Sadly, No!

It seems like only a few short weeks ago that McCain was crossing the Rubicon:

McCain To Appear On Sunday’s “Meet The Press”

NBC has just announced that John McCain will — finally — appear on “Meet The Press” this Sunday, October 26th.

I say “finally” because McCain has not appeared on the Sunday program since the campaign declared unofficial war on NBC, declining invitations for himself and vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin from interim MTP host Tom Brokaw, and granting “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Wiliams the last of the Big Three network interviews with Palin, by a substantial margin.

In August, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis wrote a letter to NBC News president Steve Capus, complaining of comments made by Andrea Mitchell on MTP (and throwing in an MSNBC jab for good measure). This is also after Palin’s speech at the Republican National Convention, where she attacked the mainstream media, and the crowd started to chant, “NBC! NBC!”

Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has not sat for an interview on MTP, nor has she been made available for an interview on any other Sunday morning show. She has, however, appeared on “Saturday Night Live.”

The release is below. ETP has asked NBC if Governor Palin might appear, if she was invited, and what the response to that invitation was (including the rationale, if any, for refusal). I will update this post accordingly.

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TOM BROKAW TO INTERVIEW REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE SEN. JOHN MCCAIN IN A “MEET THE PRESS” EXCLUSIVE ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26

“Meet the Press” to Originate Live From Waterloo, Iowa

…And really, how would it be possible not to do what I’m about to do?

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Above: Mavrick

‘It’s Not the Economy; It’s the Ugliness’

• It appears increasingly likely that large numbers of Republican voters will hold their noses and vote for a black Democrat for president. Barack Obama should interpret this to mean that they want him to govern the way John McCain says he would.

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He went to a town in which plenty of blingnuts live and thrive, and all Roger L. Simon got was this lousy self-pity (not to mention geenormous persecution complex):

It’s no surprise that Moses Whine’s fellow Yoostabee Michael (‘The J. Stands For Jackass’) Totten has already breathlessly blurbed it in comments, thanking Simon for writing it. Yes, yes, Simon is to be commended for his bravery in the face of those vicious and monolithic Hollywood liberals! Don’t you know what they’ll do to the Santa Monica Solzhenitsyn now? The “blacklisting” was just the first step. Next thing you know, Ol’ Roger might find the severed head of a G.W. Bush action figure under his sheets. Huddled and shivering “apostates” being forced into back alleys to trade Samizdat dvds of An American Carol! Comrades sent to Siberia Massachusetts! The inevitable show trials and firing squads!

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Hanx to Scott for the Hollywood Blingnuts link!

ABOVE: Dan Riehl, explained

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Dan Riehl, moral paragon and exemplar of proper Republican family values, takes Obama to task for being a bad brother and a bad son:

This may be a bit uncomfortable but it warrants pointing out. Obama made this brief video appearance today to talk about his Grandmother, spinning it somewhat into a character/judgment issue: “I didn’t want to make the same mistake twice.” That’s because he said his Mother died before he was able to get back to see her.

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Obama paints himself as this empathic figure. Yet, we know he has a step-brother living in a hut in Kenya, or wherever. And his Mother lay dying for almost if not a full year without a visit from her son.

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And this man is the guy who is supposed to care about health care issues for everyone else? You’re kidding me right? A Harvard grad and a lawyer and he lets his Mother lay dying in pain and worry for a year without so much as a visit?

Frankly, that’s repulsive as far as I’m concerned. He couldn’t see his Mother because he was running the CAC and having lunch with Bill Ayers? Geesh!

That would be the same Dan Riehl who said this when John Cole criticized him for being a pasty, quivering, gelatinous blob of hypocrisy and homophobia:

Really?

Robert Leroy Riehl Born: 05 Jan 1948 Died: 21 Jun 2004

That was an older brother of mine, John. He’s dead and, yes, he was Gay. You want to know how he died? He died alone, probably of aids for all I know and probably in a San Francisco flop house living on the government’s dime. I say probably because it was the last address I ever had for him from letters exchanged, not having seen the boy/man since I was about 15.

Words fail. Really.

Above: ‘My fingers go where? What keys?’

Over at Butt Propulsion Laboratories, the Head Flatulator has discovered evidence of a dire new plot against American sovereignty, in the form of coke smugglers with funny names.

Mahmoud, Mohamad and Hussein–not the names we traditionally associate with Latin American drug smugglers.

Of course, at the end of the very article the Demethanenator links, it mentions that there is an Arabic community in Venezuela through which the Bush administration believes Islamic terror groups funnel money. But while it may be old, and possibly bogus, news to some, it’s evidence of a new conspiracy to the Gas-Blower:

What we’re seeing here, I think, is another sign of the emerging Russia/Iran/Venezuela axis. This unholy alliance could be the major foreign policy challenge of the next four years

Do what I did: go to the source article, hit command-F, and search for the word “Russia”. You won’t find it, but El Vaporino knows they’re involved somehow, because he came of age under St. Reagan, and he knows that’s where evil comes from. The article does mention Europe, but somehow that doesn’t add up to Belgium or Italy being behind the narco-terror alliance of unholiness. Guatemala likewise gets off the hook, but that doesn’t mean Le Petomaniac won’t stick his nose in South American affairs:

If that’s right, it is dispiriting to realize that we likely will have a President so hostile to America’s ally Colombia that he doesn’t want American manufacturers to be able to sell their goods there free of tariffs.

It’s simply a byproduct of Obama’s inexplicable hostility to our peaceful, human-rights-lovin’ ally Colombia, you see, and not at all because Colombia actually places massive tariffs on us, in excess of $1 billion as of May of this year.

Nor are we sure what his attitude is toward our bitter enemy, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.

We simply DON’T KNOW! Why, Hugo Chavez, our bitter enemy who has taken the lives of slightly less than two Americans, could be, like, his secret boyfriend or something! For all we know, he could take office and then cede all of New England to Venezuela! There is SIMPLY NO WAY TO TELL!

Moreover, in 2006 Obama’s friend and collaborator Bill Ayers traveled to Venezuela to address Chavez and fellow party members as “comrades” and praise Venezuelan education because it is thoroughly politicized and endeavors to perpetuate socialism.

Bill Ayers yadda blap Obama’s good friend yackity smackity Weatherman terror socialist zzzzzz!

Who has funded Ayers’ radical educational projects? Barack Obama.

Who has actually funded Ayers’ radical educational projects? Former Nixon aide, good friend of Ronald Reagan, and lifelong Republican Walter Annenberg.

It would be nice if, during the next four years, we had a President who 1) understands who are America’s friends and who are America’s enemies, and 2) is on the side of America and its friends. Right now, that doesn’t seem likely.

Yeah, that would be nice, Fartillicus. But it looks like we’re gonna be stuck with this darkie traitor who will hand over America’s car keys to the Commie Nazis of Iranezuela. America: it was fun while it lasted.

Above: Famous primarily for this

What same-sex ‘marriage’ has done to Massachusetts

• Hey Mistah Taliban, tally me ba-na-na, Gay rights come and me wan’ go home…

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We had to watch the clip several times to make sure it wasn’t the Riesling messing with us, yet it is true: on The Daily Show last week Ari Fleischer said that the problem with Barack Obama’s tax plan is that it would leave too many people paying no income tax:

Under his policy it’s about 45% of this country would no longer pay any income tax. […] You can’t have a country that’s gonna be strong if you’ve got about 45% of the country that is excused from paying income tax.

First of all, what the fuck?!? Second of all: 45% of all tax returns just gets into the range of returns that show a total income of $25,000 to $30,000. Ari didn’t say (and Stewart just moved on to capital gains taxes), but how much should someone with say, an adjusted gross income of $25,000 pay in income taxes? How does making that person pay $1,800 (average tax liability on returns with a taxable income between $25K and $30K) make the country “strong”? It’s not like there aren’t lots of other taxes paid by that person/family? Third of all: when did the Republicans become the party of let’s have more people paying taxes?!? Talk about running on empty.

Discussion question: Does the flat tax, the ultimate Republican tax dream, threaten to destroy the country by exempting millions of Americans from paying any income tax? And if Rush is right that only the rich pay taxes, haven’t we already reached the “not a strong country anymore” point?

John McCain, not quite at the stage yet where he’s started singing Supertramp’s Take A Look At My Girlfriend at campaign events, figures his audience won’t know the difference between actually and almost:

Republican John McCain told voters in this key electoral state Tuesday he was personally tested by the same kind of crisis that Democratic vice presidential nominee Joseph Biden warned Barack Obama will almost certainly face if elected president.

McCain recalled being ready to launch a bombing run during the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, which Biden said over the weekend tested a new President John F. Kennedy and was the template for the kind of “generated crisis” the 47-year-old Obama would face within six months of taking office.

“I was on board the USS Enterprise,” McCain, a former naval aviator, said in the capital city of Harrisburg. “I sat in the cockpit, on the flight deck of the USS Enterprise, off of Cuba. I had a target. My friends, you know how close we came to a nuclear war.”

Being actually tested would have meant having been sent on a bombing run. Saying you were tested because you sat in the cockpit is like saying you played in the World Series because you stood in the on deck circle as your team won the game. You didn’t do anything that would amount to being tested, unless your idea of a test is that you managed to find the seat on your airplane. Few baseball players are remembered for outstanding post-season performances that consisted of standing in the on deck circle.

Setting the bar low is of course nothing new for McCain/Palin, a line the “liberal” media is only too happy spin:

Let us stipulate this right off: Sarah Palin won her debate with Joe Biden. She won, it is true, by not imploding, but a win is a win. Though the polls have given the evening to Biden on substance…

Which is essentially Jon Meacham of Newsweek saying: sure people who watched the debate say Biden won, but according to a meaningless and ridiculous standard adopted by me and countless other talking idiots on the TV and writing idiots on the internets, Palin too did win. We can’t wait for Palin to devote her time to energy independence:

“That’s been my forte as the governor of an energy producing state and as a former chair of the, of the energy regulator — entity up there in Alaska,” she said.

PS: Has The Daily Show stopped trying to be funny? It seems that all the energy goes into collecting clips, with nothing left over for jokes. Unless of course by joke one means Jon Stewart laughing at the clips.

Nationwide, Police Begin Bracing For Obama’s Defeat

• EXCLUSIVE REPORT! MUST CREDIT CONFEDERATE YANKEE! Despite what you’re reading from left-wing pollsters such as FOX News, a source of mine who is a former baggage checker at Pickens County Airport is involved in Homeland Security says that Obama is about to lose big-time and that police are preparing to beat down the hordes of Negroes that will riot in our streets

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It seems the RNC helped Caribou Barbie support her habit and blow through $150,000 in outfits since September.

Cf.