Oh, Bother

I've tried my best to keep politics out of my blog here, and it's been easy, because I've been keeping everything out recently. But I can't stands no more.

Tonight is the Vice Presidential Debate, the face off between Joe "Can't Remember the Facts so I'll Make 'em Up" Biden, and Sarah "I Don't Know What The Hell I'm Talking Aboot, but I Sure am Saucy, Yeah?" Palin. Never before have two Vice Presidential Candidates with such horrible nick names faced off.

Excerpts from Palin's interviews have been floating around the web, and watching them gives my brain a mighty hurt.


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Translation: What I said is kinda mooseshit, but I'm trying to make it sound as good as I can.

See, these videos piss me off, and I'll tell you why.


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Translation: I don't know of any, but boy if I'm not sure there probably are some.

It's obvious she doesn't know what she's talking about. I know, I've seen this before.



Translation: I don't read any papers, now lay off ya liberal harpy.

Think about it: you have too. She sounds like she's giving a oral report on a book she hasn't read. Remember those? Some given by kids who obviously didn't read the book, others given by kids who did but they obviously didn't engage any of the material? For the most part, they're just fun to watch. Like a train wreck. But what burns me is there were always those couple of kids who were charismatic enough that the teacher, maybe thinking "oh, well they're a good kid, they obviously tried", gave them a decent grade.

If this vapid talking head skates by on her easygoing folksiness, it'll confirm everything I learned back in those homeroom days: it doesn't matter how good you are, or how much work you do, so long as you can pour it on.



(Also, hey CBS. Your fall lineup looks like crap. That "details guy solving crimes" show is the only one that remotely interests me, but the poor lead you put in is about as captivating as a roll of soggy paper towels. Seriously, that's the best you could find? Also, I tried to link to your videos, honoring their source, but I just couldn't find the newspaper comment. You should know what's up, that your clip is storming the internet, and change the keyword search accordingly, so that when I type "palin newspaper", OH MY GOD, LOOK AT IT THERE FIRST ON THE LIST. SO THIS IS WHAT THE INTERNET'S ALL ABOUT? MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF STARS!
Fail, sirs, fail.)