Seems like a pretty desperate attempt to grab the Hillary die-hards. And, if it works...won't it be ironic if feminists end up bringing about the end of Roe v Wade?

Ever hear the right wing fundamentalists who are central to the Republican base talk about the Bible-ordained roles of men and women? Or their reading of Genesis to the effect that, because Eve let herself be tempted by the serpent, women need men to do their thinking for them? I have, and suspect that a lot of fundies just got a lot more uncomfortable with a candidate they didn't trust much in the first place.

The "beauty-queen crap" would be just that had McCain not compared Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. Since he did, it's deliciously ironic.

Dobson's a right-wing whore who likes to create an illusion of independence...kind of like when McCain himself, when he's vocally opposed Bush before supporting him.

Was just watching Chicago Ten and then put on a CD of Phil Ochs performing live shortly after the '68 convention and now...

The possibilities are endless....

Palin was objectified by John McCain when he picked her because he thought a woman--any woman--would attract Hilary voters, despite her incredible lack of qualifications.

What the articles you're talking about are doing is simply reporting on that.

I'd say it was pretty clear that most women would be insulted by McCain's choice of a highly problematic, unqualified person because he thought she'd attract woman voters simply by virtue of being a woman herself. Of course the exception would be right wing Christian women, who kind of like being insulted by their men.

The dreadlocked followers of Paul may be the stupidest people on the left end of the political spectrum possibly beating out feminists who think they're on the same side as radical Islam because of a shared disdain for western imperialism. Then, if a few of the nation's idiots are supporting third parties instead of Bush/McCain, that's probably a good thing.

But of course--as far as the "pro-life" movement is concerned, people only matter until they're born.

I'm all for slamming both Palin and McCain over the teenage pregnancy issue, not because I think either parents of teenaged girls who get pregnant deserve to be stigmatized...well, actually, if they're part of the movement that's been passing judgement on and trying to regulate the private lives of the rest of us for the past thirty years...hell, yeah, I think they should be dragged through the mud and shamed for being the prudish hypocrites they are. I also hate it when people criticize satirists. However, I really think it's unkind to put Bristol Palin in that poster--just like it was unkind to make fun of Chelsea Clinton's looks as Saturday Night Live did when her father was elected president (or as John McCain did far more crudely some time after that).

I thought the U.S. TV industry ran out of fresh ideas decades ago....

I have a love-hate relationship with the Shield. On the one hand, I'm absolutely riveted by it. On the other, the way Vic almost gets caught red-handed and then ultimately gets away with it (or in a couple of cases, actually does get caught red-handed yet, for all intents and purposes, gets away with it) even as he loses everything he loves, has been straining credibility for some time (and the attempts to make this self-righteous lying bully thug sympathetic strain more than credibility).

What other side was there?

Berke's anal obsession continues....

It's about goddamn time...who knows, maybe he can even get the AP and other outlets of the supposedly "liberal" media to use "maverick" in quotes when using it describe people who've slavishly followed their president off a cliff....

If I recall correctly, Walter Mondale was looking pretty good right after naming a relatively unknown woman as his running mate. How'd that one turn out?

Still up to your predictable contrarian bullshit after all these years, huh Camille?

what else hasn't McCain made a mockery of?

Could it be that the View actually doesn't suck?

I might be concerned that McCain just won the lobotomized vote, but suspect he already had it....

Pretty much the only sports song I like is "Ain't No Stopping Us Now," by McFadden and Whitehead, which originally had nothing to do with sports, but was rewritten and re-recorded as a song about the Eagles going to the Superbowl (though it probably only played on Philly radio stations).

This is probably as close as we're going to get to McCain admitting he can't win an argument about who's responsible for the current financial crisis....

...she's an idiot.

Anyone seriously considering voting for McCain/Palin, regardless of politics should be ashamed. This is clearly a campaign willing to say anything, no matter how dishonest, and do anything, no matter how potentially destructive to this country and the world, including nominating someone completely unfit to govern in the hopes of picking up female voters, to win this election. At this point, even fundamentalist oil company CEO's should at least be considering voting third party....

Watching this, I almost started thinking it was too cruel...then remembered "oh yeah, this woman's dangerous."

The best thing about Tina Fey's bits, though, is that they've been at the very beginning of SNL, so that there's no need to sit through the rest of the unfunny crap the show foists on its viewers (much like the way McCain has foisted Sarah Palin on America)....

John McCain's a politician without integrity. Where's the news?

I've heard a lot in the past month about what an insult the choice of Sarah Palin is to women. Every time I hear her simplistic rhetoric, as if she's speaking to children, even if she's not fumbling like in the Couric interview, I think what an insult she is to me and all adults in America.

Some of Sarah Palin's best friends aren't homophobic!