This is basically an interview with John Gaeta about the approach taken in the upcoming remake of Speed Racer. The movie looks great, and I’m such a fan of the Wachowski brothers that this is on my must see list. The Matrix and V for Vendetta are among my favorite movies in large part because of the visual and stylistic weight of their films.
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Via The Big Picture, we find this funny cartoon:
Then ask yourself whether I’d happily vote for someone who states, boldy, that she won’t side with economists (on an issue about the economy!!!@#$@#$) because they are “elitist.” To quote the great Inigo Montoya, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” sigh.
Too funny. Imagine one of the Democratic candidates being this flip about stupid controversies. They don’t get a pass, but I guess IOKIYAR is in effect.
The sheer hypocrisy of the McCain campaign, from Hagee vs. Wright to McCain 2000/2004 vs. McCain 2008 on nearly every substantive issue has been appalling. So, will the media call him out on it? Or will they rather stay on the invite list for the big McCain barbecues at his ranch?
Or at least, that’s what I have to believe after what I learned during the last Democratic debate. The screen shot above is from McCain’s appearance on This Week, hosted by George Stephanopoulos. Oddly enough, McCain wasn’t asked once about his lack of flag pin, though George did remember to ask him whether he thought Obama was as patriotic as McCain.
Sometimes, it’s hard to resist the idea that there’s some colossal conspiracy against the Democratic party. Stephanopoulos’s behavior is hard to explain without either assuming he’s stupid (he’s not) or that he’s got a rooting interest in this somehow.
(via CT Blog)
I think the title is a bit wrong… McCain’s not the hypocrite here, at least not the biggest one. George Stephanopoulos is. After spending 2 hours on a nationally televised debate before arguably the most important primary this year ripping Obama and Clinton for bullshit items, he gets McCain on and basically gives him a fluff job on camera. Stephanopoulos should be ashamed.
Anyway, CTBlog has video from the This Week appearance as well as some more questions that could’ve been raised to John McCain in a similar vein to those asked during the debate. Yes, BS questions, but hey, Democratic activists will be using them in the fall, right? So, let’s talk about them now! or whatever faulty logic Stephanopoulos used the first time around…
Ah, was waiting for someone to use this in a campaign mailing. That John McCain fella is one classy dude. BTW, did you know that racists and bigots have endorsed McCain. It’s true. And it matters just as much as who Hamas wants in office… (I’ll let you figure out how important I think it is…)
Personally, I’m more afraid of the Dachshund.
This seems like a technicality (McCain’s campaign said he “misspoke” and immediately corrected himself). Watch this, though. Joe Lieberman (Lieberman!) had to correct him in front of cameras because he kept making the same mistake in all the interviews while in Jordan. It wasn’t just one instance of mis-speaking. He has made this fundamental error repeatedly, and the political aspects of defeating terrorism are as important (or more important) than the military aspects of the campaign.
I’m with Kevin Drum, btw. Hillary has a golden opportunity to say that McCain isn’t qualified to answer the 3 A.M. call.
A critique of the press attitudes of McCain. Media bias exists, it’s in favor of the Republicans.
Some more details on McCain’s ties to lobbyists. These aren’t wrong per se, but he should be honest about his ties. Much of campaign message is about 0 earmarks and how lobbyists hate him. The latter is simply not true, otherwise he wouldn’t have so many working on his campaign. In fact, that was the only useful bit of info to come out of that horrid NY Times piece about him. He knows how to play ball with lobbyists. He likes their rules.
There’s some irony here around the fact that the reason McCain has such problems with conservatives has a lot to do with the McCain-Feingold bill that he’s, well, now trying to get out of himself. What a hypocrite. TPM has more.
Andrew Sullivan is the most useless “smart” pundit ever. He never can see past his own biases to make sense.
He was against torture until he was for it…
I’ve been running the Obama video from Will.I.Am for a while now, but here at FatMixx, we try to give reasonable candidates equal time. So, here’s a video put together by some folks for John McCain.
(in all seriousness, if you vote for a Republican in 2008, or Michael Bloomberg, you’re an idiot. Really. This isn’t Maverick McCain running, it’s the “I Love W” McCain that’s running)
Update: It seems several people have been inspired by Will.I.Am. Here’s another McCain tribute:
More serious yet funnier at the same time. 
