Hockey Moms Against Sarah Palin:
Heh, indeed.
’08/12 Election
And The Moral Of The Story Is…
…don’t piss off talk show hosts; they are not subtle, but they’re very quick to anger.
Here David Letterman rips McCain a new one for cowardice after McCain suspends his campaign and blows off The Late Show, amid rumours of a stroke:
“This smells” says Letterman. That’s putting it mildly. It stinks.
UPDATE: OK I see now why they didn’t want Palin anywhere near Letterman. My god, she’s lamer than a wet-behind-the ears Lib Dem parish councillor.
What that 800 billion dollar plan boils down to…
Dear American:
I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.
I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.
This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.
Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.
Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson
An Addendum
WordPress is being arsey and won’t let me edit the previous post, so I have to post this separately.
It’s not the JDL (at least not directly) that’s distributing the DVD, it’s an outfit called The Clarion Fund.
Clarion Fund denies partisan intent
The video itself was made in 2006 and does not explicitly endorse any Republican candidate….
Of course not. Perish the thought.
The Other Theft
While the public’s attention is on taxpayer billions being stolen with one Republican hand, the democratic process is being stolen with the other…
I found this description of dirty electioneering in the comments to another TPM post re the anti-Islam agitprop DVD that’s being inserted and distributed in newspapers in key voting districts by an unknown (possibly the JDL) lobby group. They’ll try anything to confuse and obsfuscate voters out of their ballots:
The mailing was addressed to me, but using a form of my name (an extra initial) I don’t use – and am not registered under. It was two forms for absentee ballots inside. But on the reverse of the address – photos of 4 “bad guys” (Chavez, Osama, Kim Jong Il, and the president of Iran… not gonna try to spell his name). When I went to City Hall I found out that many people had received a mailing telling them to send the request for absentee ballot to the WRONG city!! Our city clerk was annoyed because this costs the city postage, telling someone they sent the form to the wrong place. Or if I had applied under the name as they addressed it to me, I would not have shown up as registered! That was my concern, as I have a hispanic last name – and was concerned I’d been targeted for that reason.
This is just one person in one voting district – how many hundreds of thousands of others are being taken in by this Republican ratfuckery – and is it enough to swing the election?