AMERICAblog: McCain cuts new ads as he opens Saturday Night LIve
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
I don't watch SNL anymore, but I love that clip. I turned to them last night for a few minutes. The quality of their cast is unbelievably bad. I just can't bring myself to watch because I go back to their glory days of Jane Curtain, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner and I watch some of the cast now who can't even bother to remain in character in their skits and I can't watch. BUT, this skit is GREAT!
Oh, SNL did have a great resurgance with Molly Shannon, Oteri and that whole group but then they left and it collapsed again.
There is one actor in particular, who plays the same character no matter what the skit, and LAUGHS at himself the entire time. He sucks. They also need new writers. One or two good skits per show just doesn't cut it.
dacnova
· 1 year ago
We're rarely up late enough to watch all of SNL but we still enjoy the show on our own terms. We record it on the DVR, watch the opening skit (always best in a presidential election year) then we're ready with Fast Forward until Weekend Update. Then more fast forwarding and we're done.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
I don't have a DVR. At 43, I think I'm starting to be left behind by the technology curve. Ha!
Anyway, I try to do the same, in real time, but usually switch over to Comedy Channel or "MadTV" if I want more laughs. MadTV is far superior in their writing.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Expect howls of manufactured, slobbering outrage from the right wing noise machine about how Franken "crossed the line" as an active office-seeker sliming McCain by stealth and through his Hollywood Liberal connections.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
You are so prescient, "KarenMrsLloydRichards" it just happpened on RELIABLE SOURCES. Michael Medved is lamenting SNL and their bias using Franken.
I applaud SNL for showing how outrageous and desperate McCain is.
That little bitch, Michael Medved, just compared Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews to Fox News in their bias. Keith Olbermann is tough and progressive, but fair, FOX NEWS is completely "in the tank" yet the right wing continue to game the refs by trying to compare the two.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
Paul Krugman is kicking ass on Reliable Sources. GO PAUL!
PlusDistance
· 1 year ago
NBC will cave the way Fox never has. Expect a wave of (forced, lame) anti-Obama SNL skits starting next week. And I'm still stockpiling airsickness bags for the inevitable Palin cameo on the show.
grandma
· 1 year ago
And the Coleman camp responds:
. ......When you don't have solutions, you focus on division. While Norm Coleman is focused on working across party lines to get things done, Al Franken is helping attack the next President of the United States, a war hero, and joking about things like pedophilia and racism."
Norm Coleman has run a nasty campaign, full of personal attacks, half-truths, and ridiculous claims about Al Franken. Why would he do that? you may ask. The answer is simple: he knows that if this campaign comes down to issues, he'll lose.
Over the past few months, I've compiled Coleman's floor votes on a number of different subjects. Now I bring you a summary of his worst votes. He wants to run from his record, but here it is, in black and white, for your review. Jeff Rosenberg :: Coleman's out-of-touch record: The worst of the worst
Sen Kyl just said that the Democrats blocked the bills about regulations in Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac since 2002. Why didn't Sen. Schumer shoot this down by saying that the republicans have held the presidency, the house and the senate since 2000 and the democrats just took power in 2006.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
Because Senator Schumer sits on his hands, and plays nice. He is "old school" Democrat. Whenever their is a crisis, smile and let the Republican blame you even when its their fault.
tbhull
· 1 year ago
OT -
Momentum is growing for those opposing the $700,000,000,000 bailout, oh wait the yet indeterminable in amount but to be no less than $700,000,000,000 bailout, though the MSM will never give any sane oppositon a voice. GE has way too much to lose.
Where is Obama on this most important issue? Robert Rubin certainly is free from conflict. Why would Obama jump on board with those pushing the plan when they were the one that drove us in the ditch?
If this passes it will pass with ungodly speed. Think about it, Congress has had 2 years to bring Iraq to an end but stull have their heads up their asses while young men die for no real reason (not to mention all of the time low level and high level members of BushCo laughed fuck off to subpoenas and Congress has done nothing), yet start threatening Wall Street's pocket books and Congress will act in a week if you complain to Congress.
At least Congress is finally being honest about who they serve, and it is not the people.
grandma
· 1 year ago
Yglesias has a post on this too:
.....Simply put, if congressional Democrats manage to acquiesce in a plan that spends $700 billion on a bailout while doing nothing for average working people and giving the taxpayer virtually no upside in a way that guarantees that even electoral victory would give an Obama administration no resources with which to implement a progressive domestic agenda in 2009...
It’d be one thing for a bunch of conservative politicians to ram a terrible policy through. Then we could say “well, if some progressives win the next election things will be different.” But if this comes through an allegedly progressive congress then the whole enterprise starts looking pretty hollow.
They should say no, especially after listening to the talking heads on t.v. today. The Franken article is crap, Politico is crap.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
I want to hear Sarah Palin tell us, "Senator Biden tells us paying taxes is Patriotic," followed by her entourage of sheep and cattle, bahhing, mooing and booing... then followed by, "We are going to take taxpayer money and SAVE Wall Street, but remember taxes are BAD and no one should have to pay them!" Oh, Sarah, do shut up.
tbhull
· 1 year ago
Whether to pass this plan or not splits the republican party in two, as it does the dems. For the repubs the fissure is between fiscal conservatives/limited government types and the country club aristocracy element. The former says no way and the latter says yes, par for the course and Fore!
For the dems, they think government can fix everything and love to spend $$$, but a large growing element is thinking why bailout this wealthy group, the same group that drove us into the ditch, swihtout knowing more about the what, how and why of the plan which cannot come in a week of consideration..
The solution is not negotiate and not pass any legislaqtion until the voters have decided. Let the election determine who is going to take care of what groups once those that must fail do fail. We can and will rebuild if this takes place. We will be wiser and will be free from the groupo that currently controls us. Acting on fear ensures failure.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
One other thing about this massive bailout. The "upside" for the average American is supposed to be George W. Bush telling us the taxpayer will eventually make money off of it. HAHAHAHHAHAHAAAA!
Yea, uh huh... this is the same fool who brought us the "cake walk" Iraq War that would "pay for itself."
Republicans might buy his bullshit statements the American taxpayer will make money, but its simply STEALING our money as far as I'm concerned to bailout the ultra rich who have been robbing us blind.
Socialism for the rich and hyper-capitalism for the poor.
Oh, and we are also supposed to believe we will make money off this when Republicans have wanted our Social Security in the stock market FOREVER. Uh huh... yea... we've seen what a disaster that would have been FOR US!
tbhull
· 1 year ago
The arguments these days are so paper thin.
If these assets will generate a profit then why must the American people bail these companies out? Hell, I like a free market and am perfectly comfortable letting these companies make that profit while the taxpayers sit on the sideline.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
I agree with your take on congress. No sense of urgency in Iraq. Shows you how much MONEY means everything to those people. The little people dying in Iraq for Oil? Not so much. They can ignore the young twenty somethings dying in Iraq while Osama lives large in Pakistan/Afghanistan. They have no idea where to focus until its some kind of large economic collapse many of us saw coming a mile away.
When someone decides to lie to the American people to start a disastrous war that has led our nation to the brink of financial failure, and YES its all connected in my mind because we would have had BILLIONS more to fight problems if it weren't for Bu$hco's war then THEY BETTER preserve the taxpayer funded records.
Also, Cheney has made off handsomely with the American taxpayer's support, and he and his family will enjoy an ultra rich lifestyle because of his sponging off the taxpayer largesse. His records are OUR RECORDS. I'm sure he wants those shredders running 24/7, and they probably are any way since he doesn't think Judge's decisions apply to him, but if he does his fat ass should go to jail!
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
Christiane Amanpour is on "Reliable Sources" and talking about the difference in debates in our country and France. She said that the France debate was TWO HOURS of serious debate with the moderator not trying to score silly points. The students were rivetted by it and it was a huge success, compared to our dumbed down "why don't you wear a flag pin" bullshit we call debates. The debates need to stop being dumbed down for the low information undecided voter and ginned up for those of us who pay attention. First of all, they need to realize it doesn't matter how stupid or insignificant they make the questions, the "undecideds" will remain undecided. I watched one debate where candidates discussed the economy, and when it was all over one of the undecideds the network was celebrating was asked if they made up their minds. Of course, she hadn't. When asked why she hadn't, the undecided said she needed to hear more about what the candidates thought what they talked about for the entire debate. In other words, she didn't listen. I'm sick of our debates being geared for the idiot vote. Lets do like France and have some damned SUBSTANCE and POLICY in debates and lets let the candidates directly debate one another. Obama would kick ass, of course.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
The Palin - McShame ticket does the same thing over and over. They think if they get out in front of a story then they have a 50 - 50 chance of being right. Unfortunately, it only worked once with the surge. The other stuff they've jumped the gun on like "We are all Georgians now" and "The fundamentals of our economy are strong" has totally annihilated them.
tbhull
· 1 year ago
A cut an pste from elsewhere:
After Congess was "duped" in going into the Iraq war, you would think they would be a bit more cautious in listening to the bullshit peedled by the administration.
Today's imminent financial meltdown with unspeakable consequences sounds strikingly familar to yesterday's yellow cake and a resulting Iraq prompted mushroom cloud.
Put the brakes on now! Decide what to do, if anything, with a new Congress and new President.
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Oh, SNL did have a great resurgance with Molly Shannon, Oteri and that whole group but then they left and it collapsed again.
There is one actor in particular, who plays the same character no matter what the skit, and LAUGHS at himself the entire time. He sucks. They also need new writers. One or two good skits per show just doesn't cut it.
Anyway, I try to do the same, in real time, but usually switch over to Comedy Channel or "MadTV" if I want more laughs. MadTV is far superior in their writing.
I applaud SNL for showing how outrageous and desperate McCain is.
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Fake agents of Change. McCain/Palin as MilliVanilli
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Pro Obama Flyer.
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s161/Calypso...
. ......When you don't have solutions, you focus on division. While Norm Coleman is focused on working across party lines to get things done, Al Franken is helping attack the next President of the United States, a war hero, and joking about things like pedophilia and racism."
http://blogs.twincities.com/politics/2008/09/fr...
Norm Coleman has run a nasty campaign, full of personal attacks, half-truths, and ridiculous claims about Al Franken. Why would he do that? you may ask. The answer is simple: he knows that if this campaign comes down to issues, he'll lose.
Over the past few months, I've compiled Coleman's floor votes on a number of different subjects. Now I bring you a summary of his worst votes. He wants to run from his record, but here it is, in black and white, for your review.
Jeff Rosenberg :: Coleman's out-of-touch record: The worst of the worst
http://www.mncampaignreport.com/showDiary.do?di...
Why didn't Sen. Schumer shoot this down by saying that the republicans have held the presidency, the house and the senate since 2000 and the democrats just took power in 2006.
Momentum is growing for those opposing the $700,000,000,000 bailout, oh wait the yet indeterminable in amount but to be no less than $700,000,000,000 bailout, though the MSM will never give any sane oppositon a voice. GE has way too much to lose.
Where is Obama on this most important issue? Robert Rubin certainly is free from conflict. Why would Obama jump on board with those pushing the plan when they were the one that drove us in the ditch?
If this passes it will pass with ungodly speed. Think about it, Congress has had 2 years to bring Iraq to an end but stull have their heads up their asses while young men die for no real reason (not to mention all of the time low level and high level members of BushCo laughed fuck off to subpoenas and Congress has done nothing), yet start threatening Wall Street's pocket books and Congress will act in a week if you complain to Congress.
At least Congress is finally being honest about who they serve, and it is not the people.
.....Simply put, if congressional Democrats manage to acquiesce in a plan that spends $700 billion on a bailout while doing nothing for average working people and giving the taxpayer virtually no upside in a way that guarantees that even electoral victory would give an Obama administration no resources with which to implement a progressive domestic agenda in 2009...
It’d be one thing for a bunch of conservative politicians to ram a terrible policy through. Then we could say “well, if some progressives win the next election things will be different.” But if this comes through an allegedly progressive congress then the whole enterprise starts looking pretty hollow.
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008...
For the dems, they think government can fix everything and love to spend $$$, but a large growing element is thinking why bailout this wealthy group, the same group that drove us into the ditch, swihtout knowing more about the what, how and why of the plan which cannot come in a week of consideration..
The solution is not negotiate and not pass any legislaqtion until the voters have decided. Let the election determine who is going to take care of what groups once those that must fail do fail. We can and will rebuild if this takes place. We will be wiser and will be free from the groupo that currently controls us. Acting on fear ensures failure.
Yea, uh huh... this is the same fool who brought us the "cake walk" Iraq War that would "pay for itself."
Republicans might buy his bullshit statements the American taxpayer will make money, but its simply STEALING our money as far as I'm concerned to bailout the ultra rich who have been robbing us blind.
Socialism for the rich and hyper-capitalism for the poor.
Oh, and we are also supposed to believe we will make money off this when Republicans have wanted our Social Security in the stock market FOREVER. Uh huh... yea... we've seen what a disaster that would have been FOR US!
If these assets will generate a profit then why must the American people bail these companies out? Hell, I like a free market and am perfectly comfortable letting these companies make that profit while the taxpayers sit on the sideline.
http://news.aol.com/article/judge-orders-cheney...
When someone decides to lie to the American people to start a disastrous war that has led our nation to the brink of financial failure, and YES its all connected in my mind because we would have had BILLIONS more to fight problems if it weren't for Bu$hco's war then THEY BETTER preserve the taxpayer funded records.
Also, Cheney has made off handsomely with the American taxpayer's support, and he and his family will enjoy an ultra rich lifestyle because of his sponging off the taxpayer largesse. His records are OUR RECORDS. I'm sure he wants those shredders running 24/7, and they probably are any way since he doesn't think Judge's decisions apply to him, but if he does his fat ass should go to jail!
After Congess was "duped" in going into the Iraq war, you would think they would be a bit more cautious in listening to the bullshit peedled by the administration.
Today's imminent financial meltdown with unspeakable consequences sounds strikingly familar to yesterday's yellow cake and a resulting Iraq prompted mushroom cloud.
Put the brakes on now! Decide what to do, if anything, with a new Congress and new President.