Rude Pundit Gives Sarah Palin Respect She is Due: None

Image from (no joke) Church Times

On this blog, I can get snarky. I can get finger-waggy. But it's not often that I get rude. Okay, maybe I do on occasion, but since I'm on Blogger and I don't want to get blocked, banned or deleted, I try to keep my rudeness tamped down a bit.  But sometimes, rudeness is called for, and nobody does it better than The Rude Pundit.  And nobody deserves it more than Sarah Palin.

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Memo to Sarah Palin: A President (or Governor) Is Not a CEO:



Could someone please hold a flip phone up to Sarah Palin and get her saying something like, "We use Trig as a door stop"? No, really, could someone get this nouveau riche redneck tw@t on camera talking about how she'd never shop at Wal-Mart 'cause she might get some trailer trash tears on her? 'Cause the idea that she is "a force" in the American political discourse is like coming across a tribe in the jungle that worships a monkey head. . .
 
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EDITOR'S NOTE: In posting that link, I realized that Rude is on Blogger too. Hmm. Maybe I can take the lid off of my rudeness too?  Interesting. . .

Stuck on Stupid: Joe the Plumber and "Queers"

Image from source, Think Progress

I had an internal debate about whether or not to post this. Why? Because first of all, Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurtzelbacher has no area of expertise, and his inane utterances should not matter, regardless of what he's talking about. Secondly, even though he's an utterly clueless boob, the people who have made him a celebrity don't care about that. They love him despite--perhaps because of his boobishness. Like Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, and countless other GOP cartoon characters, the stupider and crazier, the better apparently.

Still, I guess it can't hurt to point out how stupid these characters are, so here ya go.

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Joe the Plumber: I would never let gay people ‘anywhere near my children.’

. . .People don’t understand the dictionary—it’s called queer. Queer means strange and unusual. It’s not like a slur, like you would call a white person a honky or something like that. You know, God is pretty explicit in what we’re supposed to do—what man and woman are for. Now, at the same time, we’re supposed to love everybody and accept people, and preach against the sins. . .

And then there's this:

. . .When asked if he had planned to run for public office, Wurzelbacher said he didn’t have any “right now.” “God hasn’t said, ‘Joe, I want you to run. . .’

Great, now he's hearing voices.

Source: Think Progress

Stuck on Stupid: Michael Steele, Presidential Hopeful?

If Democrats got to script the run up to 2012 for the Republicans, they could do no better than how it is shaping up right now. Things could change a whole lot in three years, of course. But look at the field right now: Caribou Barbie Sarah Palin, exorcist Piyush "Bobby" Jindal, folksy religious wack-a-doodle Mike Huckabee, Mormon Willard "Mitt" Romney, and now possibly GOP pariah Michael Steele! If God wills it? I'm agnostic, but if there is a God, please will it!

And I thought the last batch was a group of cartoon characters.

Pro-American

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Obama Response to McCain/Palin Smear: Keating 5

A lot of patient liberal bloggers like me have been wondering when Barack Obama would pull the "Keating Five" arrow out of his quiver, and I now see what he was waiting for. Excepting for a glitch in the polls right after Sarah (wink!) Palin was unveiled, Obama's polling has been going pretty well. No need to hit with a hammer, when a lighter touch would do.

But today, both John McCain and Half-baked Alaska have revved up a revival of Hillary Clinton's "kitchen sink" strategy. Their game is mostly a "guilt by association" strategy, trying to graft the reputations of people like Rev. Jeramiah Wright and Bill Ayers onto Obama. The weird part being, that both McCain and Palin have plenty of similar people they can be grafted to.

For now, Obama has just decided to use the real, non-smeary tale of McCain's history as one of (not associated with) the Keating Five from the savings and loan scandal of the 80s and 9os. But he's got a lot more arrows in his quiver if they keep this up.

Keating Economics

"Keating Economics: the Making of a Financial Crisis" is a documentary that shows why John McCain's failed philosophy and poor judgment are a recipe for deepening the economic crisis.



Source: BarackObama.com

Amy Poehler Leaving Saturday Night Live

After scoring big with her Hillary Clinton impersonation, teamed with former Saturday Night Live castmember, Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, Amy Poehler is getting ready to leave SNL. After Fey's departure, Poehler was one of the few bright lights left on the show (another being Kristin Wiig). I'll be sorry to see her go.


SNL has always been spotty, even in the best years. The original cast had its classic moments--many of them--but the complaints heard about the show today were evident then as well, but overshadowed by the good stuff. I've watched since the very first episode, when I was nine, and only skipped out on it during the abysmal Saturday Night '80 season.



SNL was really good again when Fey began as head writer, and co-anchor of Weekend Update with Jimmy Fallon. I was wary, when Fallon left, of Poehler as the new WU co-anchor. But she very quickly blended right in, and when Fey left, seemingly taught Seth Myers the ropes. Now that she's leaving, I wonder how many episodes it will take to absorb the loss. At least she says she may come back--like Fey and other past castmembers like Horatio Sanz and Jon Lovitz--for special appearances.


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Poehler Gets Ready to Leave SNL

This weekend’s season opener for Saturday Night Live had comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler teaming up in a political skit parodying Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton, and begins a count down to Poehler’s leaving the show, reports USAtoday.com. . .

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