Wonkette
- Huzzah, the Dow went back up yesterday, and credit markets appear to be thawing. [Washington Post]
- Sarah Palin will be talkin’ today about “gettin’ energy to flow into hungry markets” and discussin’ her history as an oil and gas regulator in the Russian breakaway republic of Alaska. [Wall Street Journal]
- Barack Obama’s blanket-coverage, half-hour infomercial cost $3 million. Surely there are some advertising types who read this site and can tell us if this is very expensive or the bargain of the century. [New York Times]
- John McCain is fixating on Pennsylvania like an old hound gnawing on a beef shank he buried in the back yard five years ago and just dug up again. [ABC News]
- Everybody needs to quit picking on Sarah Palin because she is a very accomplished woman, and making fun of her accent is sexist. [New York Daily News]
- Oh noes racism will not end with swearing-in of black president. [Washington Post]
- The Syrians and the Iraqis are all kinds of mad with the U.S. for the recent bombing incursion into Syria. [Bloomberg]
It’s a pretty good deal considering inventory for the networks. It’s a ton o’ dough, but if you have it, you can buy anything. Just announcing the buy almost justified it as Walnuts’ campaign shat its pants.
Still, what I could do with the $3 mil….I’m thinking Shriners, monkeys, and Spanish Fly.
Tommy Says Soooo: I don’t know what I’d do with $3 million either, but there would be blow there with me doing it, oh yes.
Check out the Palin look alikes at the Daily News site (to the right of the article linked). Can’t wait for “Whose Nailin Paylin”!
“John McCain is fixating on Pennsylvania like an old hound gnawing on a beef shank he buried in the back yard five years ago and just dug up again.”
Sara K. girl, if I read nothing else all day, that was my RDA of snark.
The newest political trend: Phone Sex Political Robocalls.
Do you realize how angry George Allen is right now? Nut job Palin is closer to the white house than he will ever be and a black dude has beat him to the white house. If anyone will harm a hair on Obama’s head, it’ll be Allen. I’m not FBI profiler but jesus, Allen is the so the enemy.
I read that commercials during prime time cost over $100,000/30sec which would come out to, what? 6Mil for 30 min? So with the dollar being worth nothing, me thinks he gots a deal!!
With a starwars theme heading like that, I thought I was at NRO for a sec.
Awwww. Widdle S.E. Cupp gets her(?) bra straps in a twist because all that nasty media attention on GLASSES! is just. so. SEXIST. Um, no. It’s because Caribou Barbie keeps proving to everyone that she’s an idiot.
That’s only $100,000 a minute. I’m guessing that’s a bargain basement rate, especially as he gets to make the introductory comments to a World Series Game. Get Keith O up there with you, Barry, he knows about this stuff.
Another point, OT but what the hell, and I hate to be thinking up conspiracy theories which should, by rights, be coming from the other team, but I think I’ve figured out why the Irish national bookmakers, Paddy Power, paid out early on the Obama bets. I mean, really, what kind of bookie pays out before the game is played, right?
It’s simple. They paid out over a million Euros, (according to sources), which probably means less than 2 million Euros. I’m guessing team Unicorn paid them to do it. You have motive and you have opportunity. In the book of Kalehuru, that’s enough to create a conspiracy theory, although it still falls short of proof.
Obviously both sides are trying to run and create image. So if we use this as, so they both have funds and are creating an image, making sure their candidates are where they need to be seen, as they need to be. I find it completely then repulsive to then - if we want to look at spending - see how Barack Obama now is going to spend what $3 million on two thirty minute ads that are going to run this week.
-Hasselbeck doin’ the Palin but forgettin to drop the g’s and not saying also enough. I give her a 3 which is just above her IQ if I’m not mistakin.
“John McCain is fixating on Pennsylvania like an old hound gnawing on a beef shank he buried in the back yard five years ago and just dug up again”
Well, ain’t that the truth. He’s more nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rockin’ chairs.
Yee-haaw.
I live close to the philadelpia media market so I have been keeping track of McCain in PA. He seems to be spending lots of time in the red areas of PA, as opposed to working mostly on the suburbs of Philly and Pittsburgh. The swing voters in PA are in the suburbs!!! Instead we get to hear the racists at the rallies in rural PA. Is he trying to waste time and money here? I guess I will hope that he keeps doing what he is doing.
ihasasad: I’m not so sure. This is a buy that will go into MT, NV, WV, all those swing states rather than just the usual battlegrounds. Kerry got lambasted for having money left in the bank. Hopey, in hindsight, may not maximize gains, say, in PA, but Walnuts had to do a buy in MT and IN. If he flips over half of the “new” battleground states, he will be a star like Jenna Jameson in yer dreams.
queeraselvis v 2.0:
And a nasty, back-stabbing idiot at that! Read the story in that elitist New Yorker magazine. You don’t get to be called a “barracuda” for nuthin’.
AlexTrebeksGirl: That guy is pure psycho.
Am I missing something on McCain’s Pennsylvania fetish?
Taking a look at electoral-vote.com, if McCain took all the predicted GOP states, all the tied states, all the Barely Dem states, and throw in Pennsylvania, he’d only have 248 Electoral Votes.
He’s not going to win this, the old man should go take a long nap or something.
bluebrazos: I bet after he loses, McCain will keep driving by Pennsylvania’s house until finally the police are called and restraining orders are issued.
“Sarah Palin will be talkin’ today about “gettin’ energy to flow into hungry markets””
Why would she talk about exports to China?
The writer of the Palin article is a hypocrite. The name C Cup is sexist.
Aviators warn against target fixation because it blinds them to any threats sneaking up on them.
It’s too bad that Wannabe Four Star Admiral John S. McCain III is so focused on dropping/blowing his load on Yen Phu aka Pennsylvania while ignoring the screeching from his RWR about the SA-2 Guideline SAMs named Indiana, Georgia, Montana, Arizona, North Carolina, Florida, Missouri and North Dakota locked onto his Six.
Clearly it’s a bargain, but what would you expect from the liberal in the tank mainstream drive-by obamamania media.
I say buy another hour and let them cry when it’s all over that Obama “bought the election.”
Maybe McCain can feed his beef shank to Palin’s hungry markets.
I used to hear the same crap about ‘the accent’ from Bush apologists in Texas trying to tell me he wasn’t an incompetent twit, and that the country just perceived him as incompetent because of his drawl.
“Sarah Palin will be talkin’ today about “gettin’ energy to flow into hungry markets”
I feel certain that this is a line from “Nailin’ Paylin”.
John McCain is fixating on Pennsylvania like an old hound gnawing on a beef shank he buried in the back yard five years ago and just dug up again.
Excuse me, Sara, don’t you mean FIVE AND A HALF years ago?
X, LJ
Wouldn’t the money have been better spent just waving it in front of McCain’s face before throwing it in a river and laughing? The point gets across just the same.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
JoeFannyPack: C Cup <— WIN
The McCain’s-toast-already people need to take a hard look at this (Post-ABC data):
Both Neither No
Kerry Bush (vol.) (vol.) opinion
10/30/04 LV 48 45 1 3 3
Both Neither No
Gore Bush (vol.) (vol.) opinion
10/25/00 LV 48 45 2 3 3
Its not over. Stop skylarking, do something, and make sure you kidnap a college student (non pleated-khakis and blue blazer wearing ones) on your way to the polls.
Penn strategy (Bitters over Burbs) may be a concession of defeat and an attempt to sour the cup of victory for the Unicorn. Many people have said how the right-wing fatwa against the Clintons starting in 93 was a day camp compared to the stuff that will be unleashed against Barry starting Nov 5.
ManchuCandidate: Another hazard of target fixation is that sometimes it can cause pilots to fly straght into the ground.
I think that amount would purchase about 45 seconds of misogynistic beer ads during the Super Bowl. Instead, we get 30 minutes of no-beer and no-titties.
BTW, where’s Weiner Girl?
Serolf Divad: I love the blond kid in the news item…”sounds like a lady trying to seduce me…why does that always happen?”
Shit! SHe wants us to supply HUNGARY with OIL now? Has this woman no effing LIMITS?
Cape Clod:
In Walnuts’ case, it’s a bit of both.
“John McCain is fixatin’ on Pennsylvania jes’ like an old hound gnawin’ on a beef shank he done buried in the back yard five years ago and jes’ dug up again.”
Done fixed it fer ya, Real Virginian style….
From Mike Murphy, former McCain chief strategist:
“What’s the difference between a Pit Bull and a Hockey Mom? You can feed a pit-bull for 483 years with 150 grand.”
At: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/23/mccain-cuts-off-murphy-cr_n_137130.html
Serolf Divad: Well it seems…effective. Didn’t the one guy said he won’t hang up? I know I wouldn’t. /snark
Cape Clod: Win.
Three million? I sent him that much in July alone. Is Barry O being a tightwad, or just plain frugal?
TED STEVENS FOR PRESIDENT!
“When I saw Edwards at a traffic light in D.C. about a year after our meeting, he asked for help and I did and it was an honor to help him with his concession speech. And when the primary ended, it was a privilege to help Michelle Obama with a stump speech, be considered as a speechwriter for the V.P. nominee again, and send friends in Chicago ideas until the financial crisis hit.”
My six-year-old can write more coherently.
“Sarah Palin will be talkin’ today about “gettin’ energy to flow into hungry markets”
– I’ve got some energy I’d like to flow into her hungry market.
COME ON, I HAD TO! It was too easy.
Seeing how people have spent like a million USD on a 30-second Superbowl ad, I’d figure it’s a pretty good deal to get a half-hour of primetime for 3 mil.