Mother Lover

I once did a show with Andy Samberg before he hit SNL. After this, I find myself strangely unworthy.

But If You Try Sometime, You Just Might Find, You Get What You Need

Jerome Corsi arrested:

A leading American neo-conservative author has been detained by immigration authorities in Kenya as he tried to launch a book smearing Barack Obama.

Jerome Corsi, of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth fame, was this morning being held after failing to reckon with Obamamania.

He had been planning to launch his book, entitled The Obama Nation Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, before travelling to one of Nairobi’s slums to donate money to the Senator’s half-brother George, who was found living in squalid conditions two months ago.

But officers swooped hours after Dr Corsi was described as "author of a smear crusade" by local newspapers.

Immigration officials claim he had been detained because he did not have a work permit, however one of Dr Corsi's assistants said he was "just answering some questions".

"We have been given water and are very comfortable," the assistant said.

I'm sure this will be given as perfect evidence that Obama's jack-booted thugs are detaining serious opponents. You know, maybe getting the work permit would have been an option.

There are similar conspiracies running through the rat wheel brains of wingnuts over NBC pulling an SNL sketch off of Hulu - a sketch which is still on YouTube and aired on national television, so I'm missing the "censorship" part. BTW, considering that the sketch, which blamed wealthy Jewish bankers for the economic crisis in extremely familiar terms, approaches defamation, scrubbing the site is probably a good idea from a financial standpoint. Also, George Soros sought to stop the bailout, but you know, never mind.

Conspiracy theories and persecution complexes really are the last refuge for these scoundrels.

Hillary Goes Meta

Look, I don't think this debate is likely to do a damn thing in terms of the greater dynamic; I also think debates are given too much importance generally, especially when the campaigns are this deep into their ground strategy. That's why I'm not watching this one and kind of gleaning a general sense of it from others.

I would say that as someone who's been cognizant of pop culture for most of their life, it's one thing when a third party like SNL comments on a dynamic like, say, the press being in the tank for Obama, and quite another when the opposition candidate does it in the middle of a debate. Regardless of whether or not it's true, it sucks the coolness factor entirely out of the critique. Think how it would have sounded if George Bush started making fun of Al Gore's makeup or his harrumphing during one of their debates. Some things are better left to stew in the boiling pop culture pot. I don't see how you can possibly come off well talking about the debate process and the moderators in the middle of a debate. The press went for the jugular in New Hampshire and Hillary was rewarded with the backlash; is she trying to re-create that tonight? It won't work, at least not this way.

...adding, if there's anyone who deserves to be denounced for his debate moderation, it's Tim Russert. But there's a good way and a bad way to do it. Borrowing a Saturday Night Live critique is a bad way. Answering Russert's ridiculous I'm a blue collar guy question...

I’ve had a chance to read it very carefully. It does say that you pledge to create 5 million new jobs over ten years. And I was reminded of your campaign in 2000, in Buffalo — my hometown, just three hours down Route 90 — where you pledged 200,000 new jobs for Upstate New York. There’s been a net loss of 30,000 jobs.

...by saying, "Tim, when's the last time you were actually in Buffalo? What's the value of your house right now? Have you ever had to worry about what your kids are going to eat or how you can afford their college? Well, people I talk to from all across the country have..." would be the good way.

...Russert really is a complete fool. Playing gotcha with a Louis Farrakhan endorsement? It must be 1987, because that's the last time Farrakhan was relevant. Will Russert denounce the endorsement of him by Leona Helmsley and Ivan Boesky?