Post by shmeep on Sept 6, 2008 16:46:08 GMT -5
Thanks, Hoosier. I'm glad he's finally starting to make some--er--comparisons. Long overdue. She's made it quite plain she can take an attack. Remember...she's a pit bull with lipstick (or whatever that really dumb joke said she was).
And speaking of comparisons...Here's something amusing from The Huffington Post.
You can click on the link for the entire thing, but I'll copy the gist of it here:
I almost died when I saw John McCain accepting his nomination against a lime green screen. Last time he spoke with that color as his background, everyone wondered what he was thinking because it made him look older and sicklier and just plain awful. Stephen Colbert decided McCain had done it as a way to get people to insert their own backgrounds so he launched the "Make McCain Interesting" Green Screen Challenge. It was hilarious. So...he went and did it again? As his running mate would say, "Yup. Yup." So Colbert has once again issued the same challenge to his audience.
But really, that screen was not just green. From a wide shot, you could see it was really the lawn in front of a large and attractive building. Just one of his houses, people assumed. Turns out it was a picture of Walter Reed...Middle School in North Hollywood, California. McCain's staff doesn't know how to use the google very well while surfing The Internets. I'm quite certain that wasn't the Walter Reed they had in mind but strangely, no one caught the mistake before using that image--without permission--during his most important speech of this election. Even I knew that wasn't Walter Reed. I've interpreted there before. How could all the Washington insiders not have known? Are they really that inept? Um...
There's much more of substance I could say about that convention, but it makes me tired. And kind of happy. And dazed. And more than a little sick. The mean-spiritedness and the smugness and the incessant chanting and the self righteousness was enough to last me at least another four years.
Modified to add:
Here's one of the last Make McCain Interesting Green Screen Challenge entries:
And speaking of comparisons...Here's something amusing from The Huffington Post.
You can click on the link for the entire thing, but I'll copy the gist of it here:
If you get 18 million people to vote for you in a national presidential primary, you're a "phoney." Get 100,000+ people to vote you governor of the 47th most populous state in the Union, you're "well loved."
SoyAA says: If you are biracial and born in a state not connected to the lower 48, America needs darn near 2 years and 3 major speeches to "get to know you." If you're white and from a state not connected to the lower 48, America needs 36 minutes and 38 seconds worth of an acceptance speech to know you're "one of us."
If you give your wife a dap on stage, it's actually a "terrorist fist jab." If your daughter licks her palm so that she can slick down your youngest child's hair on national TV it's an "adorable moment." (Seriously, forget about abstinence only, teach these folks some grooming skills).
DTD SAYS: If your pastor rails against inequality in the United States of America, you're an "extremist." If your pastor welcomes a sermon by a member of Jews for Jesus who preaches that the killing of Jews by terrorists is a lesson to Jews that they must convert to Christianity, you're a "fundamentalist."
If you're a black man and you use a scholarship to get into college, then work your way up to being the president of the Harvard Law Review, you're "uppity." If you're a conservative and your parents pay your way to Hawaii Pacific University . . . you only have four more schools to attend over the next five years before you somehow manage to graduate (it might be five more schools over the next five years. No one has yet verified whether or not Palin was actually ever registered at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. But, you know how shady people are who ever attended any kind of school in Hawaii).
SeanOcali says: If you're 18, white, and get a 16 year old girl pregnant "life happens." If you're 18, black, and impregnate a 16 year old girl, you're a "registered sex offender."
If you spend 18 months building a campaign around the theme of "Change," it's just "empty rhetoric." If one week before your party's national convention you SUDDENLY make your candidacy about "Change," that's "red meat."
And your last lesson for the day:
If you are a Democrat, an Independent, or even a moderate Republican, if you're female, male, white, black, Asian, Hispanic, bi-racial, multi-ethnic, or GLBT, if you're a Jew, Gentile, Muslim, agnostic or atheist -- "Yes, we can!"
If you're a pitbull with lipstick from Alaska, "Yup, yup!"
SoyAA says: If you are biracial and born in a state not connected to the lower 48, America needs darn near 2 years and 3 major speeches to "get to know you." If you're white and from a state not connected to the lower 48, America needs 36 minutes and 38 seconds worth of an acceptance speech to know you're "one of us."
If you give your wife a dap on stage, it's actually a "terrorist fist jab." If your daughter licks her palm so that she can slick down your youngest child's hair on national TV it's an "adorable moment." (Seriously, forget about abstinence only, teach these folks some grooming skills).
DTD SAYS: If your pastor rails against inequality in the United States of America, you're an "extremist." If your pastor welcomes a sermon by a member of Jews for Jesus who preaches that the killing of Jews by terrorists is a lesson to Jews that they must convert to Christianity, you're a "fundamentalist."
If you're a black man and you use a scholarship to get into college, then work your way up to being the president of the Harvard Law Review, you're "uppity." If you're a conservative and your parents pay your way to Hawaii Pacific University . . . you only have four more schools to attend over the next five years before you somehow manage to graduate (it might be five more schools over the next five years. No one has yet verified whether or not Palin was actually ever registered at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. But, you know how shady people are who ever attended any kind of school in Hawaii).
SeanOcali says: If you're 18, white, and get a 16 year old girl pregnant "life happens." If you're 18, black, and impregnate a 16 year old girl, you're a "registered sex offender."
If you spend 18 months building a campaign around the theme of "Change," it's just "empty rhetoric." If one week before your party's national convention you SUDDENLY make your candidacy about "Change," that's "red meat."
And your last lesson for the day:
If you are a Democrat, an Independent, or even a moderate Republican, if you're female, male, white, black, Asian, Hispanic, bi-racial, multi-ethnic, or GLBT, if you're a Jew, Gentile, Muslim, agnostic or atheist -- "Yes, we can!"
If you're a pitbull with lipstick from Alaska, "Yup, yup!"
I almost died when I saw John McCain accepting his nomination against a lime green screen. Last time he spoke with that color as his background, everyone wondered what he was thinking because it made him look older and sicklier and just plain awful. Stephen Colbert decided McCain had done it as a way to get people to insert their own backgrounds so he launched the "Make McCain Interesting" Green Screen Challenge. It was hilarious. So...he went and did it again? As his running mate would say, "Yup. Yup." So Colbert has once again issued the same challenge to his audience.
But really, that screen was not just green. From a wide shot, you could see it was really the lawn in front of a large and attractive building. Just one of his houses, people assumed. Turns out it was a picture of Walter Reed...Middle School in North Hollywood, California. McCain's staff doesn't know how to use the google very well while surfing The Internets. I'm quite certain that wasn't the Walter Reed they had in mind but strangely, no one caught the mistake before using that image--without permission--during his most important speech of this election. Even I knew that wasn't Walter Reed. I've interpreted there before. How could all the Washington insiders not have known? Are they really that inept? Um...
There's much more of substance I could say about that convention, but it makes me tired. And kind of happy. And dazed. And more than a little sick. The mean-spiritedness and the smugness and the incessant chanting and the self righteousness was enough to last me at least another four years.
Modified to add:
Here's one of the last Make McCain Interesting Green Screen Challenge entries:
