SARAH PALIN: APPARENTLY NOT THAT WELL VETTED

BREAKING: Fox News reveals – about five months late – that Sarah Palin gave McCain’s campaign worry because she was a tantrum-throwing prima donna who couldn’t name the members of NAFTA and thought Africa was a country rather than a continent.

Well, NOW they tell us.

I like the part where they say, “On the other hand, conservatives just loved her.”

You’ll be hearing from her again.

Anyway, worth passing on just for the novelty of watching Fox News acting all surprised about what most of us figured out months ago using nothing but the power of observation and brain cells.

Wankers.

Dumber than a sack of ham sandwiches,

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EDITED TO ADD: For more amazing behind-the-scenes revelations on both campaigns, Newsweek has an impressive collection of anecdotes. For example, Palin apparently blew more than $150k on clothes:

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.

WHITE SUPREMACISTS = THE NEW BLACK = FAIL

Admit it, you saw this coming a mile away ...

ITEM [via Warren Ellis]: The white-power movement is changing its marketing strategy to broaden its appeal.

Supremacist groups are on the rise as they market themselves to middle America, fueled by the debate over illegal immigration and a struggling economy, according to leaders of the groups and organizations that monitor them.

The Obama backlash, it begins.

Sigh.

Still, we’re talking about less than 50,000 evolutionary throwbacks, so hopefully this is the usual media sensationalism. And anyway, it’s good to know these things – I’d rather these people come out into the open where we can see them than hide in the shadows. Mind you, they were easier to spot when they wore Nazi armbands, so that could be a drawback.

FUN FACT: The creator of the white supremacist website Stormfront is named Don Black.

Stupid white men,

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PUPPIES ON DEMAND

Okay, that last post was too heavy. And the weekend is coming up.

Let me see what I can do to lighten the mood a little.

I know just the thing.

The Shiba Inu Puppy Cam.

Join me:

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Strangely addictive. But then I’m one of those people who can stand in front of a pet shop window for hours watching kitty cats wrestle, so I would say that, wouldn’t I?

I dig a puppy,

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HELP ME WOLF BLITZER, YR MY ONLY HOPE!

ITEM: About those “holograms” CNN deployed on Election Night (and for God’s sake how did we ever manage to cover elections without them?) – they weren’t real holograms, you know.

Hans Jurgen Kreuzer, theoretical physics professor and holography expert at Dalhousie University, says the so-called holograms were simply 2D images superimposed onto the TV broadcast.

The images were in fact tomograms, or images captured from all sides - in this case by 35 high-definition cameras set in a ring inside a special tent - reconstructed by computers and displayed on the screen.

A real hologram would have meant the images were projected into space.

Science: taking the fun out of cable news programs since 1980.

But in this case it’s justified, for a couple of reasons:

1. It’s a case of a news organization trying to pass off a technology as holography in an age where actual hologram technology does exist.

2. It added absolutely zero value to their election coverage, except for the ability of Ted Turner to phone up Roger Ailes and go, “Fuck you and yr glowing hockey pucks, Roger, we have fucking HOLOGRAMS! Tell Bill-O I said hi!” Which was probably the whole point.

As the kids say today, EPIC FAIL.

Beam me up,

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