The shotgun wedding of the century is a go, apparently. It’s either that or the hell-yeah redneck fiance gets charged with statutory rape – Bristol Palin is still under 18.
Oh and nothing at all to do with boosting the McCain campaign with the People Magazine/National Enquirer vote. Oh no. Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
Who wants to bet that the only day the happy couple can possibly be married is this Thursday, though?
Has to be the story about the assholery of John McCain by Mary-Kay Gamel that’s doing the internet rounds. [Though I don’t have to remind regular blog readers this, because it is doing the rounds, take it with a big pinch of salt.]:
On the question of McCain’s often abusive personality and inability to control either his sense of entitlement or his temper, a friend sent me the below-cited e-mail text from a professor in California. Unlike the anonymously sourced rubbish circulated by the Republicans to attack Obama, this eyewitness account of a vacation from hell with John McCain has the ring of credibility to it. Here it is.
MY HOLIDAY WITH JOHN McCAIN
It was just before John McCain’s last run at the presidential nomination in 2000 that my husband and I vacationed in Turtle Island in Fiji with John McCain, Cindy, and their children, including Bridget (their adopted Bangladeshi child).
It was not our intention, but it was our misfortune to be in close quarters with John McCain for almost a week, since Turtle Island has a small number of bungalows and their focus on communal meals force all vacationers who are there at the same time to get to know each other intimately.
McCain arrived at our first group meal and started reading quotes from a pile of William Faulkner boo ks with a forest of Post-Its sticking out of them. As an English Literature major myself, my first thought was “if he likes this so much, why hasn’t he memorized any of this yet?” I soon realized that McCain actually thought we had come on vacation to be a volunteer audience for his “readings” which then became a regular part of each meal. Out of politeness, none of the vacationers initially protested at this intrusion into their blissful holiday, but people’s buttons definitely got pushed as the readings continued day after day.
Unfortunately this was not his only contribution to our mealtime entertainment. He waxed on during one meal about how Indo-Chine women had the best figures and that our American corn-fed women just couldn’t meet up to this standard. He also made it a point that all of us should stop Cindy from having dessert as her weight was too high and made a few comments to Amy, the 25 year old wife of the honeymooning couple from Nebraska that she should eat less as she needed to lose weight.
…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.
Septuagenarian John McCain proves yet again he’s lost the plot, in the process mortally insulting a NATO ally whose troops are currently fighting his country’s war in Afghanistan.
Really, he’s not well. And that’s being charitable.
I know this is
From 23/6:
Ethics quiz to self: is it OK to make light of something as dreadful as rape in the cause of the political derision of a right wing fundy who’d happily see other women turned into little more than 3-holed chattels if it means she can be Vice-President?
Hmmm, let me think. Yes. Definitely. Abso-bloody-lutely with bells on.
That was an easy one.
Next question…how the hell hell did I lose four pairs of glasses all at once?