Oct 03 2008
The Golden Girls Election
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Yes, as you first watch this and have to put up with the really bad theme song, you’ll probably be thinking WTF? But it’s freakin’ hilarious. Enjoy.
Tag Archive 'barack obama'
Sep 28 2008
Quick post-debate thought
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Well, that was a lot more wonky than I thought it would be, surprisingly run quite well by Lehrer, compared to the “Where’s your flag pin?” nonsense we’ve become accustomed to. McCain did not look well, as though he was still stewing over his ridiculous “campaign suspension” nonsense and the fact that most people saw it for what it was: a stunt. I think he was pissed that he couldn’t weasel out of it. I was waiting to hear him say he didn’t have to debate because he was a POW or something.
Nevertheless, Obama has a new ad out pointing out how McCain never used the term “middle class” once during the debate.
Curiously enough, nobody’s put out an ad mentioning that neither one of them mentioned “poor Americans” or “poverty” in the entire debate. The focus always seems to be on the middle class who are entering the ranks of the poor. Nada about the people who already there, or the ones who have always been there.
And that reminds me of my thoughts on the last night of the DNC in Denver, when I was on the last bus of the evening, missed my stop, and had to ride it for another half hour until it came back around. I saw a lot of people sleeping on bus stop benches, a profound contrast to the spectacle of the convention. Come to think of it (and someone correct me if I’m wrong), I don’t ever remember “poverty” or “poor people” mentioned there, either.
One of those fine Americans not worthy of mention at last Friday’s debate
Jul 23 2008
Who’s the media really carrying water for?
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I just have to laugh at the incessant whining from the McCain campaign, about how “the media loves Obama”. Is Obama getting more minutes on the news? I don’t doubt that, as what he’s doing lately does make for a more newsworthy story, regardless of the political persuasion (first major presidential candidate of color repeatedly bucking the odds and generating lots of enthusiasm, most lately on his Middle East trip vs. stodgy old fart with flappy cheeks who’s one minute away from crapping his drawers, getting everything wrong so quickly you can’t keep score anymore).
Plus, with all that extra media coverage of Obama, don’t forget how many non-story/inflated b.s. sensationalist stuff was in that coverage… Rev. Wright, Bittergate, a bad bowler who just can’t relate to the hicks in Appalachia, etc.
The press, with all of McCain’s whining is still his “base”, and as he continuously goes more and more off the deep end into some factually-challenged twighlight zone, we’re seeing them actually cover up for him. This makes the press coverage of Bush in 2000 that downplayed he had the intelligence of a fourth grader look like nothing, by comparison. How perverted is it getting? McCain completely screwed up his facts regarding the timelines of the surge and events surrounding it. CBS actually went ahead and cut out his horribly mangled answer and inserted the answer to a different question. Yeah, you just can’t make this stuff up, I tells ya’. Your ‘liberal’ media at work:
Jul 10 2008
Pass the arugula
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I’ve often lamented how many modern conservatives, in their neverending pander to Redneck Nation®, have taken anti-intellectualism and low culture to an art form. If you don’t praise gay-hatin’-the-world-is-only-10,000-years-old Jesus, believe the best way to support the troops is to keep getting them killed, eat iceberg lettuce, read books with pictures or monosyllabic words, and drink the cheapest swill you can find in a can, you’re just not a real Amurricun. Hence, the phony outrage over Obama’s recent comments on the importance of Americans learning a second language at a young age. But for once, even a conservative has had it with the ridiculousness of it, and in the process, succinctly defines the problem in stark, no-bullshit terms:
Frankly, all this seems to be is a pathetic attempt to feed the “Barack Obama is Unamerican” narrative. A narrative that, I might add, has the result of making Americans sound like ignorant hillbillies. “He’s got a funny name!” “He likes food that tastes good instead of crap that’s fried in lard!” “He likes foreigners!” “He wants to speak other languages!” “He’s educated!” “He played basketball instead of football!” Embarrassing, really.
Indeed.
Oh, and Senator Obama, thanks for bending over on FISA yesterday. Somehow I suspect our asses hurt more than yours do right now.
Jul 09 2008
Yer’ all still here? and a bit of Kinski
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Jeeeezus, I don’t show my face for a few days around here and y’all keep coming back anyways. Seriously, what’s wrong with you people?
All kidding aside, it might be a bit light around here in the coming weeks,as I’m in crunch time with grad school, got the wedding, the Dem Convention, and am finishing up the house addition as well as putting on a deck. It’s endless, I tells ya. Endless. But I appreciate you all coming here, I really do.
Speaking of the Dem Convention, you’ve probably heard by now that Obama’s giving his acceptance speech in a football stadium, ensuring I will get absolutely no good photographs from the event. Rumor has it that John McCain is considering something similar, but so far, the only thing he can come up with is some little-league field with a few bleachers.
And now, some random madness of marginal interest for you, in the form of the late German actor Klaus Kinski. Kinski was an enormously talented, but rather insane artist. I first saw him in the numerous spaghetti westerns he starred in in the 60’s but he had quite the career apart form that. He did some rather fine films with German director Werner Herzog, such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God, where he played an insanely intense and evil conquistador.
What was strange about Kinski is that he’d act in some seriously artistic endeavors, and then turn around and act in a Z-grade film, just collecting a paycheck, unabashedly. Rumour has it that Steven Spielberg approached him to have a part in Raiders of the Lost Ark. He declined, saying something along the lines that nobody would be interested in that film, and then went on to act in Venom, a horrendous cinematic pile of shit about a guy that kills people with snakes. But it paid more than Raiders.
And he was a megalomaniac, prone to batshit insane temper tantrums at the drop of a hat, as you can see in this clip from Werner Herzog’s Klaus Kinski: My Best Fiend, his documentary about their turbulent relationship, in which the both of them had actually plotted to kill each other. This was some footage from the filming of Fitzcarraldo:
The Indians in the film that he’s stressing out actually approached Herzog afterward and offered to kill Kinksi. Good times. Kinski was definitely an enigma, an incredibly talented, unabashed prick, but if you’re a fan of Eurocinema, he’s unavoidable. Somehow I supsect this is the first blog post in the history of blogdom that mentions Kinski and Obama in the same post.
Jul 02 2008
An upside…
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As the luster wears off of Obama more and more every day as he moves to the “center” in the general, there is still a lining in that cloud.. if he wins, actor Stephen Baldwin (you know, the born-again Baldwin brother one who, other than “The Usual Suspects” hasn’t done anything remotely worth a shit) will leave the country. Cool.
The other upside? There’s NO country music on his iPod. As we hopefully move further away from “Redneck Nation”, don’t underestimate the importance of this fact. Jeez, Coltrane and Earth Wind and Fire? Deduct a few points for Sheryl Crow, of course, but politics aside, this is a good sign.
Jun 23 2008
Karl Rove? You know this guy.
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Seriously, why does anyone listen to this guy, who’s been wrong about just about everything he’s ever said, whose bullshit and bad judgement is only rivaled by Bill Kristol? Via Carpetbagger:
Karl Rove has made it clear on multiple occasions that he actively dislikes Barack Obama — if there’s a more helpful testament to the strength of Obama’s character, it doesn’t come to mind — and he continues to make his criticisms of the Democratic candidate more and more personal.
ABC News’ Christianne Klein reports that at a breakfast with Republican insiders at the Capitol Hill Club this morning, former White House senior aide Karl Rove referred to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, as “coolly arrogant.”
“Even if you never met him, you know this guy,” Rove said, per Christianne Klein. “He’s the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.”
Karl Rove? Even if you never met him, you know this guy. When he wasn’t being shoved around by the rich country club kids who kept him around as the punching bag, and repeatedly getting rejected by those same beautiful dates that Obama was getting “at the country club”, he was back in his dorm room jacking himself off into a frenzy to pictures of Trish Nixon, making snide comments about what she could do with Papa Nixon’s dog, Checkers, and a jar of peanut butter…
That would explain a lot.
Jun 04 2008
Like taking a huge dump…
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…after gorging oneself at a huge buffet the night before.
Crude, yes, but the best description of how I feel that the Dem primary is now over.
Did you catch McCain’s speech? Did you stay awake? You’d think you were watching the latest George Romero zombie flick or something.
Jun 02 2008
Liberation by the 89th
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I’m sure by now you’ve heard of the latest fake right-wing outrage because Obama saying he had a great-uncle who liberated Auschwitz, when it was actually Buchenwald. Did my grandpa drink Schaeffer beer? Or was it Schlitz? Maybe it was PBR?
This isn’t about Obama, it’s about something completely different, so no, I’m not jumping the shark here or anything.
And in typical tasteless winger fashion, they’ve been trying to downplay the importance of Buchenwald, as it was a “work camp”, not a “death camp”, in that the prisoners weren’t led like cattle into the gas chambers… they were just worked to death, literally. More on this, the resulting smackdown, and an important bit of history beneath the jump.
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