Posts Tagged ‘John McCain’
Sarah Palin’s Entire Existence Is Sexist
This week’s Newsweek cover story, which details all the ways that Sarah Palin is “bad for the GOP—and for everybody else,” is accompanied by a compelling stock photo: Palin striking a sassy pose in a pair of well-fitting shorts, courtesy of the former Alaska Governor’s August Runner’s World photo shoot (thanks to thinkpinkradio for the tip).
How condescending is this photo? It’s not the fabled (and fake) American-flag-wearin’, gun-totin’ bikini photo that surfaced on the Internet shortly after Palin reached national fame, but it’s about as close as Newsweek could get to the real thing.
Meghan McCain Schooled, Spanked, Murdered: Political Debate Or Snuff Porn?
By all media accounts, Meghan McCain was “schooled,” “taken to task,” “murdered,” “crucified,” and “pwned” by Paul Begala on Real Time With Bill Maher over the weekend. Let’s go to the tape!
As you can see, Begala schooled, punished, crucified and murdered McCain in some sort of live televised pornographic snuff film! Given the creepy terminology the media’s been throwing around here, I’m surprised no one has referred to the exchange as a “spanking” yet. Oh wait, yeah, somebody did.
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Sarah Palin: Not Offended Enough!
The Huffington Post’s Shannyn Moore has created this clever top-10 list of the worst sex jokes hurled at Sarah Palin and her daughters since last year’s presidential campaign. The list, which includes jokes made by Conan O’Brien, Saturday Night Live, and Craig Ferguson, is hard to stomach. The A Rod thing is not the first sports-team rape joke in the bunch, is what I’m saying.
Moore’s point here is that “Sarah Palin’s “Outrage” is Misplaced and A Little Late,” since she’s seemingly ignored a host of inappropriate sexual jokes about her family (and other political families) before finally speaking out against Letterman. To me, Moore’s list proves that the outrage has been a long time coming.
Five Rape Jokes Not to Tell (If You Want A Future)
While placing a simple rape joke in a pop song won’t derail your music career, it could haunt you for decades and prevent you from becoming president, or anything else great ever. Below, five rape jokes that politicians wish they had never said—or, more likely, wish nobody ever heard.
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Meghan McCain To Log Cabin: Republicans “Scared Shitless”
Kevin at the Tidbits of My Life has published a portion of the speech Meghan McCain delivered at last week’s annual Log Cabin Republican dinner. McCain’s comments underlined her strong commitment to gay rights, Republicanism, black clothing, punk rock, and tattoos. “The person who stands before you is not confined within the mold of what a daughter of a Republican Presidential candidate ’should’ be for some,” McCain said, adding that she learned three valuable lessons on the campaign trail:
1. “Most of our nation wants our nation to succeed.”
2. “Most people are ready to move on to the future, not live in the past.”
3. “Most of the old school Republicans are scared shitless of that future.”
But what does this all have to do with McCain being kind of a goth chick?
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Washington Blade Calls Out Meghan McCain
Political-royalty-turned-blogger Meghan McCain has launched a new campaign to usher gay rights into her hip, young Republican fold—but the gay media is not biting.
In the Daily Beast this week, McCain calls gay rights “one of the [causes] closest to my heart,” and insists that “if the Republican Party has any hope of gaining substantial support from a wider, younger base, we need to get past our anti-gay rhetoric.” Later this week, McCain is slated to address the Log Cabin Republicans at their annual convention, and she works hard on the Beast to build up the the gay conservative group’s inclusiveness as a part of its “core Republican values,” while dissing the Democrats for being the party that’s really anti-gay.
Daily Palin: 2012 Obama Crushing Edition
Cruuuuush heeeer
IF SHE DID RUN, HE WOULD CRUSH HER, a new poll finds [PDF]. “A new national [Public Policy Polling] poll finds that nominating Palin could be a death wish for the party, with Barack Obama leading Palin 55-35 in a hypothetical contest. The key reason Palin would lose to Obama by so much is that even though she might be the top choice for a certain segment of voters within her party, there’s also a number of Republicans who say they would vote for Obama if their party nominated Palin.” [via ThunderPig].
Liberals Gloat Over Conservative Porn Use
Ugh.
Recently, a study was released by the Harvard Business School showing that “culturally conservative states are America’s biggest purchasers of Internet pornography.” The revelation gave D.C.’s liberal bloggers an opportunity to descend on their Republican prey like ruthless, moral vultures. Observe:
John McCain Still Alive Video Corner
Just as the aging foreign leader circulates a grainy self-videotape to stave off rumors of his own death, so John McCain appeared on this week’s Saturday Night Live in an attempt to prove that his campaign was still alive. McCain ribbed himself alongside pseudo running-mate Tina Fey in a show-opening mock infomercial and on fake news sketch Weekend Update. McCain always does fine with comedy (he’s always been a pretty good Daily Show guest). Whether or not it will help him tomorrow remains to be seen.
What Would Make Me Vote For John McCain
If Bristol and Levi dress as Juno MacGuff and Paulie Bleeker for Halloween, I will vote for John McCain. Promise.
