlier.
Comment says
Enough of this prattle from Comment – we’re just bloviating (to use a word Frank Rich overuses)
Who will win? If there is more war before November McCain will win – even though this should be the opposite
If the economny is the big deal – then Obama will win.
It’s that simple.
But we think Obama has pretty much seen the full range of the main lines of attack and the GOP may have been better off providing a less nasty image – It was simply impossible to watch Graham and not see someone consumed with dread and hatred – as Rudy was filled with contempt etc
But people like Obama, so they will cut him slack. Plus he will get all the black votes and Pat can spin and spit about the lack of ‘white’ solidarity – but after years of the ‘ethnic’ vote and ‘jewish vote’ and the ‘irish vote’ etc it rings hollow. Pat would say they are not really white – but now we have ‘scots-irish’ and non hispanic non col whites and hockey moms (opposite of Kerry hockey – which really means lacrosse) etc
Comment says
Maddow and Olberman just preach to the choir (so long as its ecumenical – universalist )
It means nothing electorally.
What counst is the conventional wisdom – All the so called liberals Charlie Rose has on this week.
They are all just as vacuoous – but they are “serious”
Obama handles them as well as can be – But the problem is that so many official untruths are enforced.
It was a complete outrage that the elite media just laughed along four years ago as Bush hoodwinked half the country and all his supporters than Iraq was linked to 9-11.
They all let McCain get away with selling anthrax tales because they like his genial warmongering nature.
Liberal media usually means pro choice and secular, but aware that the GOP just winks and tinkers with this for culture warfare – But they all think like The Economist and regard Brookins-Pollack as the last word in foreign policy and AEI as plausible.
Comment says
MSNBC is cracking up and the ratings are negligible.
Comment says
Here is clearer version of the point we were alluding to with the Coates link above
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/09/staying_regular.php
Yglesias is a bright guy and we completely agree with him – The Tweety construct of normal is a pernicious meme. We very much doubt most MSM reporters know that poor whites prefer Obama in this poll – so in thrall they are to the manufactured meme.
DrLeoStrauss says
Don’t worry, MSNBC is so overtly the Daily Kos network now (with relics like Williams and others not sure when the Twilight Zone music began to play) the Dems have their own cable channel on — at least when Maddow and Olbermann can enforce narratives on hapless ‘reporters’ or commentators.
Their idea of Fox, shrill and partisan. What the undoubtedly bright Olbermann doesn’t get is that 1/2 of Fox’s appeal besides the Aryan blondinkas, botox, etc. is the knowing wink. They get their own joke.
Just as Rush drives a new liberal listener who doesn’t get it that Rush is first and foremost an entertainer “with talent on loan from God . . .” The self irony of the show and its comedy simply eludes the Olbermanns of the world.
The only good outcome we see from this is an on scene iron cage grudge match between Olbermann and Tweety worthy of the Hulkster in his prime with King Kong Bundy . ..
Comment says
Indeed – Colbert just showing the clips of Rudy with his dishonest smile and malicious laugh spouting his code words and dog-whistles tells the story much more than all the so-called lib media. But the media cannot do.
As Colbert goes on in 5 min. he unravels more of the GOP bombast the media has done all week as they tell both sides.
Comment says
We just end to note that Stewart ended his “moment of zen” with a contrast segment of Rudy’s sneering about Obama’s UN proposal re Georgia V McCain “we are all Georgians”
Then to show the hollowness of Rudy he just showed a clip of McCain proposing a meeting of the UN Sec council.
Why is it left to a comedy show to do this? Why was Rudy not immediately ridiculed by newscasters and supposed in-the-tank Tweety?
Why didn’t they – the lib media – immediately pummel Rudy for his vacuous and dishonest bombast?
Because the media does not care – they let the GOP launch these spurious memes until they get repeated so often that many Democrats start to believe them
Comment says
Jon Stewart was charitable in his interpretation of Rudy’s take on Community Organizing. But his gist was that right on. Invariably, most Republicans we know that attack Obama for this cannot name which church Obama worked in (they usually think its Trinity) or what he did – They just see that as a code word for ghetto work. As NRO said “street organizer”
We happen to think this was a good for Obama and it will be highlighted in coming ads,
Most Republicans and many Dems have no idea how the bottom 40 percent live. These are the people who don’t vote. They have no idea at all.
Obama’s familiarity with under-America is very important if we are to arrest our slide into Brazil second-world post industrial decline.
Comment says
re McCain , Obama , and race – We agree with about 80 percent of this:
http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/what_the_white_man_means_when_he_says_ghetto.php
But McCain plays into a structural advantage – When Bill Bennett says he has given up on the US as a “serious country” because they didn’t take Clinton’s BJ so seriously – that’s written off as grumbling. When Michelle Obama says – admittedly inelegantly — that she hasn’t been too proud the past 20 years – The media and the right pounce because she is black and judged unpatriotic. Leave aside what she says less than what Bennett said or McCain has said — Plus, it’s considerd acceptable to lie and embellish what Michelle said – to make it sound worse – To haze her – Even liberal Obama voting journalists like Al Hunt do this – even so called liberal journalists regularly misquote her and say she said she was never proud etc.
Yet – just this one Commenter can think of unbelievably loathsome things we have heard Republican friends of said. Yet they judge themselves by a different standard and they lack self awarenss
Comment says
We wonder what McCain’s ratings will be tonight – compared to the Redskins
Comment says
One thing that does surprise us is how McCain’s dumbest line (with its embedded backstab argument) has gained traction – That he would rather lose and election than lose a war – The implicit argument that Noble McCain saves Fickle but Fair Columbia from herself. Lindsey Graham looked like he was about to have a nevous breakdown when he sneered about how Obama was just the opposite.
What kind of world do these people chose to live in? They obviously think a high proportion of the country they want to lead is fickle, surrenderous, and treasonous – They are like the leftists who have a similar dark view of the people,
We are also surprised that the fact that Iraq was a war sold on lies is still not officially acknowlged .
We see the NY Times recently officially acknowledged the true chronology of the Georgia war (while properly pointing much blame to Russia also). Yet, McCain still benefits from the official fiction that surrounds Bush’s attack on Iraq (and McCain’s dishonest shilling for war)
Comment says
McCain is a let down tonight – every time the camera flashes to Palin. That’s the paradox – she highlights his age. She may very well be President.
Comment says
re Lieberman – Dennis there shoud be an over/under on how long it will be until he betrays McCain – Maybe 2 years if McCain is President – If Obama wins and is popular and drops his share of bombs, he will seek to speak at Obama’s convention. Lieberman promised just two weeks ago no negative attacks on Obama, then he basically calls him a traitor when he spoke last night.
In 2006 Lieberman promised Dem donors and Obama that he would never run as an Independent if he lost to Lamont – Well you know the story.
No one trusts him.
Comment says
Dennis – you’re a great writer, but we think McCain lost ground his week – Indeed , his Kung Fu was weak tonight and Palin-Fest will be the highlight.
Rudy’s beer hall speech was loathsome bombast to the casual viewer – Tonight we see the false sanctimony leaking out of Tom “Code Red” Ridge.
Tack on the ludicrous pouting on stage of Lindsey Graham – It’s just not a compelling sale for McCain.
We have long felt that McCain /Obama was 50-50 because the fear and anxiety in the political atmosphere is enought for many to take a chance on McCain for 4 more years rather than risk Obama.
But so far McCain’s convention offers nothing – – The total fear vibe wears poor and constrasts poorly with the Dem convention.
Will McCain get a bounce – Yes – a small anti Obama bounce/
But he will crater once people use Palin’s speech against McCain in ads and the echo “USA USA USA” of the St Paul grunting fades.
So we think the novelty of Palin will wear off a bit and the message will mudddle. Obama will have a better chance – We think it’s still 50-50, but Obama gained a bit.
Comment says
re Obama and racism – Yes most people who oppose Obama oppose him for legit non racial reasons, but at the same time McCain’s entire campaign is based on a slogan of insinuation “country first.” Even Mark Salter was unable to rack off a list of things that would make the slogan seem legit when Fineman asked – We just got another one of those vile emails that was sent all around Florida condo-land – giving all sorts of bogus stories that Obamas dad is really an Arab – not even an African.
But most of what informs our strong opinion is what we have heard with off the record from people involved in past Republican campaigns goin back to Bush in ’88.
McCain simply has no choice but to cultivate this feeling and not get caught doing it. Lindsey Graham can sneer and pout all he wants thru his speech about how much Obama wants American to be defeated by Moslems – but the entire basis of his little tirade tonight was to play into fears of the other.
Hunter says
One last thing on the whole sexism bit… bloggers throwing her face on Vogue, while reprehensible, is really (no, really) no worse than a lot of the racist bs about Obama that flooded the gutter a few months back. It’s not pretty, and its effects could really go either way (actually propagating the meaningless meme that Palin’s a lightweight, or backfiring and showing her opponents up as sexist assholes). In Obama’s case, the racism (I think) was a net plus for him.
However, part of the reason he was able to weather that storm, was because he legitimately responded to legitimate questions (e.g. when confronted with the no experience charge by listing his relevant experience, and making the argument that this (admittedly little) experience combined with his judgement (the key) is sufficient for him to succeed in the job). You may or may not be swayed. Fine. When asked about Palin’s lack of experience, the response seems so far to be to assert that she does have the experience (with no examples to support this claim adduced). Full stop. And if that’s not good enough, then you’re a sexist asshole.
I’m sorry, but thinking Obama’s argument doesn’t hold water doesn’t make you a racist, and thinking Palin’s “argument” doesn’t hold water doesn’t make me a sexist. And separating the racist/sexist bullshit from the legitimate concerns is (unfortunately) a large part of what needs to be done when watching anything related to politics these days. If you want to talk about how the electorate will react to the coverage of the M/P campaign, by all means, carry on. But uncritically accepting the idea that because some people are assholes means that Palin is off limits to any kind of analysis is nonsense.
Rereading this, and the above page, it comes to my attention that I’ve been way harsher than I intended, and that the post really doesn’t support as harsh an interpretation as I’ve given it. Yet, I’m posting this anyway, because I do think there’s something of a there there. If there weren’t, I probably wouldn’t have gotten quite so annoyed. This way perhaps I’ll get some interesting reactions from all of you whose opinions I respect enough to respond to (which is everyone on this page, at least).
Hunter says
“In-the-tank MSNBC team keeps asking if it is possible she can ever get up to speed on foreign policy. Questions they never dared ask the Boy King.”
Did we watch the same Dem. primary race?
And anyway, a few years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, while not exactly a lot, is a whole lot more than anything Palin can claim.
Hunter says
People, people…
re: the teleprompter bs
Randomly reprinting republican lies? This site is better than that.
The acceptance of Palin around here has been awfully uncritical. Fuffpo and Modo and Noonan may be hilariously clueless, but Campbell Brown’s line of questioning the other night was utterly legitimate, and the Mccain/Palin campaign’s reaction was nonsense. Refusing to disentangle the snottish bs from the absolutely necessary questioning of relevant aspects of Palin’s public career just plays into their hands (and the conflation of Brown with the others as was done above on this very page is exactly what I’m talking about). Of course the M/P campaign is going to try to make that conflation, thus making it impossible to critically examine Palin at all, but why should we assume that this strategy is going to work when they’ve only just begun to implement it? And why the hell should we concede the legitimacy of the strategy?
Dennis says
Increasingly, and incredibly, it seems the Boy King will lose. He projects the stink of medicrity and uncertainty, despite all the cloying, conspicuous gushing of a (still in some aspects) liberal media, so eager to praise the intelligence and character of a black figure. If it isn’t already a Chris Rock joke it should be, this impulse.
The Obama phenomenon resembles a Coke bender, with everyone blathering away, fascinated, desperately earnest, oblivious; loss in the election will be the hard comedown of the following morning, with the early morning light sickly through the blinds when everyone realizes it’s over, that they’re not really going to go vacationing together next summer, all the talk now a bit embarrassing…
It seems it will all resolve in recrimination for the “racism” that just wouldn’t let America finally sink her shameful history, etc. etc. The tantrums will be entertaining at least. I’m sure some have already dim outlines of their “America’s Shame Continues” pieces.
And it is a shame, what with the neocons on the other side; why not make the Great Gesture and get it over with, one thinks, the inevitable disappointment when the BK and crew move into their new digs and realize the place is haunted to the rafters and the closets all filled with skeletons; let the people and all the earnest twenty-something keyboard hotshots get their first lesson that human nature, resentment, bigotry, etc will not be vanquished by token. Used to be we realized human imperfection wasn’t the province of governance but its corrupting influence.
And who knows, BHO might bring in the right people, make mostly the right calls, actually enact a little reform even, despite the fact that in Chicago’s target-rich environment he always opted on the side of the Machine (something for the comment above to note when pointing out Palin’s supposed cooptation by Alaska’s party machinery).
But he will lose because he has no business being president (understanding the far more qualified candidate seems the far greater evil–and all that implies for the health of our system), leaving race relations rawer than ever, Lieberman as Sec of State and Rudy as Attorney General, God knows who else in the cabinet; meanwhile the party goes on at AEI, AIPAC, etc. I’m not sure it matters anymore; events, as the man said.
“It wasn’t Kennedy’s fault. But all that vigor just sort of went once he realized he couldn’t do anything.”
–Mad Men
Comment says
Hey – Kerry played Hockey , but that was his being French and St. Pauls Paulie (rather than St. Paul) yada yada yada
Comment says
Yes you are correct about the Huffpo crowd (note – Comment predicted as much the moment she was picked) appalled at her fecundity and confused by her obvious sex appeal (Isn’t she supposed to be pure?) meshing and fun loving family with their image of religous woman being robotic frigid puritans etc. It’s really awful and boring. But we doubt Obama will fall into this trap and if the right (or NRO) could take off their racial blinders for a minute (or just read Obamas first book- where he talks about his ‘cosmopolitan’ ethnicity) they would recognize some of Michelle in Sarah. Just as the snotty Huffpo left has preconceived notions about religious people from small towns – it’s almost same as the ridiculous NRO racial views about Michelle Obama (a religious provincial gal – plucked from a slum one area of the country to go to Princeton with a bunch of white liberals who condescended to her while the effortless glided thu with smirks and bongs and resumes enhanced – Comment’s cousin was at Princeton when Michelle was there (he did not know her) and laughs when he reads the mags and suddenly a loathed school filled with supposed anti right wing west-hating liberals suddenly morphed (in the NRO/Standard mind) into a school of besieged whites and an angry black gal supping from her privilege spoon If Michelle was white they (NRO et al) would have viewed her like an urban Huckabee at Harvard in his freshman year. What makes it so absurd is that many of them fuse their own marxist mentalities on to her as she tried to navigate people just like the clowns who make up the conservative and liberal blogosphere.a
Comment says
We thnk she will regret the public comment – private comment dichotomy in her speech. It will be used for good ad next week or the week after as pretext to play some nasty comments McCain has made in private. Dunno how this will be done, but think it will. We doubt Rudy’s speech will not wear well with people – and some of it may backfire very badly.. Did it rally people who hate Obama? Yes. But that’s not enough.
Comment says
“…the government system I love …”
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/abramoff-letter/?resultpage=2&
Lord Black would have advised an edit –
Dr Leo Strauss says
We’re with Aldershot on this one. She gave a great speech.
Comment says
We agree – she may very well play in Peoria. The media elite has been snide and nasty towards her – But many of those same people in the media were also dismissive and frivolous with Obama at times when it fit narrative and was in fashion – It doesn’t matter – The will be able to get away with saying the media and Obama are the same. It is somewhat unfair that a decent guy like Barack night get some blame for a crackpot Dowd’s columns – But that’s life.
It’s just that the torrrent of substance that’s gonna be hurled at her will somewhat dim any positive McCain message
But most important – it will prevent the media from being able to replay convention scenes in clips over and over again because of time constraints.
Aldershot says
“We doubt any of those lines add traction – most will be lost in the deluge of negative story/response that Palin will face this week.”
They will forever live within my memory. Oh, they’ll be played, at least on Fox 😉 There were about four lines so good, I’m hard-pressed to choose which was best.
” ” … having dealt with corruption and big money in AK,” – So you assume she wasn’t part of the corrupt machine herself?”
I never said that. [i]Much[\i] is forgiven in politics.
Now, will she play in Peoria? That is the question.
Comment says
” … having dealt with corruption and big money in AK,” – So you assume she wasn’t part of the corrupt machine herself? We shall see.
Comment says
We doubt any of those lines add traction – most will be lost in the deluge of negative story/response that Palin will face this week. Esp After Rudy’s beer hall performance (
Aldershot says
“Palin’s speech was ok – she’s obviously a sweet woman.”
Oh, contraire, Pierre. She knocked it out of the park. She nailed Obama with some of those lines. And sweet? Hmmm…I figured she had a mouth on her, having dealt with corruption and big money in AK, but she exceeded my expectations.
So right after the speech, Maddow and O’Donnell are saying how sarcastic she was…O’Donnell looked stricken. The leftosphere is aghast…’that big meanie!’ Please, after the way they savaged her this week?
And the people said: A-woman!
Comment says
Palin’s speech was ok – she’s obviously a sweet woman. Rudy left a nasty stench on stage – We didn’t hear all of what he said but supposedly he said some nasty things.
Anon says
Ha – La Noonan caught on tape:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrG8w4bb3kg
You gotta listen closely – she may be wrong, btw – Republicans are better at narratives than Dems, but one reason is that many Republicans like Noonan believe their own self-mythology.
Comment says
While Palin will do well tonight – The mojo is off – The convention was thrown off balance by Gustav and never got its hate on. 2004 convention in NY was a total Kerry hatefest – That’s what really motivates the base to foget basic facts like Bush family pretending to be against abortion for three election cycles.
The left doesn’t understand culture war politics – They often delude themselves with reductionist analysis of polls that merely serve the self interest of vested interest groups. Obama understands this and that’s why he is so circumspect.
So will Rudy make up for being bumped last night? We doubt it – Rudy blew it early on with his un Presidential fixation on Ron Paul in the early debates – His rude behaivor actually turned off people who pretended to cheer him at the time – Tweety liked it just like he thought Lazio did well being rude to Hillary.
Comment says
If were advising Tweety – we’d suggest he get his mancrush on again with McCain – Manufacture a reason to be disappointed by Obama – This will allow him to spin his eventual contract dispute as partisan bias. Downside? Obama may win and Tweety will be locked out of social Washington and Michael Beschloss will not return his calls.
Prediction – Palin will do very well tonight – g.
Palin is so much more likably than the people who sneer at her in print and on TV – Samantha Bee and Dowd and all those people.
Obama and Co would be wise to be scrupulously respectful and just note that Palin’s energy rebate in Alaska was the exact same thing Obama was proposing for all of Americans.
DrLeoStrauss says
The whole MSNBC soap opera is now Kremlinology — who refuses to hand off to whom resulting in deafeningly dead air, fake compliments to colleagues offered knowingly as insults. Better TV than the conventions.
Tweety can’t believe all those years trying to be one of the swells is nullified by Olbermann’s apparent behind the curtains power. When he deliberately mutters on his way to the head to other reporters that the network is falling apart? It really is an appraisal of his own imagined position in the constellation.
In fact, given how rattled he must be right now, it is a minor miracle he has not had a complete on the air collapse into sputtering angry incoherence. Perhaps he is tranquilized ala NFL players so he play through the pain.
Anon says
Tweety is still in meltdown – repeating factual errors about Palin that will garner her sympathy. 5 million a year and the guy is so sloppy.
Anon says
The NYTimes is silly:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/mccain-cancels-larry-king-interview/?scp=1&sq=tucker%20bounds&st=cse
Punishment of King! The Times portrays an argument when, in reality it was odd because someone in the media asked Tucker Bounds a question and insisted on follow up.
The geldings at the Times are used to being polite to Republicans in public and then speaking ill of them at cocktail parties and on op-ed pages.
What was odd was Campbell Brown — wife of a prominant Iraq war stafffer – doing this.
Comment says
Palin being who she is has succceed somewhat in drawing fire from the lightweight media worthies. Pat & Co. know she can be like Quayle in the sense the media still delude themselves into thinking they defeated Quayle.
So the vacuous Dowd thinks she is watching a vacuous chick flic? What else is new.
Anyway — its hard to know if this will help or hurt McCain – Last night was pretty weak – anemic Fred Thompson was praised, but that seemed like fake praise. Ingrate Lieberman convinces no one.