Strib bitter, Coleman lashes out, Franken gets last laugh

It’s funny how you can listen to a debate from end to end then see in the newspaper headlines that don’t sum up what you  listened to. But Marlin Levison’s picture certainly does capture the spirit of last evening: Norman Bertram Coleman lashing out, blaming Al Franken for EVERYTHING.

Coleman busted his rhetorical chops to make [...]

Daylight Slander Time

The milk tastes funny this morning and none of the chickens have laid so much as a single egg — still, it was nice to sleep in for a change.
The Strib didn’t sleep in. They were up nice and early composing headlines that imply Al Franken is somehow tied to Norman Coleman’s emerging record of [...]

Name calling and vote stealing

 

 
Not that actual video proof will change anything. Cheaters cheat and Republicans no of no other way of winning elections.
Here’s the biological version of rigged voting machines, the no names accuser:

Here’s a transcription of the audio version and here’s a detailed history of a wingnut lie meme.
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John “Boner” Boehner [...]

Strib tells columnists to shut the fuck up

I hate turning on the heat. Granted, it’s 32° outside right now but still it’s only October and most years I don’t turn the heat on until at least December. Then again, most years I have a woman living beneath me, and get by thanks to a very warm floor.
Not so with the guy living [...]

No leads on spray can blogger

The Strib reports on the the mysterious spray paint vandalizing of metro area members of Congress, and the mystery of why McCollum didn’t get hit is cleared up:

DFL Rep. Betty McCollum, who lives in a St. Paul condominium, did not have her property vandalized — nor were the homes of representatives in outstate Minnesota.

Capitol Hill [...]

Let the skinny kid clean up the mess

ENDORSEMENTS:
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Big money people are terrified their fortunes couldn’t survive another Republican presidency. Time to count their loot and lay low for a while. Let the skinny kid clean up the mess.
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Funny how things work. Both McCain and Obama voted for the bailout vote, yet to read angry letters to the editor and [...]

Joe the Plumber Derangement Syndrome?

Cool. One of the Strib’s trolls just annointed me as God’s spokesperson. That’s right up there with some of Phil Gramm’s aphasic aphorisms or the accumulated wit and wisdom of wingnuts in general.
And I guess it should be noted that some of that collected wisdom lives on and on and on, long after being debunked.
Not to [...]

Greek columns the new cowbell?

McCain and Obama were at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York City last night, and yes, the jokes were pretty funny. [link includes complete video]

“I can’t shake that feeling that some people here are pulling for me,” Mr. McCain said, turning to the far side of the stage. “I’m delighted to [...]

I approve of this ad

[via Stassen-Berger]
This is exactly the right way to fight back against relentlessly negative ads from an unprincipled opponent like Norman Bertram Coleman. 
More and more I think Franken has a chance — thanks to Norm doing butt boy duty on the bailout. As for Norm’s ads, he’s milking the childhood cancer angle [...]

Twins last b’cast game starts at 1pm

If the Twins win this afternoon [1 pm, Channel 29], they’re in the playoffs. And, if they make the playoffs, Twins fans without cable or a dish won’t see them play again until the World Series, assuming they make it that far. 
Sometimes it’s ESPN that fucks things up, this time it’s TBS’s $1.05 billion deal [...]