What’s that, Flipper? You say the presidential candidates are debating at a church? Only it’s not really a debate, more like dueling interviews, and not really a church, more like a Mall of Christ?
Or are you bitching about the headline? Dolphins, porpoises, nobody gives a flying backflip about your evolutionary turf wars, and you all taste the same to my friend Shamu across the I-8.
So quit yer yap-yap-yap yap-yap-yap yap-yap-yap-yap-yappin’. We have some serious typing to do in about twenty minutes. Here, go fetch this can of tuna.
7:43: It’s actually 4:43 in Sandy Eggo, but we’ll try to transpose the hours, at least through the first couple of beers.
7:48: CNN’s chattering about some JeezusFest in D.C. — anti-abortion, anti-gay-marriage, yadda yadda. Note to self: Find the place in the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus says “Blessed Are the Cretins”.
7:54: CNN talking head: “A lot of people do get their information from the Internet, and they’re cynical.” Drink!
8:00: LET’S GET READY TO RUMMMMMMMBLE!!!
8:02: Pastor Rick bringz da rimshotz.
8:08: Barry drops Matthew on “America’s greatest moral failure”, successfully evades three days of headlines.
8:15: Commercial break? “Resting on the seventh day: Priceless.”
8:27: Barry does a soft-shoe around abortion, comes up with “civil unions” for gay marriage, yadda yadda about stem cells. Whatever happened to Liberation Theology?
8:32: Given the opportunity to knock off a Justice, Barry picks off Thomas first, then Scalia. Thomas may be “incompetent”, but isn’t that better than if he knew what he was doing?
8:41: So here’s the news: Pastor Rick is asking better questions than most network anchors. He actually drove through the hot buttons rather quickly, almost apologetically, and the lack of high-five gotchas is a nice change. We can almost forgive him for the goatee.
8:57: Barry’s done, no howlers. What a disappointment. Bring it on, Geezer, we need to drink.
9:02: And Geezer opens with a shout-out to Petraeus. Game ON!
9:04: Greatest moral failure? “The failure of my first marriage.” No details, but give him credit.
9:07: Shout-out to Reagan! Shout-out to Thatcher! Please, don’t everyone yell Bingo at once.
9:08: Offshore drilling! DJ Geez is picking ’em up and laying ’em down!
9:09: Nukes! Oh sweet Jesus, the crowd is about to spontaneously rapture! GEE-zer! GEE-zer!
9:11: POW! Dude, even Cher saves something for the encore.
9:16: Is it the POW Christmas story? Is it? Cross in the sand? Come on, come on…
9:17: YESSSS! Pandermonium breaks out!
9:19: Hey, PUMA! “I’ve got a 25-year pro-life record.”
9:22: Bin Laden, Gates of Hell, etc.
9:23: Iraq! Iraq! Iraq!
9:24: Is it just us, or did Geezer just put his stump speech on shuffle?
9:29: And we thought Reagan governed by index card. Geezer plans to govern by bumper sticker.
9:33: Typical example of wasteful spending: $3 million on bear DNA. Um, what about the trillion in Iraq?
9:37: McCain feels strongly about your Constitutional rights. But it seems he can’t count to Four.
9:39: In case it’s not yet apparent: Barry tried to engage the questions (within political limits, of course), while Geezer just twists them into a talking point. Why do we suspect McCain will get the credit for a “strong performance”?
9:41: Second or third Reagan reference, plus at least two Petraeuses. Full house!
9:44: Hey, fundies: “Georgia was one of the earliest Christian nations.” Well, that cuts through the complexities.
9:47: Another Reagan. That’s four Ronnies. Call.
9:51: “I put my country first during the S&L crisis.” Hold on, we think we got the audio wrong.
9:53: And… scene! Now on to CNN, so they can tell us how they watched a different event entirely.
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