Category: Media

For the record: Strippers don’t really like you either.

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It’s he last line of the Nitpicker’s commentary on the Maeve Reston disgraceful article, which sounded like musings on the end of a marriage about the relationship between the press and John Sidney McCain III.

It was headlined, “McCain was frank, garrulous and accessible — and then he wasn’t,” and I’m not sure who should be fired for it, Ms. Reston, or her editor.

Here is a snippet:

But I had come to respect McCain’s frankness and his willingness to admit he didn’t always have an answer. Watching the question morph into an embarrassing “gotcha moment” for cable television, my stomach churned and my cheeks grew hot.

It reads like a an effort by a 13 year old girl to write in the vein of the really bad romance novels that she reads.

Nitpicker wrote a great essay on this, but the last line should have been the headline, so I’m doing it here. This bit at the end says it all:

It’s high time for reporters to realize candidates aren’t supposed to be their friends and, I would argue, being buddies with the people you cover would seem to me at least unprofessional, if not explicitly unethical. Obama seems to know this and I’d be willing to bet McCain knows it, too. I’m certain he’s not sitting around moaning about his lost friends in the press corps. I would even guess that it’s likely John McCain only tolerated having them so close and kissing their asses because it garnered him “swooning” coverage for a decade.

For the record: Strippers don’t really like you either.

(emphasis mine)

Everyone on the internet seems to be a better writer than I am.

They also seem much less bald.

Not Enough Bullets: South Korean Edition

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A South Korean financial analyst, Han Sang-choon, was fired for saying that much of the losses people have experienced in the market are the result of greed:

“I reckon people haven’t cashed in their funds because of personal greed and expectations (of profits),” he told an investor, according to quotes from the Friday TV show that appeared widely in South Korean media.

There is a saying, “In Wall Street, the Bears make money, and the Bulls make money, and the Pigs lose.”

2nd Debate Live Blogging

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Town hall formats, and questions are lame.

So far, it’s clear that McCain is doing a pretty good impression of Bob Dole in 1976.

Not sure if this is good or bad….It’s clear that Barack Obama cannot be the “angry black man”, so he’s basically ignoring the attacks.

McCain saying that Obama’s tax policy is, “Like nailing jello to the wall,” false.

Obama says that McCain wants to cut taxes on Wall Street CEOs, True.

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McCain says, “Lets have a commission,” on Social Security…That’s kicking it down the road…Obama should say that McCain wanted to put Social Security money in the hands of those Wall Street CEOs, which is true, but my money is on him not doing this.
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Now, McCain is invoking Lieberman as a part of his bipartisan cred….Yeah, right…

Mentioning how nuclear will fix everything….Says that it’s clean, but won’t mention nuclear waste, and won’t mention that it takes about 15 years to build a new nuke plant…

Obama brings up McCain’s record voting against alternative energy over the past 23 years.

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Brokaw is a clueless MoFo, asked if funding for alternative energy should be like a “Manhattan Project”, or “In a thousand garages, like Silicon Valley.”

Silicon Valley was created by military spending.

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Obama on health care, mentions that McCain will tax your health benefit, good. Not calling it a tax increase on working Americans, not so great.

Ohhh….Mr. “I don’t use email” McCain is talking about how putting records online will save costs….snork.

He is now accusing that Obama will be fining struggling parents who can’t afford insurance, and raises myth of, “gold plated” insurance…Like you have as a senator?
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Obama talks about his dying mother spending the last months of her life fighting with insurance. Nails McCain about voting against MHIP.

Mentions McCain’s idea of eliminating state regulations is like banks moving to Delaware.
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Foreign policy: McCain does love that Iraq war, don’t he.
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Final analysis: Obama in a decision.

McCain spent too much time saying, “Hey you kids, get off of my lawn.”

Worst Political Commentary Ever

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You can almost visualize Rich Lowry masturbating to the debates:

A very wise TV executive once told me that the key to TV is projecting through the screen. It’s one of the keys to the success of, say, a Bill O’Reilly, who comes through the screen and grabs you by the throat. Palin too projects through the screen like crazy. I’m sure I’m not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, “Hey, I think she just winked at me.” And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America. This is a quality that can’t be learned; it’s either something you have or you don’t, and man, she’s got it.

And them, I guess, he cleaned off his keyboard.

I’m thoroughly squicked by this.