A rare sighting of Pigs on the Wing
Well this is surprising.
After two weeks of watching pretty much everything coming out of Sara Palin’s mouth as being wonderful and just so right and American (in a way that a Democrat could never be) another word is now being used to describe her and her running mate – Liar.
Modern media has a hard time with the blunt word. And Liar is a very bery blunt damn word – not as blunt as say fucking liar but well these are family newspapers and News Shows and that’s just way out of bounds. At best at usual when a member of the right wing lets go with a whopper “Obama is a Muslim!” at best the networks and the major papers will write/broadcast something like “In response ------ (any Democrat the less well known the better said they are lying”.
But what we have now is low and frickn’ behold people actually using the L word to describe both Shara and McCain. And this is not being presented in the standard he said she said narrative that News folks seem to like best. But in the mode that there is an objective truth out there and if someone repeatedly says white is black even after folks pointing out that it is no such thing, then they are lying.
Good. Of course GOP will shriek and start to play the refs but at least for the moment they are being called what they are.
I honestly wasn’t expecting too much from Shara’s interview with Charlie Gibson – he’s been pretty much of a softball pitcher - but even so the reviews coming out (most with snark variations of a Moose in the headlights added) show that Ms. Palin is completely out of her depth. Especially when spouting out about how we should go to war with Russia if they invade a NATO country (which they won’t – Putin, unlike Bush is not stupid) or countries that we want to be in NATO like Georgia and the like (there is another but I forget what that countries name is)
So for the moment – McCain is being shown up as an unprincipled lair (he had a bad interview with someone in Maine of all places) as is Palin by the normally cynical press corps – I will enjoy this sight of pigs on the wing.
Meantime Ike has come ashore and they are still dealing with aftermath – and even in Galveston there were too many houses too close to the ocean with no protection – considering that the Galveston area gets hit – a lot – by Hurricanes it just seems to asking for trouble to build there without some kind of sea wall – there is a sea wall but it doesn’t cover the whole Island.
And now billions of dollars that we don’t have – we might have if we weren’t pouring money down that rat hole in Iraq but well that’s not a sensible solution I’ told.
By all accounts, the SNL skit with Hillary and Sarah was devastating.
Later if I get the chance – War of the Gargathuas and in a first why I prefer the American version over the original Japanese version. (Heresy I know but I can explain)
Peace Love Pigs on the wing.
After two weeks of watching pretty much everything coming out of Sara Palin’s mouth as being wonderful and just so right and American (in a way that a Democrat could never be) another word is now being used to describe her and her running mate – Liar.
Modern media has a hard time with the blunt word. And Liar is a very bery blunt damn word – not as blunt as say fucking liar but well these are family newspapers and News Shows and that’s just way out of bounds. At best at usual when a member of the right wing lets go with a whopper “Obama is a Muslim!” at best the networks and the major papers will write/broadcast something like “In response ------ (any Democrat the less well known the better said they are lying”.
But what we have now is low and frickn’ behold people actually using the L word to describe both Shara and McCain. And this is not being presented in the standard he said she said narrative that News folks seem to like best. But in the mode that there is an objective truth out there and if someone repeatedly says white is black even after folks pointing out that it is no such thing, then they are lying.
Good. Of course GOP will shriek and start to play the refs but at least for the moment they are being called what they are.
I honestly wasn’t expecting too much from Shara’s interview with Charlie Gibson – he’s been pretty much of a softball pitcher - but even so the reviews coming out (most with snark variations of a Moose in the headlights added) show that Ms. Palin is completely out of her depth. Especially when spouting out about how we should go to war with Russia if they invade a NATO country (which they won’t – Putin, unlike Bush is not stupid) or countries that we want to be in NATO like Georgia and the like (there is another but I forget what that countries name is)
So for the moment – McCain is being shown up as an unprincipled lair (he had a bad interview with someone in Maine of all places) as is Palin by the normally cynical press corps – I will enjoy this sight of pigs on the wing.
Meantime Ike has come ashore and they are still dealing with aftermath – and even in Galveston there were too many houses too close to the ocean with no protection – considering that the Galveston area gets hit – a lot – by Hurricanes it just seems to asking for trouble to build there without some kind of sea wall – there is a sea wall but it doesn’t cover the whole Island.
And now billions of dollars that we don’t have – we might have if we weren’t pouring money down that rat hole in Iraq but well that’s not a sensible solution I’ told.
By all accounts, the SNL skit with Hillary and Sarah was devastating.
Later if I get the chance – War of the Gargathuas and in a first why I prefer the American version over the original Japanese version. (Heresy I know but I can explain)
Peace Love Pigs on the wing.
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