• crappy hour

    McCain Campaign, CBS Journalists Are Unashamed Of Their Own Entitlement, Election Tactics

    When the chips are down and all the prayers to God to win the election and protect you from witchcraft haven't worked, everyone knows it's time to call in the big guns: the forces of evil. And, if they're too busy helping the Axis of Evil get nukes and shit, well, then you can always call in the forces of pettiness and covert racism, as they've been helpful in many an election here in the States. But Swampland's Ana Marie Cox and I will insist on, at a minimum, throwing rhetorical spitballs at the hordes and making assfucking jokes as the sky is falling, so there's that, at least... after the jump. More »

    10:00 AM on Thu Oct 9 2008
    By Megan
    11,065 views, 185 comments

    Most discussed treecut...Grim Reaper of the forest: You know, I don't like the whole Obama-Wright connection. Not because Wright is a fiery black preacher, but because more »

  • crappy hour

    McCain Surrogate Carly "SNL Was Sexist" Fiorina Goes Out With A Bang

    Oh, did you hear? Carly Fiorina has canceled all her remaining television appearances this week and will be taking a short media-oxygen-free nap due to some little things she said yesterday. Other people that should join her in her media-vacuum? Maureen Dowd, who Jason Linkins totally Rick-Rolled me with this morning, and our favorite elitist-against-elitism Clinton/McCain supporter Lynn Forester de Rothschild. All that, plus we find out that the U.S. Embassy in Yemen was bombed and we dismiss it almost as fast as real cable newspeople (but with our sad faces in place, just like them!) and a recommendation for Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey. More »

    10:00 AM on Wed Sep 17 2008
    By Megan
    5,575 views, 195 comments

    Most discussed funnyface: I love that one McCain staffer said "Carly will now disappear," like they were having her whacked or something. more »

  • news round up

    Palin, Palin, Palin And That Other Guy, Too

    • There are already quotes from the Palin-Gibson confab! She threatens war with Russia, sidesteps the hubris question, and can't blink! It sounds all kinds of fair and balanced and totally not fluffy. Just because they're taking a stroll together doesn't mean it was too chummy.[Mark Ambinder, Mark Ambinder, TV Newser]
    • But just because ABC is stretching the interview into 5 different news segments doesn't mean they're looking to boost ratings, obviously. The first segment airs tonight during what I like to call "drinking time" and other people consider "dinner time." [LA Times]
    • In a page from Bush's playbook, Palin conducts state business on a personal email account to avoid disclosure laws, since that worked out so well for the Bush Administration. [Think Progress]
    • Obama may have been kidding about being a Popular Mechanic centerfold, but they're offering to take him up on it anyway. David Axelrod needs to jump on that shit, like, yesterday, and show the pistol-packin' mama (per Cindy McCain) who's a regular person. [Popular Mechanics]
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    6:30 PM on Thu Sep 11 2008
    By Megan
    5,042 views, 193 comments

    Most discussed ASmallTurnip: Hi guys! If there's anyone who would give those of us in the rest of the world a very more »

  • crappy hour

    Pig Lips, Crazy Eyes, Camille Paglia And The Dear Leader

    Some days were made for mocking, and between Camille Paglia's assertions that she's in touch with the "real" America and that Sarah Palin is the new Madonna, former Massachusetts governor Jane Swift's assertions that Barack Obama is a pig, North Korea's assertions that Kim Jong Il is totally fine and sending birthday greetings around the world and the Washington Post using this photo to demonstrate Sarah Palin's appeal to women, well, today is one of those days. Luckily, between Moe and me, we are totally up to that challenge. Fuck you, too, Wednesday. More »

    10:00 AM on Wed Sep 10 2008
    By Megan
    6,890 views, 256 comments

    Most discussed Meg: Please, Palin is way more Britney than Madonna. She's a sideshow. She's fun gossip. But just because more »

  • news roundup

    He Knows, But He's Not Saying

    • Obama's finally decided on a running mate! He's just not going to tell you who, though, so there. He says it's someone without a big ego, so Karen Tumulty thinks it isn't Biden, CNN's confirmed it's not Sam Nunn, and I wonder where on Earth he found a politician without a huge ego. [Associated Press, Time, CNN]
    • Speaking of enormous (and undeserved) egos, Rush Limbaugh's at it again, complaining that us Lesbian Feminazi Bonerkillers won't let him hit "girls." Oh, and Barack Obama is a "little black man-child." Dude, are the people that syndicate his show just going to let him show up in a white hood, too? [Media Matters]
    • By the way, McCain has finally found a point below which he won't stoop to pander to the electorate — he won't take a pledge to serve only one term (that he wouldn't intend to keep anyway) just so people will stop "wondering" about his advanced age. Glad to know there's a floor! [Politico]
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    6:00 PM on Thu Aug 21 2008
    By Megan
    5,275 views, 483 comments

    Latest by Red-headed bookworm: @SisterMaryMartha: Oh God! *shudder* Please! Did you have to instill that image in my head. Ugh...my stomach turned...need new image more »

  • Leftovers

    Korean Mata Hari Never Knew Military Secrets • Saudi Woman Lobbies For Female Athletes

    The truth behind the "Korean Mata Hari," Kim Soo-im, who was thought to have seduced secrets out of an American colonel and later executed by the South Korean military, is finally revealed. • Iraqi sprinter Dana Abdulrazak says that the important thing for her is not winning the gold in Beijing, but just giving Iraq a presence at the Games. • Women's wealth management firm Addidi will set up an all-female investment club called Addidi Angels next month. • A cow in Colorado named Apple chased off a bear that had climbed into her favorite apple tree. • More »

    5:30 PM on Mon Aug 18 2008
    By Maria
    1,915 views, 20 comments

    Latest by ejc.wants.pie.now: It says "sextuplets" in the title, but then the article says that there are 4 boys and 3 girls. Wouldn't more »

  • crappy hour

    North Korea To Eat Again!

    Yo citizens! North Korea was just about to celebrate its 20th anniversary on our State Sponsors Of Terrorism list when Condi Rice went and pulled them abruptly off it. Now she's telling everyone we'll be sending them food and shit!! Megan is skeptical about this, but with food prices where they are right now and all the international finance institutions tipped off to North Korea's phony money and the lid blown off their whole deal with Syria, maybe Kim Jong Il himself started feeling hungry. I don't know, he's been hiding from he paparazzi lately, but it's a thought. Anyway, so you think ending the Cold War was a good idea? How do you chemically castrate someone? Why do some polls say Obama is like 29 points ahead and others say it's a tie? Now that the Supreme Court is starting to look like they're sort of "over" killing people, how'd they rule on the DC handgun ban? And now that he's dissed Scarlett Johansson, what beautiful and lofty thing will Obama sell out next? Those questions (and many dumber ones) answered after the jump. More »

    10:30 AM on Thu Jun 26 2008
    By Moeiscaterwaulingaboutthepatriarchy
    2,267 views, 127 comments

  • news roundup

    Jeremiah Wright: Still The Least Of Our Problems, But Our Problems Kind Of Suck

    • "He's obviously a well-educated, sincere man who has done good work in building Trinity United Church of Christ. But, to borrow a phrase that Wright might have used in one of his sermons, his rant at the Press Club demonstrates, that he is also a damn fool." [TheRoot]
    • Surely I wasn't the only one who detected some philosophical ideological undertones to the Lauren Conrad-Heidi Montag feud, but both actually turn out to support bombing Iran. [NY Mag]
    • Perhaps because Iran recently condemned Barbie dolls. [NYT]
    • The Fed's bailout of Bear Stearns is the "worst policy mistake of the generation." Well, I mean, we pointed that out already, but when a former Fed head of monetary affairs says so it's apparently "news." [WSJ]
    • It was a real delusion. It was like [former New York Gov. Eliot] Spitzer: "I am doing something dangerous, but because of who I am, and how smart I am, it is not going to come back to haunt me." -89-year-old financial manager and historian Peter Bernstein. [WSJ]
    • And now we've got 18.6 million vacant homes on our hands! [Wonkette]
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    6:30 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
    By Moe
    2,465 views, 86 comments

    Latest by MsMishi: I don't know much about any of this but I'm pretty pissed on principal. White folks are freaking out because more »

  • crappy hour

    PA. Kids Punished For Choosing Obama Over Nothingness

    Aw, look at the cute boys from Scranton who got suspended for cutting class to see Obama! They missed a quiz on The Stranger. "Existentialism is dead," one said. If only we could say the same for killing the Arabs, kids! So yeah, we really, really wanted to play hooky today. It's hot in my house and most of the "news" today consists of different ways of saying "Barack Obama is fucked and can't win and has alienated every typical white person he has ever encountered blah blah, blah blah and oh yeah Eliot Spitzer fucks whores; stop me before I kill my laptop without remorse etc." So yeah, Megan and I decided to talk instead about Syria and North Korea and all the other places we could totally obliterate, plus who bought the securities backed by mortgages in Gaza, but we don't really find any answers. Click or don't click, it doesn't really matter. More »

    10:00 AM on Thu Apr 24 2008
    By Moe
    2,721 views, 113 comments

    Latest by chatterboxwriting: @SarahMC: Do you still live in Scranton? I work near Wilkes-Barre. more »

  • crappy hour

    Sure, Hillary Won Pennsylvania, But Barry Nabbed The Hateful Ignorant Fratboy Demographic!

    They are known to let dead people come back to vote for ward leader in Philadelphia, but when I arrived at my polling place of the last two elections yesterday, I found my name mysteriously removed from the rolls. My friend and South Philadelphia homeowner Ryan, meanwhile, got turned away for not being a Democrat, even though he changed his registration the last time he realized the Green Party was lame during last year's mayoral primary. Look: the last machine still running in Pennsylvania runs its voters. Hillary was going to win that. No one on Crappy Hour ever predicted Barack was going to carry this, or even get close, or if we did it was a joke or we were too hungover to know what we were doing, obvi. So I'm not really that mad about Barry's inability to "close the deal." I am, however, kind of baffled by the Abercrombie & Fitch thing. From blind gayvotion to NAFTA to centimillionaire executive pay packages to endemic racism to bland pointless predictability Abercrombie is the epitome of everything about the America that is not "ready" for a black Muslimy Marxist freethinking president. Were those the best white kids you could find, Axelrod? That and more minutiae with me and a very hungover Megan after the jump. More »

    10:00 AM on Wed Apr 23 2008
    By Moe
    6,806 views, 178 comments

    Latest by cheerupsylvia (Can I Haz...Notice???): @marin79: You wanna know what is really detrimental to the party??? Hillary legitimizing EVERY SINGLE ONE of the tin foil hat nutjob more »