Category: Politics

CNN’s been on most of the day in The Living Room, and it seems like the only politicians and pundits they’re talking to are Sarah Palin and other assorted Republicans. Republicans, Republicans, Republicans. Have they not been able to figure out that Democrats took control of the White House and both houses of Congress?

Columbia County joins the Obama change wagon by changing basic math:

Talking about the mistakes Sen. John McCain made during the campaign, Jack Cafferty on CNN was just saying that Gov. Sarah Palin’s choice as VP candidate “came with too much baggage.”

I suspect she needed the baggage to carry home all those new clothes she got the RNC to buy her and the family.

NEWSWEEK has also learned that Palin’s shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than previously reported. … One aide estimated that she spent “tens of thousands” more than the reported $150,000, and that $20,000 to $40,000 went to buy clothes for her husband. Some articles of clothing have apparently been lost. An angry aide characterized the shopping spree as “Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast,” and said the truth will eventually come out when the Republican Party audits its books.

Hey, CNN! If you have to tell people it’s “pretty amazing technology” every time you show your faux holograms, it’s not actually pretty amazing.

BLITZER: You know what I like about this hologram — and you’re a hologram now, Jessica — instead of having thousands of people behind you screaming and shouting, you know what, we can have a little bit more of an intimate conversation, and our viewers can enjoy that as well.

How excited are you, Jessica, that this is — you’re the first one that we’ve beamed into the “CNN Election Center?”

YELLIN: I know. It’s like I follow in the tradition of Princess Leia.

…

I’m inside a tent in Chicago that’s been built — engineers spent about three weeks doing it. There are 35 high-definition cameras ringing me, in a ring around me. I’m in the center. And they shoot my body at different angles, and I’m told that transmits what looks like an entire body image back there to New York. These cameras, I’m told, talk to the cameras in New York, so they move and they know when to move when the cameras in New York move. And it looks a little different from real person there, but it’s pretty remarkable.

BLITZER: It’s still Jessica Yellin and you look like Jessica Yellin and we know you are Jessica Yellin.

From the Oregonian‘s detail page on the Merkley/Smith Senate race:

Much as I might sneer at the lousy capabilities of most pundits to predict, prognosticate, or otherwise prophesy about any topic, I at least think people on TV ought to pronounce the term correctly. But practically everyone I heard on CNN and elsewhere last night (and for most of the past couple of months) has seemed to Palinize the term, to “pun-dints.”

There’s no “n.”

UPDATE I: Apparently, I’ve gotten the newfangled spelling wrong.

I think McCain lost because he listen to the far right pundents on cable.

UPDATE II: It’s not in the dictionary, but apparently there are thousands of pages out there with variations on “pundint” and “pundent.”

I was wondering just the other day what would fill the commercial slots on the TV after the election was over and the campaign coffers had blown their wads. Now I know.

Credit and debt counseling service ads.

I just got robo-called by Portland Trick or Vote.

I don’t know if every cookie in the Fujin had this fortune this week or not, but it’s not really that kind of place:

Opportunity awaits you on next Tuesday.

The lucky numbers were:

4   9   18   21   26   33

On the other hand.

It was three months and three days ago (July 28) that I got this fortune (along with two others):

Remember three months from this date, Good things are in store for you.

Since then, I’ve busted up my knee, I didn’t get the promotion one of the other fortunes promised, and the one vacation Barbara and I had planned for her birthday got cancelled because of (natch) my little knee problem. And I’ve got another four weeks on crutches.

So. My advice would be, don’t bet the farm on the predictions of fortune cookies.

John McCain’s campaign slogan in the original German.