If they weren’t Republicans, you could almost feel sorry for them. Inside the GOP convention hall — the ultimate dittohead echo chamber — party faithful in St. Paul seem to be blissfully unaware that a concensus is forming that Sarah Palin, John McCain’s choice for vice president, is irreparably flawed.
To gauge the level of […]

I just received in my in-box incontrovertible confirmation that John’s McCain’s choice of a running mate was a really bad one — arch-conservative Richard Viguerie thinks it’s a good one.
He says that the selection of Gov. Sarah Palin as John McCain’s vice presidential running mate “unites the Republican Party and energizes its conservative base.”
But wait, […]

Dan Quayle in a Skirt

In the above clip, you’ll see Alaska governor Sarah Palin interviewed by the nauseatingly unctuous Glenn Beck, which makes the clip NSE (not safe for eating while watching). The interview actually starts at 4:20.
She is on the program to discuss her lawsuit against the Bush administration to stop them from including […]

Pawlenty, Romney Said to Be Out
Update 7:39 PDT: NBC News’ Kelly O’Donnell has confirmed that McCain has picked Palin.
No less a source than Fox News says this morning that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is en route to Ohio this morning, and is likely to be John McCain choice to be his running mate.
Fox also reports […]

Bob Novak, the rightwing columnist who treasonously revealed the clandestine identity of CIA WMD investigator Valerie Plame, has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, but recently returned to producing short squibs for his syndicate, including the latest on Joe Lieberman’s chances of being named as John McCain’s VP on Friday:
Reports of strong support within […]

Events in the campaign this week offer a case study in how Fox News assists the right wing — in this case, the McCain campaign — disseminate disinformation:
Monday: Speaking before the Veterans of Foreign Wars, John McCain falsely claimed credit for supporting the 21st Century GI Bill, which was sponsored by Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) […]

A full week after it happened, John McCain finally found time to apologize to the black reporter, Stephen Price, who was thrown out of the press area during a McCain stop in Florida. And while the candidate maintained the incident was the fault of the Secret Service, not his campaign, he went out of his […]

Worst Candidate Ever?
John McCain has often joked that he is so popular with the corporate-owned media that he considers Beltway reporters to be his “base.” This decades-long courtship is paying off big time this year, as reporters persistently look the other way as McCain suffers one self-inflicted wound after another.
Imagine the reaction in the […]

Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. -Gal. 6:7
Considering the hatred for liberals spewed by the rightwing noise machiners like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Michael “Savage” Weiner and the rest, it is a miracle there aren’t more terrorist incidents like this:
Police found copies of “Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder” […]