Though I can’t imagine that you haven’t heard this one already, the joke about the Republican senator who thought having an inexperienced, inarticulate, gun-totin’, moose huntin’ God fearin’ race baitin’ fear monger as a running mate was a good idea, but the latest in this chapter is the radio pranks from CKOI in Montreal. Two guys managed to call up Palin’s office and get right past her staff and speak directly to her. When ensues is one of the greater segments of comedy.

Some of the more egregious and hilarious moments to listen for are when he mentions that he has been following the race with his “Special American Advisor Johnny Halliday” who’s a French pop icon and has as much to do with politics as I do.

The name of the song that Carla Brunei, Sarkosy’s wife, is supposed to have written for Palin translates as “Lipstick On A Pig”.

Towards the end of it all he tells Sarah that he loved the documentary they made of her life called “Hustler’s Nailin’ Palin”. She clearly can hardly understand what the interviewer is saying and just nods along in star-struck awe even though the clue is staring her right in the face. There has been no documentary made of her life yet, though the material for it is being compiled right now. The guy’s making up the name of a possible Hustler magazine porno flick.

The PM of Canada is in fact Stephen Harper,
The PM of Quebec is actually Jean Charest. I wish that we could hear what names the guy makes up for both men, but he’s not using their real names.

Even when the pranksters aren’t dropping in obvious-as-a-falling piano cues for her to pick up on, it’s clear that she has no grasp of how to handle herself in the face of established political figures. She has nothing substantive to say and hardly manages to bumble her way through the “interview”. She lacks the faintest shred of intellectual rigor and political acumen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMV0LKlVj8I

Events like this remind us what a wonderful materials resource for the Stewarts, Lettermans and Lenos she has been. Events like this also show us what a Roveian, hatred-leavened, politically backward-looking McCain-Palin presidency would look like.

On the topic of intellectual poverty and the recent and abhorrent trend in my country that fears intellectual acuity and reviles reading, there are these:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stefan-sirucek/sarah-palinif-you-dont-re_b_135760.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/27/AR2008102702438.html

And then there’s the concern about 2012, and do not tell me that it’s not possible. Ridley’s comments about the phoenix-like return of Nixon is chillingly apt, and if you think that Rove, Kristol and the rest of the “she winked at me" crew aren’t going to try to groom her I’ve got a bridge to nowhere to sell you. Cheap.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-ridley/the-tragedy-of-sarah-pali_b_139774.html

This is the frightening aftermath that we're looking at now that McCain/Palin have seeded so much hatred into arteries of the whole country and invoked the divisive specters of McCarthy and the Klan. This is where the country is going to spend the next four years regardless of who wins the White House.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mitchell-bard/mccains-smear-campaign-wi_b_137284.html

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OPEN LETTER TO SARAH PALIN
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Dear Sarah Palin,

You are not our candidate.

You are not our candidate because you required women in Wasilla
to pay for their own medical examinations after being raped.

You are not our candidate because you do not support a woman's
right to choose, even in the case of rape or incest.

You are not our candidate because you've cut funding for teen
moms, and for comprehensive sex education.

You are not our candidate because as vice president -- a
heartbeat away from the presidency -- you would jeopardize
health care for women everywhere.

We are teachers, doctors, athletes, programmers, artists,
lawyers, secretaries, CEOs, students, designers, nurses, factory
workers, mothers, and fathers. We are conservatives and
liberals, Democrats and Republicans, country and city people. We
are women and men. We are voters. We are the Planned Parenthood
Action Fund.

We believe in a woman's right to choose and the right of every
person to have access to complete reproductive health care. We
are hundreds of thousands strong, and we are doing everything we
can to make sure you are not elected.

You are not our candidate.

Sincerely,
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