Counterpoint: Why PleaseRobMe is Flawed Paranoia
I was going to post this as a comment on Russ’ post, but I have enough to say that it warrants one of these ranty point-counterpoint things we love so much on TMR.
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You betcha!
What’s truly astonishing about the Sarah Palin story is not her complete lack of qualifications to run for any office, let alone President–beauty pageant contestant, mayor of a town smaller than the one I grew up in (no mean feat), half term governor of Alaska, and teabagger phenomenon. No, what’s astonishing about the Sarah Palin story is the breathtaking way in which a pathological liar gets drunk on one giant feedback loop of fairy tales, thrown so headlong into the mirror of her own ego that she won’t be done picking up the shattered pieces until after she’s crushed in the general election (and probably not even then). Or how hypocrisy–”[Obama's] a guy with a teleprompter,” from Palin’s speech at the Teabagger convention–gets publicly revealed in the most delightful ways:
Oops!
Yep. It’s Sarah Palin’s hand, and those are notes from the EXACT SAME SPEECH WITH THE “OBAMA AS TELEPROMPTER GUY” LINE.
We here at The Mep Report are begging, nay, pleading with you, Sarah: the teabaggers need you. The Republicans need you. Your country needs you. And most of all, and as always most importantly, YOU need you. Please, please run for President. It would truly be a year of wonders.
Christmas Abuses (or ‘Bah Humbug’)
Everyone’s favorite Emilio Estevez sibling was in the news today for allegedly “breaking several pairs of eyeglasses” in front of his wife during a Christmas tirade. The horror!
The New Face of Corporatism
A fantastic Huffington Post rant by Miles Mogulescu perfectly enunciates the growing divide between Obama and the movement that brought him to power.
Housing Fire Sale Update
Today’s post will revisit our previous analysis of the housing sales surge to see if there’s cause for celebration yet…
Twilight: New Moon – Old Hat
I attended the midnight premiere of teeny-bopper sensation Twilight: New Moon, this morning. Having re-read that sentence after writing it, I am probably as baffled as you are as to why I agreed to go along with it. Suffice to say, I have a friend who is a big Twilight fan, and I didn’t want her to have to brave the crowd alone, so agreed to do a solid for her while also fulfilling a morbid curiosity to figure out what this Twilight phenomenon was all about.
Blind Hatred Makes for Bad Rhetoric: (or Why the Yankees are the Envy of Sports Franchises Everywhere)
As a Yankee fan, it’s very clear to me that the Yankees are a polarizing force. You either love them or you hate them. And, frankly, neither perspective lends itself to really deeply analyzing anything. Yankee fans, for the most part, forgive any misdeeds by the team and players, and Yankee haters feel as if the team ritualistically slaughters puppies for sport.
Yankees Buy Title
At the risk of starting a flame-war with Russ, it must be observed that the Goldman Sachs of baseball purchased their 27th championship that was delivered last night. This cannot, perhaps, be said of all 27 titles, but it sure can be said of the 2009 edition.
Yanks Infuriate Matt Taibbi
Great snippet from the Business Insider today recapped some less than accurate Matt Taibbi predictions about the fate of the 2009 Yankees.