For all intents and purposes and for what was shaping up to be a boring campaign for McModerate, things are now getting fun. For all his dust-slinging, McCain seems to have found a little water to make some mud. You might want to stay tuned.
How do you know when you hit a homerun?
Being a conservative in a liberal media world, you can only judge a long homerun ball by the reaction of liberals and the liberal press. I think McCain knocked one out of stadium here.
John McCain ad irritates many in Hollywood; Los Angeles Times Staff Writer; July 31, 2008
There's a long drive deep, deep to left field...
TO HOLLYWOOD it smacked of desperation.
That's why the reaction to a new John McCain ad attempting to portray Barack Obama as a kind of mindless celebrity -- likening him to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears -- drew collective yawns and shrugs of irritation from politically active members of the entertainment industry.
...it's way, way back there....
"I didn't think McCain could look silly," mused Norman Lear. "But that ad diminishes him and makes him look silly."
....that ball is OUTA HERE.
Just for a start, industry types say the ad is wrong: In the Hollywood lexicon, Obama is not a celebrity. He's a rock star. (Note to McCain strategists: That's the difference between Jessica Simpson and Bono.)
What's the difference? There are a ton of empty-headed rock stars too.
Rick and Kathleen Hilton, are supporters of McCain's Republican presidential bid. According to federal campaign records, they gave the maximum $4,600.
No word on their plans for the general election, but this much is certain: Their daughter has never paid to attend an Obama campaign fundraiser. (It's unclear whether she's even met the senator, or whether she's even registered to vote. The same goes for Spears.)
She might register, but someone has to show her which end of the pen to use to sign up.
At the time, dozens of people in Hollywood -- including Lear, Harrison Ford, Quincy Jones, Berry Gordy and Michael Douglas -- gave to McCain because they thought he was a Republican celebrity with a great personal story. And, dare we say, some celebrities, namely Warren Beatty, even became friends with the Arizona senator.
You gotta love these celluloid heroes. They never told you why they gave to McModerate.
But the truth is most of Hollywood won't return McCain's calls nowadays because many of the stars and executives he initially impressed now believe the maverick stance they found so attractive was just a pose. Hollywood doesn't object to a good pose -- unless, of course, it doesn't work.
They only supported him out of convenience, because they hated George W. Bush.
"Anyone who knows and listens to Barack Obama doesn't think he's empty-headed," said Bragman, who has known more than his share of vacant skulls. "All this feels very Roveian to me."
You know they have a point here. If anyone has listened to Barack Hussein Obama, they don't think he's empty-headed, they know he's empty-headed.
Now you've done it!!!
Just to solidify this out-of-the-stadium homerun...
Paris Hilton's mom takes offense at McCain's humor; AP/Yahoonews.com; Aug 3, 2008
Looks like empty-headedness runs in the family.
"It is a complete waste of the country's
time
and attention at the very moment when
millions of people are losing their homes and
their jobs," Kathy Hilton said in a short article
posted on the liberal Huffington Post Web
site. "And it is a completely frivolous way to
choose the next president of the United
States."
Unemployment is at 5.7%. Do you know what the average rate was during the 1990s? During that great Clinton economy, it was 5.6%. The average during the Bush administration has been 4.6%. In addition, there were more foreclosures and bank closures during S&L scandal of the 80s/90s than there is now.
Kathy Hilton, however, was unpersuaded, calling the ad "a complete waste of the money John McCain's contributors have donated to his campaign."
Now you know it was a homerun. Kathy Hilton is concerned about wasting money.
There's trouble in River City
This story is too close to home. I am actually petrified.
U.S. Sub May Have Leaked Radiation While in Japan;
By NORIMITSU ONISHI; August 3, 2008
In a country with 149,999,999 liberals you have got to be concerned.
An American nuclear-powered submarine may have leaked a small amount of radiation as it stopped by Japan in the spring and was then deployed throughout the Pacific Ocean, the Japanese government said Saturday.
Calm yourself now.
The chief government spokesman, Nobutaka Machimura, said in a news conference that the radioactive amount - estimated at less than half a microcurie - was too insignificant to �gaffect the human body or the environment.�h
A half a microcurie?!!!! Why that must be 50 metric tonnes.
The submarine spent a week in March in Sasebo, in western Japan, before cruising to Guam and then Hawaii, where the leak was discovered during an inspection late last month, the Japanese government said.
SAY IT ISN'T SO!!!! Sasebo? My God! Probably right out my front window.
The Japanese government and American military have been trying to ease public resistance to the stationing in September of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the George Washington, in Yokokusa, southwest of Tokyo.
Let's see, a curie of radiation is defined as follows:
1 gram of radium
A microcurie is 1 millionth of a currie. A half microcurie is half of that, or 1 millionth of a half a gram. Now that is serious.
Yeah, right Eye. You know-it-all. Aren't you scared?
Not at all. Just because everyone who lives here glows in the dark is not a reason to panic.
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