But the End Result has been “Scripted Ignoramus”

October 28th, 2008 by TRex @ 7:04 pm| Posted in 2008 Race, GOP Cargo Cult |

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This is particularly fun blog post from GQ’s Robert Draper:

I’m sympathetic to (Bush shill turned Palin handler Tucker) Eskew and (McCain fembot Nicole) Wallace, and not just because they’re decent people. They’ve held their tongue from leaking what a couple of McCain higher-ups have told me—namely, that Palin simply knew nothing about national and international issues. Which meant, as one such adviser said to me: “Letting Sarah be Sarah may not be such a good thing.” It’s a grim binary choice, but apparently it came down to whether to make Palin look like a scripted robot or an unscripted ignoramus.

And yet, somehow they ended up with the worst of both worlds, a script-mangling, scenery-chewing ignoramus who’s now in danger of “going rogue” and burning down the whole campaign.  Nice work, Republicans.  Your reverse-Midas touch is working just as well as ever.  Somehow you guys manage to fuck up absolutely everything you touch.  As for Governor Hockey Twat, you’d think the mealy-mouthed shrew would be a little more grateful after they bought her all those nice clothes.  I know I’d be real nice if somebody bought me $150,000 worth of designer duds.  Although, like Michelle O, I really would probably be just as happy with $500 worth of J. Crew.

In other news, and I meant to hit this yesterday, Ann Althouse is PISSED AS HELL about getting called out by George Packer of the New Yorker because he said she was being her usual batty self when, after a long session of drunk-blogging the Presidential debates, she hallucinated a clear plastic ear-piece on Barack Obama’s ear.  She swears she didn’t mean it, but then goes on to compare prices and models of inner-ear receiving devices.  Who would have thought that her career could go any further downhill after Boobgate, but every time we think she’s hit bottom, she punches through the floor and keeps digging.

And speaking of laughing-stocks, here’s Laura Ingraham being a flaming asshat again:

O’Reilly and his guest, Laura Ingraham, condemned NBC News for reporting about the spending (”they’re a joke,” Ingraham said). She said the same people critical of the spending would say Palin looked like “white trash” without the new clothes.

Okay, I’m kind of in a hurry here, so quickly:

1. Laura, honey, go look in the mirror.  There’s the joke.

2. While you’re at that mirror, ask yourself if anyone with your criminal dress sense should ever, ever be uttering the words “clothes” and “white trash” in the same sentence.

and

3. Given Horsey’s longstanding antipathy toward gay and lesbian people, don’t you know she haaaaaaates Rachel Maddow right now.  Ingraham’s show was unceremoniously dumped after a week, whereas Rachel has the hottest cable news show in the world, ever.

Thank you and good night.