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Honesty is such a lonely word …

March 12th, 2009 · No Comments

I’ll be honest. More often than not, when I watch Jon Stewart, I’m in it for his news recap and kind of pass over the guest interviews.
But the brewing flap that’s been developing the last few days between Jon Stewart and CNBC has been interesting. Thus, Stewart’s interview of Jim Cramer last night would be [...]

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Palin for Dummies

September 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

For those of you who are still having a hard time wrapping your head around the nature of the circus-freak that is Sarah Palin, here’s a brief primer.
Who votes for Sarah Palin? The McCain campaign has been pushing the idea—in fact counting on it—that Palin would draw disaffected Hillary Clinton voters to the Republican ticket. [...]

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Pig Wars

September 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Of pigs and pit bulls:

Lipstick wars: McCain claims sexism
The McCain campaign quickly posted a mischievous video charging that the “lipstick on a pig” quote by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was a sexist reference to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Seems to me that Sarah Palin is the one that put the lipstick joke out there in the [...]

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Fire up the Calliope and Get Some Lipstick on the Pig!

September 5th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Places everyone! Places! We’ve got a show to run here.
Barbara Curtis over at the Christian Science Monitor is ginning up a real life controversy over the Sarah Palin hullabaloo. Unfortunately, Barbara is missing the “real life” part of the controversy:

Sarah Palin can have it all
Bluemont, Va. – The five children. The newborn diagnosed with Down [...]

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