Though I shudder at the thought of being one of Sarah Palin’s progeny, I did find it quite amusing to learn what my name would have been had the stars aligned a little bit differently in my life.
My rugged, mavericky name would have been Icepick Motor Palin. There’s a name that could certainly leave an impression.
All this thanks (I think…) to the Palin Name Generator.
The New York Times wrote an article yesterday that pretty much sums up what I was thinking about the McCain VP selection:
“Senator John McCain spent the summer arguing that a 40-something candidate with four years in major office and no significant foreign policy experience was not ready to be president.
And then on Friday he picked as his running mate a 40-something candidate with two years in major office and no significant foreign policy experience.”
Amazing, isn’t it?
And this is why I have an “absurdity” category on my blog…
Fox “News”, in its continued effort to prove that it is really just a parody of actual journalism, recently aired a program whereby the host, E.D. Hill, suggested in a teaser that the Barack Obama/Michelle Obama fist bump at the start of the St. Paul, MN nomination victory speech was, and I kid you not, a “terrorist fist jab.” Her exact quote (before cutting to commercial) was:
“A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently.”
Upon returning to the program, Hill introduced a body-language “expert” and proceeded to make no further mention of the “terrorist fist jab.” Tricky, tricky.
Those Fox News folks are good. And I don’t mean journalists. They’re first class smearers. Is this how pathetic, scared, and desperate the right has become? Sure looks like it to me.
Many, many news outlets have caught on to the silliness of this story. MSNBC did a nice piece on it, so I’ll share it here. (By the way, the Ali G stuff is priceless – I wholeheartedly encourage you to check out his stuff – you won’t regret it!)
Look at Pat blowing it up! Woot!
My gosh, this all makes you wonder what that President Bush chest bump at the Air Force Academy meant, doesn’t it?
Ali G said it best… “Yo, is you mashed or something?”
This silliness, found on MSNBC:
Dunkin’ Donuts pulled a television spot featuring talk show host and Food Network personality Rachael Ray this weekend after a Fox news commentator associated it with terrorists.
In the ad, Ray is wearing a scarf that Michelle Malkin said in her nationally syndicated column resembled a kiffiyeh, Middle Eastern garb that is “popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos.”
Dunkin’s Senior Vice President for Communications Margie Myers issued a statement saying the scarf “was selected by a stylist for the advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended.
“However, as of this past weekend, we are no longer using the online ad because the possibility of misperception detracted from its original intention to promote our iced coffee.”
In her column, Malkin also noted that it could appear at times that actor Colin Farrell, rapper Kanye West and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean have been photographed in similar scarves that were “distinctive hate couture.”
Distinctive hate couture? Guess it’s time for me to add yet another term to my post-9/11 vocabulary.
Is this really what we’ve become? It’s easy to laugh at things like this, but it is also so very sad.