A Democrat spy snuck out a copy of the Republican National Convention fundraising PowerPoint, Politico reports.
The approaches described are not that shocking, considering the party in question, urging fundraisers to exploit potential donors’ fear and hatred of the current administration. What’s actually shocking is how sophomoric the thing is, with the authors pairing pictures of Nancy Pelosi and and Harry Reid with Cruella DeVille and Scooby Do, and a picture of Obama as the Joker from Batman.
Huh?
Why do Republicans suck at satire? I think Dennis Miller is the only one that’s funny and that’s a stretch. Oh, and Anne Coulter.
At least they had the good taste to not portray Obama as witch doctor, unlike some of their rank and file. I guess Michael Steele, as a fellow black man living in America, couldn’t bring himself to go quite that far.
Politico reports that the Republicans are ironically feeling cash-strapped while RNC chairman Michael Steele peels the big ones from his fat roll. They say he’s profligate, but maybe Steele knows better. The subtext could be that he’s just getting his and if you hang with the Republicans you could eventually get yours too. That’s always been one of the Republicans strongest arguments: follow our ideology and get rich like us. So the fact that he’s laying it down for more elaborate floral arrangements may in fact be clever calculation.
Anyway, you can’t run the minority guy out — that’s not going to broaden the base for the midterms. It is likely that Steele knows that.
I redesigned my blog again, because I just can’t help myself. I’ll admit it’s a rip-off of Suck/McSweeney’s style. I always enjoyed the way those things looked.
Here in my office they hyperventilate over the new iPad. Looks kind of cool in the video, but I’m not going to run the Apple store with my $500 clutched in my sweaty palms. Not yet. Maybe when I actually see one I’ll just have to do it.
Alright guys, the page hits are down on this blog. We all need to step it up and start reading it a little more, especially since I’ve started updating it more than once every three months. Think about what you might be missing. I wonder how many of the hits are coming from me viewing my updates. That might account for most of them.
I found this link off Ween’s site about a show they did with the Butthole Surfers in 1987. It’s a very funny interview. I doubt there are any shows like this any more, especially in light of the Great White tragedy, and it’s probably just as well.
But I still say it’s never been like the old days. I may listen to a bunch of soft acoustic and airy fairy sound-pad electronica these days, but these shows were what I grew up on.
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