Esby here, and I'm finally getting around to telling you about the *AWESOME* motorcycle rally I went to on Sunday. Some of you may remember when I briefly worked for the Sarah campaign (here and here). Like many former workers, I am not resentful at all and of course when I heard she was going to be in DC, I sold some blood and hitchhiked up.
Sarah did not disappoint. I just think it's great that she can be such a defender of marriage between a man and a woman and then celebrate her heterosexual femininity by dressing up in leather, sitting crotch to butt behind a butch girl biker on a motorcycle, her hand gently caressing the waist of...
Oh, I'm sorry, I was just inspired! Speaking of inspired, I saw she wrote this on her hand: Remember the Soldiers!
Indeed!
In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn’t. And right now, it doesn’t.
—Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R, NY).
We can take any remedial measures that will slow, stop, or reverse this process. The consensus position, however, is clear—AGW will probably have a significant negative impact on human civilization and the natural world, and there are practical steps that could be taken now to avoid this fate.
—Michael Stafford, a convert on climate change.
They'll be down there protesting. Those gays.
—Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, who Rolling Stone reported this week had bombproof glass installed in his office to thwart the gay terrorists.
It’s not like he’s at a G8 Summit. This is not a diplomatic trip of any sort.
—Michael "heckuva job, Brownie" Brown.
Obama was at the G8 summit.
No one is fooled, really. But the conventions and protocols of "reporting" requires pretending otherwise.
—Talking Points Memo's David Kurtz, on Sarah Palin riding around in a bus saying she is on vacation with her family.
The threshold question, it's not usually asked, but it’s in everyone’s mind in a presidential election. ‘Should we give this person nuclear weapons?’ And the answer answers itself.
—George Will on Sarah Palin.
And you have a lot in common with our forefathers. They fought against tyranny, constructed an ingenious system of government, and built the framework that for two and a half centuries has sustained our great nation. In that same tradition, you Tweet a lot. You’re kind of like our generation’s Thomas Jefferson, without all the hoity-toity elitism and dignity and stuff.
—The Daily Caller's Matt Labash, to Sarah Palin.
Someone made a two-hour documentary about Sarah Palin's political life. In case you're interested in watching a movie that's longer than Palin's actual political life.
—Jimmy Fallon.
Palin does not make a distinction between a political press corps that thinks she’s not ready and a tribal belief among some Democrats that she is not smart. She does not distinguish TMZ from PBS.
—Mark Ambinder.
So all these actions fanning "speculation" that she might be preparing to stride into the race can also be viewed as actions necessary to maintain her possible-candidate status—which is worth preserving, even if Palin already knows she's not going to make good on the tease. Which means the Palin guessing game is still just that: a guessing game.
—Mother Jones' David Corn.
Any doofus can go to Washington and maintain the status quo and that’s what we’ve got in the White House and in Congress in terms of their attitude about their willingness to tackle these issues.
—Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R, MN).
Any doofus can go to Washington. Or run for President.
I have strongly begun to suspect that Trump had other motives than seeking the truth about Obama. I think he was pumping Corsi for information for some other purpose than being on the right side of history.
—World Net Daily's Joseph Farah, who thinks that Trump may have been in cahoots with the White House.
Conspiracy theorists. ♫ Love them ♫
Tivo shot. FB hacked. Is my blender gonna attack me next? #TheToasterIsVeryLoyal.
—Rep. Andrew Weiner (D, NY), currently going through the mildest sex scandal ever.
Herman Cain, the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza, announced that he's running for president. And this is cool — if his campaign isn't over in 30 minutes or less, you get your pizza for free.
—Jimmy Fallon.
The preacher who predicted the apocalypse last weekend now predicts that the world will end in October. It's the first time that someone's end-of-the-world prediction was followed by "Have a great summer".
—Conan O'Brien