So you guys REALLY let Simon have it for declining to rake the Bristol Palin muck the other day. Congratulations, you set a Deceiver commenting record.
Now can we talk about her policies?
As Radley Balko at Reason magazine points out , the McCain campaign might have done better in vetting their candidate before trotting her out as a hero against government waste.
The Washington Independent has unearthed a document that shows Sarah Palin boasting about $3.5-million in federal earmarks she secured as mayor of Wasilla, her little Alaskan town of 9,000. The millions were granted for airport repaving, water treatment, and sidewalks.
McCain has made fighting pork-barrel spending a campaign tenet, and there’s a certain irony that he once criticized earmarks requested by Palin herself: $500,000 for a public-transportation project in Wasilla in 2001 . Even though if you live in rural Alaska, you definitely have a car.
But now that she is his running mate, he is recastin...
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From the Times of London, this story -- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t... -- that the McCain campaign is hoping for a wedding between Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston, to distract everyone from the real news of the campaign. Inside John McCain’s campaign the expectation is growing that there will be a [...]
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* Ballot Measure in Massachusetts would
eliminate income taxes . And all they have to give up are roads and public education!
* Out-of-character Colbert sez living under Bush has been “eating a
shitburger supreme ,” stays mum on how Mooseshitburger supreme tastes.
* McCain campaign literally wetting its Depends over the idea of a highly exploitable, media-heavy
pre-election wedding for knocked up Alaskan teen Bristol Palin . Baby-daddy Levi Johnston desperately trying... more
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English model Kelly Brook making her debut in the hit play “Fat Pig” at the Comedy Theatre in London (10/13)
+ Jailbait warning! [ Bastardly ]
+ Big boobs for Obama [ College Humor ]
+ Jake Gyllenhaal is not that funny [ I’m Not Obsessed ]
+ Halle Berry is so hot she sets off car alarms [Drunken Stepfather]
+ Morgane Dubled Nude Pictures are Super [Egotastic!]
+ Bar Refaeli looks so damn hot in a bikini [ Just Jared ]
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The vote counting has been completed in Alaska’s race for Ted Stevens’ Senate seat and Mark Begich, the Democrat candidate, was announced the winner. The spread came down to 3,724 votes and with only 2,500 overseas ballots left to be counted the divide is unbeatable for Stevens.
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Last night I embedded a video by John Ziegler that showed some Obama voters being interviewed about their knowledge of the issues in the campaign. The video is funny, but also instructive. It was prepared in connection with a Zogby poll and the web site How Obama Got Elected .
Here are some highlights of Zogby’s poll of Obama voters:
* 57 percent thought the Republicans still control Congress. Note that this is worse than a random result, since there are only two possible... more
Today is the last day of the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change in NYC, made up of over 200 scientists from around the world who believe that — to make a long story short — Al Gore is full of polar bear doodies. Here’s how CNN’s Miles O’Brien capped off his report about the conference on last night’s Anderson Cooper 360°, which was the latest installment in their not-at-all-fearmongering “Planet in Peril” series (courtesy of ... more
Drew Barrymore told Oprah yesterday that being on the cover of Vogue was a total validation of herself , except that they clearly Photoshopped the hell out of her.
Like, is this even the same person ?
The interview went as follows:
Oprah was like, “It’s some kind of validation that you’re a real woman.” Drew agreed saying, “It is. Especially if you’re someone who is so utterly yourself.”
Drew Barrymore is so free-spirited and her own person... more
Paris Hilton has been drawing new headlines by hiring a spiritual adviser to bring out her inner Buddha.
She went shopping in West Hollywood with her pet monk, and at one point she gave a $20,000 diamond necklace to a complete stranger after the guru told her it would be good for her spiritual health.
Right place, right time. Lucky stranger.
Of course, whether Paris knows it or not, the guy is a total fraud . Maxie Santillan is an actor who has appeared on My Name Is Earl and i... more
Oh, it’s the most wonderful time of the year. Tax season! Time to roll up those sleeves and start organizing your receipts, filling out piles and piles of maddening forms, selling your multimillion-dollar condo to your own wife…
Oh, you didn’t have to do that last one? New York Times publisher Arthur “Pinch” Sulzberger Jr. just did! The New York Observer says :
According to a deed filed in city records this afternoon (2/29), Mr. Sulzberger transferred... more
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