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I didn't shoot this video
Sep. 1st, 2008 08:15 pmFelicia Day played Penny in Dr. Horrible's Song-a-Long Blog. If you saw that production, you might find this video - shot at PAX, not by me, I wasn't present for this - amusing:
Sep. 1st, 2008
Reportedly, the GOP is going to give Gov. Palin the vetting Senator McCain's campaign did not. Meanwhile, here, go watch McCain campaign wonk Tucker Bounds claim that Gov. Palin has military experience by virtue of the Alaska National Guard being sent to Iraq. That's pretty lulzworthy, right? Newt Gingrich is certainly piling on the praise, calling her the most exciting new personality we've seen since John F. Kennedy. I guess "exciting" is one word for it.
But the fundamentalists sure do love her - to the tune of a $7 million fundraising bounce. I mean, they really, really like her. They like that she's a Creationist and goes for the 'Scientific Creationism' bullshit. They like that she's opposed to any form of sex education other than abstinence-only (and yes, I will take the cheap shot of noting how well that worked for her 17-year-old pregnant daughter, thanks). They like that she's a member of a fundamentalist evangelical church. They like her so much that James Dobson (Focus on the Family, various sockpuppet groups) has switched from never, ever voting for McCain to saying he has "not been so excited about a political candidate since Ronald Reagan."
Presumably they also like that she has no awareness of history, stating in 2006 that if having "Under God" in the pledge of allegiance was good enough for the Founding Fathers, it was good enough for her. (The Pledge was written in 1892; the phrase "Under God" was not added until 1954.) I'm not being entirely facetious about that; like with their bullshit "creation science," they've created a bullshit religious history of the US that attempts to paint most of the signers of the Constitution as followers of a particular breed of fundamentalist orthodoxy not invented until another 100+ years later. So she's right onboard with their target demographic in that.
But seriously, this has accomplished a few things: 1: People aren't talking about McCain's record of support for Chief Executive Bush anymore - at least, not for the moment. He's set up the sideshow, and that's important for him. And 2: it has brought the fundamentalists onboard, as I suggested last time I discussed the news. 3: Everyone is talking about McCain again. He loves that. In terms of making a splash, he wanted to make one, and he did. If these are the things you care about, then, well, mission accomplished.
But the fundamentalists sure do love her - to the tune of a $7 million fundraising bounce. I mean, they really, really like her. They like that she's a Creationist and goes for the 'Scientific Creationism' bullshit. They like that she's opposed to any form of sex education other than abstinence-only (and yes, I will take the cheap shot of noting how well that worked for her 17-year-old pregnant daughter, thanks). They like that she's a member of a fundamentalist evangelical church. They like her so much that James Dobson (Focus on the Family, various sockpuppet groups) has switched from never, ever voting for McCain to saying he has "not been so excited about a political candidate since Ronald Reagan."
Presumably they also like that she has no awareness of history, stating in 2006 that if having "Under God" in the pledge of allegiance was good enough for the Founding Fathers, it was good enough for her. (The Pledge was written in 1892; the phrase "Under God" was not added until 1954.) I'm not being entirely facetious about that; like with their bullshit "creation science," they've created a bullshit religious history of the US that attempts to paint most of the signers of the Constitution as followers of a particular breed of fundamentalist orthodoxy not invented until another 100+ years later. So she's right onboard with their target demographic in that.
But seriously, this has accomplished a few things: 1: People aren't talking about McCain's record of support for Chief Executive Bush anymore - at least, not for the moment. He's set up the sideshow, and that's important for him. And 2: it has brought the fundamentalists onboard, as I suggested last time I discussed the news. 3: Everyone is talking about McCain again. He loves that. In terms of making a splash, he wanted to make one, and he did. If these are the things you care about, then, well, mission accomplished.
