Mark McKinnon Says A Robot Phone Almost Ruined Democracy
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Oh hey look it’s the one human with a soul who ever worked on the McCain campaign, and he quit, a million years ago. Here he is at that Politico/Annenberg Skool panel talking about the time Al Gore’s BlackBerry nearly stole the election in 2000 by calling for a RECOUNT, which is the word you can’t hear at the end of this clip because our video editor (NEWELL) likes to keep things mysterious. [YouTube]
Oh hey look it’s the one human with a soul who ever worked on the McCain campaign, and he quit, a million years ago. Here he is at that Politico/Annenberg Skool panel talking about the time Al Gore’s BlackBerry nearly stole the election in 2000 by calling for a RECOUNT, which is the word you can’t hear at the end of this clip because our video editor (NEWELL) likes to keep things mysterious. [YouTube]








Here is the story of how John McCain picked his running mate: after Barack Obama selected Joe Biden instead of Hillary Clinton, McCain went on a six-day Nyquil bender and at the end of it slurred, “Get me one of them wimmins.” He had always had his heart set on another salty warmonger like himself: Joe Lieberman. But conservatives hated Joe Lieberman for being an abortionist, and there just wasn’t enough room on one ticket for such a terrifying abundance of old man cheeks.
The Republican National Convention has brought truckloads of new visitors to the Twin Cities — and with every event getting canceled in honor of the poor black people who didn’t get killed in the hurricane yesterday, veritable dozens of GOP males were left in their swank hotel rooms with nothing to do. Let’s find out what happens when a bunch of closeted, discreet hairless dudes go looking for good clean fun on Craigslist …
Live from the Xcel Energy Center! Uh, Laura Bush! She spoke, softly, and a giant video Rick Perry appeared, telling the very sparse crowd that he was going to save the poor people who maybe got flooded. He was standing by an airplane! 