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This coincides with an essay at Hoffmania.com today. It's our adamant conviction that we do NOT want a bowlin' shootin' faux workin' stiff who we'd like to have a beer with to be our president. We want the biggest brain we can muster to run the country. KO and Eugene Robinson agree. Coincidence? Yeah, prolly.
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This "tribute" which served to only throw fear into the political discourse and frighten voters was shown at the 2008 Republican National Convention. Keith Olbermann spoke for many of us at the sickening images used for political gain.
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During DNC coverage, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough was waxing ebullient over the gains made by McCain, when Keith Olberman muttered "Jesus, Joe, why don't you get a shovel?" It was likely an open mic problem, but at least Olbermann owned up to it and defended saying it as you'll see.
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John McCain got his first taste of what it'll be like going toe-to-toe with Barack Obama...and it wasn't pretty. Obama pretty much took him to school when it came to al Qaeda in Iraq.
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I don't think this was one Nancy Pfotenhauer's better days. Chris Matthews hammered her on not knowing what the Constitution says about the role of the vice-president (in wake of Sarah Palin not knowing either). Bill Burton of the Obama campaign got in one sentence, letting Pfotenhauer twist in the wind.
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We've talked about inherent contempt at Hoffmania.com for a while, and now Countdown's Keith Olbermann explains it, along with Constitutional law scholar Jonathan Turley.
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Here's Countdown's highlight film of the senate hearings on the attorney firings, as Alberto Gonzales faced questions which he still had a very hard time answering. The man is just head-spinning.
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From MSNBC's Hardball: A furious Joe Biden (and almost equally furious Chris Matthews) go after Gen Petraeus' inability to determine of the situation in Iraq makes America safer. Pretty powerful stuff.
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Ben Porritt tries his dancing skills on MSNBC and falls on his face as David Schuster asked him about McCain's about-face on taxes, using terrorism images in campaign literature and his charges of unknown contributions to Obama. Fail: Porritt.
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Schuster eviscerates McCain Chief Economic Adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin who could not escape the fact that McCain claimed success in passing the bailout bill that failed.
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It's really got to the point where you just can't hold back your laughter at these people any more. Brad Blakeman said something so breathlessly insane that David Schuster laughed out loud at him on the air. Priceless.
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The voice of reason in the war zone debunks another Bush al Qaeda speech by flatly stating the percentage of al Qaeda combatants in Iraq (1%)...and how the war continues to stoke the flames of the insurgency.