Bachmann-Perry Romney drive
No link credit as all the major dailies said the same thing
Politico’s Roger Simon thinks Ron Paul got shafted by the media’s bizarro coverage of the Iowa Straw Poll. To be sure, I found the media anointing of the first, sixth and seventh place finishers as the big three to be arrogant, but not out of line.
The Iowa Straw Poll is a pissing match between whores. Even the winner was reported to have only gotten five votes for every six tickets she purchased, so yeah, lots of lies all around. [Would you count on this guy's vote?]
How did Candidate Bachmann capitalize on her big win? Apparently by cowering in her trailer in Waterloo, waiting for Rick Perry to leave the room and for the lighting to be adjusted (I’m guessing there weren’t enough incandescent bulbs….) [more from Driftglass]
The only good thing to come out of the straw poll was Gov. Bridgefail’s departure, but City Pages gets that one right by calling his early quit one of his 10 biggest failures. The actual Iowa Caucuses won’t be held for another five months. Pawlenty’s getting out because absolutely no one cares about him because his accomplishments were all as fake as his tough guy talk. Bill Scher called him a milquetoast mimic of wingnut soundbites. Seriously, given boxing gloves and stuck in a ring with Michele and Marcus Bachmann, does anyone think that the ensuring fight would be anything but comedy gold? [hat tip to Tild for having seen BridgeFAIL coming years ago]
Given this godawful batch of losers, it’s hard to pick the nominee, but I hope Ian Welsh is wrong about it being Rick Perry.
Krugman on the Texas Unmiracle
Cons already whining about media quoting Perry accurately
Perry pushes for caveat emptor anarchy (no, people don’t deliberately put e.coli in your food, but without regulations there’s nothing to thwart amoral MBAs from cutting corners to the point where they might as well be shitting on your chicken tenders)
Gay Perry? (emphasis on the second syllable)
The worst part of all of this? If you take the media three as the most likely nominees, what does it say about the Republican party that two of those three candidates (and Sarah Palin in the wings) are Dominionists?
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Some excellent screeds were posted today. I recommend The Immoral Minority on Obama, Norwegian Shooter on Obama, Jonathan on the continuing collapse of everything, and this seven-minute video on banksters.
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More politics:
Funniest two-minute clip about Sarah Palin ever (and yes, Hannity looks like a total fool because Frank Luntz just gave away Fox’s entire dirty little schtick) [more Hannity fail]
Roy Edroso rounds up the Redcoat-coddling right’s reaction to London burning [Sam Pizzigati on the "feral underclass" as in, we did'na wanna shoot them, but they gae us no other choice, the bloody rotten fookin' shoplifters!]
Wisconsin finally finds a Prossercuter
Tomorrow’s round of recall elections in WI looks like a slam dunk for both Dems (the Nazi quote leaking out didn’t hurt)
Sarah Palin quotes Mark Twain (no, she shouldnta oughta not done that) [more]
More heroes who’ve proved to be zeroes
WBBM-TV in Chicago brutally edits a four-year-old’s words to make a future cop sound like a gangbanger (never let the real story interfere with the story you want to tell)
Floridians showing surprising interest in AG’s corruption
New Tom Tomorrow and no, I don’t think Tea Party Tim is supposed to be Gov. Bridgefail
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Money, and why they have it and we don’t:
Warren Buffet on how his friends rape our economy [emptywheel]
Profiting from politically induced human misery
NYTimes nails Darrell Issa [Dayen's take] [TPM Muckraker]
Student loan debt skies 25% in just three years
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Etc.:
Google’s acquisition of Motorola isn’t just a big deal for Google, it may signal the end of cable [please, please, please let cable die (about five minutes after this deal goes through would be perfect timing)]
Someone else saying what I’ve been saying about the USPS caving to Fed Ex/UPS cherrypicking
In the distorted world of comics, men are musclebound and women are sexpots — but I agree with Alyssa Rosenberg that there’s a big difference between sexy and slutty
Yet another link to Britain’s drunkest woman, but not one story will be written about why she drinks (no, I don’t know, but if I did, I’m sure that it would spoil the joke) (all that’s really important is that the super drunks be mocked so that the every day falling down drunks have someone to look down on)
Another moron claiming technology is addictive: no, the shit you do with your technology may be addictive, but technology is no more addictive than a syringe or rolling papers are
Record-setting thin ice in August (no reason the Arctic should be any different than the global economy that’s being torched by the same greedbags)
If you live in Chicago, consider scraping together some coin for Sheila Jordan at the Green Mill, August 19-20 (she was insanely hot in the ’50s, and hasn’t slowed down — legendarily unique vocal stylings)
A 13-minute clip of Dennis Rodman’s emotionally powerful Hall of Fame acceptance speech
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Kudos to Corey and a happy fourth birthday to MinnPost!
Home of the Daily Glean, consistently the best roundup of Minnesota politics anywhere whether written by David Brauer, Max Sparber or Brian Lambert. The inability of the Strib or PiPress to match their collective output is FAIL spelled in all caps.
You never know how crazy someone is till they tell you. I was doing customer service phones this morning and a dude I spoke to expressed delight that Perry is getting into the race. The guy said Obama and the big spenders have to go. The guy was unemployed! Just another bagger eager to go up the 13 steps of the gibbet and pull the lever on himself.
The media has already framed the story, and there’s no getting around it. Their facile heads have decided to allow only three into their little world and they could have picked in any order unhindered by the thought process . One would think that eventually the public will catch onto this sad game, but I’m not holding my breath.
Krugman’s logical explanation of the Texas Economic Miracle myth is pointless since none of the Villagers gives a crap about facts as long as they can control the storyline.
The snubbing of Ron Paul is super-irritating. He does not deserve the easy, sniggering contempt that he gets. For his anti-war position alone, I’d probably vote for him, and let some of his other offensive stances go.