Unbelievable!

It's amazing to me how a pundit can make a ridiculous argument and not just get laughed off the soundstage. Listen to this Hardball clip about 1min45sec in as Michelle Bernard, part-time political analyst on MSNBC, asserts that the real problem Palin had when interviewed by Katie Couric was that she had received too much coaching by the McCain camp. According to Bernard, It simply wasn't the same, capable woman she'd witnessed giving the acceptance speech at the RNC. Clearly, the McCain camp just had to stop over-coaching her and "let Sarah Palin be Sarah Palin." Joan Walsh points out that the real difference between Palin-who-sounds-sure-of-herself and Palin-who-can't-string-together-a-coherent-sentence was the teleprompter. Unfortunately, she doesn't push it and Bernard simply sidesteps the point and continues spewing bullshit. Chris Matthews' follow up actually seems to support this assertion. Why didn't everybody else erupt into peals of laughter? Were they simply stunned that Bernard, an otherwise thoughtful and intelligent woman, would be pushing such bullshit? Also, catch Chris Matthews say towards the end that Thursday's VP debate will be the first with a woman. Does nobody remember Geraldine Ferraro?

Totally not political, just damn funny.

Totally not political.

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Brilliant!

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She thinks that humans and dinosaurs lived together!

Granted, the story's source is ultimately a casual conversation with someone disinclined to report favorably about her in any case, but since the McCain campaign won't let her speak all too often to the press, what else do we have to go on? So, as officially as can be stated under the circumstances, Sarah Palin is on the record for believing that humans and dinosaurs walked the Earth at the same time. Is this a joke?

Totally not political.

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Due to high political content, BuddyCrocker is seriously considering returning to a boy-blog format.

Presidential Debate

Was that last post about McCain croaking a bit on the tasteless side? Totally tasteless? Completely legit?

Presidential Debate

What if McCain had a heart attack on live television? What would happen? Would Sarah-cuda run out and shout, "I'm not even gonna blink! I'm ready! Hit me with the next question, Jimmy!"

Presidential Debate

Ugh.

Finally!

At last, the one instance when Sarah Palin exercised executive powers and mobilized the Alaskan National Guard has been uncovered!

Five Days Away!

This Saturday, the California Academy of Sciences opens in San Francisco. I can't wait until my next trip! Especially since I have the inside scoop! A very old, old, old, old, old friend is a very high up in the Academy's hierarchy! Kisses, Sweetie Darling!

Even China's getting in on the action before us.

How 'bout that economy?

Seriously. It's beginning to look pretty scary.

BuddyCrocker Overwhelmed with Palin Posts!

RFK Jr. on Sarah Palin and her reading list

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted the following on Huffingtonpost.com:

Fascist writer Westbrook Pegler, an avowed racist who Sarah Palin approvingly quoted in her acceptance speech for the moral superiority of small town values, expressed his fervent hope about my father, Robert F. Kennedy, as he contemplated his own run for the presidency in 1965, that "some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies."

It might be worth asking Governor Palin for a tally of the other favorites from her reading list.

The more I know about her, the more my stomach turns.

Ms. Palin, working class.

Yeah. How is it that, during her interview with Charlie Gibson, she can show off her lakeside, mountain view home, along with her own, private seaplane, and then try to pass herself off as a "regular" small town American?


How many small town Americans you know own their own seaplane?

And the Celeb Magnet has been turned back on!

Today's outing, walking up through Tribeca into Soho, the BF and I saw Edward Burns and his daughter having brunch, then we saw Alyssa Milano and Claire Danes in Soho. The BF spotted Ms. Milano and Ms. Danes, I totally missed them. I did, however, see the group Ms. Danes was with, which included one crazy-ass woman, who must have been, like six feet tall, wearing a shiny black cowboy shirt with red appliques... scary.

Okay, so check out this picture from Alyssa Milano's website.



I don't even know where to start.

Thank You, Charlie.

She didn't answer a single question... not as it was asked, at least. She didn't understand or even recognize the single most important element of the Bush Administration's foreign policy. She thinks that she understands Russia because there are places in Alaska from which you can see it, (which doesn't even say that she's gone to those places and looked). She thinks that we have no right to challenge anything that Israel might do in the interests of its national security, (even if they decide to bomb us?). She's ridiculous.

Holy Moses!

What's this? Sarah Palin charged the state of Alaska a per diem for nights she spent in her own home? 312 nights in the first 19 months? Really? I mean, isn't that fraud? And hasn't she been making a name for herself the one who cuts expenses? Complete with a (false) story that she sold the previous governor's helicopter on eBay? Shouldn't all those people ostensibly so interested in fiscal responsibility be enraged by this? Aren't all those people who claim that they want someone they can trust in office just scandalized by this?

Am I the only one who thinks they're kind of, like, boyfriends?

The difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom is lipstick!

Did she just call herself a bitch? And is that the image we're considering to be constructive in politics now? An animal bred to fight, to attack, which goes into a sort of trance when it clamps down on the neck of an adversary? I mean, she invoked the image of that animal, that image of a creature so feral and destructive, so uncontrolled that its only instinct is to kill, not socialize and cooperate, kill. Is this really what we want as potential leader of the free world? What the fuck is wrong with these people?!?

Maverick

So there's all this hoo-hah about how she drives herself to work and sold the governor's helicopter on eBay. What about the driver and pilots who now have no jobs because of Sarah Palin's actions? I had no idea she was so hateful and monstrous towards the common man!

Besides, drives herself to work? Please. That's like using a 15¢ coupon when you buy $500 at the supermarket! But I guess that's Republican accounting.

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Can you say "vomitrocious"?

Interesting Fact...

Sarah Palin's last name means "backwards" in Ancient Greek. According to the Liddel Scott and Jones Greek-English Lexicon, it's an adverb usually used with verbs of motion. In English, a palindrome describes a word or phrase which "runs back" on itself and reads the same forwards and backwards. I'm guessing that in Republicanese, "Sarah Palin" describes someone whose political views run backwards in comparison to what the country really needs.