It Hurts When I Do This

Does it count as a sign of the Apocalypse if it’s deliberate?

Chris Cillizza, Tuesday:

Sarah Palin’s soundbite strategy

From a raw political perspective, Palin’s soundbite strategy is extremely effective — handing her supporters a single line (or two) around which to rally in opposition to the President’s agenda…

The simple fact of politics is that the party — or candidate — with the best soundbites (or slogans) often wins.

Chris Cillizza, Thursday:

The Sarah Palin Surge (and why it’s overblown)

A gift for soundbites is a great skill to have but in the course of a long campaign — and that is assuredly what 2012 will be — Palin will have to show her ability to not only be conversant on the issues of the day but also forward-looking in terms of where she wants to take the country.

Yes, yes, he hedges both columns — but if he had run with the gist of Thursday’s column on Tuesday, he might have demonstrated genuine insight instead of play-of-the-day hackishness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFRHyi1jvDE

What? Ray Stevens is still around? And he’s got a new anti-Obamacare song that O’Reilly likes?

O’REILLY: So 48 years ago — 48 years ago in this country we could make fun of Arabs… We could make fun of people in a general way, and certainly, Ahab the Arab was a general parody. But now, we can’t. What has changed in America?

STEVENS: I think we’ve gone overboard with the political correctness, just like so many other people think the same way about that. And I don’t know. We’ve got to come out of that, I think.

Oh, Ray. Yes, we’ve gone overboard with political correctness, but even that was twenty years ago, you old fart. And you don’t need to defend Ahab — just say the times were different, and leave it at that.

Because two old white farts complaining about “political correctness” sorta makes the point, y’know? Lookathat, lookathat.

O’Reilly laments that you can’t make fun of Arabs anymore: ‘What has changed in America?’ [ThinkProgress]

We thought we were being clever when we rigged a Guitar Hero axe through GarageBand so Silent Creative Partner could play it live during his stage show. We now realize we have embarrassingly modest technical ambitions.

[via Sully]

Update: If you wanna play the home game…

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A Health Care Protest — In Song [CBS, via Rachel]

Billionaires for Wealthcare

Can ANYBODY tell me where this case is headed?Part of the problem with the legal profession is that there are a number of shows on the teevee, and movies, which make the job of being a lawyer seem incredibly simple.  Like our friend Adam here.  A couple of mildly biting comments when faced with a sticking point in a case, and the case moves to a neatly-packaged conclusion — preferably with a bad guy going to Auburn or Comstock or some either nice town upstate.

All I know is that I got so caught up in work tonight that I just blew through a Stinque meetup here in town.  Apologies to all concerned.  (I perhaps can redeem myself when SFL blows through next week.)

Maybe — through my admission of shame and guilt — there are other members of the Lawyerz Caucus who might like to vent.  If so: please have at it.

Twitter has become a giant old-school Defamer commenting thread Thursday night, with “1stdraftmovielines” wasting everyone’s time — including ours. But if you are Mitout Tweetz, you’re more than invited to waste your time here. Some samples to get you started…

  • Frankly, my dear, you suck. (poploser)
  • Soylent Green is squirrel! (born2bdave)
  • You made a time machine… out of a Ford Pinto? (rhogart)

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