Watch Parties

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Where will you be watching the Inauguration? For some, it'll be the local Starbucks. MSNBC and Starbucks are announcing a viewing partnership, and that's just one of many ways you can watch the events.

Savvy cross-marketing for a network that suffers from far fewer media outlets than CNN and Foney News and the resultant crippling of its ratings potential.

Meanwhile, schools are asking--and getting--permission from CNN to carry their coverage. There's talk of big-screen theatre events, also by MSNBC.

Oh, a few scolds remain, but they sound so whiny 20th Century with their partisan talking points right now. Coulter, Ingraham, Beck, Hannity... I'm sick of your schtick....

And schtick it is. Maybe Mickey Rourke can play the movie version.
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In Her Own Words...

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Set aside the rightwing and McCainstream Media sniping of past months. Set aside the Re-thug talking points already being screeded by the predictable [Faux and local rightwing radio] voices. The complaints....but but but she didn't talk about the war in eye-raq.

She didn't attack McCain. She didn't... and don't you just know that if she had, the very same screeders would be spewin' how dare she talk about policy, how dare she talk about McCain, who does she think she is?

And focus on what she did say. And be prepared to be inspired...and heart warmed.
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Boo-yah!

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Congratulations and brava...Rachel Maddow gets the props she richly deserves.

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Bout damned time.

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The Surrender of McCain

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The rollout of hate, slime and smear from the McCain camp in recent days proves with clarity this one thing:

John McCain has surrendered his honor, his integrity, his civility—some might say his manhood— to the merchants of hate within the Republican Party. Karl Rove and his succubi, Freedom's Watch, Adelstein. The only one missing is Medusa Matalin.

Maverick? Straight talker? Not so much.

"This is just one example of why John Weaver hasn't been involved in this campaign in over a year." McCain campaign manager, Rick Davis, snapping back to Andrea Mitchell's reading of Weaver's criticism of the "celebrity" ad.

Why? Because he's a decent, honorable human being?

Davis scrambling to defend his boss McCain with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC. The distinctive stench of desperation oozing out of every pore.
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UPDATE: Ron Brownstein stating the obvious to Mitchell: unsavory elements in the "celebrity" ad, the use of young blonde white women, reminiscent of the ad against Harold Ford. Plus noting McCain's sharper personal attacks and palpable lack of regard against Obama.

Will the McCainiacs pull back from these tactics? Or just go underground?

UPDATE 2: McCain provides an answer. At his town hall today, he says "We're proud of that commercial." Remember that, folks. A race-baiting ad. He's proud of it.

Surrogate Sludge

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McCain surrogate Charlie Crist gettin' his road test for the Veepstakes this morning with JoeScar on MSNBC? [link when and if they post one]

Crist certainly proved he can dodge and duck a straightforward question...repeated multiple times by Scarborough... in the best evasive, subject-changing tradition of the radical 'thugs about whether he agrees with McCain's lowlife statement that Barack Obama would be willing to lose a war to win the election.

Even Scarborough found that smear way beyond stunning.

The Florida Governor did his best to push the positives about his guy Johnny Mac.

But this I'm positive about: the candidate who is so desperate to win he will say anything, do anything [sellout to Big Oil for campaign contributions, anyone?], flip-flop on his promised integrity and honor, and bear false witness is the AWOL-from-the-Senate and AWOL from his honor pledge John McCain.
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Waterpolling

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This morning, the Oracle of NBC/MSNBC, the man with the magic numbers, on teevee early this morning sayin' Don't believe the polls, they're all over the board, they're not to be relied on. The gospel according to Chuck Todd, uber number-cruncher: Even the gold standard, Gallup, is not to be believed right now...

So why are Scarborough and Mika twistin' the Gallup poll of likely voters this morning and saying Obama's in big trouble? All concern trolling this morning. Along with Richard Cohen at the Washington Post and The Villagers going boogah-boogah, risky business, paperthin.... Gee, Mika says, we're not being fair....

Ya think?

Hmmmm, I've just completed a poll of likely voters in the Sunshine family and whoo-wee, Obama gets 100% of the votes.

Sunshine Poll: Obama 100%, McCain 0%.

Sunshine Poll, more reliable than Gallup. And the bazillion made-up polls floating around. And the media.
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