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?
…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.
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.
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?
Only Karl Rove doesn’t have the POW excuse.
Watch Rove’s outrage on Fox at the hacking of Palin’s Yahoo mail account :
No wonder he’s upset – he’s been screwed by technology himself:
[Interviewer] In the new edition of your book, ARMED MADHOUSE, you report on the theft of the 2008 election. How do know what they’re doing? Any way to stop them?
[Greg] Palast: I know because I have Karl Rove’s emails. No kidding. He and his team aren’t the sharpest knives in the drawer. They sent copies of their plans to GeorgeWBush.ORG instead of GeorgeWBush.COM addresses — and, heh heh, they ended up in my in-box. Who says this job ain’t fun?
He learned fast though – remember that ‘mixup’ with the White House email? Somehow records of communications regarding the deliberate corruption of the Justice Dept got wiped. Dashed pesky intertubes, however did that happen? Poor old Republicans, they really haven’t got to grips with this modern world thingy – except when it suits them.
UPDATE
A commenter at the Christian Science Monitor’s Vote Blog:
I find it both incredible and hypocritical that McCain is so upset about someone hacking into Palin’s email when he obviously condoned this very same behavior when he named Carly Fiorina as his economic adviser. Wasn’t she the same CEO who paid to hack into Hewlett Packard’s Board of Directors personal emails?
So it’s been said. HP has certainly admitted to it and she was the boss.