Oh, goody! A two handed wankathon.

Wow!!! Good to know that all my tiny lady brain opinions are shaped not because of my life long political beliefs, the fact that our country is a painfully embarrassing shell of its former self, or that our economy and infrastructure are crumbling before my very eyes. Or even that Obama is a brilliant politician. NO, I’m voting Big Blue D because ONE PR firm has told me too.

Now I KNOW the wingnuts are insane and retarded.

That any Republican candidates for President and Vice-President, let alone the in-it-up-to-his-designer-diapers McCain and the utterly clueless Palin, aren’t pelted off of the stage with rotten produce at this point is a sign of just how ignorant and tribal America has become.

That’s a whole heck of a lot of typing and tendentious connections for one little mistake: it was Todd Palin who was a member of AIP. And I’m sure that Sarah and Todd never talked politics, so she was blissfully unaware of this.

I love the implication that this was all done on company time, therefore someone paid for it. Because people who lead firms never do any work on their own. Ever.

“All she did was address the convention and call a treasonous party a helpful contribution to Alaska’s politics? So what? She was never a member! PWNED!!!!!eleventy-one!!one!! Eat it dhimmis!”

You’d almost think the country isn’t on the brink of falling apart from the top down AND bottom up wouldn’t ya?

I can’t take it anymore. I really can’t. WTF happened to people to make them so fucking mean and hateful. I am tired of paying the price for their spite.

Ya know, if a genie showed up right now and granted me one wish, I do believe I’d use it to wish that some intrepid investigator would turn up irrefutable evidence — like say a cancelled check — that Sarah Palin personally paid for Track’s girlfriend to have an abortion before he shipped off to Eye-Rack.

October Surprise!

I do believe that if I could watch Hockey Whore and Johnny McLipstick on national television trying to ’splain that one to the fundiebase, I would die a happy woman.

Two damn years I blogged, and every single day I checked my inbox for a message from a PR firm offering to give me lots of money in exchange for doing my part to lead the flock astray, and now these assholes say that everyone EXCEPT me is getting paid?

It’s the kind of thing that makes you want to get a gun. I wonder if they give you a free one if you volunteer to stuff envelopes for Bob Barr?

PS – PR execs take note: I’m still available. I’ll make fun of my own grandmother if the check clears. Contact me immediately.

Does this mean that Obama has a mystical birthmark on his ass? Cool!

irrefutable evidence — like say a cancelled check — that Sarah Palin personally paid for Track’s girlfriend to have an abortion before he shipped off to Eye-Rack

Wouldn’t hurt ‘em a bit. She’d look in the camera’s eye and not blink once while she said the family had to make the most heartbreaking sacrifice because Track was needed to keep the islamofascists away from his little sisters and brother and the rest of us, and he couldn’t do that and be the most awesome teenage father at the same time.

So even though he and the girlfriend really, really wanted a baby they had to just tell God ‘thanks, but no thanks’ for now, for the good of the country. Country First. Booooyah!

Because that’s just how dedicated the best damned family in America is.

Todd Palin thinks his Alaskan family is a lot like American families, and his wife is on video saying she shares the vision a secessionist party.

Alaska First, Alaska Always…baby.

Hitler wasn’t German, Stalin wasn’t Russian, and Napolean wasn’t French.

Jus’ say’n…

Napolean wasn’t French.

And neither was Napoleon, btw…(erm)

These people are as dumb as a motherfucking box of hammers. B’lieve I may already have said that this morning.

Also mean as mambas.

Conspiracy is not just a theory like evolution.

That’s Just What I Said

Given the facts turned up by The Jawa Report in this must read post, it seems fair to ask if the campaign of Barack Obama funded a malicious and deceptive web-based smear campaign against Republican Vice Presidential nominee, Governor Sarah Palin. . . .

A false and misleading video of professional quality attacking Palin was uploaded to the web from an account that appears to be linked to a high profile, primarily Democrat-linked media consulting firm – Winner and Associates. . . .

These and other attacks not only appeared on the web, they seem to have been subsequently affirmed, though false, and supported with requests to “send this around” by other ID’s associated with the firm. . . .

From there they drove huge blog bursts on the Liberal side of the web and were picked up by the media for that reason. . . .

–Powerline 09/22/2008

The wingnuts’ recent claims of “conspiracy theories” with regard to Obama’s alleged media attacks are becoming excessively irrational and shrill–even for their obviously low standards. The idea that the liberal blogosphere is somehow dependent on “professional” PR hacks for fodder is particularly ironic.

PR firms are historically conservative. Most of the time, if a PR/marketing firm had what appeared to be an original idea, they probably stole it from a firm underling or some amateur; and released it on the conspicuously consuming public only after extensive testing in focus groups.

Some of the most creative materials appearing on YouTube are generated by amateurs, because the highly paid marketing firms are still largely staffed by “technotards” who view the Internet as some lesser form of alternative medium. And even if a firm’s members are technically savvy, they often don’t speak “snark.”

As an attorney, Reihl should also know that a copyright only protects an idea in a fixed format/medium. YOU CAN’T COPYRIGHT AN IDEA. So it’s more probable that a PR firm ripped off an unknown YouTube theme after watching the hit count soar.

IMHO, Riehl appears to be a few elements short of a conspiracy.

Indeed. Some conspiracies are readily proven.

Like JFK…

http://www.occamsrazorjfk.net

I got as far as the “Discussing” list and my brain went on a sit-down strike.

Michelle Malkin, Wizbang, Right Wing News, Hot Air, JammieWearingFool, The Strata-Sphere, Scared Monkeys, The Other McCain, Mother, May I Sleep …, Patterico’s Pontifications, Soccer Dad, Confederate Yankee, The Campaign Spot, Atlas Shrugs and Gateway Pundit

Do you blame it?

“Sarah Palin wasn’t even physically at the party’s convention. The clip you see is part of Palin’s videotaped welcome for the convention’s opening”

If I made a videotape of myself dressed as a Nazi and had it played at a Bar Mitzvah, do you think this defense would fly?

I admit I only read the Powerline post. Riehl is proof that if the practice of law were as complex as brain surgery, we’d all be screwed.

I only got through the first paragraph of Patterico’s Pontifications. His reliance on questionable “evidence” to “prove” his point makes me fear for the criminal justice system–assuming he really is a prosecutor.

One last comment about professional PR firms who pass their client’s opinions off as those of “real people”….

REMEMBER HARRY & LOUISE?

From Wikipedia:

“Harry and Louise” was the name of a television commercial funded by the Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA), a health insurance industry lobbying group, in opposition to President Bill Clinton’s proposed health care plan in 1993. The ad depicted a white middle-class couple, portrayed by actors Harry Johnson and Louise Caire Clark, despairing over the allegedly bureaucratic nature of the plan and urged viewers to contact their representatives in Congress. It was widely credited as being a major factor in the plan’s ultimate defeat, and is often cited as a landmark moment in the use of public relations techniques for lobbying. The commercial was created by public relations consultants Ben Goddard and Rick Claussen of Goddard Claussen.[1]

The couple made a brief return in 2000 in a TV commercial sponsored by HIAA promoting its “InsureUSA” campaign advocating the need to provide health coverage to uninsured Americans. [2]

Later, they returned in an unrelated 2002 ad, produced by Goddard Claussen Porter Novelli (Goddard Claussen was purchased by Porter Novelli in 1999), advocating human cloning for therapeutic purposes on behalf of CuresNow. The second ad was the subject of a lawsuit by the HIAA who claimed that they owned the characters; however, a court ruled that the characters were owned by Goddard Claussen, and it aired during a showing of The West Wing on NBC.[3]

This ad was one of several prominent political attack ads parodied in the 78th Academy Awards (March 2006). An older couple sitting at the kitchen table bemoans the “foreign-sounding names” of the best actress nominees, then praises Reese Witherspoon for having an all-American name.

Harry and Louise appear again in an ad that premiered on August 25, 2008, during the 2008 Democratic National Convention, urging that health care reform be made a top priority. The ad aired again during the Republican National Convention. The 2008 ad was sponsored by several organizations that have, in the past, advocated diverse views on health care, including The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, the American Hospital Association, the Catholic Health Association, Families USA, and the National Federation of Independent Business. [4]