Tonight: HBO is debuting its Hollywood motion picture about how John McCain waddled over to the Google machine sometime in the summer of 2008 to find a “hot political babe” to run the country after he croaked during his first 10 minutes as president. He settled on an Alaskan lady who shot guns, which was the entirety of his research. She turned out to be an idiot, and she continues to shame and grift the nation to this very day. Here is your open thread for the Wolf “Like Pauline Kael But Good” Blitzer-approved GAME CHANGE, starting at 9, which is basically now. Ol’ Walnuts has been asleep on his Ambien since 6 p.m., so he won’t be watching. ALSO: Here’s an unreadable Wonkette Archives post from 2008 about all these bickering McCain campaign characters, if you’d like to read it.
WONKETTE AT THE TEEVEE MOVIES 8:55 pm March 10, 2012
Open Thread For HBO’s Politics Movie ‘Palin & McCain Lose An Election’
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The best part of the Game Change movie is at the beginning where the house falls on Sarah's sister.
"She's gone where the Goblins go, You ho, Yo ho yoho yoho yoho…"
I love that part.
Great, now I'm recasting the Wizard of Oz.
Tin Man = Romney.
Scarecrow = Ron Paul.
Cowardly Lion = Newt.
Flying Monkeys = Tea Party Voters.
Who's Santorum? Who's playing the Wizard? Suggestions?
If it were the Lizard of Oz, I would vote for Newt.
"man on dog" Santorum is obviously Toto.
Pulling the levers behind the scenes? That's got to be the Koch Brothers.
Obviously, though, we need to revise the story a bit, to accomodate the Cool & Funky Black Warlock of the North.
Though, I doubt she gives up the shoes.
In honor of the Snowbilly Grifter, I'm going to quit watching the movie halfway through.
I saw a Yahoo! Post: "Stop calling her 'former' governor. She's an 'ex-governor.'"
To counter the fact that HBO is showing Game Change tonight one of those off stations is showing The Undefeated tonight. Obviously, they are unfamiliar with HBO and the fact that they show their movies over and over again.
Triumph of the Shrill
The Scum Also Rises
The Bridge On The River Why
The Bridge On The River
WhyWhineI was going more for the why as in, "Why, for fuck's sake, did you inflict this shrill hag dumbass on us, you senile old bastard?"
The Lyin', the Witch, and the Wardrobe
WIN
Inspired.
The Drapes of Wrath
Grift Of The North Tar…umm…Star.
Meth Rides A Fail Horse.
The Moose that Roared.
Shrill and Led's Bogus Journey
For the TeeVee movie set, "Sarah, McCain and LOL".
Thanks Wonketeers, stuck waiting for 24 hour roadside assistance. I just have to know how it ends.
SPOILER ALERT: They tow you home and charge you for it because they're shitheads.
And the driver has serious Plumber's Asscrack. Be warned.
YOU had that driver, TOO?
They're all like that. It's in the contract.
Known in our house as a "Jersey Smile"
Close. They showed up. Looked at my hybrid. Said stuff like "Wicked Cool.. where's the battery", "Sometimes if you jiggle the fuses it'll fix it" and "Looks electrical, better call for a tow". The tow truck guy showed up and hour later, walked up opened the battery compartment, gave me a jump and I drove away.
Yay!
BTW If it's a prius, you might want to change 12v batteries every 3 years. Friend has one and got stuck twice before just giving in and getting a new battery.
You thought 24-hour meant round the clock. It's how long they take to show up.
HBO estimates paint will be peeling in 2 million households across America
MUTE button. Learn it. Use it. It's your friend.
What to drink during this spectacle?
Looks like grgio for me — emphasis on the regrrgitated material about to get re-exposed.
Beakers of hot Rage, rainwater and grain alcohol for me.
Diet coke and thorazine.
Tasty! And relaxing.
What until she says "gotcha questions" then open your gullet "Rooster-style" and chug the whole bottle.
Water! (Being pregnant is fucking stupid)
Congrats by the way!
…
What about ginger brew? I'd think one could find a handful of interesting labels in your area. (yeah, I know it's not the same)
Thanks! Oh, I'd love that, but I also happen to have teh diabeetuss, so I can't really drink anything good. Maybe I can cut it with seltzer.
Drink UP – if you play your cards right, having a sp*cial n**ds child could be good for your pocketbook!
John McCain: As good a candidate as he was a pilot.
But he still crashed more planes than campaigns.
You know the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? At some point a pit bull does stop whining
Pit Bulls can learn. And they're prettier.
Pitbulls are smarter & better tempered. They're actually rather sweet, but that's no reason to put lipstick on them.
When a pitbull shits all over an old man, it has the decency to feel bad about it.
Fare! Good to see ya!
excellent
Pitbulls can form (comparatively) coherent thoughts?
They will roll over for a biscuit?
They can be spayed. Or neutered.
They come on command?
That might make Todd's life a little easier.
No, I didn't actually say that. No..no, I didn't.
Who was the joker, here, who answered "eventually, a pit bull lets go"?
i feel bad when pit bulls are forced to fight each other for someone else's amusement?
This movie is good news for John McCain!
That image is very disturbing. I wish you’d have chosen something else. I realize that it’s a shameful part of American history that we should never forget, but it’s too much.
This film should piss Palin off enough to write a book of her memoirs, "The Book to Nowhere."
or "The Career to Nowhere"
"My Struggle"
Pssst! don't tell her it's been used before!
"Electioneering for Dummies"
Don't have HBO, wouldn't watch this if I did. Saw J. Moore on Daily Show bit. Never seen her looking better. Showed a clip of her as Lou Sarah: nailed it. BTW, Walnuts should look so good, and Ed Harris did not look good.
I would watch it if only to see the marvelous J. Moore do the evil Sarah to such perfection. And also to revisit the incredulity, out of nostalgia.
You can tell me about it. I'm all out of brain bleach here.
I have HBO, but couldn't take it.
Even a (dead-on) imitation of Sarah is too much for me! I was yelling and muttering at the TV. I quit (just like Sarah), halfway through.
Stronger than me, my friend.
I've seen this movie before: It was called Dumb and Dumber.
"What's the 'soup du jour'?"
"It's 'the soup of the day'."
"mmm. I'll have that."
"Our pets' heads are falling off!"
Nah, I think the title was "Dude, Where's my Car?".
80% approval rating in Alaska? Seems meth heads and rapists really like to vote in polls when they are high.
She walked into the perfect situation. First, the state is really red, so she had that going from the start. Second, the guy before her was the least popular governor in state history. Anyone would have looked good by comparison. Third, she was able to completely sit on her ass because oil prices jumped to $150 barrel. Instead of doing any work on long term projects with the cash she just cut everyone a check on top of the one that's given every year anyway, so could sit on her ass in Wasilla instead of the capital. In other words, pure dumb luck and good looks made up for her complete lack of work ethic, and ultimately foisted her upon the nation like an incurable STD.
"…ultimately foisted her upon the nation like an incurable STD."
At last, the perfect summation of that narcissistic, psychopathic dunderhead.
Lieberman looked hilarious. Less Palpatine, more clown.
The clip with John Edwards, fussing with his hair was hilarious.
I'll have to rent this, if only to shoot my Nerf gun at the screen. And yell, also.
I couldn't; I'd end up with a sledgehammer through my TV with no recollection of the prior events…
PROTIP: Lock up all the tools before drinking.
Take it from me.
Played by my secret crush, the inimitable Austin Pendleton.
No secret anymore — that he's been one of my crushes, too!
Yep. I've loved him for years!
"Lieberman looked hilarious. Less Palpatine, more clown."
I'm pretty sure that's not how ya spell "Palestine".
I don't have HBO, but I'm here anyway, just to be Rude. If I did have HBO, that MUTE button would be working overtime.
Oh, and I'm drinking, just on General Principles.
and in solidarity.
I hope you gave the General a break every once in a while.
Yeah, the General goes away for work, travel, hobbies etc.
Fuck me with a chainsaw, Julianne Moore has the accent down pat.
Rough trade!
It's certainly better than the South Boston monstrosity that she was shrieking all over 30 Rock.
Yes, I remember that, it was horrible. Being 30 Rock, I thought maybe it was one of their insider jokes (look at Julianne Moore pretending badly that she's from Southie) but if so, they never did the punchline.
The result of watching many hours of Tina Fey?
The accent yes, but the sneering, shrill tones weren't there.
I don't think our species has the same vocal cords as Palin's.
Man, here I simply re-rendered the r-word, and I was gone like that. What kind of sorcery is this?
Did someone say…
WOODY HARRELSON?!
Is this the one with the Nazi's from the Moon and Palin became president?!?
How did you know about my Nightmares!?
No, I think it's the one with Martians and Calista Gingrich. No, wait…
She is not ever going away, is she? I thought after her teasing running for president, where it was so obvious that she wasn't, she would have done her speaking fees in, but like a bad rash or a foreclosed home's toxic mold, she remains.
Romney wins Guam and the North Marianas, Rick whens Kansastan, and I don't care. I can't wait for American Spring to get me excited, again.
I want to bury her in Yucca Mountain and let whatever poor bastards are around 40,000 years from now suffer.
Thanks a lot, you're fucking with MY 'hood, now.
NIMBY. That's why there's miles of underground tunnels and all those Blast doors.
We have to get her off the teeve, before we all Go Mad. Take one for the Team.
The salt caverns at the WIPP Site in New Mexico would be better suited to muting the screeching.
The Feds own, what? 75% of the state? Push comes to shove, we could always store her at the bottom of Tahoe.
Unkind! a lot of people depend on that lake for drinking water. And the fish? You know how they'd smell, right?
Pfft, the Feds own 97 percent of Alaska. Freeze her in a block of ice and store her in a grizzly mama cave, they can find her in 20,000 years, thaw her out, and she can star in Geico commercials.
no baby she is not EVER going away.
god.
McCain is unforgivable.
The unsinkable Sarah will be his legacy.
Considering the Forrestal and his service to the North Vietnamese, having Sarah the Entertainer as a legacy is actually letting him off pretty easy.
If only when he crash-landed his presidential run into America he would have taken her career with him. Somehow, she gets away relatively unscathed. She'll never be president, but it was never about the presidency, anyway. It's always been about the "dollar, dollar bills, y'all."
The cat is out of the bag about the daughter being pregnant. I'm waiting for her to say, "I believe marriage is meant to be a sacred institution between two unwilling teenagers."
"Like the good old days."
You betcha!
Okay, when do they start Nailin' Palin?
Oh boy. I didn't count on actual Obama footage being included.
Can you believe those crowds for Obama? Brings back good memories.
I know. Wet panties time! Squee.
It made my male parts say 'whoa', that was a big deal.
Let's hope the stadium in NC this fall is as full.
It was 20k vs 80k in attendance
Trust me, that stadium will be filled even if they have to pack the upper decks with hobos and hookers in town to service the convention.
FAP FA
Please do not fap to the thought of nailin' Palin. You would do less damage by slamming your penis in your car door.
That hurt! And I don't even have one of those things.
Energy secretary Steven Chu doesn't have a car, either.
What? That's not what you meant?
That's why I don't take off my pants until after I'm safely inside the car.
OMG! Did you have an aneurism?
He quit halfway through. Like Snowbilly.
OT: but did anyone read this trash where Scalia claimed that people should "Get over it", re: Bush v. Gore, and "It was a long time ago, people forget…It was a 7-2 decision. It wasn’t even close.”? http://bit.ly/x5EjXq
He's always saying that. It's why I don't go into D.C, 'cos I'd be severely tempted to kick in some testicles.
Metaphorically, that is.
Sk@llf*ck him.
Machine gun Skullfuck him.
Ha, ha! Just joking, you sad Teabagging Lurker fucks, you! Can't take a joke?
I think you just threw the hot dog down the hallway.
It'd be easy to do, though, you know they're naked under those robes, right? Especially Thomas.
This is good news. I thought they just did that during the Oral and Anal arguments.
So THAT'S who put a pube on his Coke can…
I hear he keeps Coke cans up there.
Lying sack of shite. Whoopsie.
What a disingenous feller.
Will there be a Japanese Tentacle Porn version?
For stating how "ambivalent" she is, she sure has her granny panties in a wad. Man up, Lou Sarah. Free market! Bootstraps!
I'm going rent Boogie Nights and masturbate thinking its $arah?
That's Disgusting.
And then stop in the middle?
I'm not impressed so far…with Palin or the movie.
"How the flip did this happen?"
I don't have HBO. Does she really say that?
Yup.
Yes, in the scene where she learns that Bristol is pregnant. She's got 4 or 5 kids and she doesn't know how that happened?
That's why she has those kids.
Waitaminute, I thought peoplez (not me) paid 15.95 a month for HBO just so they could hear the "fuck" word. I'm cancelling the subscription I don't have immediately!
Mccains potty mouth made up for it. He used fuck as punctuation in the movie, as they say
Lol, Levi had to shave his goatee. If Sarah had to then so shall he.
Sarah shaved her goatee? Is that what she had to do to be a real 'Mer'kin?
"Thank you for cutting your mullet, Levi." Keeping up appearances, except the ones that need to be cut off!
Oh, Rudy…such a douchebag.
9-11.
Is HE in it?? Who plays him? Somebody from The Sopranos?
Stock footage.
No actor was douchey enough, probably.
Disagree; Jeremy Piven is douchey enough for anything in the universe.
But too fat to play Gu911ani.
Speaking of Sopranos actors, I bet Joe Pantoliano could do a good Rudy.
He's got the same hairline and a nasal voice; it's a start.
"Open Thread" means we can say anything, right? Happy Caturday, everybody!
Don't forget to set your clocks forward!
Rebecca is isn't watching.
Thanks for the reminder about "spring forward" Sharkey!
Sucks to be Arizona! If I was stuck with one time all year, I'd choose DST.
I'd choose 21st Century Time.
I set my forward, then back, then forward again. So I'm good until next year.
Unfortunately, my biological clock does NOT reset so I'm an hour off until fucking November. Stop screwing with time already.
I always had trouble adjusting to the time changes. But the Energy Policy Act of 2005 really messed it up for me. It's one of the minor things that I can curse W for signing.
And I just a month ago figured how to reset my car clock, which is hidden behind more code than Iran's nuclear weapons plan.
I drive a '91, so changing my clock means jabbing a tiny tiny button 60 times with a pen point. So I don't.
One poke for me, love those japs, uh, nips, uh, Ohioans who built my car.
"my biological clock does NOT reset so I'm an hour off until fucking November"
So what do you do, get your period an hour earlier every month?
I know what time it is within about 15 minutes without looking at a clock. It's weird, I know, but that's the way I roll. I have sleep disturbances and all sorts of fun bullshit.
And let me say, that was a very funny comment about the periods an hour earlier. I'll tell my wife that one when she wakes up later that she wants to.
Read Sharkey's post carefully; if you try to set your cat forward, you're liable to get pretty darn scratched up.
Yes, indeed – thanks for the reminder! I'd completely spaced it.
Seriously, I think the whole "cash for clunkers" thing by Obama was just a way for anyone who had a McCain/Palin bumper sticker to save face and not have to douse their car with gasoline and torch it.
You must be right. Those bumper stickers disappeared faster than panties at a Wasilla Wine Cooler party.
"Baby, I love you. I've got a 4-pack of Bartles & Shames.
"Ooohh! Gas Station Wine! Kiss me, you fool!"
At the gallery reception for Thomas Kincade, they serve gas station wine and cedar cheese.
Around here there are lots of Bush/Cheny bumper stickers. One of the other stickers is sometimes McCain/Palin but not so many as B/C. They need to leave room for the God Loves Every Child – Born and Unborn, Nobama, Repeal Obamacare, and Food Stamp President stickers.
We have a lot of "Don't Tread On Me" teabagger signs, bumper stickers for Our last Failed Republican Governor (hint: it's not O'Malley) paired with awful yellow/black District 1 Congressman Harris (R – ALEC). Not so many Nobama ones, yet, but the Asshole stickers will appear soon, I think.
"Around here there are lots of Bush/Cheny bumper stickers"
For years, my definition of a slow learner was someone who had a Bush *04* bumper sticker.
What – no "Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve" bumper stickers? Lame.
Around here (TX) I see "Secede" bumper stickers. It's a painful thing to see a vehicle which has both "Secede" and "These colors don't run" – my poor head can only take so much.
I see those once in awhile, usually on old guys pick'em up trucks, but tonight I saw an actual McCain/Palin yard sign and it was in mint condition. I hope they were having an ironic movie night.
Torch it? They just turn them into mobile meth labs. Eventually, the will self-immolate*.
*The cars, not the politicians.
No Piper/Trig hair-lick?
Accurate movie my ass?
They did ' say a prayer' instead. And somehow Bristle passed the word to the baby.
Yes, I had to rewind that myself.
Bristol: "Tell Me You Love Me!"
Levi: "Listen, Baby, would I lie to you just to run my fingers through your Pubes?"
Yes.
"Parents of children with special needs children, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House"
Newell, I know you'll be disappointed, as will I, if they don't have someone playing Nooningtonshire giving her classic: "She killed."
Is it mandatory for every political movie or TV series to have that little squirrelly guy, the one who was googling for Lou Sarah? I thought he died way back on ER, anyway.
"I've got five children, too and she (Plain) is talking to me and NO ONE talks to me"
Yeah, I wanted to say, "someone should talk to you about contraception!"
I had a typo with Palin (Plain) LOL
Cuz your fuckin kids are boring shits?. ..
I can't wait until the part where they break the news to her that there are TWO Koreas.
Wait – I'm not sure anyone has yet. I mean, in real life. Still.
I hope they fuck with her "mind." East Korea and West Korea.
I've been in both. Believe me, the South one is way better.
So, the opposite of the US, then.
And, don't let her in on the fact that there is a new Mexico. That'd be too much for her to handle in one day.
I'll catch it next time it's on. Watching "Psycho" instead.
And so are we!
WIN!
That's the sequel.
I know I'm supposed to think she's a giant ignoramus, but I'm pretty sure she knew who we fought in World War II.
Her ignorance on the Iraq War is really well documented, though. Very, very well documented.
I think she knew that the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
"All of them, Katie."
She knew we fought on the Queen of England's side.
Yeah, that was breathtaking.
Of that i am doubtful.
"I'm pretty sure she knew who we fought in World War II."
The enemy, Katie?
I got rid of HBO last year, so I am relying on my Wonketteers to describe the glory that was McCain/Palin 08.
Lizzie, it's uglier than homemade soup!
http://media.talkingpointsmemo.com/slideshow/obam…
Thanks for the link. My toes curled with delight from this photo.
It makes me realise how much I love him.
That made me very happy tonight, thanks! You really do know what gives us joy.
I don't even mind seeing the scar where the Alien Brain Lizard got in.
I still have the faith, I think the second term may well be what the Republicans think the first one is.
If he hugged me, I would never bathe again, or at least my shoulders. Or back. Or my cheek if we touched there.
I know, I would act like a teenager.
OMG, so many of those photos… I wish there was more info on some of them. They are awesome.
I also sort of like the idea of Bams and Biden getting stuck in the doorway.
And the one in Ireland (last one) is so awesome that I could eat it with sour cream.
agreed, and here's a favorite recent photo..BO showin' why he's ALWAYS the coolest guy in the room! http://dudelol.com/obama-fist-bumping-white-house…
Disclaimer: I'm not actually watching this. I watched the trainwreck the first time around.
I didn't much like it then, either.
I love a happy ending. Is there a happy ending?
I don't have HBO so I'm counting on you guys to let me know.
The "Happy Ending" is $20 extra.
No. It's a cliffhanger, but it all works out in the $equel.
Sarah Paulson is a good actress. I really enjoyed her on "Studio 60."
all together now:
ALL OF 'EM KATIE!!
LOl, Mumble! I reread Game Change last night and I am quoting aloud like this is the Rocky Horror Picture show in a theater full of drunkards. Jeffer keeps patting me on the head and handing me more beers.
I've decided I'd like to give the book a shot. For "happier" if conflicted days of McCain campaigning ('00), check out David Foster Wallace's firsthand perspective following McCain's "Straight Talk Express", it's a quick read and full of Wallace's humor and gravitas in equal amounts.
Ordered! I miss DFW a lot. His "a supposedly fun thing I'll never do again" was superb and confirmed my suspicions about cruise ships.
Also took the oppo to order a couple of Alan Furst books, but hey.
The essay about his cruise experience was the one I remember the most from that book. The only other I can recall is there was one about David Lynch? (It's been awhile & I should probably reread the collection again)
I never could make it through "Infinite Jest", though. But that was back when it had just come out. Maybe now I'd be up the to try to read it again. I mean, I have since made it through "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman".
thanks for the DFW 'cruise ship' reference, I hadn't heard of it and looked it up…reading it now, the first page alone is hilarious! http://harpers.org/media/pdf/dfw/HarpersMagazine-…
Don't have HBO, but the comments inspired me to look up the original "all of 'em, Katie" … and it's far worse than I remember. She fumbles and prevaricates and then tries to spin the question as Couric disparaging Alaska.
Ugh ugh ugh.
Jesus, that was the softest of softball questions and she couldn't even fake it. Just bullshit New York Times and Time Magazine like every other human being in the US. Fuck, she'd even have an excuse if she said fucking Zoobooks!! ARGHA@^%$*#^!!!
Flipping "Highlights" would have been a better answer, and she would have looked like a wit.
Sarah would have identified too closely with the plights of Goofus.
Bush was Goofus.
I enjoy USA Today, Katie.
See? How hard would that have been?
We're gonna run with this "flippin'" thing, aren't we?
"she would have looked like a wit."
i.e., twice as smart as usual.
Sports Illustrated For Kids.
Even some bullshit answer about how "it's hard to get to a news-stand when you're traveling for a campaign, but I try to pick up the paper in each town we visit. It gives a snapshot view of the local issues and concerns, and you get a real feel for the people along the way."
She still wouldn't have had to come up with, you know, the actual name of an actual publication, and she would have come across as giving one single shit about anything but being a grifting attention whore.
MONEY!!! "All of 'em"!
I wonder how much they had to pay NBC for the rights to all these SNL video clips.
If I wanted to listen to some idiot crabbing for 2 hours, I'd watch Deadliest Catch.
I think there are a lot of opies in this as well.
I still want to see a movie made out of the Barry/Hillary chapters….you know, the other 2/3rds of the book…
What a Rutted Dancer. Plus a Redacted Runt. Or a Recanted Turd. Also too, an Endured Tract, that Nattered Crud.
"A team of Mavericks" How oxymoronic.
"A Team of Morons" didn't test well in focus groups.
Considering their target audience, I find that somewhat hard to believe.
Oxymoronic and very moronic.
BTW, "A Team of Mormans" is currently being tested by the Romney Campaign.
Ethel Mermans?
Barb:
Being from Arizona and all, Sen. McCain should know it would be a herd of Mavericks.
Actually, a Maverick is an unbranded cow – no owner. It doesn't mean a loner or solo bull.
I think that was the first time Todd spoke in the whole movie.
Well when you are that challenged intellectually talking can be a drawback. However, according to Shailey Tripp, Todd has some talent.
My right wing buddies who haven't seen this tell me that already it's horrible.
I'll just go with that.
And to think that is currently airing for the first time tonight. They have giant crystal balls, eh?
Well Right Wingers and facts don't mix so that makes sense.
I once had some potatoes O'biden at this barbeque restaurant in Kansas City. They were fantastic.
I think maybe Walnuts wasn't really a true Republican… Not deep down in his heart of hearts. if he had been, say, if she'd been George W's running mate, they'd have staged some sort of grassy knoll incident.
This film is excruciating to watch.
But can you masturbate to it, that is the question.
Not quite the post I expected from SaintRond in a Palin thread, but good nonetheless.
OT: This is terrifying; http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/03/10/nebraska-…
Any doctor can refuse to treat or refer to another physician any patient whose religion, politics, gender, etc he disagrees with. He doesn't even have to tell the truth, provide another physician, etc, he can stone cold kill the patient for his religious rights.
Small government you can believe in, right there.
Kind of takes the "panel" out of 'death panel".
IF YOU ARE AGAINST ABORTIONS, WHY WOULD YOU TRAIN TO BECOME AN ABORTION DOCTOR?
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUCK!
Because you are a white asshole who just sees OB/GYN as a chance to see cooters and make steady streams of cash by birthing babies. It is seriously shocking how many pasty GOP doctors turned conservative congresscritters were OB/GYNs.
The US Taliban takes on the Hippocratic Oath and common decency.
Women must be shielded from the truth, because they are such fragile things. I'd bet the little ladies all want fainting couches for Mother's Day.
Quick aside, in the most recently released Palin e-mails, there is one about Todd and Sarah, "….if we get divorced, when we get divorced…." Sarah tweeted that she said it as a joke because she was in the national spotlight and it was for the lamestream media. Too bad it was written in early "07, before she was in the national spotlight.
I took a look at those when that story came out a couple of weeks ago, and it was pretty clear that it was a joke. Some other aide or associate had sent her an email joking about her divorcing Todd, and she sent an email high-fiving him for the joke, and then responded in kind.
Yes, because a woman who is too stupid to know that there is a North AND South Korea, a woman who had NO idea what the responsibilities of the VEEP entail, a woman who hounded for her brother-in-law to get fired for a vendetta, a woman who believed that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the 911 attack, a woman who didn't have the sense to see amniotic fluid leaking and got on a plane from Texas to Alaska with a special needs child (3989.85 miles) Trust me, I've been in labor and I would be pissed if my man suggested we stopped at McDonald's first.
I don't believe for a split second that Sarah knew that the world would have her e-mails published.
This movie is too Grizzly for me.
"Grizzly Madams"
And the nominee for best supporting actress……that ginormous flag pin she is sporting.
Candy Crowley has a face made for radio.
They showed her before Slimfast.
she looks fine.
She's lost an incredible amount of weight now and looks great.
Hey, leave me out of this. I've already had to eat Crow in the last few days…eeeewwwwwww.
The Lamia. (yes, that's the spelling I meant)
Or the Woodwife, the ones that are hollow in the back.
Am I allowed to say her kids are cute?
(facepalm)
The baby who is playing her youngest son is an angel.
He is totally cute.
I would like to change my comment to The baby playing her son is an angel and so is her son.
Right
No, and how dare you say anything about her children when she sends them on speaking tours, uses them as political props and puts them to work in the meth mines of Barrow.
"Game Change" starring Stock Footage as himself
Oh, I thought this was going to be like "Nailin' Palin." How disappointing.
"I so don't want to go back to Alaska" Trust me, they don't want you back.
I saw that in the promo. Do they have a source for her actually saying that?
Because, of course, that would be ….great.
a slight variation of the quote can be found in "Sarah From Alaska," a book written by political reporters Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe, both of whom were embedded with Palin during her two months on the Republican ticket. "I just don't want to go back to Alaska," Palin says in "Sarah From Alaska" after the debate.
Thanks, and hope you're feeling better and better.
OT but have you seen this lovely item…
http://current.com/community/93695313_funny-racis…
That's so nasty. Racist assholes.
Misogynistic racist assholes.
Yes and it's accopmplished something I didn't think was possible. It made me more enraged and determined to kick every one of these assholes out of public life that I can reach.
If you haven't seen it yet, have a Palate Cleanser.
Thanks!
(Sent it on to my 21 yr. old daughter.)
That's exactly why I re-posted this here. Thank you.
That is epic – I hope that goes viral and we get choruses of bright smart women singing "I'm a slut, I'm a slut, . . . . " Very happy to see it.
Pass it around!
This is not only awesome, but also, it may be the finest example of White Chicks Dancing *evah*!
They are just so much fun. Do pass it around.
I am disgusted but not suprised given that it's a state full of Gingrich supporters.
I'm not sure what Current is on. I wouldn't even use the word "funny" ironically.
I'm not allowed to say "machinegunned" any more.
Can we say "carpet bombed?"
has there been a Murder Tonight, in the Trailer Park yet?
MmmmmMargo…
Wish I were there.
I always wanted to see the exact moment she went from catonic weirdo to egomaniac.
I've always suspected the transformation began in February 2008 when Alaska magazine put her on its cover as America's Hottest Governor (tagline: "Wildly popular, she's more than just a pretty face") and Rasmussen was reporting her approval rating as over 70%. That was when Bill Kristol did his second big favor for his country and began touting her as VP material.
They sure did not assess Kristol enough blame in the movie for that huge favor.
The same blame he assumed for the neocon endless wars.
True dat.
Ah jesus christ. I didn't know it was Kristol who shit in the punch bowl.
That's disputed. He may have suggested her at some point, but I doubt anyone in the party actually listens to him.
More likely two people came up with the same terrible idea around the same time independently….in this case, Rick Davis seeing a clip of her on Charlie Rose and mistakenly believing she was intelligent.
In that "unreadable" Wonkette archives post mentioned above, your editor uses the "R" word…
BAN HIM!!1!!
Are there any… women here?
*all shake heads, looking down*
*then in fake deep voices*
BAN HIM!!!
"Look! Nobody is going to ban anybody until I blow this whistle!"
"And – I want to be ABSOLUTELY CLEAR about this:
even if they do say Tr__hova!"
Uh oh – I think El Newell just banned himself.
It was an older time, Biff…
For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and comments in the Old Republic. Before the dark times… before the Empire.
That is a great pull Biff. *zips lips* The "R" word could end in adios, mi amigos.
Shunning did always work before … The Rules.
Clutch the faux pearls, (purchased by the RNC) she's going rogue!
Have they showed the part where they run through Sax Fifth Avenue tossing designer duds into Walmart shopping carts on their hillbilly shopping spree?
Yeah, the musical makeover montage was 20 minutes in.
Nicolle Wallace told Lawrence O'Donnell that however disheveled and out of control the hotel room looks in the movie, reality was a dozen times worse.
Thunder, for the life of me, I have NO idea why Todd needed silk underpants. I've had teen daughters and I've had to run out to get decent outfits for them for special occasions and I could see where her daughters would need clothes, but Todd and those silk undies? Complete abuse of the RNC.
They showed her screaming about how she didn't know how much they cost when they were buying them.
Why, did they blindfold her when the clerk was ringing them up or something?
When they don't show the price, it is a sign of the goods being super pricy.
I guess she did not know this.
I always wondered why she couldn't have gotten her family's clothes at Target, Walmart, Sears or JCP like the "real americans" she was always going on about. I doubt if the NASCAR fans she was addressing appreciated the fact that her boxy jackets, pencil skirts and Louboutin heels cost more than their brand new trucks.
You are focusing to much on Todd's silk underwear, which has too much of the gay,anyway. Focus on the whole clusterf*ck that was this campaign.
What….I never heard of this "Bill Ayers" guy BEFORE the election…
Didn't he used to pal around with someone? Saul Alinsky, or someone?
And some Blah Liberation Theologist, Rev. Right.
Don't you guys ever listen to Innanity?
Was he Obama's Muslim pastor?
The actress playing Megs is prettier than the real Megs.
Is the actress a cotton sack full of potatoes?
That… isn't possible. Take it back.
BMW, were you surprised by how Cindy McCain was left in the shadows in this movie?
She was in the shadows of the campaign, too. Kind of a designer dress mannequin.
Considering that that's pretty much all most actual Republican First Ladies are, anyway, I'm not surprised.
Like a trollop under a bridge?
C'mon it's HBO, Tits or GTFO!
It did need the rumored incident where Palin answers the hotel room door in a towel.
"Governor, Steve Schmidt wants you to fuck off and die."
And the cumshot is they wouldn't let her give a concession speech. Bah, ha, ha!
Would you?
I wouldn't have picked her in the first place.
I wouldn't have picked her tor them, even if I knew it would fuck them up. We came too close to catastrophe that last go around.
I think McCain's failure was that he thought picking Palin would bring the Hillary supporters to vote for Palin.
There are many who think that Palin brought voters to McCain's side and there are many who think that Palin lost the election for McCain. In my opinion, she lost it for him.
It's unflippingbelievable.
That's what she said.
Skullflipper.
"Go Flip yourself."
-Dick Cheney
The credits have an actress listed for Cindy McCain…I don't remember her even being in it.
She portrayed herself.
The only time I saw her was sitting on the far end of the couch while they were watching election returns, and then on the stage. Calista probably launched a complaint about her being the new helmet-haired, plastic-faced first lady in waiting. Kind if like she pushed the second Mrs. McCain aside.
Oops. Meant second Mrs. Newt. Cindy IS the second Mrs. McCain. See, even watching a fake Sarah Palin makes you stupid.
The Mannequin from Mannequin.
She only comes to life when John has to remember how many houses they own.
Remember the mannequin when they went through Sak's Fifth?
Was it Nicole Kidman? She's had a lot of Botox and is suitably expressionless.
She was the Pillar of Salt on the right.
And both Sen. McCain and the Duh Gov'Nuh said this movie wasn't factual!
"Cindy McCain…I don't remember her even being in it."
That figures; she was barely in the actual campaign.
I'm watching the replay of Malaga v. Levante.
Oscar Levante?
BMW's verdict: Movie about Sarah Palin had too much Sarah Palin.
Barbara_I's opinion, they laid heavily on the Palin part of the election and dismissed most everything else. The potential FLOTUS got no speaking roles?
I detest Sarah Palin and yet, I felt this movie was all about her and what an idiot she is.
WOW that made me feel bad for McCain. And convinced my view of Sarah has been spot on since I first saw her malevolent face at the convention. I grew up in upstate NY and my Mom was a hockey mom and I have always found it insulting to her that Sarah took that moniker. Let me see if I can put this properly with the new rules. May Sarah be the Gump Worsley of Alaska. "Anybody who wears a mask is scared." ~ Gump Worsley, Hall of Fame Goalie
I DVR'd the Flyers v Maple Leafs game and I am watching it now.
It has been suggested that Sarah didn't go to many hockey games and when she did, she only cheered when her son hit someone. It's also been suggested that her son spent a great deal of time in the "sin bin"
"Anybody who wears a mask is scared."
Sarah doesn't wear a mask — not because she has no fear, but because she has no shame.
She hasn't yet gotten it through her thick skull that high school was 40 years ago, and she can no longer fool everybody into thinking she's just jim dandy by winkin' and jiggling those now tired old tits. So she lets the real Sarah shine through, and everybody but her sees her for the horror show she really is.
Hey, those tits are the youngest part of her body. I say this not knowing if she's undergone a rejuvenation "down there"…
Good point.
Since most of us women don't sprout tits until we reach puberty, they're always by definition 10 or 12 years younger than the rest of us.
But hers had a growth spurt more recently than that!
I only came in here to find out if you got to see Julianne Moore's boobies, but it looks like you don't, so now I'm going to have to go watch Boogie Nights. Again.
I'll be in my bunk.
And again. And again. And again.
Have you tried Chloe?
I don't know, does that mean I'll have to sit through naked Liam Neeson too? Because that sort of offsets naked Julianne Moore.
Naked Julianne Moore + naked Amanda Seyfried = double plus good.
Saturday Night Live is totally slagging Rush Limbaugh now.
Then I'll watch it when it comes on in 45 minutes, locally.
Yeah, that part was pretty funny, in a Schadenfreunde -ly way. I've got it on MUTE now because I need to watch the music video of the Cowboy Junkies setting the Newport Festival on fire one last time.
About fucking time. I was starting to think they were scared of him, just like the Republicans are.
I don't see anyone acting scared of him now. He's really shit the bed this time.
Romulus, Mittens W.
Santorum, Rickster
Gingrich, Newtron Leroy McPheron
Oh, yeah, except for those guys. They don't count anymore, though.
That was a very good impression of him, despite that particular castmember being the very last one I would have expected to play him.
Really! It was oddly dead on. He must have studied up, Poor guy.
I wonder if it has anything to the fact Tarram Killiam is at the bottom of the show's seniority ladder.
Could very well be. You got to suffer if you want to sing the Blues.
I guess I need more sleep (but won't no thanks to that fucking Daylight Savings Time change tonight) thought it was Palin & McCain Lose An Erection.
That's on Skinemax, not HBO.
LOVE Daylight Savings Time!
Good movie. Not a single cheap shot was taken; she really is that mediocre of a human being.
Has the word "venal" appeared in this thread yet?
If so, I think now would be a good time.
This must be science fiction. The idea that a politician with untreated PTSD would pick a total loon to be his running mate is ludicrous.
Now that you mention it, in that scene where McCain had invited the Palin family to his house so that his doctor could "check out her mental state" (because any male doctor can diagnose female hysteria at a cocktail party), they really needed to strap Walnuts down so they could get to the bottom of his Vietnam and Daddy/Granddaddy issues.
The problem is, not even this movie will drive a stake into her public life, so there are more potential sequels than there are Universal Dracula pictures. Shame and humiliation will never hurt her, and self-awareness and reflection will sit waiting in the cobwebby foyer of her mind, so long as she believes she can be dumber than Reagan and still rule the universe.
If we could just figure how to turn off the Wingnut Money spigot, then she'd go happily back to obscurity, fleecing the Rubes with her church and selling Condo timeshares in the new scenic tourist destination of Blackfly Marsh, AK.
"Shame and humiliation will never hurt her"
Primarily because she's incapable of either.
If she comes around here, I'm going to try throwing a pail of water on her. It worked in a movie I saw one time.
i'll hold out for Palin Vs. The Wolfman.
You guys with your elitist HBO. I'm stuck with netflix on the wifi signal I'm stealing from the neighbor.
But that's kind of fun in a sneak-cigarettes-from-your-parents kind of way.
She's downloading German lesbian bondage porn anyway.
Wrong! Its Bulgarian.
Looks like DST has kicked in. Watchando, everyone.
Watch and do what?
Did HBO portray any Wonkette bloggers and commentators?*
Knowing my luck, I'd be played by William Hung.
*just kidding…sort of.
I saw a screencap of a room full of apes with typewriters on the HBO site. So, yes!
OT: This is disturbing. More corruption in congress, a Republican (of course) is essentially procuring bribes from defense contractors (Boeing, Raytheon, OshKosh, General Dynamics – the usual suspects) to fund his wife's California State Assembly campaign. She's running on a platform of outrage against a 10cent plastic bag tax (an environmental law). Why on earth would defense contractors care about an environmental law? They can't explain that, even when asked directly.
Also, did you know that we're paying about $50 million PER MONTH just to ONE COMPANY to make the F-35 jet weapon, and it doesn't even work right? http://bit.ly/xmf9SC
Randy Cunningham approves… from his halfway house.
Something stirring in my pants over this comment.
Pffft. So the pilot's oxygen feed system fails and kills people. It's a jobs program! Freedom! 9/11!
Flip you, ya flippin' melonfarmer.
That's what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps.
WIN
Enough is a enough! I have had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane!
Okay, Bitches! It's been real. It's time for me to get back on the "Trophy Wife Tour" and take a vacation with Mr Yum-Yum for 10 days.
The whole post-op thing is progressing nicely and I've introduced lettuce back into my diet. We have a flight out and then I will see my surgeon on Thursday, and she will tell me when we can get back to sexy time. Not since Bush v. Gore has anything been so backed up.
I'm kinda depressed after this surgery. Jeffer has never had children and I am distraught over the many abortions I could have had for him. Yeah, I am still going to send him to Walgreen's for tampons and almond M&M's. He pays attention to the M&M's and has no clue how roomy my bathroom cabinets are and how many tampons I can shove into those cabinets. I stack them up like cord wood and I have at least 3 years worth of storage before he catches on. Shhh, don't tell him.
Thanks, and see ya in the funny papers!
Have a great vacation barb! If I was a less well trained dog I would lick your face. You will just have to settle for my tail thumping on the floor.
Thanks, puppy o' mine. I'm going to miss you.
Behaaaaaaave yourself!
Or not.
Hey, what ARE we going to do with alll of those unused tampons? I'm thinking we could send them to Rush. (Insert your joke here).
Sexytime will be back soon. We're just going to have some fun. I am going to have a big ass steak and some martinis at some point. Barb gets whatever she wants.
Vodka.
He only drinks vodka martinis.
Well, a Double then. One for each nostril.
Use them to decorate the tree at Xmas, they make festive earrings, etc.
I'm thinking painting them green and soaking them in Irish whiskey.
Darling, for the first time in my life I have no idea how to reply to that shit.
Biff, you are the Martha Stewart of tampons, thanks!
Thanks for the Funny, Barb and have a great time. Don't forget to Stop Raping People.
C_R, We are going to Vegas, where raping people is mandatory.
Well, now, it looks like you'll just have to piss off Breitbart in his grave.
That is good.
I'd rather piss ON Breitbart's grave.
That we are. We felt the need for some good times that would drive all four of the republican candidates crazy.
Man on dog, on top of the car sex, with mistresses and he pays me in gold.
Gah. I was in Vegas twice this week. Haaaate!
In Vegas twice for what, Biff?
Barb, the rest of us will have all the abortions in your honor. Enjoy!
Tear them apart and use them as cotton balls.
Have a great vacay!
Tonight, instead of watching "game change" I watched "straw dogs". All the redneck ignorance plus a bear trap to the head!
Are you sure you didn't fall asleep in the middle and watch Game Change instead? 'Cause they sound like the same movie.
man remember when 2008 was so cool?
It was awesome. However, they should have had scenes from Palin's point of view with Schmidt and Wallace sounding like adults in Peanuts.."wah wah wa wah wa waah wah wa.." Also also I read elsewhere that Wallace broke down crying when Palin winked during the debate (as opposed to giggling like in the movie)….can't recall the source .
Woody Harrelson as Schmidt was in it to win it. Smells like an emmy or whatever.
I never read Palin's memoir, but I'm sure it was something like that.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, tonight, as if millions of Palinistas suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
You know, they were right about this being a game change. That is to say that up until her elevation, McCain had at least attempted to play 11 dimensional chess with Obama. Choosing Sarah was basically McCain saying "fuck it, we're going to try to switch the game to checkers."
How's that gamey-changey thing workin' for ya', Sarah?
Traveling through hyperspace ain't like election season, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a vote, or bounce too close to a caucus and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it!
edit: you expanded your original post past the first sentence which makes me look like Nerdy McNerdberger (which, of course, I am)
McCain played but he couldn't win, so he tried the Hail Mary. That really, really didn't work for him.
Or maybe they just all fell asleep because they were up past their bedtimes.
But, but, but, McCain was entitled to the presidency. After all the rolling over he did with Bush's dirty campaign tactics and even sucking up to cretins like Pat Robertson, one would almost think his whole "honor" schtick was just a fabrication of that "liberal media".
I am having some problems getting the clocks back on the little nails.
I only use Media Villager "Sunday Morning Talk Show™" clocks. They never have to be reset and keep excellent time, but only twice a day.
I did have to throw the FOX News "Wake up, America!" bedside clock out, though. The Alarm wouldn't stop going off.
BARACKMYWORLD presents
GAME CHANGE: THE UNTOLD STORY
You saw the HBO movie, now learn what was in the other 3/4 of the book!
starring
Dennis Haysbert as Senator Barack Obama
Angela Bassett as Michelle Obama
Annette Benning as Senator Hillary Clinton
Matthew McConaughey as John Edwards
Stockard Channing as Elizabeth Edwards
Dennis Franz as David Axelrod
Jon Cryer as David Plouffe
John Slattery as Senator Joe Biden
George Wendt as Mark Penn
Thomas F. Wilson as Terry McAuliffe
Jon Hamm as Mitt Romney
and
Ed Harris as Senator John McCain
COMING SOON NOWHERE NEAR YOU!
^Coincidentally, my 4000th Intense Debate post.^
D. Hamm Biscuits as Senator Lindsay Graham
and
Rush Limbaugh as himself
I have a feeling Rush could be played more convincingly by the Hindenburg.
The Hindenburg wasn't as gassy.
Or as Nazi-ish.
"That's no Moon, that's a
Space StationDisc Jockey!"Good god man…make this happen. Angela B as Michelle ! Hells yeah.
Hey, that's some good casting there. You just saved them a lot of money, so why not make it?
Especially because nobody listed looks like anybody listed, except maybe Jon Hamm and Ed Harris.
I was trying to find a balance between resemblance and talent…otherwise it'd be one of fantasy casting articles like they used to run in "Wizard" magazine, where they'd have pro-wrestlers and super-models playing all of the parts.
You should have got Kelsey Grammer since he is always wanting to go on about how he can not get gigs due to being a Republican and not because of only being able to play one character.
He's the mayor of Chicago on that show nobody watches, so he must have found someone in Hollywood dumb enough to believe a conservative could convincingly portray a Chicago mayor.
Oh, boo freakin' hoo!
He's been fucking that particular hippo since the mid-1980s, on FOUR different shows (Cheers, Wings, Frasier, and the Simspons [oh, yeah, like Sideshow Bob isn't the same character]), and getting assloads of money for that same tired old schtick. How many other mediocre Johnny One Note actors can milk it for that long, let alone get paid enough to keep them in stripper wives? It's as if whats his face had been playing The Professor on Gilligan's Island for 30 years, except getting a million bucks an episode.
Upfisted just for the awesomeness of the casting.
Stockard Channing as Elizabeth Edwards?
*kisses bunched-together fingertips*
Mwah!
There was a movie on last night? I thought I was having a horrifying flashback.
Someone at a party last night(somehow I admitted I was a democrat) insisted that if I had watched the GOP debates, I would see that the GOP are not negative about contraception or any of the womens' issues- the media manipulated everything. She told me I should read the transcripts of the debates. Miss Manners is so right- never discuss politics, religion or anything with crazy people.
finallyhappy:
Quite interesting the Lamestream Media are powerful enough to get Mr. Obama elected President, but can't seem to do a damn thing about jobs, peace in the Middle East, getting hungry children in the US of A fed.
Or gettting Duh Gov'Nuh to shut the fuck up.
Last night was a very painful two hours for me. For a while there I actually experienced some compassion for Sarah Palin. I know: so very incorrect of me. So girly-man of me! But still: talk about being a poster child for being in over your head! I couldn't help myself: I had some moments. But then someone came along (that would be me) and bitch-slapped me 3-4 times, reminding me what a cretinous megalomaniac she is; what a pathological inability she has to differentiate between truth and non-truth; what a one-bit contemptible demagogue she is; how she's turned what should be Serious Shit into reality television; how she's just plain stoopided her way into the upper echelons of the 1%; and I thanked my Old Testament god for the righteousness of my outrage and decided to go ahead and embrace my inner nasty son-of-a-bitch.
Like my New Age friends tell me, you create your own reality. And Sarah sure created hers. Came a time when she said, "That's a noose? You betcha I'll just climb up onto the scaffold and put it around my neck!" Now this movie has her twisting in the wind. Sarah, it's a punishment fit for your massive hubris.
By George, I think you've got it.
The main pivot point of the problem, at least as portrayed in the movie, is that she did fully realize how stupid and unworthy she was, but bailed herself out of it by convincing herself that it didn't matter, because Reagan was stupid, too, and that she was still the star of McCain's campaign. So I don't feel sorry for her tiny, pea brain. I also have no sympathy for the fact that she reneged on supporting McCain's policies after promising that she would.
"The main pivot point of the problem, at least as portrayed in the movie, is that she did fully realize how stupid and unworthy she was, but bailed herself out of it by convincing herself that it didn't matter"
I didn't watch the movie, but if that was it's viewpoint, I don't agree with it.
$arah (and Bush, it must be said) are the kind of sociopaths who not only enjoy their petty, hateful meanness, but who truly believe (if they can be said to possess enough brain function to believe anything) that they're always right.
I've met people like that, unfortunately. If you ask them if they've ever been wrong, they won't argue, they simply won't understand. "Whattya mean?", with their tiny foreheads all scrunched up, and their mouth hanging open, like a not very bright golden retriever.
Please remember that apart from all of that, that the problem was that she had the gall to accept the invitation in the first place. She could have turned it down, and she wouldn't have been the first, nor would she have been the last to do so.
Not only was her hubris in thinking that they really had a chance kind of rattling, but was was maddening is that when she had the epiphany that they probably wouldn't win (ya' think?), she turned to being personally nasty and classless to her opponents, and parlaying that both into bringing out the very worst elements in America to build a class of customers for her subsequent and cynical grifting. I'll never forgive her for what she brought out in America near the end of their disaster of a campaign. She is directly responsible for the tea party getting as hot (read: racist/xenophobic/sexist) as it has gotten.
The movie portrayed Festus McCain as a profane hard drinking regular guy, BShit , Mr. Cranky Pants picked Ms. Moose and endangered civilization for the next century. Besides when the economy tanked in September he said "golly gee" what do I do now. Since then he has been for bombing any country he can throw a dart at. Sarah may have been a dumb ass but come on Johnny was no prize either.
Yeah, they went a little too easy on t-rex. I'm waiting for the alternative ending with McCain at Sedona Assisted Living for Rich Fart Bags sipping on vodka. ..yeah, vodka…COMMUNIST!!
The McCains will have a number of their own assisted living centers. John won't have any idea how many.
If I had as many servants as I imagine they have, even my cave would be considered "assisted living".
Big Hollywood has been tracking the film for some time, debunking its obvious lies and shredding HBO's pitiful defense of what is a politically motivated hatchet job. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/03/08…
With a dozens of refutations!
Top 10 Lies of HBO's 'Game Change'
HBO Panics Over Big Hollywood 'Game Change' Vetting
Washington Post: Big Hollywood 'Raised Legitimate Questions' About 'Game Change'
Breitbart Citizen Journalist Attends DC 'Game Change' Premiere
Palin Attorney: ‘Game Change’ Ignores Reality, Relies on Source ‘In Over His Head'
'Undefeated' vs. 'Game Change'; Vetted vs. Unvetted
HBO ignores Palin sources who traveled extensively with the governor during the campaign
Key players behind "Game Change" gave thousands to Democrats, zero to Republicans
And Peggy Noonan is on Meet the Press right now. Ugh.
Haven't they changed their name to Big Dirtnap yet?
Big Wormfest?
That's good! Big Dustbinofhistory would be nice, also.
"HBO Panics Over Big Hollywood 'Game Change' Vetting"
Wow, BigHollywood is so important.
Every morning, all the Staff look into the bathroom mirror and say:
"I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!"
But unlike Stuart, they then go out and try to fuck people's lives up on purpose.
Diverts their attention from their empty, empty souls.
Which would make them zero for three.
Very Perceptive, Grasshopper.
"'Undefeated' vs. 'Game Change'; Vetted vs. Unvetted"
Gawd…REALLY?
Way too much basketball to watch missed it. GO CARDS! Big East Champs!
Unsolicited advice:
DON"T LOOK AT THE NEWS TODAY.
I saw the news today oh boy.
The writer of that 2008 post shows promise but really needs to lay off of the "r-word".
I feel bad for Julianne Moore — surely having to study Palin for the part means that Sarah is now a part of her and Palinesque utterings can now pop out of her in her life?
Why should she be any different from the rest of us?
Also
Shorter HBO's "Game Change"
McCain: le looking for vp candidate
Schmidt: hi i found a game change!
Trollface: all of them, katie!
McCain: FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
John McCain must be delighted with the movie. It shows him as a nice guy, no crazy at all. Those of us who remember '08 hardly recognized the man who sold his soul and lost his mind, apparently never to be recovered.
As for the portrayal of Sarah, Julianne Moore totally missed what makes Sarah Sarah. She's mean and she likes that in herself. She's at her best when she's mean. Playing her like she's all warm fuzzies at heart just isn't credible.
In short, the movie must have been based on a chapter written by Halperin. This was a big, disappointing bait and switch.
She was not portrayed as "all warm fuzzies." Her calculation, mendacity and self-delusion came through loud and clear.
You can quit holding your breath now. I agree with you. Once she was before those screaming crowds, she's shown to be the publicity whore she is. LIfe really is about her.
It's funny, the movie gives McCain and Palin a little more dignity than they deserve by ignoring both of their appearances on Saturday Night Live toward the end of the campaign. By going on the show, Palin showed she either had a slightly better sense of humor than advertised or was too stupid to understand how thoroughly Tina Fey had humiliated her.
But McCain's guest spot on SNL was even more extraordinary: He stood there while Fey stuck the knife into his own VP candidate, days before the election! It still amazes me that McCain had given up on his chances so completely that he literally snarked himself before anyone had even voted. It's the kind of devil-may-care, mavericky-ness that inflicted the bitch on the nation in the first place.
Maybe it was his way of apologizing?
What a nice portrait of a calm even-tempered statesman like John McCain. I especially liked the scene when he gently chides the staff (who rat-fucked him in 2000 that he hired) for wanting to go negative.
Excuse me while I go buy some more whiskey. It's NCAA time.
OK, i didn't see the movie (we don't have cable) so I had to wade through over 540 comments to learn nobody has yet blamed Wonkette for bring Duh Gov'Nuh to national attention.
When is Wonkette going to step up? We know it was Wonkette that introduced the hot governor of Alaska to America and to the World!
You thought Ken Layne was hiding out in the desert because he loves the place? This is the burden he must continue to bear.
Moore may be alright, but we all know Lisa Ann is the definitive Palin.
Awww …. Tiny forehead scrunches up, mouth hangs open. Lots of dog-breath lapping follows, accompanied by drool.
I would be remiss if I didn't share this awesome video of McCain introducting $P – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qUVQDmLf7s
You know, I was just thinking, today, that Sarah's ability to monetize moral/intellectual failure and bankrupcty is Kardashian in its scope and breadth.
Just watched it… now I really want to see a follow up – Game Change: Biden's perspective. Just following Biden around from before the primaries to the election, showing all the gaffes that weren't caught on tape.
Lizzie, I wish you could see the footage again of the people in the crowds for Obama's speeches. It's massive and the energy gave me goosebumps.
thanks for the link and the sentiment LL…all snark aside I STILL love this guy for being so genuine and authentic and always keepin' it real, tho pictures tell the story…he connects with REAL people in a way that NO Repig ever has in my lifetime, not the Shrub. Or Gramps McSame or the MittBot 3.0 or even the sainted/ demented Ronnie Raygun…while BObama will never be as 'liberal' as me (hell I'M a socialist!) I'm gonna work my ass off just as hard to make sure he CRUSHES these Repugnant scum in November (this photo is one of my favorites cuz it shows just how cool BO is every day in every moment!) http://dudelol.com/obama-fist-bumping-white-house…
I think we will see that again this year once the election gets rolling.
My greatest fear is that people assume Barack will win and they won't get out there and vote. I can't wait for the debates with Mitt and Barack.
That will be good and Joey Biden and Rick Santorum will be excellent ,'When Catholics Attack”
I'm of the same opinion. Second term should be libpocalypse with any luck.
Oh, I do hope you're right LL, thanks for keeping the faith. It's been hard sometimes and it's good that you are here to remind us.
Intellectually, I am there. emotionally, I can't let myself hope for that quite yet.
Perhaps next January 20th.
Good point. Much better acoustic dampening. I'll write up an RFP.
Do you think Mittens would ask, and Santorum would accept? I think Santorum accepting the veep would totally destroy Ricky's credibility with all the Mormon-Haters and Liberal-Haters.
Biden would eat Rick for breakfast and shit him out before 10 am.
If he gets both chambers of Congress, maybe. If not, I will take more of the same over The Revenge Of The Guns And Religion Clingers.
That's my opinion, too. For the life of me, I will never understand why they chose her. Pretty much everyone, including those within the GOP, were saying: "Who's Sarah Palin?" Even I, being so far removed from Alaska & not knowing a thing about her, thought it might be a decent choice. But then I started to learn more about her (as did the rest of the country & the GOP) & then I knew that McCain's chances were more dead than Reagan.
Well, if anybody thinks she brought him more votes than she cost him, they are as fucking delusional as she is.
McCain obviously badly underestimated the intelligence of Hillary's supporters. He probably would have still lost if he had picked someone with two neurons to rub together but not as badly.
IMHO the McCain campaign was set on the rails to catastrophe as soon as Bill Kristol let his boner lead Palin to the VP slot.
I was, and still am, deeply insulted and offended that anyone would even consider placing someone so disastrously unqualified into one of the most powerful positions on the planet.
I personally think it had less to do with his running mate than the economy. I was a financial advisor at the time; panic! panic! panic! — right before the election! and then McCain played around with it instead of taking it seriously. People were looking at their 401(k)s and looking at Walnuts and MAYBE then looking at Palin and saying, "This guy is a fucking joke. It's a pattern now of poor decisions."
"he thought picking Palin would bring the Hillary supporters to vote for Palin"
Because all women in politics are interchangeable, and all women voters would vote for any woman.
Because one Gyno-American is the same as any other, right?
Yeah, putting Palin in the VP slot was a pretty shameless attempt to grab that mighty PUMA army and win the election in a landslide.
Yes, I am smirking right now. Why do you ask?
Damn, you're a better person than I if you managed Tristram Shandy.
Infinite Jest I kinda liked. Wallace fucks around with his meta stuff, which he does very well in "brief interviews with hideous men" which can get a bit tiresome, but I find the whole compelling.
You read Tritram Shandy on your own and not some graduate seminar? Color me impressed. And to think he did all those plaing-with-type tricks before InDesign or even Quark.
And roofies.
The GOP is up the santorum creek without a paddle.
Where is that conspiracy theorist blogwhore when we need her/him/it. They could probably explain this.
To be fair, my reaction when hearing the news was "oh, shit" because I automatically realized what they were up to (identity politics), but also had no clue how disasterously her candidacy would turn out.
Regarding "Infinite Jest": It was the endnotes and footnotes that did me in.
There are few things I reread but Shandy's is on my list to read again. It's such a nice, mad, & complex piece of work.
That's What Sarah Said.
Done and done.
Aw, I love it!Also, for some reason I can no longer comment on Wonkette except via email, so uh… say goodbye to everyone, I guess?
Tthat's totally on my agenda, along with the bucket of pig entrails and severed horse penises.
Just to brighten the place up.
…And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the closest thing to the final scene from Casablanca that you will ever read here at the Wonkettes.
I worked with busloads (literally busloads) of volunteers from California on the campaign here in Nevada, and the most common reason for them going to such lengths to help defeat McCain was $arah–universally loathed.
She gave him a fundraising boost and helped shore up some states that might have gone blue if she wasn't such catnip to fundies (in Missouri, which was razor thin, for example, she fired up the nuts in the Ozarks). But she (and McCain's cluster bombing on the economy) also ensured blue turnout and might have indirectly put Indiana over the top for Obama. I knew McCain was dead when he was sending her to places like Noblesville Indiana and having to waste time campaigning in Arizona right before the election.
Salut!
hah, (obscure) Highlights WIN! (hell I remember reading those 'Goofus & Gallant' stories in my doctor's office when I was a kid in the 60s…good times) http://www.cracked.com/funny-5498-goofus-gallant/
AlterNewt, I am hours away from a vacation where I won't have to do housework, I don't have to cook, a limo driver will take me anywhere and leggy bitches fetch drinks for me and I miss you so much already that I don't want to go.
And I would watch the shit out of that remake.
I like the picture of Barry at a giant rally in St Louis, in front of the Old Court House where the Dred Scott decision was handed down in 1857, to the effect that slaves were property who could be "reclaimed" even in free states. Too drunk to find it but it's awesome in it's irony.
You mean you're not?
…I'm having a cigarette now. Have a blast.
They can't just be sending the same guy over and over again, can they?
*ponders*
Vince Vaughan is *almost* as douchey as Jeremy Piven, but also fat.
I suppose we'll have to go with Joe Pesci: short, crabby, receding hairline, nails-on-blackboard voice; he's pretty much our best bet.
Giggity.
C_R_ real men drink vodka martinis and not gin.
The end- and footnotes are part of his meta fetish. They're part of the whole. Yes, tiresome, but less so than Shandy to me.
'course, that's a subjective opinion, and I like Austen who many people find more than tiresome.
What I liked most about DFW was his nimbleness in managing the footnotes with the narrative without compromising his thread. Acquired taste, perhaps, but I enjoyed the way he thought.
If you like it, then "brief interviews with hideous men" is worth a crack.
Personally I like "Infinite Jest" as well, but there's a variety of contretemps about that in this thread.
Don't forget Bill Kristol was Dan Quayle's Chief of Staff for the entire time he was Vice President.
(I still think no one was actually listening to Kristol, they just came up with a bad idea independently based on limited options, but I digest…)
A family with a history of inappropriate boners, and I speak with some experience in the field.
No living Republican could have won after 8 years of Bush.
"When it's least expected, you're Erected, you're the star today!
Smiiiile, You're on Candid Camera!"
Parallel Failure. I can buy into that.
Bill did have the ear of many powerful and stupid people in DC, though.
Men with Purity of Essence drink only rainwater and grain alcohol.
You ever see a Rooski drink water?
They might be Clones. No one really wants to talk about this.
Now let's be fair – if one were to base their view of Hillary's supporters' intelligence on the PUMA diatribes of the time – well …
To visit a friend in town on vacation on Tuesday, and to buy a Rosetta Stone course en espanol on Friday. I live about 65 miles from the south end of the Strip.
I think the whole PUMA thing was mostly an overblown, false-flag operation.
I still remember when one of those diatribes somehow became an anti-douche manifesto and I got quoted on a news site as saying "what is wrong with that person?"
I wish I believed you, but I thought the same thing after 4 years of Bush.
I like the spin in the link that Gallant finds some very dark ways to vent his over-repressed impulses.
There's another parody version somewhere on the innertubes with grown-up versions of Goofus and Gallant, who we've all met, e.g.:
– Gallant understands that No means No.
– Goofus says, "If she didn't want to put out, why did she eat the dinner?"
Well, less of a “twit”, anyway. Or some similar word.
"universally loathed"?
Butbutbut… Alaska Magazine said that she's "Wildly Popular"!
I don't care for douches, either, but I've never issued a manifesto; I just don't hang out with them.
They meant literal ones and not figurative ones.
It's about time we added something new to the mix … "_____ libel" is over a year old.
"When they don't show the price", idiots like Palin think it means everything is free.
Dont go!
Reset your password or something.
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