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Sun October 05, 2008
(Huffington Post) Interesting Ken Burns, perhaps the greatest documentarian of American history we've ever had, chimes in on John McCain. Unsurprisingly, he's not thrilled (42)
(Pajamas Media) Dumbass "Not only did Obama not find anything especially obnoxious about Wright's radicalism, anti-Americanism, and ties to Farrakahn, or Ayers' lack of regret for his terrorist past, he didn't expect anyone else would either." (122)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Unlikely Palin's October Surprise - she'll appear on SNL two weeks before the election, spoofing Tina Fey (84)
(Daily Kos) Sappy Twenty years ago, a kind stranger helped Mary Andersen pay an unexpected 103 dollar luggage surcharge. That kind stranger? Then community worker Barack Obama (175)
(Huffington Post) Amusing Not News: McCain holds a rally. News: No one shows up, author calls it an "empty chair convention". Fark: In Anchorage, Alaska. TotalFark: Everyone was at the Obama rally down the street (184)
(LA Times) Scary ♫ Super California debt is something quite tremendous / Seven billion dollar budget shortfall is stupendous / Governator warns that short term outlook is horrendous / Super California debt is something quite tremendous ♫ (85)
(Conservapedia) Hero Just to keep things Fair and Balanced™, here's the Conservapedia entry for John Sidney McCain III, prominent maverick politician and Vietnam War hero (69)
(Conservapedia) Amusing Just for laughs, the Conservapedia entry for Barack Hussein Obama II (225)
(Miami Herald) Scary The next president will have hundreds of judges to appoint (56)
(Washington Post) Amusing So influential even the White House has had to capitulate. Washington's most powerful interest group is ... the squirrel lobby? (33)
(Reuters) Scary Come January 21st, we could be saying hello to President Pelosi (100)
(AP) Stupid McCain owns a condo in a "Communist country" that didn't keep him as a POW for five years. That wasn't clapping you heard from the audience, that was mass facepalming (72)
(Politico) Obvious The RNC plans to charge Obama with illegally fundraising since "fictional donors gave thousands" and "it could be possible to funnel a lot of money to a campaign in small chunks this way." (160)
(Some Guy) Weird Karl Rove's own electoral map projection predicting an Obama win (67)
(Daily Kos) Dumbass Sarah Palin: "There's a special place in hell for women who don't support other women." Knowing Palin, they will probably be down there with the gays, Jews, Muslims, and witches (239)
(CNN) Followup Fact-checkers need less than 24 hours to debunk Palin claim that Obama is "palling around with terrorists". Republicans, meet the internets. Internets, Republicans. Pleasedtameetcha doncha know (291)
(AP) Obvious Onus on McCain to turn presidential race his way. Hee hee hee... he said "onus" (101)
(Philly) Asinine Need your candidate to win the election (part II)? Hang fliers in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods saying that unpaid parking ticket offenders and other scoflaws will be arrested at the polls (125)
(Huffington Post) Video SNL VP Debate Highlights featuring Tina Fey gettin' all Mavericky in there and also too, the Great Ronald Reagan (279)
(Toronto Star) Scary Need your candidate to win in the next election? Cut the brake lines of anyone with the opposing party's signs so they die before election day (164)
(Talking Points Memo) Obvious Sarah Palin's continued attacks on Barack Obama's patriotism legitimize questions about her secessionist husband (245)
(Daily Kos) Strange GOP congressman visits Sirhan Sirhan in prison to uncover the Arab plot behind RFK's assassantion. Then it gets weird (45)
(AP) Hero Hillary: "He's not a maverick. He's a mimic" (165)

Sat October 04, 2008
(Guardian.com) Florida "The fact that this woman as a vice-presidential candidate winked at me completely insults me... If I hear her say the word 'maverick' one more time I am going to shoot somebody - and I am a Republican." (469)
(AlterNet) Amusing New Mexico is shaping up to be this election's Florida (65)
(Newsweek) Obvious How Obama could crash and burn just the same as every other Democratic candidate this century (179)
(Power Line Blog) Fail Biden debate claim that Dick Cheney "most dangerous VP" shot down by Aaron Burr's superior shooting skills (132)
(CTV) Hero Canadian political candidate forced to resign after slamming American chickenhawks who fled to Canada as "crybabies that are trying to turn this country into a hotel." Tag is for him. Too bad about the stars and bars background (63)
(AP) Asinine Sarah Palin reflects on the groundbreaking nature of her candidacy as well as Barack Obama's. Just kidding, instead she says, "he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country." (533)
(RealClearPolitics) Obvious The current financial bailout crisis has propelled Barack Obama back into a substantial lead over John McCain-- which is astonishing in view of which man and which party has had the most to do with bringing on this crisis (199)
(MSNBC) Dumbass Bush Administration shelves plan to set up diplomatic outpost in Iran because averting war would unfairly handicap McCain's presidential ambition. No, that is really their explanation (192)
(MSNBC) Obvious McCain campaign admits Obama is thrashing them in the polls, plans to change campaign strategy to stop talking about the economy and start making personal attacks (260)
(AP) Followup FDIC brokers sale of Wachovia for $2.1 billion, and will take losses. Wells Fargo offers $14.8 billion with no government cost. Guess which one the government likes better? I'm sure glad we gave them $700 billion more (139)
(AP) Stupid The latest voting "rights" issue: should there be a dress code to vote? Can't we just select a president by lottery and be done with this madness forever? (102)
(Talking Points Memo) Asinine GOP in AK request emergency appeal to shut down Palin Troopergate investigation, claiming Palin, Alaskans will be irreparably harmed if she isn't kicked upstairs out of the AK governorship (77)
(Fox News) Interesting Dan Quayle's potatoe boy is all growne up (36)
(Wall Street Journal) Cool Sarah Palin had independents at "Nice to meet you. Hey, can I call you Joe?" Suck it, Libs (264)
(Some IRC Guy) Amusing Old and busted: Girls Gone Wild -- New Hotness: Palin's Kids Gone Wild (LGT pic) (175)
(YouTube) Weird P. Diddy makes the weirdest get out the vote video ever (30)
(CNN) Interesting Language monitoring service says Palin spoke at a tenth grade level, Biden at eighth. It's not news, it's CNN (171)
(Orlando Sentinel) Caption What is Rahm Emanuel whispering in Nancy Pelosi's ear? (115)

Fri October 03, 2008
(Canada.com) Amusing Canadian students demonstrate shocking lack of patriotism at bar, choose to watch U.S. VP debate while quaffing their Molsons instead of Canadian party leaders' debate (51)
(National Review) Sad "McCain called for stronger oversight of Fannie and Freddie in 2005, but Senate Democrats (including Obama) blocked reform. Between 2005 and 2007, Fannie and Freddie bought up a trillion dollars worth of subprime mortgages." (208)
(Delaware Online) Amusing In the debate Joe Biden referred to Katie's restaurant in Wilmington, a place which has been closed nearly 20 years. Well, that's like yesterday to someone who saw FDR on TV in 1929 (244)
(Newsweek) Dumbass Much like a diseased wildebeest that can't stop walking in circles, Obama won't stop lying about McCain (243)
(Some Guy) Obvious Obama campaign publishes iPhone app that uses location awareness to find campaign offices, rally info, etc. McCain campaign seen hurriedly researching newfangled teletype, mimeograph, and facsimile-apparatus (129)
(ABC News) Obvious Palin: "Remember those millions of dollars in investments I supported the state of Alaska divesting from Sudan? Well, not exactly." (71)
(Talking Points Memo) Unlikely McCain campaign is running about 100% attack ads, foreshadowing the needed change only he would bring to Washington (89)
(NYPost) Hero Palin's performance in the debate last night puts her in a class with great communicators like Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton (231)
(YouTube) Amusing VP Debate song and dance (45)
(John McCain) PSA McCain campaign releases Sarah Palin & First Dude's tax returns. Documents show, er, not much interesting (81)
(Daily Kos) Amusing McCain camp runs ad attributing glowing quote of Sarah Palin to "Famous Person". Yes, THAT "Famous Person" (157)
(Huffington Post) Stupid While on Fox News, Sarah Palin whines about Katie Couric (275)
(YouTube) Hero In contrast to the dull-ass VP debate last night, check out Lloyd Bentsen's awesome pwnage of a hapless Dan Quayle circa 1988 (85)
(Some Guy) Scary Alex Jones says Bush will declare MARTIAL LAW if bailout not passed: EVERYBODY PANIC (146)
(News.com.au) Unlikely "But if the same intense scrutiny applied to Palin were applied to other political candidates, democracy would be in dire straits. Who would be left to represent us?" (75)
(Holy Taco) Satire Sarah Palin's facebook profile. "You added Katie Couric as a Friend (8:31am) / You removed Katie Couric from your Friends (11:17am)" (31)
(Daily Kos) Obvious And the backpedaling begins: "The McCain campaign confirms to ABC News that Palin misstated McCain's position" (146)
(Some Guy) Cool "One reason a lot of the media like John McCain is that he's a cool guy. Nondweeby. McCain was a varsity wrestler and a hellraiser whose talents for partying and getting laid are still spoken of with awe" (61)
(Guardian.com) Asinine Push polling surfaces in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Voters asked if they would support Obama if they knew he had connections to Hamas and the PLO. Also, did you know he's fathered two black babies? (137)
(CNN) NewsFlash House passes bailout with Senate amendments. God help us all (1716)
(Rolling Stone) Interesting Parts of McCain's autobiography "read like a bad Ian Fleming novel, with his Vietnamese captors cast as nefarious Bond villains: 'They taught you too well, Mac Kane,' Cat snarled, kicking over a chair" (154)
(Washington Post) Interesting Obama's one goal? Pass the Reagan '80 threshold (67)
(International Herald Tribune) Interesting Elitist journalist says children of high-level politicians like Joe Biden shouldn't be in combat. Difficulty: journalist is the son of Dwight D. Eisenhower (32)
(Washington Times) Interesting Did Obama peak too soon? (116)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Followup Roger Ebert reviews last night's political debate...as performance art: "In university terms, (Palin) was being asked to defend her doctoral thesis without having written it" (68)
(National Review) Unlikely The Wink Factor: Sarah Palin's winking in last night's debate has the arugala-chomping mainstream MSM media flummoxed and confounded, but Joe Sixpack has fallen head over heels in love with this sexy and sassy straight shooter (321)
(Daily Kos) Dumbass The Sarah Palin Debate Flow Chart (151)
(Election Geek) Fail Constitution to Biden: "You think you know me, but you so don't" (214)
(Wordpress) Stupid The Big VP Debate: Palin's Running on Fumes, Not Real Fuel. Yes indeedy, she's ready to lead the nation, presiding with cutesy, folksy phrases that poured from her red lips, even when they had nothing to do with the questions (89)
(YouTube) Unlikely Rudy Giuliani comments to Sean Hannity about Palin debate: "One of the very best debate performances I've ever seen by anyone. And only the liberal media could deny her this victory". 9/11 (99)
(Gateway Pundit) Spiffy Bill O'Reilly confronts Barney Frank over his incompetence over the Fannie/Freddie disaster, rips him a new one. Or as Frank calls it: "third date" (97)
(YouTube) Amusing Apparently, Dick Morris and Alan Colmes don't like each other. Who knew? (50)
(Canada.com) Amusing Canada had a debate last night, too. Well, depending on how one defines "debate" (59)
(Detroit News) Obvious "Michigan's economy is so bad that State Department is sending fewer Iraqi refugees to the area because of concerns that their future would not be bright" (36)
(Some Pundit) Amusing "Despite her debate performance, Palin is still a candidate with tremendous potential to not only stick a foot in her mouth but completely gnaw it off and suck dry the bones before realizing it's her own" (127)
(Telegraph) Interesting British ambassador to America says that Obama is "aloof". This is bad news for Obama because we all know that the world needs less loofs (59)
(CNN) Interesting McCain's Palin Problem in a nutshell: 84% of those surveyed say she exceeded expectations in the debate; but only 46% thought she was qualified to be president and less than 26% thought she was smarter than Biden (477)
(USA Today) Obvious Governor Caribou Barbie and Senator Cheshire Cat both made a variety of misleading claims tonight (167)
(Some Guy) Amusing The best part of the debate coverage was 22 seconds before the candidates took the stage (259)
(Michelle Malkin) Hero Sarah Palin looked presidential. Joe Biden looked tired. Sarah made history. Biden is history. GOD BLESS the small government conservatives and small business owners (523)

Thu October 02, 2008
(Rolling Stone) Unlikely Rolling Stone looks to swiftboat McCain. I thought that magazine was about music? (126)
(YouTube) Video The Green Party creates jobs in America by employing the following tags: Amusing, Asinine, Dumbass, Fail, Silly, Spiffy, Strange, Stupid, Video, Unlikely and Weird (34)
(FARK) Interesting Vice Presidential Debate discussion thread 3: The Nukular Option (4024)
(FARK) Interesting Vice Presidential Debate discussion thread II: Biden/Palin Boogaloo (1908)
(The Raw Story) Asinine FOX News uncovers plot to register Ohio homeless to vote. "With Ohio being such a close state, is this fair?" Apparently Mary Poppins is a democrat (89)
(National Journal) Ironic Palin has a bandaged hand. Ifill is in a wheelchair. Hillary Clinton seen having dinner with Tanya Harding (7)
(Talking Points Memo) Asinine McCain tries to outdo Biden, claims everyone knows FDR never appeared on TV. Uh, John...you were alive when Roosevelt appeared on TV (39)
(FARK) Interesting Vice Presidential Debate discussion thread. Let the (drinking) games begin (2226)
(Some Vandal) Obvious Palin: "The university where I got my degree in journalism taught me that Couric & Gibson were being unethical." Palin's alma mater: "No we didn't. You were just unprepared." (119)
(Hot Air) PSA In an attempt to lessen the blow of Palin's inevitable epic fail tonight, McCain releases new ad: "Hey, Obama's running mate is stupid too" (167)
(Wall Street Journal) Cool Dear terrorists studying liquid bomb technology at DeVry, you only have to wait until 2009 to launch your first strike. Sincerely, Transportation Safety Administration (71)
(YouTube) PSA For anyone who is still confused, here is an easy-to-follow explanation of the current financial crisis with a kickin' sound track (114)
(Huffington Post) Obvious The humble Bill O'Reilly gives his simple opinion on religion: I'm proof God exists (111)
(CNN) Amusing Actual headline: "McCain: Obama lead growing because 'life isn't fair'" (254)
(Click On Detroit) Obvious Suddenly, John McCain becomes the envy of millions of people in Detroit (114)
(Reuters) Interesting Vatican says the Democrats are the "party of death." Which is a great name for a heavy metal band (159)
(NewsBusters) Obvious McCain camp to leftist NY Times reporter seeking a seat on the campaign press plane: Not yours. Get off. No, seriously (234)
(The Atlantic) Stupid Hugh Hewitt interviews Sarah Palin. One of the questions: "Your campaign has the momentum of a runaway train, why are you so popular?" (120)
(Give Lou Dobbs a Chance) Asinine Apparently, not only did tonight's VP debate moderator not tell McCain about her pro-Obama book -- she forgot to mention it to the debate commission, too (311)
(Huffington Post) Asinine McCain: "I'm not a rich man." America: Wat (118)
(Think Progress) Dumbass 10/1/08: McCain votes for the pork-laden bailout bill. 10/2/08: McCain calls for President Bush to veto the pork-laden bailout bill (256)
(CNN) Interesting Glenn Beck, who is obviously never right, points out that there may be serious consequences that no one wants to think about. Of course, being a partisan hack, he could not have any idea what he is talking about (167)
(AFA) Asinine With nothing else currently on Congress' plate, Christian group sends up a petition to pull funding from PBS for airing a show that takes an archeaological look at the Bible (204)
(Columbia Journalism Review) Amusing To stop "gotcha journalism", Gotchaware™ now available. Tracks awkward pauses of subjects, head-cocking rudeness of journalists (34)
(The Sun) Asinine So far...both presidential candidates support the bailout...as do Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, George Bush, and Vladimir Putin and now British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (162)
(Daily Kos) Scary A well-written, clear and intelligent explanation of why the credit crunch is going to be the end of us all, no matter what the government does (103)
(Boston Herald) Obvious "We have come to the point in the media's treatment of Gov. Sarah Palin where even the fig leaf of pretense is gone. The press has openly chosen sides and has stopped apologizing for it" (211)
(Watley Review) Satire Palin downgraded from Vista to XP (53)
(London Times) Obvious Joe Biden warned that Caribou Barbie is a more skilled debater than she looks, and will be wiping the floor with him tonight if he's not careful (172)
(Dayton Daily News) Spiffy Ohio company offers pink camo "Sarah-Cuda" hunting bow to honor Palin's "passion for hunting" and "women who bear the responsibility of family and work while strengthening the moral fiber of society." (197)
(Google) Interesting Tonight is the night when politicians seeking the second-most powerful job in the free world will joust on TV. That's right - it's the Canadian federal leaders' debate (67)
(Some Guy) Cool Michigan's Macomb County Commissioner voted "Hottest Politician." Bonus: She has a stripper pole in her bedroom (187)
(MSNBC) Unlikely Debate could give a chance for Palin to bounce back by showing her ability to parrot scripted answers (173)
(Washington Times) Unlikely "Mr. Obama made the mistake of showing his nasty, haughty and condescending side in the first debate" (152)
(Some Guy) Obvious In district after district across the country, the Republican campaign strategy is becoming more and more clear: Use lawsuits to challenge, delay and prevent any and all voter-registration efforts (74)
(National Review) Interesting The bailout bill repeats the same mistakes that Japan made following the burst of their bubble in 1990 (94)
(Some Bank Runner) Scary I'll be in my bank (143)
(Politico) Hero A list of the only 25 senators we should even think about ever re-electing again (179)
(The New York Times) Interesting Ten questions for the next vice president (108)
(National Review) Asinine Obama is benefiting from millions in illegal overseas contributions and other naked campaign fraud, including money from a Mr. "Good Will" whose job is listed as "Loving You" (139)
(Online100) Interesting Not news: 96 percent of Democratic media panelists think Obama will win. News: 89 percent of independent media panelists think Obama will win. Fark: Even 75 percent of Republican panelists think Obama will win (73)
(Daily Express) Amusing Cash-strapped local government spends $150,000 on a pair of giant dominoes. Taxpayers predictably thrilled (71)
(Media Matters) Stupid Bill O'Reilly: Nancy Pelosi practices speeches before she gives them. You know who else practiced speeches? (180)
(MSNBC) Obvious New poll indicates voters forgive Sarah Palin's missteps and have full confidence in her ability to be commander-in-chief. Haha, just kidding, six in ten think she's too ignorant to be president (321)
(Breitbart.com) Silly Actor from "Growing Pains" says if you don't vote, he doesn't "know even what to say to you anymore" (73)
(MSNBC) Interesting The surge is working (106)
(Politico) Strange Obama the campaign bought a DISH network channel to play the same ad on it over and over and over. Obama the campaign bought a DISH network channel to play the same ad on it over and over and over (100)
(ABC News) Interesting Political rival hurl barbs at Canadian prime minister in country's first televised leaders debate, accusing him of being as god awful a leader as George Bush before adding, "Sorry, eh?" (91)

Wed October 01, 2008
(YouTube) Followup Palin, Couric, Supreme Court: The Video (502)
(Daily Kos) Scary McCain on foreign policy re Palin: "I've turned to her advice many times in the past" (268)
(Cincinnati Enquirer) Followup Boehner tries to get a grip on bailout plan, stiffens up against Pelosi, who made his blood surge with comments on Monday, supports raising cap on deposit insurance, and pops off against Paulson's original plan (54)
(Canada.com) Amusing Ontario politician fires her entire staff in a drunken email, then tries to rehire them the next morning. Bonus: She's also a United Church minister (27)
(Calculated Risk) Sad If you had September 30th, 2008 as the day the U.S. debt hit 10 TRILLION DOLLARS, step forward and claim your share of the bill (124)
(Newsweek) Amusing VP debate beer bingo cards provided by Newsweek. Submitter is taking Friday off (33)
(Huffington Post) Strange Is America ready for a tattooed VP? Hint: It's not Biden (129)
(Daily Kos) Interesting Michael Moore submits his plan to rescue America and overthrow the Illuminati Overlords (113)
(Huffington Post) Interesting Clinton is like the Hulk, except that he turns red. Clinton ANGRY. McCain BAD. Obama GOOOOD (154)
(YouTube) Hero Blow, Sarah, blow (151)
(AP) Ironic Southern baptists don't think a woman should lead a church or a home, but they don't seem to have a problem with one potentially running the country (60)
(Marketwatch) Hero "McCain really is a brilliant economist as well as political strategist, channeling the vision of four economic giants: Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, George W Bush, and Phil Gramm." GO McVOLTRON FORCE (96)
(Some Guy) Amusing Slideshow of Joe Biden training to debate the formidable Sarah Palin (96)
(Wall Street Journal) Amusing We've watched every presidential and vice presidential debate since 1988, and in our memory the moderators are just a blur--an endless procession of Jim Lehrers, a significant percentage of whom WERE Jim Lehrer (32)
(Slate) Amusing Behold the poetry of Sarah Palin (72)
(Portfolio) Obvious In response to Palin's whining about being ambushed in Couric interview, media professor notes that to ask a political candidate a question without a scripted answer isn't unethical journalism. Yet (183)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting The majority of new registered voters are stoked about Obama, but many of them are not quite as committed to this whole "showing up and actually voting" thing (149)
(Reuters) Dumbass The headline: "Palin's Troubles Mount." The story: Four or five journalists quoted as saying they don't like her. This editorial -- er political analysis -- brought to you by Reuters (489)
(Hot Air) Unlikely Cynthia McKinney, Green Party presidential candidate and seriously deranged nutbar, passes along claim that the military killed 5,000 prisoners after Hurricane Katrina (292)
(Think Progress) Obvious John McCain is making serious gains in two major demographics; the old and the stupid (126)
(Politicker Ohio) Amusing Republicans: "Don't vote for this guy. He wants to keep strip clubs open late and let you touch dancers." Also criticize support of "Steak & BJ" legislation (73)
(Human Events) Obvious "Saying that Monday's correction was caused by a failure to bail out is like saying that plane crashes are caused by someone forgetting to turn off gravity" (54)
(NYPost) Obvious Majority of voters polled believe Joe Biden will win the VP debate but that Sarah Palin will be cuter and more cuddlable (161)
(CBS Green Bay) Asinine Chain email sent out warning that anyone wearing anything supporting Obama will not be allowed to vote. Anyone wearing Palin items will receive free mental health screening (115)
(Wonkette) Interesting Are you middle class? Then you can afford this unwanted John McCain mansion, for $12 million (200)
(Some Guy) Amusing Fox News guy polls small diner crowd in Pennsylvania -- everyone votes Obama. He says, "See it's split" (124)
(Some Red Guy) Scary Who's responsible for letting the banks fail in the first place? The Dems? Say it isn't so (168)
(Reason Magazine) Interesting "Libertarian paternalism" is a political ideology gaining favor in some circles, including the Jumbo Shrimp Society and the Plastic Glass Institute (50)
(Jesus' General) Amusing Dear National Geographic: In response to your liberally biased world maps designed to embarrass the McCain campaign, I'm enclosing new maps that conform to Palin-McCain specifications. Please use them going forward (with pic) (131)
(Boing Boing) Scary Palintology: The belief that humans and dinosaurs walked the earth together (308)
(Wonkette) Dumbass John McCain -- who was born in 1936 -- believes that the current economic crisis is the worst one in his lifetime (139)
(Huffington Post) Amusing McCain campaign: The media coverage of Sarah Palin is SO SEXIST. Katie Couric: Sarah, do you think the coverage of you has been sexist? Palin: No, I don't. McCain campaign: AAAGGGGHHH (496)
(Chicago Tribune) Sad Kathleen Parker, conservative columnist, illustrates how Republicans stay classy in the face of Sarah Palin's negative press (127)
(Hot Air) Asinine Senate unveils its version of the bailout bill, although it's unclear what earmarks for racetracks, "wool research" and "wooden arrows designed for use by children" have to do with Wall Street (333)
(Washington Times) Obvious Nancy Pelosi paid her husband's real estate company with her PAC funds, a practice she voted to ban last year (204)
(Washington Post) Dumbass What's dumber than a VP candidate who uses an external email system for government communications? One who does it twice (126)
(Some Guy) Dumbass VP debate moderator to release pro-Obama book on inauguration day. Author of "19-0: The Historic Championship Season of New England's Unbeatable Patriots" unavailable for comment (700)
(Philly) PSA Bruce Springsteen will play a free concert in Philadelphia on Saturday at a rally in support of Barack Obama (172)
(Some Guy) Hero All the reason you need to vote for McCain (227)
(YouTube) Video Jack Cafferty goes after Sarah Palin again for the third straight day (264)
(KnoxNews) Obvious "If Americans really want change in Washington, and improvement in the mean-spirited and debilitating partisan malaise that's settled over our Congress, then we need to start with getting rid of Nancy Pelosi as Speaker" (232)

Tue September 30, 2008
(Think Progress) Scary Palin, I reads all of em (617)
(WCBS 880) Obvious NYC Mayor Bloomberg: I'm running for a third term. Law: But, but term limits. Mayor: I am altering our agreement, pray I do not alter it further (51)
(Mediabistro) Weird VP debate moderator Gwen Ifill just happens to break her ankle after, ahem, "falling down stairs." Police find moose blood and hockey pucks at the scene (109)
(LA Times) Interesting "The political landscape is littered with people who have underestimated Sarah Palin" (300)
(MSNBC) Interesting Your risk of auto fatality goes up 18 percent on November 4. Happy voting! (108)
(ABC News) Amusing VP debate pre-debate: Will Palin wear her hair down so she can use the wireless receiver? (3-1) Will Biden make her cry? (5-1) GOP streaker? (10-1) Will you watch for the train wreck? (1-1) (715)
(Michelle Malkin) Amusing Michelle Malkin blows a farking gasket over San Francisco's bondage-and-leather themed Folsom Street Fair (with arguably the most hilarious comments section of any blog post you'll read all year) (352)
(Politico) Asinine Old and busted: McCain doesn't know where Spain is. New walnuts: McCain doesn't know where Venezuela is (83)
(Some Guy) Cool Sarah Palin automatic interview generator (231)
(Michelle Malkin) Dumbass Biden: "I've been to Iraq and been shot at." Reality: "Someone was shooting a gun somewhere in Iraq when I was there" (90)
(Think Progress) Followup Republicans rethink their "Nancy Pelosi made us cry" explanation for why they didn't deliver votes on the bailout (376)
(CBS 4 Denver) Scary Sarah Palin says she's "the new ideas" of the Republican ticket. Just wait till Thursday (215)
(CNN) Amusing CNN sends some poor reporter to Little Diomede Island, Alaska. What does he learn? 1) You CAN see Russia from there. 2) It's damn cold. 3) Most of the residents have never even heard of Sarah Palin (106)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious John McCain: "We need to allow ROTC on college campuses." College audience: "BOOOOO." Obama: "I agree with Sen. McCain." Same college audience: "[crickets]" (863)
(AZCentral) Amusing Among the finer things said during the bailout debate: "Madam Speaker, this is a huge cowpatty with a piece of marshmallow stuck in the middle of it. I'm not going to eat that cowpatty." You stay classy, Washington (180)
(Some Guy) Obvious A Democrat who actually gets it -- so why don't we get him? (122)
(Smithsonian Magazine) Interesting In the refined 1912 election, Teddy Roosevelt called Taft a "puzzlewit" and Taft in turn called TR a "honeyfugler" (169)
(CBC) Interesting CBC apologizes for running the anti-Palin piece that had the right-wing blogodome calling for a military strike against Canada (81)
(Newsday) Weird Not news: Man hangs portrait of Sarah Palin in his bar. News: She's nude. Ewwwwww: His daughter was the model (209)
(CSMonitor) Obvious That bastion of crazy leftists that is the Christian Science Monitor ponders whether it would be good for McCain to put Barbie McMoosekiller out to pasture (90)
(Michelle Malkin) Scary Michelle Malkin and Creed's Scott Stapp: It's the sort of alliance that could lead to scorched earth, pestilence and quite possibly the end of the universe as we know it (45)
(Family Security Matters) Interesting House bailout guru Barney Frank had a long term relationship with a Fannie Mae exec who promoted high risk loans (66)
(CBC) Dumbass Canadian PM caught plagiarizing a 2003 speech by Australian PM. The references to "fair dinkum" and "INXS frontman Jon Stevens" should've been a dead giveaway (63)
(ABC News) Obvious Only a dozen votes needed to switch to pass the bailout bill. Yet 95 Democrats voted against it, and many weren't being urged otherwise. Nice leadership, Speaker Pelosi (534)
(Some Canadian Smart Guy) Interesting Obama is wrong on energy, crime, national defense, security, healthcare, trade but somehow won the debate? How is that possible? (199)
(AP) Obvious One of the problems with grandstanding during a crisis and promising to fix it, is that if you don't, people tend to blame you for the mess (64)
(Some Guy) Amusing The NRA learns the hard way that union coal miners kind of like Obama (202)
(Washington Post) PSA The Cliff Notes version of the current bailout bill (182)
(Election Geek) Asinine CNN presented a calm informative look at Congress' bailout refute. Just kidding, they melted down even worse than the stock market (75)
(Talking Points Memo) Stupid The glue-huffing schizophrenic meth addict that decides McCain's new campaign strategy every morning has told him to float the idea of suspending his campaign again (213)
(AJC) Dumbass GA residents to Governor Sonny Perdue: "Dude, we don't have any gas. Do something." Perdue: "I'm on vacation in Spain. Everything's fine here. Stop panicking" (232)
(RealClearPolitics) Obvious "If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were free market institutions they could not have gotten away with their risky financial practices because no one would have bought their securities without assuming politicians would bail them out" (187)
(Hartford Courant) Dumbass "This is our Katrina" says netroots hero Ned Lamont of the banking crisis' effect on his hardscrabble poverty-stricken hometown of Greenwich, Connecticut (90)
(Some Guy) Amusing Who won the presidential debate on Friday? Apparently the American people, as fewer people tuned in to see it than last election. At least on Thursday we get to see the headliners debate (109)
(Globe and Mail) Unlikely In run-up to election, out-of-touch conservative candidate claims fundamentals of economy are strong. No, not that one (53)
(AFP) Unlikely Mugabe promises new Zimbabwe government by week end... right after the death of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai due to a freak gasoline fight accident (13)
(National Review) Sad Small business owners have already started laying people off in advance of the Obama Recession (393)
(BBC) Obvious Margaret Thatcher called "the greatest hero ever." And a damn fine piece of ass, too (57)
(Rasmussen Reports) Interesting Latest polls show Obama gaining three to five percentage points in five key battleground states. Bonus: It's a Fox News sponsored poll (94)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Interesting How important was the bailout to Obama? Evidently not even important enough for his campaign co-chair Jesse Jackson Jr. to vote for it (134)
(Slate) Interesting Slate debunks the Wasilla-Palin rape kit story (121)
(CBS News) Dumbass "Senator [Biden], can we get your reaction to the House bill not passing?" "Oh, things are going well." Email from press secretary minutes later: "He forgot to put his hearing aid in" (70)
(AP) Asinine McCain claims that Palin's comment about attacking Pakistan doesn't count because she only said it to a voter (104)
(National Review) Interesting "A senior Democratic member of the California congressional delegation said her office had received roughly 15,000 telephone calls, letters, and emails in the last week. How many favored the bailout? Ten" (268)

Mon September 29, 2008
(Huffington Post) Scary Sarah Palin unable to name any major SCOTUS case besides Roe V. Wade: "There was no verbal fumbling with this particular question as there was with some others . . . but rather silence" (514)
(Anorak) Ironic Joe Biden has his own "Bridge to Nowhere" (112)
(YouTube) Video McCain's healthcare solution: Wal-Mart. Seriously....no really, SERIOUSLY (163)
(Mediabistro) Asinine Chris Matthews interviews his daughter on-air without disclosing they're related. It's not political news; it's MSNBC (61)
(Huffington Post) Amusing MSNBC's David Shuster rips obviously medicated McCain spokersperson a new one as the McCain camp desperately tries to take responsibility and evade reposnsilbility for the bailout in the same breath (196)
(International Herald Tribune) Obvious How John McCain is going to win (263)
(Think Progress) Dumbass South Carolina mayor: Is Obama the Antichrist? Just wonderin' (121)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Interesting Ebert gives McCain thumbs down, middle finger up regarding his debate performance (119)
(CNN) Dumbass Alcee Hastings (D-umbass) apologizes to any moose, Jews, or blacks he offended while slandering Governor Palin (43)
(Guardian.com) Obvious Obama's reaction to failed bail-out: "Stay calm, we'll keep working and get it done." John McCain's? "It's Obama's fault" (266)
(Fox News) Stupid Pastors in 22 states participate in "Pulpit Freedom Sunday," a protest of the 54-year-old Supreme Court ruling that spelled out the separation of church and state (145)
(Miami Herald) Florida Democratic college campaign to "Barack The Vote" gets a large student turnout... for free pizza. I weep for my generation (75)
(AP) Amusing Sarah Palin: "I've been hearing (Joe Biden's) speeches since I was in the second grade." Judging by her interviews, that must've been last month (115)
(Huffington Post) Dumbass McCain last week: "I have to suspend my campaign to solve the bailout." McCain today: "I'm not sure if I'll even vote on it" (88)
(Breitbart.tv) Asinine Pelosi takes time out from her busy schedule of calling a vote on the bailout bill to remind us that the whole thing is Bush's fault, and Wall Street was nipple-deep in puppies and rainbows when Clinton was in office (518)
(The New York Times) Hero Prediction: "Within a year of the day he leaves office, and no matter who succeeds him, George W. Bush will be a popular public figure, regarded with affection and a little nostalgia even by those who voted against him" (240)
(Huffington Post) Asinine Funny story.. right before the bailout vote, the Fed pumped a bonus $630 into the global financial system. Where is all of this money coming from? (83)
(SMH) Obvious Almost 75 percent of Australians want Barack Obama to win. Almost 95 percent of Americans want Australians to shut up, go back to screwing kangaroos and mind their own business (137)
(NYPost) Misc Andrea Mitchell isn't covering the financial crisis for NBC because Alan Greenspan injects liquidity into her hedge fund (51)
(Slate) Obvious Why Biden's gaffes don't hurt him while Palin's do. "Because he's not a blithering idiot in fark-me boots" somehow absent from the list (194)
(Some Guy) Dumbass RNC: We need a good domain name for our attractive female VP candidate. Hmm... how about VoteForTheMILF.com? (31)
(CNN) Interesting Obama: McCain is out of touch with the middle class. McCain: "I've got bigger things to worry about than that." (101)
(Time) Hero Fox News lays the smack down on the Obama campaign and their "facts" (video) (102)
(CNN) Strange Bill Clinton: "McCain is a great man." Brokaw: "Is Obama a 'great man'?" Clinton: "You know what's great? Pie. Am I right?" (131)
(YouTube) Fail McCain camp: Don't ask Palin too many foreign-policy questions during the foreign policy VP debate (253)
(NYPost) Obvious Obama's ties to William Ayers closer than originally thought. Pundits unsure how this went unrepo -- BREAKING NEWS: Did Sarah Palin kiss her third-grade crush behind the bleachers? (376)
(MSNBC) Asinine Ignoring trivialities such as that congressional Democrats blocked reform and oversight of Fannie and Freddie, Howard Fineman declares that the bailout signals the end of "cowboy capitalism" and "ushers in the era of Obama" (132)
(The Raw Story) Amusing Conservative columnist David Brooks says Sarah Palin could "rise to the level of mediocrity" in the upcoming VP debate. Now there's a rousing endorsement from the right (182)
(Hot Air) Ironic Democrats 2008: We need to find out who ignored the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae debacles. Democrats 2004: Freddie and Fannie aren't broke and we don't need to do anything to fix them. D'oh (292)
(Bloomberg) Obvious Canada to USA: Your made bed, let me show you it (209)
(Some Guy) Scary George Bush: "But this economy can't sink." Ron Paul: "She's made of paper, sir. I assure you, she can. And she will" (186)
(Dallas News) Interesting 7-11 coffee cup promotion correctly predicted 2000 and '04 election results. Will they be right again in '08? (54)
(Guardian.com) Interesting The violent neo-fascist right emerged from a general election as a contender to be the strongest political force in Austria yesterday, which isn't that surprising given their convict ancestry (208)
(YouTube) Amusing Not news: Barack Obama won the debate. News: Dick Morris says so. Fark: Sean Hannity flips right the fark out over that fact (251)
(Yahoo) Asinine Hugo Chavez believes the cure for the USA's financial crisis is a new constitution. But what does he know about nationalizing financial industries and seizing private companies? (46)
(TBO) Amusing VP candidate Sarah Palin has received many gifts from admirers... from flowers to facials (128)
(LA Times) Obvious "McCain ends a confusing and dramatic side trip to Washington that left supporters angry and critics wondering" (131)
(Deal Breaker) PSA Learn about the Treasury's $700-billion blank check from a leaked conference call, because investors get superior service from their government (216)

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