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When Candidates Don’t Get Video and Audio Tape


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Barack Obama for CNN“BARACK OBAMA REPORTING FROM CAPITOL HILL” – Every politician will run afoul of evil video or audio tape. The good ones will get the hang of it and mostly stay off the Daily Show, the bad ones will get virtually bludgeoned on the evening news.

Six years after noted grifter and late Alaska Senator Ted Stevens showed his impeccable technology credentials by likening the Internet to a “series of tubes”, our erstwhile Presidential nominees struggle with the most basic pre-21st Century gadgets. Gadgets like cameras and audio tape. This is a disturbing trend for a gaggle of walking egos intent on becoming the most audio and video-taped person on the planet.

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You Know You Might Be a Moderate If…


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Moderate Voter

THE AMERICAN POLITICAL PROCESS - What the hell, it's as good a reason as any. It's not like it means anything.

This is the last installment in our You Know You Might Be a (Fill in the Blank) If series. If you missed Parts 1 and 2, don’t forget to read:

You know you might be a moderate if you:

  • Are part of the undecided vote in every poll.
  • Wish you could vote by remote control so you wouldn’t have to miss a minute of Real Housewives of Cincinnati.
  • Only vote every third election, regardless of what kind of election it is or what kinds of initiatives are on the ballot.
  • Know so little about candidates that you vote for whoever appears at the top of the ballot.
  • Still vote for Pat Paulson just to piss off the real politicians.
  • You think the three branches of government are dumb, dumber, and dumbest.
  • You think Supreme Court decisions are based on rationality or fairness rather than the Constitution.
  • You think Congress sucks, but every time you see something screwed up you say, “There oughta be a law…”
  • You think that voters can vote on the constitutionality of laws.
  • Vote the way the last campaign worker outside the polls told you to.
  • Will only cast your vote if it doesn’t “cancel out” your spouse’s.
  • Find punch card ballots advanced technology.
  • Think all out war is justifiable until you find out how many people get killed and how much it costs.
  • You watch Katie Couric, Brian Williams, or Jay Leno for all your news.
  • Don’t watch the Daily Show because you don’t get the jokes.
  • Don’t realize the Daily Show is a comedy show.
  • Can’t drive a stick shift.
  • Love the in-depth articles in USA Today.
  • Are for something before you are against something, right after you were for it and against it simultaneously.
  • Are annoyed that ballots aren’t in multiple choice format.
  • Don’t know who Sarah Palin is.
  • When you find out who she is, you think you could vote for her because she has an honest face.
  • Think taxes are too high while voting for high-ticket ballot initiatives.
  • Don’t understand why they haven’t been able to find that Osama Bin Laden fella after all these years.
  • Don’t recognize the names Mitch McConnell, Harry Reid, or Nancy Pelosi, but can name all the judges and contestants to ever appear on So You Think You Can Dance.
  • Were going to vote, but hadn’t heard about it being election day.
  • Complain vociferously about policies and elected officials while ignoring the fact you didn’t vote.
  • Believe in term limits so you won’t have to vote as often.
  • Hate it when a Presidential address comes on and “ruins my shows”.
  • You carry more than $25,000 on your credit card and don’t understand how long it will take to pay it off in minimum payments.
  • You think the answer to paying off the debt on one credit card can be reduced by transferring it all to a new credit card with a 0.1% lower APR.
  • Can’t balance a checkbook (although this could also be equally true for liberals and conservatives).
  • Think war is imminent when a story appears saying the Pentagon has a war plan for invading North Korea without realizing they have constantly updated plans for every country on Earth…including Canada.
  • Think the mainstream media is too liberal.
  • Think the mainstream media is too conservative.
  • Think the mainstream media is both too conservative and too liberal at the same time.
  • Don’t know what the terms liberal and conservative mean.
  • Never read newspapers, magazines, or watch the news.
  • Complain Congress is made up of fat cats while voting for CEOs whose previous experience was turning their former companies into smoking holes in the ground while collecting a severance package greater than the GDP of Guatemala.
  • Complain about unions while taking time off from your 40-hour a week job to get company-supplied medical treatment for the black lung and crushed leg you got in a non-union coal mine.
  • Complain about executive compensation, but follow the company’s voting recommendation when the proxy statement for your 3 shares of AT&T shows up.
  • Thought Ted Stevens gave an enlightening explanation of the tubes and trucks that make up the Internet.
  • Spend a lot of time playing war-based video games while being undecided about Iraq and Afghanistan.
  • Couldn’t form an opinion if your life depended on it.
  • Don’t remember to mail in your absentee ballot until 3 months after the election after finding it in the junk drawer in your kitchen.
  • Appreciate the points from both right and left, but can’t vote because the positions seem so similar.
  • Think all Congressional votes are based on a simple majority.

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Conservative Ricochet Rabbits Start New Website


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Funniest Man on the Planet

ARE WE HAVING FUN YET? - Conservative funny man Michael Steele's turn as a conservative blogger from the hood didn't fare well, but perhaps the new conservative website will allow him to make a comeback.

Conservatives are trying to have fun again, and that’s never a good thing. Michael Steele blogging about the mean streets of the Georgetown hood fell flat, although that walking, talking avatar was sort of neat in a paleo-Flash kind of way. Fox News’ uber-fun 1/2 Hour News Hour disappeared so fast it made Ann Coulter’s Adam’s apple spin. The “humor” being confined to a Nostrasdumbassian reference to Sarah Palin’s Half Governor, Whole Governor, All Grizzly Momma Show.

Now, from that dark, distinctly unfunny corner of the web comes a Facebook for the conservative set – Ricochet. I’ll resist a Big Dick Cheney™ reference here – oops, too late.

Ricochet ought to be right up the old conservative poop chute. It’s being compared to a conservative cocktail party that looks nothing like anything else on the net, unless you consider looking exactly like everything else on the net as different.

Twitter-Size Hole in the Information Cobblestone Highway
“It will not be a news aggregator, or a megachat like Daily Kos,” said James Poulous, Richochet’s Managing Commandant of Fun. “but instead will be a feed like Facebook or Twitter or Tumbler.”

Yes, there IS a Twitter-size hole in the information cobblestone highway begging to be filled by non-union labor. Yet another group of fear-crazed, grammar-challenged, protest sign typoists is just what the country needs right now.

The site’s producers apparently don’t think Fox news and every AM radio station on the planet provides enough chances for conservative fun. “There is plenty of space in the online world for a center-right website with a sense of fun, of talking back and forth among conservatives.”

And indeed there would be if they simply talked instead of yelled batshit crazily like LimbaHaniBeck. Although, I don’t think they could go wrong with a regular Orly Taitz bit. She’s he-frickin-larious!

‘Baggers’ DOES NOT Have a Sexual Connotation
I know the baggers  – don’t get all huffy, we all know it’s not sexual, the term was coined in relationship to grocery baggers – birthers, and conspiracy plot makers just wanna be like Cindy Lauper and have fun – good, clean, heterosexual fun.

But dudes, go with your strengths. When your idea of fun is incessantly saying “no” like Rainman as a toddler, your material is a little limited. It’s hard to base a website on an unending string of conservatives giving abstinence lectures supported by their mistresses and calling Obama a Kenyan Kommunist. You know, like Michelle Malkin covers the entire spectrum of thought from grapes to raisins.

But on the up side, you already have the technology end of things covered. I hear Ted Stevens is available and has a solid grasp of .php and xhtml.

But be forewarned, I hear he doesn’t work well with others.

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