Governor Speak-No-Evil
-Headline of the day-
"Kurtz: Journalists privately admit they’re 'censoring' their coverage of Palin."
Howard Kurz, the media critic of Washington Post and CNN fame, reports that with the McCain campaign attacking the media, "some journalists say privately they are censoring their comments about Palin to avoid looking like they’re piling on."
You know what this means, right? All that crazy-assed shit that's being reported now is the watered down version. Imagine how bad she really must be. (Think Progress)
-Thumb's down-
Iconic movie critic Roger Ebert watch the debate and comes in with a review. The short version, McCain stunk up the place by being a prick.
"I do not like you, John McCain," Ebert writes. "My feeling has nothing to do with issues. It has to do with common courtesy. During the debate, you refused to look Barack Obama in the eye. Indeed, you refused to look at him at all. Even when the two of you shook hands at the start, you used your eyes only to locate his hand, and then gazed past him as you shook it...
"What is your problem?"
I can answer that one; John McCain is a worldclass dick. It's really that simple. He's a rage-aholic with such a tenuous grasp on his composure that he can't even look at his opponent without fear of erupting in a fit of inappropriate shouting and name-calling. Ebert saw the exact opposite happen.
"Before the debate, pundits were wondering if you might explode in a display of your famous temper," says Ebert. "I think we saw that happen, all right, but it was an implosion. I have instructed my wife to exclude you from any future dinner parties."
John McCain. Knives. Forks. Yeah, that's a good idea, Roger. (RogerEbert.com)
-I've been out most of the day-
I think something happened with the stock market. Anyone hear anything about that? On the way home, I saw a guy light himself on fire outside a discount broker's office and a bunch of guys in suits are passed out on the floor of the neighborhood bar.
That's a good sign, right? (Raw Story)
