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Old, but worth revisiting.

Stuff like this fascinates me: if I was a bit younger and didn’t already have twenty things demanding my time, I might get into doing things like this.

…of being the Go-To Place for 2010 Political Ads. First up is DALE PETERSON. I’m capitalizing the name because, well, this ad deserves it:

I got nothing to add, except that going from 5% to 28% and pushing out the front-runner is in fact impressive. (more…)

Maybelline, Chuck Berry

Wow. I never really listened to this before… and now I understand a hell of a lot more about Johnny Cash.

The sequel was awful – except for the bit with Bruce Campbell in it – but Escape from New York was pretty good, as long as you understood going in that your disbelief would not so much be suspended as it would be expelled, then shipped off to military school. One of John Carpenter’s better ones… and it’s always frustrating, because you never know with that director whether or not he’s going to be pretty darn good, or just plain bad. Just saying, that’s all.

And so we shine the sun on Daybreakers. But for not long enough.

Was Laurie David just the tip of the iceberg?

That is precisely the question that the Washington Times is asking at the end of this piece:

Rumors of former Vice President Al Gore’s extramarital affairs have been whispered in D.C. for many years, but fondness for Tipper and loyalty to Gore has protected him. So, the public has been shocked – with many still in denial – by tabloid reports of his infidelities.

The National Enquirer, which gained respect from its breaking the news of John Edwards’ cheating, reported that the Gore divorce was caused by Tipper’s jealousy over other women including “an environmentalist named to a prominent cabinet position by Gore when he was vice president, a sexy Hollywood actress, a gorgeous massage therapist” and “a Tennessee Titans cheerleader.”

Now, it should of course be noted that there is no proof that the Cubslayer has left carbon footprints at any of those habitats.  Yet.  But if you don’t think that the National Enquirer – still smarting over their completely unjustified passing over for a Pulitzer Prize for their John Edwards reporting – isn’t doing its level best to rectify that gap in the fossil record, you don’t know tabloid journalism very well.  Meanwhile, I’m waiting to see what Deceiver.com has to say on the subject: based on past reactions, I presume that it’ll be epic.

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PS: As Emily Miller notes in the Washington Times article above; if this was going on while Al Gore was Vice President, then there was possibly federal money being dedicated to helping the man experience biodiversity.  Which is, ah, kind of illegal.

Crossposted to RedState.

If you’re wondering about this Playboy article about the crazy BAMFs plotting and doing black-bag operations under the concealing shadow of the Tea Party movement: well.  I would say, based on what I know already, and who I’ve talked to in the past, it’s:

• 20% BS;
• 40% pure gold;
• and the rest I can’t swear to.

And that’s in terms of claims, not factual details; the article gets the facts pretty much right (again, at least the stuff that I know myself*).  For example, everything that Aaron Gardner quoted (H/T) is perfectly accurate.

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*I’m not really a go-to guy for the black-bag stuff.  I hear things, but mostly I just do my candidate interviews and the odd piece on zombies and so forth.  Hell, I probably don’t even know the person who wrote the article in the first place…

And for once, the article lives up to the promise of the title.  Even exceeds it:

A German student “mooned” a group of Hell’s Angels and hurled a puppy at them before escaping on a stolen bulldozer, police have said.

…and click through; the story actually gets better from there. Not very much better, but given the height of the bar set by the title and first paragraph, clearing it even by a little is impressive. Writing this article was given out as a reward by an indulgent BBC news editor; I’m sure of it.

I don’t know if Frank Luntz’s focus groups are what you would call reliable, but they’re rarely dull.  And this one is pretty darn ornery over the way that the administration is handling Obamaspill.

Via The Right Scoop, via AoSHQ – who also has some very useful advice to Republican legislators on how to deal with the President’s attempts to redefine ‘success’ on this issue from ‘solve the actual problem’ to ‘accomplishing something within the President’s limited core competencies.’

Crossposted to RedState.

Via Dan Riehl I see that another corrupt politician (Leona Beldini) nabbed in last year’s roundup has been sentenced:

A former Jersey City deputy mayor has been sentenced to three years in prison in the largest federal probe of political corruption in New Jersey.

[snip]

The Democrat was arrested last year in a sting that resulted in charges against her and 45 others. Twenty defendants have pleaded guilty or been convicted so far, including a defendant Monday.

You know, I think that it was this event that actually let me believe that maybe, just maybe, Christie was going to win the election.  I mean, really believe it.  The thought that there were limits to what New Jersey was going to tolerate in the Democratic party, that is.  Living in that state as I did until 2001, I had to wonder, sometimes.

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Well, don’t ask me*: ask Jason Linkins of the Huffington Post.  Yes.  The Huffington Post.

President Barack Obama took to the Oval Office to address a nation worried to death over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a location used so much more often by Saturday Night Live than by actual presidents that my brain actually released a small dollop of dopamine in anticipation of comedic parody. And then, over the next seventeen minutes, nothing much happened to challenge my brain’s autonomic preconceptions.

There’s some really good quotes in there; heck, even the obligatory swipe at the Republicans was tolerable, if rather rough language (hey, Jason, at least my side has a plan). More seriously, the White House should now really start acting like this crisis is going to hurt them long-term, because from what I can tell the Democratic base is fuming at how badly the Obama administration is handling the spill.  Olbermann & Matthews were particularly entertainingly distraught, disbelieving, and distressed over the whole thing – and if they’re having moments of clarity, so are a lot more progressive activists.

Unfortunately for the White House, their standard solution problems like this is to have Obama give a speech.

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PS: Hopefully, somebody will give this Andrew Malcolm reaction the attention it deserves.  Andrew does some really good blogging work for the LA Times, which is another way of saying that he’s a pilgrim in an unholy land. (more…)

Honestly, most parody songs not written by Tom Lehrer, Weird Al Yankovic, or JibJab do. But this one ain’t half bad. Via… somebody.

(The original, of course, is Lady Madonna)

(Via Hot Air Headlines) Given that the leak hasn’t been plugged yet, and given that the Gov. Jindal has a state to look after, this isn’t surprising.

Eight weeks into the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of the Mexico, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has told the National Guard that there’s no time left to wait for BP, so they’re taking matters into their own hands.

In Fort Jackson, La., Jindal has ordered the Guard to start building barrier walls right in the middle of the ocean. The barriers, built nine miles off shore, are intended to keep the oil from reaching the coast by filling the gaps between barrier islands.

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