Question of the day.
How many houses do you own?
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said in an interview Wednesday that he was uncertain how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, own. “I think — I’ll have my staff get to you,” McCain told Politico in Las Cruces, N.M. “It’s condominiums where — I’ll have them get to you.”
Jesus fuck! Ugh. I am salivating over the ads you could run with this. Ugh. Also whoever texted me at 4:20AM to say that Cheech Marin was Barack Obama’s running mate please stop.
Update: Barack Obama responds with this dull, toothless attack ad. Just kidding. It’s actually pretty brutal.
Thursday Olympic Preview: Competitive hugging.
The amazing Margot put me on to the big event Thursday: The Women’s Gold Medal Match in Beach Volleyball, starring the US dream team of Misty May and Kerri Walsh. Apparently they hug. A lot.
How cute is that!? Also who in the world is named Misty May, and if your name was Misty May are you not just destined to be an amazing beach volleyball player? Loyal Pinko reader Sienna said she was on the street yesterday and someone was all “wait, her name is misty may?” and Sienna was all “that’s what i said!” and everyone was happy because the Olympics bring people together!
After the jump, some more famous hugs in sporting history.
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But then again…
Wilder raises a good question about the target audience for my post below. Here is a excerpt from our IM conversation:
Wilder: As I stated, I think the question comes down to who you think you’re reaching.
Stirling: That is a good question.
Wilder: If you tell my mother she needs to roll up her sleeves, she’ll throw up her hands and say, “Forget it then.”
Stirling: lol. True.
Wilder: You have to tell her how soundly he’s going thump McCain so that she will tell her friends how and why he’s going to thump McCain.
Wilder: And then they’ll be happy and vote for the winner.
Stirling: Thats a good point.
Wilder: And that’s what I mean, if you’re talking to activists, I think you’re dead on.
If you’re talking to normal people, we need to be a pep rally.Stirling: I guess my point is, Let’s not get to comfortable. But maybe that is just an expression of my own panic?
Stirling: God I hope McCain picks Lieberman…
I think it’s time for a pep talk.
I know this is probably the last thing you want to hear right now. I just think you ought to know. Obama is going to lose.
We are going to have the most conservative Supreme Court we have ever had. We are going to lose the right to an abortion. We are going to find ourselves in more wars, maybe even with Russia. As a result lots of people are going to bleed to death in back alleys or makeshift outlaw abortion clinics. Even more are going to die on battlefields in Europe and Asia… Possibly even New York and L.A.
John McCain is going to be the 44th President of the United States.
I’m not just making this up. And I’m not talking about the manufactured spin from the mainstream media that this is a “close race”. I’m talking about McCain beating Obama in November. The most recent polls agree. We are going to lose the popular vote. We are going to lose the electoral college. That’s reality. Deal with it.
Ok, now take a deep breath. How do you feel?
Hopefully you feel furious. Hopefully you feel like shit. Hopefully you’re thinking to yourself “This is awful! We can’t let this happen!” Good. Because thinking we are part of the best organized, best funded, most awe inspiring campaign in American history isn’t doing us any good.
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I love you, Rachael Maddow.
My pretend girlfriend, Rachael Maddow, is going to get her own show on MSNBC! She will be replacing Dan Abrams, the hot yet kinda weird lawyer guy who spits when he talks, in the 9pm, post Olbermann slot.
I first fell in love with Rachael Maddow when she co-hosted Unfiltered on Air America Radio along with Chuck D and Lizz Winstead. More recently she has been the go-to pinch hitter for Olbermann as well as being a regular guest on his show.
To my knowledge this is the first time an out-and-proud lesbian has anchored a major cable news show that doesn’t involve Suse Orman in any capacity. It’s also significant because, unlike Keith Olbermann who’s background is in sports broadcasting, Maddow is a no-joke progressive activist.
Having Racheal Maddow anchor a news show, in the 9pm timeslot, during the run up to a major election, shows just how committed MSNBC is to becoming “the liberal Fox News”. While that might not sound like a good thing to some, I’m very very excited.
We broke the internet…
Somehow yesterday we managed to do something horribly wrong that caused our homepage (and you’ll have to excuse me if I get to technical here) to go wack-a-doodle.
Rest assured that we have absolutely no idea what happened or how to fix it and we will probably just end up throwing out our site design and starting over from scratch. So yeah, um, look for the new pinko site design soon!
Update: The internet is now fixed. Carry on.
Gay Marry It … or Abort It? 8/18/08
So the Olympics are in full swing and I have a thing or two to say about them. First, Michael Phelps is toe-up. I’m sorry. Second, how great was the synchronized diving? I love how they get right out of the pool and shower together it’s so precious. Lastly, why does NBC want that gymnast girl Shawn Taylor to be America’s sweetheart and not that saucy little Prussian Nastia? I love Nastia. She put the nast in gymnast. Rawr. Anyway, my Olympic rant now complete let’s get to the list! Here are the best and worst of the week that was: the ideas, goods and people we want to gay marry … and the ones John McCain would appoint strict constitutionalist jurists to restrict our access to.
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headline of the day.
oh girl don’t be so sure it gets HOT in that shower don’t ask don’t tell okay.
John McCain, President of The Nation of Whinners
John McCain, who was a prisoner of war and is therefore immune from any and all criticism, is really really mad that the bad mean liberal media is saying that someone else said something bad about him.
On Sunday’s Meet The Press Andrea Mitchell wondered how in the hell the bumbling John McCain had been able to keep from sticking his foot in his mouth at Pastor Rick Warren’s goatee convention presidential forum on faith. She then explained that one theory being floated by “some Obama people” was that maybe he could have caught some of the questions Obama answered, thereby gaining an unfair advantage.
Mitchell reported that some “Obama people” were suggesting “that McCain may not have been in the cone of silence and may have had some ability to overhear what the questions were to Obama. He seemed so well prepared.”
That crosses a line Andrea Mitchell! Take back what those other people said!
Since he was over a half an hour late to the live, televised forum, it does sound conceivable that McCain could have had the opportunity to cheat. I’m not saying he did cheat. It would be good to know if they get CNN in that golf cart George H. W. Bush drives McCain around in. But it probably isn’t the classiest thing for the Obama camp to be bringing up. So how does the fun loving, joke-a-minute McCain Camp respond?
They ran and cried to daddy.
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Straight Talk for the rest of us.
I have always loved Howard Dean. He revolutionized the way Democrats run campaigns with his fancy internet fund raising and 50 state strategery. In many ways he was like the metal skeleton beta-version of the unstoppable liquid metal Obama. Also, he totally would have won in 2004 if John Edwards had announced that he was going to have an affair two years later.
But mostly I love Howard Dean because he has absolutely no problem sounding like a prick. Here we see him “slipping up” (nudge nudge wink wink) and saying something completely obvious absolutely inappropriate and unacceptable last Friday on NPR.
“If you look at folks of color, even women, they’re more successful in the Democratic Party than they are in the white, uh, excuse me, in the Republican Party,”
He then refered to the presumptive GOP nominee as “John *cough* asshole *cough* McCain” before grabbing one of the studio mics and screaming “YAAAARWRRRRRR!!!!”
The man still has it.
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