Friday McCain-McSame Bashing

I would write something here about McCain’s acceptance speech except that — I swear this is true — I literally fell asleep part way through it.

(Note also this week’s special Wednesday edition of Wednesday Mostly Palin Bashing.)

• Jeffrey Feldman, Frameshop: McCain Video ‘Tribute’ Links Iran to 9/11
• Kos, Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up — lots of people thought the McCain speech fell flat. Videos and more at JustMoreOfTheSame.com
• Crooks & Liars, Clock is Ticking as McCain Campaign Hides Palin from the Press
• Political Animal,
  • Thumbs down
  • A swing and a miss
  • Watch What They Do, Not What They Say
• NYT Editorial, Editorial: The Real John McCain
• E. J. Dionne Jr., WashPo, Elegy for a Maverick
• TMZ, Republicans Lack Heart! (GOP rips off artists yet again…)
• TMP, Mystery Solved! — why was McCain posing in front of a photo of Walter Reed Middle School (located in North Hollywood, California)? (Earlier post: Surprised.)
• Kos, Flee the Press
• Rick Perlstein, Sarah’s Trigonetry. Brilliant.
• TPM on Team McCain’s Editing Goof
• Matt Bodie, Prawfsblawg, Bob Dole, John McCain & Michael Lewis
• Juan Cole, Informed Comment, Rambo and the Mean Girl
• DeLong,
  • John McCain’s Bad Judgment, Part CIII
  • John McCain’s Awful Judgment, Part LXIII
  • I Am Not Making This Up: John McCain’s Bad Judgment, Part XLII
  • John McCain’s Bad Judgment—and Ross Douthat’s Too
  • John McCain’s Awful Judgment, Chapter CCCIII: ABC News Wakes Up!
• Weak effort from worsethanbush.org, Real McCain of Genius: Houses
  
  
  
• TMP, If You Can’t Stand Up to the RNC …
• Political Animal, A perfectly functioning teleprompter
• Douglas Rushkoff, Hate Party
• Political Animal, Let’s define ‘primary responsibilities’
• Crooks & Liars, Delusional John McCain peddles “Alaska is close to Russia” nonsense
• HuffPo, Palin Also Supported The “Road To Nowhere” (And May Still)
• Eye on Miami, McCain and Palin: volatile and unpredictable meets smug and sarcastic … by gimleteye
• Georgia10, Kos, Real Vetting Roundup
• Sarah Palin: Earmark Queen Of The Earmark State
• Kate Klonick and Zachary Roth, TPM Muckraker, Palin As Reformer? Not Quite…
• Bobo2020, Kos, PALIN-tology - Speech rebuttal - 150 issues in 1 week: “I have identified nearly 150 issues, problems, falsehoods, and embarrassing comparisons for McCain’s unbelievably reckless VP choice.”
• Vanity Fair estimates the cost of Cindy McCain’s convention Outfit at $300,000 — which would make it more expensive than the average home in the USA, valued at $217,800. (According to an analysis by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, the McCains have received $313,413 thanks to George Bush’s tax cut.)


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• Community organizers — Martin Luther King, Susan B. Anthony — might have some differences with Palin’s attack on community organizers.
• Daily Show does Palin
• BooMan, On Pitbulls and Lipstick
• Political Animal, The Truman Show