Archive for October, 2008

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Why does God hate jews and gay people! It seems that the post we had up overnight and into this morning about the invocation of the holocaust as a campaign strategy was only 1/3rd there and comments were disabled and something went funny in wordpress. So our apologies if you thought we were trying to [...]

Enemy Territory 1: The Green Zone

Editor’s Note: PinkoJenn is on the ground in Wisconsin reporting for us on the Obama campaign and her experience as a volunteer.
Before I started this whole thing, I made a promise to myself that I would avoid two things: sports analogies and war analogies. Today I’m going to break my word on that second [...]

Saturday: Naughty Monkeys, Plumbers and Hot Tub Fun(gus)

PINKO DAILY BRIEFS: Ben is in Pennsylvania this weekend so I’m stepping in. You know what that means? You guessed it! Pictures of women in their underwear mountain bike armor! Just me? Anyway, here are a couple of things to keep your eye on today.
Joe the plumber may be looking to add a failed [...]

Did you see this shit?

When I was a Senior in High School our gym teacher, Mrs. Johnston, stabbed herself in the stomach and blamed some “black kids” in an elaborate faked gym vending machine robbery hoax to try and get her medical coverage expanded to include treatment of a blood condition. Mrs. Johnston was, in a word, crazy. I [...]

What is Terrorism?

I guess it depends on who you ask. Governor Palin, care to take a stab at this?

I mean, if they are like, trying to blow up the government or whatever that’s one thing. But like, bombing an abortion clinic killed Robert Sanderson, an off-duty police officer who worked as a security guard at an abortion [...]

Friday Roundup.

PINKO DAILY BRIEFS: Jamie, tracking the election action from London, sends us some ideas for non-Palin political porn. I think it should star Jamie you should see him. We love the Thatcher suggestion. Is she still around? After calling all Congressional Democrats “anti-American,” Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann is sinking in the polls. See who is [...]

How can you tell if you’re an “elitist”?

An easy test is to check if in the last eight years anyone has succeeded in killing thousands of your fellow faux-Americans  by flying a fucking plane into a local office and/or government building.
In an interview with Brian Williams on NBC John McCain unleashed a broadside against the namby pamby elitists from (You guessed it!) [...]

Swinging Grandma: Readers Respond (with great ideas!)

On Tuesday we cross-posted at Huffington Post our “Swinging Grandma” case study about Claire, who is trying to swing her 94-year-old Grandmother from an independent o a solid Democratic vote. Putting aside that that angry commenter who seriously hates Jimmy Carter, there were so many great responses. Feedback ranged from anecdotes and proposed strategies to inspiring [...]

I guess they love the jackboots

If you haven’t been following the rise of right-wing facists in Austria, Pinko is here to help.
Normally, we wouldn’t pay any heed to such stories, as we have our own right-wing fascism growing at home, but it turns out that the recently deceased leader of Austria’s ascedant “Freedom Party,” Joerg Haider, the so-called ‘yuppie fascist‘ [...]

Thursday: Pennsylvania blues.

PINKO DAILY BRIEFS: Okay, indulge me for a minute. I’m freaking out. Instead of the roundup today I’m going to lay out an unsubstantiated panic and then you calmly prove me wrong. Deal? Here goes. John McCain’s entire campaign now rests on Pennsylvania. Barack Obama has a huge lead in Pennsylvania. But I have this [...]