Jezebel: Ralph Nader

Laura Bush's New Memoir: Car Crashes, Sarah Palin, And Really Gross Nicknames

Anna North — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:00:00 EDT

Laura Bush's Spoken from the Heart reportedly includes her first-ever public discussion of the fatal car crash she caused. But that's not the most shocking thing about the upcoming memoir. More »

John McCain Walks Away From Debates, His Pride, And America Itself

Megan Carpentier — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:00:00 EDT

Yesterday, John McCain announced a temporary end to partisan politicking and asked Barack Obama to join him in holding hands, singing "Kumbaya" and postponing the Presidential debates until Congressional intervention ends the financial crisis, which most economists agree will be some time next year at the earliest. Who needs to know where candidates stand, anyway? There's a crisis people! Luckily, Spencer Ackerman and I are able to stop laughing at the thought that McCain is doing this for any reasons other than partisan politics and his fear of debating Barack Obama — just long enough to get through a conversation about the "strategy" behind the decision, partner-swapping, Bill Kristol's masturbatory epistles to the GOP and what McCain is doing instead of praying for a terrorist attack to save his campaign. More »

It's The End Of The World As You Know It, But He Feels Fine

Megan Carpentier — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:40:33 EDT

In the wake of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy filing and the Merrill Lynch buyout, the Dow dropped 504 points, or 4.4%. By the way, unless you've got more than $100,000 in one of them or money in the market you're going to need soon (or are reliant on Merrill, Lehman or AIG for your employment), you're probably going to be fine. [Washington Post]
Which John McCain knows is because the fundamentals of the market are strong. Unless you're talking about its regulatory oversight or structure, in which case he and Palin will totes fix that right away but that's not a market fundamental. [Washington Post]
By "fundamentals," by the way, he meant your ability to work long hours without overtime or extra pay. [Huffington Post]
If you buy McCain's rhetoric, by the way, Obama's got a bridge in Alaska he wants to sell you. [Daily Kos]

Parsing The Obama Ipod As Told To Rolling Stone: The Blog Equivalent Of "Hot In Herre"?

Moe — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:00:00 EDT

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There are two kinds of good things in this world, according to my friend Don. There are the Irrefutables, and then, there are the things where you're like "You think you're soooooooooo cool, but you can't deny…" The irrefutables are, you know, just that. (Obama's race speech. Exile In Guyville. Thomas Frank's call for a new Grace Commission to expose the massive scam of government privatization which he admirably restrained himself from titling the Disgrace Commission.) But the latter things might make you squirm at first, like the epidemic of Irish Catholic overshare in the wake of Tim Russert, or Billy Joel's "Longest Time" or those fond memories you have of being 22 and voting for Ralph Nader who is who is now ripping on Barack Obama for "acting white" which brings us sheepishly to the contents of Barack Obama's iPod — EGADS SHERYL CROW — being ceremoniously revealed to Rolling Stone. On one hand, you know, like Peggy Noonan would say: Barf. On the other hand: Ludacris did some really irrefutable work. The most musically enhanced Crappy Hour in some time, with me and Megan after the jump. More »

Would You Listen To Abba With This Guy?

Megan Carpentier — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:00:00 EDT

Oh, John. Back in 2000, you were a Maverick, almost Tom Cruise-like, with your rakish smile and your willingness to buck the system that we all hated so much. You charmed us, led us to believe that you were different than all those other pilots in all those other bars who would try and fail to sing to our souls, or at least different than George W. Bush. And, like Tom Cruise isn't Maverick in real life but a crazy, Scientology-proselytizing, silent-birth having freak, so, too, have your days of playing The Maverick come to an end. We know the truth, and no karaoke can change that, not the Righteous Brother and not Abba. With Moe a little snowed under this morning, Spencer Attackerman Ackerman of the Washington Independent joins me to talk about what sucks about you. And there's kind of a lot. More »

The World, Too, Is Bipolar

mcarpentier — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:40:00 EDT

Hillary Clinton won't wear Donna Karan anymore because it makes her look too well-dressed. Four words, Hillary: Nancy Pelosi is Speaker. [Times UK]

Chelsea Clinton Made A Girl Fat!

Moe — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:00:21 EST

Look, it's Chelsea Clinton on the cover of a magazine! What impeccable timing, New York! Your empathetic portrayal of Hillary's pretty (and pretty reticent) daughter who would rather be seen than heard pushes my "I totally want to read this right now" buttons almost as hard as that April Fools Day themed Modern Love column in the Sunday Times. But hey: It's the Monday after the Oscars, and who really wants to talk about fucking Ralph Hater? (Okay, we'll talk a little bit about Nader.) After the jump Glamocracy's Megan Carpentier and I tabulate the columnist calls for Clinton to get out before she does something even more desperate than circulating photos of Obama dressed up like a homicide bomber and ponder the tragic fate of the poor girl who got excommunicated by Chelsea's Mean Girl gatekeepers at Stanford. More »