[Via Crooks & Liars where you can watch the video.]
I for one appreciate the McCain campaign treating us like children. McCain will bring us back to a simpler time. A time when you could identify your neighbors’ jobs by the hats they wore. Like Sam the Fireman, Bill the Cowboy and Jose the stereotype. These are the people in your neighborhood. The people that you meet when you’re walking down the street. They’re the people that you meet each day. And what the people in your neighborhood, the Joe the Plumber, the Wendy the Waitress need are tax cuts for the wealthy and off shore drilling. They don’t need universal health care or last names.
Why go there when you can watch it at the source?
http://www.thedailyshow.com/
http://www.colbertnation.com/
You may also want to check out Colbert on the “Who’s Nailin Palin” p*rn movie.
Yep John McCain is taking away surnames. God spare us, what drivel. This is the classic socialit mentality. We want to deny you the chance to get ahead and we’ll tell you what you need because we know better. You’ve rushed to prove McCain correct – nice work.
kingsley, my darlin’, have you not yet realised that Colbert is an entertainer?
Sure, satire with public figures of the quality of McCain/Palin is like a Dick Cheney quail shoot (only without the blood streaked face of “an old friend”). Still, the important part of his satirical exercise is not the “no surnames” it’s “no universal healthcare”.
Did you really think you could redirect the spin that easily?
tigtog, fuggedaboudit.
Kingsley’s sense of humour was surgically removed during the same procedure as when they uploaded the Republican talking points into his frontal lobes.
Mercurius, surely Kingsley’s post at #3 was a sharply ironic witticism?
Colbert’s right on the money with that delicious put down.
On the other hand, Mercurius, could you and some others around here stop with the “(insert loathed opposition party) talking points” jibe? Those who disagree with you usually give you the credit for having thoughts of your own – how about giving us that credit on occasion as well?
Anyone who says that Obama is a socialist/communist/terrorist/muslim/un-american/friend of ayres/baby-murderer/supporter of acorn vote fraud/inexperienced/too liberal/tool of satan/antichrist/nazi/fascist/traitor will be mocked mercilessly for unthinking use of talking points or just plain slander.
Sorry OT, but Jacques – what’s going with Club Troppo, haven’t been able to access it most of the weekend and still can’t?
Well, criticise them for slander then. How can we tell if they are not thinking? Does everytime two people agree on something include one of them slavishly agreeing with the other without thought?
Criticise the argument. We do think, just differently.
And Kingsley obviously didn’t get the joke, and Colbert isn’t a socialist, he’s a comedian. As someone who has been criticised for not having a sense of humour when I didn’t find something funny, I probably know what he feels like. He went off the reservation a bit, but we all do sometimes.
Jesus didn’t have a surname.
He doesn’t see what’s so funny about identifying people by their Christian names. After all, Jesus invented Christian names.
John and Sarah are simply doing what Jesus would have done.
Socialists hate Jesus, don’t they?
(Except for George W, that is.)
*/end automated Republican Talking Points Generator.
Socialists hate Jesus, don’t they?
(Except for George W, that is.)Because he was frist?
The problem is HowardC, is that those “slanders” **are** the actual Republican “talking points”, as robo-called to heaps of American households and blathered to the angry mob baying for obama’s blood, that masquerades for Palin’s audiences at RNC-sponsored rallies.
Yes, precisely.
Like all the commenters who’d thought up all by themselves the “Gwen Ifill has a conflict of interest!” scare before the Palin/Biden debate. If it had been a genuine expression of opinion, one might have expected to see some reflection afterwards. But, no, we just get the caravan moving on to whatever the new GOP talking point du jour is…
yep, and the finance crisis has brought forward the use-by date on pomo Conservative identity politics of the last decade.
Its truly the recession we had to have.
Shall we bring up the G.O.P.’s behaviour over the “face-carving” incident? A fraud perpetrated by a Pennslyvania Republican campaign worker, Ashley Todd. Before it was exposed by the Pittsburgh police as a fraud, McCain’s national campaign was already handing out the talking point – white women sexually assaulted and mutilated by black Obama-supporting man – that’s a play on an age-old racist fear right there. Then when the “victim” finally got perp-walked by the cops, McCain’s campaign tried to blame the media (multiple media outputs reporting the same quote from the Mccain campaign, so, no), then the cops for the quotes – the cops were saying all along that they were unsure about the allegation (up to the point they arrested the fraudster).
It’s despicable. Completely despicable. Drudge and Fox news totally exposed as the echo machine for the Republican Party’s Heart Of Darkness.
See Talking Points Memo for details –
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/239888.php
Olbermann on ‘Countdown’ was on the money over this … “what, don’t they think Obama has an alibi?” … video in link above.
I like how she carved the B in reverse – having done it the mirror.
They arent getting any smarter
Well, I never made the Ifill point because I barely knew who she was. No one makes that point about white politicans and white moderators, so I stayed away because I didn’t believe it. No one convinced me.
All I was saying is that when many commenters on this blog say the same thing about climate change, we don’t accuse them of reading from the Greens’ Talking points. Sure, some of the more hot headed and less well-thought-out may call them socialists. But calling someone a socialist and calling them an idiot who can’t think for themselves are two different things. As a member of the political centre, I think I’d rather be called a socialist.
“But calling someone a socialist and calling them an idiot who can’t think for themselves are two different things”
Not when many of those using the word socialist believe that it is is synonymous with ‘idiots who can’t think for themselves’. Which I’d say, given it’s frequency of use, is about 99.9% of them.
You’re not the first, so I’m trying to work it out.
I generally believe idiots don’t post comments on blogs like this one.
I just get annoyed when told I am reciting someone else’s ideas without any thought process of my own, like I’m here doing someone’s job to give you guys guff.