Jon Stewart’s analysis of Palin’s first Gibson interview.
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Do the sales of politically-themed merchandise predict the winner of a given election? CafePress seems to think so after the outcome of the 2004 election.
Additionally, it appears that for months there’s been just one new McCain design for every 3 for Obama.
It turns out that sales of Kittens for Clinton T-shirts are perhaps no less reliable than Gallup polls. For example, sales of Barack Obama merchandise first surpassed Hillary Clinton items in late January, just weeks before the Illinois senator took the lead in the polls. And merchandise for the Obama-Biden ticket was outselling McCain-Palin items until the Republican National Convention ended in September. Sales for both are now neck and neck, much as the candidates are in the polls.
And candidate preference is not the only insight gleaned from CafePress sales. “In 2004, you could really tell Bush was running against himself,” Ms. Maniatis said, because most of the political designs were either pro- or anti-Bush, rather than focusing on the Democratic contender John Kerry.(NYTimes)
So if you’re a political news junkie, you may want to check out sales stats at cafepress periodically, not just polling results at gallup, to stay in the know.
photo by tiffanybrown76
“What’s that smell in this room? Didn’t you notice it Brick?
Didn’t you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room? …
There ain’t nothin’ more powerful than the odor of mendacity … You can smell it. It smells like death.”
–Big Daddy, as written by Tennessee Williams in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
It becomes apparent, why this woman hasn’t been allowed to do unscripted interviews until Gibson. I don’t expect she’ll be rushing to do the Sunday morning political circuit anytime soon.
When asked about the Bush doctrine, rather than admit she had no clue, she just started to ramble and ramble. Gibson eventually interrupted to correct her.
McCain can’t even clearly articulate Palin’s qualifications, not to mention his misrepresentation of facts
Campbell Brown tries to get McCain spokesperson to explain how Sarah Palin is qualified for VP. . . to no avail. Oddly enough, McCain supporters I know are more articulate than his PR flacks. Go figure.
UPDATE: That the Republicans can make their remarks with straight faces is impressive.
While awaiting McCain’s VP announcement, here are some political pundits discussing why Palin just “won’t work.”
H/T Bobby
I don’t own a TV, so I will try to post interesting interviews, as they surface on the web, for others in the same boat.
The Democratic Duo’s first interview after Invesco Field speech and Palin for VP announcement.
Politico reports that in lieu of canceling the Republican National Convention while a Category 5 hurricane pounds New Orleans again, the show will go on less festively. John McCain may deliver his passionate acceptance speech via satellite on Thursday from Gustav’s aftermath.
The self-imposed hits keep coming for McCain. He plans to deliver his acceptance speech from the same geographic region that was drowned in 2005 while Bush & Co. diddled. Seriously?
Won’t all the networks be pulling up photos from 2005, like the one with Bush and McCain and a festive birthday cake on an Arizona tarmac on the very day Hurricane Katrina devestation occurred. Probably not the reminder you want while you make your plea for votes this November. Republicans bungled Katrina and the city isn’t close to bouncing back. Not the mnemonic device you want affiliated with your Party’s talking points.
I can’t help but compare Eastern Europe, which has been leveled in one war after another, to New Orleans. New Orleans will increasingly be the bulls eye for heightened hurricane seasons as a result of global warming.
PS. Sarah Palin isn’t convinced global warming is a “man-made” phenomenon.
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