Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

I just keep wondering when the Jay-Z designed t-shirt that I bought on the Obama website's "Runway for Change" is going to arrive. Because I've only got nine more days to rock that shit.

Mona Is So Right ... [Cliff May]

...in her latest column when she says. “Democrats are so much better at placing blame.”

I love the total lack of self-awareness here.

Granted, it's Newsmax via McCarthy but:

Obama Campaign Bans TV Station For Asking Biden Hard Questions [Andy McCarthy]

From Newsmax:

Angry over a hard-nosed interview during which Barbara West of Orlando’s WFTV peppered Sen. Joe Biden with the kind of probing questions the pro-Obama mainstream media refuses to ask, the Obama campaign has completely banned the television station from future access and interviews.

According to the Orlando Sentinel, Biden was so disturbed by West's searching questions that the Obama campaign canceled a WFTV interview with Jill Biden, the candidate's wife. "This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best, for the duration of the remaining days until the election," wrote Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign.

McGinnis said the Jill Biden cancellation was "a result of her husband's experience yesterday during the satellite interview with Barbara West."

During the interview, West asked Biden: "Aren't you embarrassed by the blatant attempts to register phony voters by ACORN, an organization that Barack Obama has been tied to in the past?"

Biden appeared flustered by the question, but quickly gained his composure and denied that Obama had been close to ACORN. Biden claimed that the campaign had not paid ACORN any money to register voters. West did not challenge Obama on this point, though during the Democratic primary in Ohio, the Obama campaign had, in fact, paid more than $800,000 to an ACORN-backed group. West did note that Obama has worked with this group in the past. (See: Obama and ACORN: You Can Run But You Can't Hide).

West again stung Biden, asking him about Obama's statement to Joe the plumber that he planned to "spread the wealth around."

West queried: "A Gallup poll showed 84 percent of Americans prefer the government focus on improving economic conditions and creating more jobs in the U.S., as opposed to taking steps that distribute wealth. Isn't Senator Obama's comment a potentially crushing political blunder?"

Dodging the question, Biden attacked the Bush economic and tax policies and Sen. John McCain's tax program. West bored in, quoting Karl Marx's "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs," and asked Biden, "How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?"

Biden appeared stunned and asked, "Are you joking? Is this a joke?"

He then insisted that despite Obama's declaration that he would spread the wealth around, Obama "is not spreading the wealth around."

West then asked Biden about his now-famous statement that Obama would be tested and would not be able to stand up to the challenge without help. "Are you forewarning Americans that nothing will be done and that America's days as the world's leading power are over?" West asked. An obviously annoyed Biden responded by asking West who was writing her questions. West is a veteran TV news journalist who had worked as Peter Jennings' producer at ABC News. Biden responded that whoever is elected will be tested, and then attacked McCain's record.

West returned to the “spreading the wealth” question, asking Biden what he'd "say to the people who are concerned that Barack Obama will want to turn America into a socialist country much like Sweden?" Biden again ducked the question, saying only that he didn't know anybody who thinks that, "except the far-right wing of the Republican Party." ...

10/27 07:38 AM

They're actually trying to rep for Barbara Fucking West, Incredulous TV Hack Of The Year (No Matter What Side You're On)

emphasis mine

Clingin' [John J. Miller]

Wash Post:

Americans have cut back on buying cars, furniture and clothes in a tough economy, but there's one consumer item that's still enjoying healthy sales: guns. Purchases of firearms and ammunition have risen 8 to 10 percent this year, according to state and federal data.

10/27 10:11 AM

TGTBT (Kathryn Jean Lopez)

This day is for the history books: Jonah and I became Facebook friends. (He asked ... and was getting nervous because it had been a few days .... )

That's another way of saying: Jonah has a Facebook page. Evidently I do too.

ignorance bliss etc

Ted Stevens (Kathryn Jean Lopez)

has been found guilty.

I know that numbers in the Senate matter, but this is one seat I didn't care to win with. Republicans should have pressured him to resign long before today. But they, of course, didn't. And so here we are.

oh Klo's inbox today will be fresh

My god that's the first sensible thing I've ever seen her write?!?!

i just friended katie jean and jonah

(No longer is it acceptable to minimize the work of a community organizer.)

lol

Jonah has a Facebook page. Evidently I do too.

It's complicated.

Should I facebook friend K-lo?

Get them hooked on WordTwist.

Why bother? When Jonah starts losing he'll just quit the game to be with his "daughter".

Re: Projection Alert [Ramesh Ponnuru]

An email:

That's all Hitchens has got? Palin is an "ignoramus"—no, a "proud ignoramus"—because she's against earmarks and Hitchens thinks she "probably" believes things he doesn't? Anyone who describes himself as a "prayer warrior" is a bullying theocrat? His last line brings down the hammer on his own toe: "On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity." Because the Constitution takes a firm line against being a prayer warrior?

Yup, that's his argument—if religious bigotry and snobbery can be so called. And the "bullying" business is just more projection from the atheist Cotton Mather of our benighted age.

"the atheist Cotton Mather"

That is... I kind of wish I'd come up with that. That is hysterical.

http://slog.thestranger.com/files/2008/10/shitstorm-flyer.jpg

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/10/27/whelan/

Gallup Tracking [Mona Charen]

Hmm. Gallup tracking has race almost even. Dow up 400.

10/28 03:07 PM

Not the Atlantic Monthly favorite poster thread, but I can't find that right now :(

Sullivan posted one of my emails on his blog! Yay!

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/tzadik.html

"Hmm. Gallup tracking has race almost even. Dow up 400."

Haha yeah the model that no one in their right mind is taking seriously.

50-43 is "almost even"?

I'm sure she is looking at the Likely Voter Model that pretends it's 2004 and none of the newly registered voters are going to vote.

On a Brighter Note [Rich Lowry]

The McCain campaign says their internal polling still shows tightening, and their track shows them down three in the swing states. Fwiw...

10/28 06:14 PM

This is going to be exactly Like the K-Lo Sanatorium fiasco, isn't it

That one is 49-47 with a 2 pt margin of error.

"That one"

Sullivan posted one of my emails on his blog! Yay

Hahah, nice, I was just reading that.

The McCain campaign says their internal polling still shows tightening

"It's weird -- all the registered Republicans we talked to half support us."

Strange that this tightening STILL isn't reflected in external polling.

This is going to be exactly Like the K-Lo Sanatorium fiasco, isn't it

― Mordy, Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:48 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha what was this

Revive the 2006 Congressional election thread.

Basically K-Lo spent all day explaining that Sanatorium was going to win, even as the results came in showing him losing by a lot. She posted about a dozen times on it, until the other posters eventually told her to cool off.

And of course, I meant Santorum.

pa ground report [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

One Santorum volunteer I know reports knocking on 3oo doors in south central Penn. today, hearing most often: "These polls are absurd! I'm ready to show those media people how wrong they are!"

Oremus.

11/06 06:06 PM

Yeah. She really lost it.

should we send her a case of twinkies next wednesday y/n?

One Santorum volunteer

2008 [Mark Levin]

I'm going against today's conventional wisdom and suggesting that Rick Santorum and George Allen should consider running for the Republican presidential nomination. It certainly wouldn't be the first time politicians who've lost elections have run (and won) office. Indeed, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have lost elections. Obviously, Richard Nixon lost for president in 1960 and governor of California in 1962.

I still consider Santorum and Allen among the best and most appealing conservatives on the scene. I believe Santorum has national appeal, despite his loss in Pennsylvania. And although Allen's campaign was knocked off stride, nobody will care much. After all, John McCain has overcome much worse, namely the Keating Five scandal; and Rudy Guiliani appears to have put his marital and health issues behind him.

And on the Democrat side, don't get me started. Suffice it to say that Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama, John Kerry, et al, all carry baggage, and some of it pretty heavy.

11/10 03:11 PM

should we send her a case of twinkies next wednesday y/n?

I think she's turned to drugs.

I am gonna try and google some dirt on Santorum. gotta be something out there!

It Seems Unanimously Called Now [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

I won't be writing the amazing Senator Santorum comeback piece.

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;_;

The Gathering Storm [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Now that it's past midnight, I begin my Santorum for SecDef campaign.

Rumsfeld will likely resign before year is out. And so ...

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should we send her a case of drugs next wednesday y/n?

Yes, and cut them with melamine.

and an three-year-old Steak and Ale baked potato.

*a

Kathleen Parker hasn't written for the Corner since she accused McCain of being horny. Did they fire her?

Re: 7th Inning Stretch [Andy McCarthy]

John J, I've been telling my 6-yr-old son that the games start after 830pm because these are games even the people in California want to watch so they can't be started at our usual 7pm time. But it's not making anyone around my house feel any better about it — that a kid who loved baseball and got deeply involved in it all year can't watch the World Series because it's on too late.

My one consolation: Naturally, all the kids at school want Obama. But when I told him yesterday that we would have been able to watch an inning or two tonight but Obama bought commercial time so the game is starting too late, he got pretty annoyed at The One. If all of Obama's support is this thin, McCain's got a real shot.

Who, after all, would want to watch the late innings of what could be the deciding game of the Fall Classic if you could watch Barack lecture us about Social Justice, Economic Justice, Redistributive Change, 95 percent gobbledygook tax relief for non-taxpayers, etc.

"If every voter acts like they're six years old and gets mad because The One is delaying the baseball, McCain's got a shot."

K-lo must be sharing her stash with Steyn:

Eye Caramba [Mark Steyn]

Jonah, you just don't get it, do you? Who ya gonna believe? Obama or your own lyin' eyes? There are none so blind as those who will not see and none so seeing as those who are blinded by the light. Americans want to move beyond the same tired old eyeballs. There are no red eyes or blue eyes, just red eyes gradually turning blue again all over America as they sober up after eight years of an almighty Bush-McCain bender that left them face down in a pool of vomit with a repossessed home and no health insurance. But, if you have got health insurance, why not get that Canadian laser eye surgery everyone raves about? It's amazing. On a clear day, rise and look around you, and you'll see who you are. On a clear day you can see Catalina, twinkling under a shimmering hazy tax cut for 95% of the American people just waiting to make landfall. On a really clear day you can see Europe, where all over the continent happy contented workers place their infants in government day care and then leave for six weeks' paid vacation. Obama is the Cyclops, and America is Jean Grey, back in her Marvel Girl days, if I recall correctly.

Anyway, don't make any cracks about Sammy Davis Jr's glass eye, because that's just racist, like Joe the Plumber.

And now if you'll pass the sharp pencil I think I'll remove my own ideological blinders.

Poor Steyn be mixin' his metaphors.

I am still trying to figure out what his x-men comparison is supposed to mean, but maybe that's a futile exercise.