BBC Breakfast it ain’t
I love the smell of Republicans being roasted in the morning.
My love affair with The Jed Report goes from strength to strength. Here are the pick of this morning’s posts, served up for your delectation over a bacon sarnie and a cup of fresh coffee.
First up, a full three minutes of Hardball presenter Chris Matthews grilling McCain’s senior policy advisor Nancy Pfotenautenhoerotenhauer over Sarah Palin’s latest display of abject ignorance:
What better way to start the day than to watch a this Rovian acolyte with her rictus smile squirming under the spotlight of incontrivertible fact, doing her damnedest to try and wrangle it into a critique of the Obama ticket, and being headed off at every pass.
Next up, “let’s find out why Governor Palin look so good.” So begins this three-minute morsel of Fox News at their very worst.
Look out for the highlight of the smarmfest at around the fifty-second mark:
Yup. “When we stop treating women as sexist figures [...] then we can stop talking about how much money they spent on their clothes.” Erm. Maybe you mean ’sex objects’? And, well, that’s probably when we can start talking about how much money they spend on their clothes. And, y’now, truth be told, all of you, you’re just a disgrace to your profession. Really. A shower.
It’s not all vitriol around here at 8.30 in the morning though. If you want to put everything back into perspective, and to enjoy a glimpse of the dizzying heights this campaign is occasionally reaching, check out five minutes of Obama in Richmond, Virginia yesterday:
I can’t remember seeing political oratory like this before. Not in my lifetime. Barack Obama is lifting his audiences to new levels of optimism and self-belief. Watching him speak like this, even the most cynical of onlookers could start to believe that this is a man with the potential to lift a whole nation.
Tags: election 08
