Today is cause to celebrate. It is the 41st anniversary of Ché Guevara’s death.
October 9, 1967 was the day that Ché Guevara, the Communist revolutionary, was finally brought to justice in Bolivia.
On this day in 1967, socialist revolutionary and guerilla leader Che Guevara, age 39, is killed by the Bolivian army. The U.S.-military-backed Bolivian forces captured Guevara on October 8 while battling his band of guerillas in Bolivia and assassinated him the following day. His hands were cut off as proof of death and his body was buried in an unmarked grave… (read more)
Here’s the elusive SNL “Bailout” video, in case the transcript and stills weren’t enough for you, that NBC keeps trying to make go away.
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These videos just keep being sucked down the memory hole, at least the ones not resulting from the “do-over” where NBC has edited out the parts drawing the most heat for them. SNL and NBC have “standards“, ya know, at least when it makes the wrong people mad at them. 😉
Well, knock me over with a feather! Who would’ve thunk that CNN, that bastion of unbiased journalism, would have taken sides in the ’08 presidential race? /sarcasm off
As Glenn Reynolds notes, “It was in the script — the show of hands was irrelevant.”
Check out the still-frames of the video over at HotAir and count for yourself. It really puts it into perspective, when you can take the time to really look at how many hands are up, when each option is asked. Maybe Soledad needs something like that too, because real life moves too fast for her?
Okay. Like AllahP notes, “Apparently there were 32 people in the group, meaning at least a few are out of frame. Maybe they all broke blue?”
As the Creative Minority Report says, “Hey, how about a roll call, Soledad? Now to my eye, it looks pretty evenly split. I counted 12 for Biden and 11 for Palin. But take a look for yourself.”
Megan McArdle doesn’t seem to appreciate the impression that Soledad’s pathetic counting leaves with viewers. 😆
I’m sure Michelle O. is not “dissatisfied” with Soledad’s and the rest of the MSM’s efforts for The One‘s campaign.
Remember, the Associated Press started crying about “racism” over the domestic terrorist connection comments. By the way, the AP continues to run interference for Obama on other issues too.
This isn’t the first or the last we will see out of the MSM carrying water for the DNC and Obama this election cycle. We already knew going into the only VP debate that the moderator was in the tank for Obama. And, remember Chris Matthews calling Sarah Palin “a dolt?”
Barbara Walters, the washed up MS hack and now-host of The View, had to inject her cheap shottoday by referring to Gov. Palin and her baby, Trig, who Walters says “bothered her” by being present at the debate last week. Liz Trotta felt compelled to dehumanize Trig by calling him “it” on FNC on Sunday. 🙄
“She’s one of the folks (And that’s the problem)?” Yes. Heaven forbid that we actually have someone in office to whom we can relate. Perish the thought! 🙄
Oh! And, did you hear that Gwen Ifill thinks Palin “blew her off” at the debate? Yep. Here’s the full transcript from the Meet the Press segment, where she whined about that. How long before she breaks her card out again?
UPDATE: Well Obama’s water-carriers in the Associated Press are not happy with Gov. Sarah Palin taking Barack Obama to task over the William Ayers relationship or something, after they finally figured out there was a connection between Obama and Ayers. I guess the AP couldn’t have the NYT and CNN carrying all the water on that issue, as noted earlier in this thread yesterday, huh? Are they toting his card for him too? 😉
Speaking to Fox News on Friday, Sarah Palin indicated for the first time that she does not consider Barack Obama qualified to be commander in chief and sharply criticized him for saying last year that U.S. troops in Afghanistan are “just air raiding villages and killing civilians.”
Calling Obama “reckless,” Palin said that where she comes from Obama’s remarks “disqualify someone from consideration for the next commander-in-chief.”
“Some of his comments that he’s made about the war, that I think, in my world disqualify someone from consideration for the next commander-in-chief,” said Palin. “Some of the comments he’s made about Afghanistan, what we are doing there, ‘just air raiding villages and killing civilians.’ That’s reckless.”… (read more)
Remember when Obama said that in August 2007? I bet Obama/Biden hope you don’t. But, as luck would have it, it was preserved for posterity in video on YouTube. 😉
He just accused the men and women of our armed forces of war crimes. Did you catch that? Here, just in case it helps to see it in written form:
We’ve gotta get the job done there,and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there.
That is something Americans should not forget anytime soon. Barack Obama wants to be Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces and he has accused them and our NATO allies of war crimes in one of our fronts in the War on Terror.
Sarah Palin, using some of her strongest language to date to question the character of the Democratic presidential nominee, accused Barack Obama on Saturday of “palling around with terrorists.”
Palin, speaking at a closed fundraiser in Colorado, was referencing Obama’s ties to Bill Ayers, a founder of the 1960s radical group The Weather Underground. That relationship was examined in a front-page article in The New York Times on Saturday.
“This is not a man who sees America as you see America, and as I see America,” Palin said. “Our opponent, though, is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect — imperfect enough that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country. Americans need to know this. … I think, OK we gotta get the word out. This is in fairness to the electorate we gotta start telling people what the other side represents.”
Right about now, I think the last thing Obama/Biden wants to do is “bless her heart.” Don’t you?
Oh and, by the way, “Bubette,” Deb. Come on. Don’t compare the SarahCuda to Slick Willy. *blech*
Oh! By the way, Ace of Spades is live with the Palin tour in Carson, CA. Make sure and check out Ace’s dispatches from the road with Gov. Palin. He’s updating regularly.
By the way, did you know that William Ayers is using cartoons to spread his ideas? No joke. The Judicial Confirmation Network has an ad out about Obama’s relationship Ayers, as well as Tony Rezko and Jeramiah Wright.
Don’t forget about Obama’s other buddies, Larry Walsh, the county executive in Will County, and Rob Blagojevich, the Illinois Governor.
UPDATE: It turns out that the FBI may not have raided Larry Walsh’s office in Will County, IL, as previously reported. Walsh and his staff deny any raid by the feds but do acknowledge that they met with the county auditor, as reported.
A Will County, Ill., county executive and his chief of staff dismissed an FBI probe linked to their office in local press reports as political chicanery on Friday and insisted they had not been contacted by the federal bureau.
“We do know they came down to talk to [county auditor] Steve Weber,” Matt Ryan, chief of staff to Will County Executive Larry Walsh, said of the FBI’s visit to the county office building onWednesday…
The original article in the Washington Times has already been amended from the way it appeared on Friday. But, the Times, along with the Chigaco Tribune still leave the likelihood of an FBI investigation well in play. There appears to be no further update in the Tribune from the Wednesday article.
In 2006, Obama requested that Will County receive $1.3 million to support its Flood Studies for Unincorporated Will County.
In 2006, Obama requested $800,000 for the Will County Sheriff’s Office Wireless Communications Technology Upgrades.
In 2006, Obama requested $1,953,331 for Will County’s Ridgewood Water and Sewage Project.
In 2005, Obama requested $2 million for the Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois, to establish a Center for Academic and Community Learning, which is designed to address the significant educational needs of the less advantaged in the Will County region by providing academic assistance not only for students on campus but also for residents of the surrounding communities.
Another reference appears to relate to the Will County Health Department’s mental health program which I am informed got another $1.95 million.
Ahhhhh, yes. The Chicago way. I wonder when Larry Walsh will be added to the video, perhaps right after Blagojevich.
UPDATE: It looks like Baracuda Babes for Palin has beat me to the theatre to see An American Carol. We are still planning to get to the threatre. I heard it came in 9th for box office draw on its opening weekend.
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An American Carol, starring Kevin Farley, brother of the late Chris Farley, makes its debut today. For those that are fans of The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly makes a cameo appearance in the movie. He joins other characters i slapping Farley’s character around in, of all places, a port-a-john. O’Reilly had a clip of it that I remembered seeing on his show one night, as I was checking a little bit of news. 😆
WARNING! This movie may be offensive to children, young people, old people, in-the-middle people, some people on the right, all people on the left, terrorists, pacifists, war-mongers, fish mongers, Christians, Jews, Muslims, atheists, agnostics (though you’d have to prove it to them), the ACLU, liberals, conservatives, neo-cons, ex-cons, future cons, Republicans, Democrats, Libertarian, people of color, people of no color, English speakers, English-as-a-second language speakers, non-speakers, men, women, more women, & Ivy League professors. Native Americans should be okay.
I think it is a “must-see for me” too. Check out the trailer for yourself, if you haven’t seen it already.
You know what I think of people when they come on “Hardball,” and they look at the camera, I think they’re dolts.
Don’t believe that quote? Here’s the audio. I think Roger Simon from Politico and I watched the same 2008 Vice-Presidential Debate held at Washington University.
ROGER SIMON, POLITICO: When she faced the audience, she always looked directly into the camera, always directly at America. Joe Biden was turned for most of it.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: He was looking at Gwen.
SIMON: At Gwen Ifill, exactly! Which came across better?
MATTHEWS: Well apparently according to all the polling, talking to, answering the questions of the moderator, not ignoring those questions, not doing what every, every first year candidate does is go right to the camera. You know what I think of people when they come on “Hardball,” and they look at the camera, I think they’re dolts. I think that’s the one thing people don’t like, because when you’re looking at me right now, that’s real. You’re looking at me that’s real. You start looking in the camera right now and answer my question and see how you look. Okay just see how you look.
I’m not sure which debate Chris Matthews watched. Does anyone know if Tina Fey and SNL were doing a spoof last night to which Matthews might have tuned his television? 😉
But, what about Barack Obama having looked into the camera so much at the first presidential debate at Ole Miss? Did Chris Matthews have a problem with that? Nope. I didn’t hear a word out of him. But, his friends at the NYT praised Obama for it…
The differences were in no small part stylistic and visible with a glance to the stage: a 47-year-old black man who has been in the Senate for nearly four years standing at one lectern, facing a 72-year-old white-haired fixture of the Senate standing across from him. In many ways, Mr. Obama was a very different candidate than he was during the primary battles. He answered questions directly and affirmatively, typically looking right into the camera as he spoke.
UPDATED:IowaHawk is reporting that Ifill has been cleared of having committed any wrong. IowaHawk just forgot to mention that Chris Matthews’ leg occupies its own place on the commission. 😉
On a more serious note, Michelle Malkin has written the Obudsman at PBS to get their take on Ifill’s obvious finanacial and idealogical conflict of interest in tonight’s debate. I can’t wait to read their response.
Liz Cox Barrett at the Columbia Journalism Review gives us her analysis of Ifill moderating the debate, given everything that we now know. Oh. And, no, Ifill does not plan on stepping down from her position as moderator tonight, as Liz’s update indicates.
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Interesting. Jim Meyers points out a discussion hosted by Ifill on PBS’s Washington Week on 9/5/08:
Ifill tipped her hand when she hosted a discussion on PBS’ “Washington Week” on Sept. 5, after the close of the Republican convention that nominated Palin.
Ifill showed a video showing Palin saying, “Here’s a little news flash for those reporters and commentators: I’m not going to Washington to seek their good opinion, I’m going to Washington to serve the people of this great country.”
Ifill sniped: “Wow, was she talking about us, or just changing the subject?”
Jim notes something else said by Ifill in that discussion:
Later Ifill said about Palin: “Lots of talk about, what, gutting caribou or whatever — I shouldn’t say it this way — gutting caribou in Alaska, which I’m sure is a fine, fine thing to do.” That drew laughter from the audience. “What I’m just saying, we heard a lot more about what Sarah Palin did for sport or what she did as a mother or what she did — than what she did as a governor actually, the actual policy decisions.”
Ifill also raised this point: “This is a weird question, but what don’t we know about Sarah Palin?”
It is so hard to keep up with all of these people that are in the tank or in the bag or whatever it is these days. Gwen Ifill wants more on “policy decisions” and her “brilliant baby cousin“, Sherrilyn Ifill, wants Gov. Palin to relate more to the “average working mom.” Which is it, ladies? You can’t even come to a concensus in your own family.
Like Jim Geraghty, I just don’t anticipate much scrutiny of Joe Biden in the VP debate tonight by Gwen ifill. What are the chances that she will ask Joe if he really knows when FDR was president? Slim to none, I would say. 😉
Joe Biden honestly believes that the decision in Roe vs. Wade is “as close to a consensus that can exist in a society as heterogeneous as ours.”
Were Ifill not on the take, a decent question would be, “Senator Biden, are you really completely unaware of the raging abortion debate in this country for the past thirty-five years? If this is “consensus,” what would “division” look like? By your standards, did this nation have a “mild disagreement” over secession from 1861 to 1865?”
Support for Roe v. Wade has ranged from 62 to 49 percent since 1973; opposition has ranged from 28 to 48 percent. One third of Democrats oppose it.
Rob Huddleston shows us something about his favorite VP debate in recent times. Feel free to join Rob in watching and yelling, about “the fix” in the debate tonight. Even if they do have a debate watching party in my county, I will probably still watch it at home. There’s no line at the bathroom. 😉
Just because the Boston Globe is pushing Barack Obama handbags for $46.80 in their online stores, when they don’t have a similar items for John McCain, doesn’t make them biased, right? What? It’s not like there is an expectation to give equal time and representation or something. Is there?
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