SARAH PALIN: STUNT CASTING w/poll

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Friday August 29, 2008 · 2:05 PM PDT

2008/08/29 · 14:05

For one season I worked as a staff writer on a "cult" cable situation comedy ("cult" here is code for "briefly aired"), but before that I was a student of the sit com.

And I'm still a fan of the well-written sit com, although such seems to be at it's zenith no longer.

So I'm well-aware of one of the signs that a sit com has "jumped the shark" (gone into decline): stunt casting.

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Signs the apocalypse is nigh

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Signs the apocalypse is nigh

Pat Buchanan effusively praising Barack's convention speech

60 votes

Sarah Palin: Stunt Casting

43 votes

Hurricane threatens Republican Convention, despite fundie prayers

20 votes

AP is the Anti-Christ

9 votes

All of the above, rain of frogs on Doppler

163 votes

THANKS FOR TALKING NOW: KEITH, Tom, Rachel AND PAT fricking BUCHANAN!

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Thursday August 28, 2008 · 6:44 PM PDT

2008/08/28 · 18:44

GOOD NIGHT, ALL. IT WAS A GREAT SPEECH, gas bags notwithstanding.

And here's another sign of the apocalypse: a poll on AOL (which is usually wingnut overweighted) rates Obama's speech as 69% EXCELLENT (actually the reverse statistics for any other poll with a democrat.)

Time for my other boyfriend on "Burn Notice." Nighty nite.

AND HEEEEERE'S RACHEL!
"It feels seismic. McCain's been taking notches out of him, but Obama's political stock has shot back up tonight."

I never thought I'd want Pat Buchanan back.

UPDATE: Okay, the speech is over, they're no longer trampling over decent speakers to regurgitate Rethug talking points.

Shit, Keith is now reading an AP story which -- SURPRISE - slags and trivializes Obama's speech. But Keith says, "It bears no resemblence to the speech we heard ... a remarkable failure of news reporting. Charles Babington (AP "reporter"), find new work."

THANKS FOR GETTING BACK TO FORM KEITH (AND EVEN TWEETY).

WOWEE ZOWEE: PAT BUCHANAN: "This is the finest convention speech, I've ever heard!" "It wasn't a liberal speech, it was a unifying speech."

Expect a rain of lizards tomorrow, the earth is spinning counter-clockwise!

judybrowni

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Sunday August 24, 2008 · 8:15 PM PDT

2008/08/24 · 20:15

For the last couple Olympics, I've written How Gay? diaries for the opening and closing ceremonies.

The rules for commenting in this diary are: Gay is good, campy is swell, anything that makes you laugh out loud, gasp at it's beauty, snark at the costumes, sentimentally make ya tear up, etc.

(Note: I have a gay brother and sister, so again GAY IS GOOD.)

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Olympics: which was gayest?

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Olympics: which was gayest?

Oh honey, that Opening Ceremony!

17 votes

Gymnastics, men. (Yum!)

19 votes

Gymnastics, women, and the too, too young little girls.

6 votes

Gymnastics, rhythmic: Ribbons and hoops, oh my!

6 votes

Are you kidding me? Synchronized swimming, of course!

21 votes

Out Australian gold medalist diver Matthew Mitcham -- although you didn't catch NBC saying so.

56 votes

The 10 out lesbian Olympic athletes (including bi-sexual second baseman Vicky Golinda)

12 votes

The Closing Ceremony.

12 votes

Other.

4 votes

OPENING CEREMONY OF OLYMPICS: HOW GAY?

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Friday August 08, 2008 · 9:03 PM PDT

2008/08/08 · 21:03

For the last couple Olympics, I've written How Gay? diaries for the opening and closing ceremonies.

Wasn't going to this time around: jailed dissidents and what no shamed me out of a light-hearted How Gay?, but geez louise did you see the guys in the light bulb suits?

And the Elvis pianist?

judybrowni

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Saturday August 02, 2008 · 11:04 AM PDT

2008/08/02 · 11:04

Surprise, surprise: the Wall Street Journal article which posed the deathless question "Is Obama Fat Enough to Be President?" by "reporter" Amy Chozick was in equal parts cribbed directly from a McCain press release and a thread she started on a Yahoo Message thread.

Does anyone out there think Barack Obama is too thin to be president? Anyone having a hard time relating to him and his "no excess body fat"? Please let me know. Thanks!

http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/...

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Journalism School? We don't need no stinkin' Journalism School!

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Journalism School? We don't need no stinkin' Journalism School!

I prefer my reporters truth-free, full of specious suppositions, and other shiny distractions.

11 votes

I'm ashamed to admit that I'm attracted to facts and other dull things.

42 votes

Brittany!

14 votes

FOX NEWS PROPAGANDA: "Give the Jew a bigger nose" with POLL!

judybrowni

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Wednesday July 02, 2008 · 4:30 PM PDT

2008/07/02 · 16:30

Yes, I'm aware that it's supposed to be a blog no-no to make comparions between right-wing excesses and Nazi Germany, but as a media member and media junkie, with a side interest in the history of the holocaust, it seems a sin of ommission not to point out the paralells when Fox news pulls a propaganda whopper worthy of Goebbels, and as obvious as the nose on my face.

The backstory: Fox News channel, while still pulling in an overall audience just under that of CNN and MSNBC combined, had experienced a slower growth rate in viewership in the second quarter of 2008 (10%), than both MSNBC and CNN's galloping growth rate of more than 50% each in viewers.

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Cartoonish Stereotypes as Propaganda

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Cartoonish Stereotypes as Propaganda

Silly - like the Obama Sock Monkey, dontcha get the joke? Har, har, har.

5 votes

Ominous - Dehumanization that can lead to discrimination and attacks.

97 votes

Big-nosed Jew comic books? Need to add 'em to my collection!

7 votes

Superman was Jewish!

27 votes

FREEP THIS POLL back into reality -- vote Obama!

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Tuesday July 01, 2008 · 10:07 AM PDT

2008/07/01 · 10:07

Although nearly all legitimate polls show Barack ahead of McCain (some by double digits) this (unscientific) bizarro-world AOL straw poll, has McCain over Obama by 62% to 38%!

http://news.aol.com/...

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Is it a waste of time to freep unscientific polls?

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Is it a waste of time to freep unscientific polls?

Yes -- let the bozos have this one, small, idiotic victory, before the November massacre for Obama

24 votes

No -- why should we stand by for Biizarro world predictions (enough of that shit on Fox)

40 votes

Maybe -- I can't be bothered to click thru for reality checks.

6 votes

BANISH WAR with music and comedy in Los Angeles

judybrowni

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Saturday June 14, 2008 · 6:32 PM PDT

2008/06/14 · 18:32

Touching, funny, progressive, arousing -- all apply to next Friday's show.

Banish War:
Music and Comedy for Peace
with Tom "Atom" English

Progressive songwriter and comedian Tom "Atom" English will premiere his one-man show, Banish War: Music and Comedy for Peace at the Church in Ocean Park, 235 Hill St., Santa Monica; Fri., June 20 at 7:30 p.m.

Songs from Atom’s new CD Banish War are intertwined with the story of his path to Conscientious Objector status during the Vietnam war, act as commentary on the futility of conflict ("When You Kill the Hater, You Multiply the Hate") and offer up examples of the politics that can lead to warfare ("Democrats are Stupid When They Don’t Vote, Republicans are Stupid When They Do.")

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Friday December 07, 2007 · 3:00 PM PST

2007/12/07 · 15:00

And a documentarian shall lead us . . .

If we must depend on Michael Moore to set our health care agenda, and spearhead policy on withdrawal from Iraq, then it would be no small surprise that another provocative documentarian, Morgan Spurlock, could find Bin Laden before the Bush administration.

That's what is creating the buzz around Spurlock's new film, the amusingly titled "Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?"

'Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?,' is a compilation of more than 800 hours that Spurlock spent in Afghanistan and the Middle East hunting the world's most infamous terrorist. The huge buzz behind the movie is caused by vague hints that Spurlock actually may have found him.

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Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden?

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Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden?

In a cave. A really nice cave, tho. With wi fi.

11 votes

Being taped for Who Wants to Marry an American Citizen?

3 votes

Holding hands in a daisy chain with the Saudis and Bush.

23 votes

Marrying another teenage girl in a burka. (It's a nice cave, honey, honest.)

2 votes

Leaning back and admiring the U.S. quagmire in Iraq.

34 votes

Taking a tea break from plotting our demise (see above.)

3 votes

In the Library with Colonel Mustard.

13 votes

New Nickname: RepubliCANT Party

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Tuesday October 16, 2007 · 4:20 PM PDT

2007/10/16 · 16:20

As has been written about here and elsewhere, sometime back the rightwing came up with the insulting nickname "The Democrat Party."

Possibly because it made them giggle to hit the syllable "rat" when it was spewed on rant radio.

A Kos diarist today tried to return the favor by shortening their official name to the "Republics."

It's a step in the right direction, but I think the word "Republics" lends the party of selfishness too much gravitas.

I prefer "Republicant" as in:

Can't govern

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Tuesday September 04, 2007 · 6:34 PM PDT

2007/09/04 · 18:34

Thank the election fairy, Larry Craig has just un-resigned!

It's as if Craig is feeding his secret desire to suck . . . um, elect Democrats, and scare those ungrateful fundies -- for whom he's carried so much water -- as far away from the polls as possible.

http://www.americablog.com/...

At this moment, there are Republican politicians across country doing spit takes over their dinner news from Fox. (I only hope their families know the Heimlich maneuver.)

judybrowni

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Tuesday July 17, 2007 · 11:01 AM PDT

2007/07/17 · 11:01

The MSM got a hard-on when they discovered that John Edwards had spent $400 on a haircut, and those pro reporters couldn't wait to share that gossipy tidbit with the world.

So, of course, all the major news sources are also breathlessly pounding out the story of Republican Mitt Romney's $300 investment in a makeover that includes foundation makeup and powder -- right?

Stacy Andrews, who made up Romney for Hidden Beauty, said he barely needs makeup.

"He's already tan," she said. "We basically put a drop of foundation on him ... and we powdered him a little bit."

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