A Mighty Wind blows through Republican convention

[Swede]

Republicans dream of a personal future that involves only household staff, not equals who need to be persuaded to vote.

So I'm trying to imagine the pain of realizing, as they all must at some point, that it is not going to happen for them. It's the green light at the end of the dock. It's the ship that never comes in, gals, as Palin would put it. But she won't because the lie works for her. It helps her scramble, without compassion, above all those other tense no-hoper ladies in the audience.


http://www.heathermallick.ca/cbc.ca-columns/a-mighty-wind-blows-through-republican-convention.html

[struggle4progress]

1. Canadian columnist's diatribe against Palin stokes anger in the U.S.

WASHINGTON — Canadian journalist Heather Mallick is facing an ugly onslaught from the U.S. right-wing media and its fans for an online column she wrote maligning Sarah Palin as "white trash."

The Sept. 5 column on CBC.ca, entitled "A Mighty Wind Blows Through the Republican Convention," had already been on the receiving end of vitriol from some Canadian news organizations.

But Fox News picked up on it this week, and unleashed its full fury on Mallick for stating that Palin, the Republicans' vice-presidential nominee, appeals to "the white trash vote" with her "toned-down version of the porn actress look." ...

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gD2t1487NkG1G5igJ39GiwJdqR4g


It must be time for all us Merkins to get excited about the terrible threats posed by the Great White North and think about trying once again to take that place away from Yurp ...

[Tutankhamun]

2. And the GOP cries foul. Shocking!

:sarcasm: