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the elephants in the room
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Fashiongate
Sarah Palin And The (Continued) Case Of The $150,000 Wardrobe
Now things are just getting weird. Sarah Palin's claiming she didn't spend $150 grand on wardrobe — evidence to the contrary be damned. And that all this fuss is just an expression of sexism! But the really strange part? Now some of the alleged retailers are claiming they never sold anything to the campaign. So...where did the money go? Who's lying? And...what the hell? More »
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Remember when McCain was speaking at the RNC and someone in the tech booth fucked up, and the screen behind was green instead of a waving flag or whatever? Well indie filmmaker Tony Stone saw it as a comedic opportunity to play upon the whole "Drill, baby, drill" theme and insert some scenes from horror movies that involve drilling. [Street Carnage]
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The Week That Was
This Week We Were Rage-O-Holics And Our Drug Of Choice Was Palin
- Only eight more weeks, people! At least we have hilarious helpers like Sarah Haskins and Samantha Bee to shepherd us through these difficult times.
- I don't know if you'd heard, it's kind of under the radar, but Bristol Palin is pregnant. Some of us think it is a non-issue.
- Others of us want to use it to question Palin's policy on education, abortion, and health care.
- But you know, asking Palin questions about these things is just SEXIST, you pinko media elites!
- Our very own media elite, Megan, braved the RNC so we didn't have to. More »
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Wow. At an event in Wisconsin just now, Palin threw out the "community organizer" insult she dropped at the RNC the other night. Says Megan: "God, is that really effective? It seems so stupidly mean spirited, especially after McCain's call for service last night." A parsing of that phrase here. You can see video of the comment by clicking on the picture at left. [NY Times]
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dirt bag
Lindsay Lohan Is No Playboy Bunny
- Lindsay Lohan has turned down a $700,000 offer to pose topless in Playboy. Since we already saw her nipples in New York magazine, what would be the point? [Page Six]
- Meanwhile, there's a truce in the Lohan fam: Michael is actually saying nice things about Dina! And mom, dad and all the kids will allegedly all be together for the final service for Lindsay's grandfather, who died last week. They'll scatter his ashes in a Long Island harbor. [E!]
- You know how Sarah Palin was on the cover of Us? Apparently the magazine "lost thousands of subscribers in the first 24 hours" following the printing of the issue. [MSNBC]
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rnc diaries
Liveblogging John McCain (And Cindy Lou Who)
Stop! It's Maverick time! Cindy will introduce the film to introduce her husband who will apparently talk forever and a day but I am such a dedicated blogger that I will mock the thing in its entirety while the energy brought to me by my bag of Twizzlers and my double cappuccino slowly dies, like the light in my eyes and the hope in my heart. More » -
rnc diaries
Liveblogging The Boys of Republicana
In order to make my life worth living and the liveblog tenable, I stopped for a double cappuccino and missed Mel Martinez speak. Actually, I didn't "miss" him so much as I looked up and realized — unlike the rest of the crowd — that he was speaking. The rest of the crew, though, I paid attention to andmy liveblogyour conversation starts after the jump. More » -
Convention On A Stick
Not to scare anyone, but I'll be back shortly after 8:00 ET to liveblog tonight's Republican Convention speeches, which include takes on Republicanism from Mel Martinez, Tim Pawlenty, "Snowflake" Brownback, the inventor of color-coded fear Tom Ridge and their main man, John McCain. Feel free to use this thread as an open forum until I get back. I know there's beer around here somewhere, and I'm going to find it.
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rnc diaries
Hey Carly Fiorina, Who Exactly Is Holding My Uterus Hostage?
Last weekend, McCain surrogate Carly Fiorina told women to stop allowing the Democrats to win their votes on the issue of abortion, saying, "The Democratic Party has done a disservice to women by trying to hold women hostage to the issue of Roe v. Wade." In Carly's world view (and in her speech last night), the issue is the economy, not abortion. Carly might have been the only person at the RNC last night for whom abortion isn't that important an issue. More »
