Pricks Nix Spics
The GOP candidates have come to a decision —
To defend Li’l Marco, they’ll boycott Univision.
But if they looked at the census,
They’d come to their senses —
Tossing the Hispanic vote for that twerp ain’t conventional wisdom!
Day: October 5, 2011
Americans’ Opinion of Congress Hits New Low
14%
Of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing. That is lower than just before the 1994, 2006 and 2010 elections, when the majority party was on the verge of losing power in the House, according to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll.
Elizabeth Warren is a Feisty Debater
Forbes magazine named Scott Brown Wall Street’s favorite senator. I was thinking that’s probably not an award I’m going to get.
— U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren (D), quoted by the Boston Herald, taking a swipe at Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) in last night’s Massachusetts Democratic primary debate.
How Palin Got Her Fox News Gig
I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings.
— Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes, in an interview with the Associated Press.
W. Mitt Romney – the ‘W’ Stands for ‘Weasel’
I happened to catch a few minutes of this interview with Mitt Romney by the editorial board of the Union Leader, a Republican newspaper in New Hampshire, on C-SPAN the other day. It had been a while since I’d heard Romney speak extemporaneously outside the debate setting, and I had forgotten how badly he presents himself. (The stammer is a particularly galling affectation meant to convey earnestness.)
Had I been able to stomach the entire thing, I would have caught a moment of supreme weaselry, when Romney was asked about the active-duty soldier in Iraq who was booed by tea baggers at the Republican presidential debate in Orlando earlier this month:
How to Talk to Fox News
Not surprisingly, this interview never ran on Fox.
