Ah, but don't get too happy. They're probably not asking about Obama, and even if they were, they would never have time to check something and leak it before the election.

Thanks to d.

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At Pat Dollard's.

You can't stop the signal.

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Dirty Harry has the vid, which I will steal, but also direct you there for more.

Snarf: CNN previously "truth squaded" this outrageous claim of a long-term significant personal and political relationship between Ayers and Obama and found it very misleading.

I guess it seems misleading if your "reportage" is limited merely to the spin from the Obama campaign.

Obama Didn't Know About the Terrorist Ayers and His Charles-Manson-Fan Psychopath Wife Bernadette Dohrn? Roger Simon finds that hard to believe, given that there was a late-eighties lightly-fictionalized movie about their days on the lam called Running on Empty. Any man of the left-- which Obama obviously was --would have known about it.

And I'm not kidding about that serial-killer jock-sniffer psycho-whore wife of Ayers' -- also a fast friend in the Michelle-Barack-William-Bernie quartet.

In 1969, shortly after members of the Manson Family committed the brutal Tate/LaBianca murders, Dohrn, speaking before an audience of SDS members, exclaimed, “Dig it! Manson killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they shoved a fork into a victim's stomach.”

Um, that's the first quote I found, but it's wrong: Dohrn was specifically celebrating sticking the fork into the belly of the very pregnant Sharon Tate, murdering the child within.

She also made a gesture with three fingers extended like a fork -- an attempt at a slightly more psychopathic Nazi salute.

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Reports that some ticket-sellers are actually selling tickets for other movies and then saying, "Oh, no problem, that ticket will get you right in for An American Caro."

Well, of course it will. They don't check tickets too carefully once you're past the door.

But the point is they're giving money that should go An American Carol to other movies.

Real? Who knows. Worth checking your tickets, though, and insisting that if you pay for An American Carol, your ticket says An American Carol.

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See, this issue isn't all that complicated. McCain warned about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Democrats? Not so much.

Apparently the ad is running in at least North Carolina and perhaps elsewhere.

Below the fold is one that was running before the bailout. It's actually stronger because it names names. They should just remove the bailout line and keep running it.
more...

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The one that actually, correctly, noted that Bush tried to defuse bomb while the Democrats kept adding explosives to it.

SNL kept its Palin-bashing debate sketch up, of course. But they've vanished the bailout one from both Hulu and NBC.com even as McCain takes the gloves off on this issue.

Why did the let the sketch run in the first place? Well, probably because it was written by Jim Downey and no one at SNL has the balls to stop one of their all-time greatest writers from getting a sketch on. Downey was/is one of the show's top writers, especially in politics -- he did those Gore/Bush debate sketches -- and even better, he's kinda... Republican. Or Republican-ish, at least.

n 1976, Downey became a writer for Saturday Night Live. He worked on 27 of the show's first 32 seasons, one of the longest tenures in the show's history.[1] His first stretch as writer for the show ran from 1976 to 1980, culminating in a brief stint as a featured cast member.

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After leaving SNL, Downey went on to become head writer of Late Night with David Letterman for a little over a year during its formative stages. He returned to SNL in 1984, serving for a while as head writer. When Norm Macdonald began as Weekend Update anchor in the mid-1990s, Downey wrote exclusively for that segment of the show. Downey and Macdonald subsequently became a team, working away from the rest of the cast and crew. When Macdonald was fired from the show in 1998, Downey went with him, only to return to the show in 2000. He continues to write for the show, pausing only in 2005 to work on a novel.[1]

In early 2008 Downey received attention for political sketches on SNL mocking the Democratic Presidential Debates. The sketches depicted the news media as biased toward candidate Barack Obama. After the first sketch aired, candidate Hillary Clinton referred to it at the beginning of the next debate. A profile of Downey appeared in the New York Times.[1] In the Huffington Post, former SNL head writer Adam McKay called Downey "right wing" and an "Ann Coulter pal", and suggested that the skits were a ploy to favor Republicans, since Clinton would be a weaker candidate than Obama.[4] According to the Times article, Downey "said he probably favored Mr. Obama over Mrs. Clinton, but that he genuinely felt she was receiving tougher treatment from the news media". He denied that SNL had intended to help Clinton. The SNL sketches may have prompted tougher news coverage of Obama, according to work by the Project for Excellence in Journalism.[5] Downey's political affiliation had been mentioned before in the news. TV critic Tom Shales, author of a book on SNL (Live from New York: The Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live),[6] said on CNN in 2002:

" Jim Downey, who was kind of running the political humor [in 2000 at SNL], is himself a Republican. You know, we just assume that people in the arts are all liberal Democrats despite the occasional Charlton Heston or whatever. But not the case. Downey is pretty conservative."

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Additional information about Downey’s political affiliation is provided in a New York Times article dated March 13, 2008 titled “Pro-Clinton? ‘SNL’ Says You’re Joking”. The article states “Mr. Downey said he was a registered Democrat.” [8] The article also stated that Downey indicated a preference for candidate Obama, “Mr. Downey said that he would definitely vote for him if he were nominated.” [8]

Ah, well. Like I said: Republican-ish.

Incidentally, writers don't permanently "leave" SNL, usually. They'll often come back for weeks at a time, like alumni returning to their alma mater.

But why yank it? Allah answers his own question: To stop it from going viral.

Incidentally, they ran another sketch (probably also by Downey) a couple of weeks ago ripping NYT reporters as effete hermaphrodites who would do anything to smear Sarah Palin... except go anywhere where they couldn't get Thai delivered. I kept checking and checking to see if that made it up on to NBC.com and Hulu. It never did. Or at least it didn't a week later, when I stopped checking.

On YouTube: People are saying it's on YouTube, but, it's like, not. It's a still that tells you to click on nbc.com to actually see the sketch, but when you do that, no sketch.

The show sucks, which is odd, because the cast is halfway decent (and Kristin Wiig wil one day be acknowledged as one of the great female cast members, up there with Jan Hooks and Gilda Radner), but the writing is just weak.

This was the only funny sketch, and I have to say, I'm including the bailout sketch. The bailout sketch was politically copacetic but not really hilarious.

Explanation? Possible.

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Must read.

Just came out: Obama distributed millions of dollars controlled by Ayers to radical "education partners" such as ACORN which were not concerned with actual learning, but with spreading leftist ideology.

Um.... has anyone you "barely even met" ever hired you for a directorship job and put millions of dollars into your hands to distribute?

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Well of course it is, darling.

Rep. Barney Frank said Monday that Republican criticism of Democrats over the nation's housing crisis is a veiled attack on the poor that's racially motivated.

The Massachusetts Democrat, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said the GOP is appealing to its base by blaming the country's mortgage foreclosure problem on efforts to expand affordable housing through the Community Reinvestment Act.

"They get to take things out on poor people," Frank said at a mortgage foreclosure symposium in Boston. "Let's be honest: The fact that some of the poor people are black doesn't hurt them either, from their standpoint. This is an effort, I believe, to appeal to a kind of anger in people."

And it's also homophobic to note that, at the time you were supposed to be overseeing Fannie Mae, you were, um, romantically involved with one of its executives specifically in the field of expanding subprime mortgages to credit-poor buyers.

So, while you were supposed to be overseeing this guy, you were instead taking it up the squeakhole from him with the manic hydraulic fury of a tricked-out V-12 jackhammer with a short-circuiting regulator run by an epileptic Con Ed worker with an ancestral vow of vengeance against asphalt.

Oh: I forgot to mention: It's also racist to mention rich whitebread suburban doucheholster Bill Ayers.

Says Obama?

No.

Says the neutral news organization the AP.

More parroting of Obama talking points by the AP on this issue.

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New Campaign Director Paul Anka explains.

Sorry. Bad day. I go back to the wisdom of Paul Anka like a baby to his woobie.

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Within three, among likely voters, cutting Obama's lead down from 9 since the Palin-Biden debate alien autopsy.

Do I believe it? No, not with Gallup and Rasmussen both showing 8 point leads. I'd like to believe, but for now I say: Outlier.

However, it could be that Palin has goosed the ticket a little bit and recaptured a bit of her former attractiveness to women and independents. And I certainly like the direction.

Who knows. I'll be watching Gallup and Rasmussen closely tomorrow.

Jay Cost, by the way, disagrees with me and thinks that McCain might as well "pee into the wind" as attempt to deflect blame from Republicans when it comes to a banking crisis. He suggests just hitting Obama on Ayers and Wright.

I say: Um, okay, can we not try all three?

Here's why Cost is wrong: The public is incensed that they have to pick up the tab for these deadbeat mortgagors, and we have every fucking Democrat on videotape saying we need to subsidize them more.

Even if McCain can't win on this issue, I am quite sure there is a meaningful difference between losing on one issue by five and losing by 30.

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