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Sarah Palin: McCain Bottled Me Up, Couric Sux!

Okay, she didn't put it quite that way. But would anyone disagree about Katie? ha!

(AP)  The rumors are true, according to Sarah Palin: The McCain-Palin campaign was not a happy family.

In Palin's "Going Rogue," Palin confirms reports of tension between her aides and those of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain. The vice presidential candidate confirms that she had wanted to speak on election night, but was denied the chance and says she was kept "bottled up" from reporters during the campaign.

Palin also writes harshly of CBS anchor Katie Couric, whom she describes as "badgering" and biased. Palin's series of interviews with Couric were widely regarded as disastrous, leaving the impression of an ill-informed candidate who was unsuited for the job.

Hey, It's Time For An Obagasm!

These people, including Marc Ambinder, are such a joke, they give whistling past the graveyard a bad name. Desperate for any ray of sunshine and hope in a currently failing administration, we're supposed to believe Obama actually accomplished something, making the history books for it, by . . . giving a speech.

Today, at Ft. Hood. I guarantee: they'll be teaching this one in rhetoric classes. It was that good. My gloss won't do it justice. Yes, I'm having a Chris Matthews-chill-running-up-my-leg moment, but sometimes, the man, the moment and the words come together and meet the challenge.

It's simply embarrassing. But the fact is, this is all they've got. And it's the same thing we saw day after day on the campaign trail. So what? His stimulus package was a dismal failure, his health care bail will likely crash into the Senate and burn, and his popularity ratings are beginning to sag while his policy ratings suck.

However, man, he gave a heck of a speech. How awesome is that?

Weak, folks ... very, very weak. Ambinder should be ashamed to call himself a professional at this point. He reads more like a school girl with a crush.

MSNBC's Shuster Links Fred Phelps To Republicans, Conservatives

Insufferable nitwit number 2 from MSNBC, David Shuster, demonstrates his party hack bona fides by implying that hate protesters Fred Phelps and his group are somehow part of the actual conservative movement and the Republican Party, too. What an injudicious hack.

Hopefully, some of the more rational conservatives/republicans will condemn this stuff today. It was beyond the pale.

Certainly this moron must read Think Progress. They linked his tweet, after all. Pay attention stoopid, you might learn something. Do you really believe honest conservatives and Republicans go around protesting at funerals for prominent Republican conservatives, the US Military and disaster victims? You have no shame you lamed-azz excuse for a journalist. Crawl back up under Nancy Pelosi's skirt where a proper application of feminine deodorant might keep us from having to smell your stink, jerk! What a hose bag this guy is.

Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church is a hate group that goes around the country staging anti-gay rallies at some of the most inappropriate places (e.g. the funerals of former White House press secretary Tony Snow, victims of the Minneapolis bridge collapse, and U.S. troops) with messages like “Thank God For AIDS” and “God Hates Fags.”

Obama In The Hoodie

I'm not sure thuggish is the right word for Obama. Were he truly of the hood, he'd have cruised along for a while on his smarts until his smugness got his ass kicked repeatedly. He's a wannabe thug, if anything. It is amazing that the media gloss the MSM opted to use in portraying him was able to conceal precisely how low-rent he really is. Call it mixed-White Trash. Maybe that's the best phrase? 

Yet Obama, the President of the free world (!) did just that - using the dismissive homosexual slang to describe those that don't want unconstitutional socialism. From the New York Times via Corner at NRO:

Cop Killer Is "Domestic Terrorist" Nidal Hassan, Not So Fast

Shoot a police officer and allegedly be the guy who also bombed some police cars, no problem. You're promptly designated a Domestic Terrorist. But when a Muslim attacks other soldiers, according to the Christian Science Monitor it could just be PTSD and, according to the Washington Post, at most it requires further study. Well, that's a head scratcher, ay?

(CNN) -- A suspect in the shooting of a Seattle, Washington, police officer is also believed to be behind the bombing of four police cars, Seattle Assistant Police Chief Jim Pugel said at a press conference Saturday.

Christopher Monfort, 41, remained hospitalized in serious condition after being shot by officers during a confrontation Friday.

"This man, from everything that we can tell, appears to be a lone domestic terrorist," Pugel said.

Name That Party Update: Shelia Dixon - D

Perhaps it doesn't need to be stated given it's Baltimore. But as sitting Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon goes to trial, it's worth noting just how committed this award winning Democrat Mayor and Obama supporter was to helping women, neighborhoods and minorities. Uh, when she wasn't shopping on forced contributions from wealthy developers allegedly meant for the cause, that is. The item via Breitbart omits it, but, yes, she is a Democrat. That's with a Capitol D, so to speak.

For two decades in public office, Mayor Dixon has been a champion of neighborhoods and a pioneer for women and minorities. In 1987, she won a seat on the Baltimore City Council representing the 4th Council District, where she served for 12 years. In 1999, she became the first African-American woman elected as City Council President.

Our Once Free, Now Religion Fearing Press

The Fort Hood reporting dealt with below suggests media's well known and frequent efforts to insult, or otherwise demean Christianity in some of its most dedicated forms comes from somewhere other than fear of co-optation. Otherwise they couldn't possibly treat two of the world's largest religions in such disparate ways.

There are not enough words to fully describe the threat to a free democracy when its once free media allows itself to be so intimidated by one religion. One would think that an almost anti-Christian media in news selection would get that concept. Apparently not. It all but proves that politics, not principle, drives their editorial slant.

Better to blame "man-caused disasters" on a US-foreign-policy-induced psychological affliction beyond the victim's perpetrator's control than call a spade a spade. In the light of day today, Michelle Malkin and Ralph Peters win top honors for best/most concise analyses of what's really going on behind the curtain. Malkin:

Dana Milbank Doesn't Really Know Freedom, Or Pretty

As with too many DC establishment pundits, Dana Milbank may only know pretty, as in pretty boy in an empty suit. However, it's clear he appreciates nothing of the beauty that is freedom in America's political discourse.

I imagine the Left burning Bush in effigy, calling him Hitler in signs at protests and making movies with presidential assassination plots doesn't offend Milbank's seemingly selective aesthetic sensibilities too much. However, if some incredibly small number of fringe people the overwhelming number of serious conservatives and Republicans don't much like either attend an open rally and speak their twisted minds, ... well, we can't have that, now can we?

Now, objecting to the health-care bill is one thing. But doesn't it send the wrong message for House Republicans to hold an event on the Capitol grounds full of hateful and gruesome words and images?

"I'm not worried about the message of freedom," Hensarling replied, before joining his colleagues on the podium to the beat of the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again."

I was at this event, walked it from back to front and side to side. I looked at the signs, I heard the calls. Honestly, I personally didn't see anything that was over the line. The difference I suspect is, unlike Milbank and some others, I didn't go there only to go looking for them.

What a worthless and totally disingenuous hit job on the wonderful act of democracythat took place on the lawn of the Capitol yesterday. Milbank's twisted account driven by his own bias is worthy of nothing but dismissal.

Don't allow them to intimidate you, America. We needn't rely on the usual liberal media hacks to talk to other citizens today with the advent of New Media. And we certainly don't require their permission, or approval of how any freedom loving American expresses his or herself, misguided, pretty, or not.

Republicans embracing that fundamental principle is a far more pretty site than pretty boy Dana Milbank after some TV make-up artist gets done powdering him and combing his hair. And the former, not the latter is in accordance with the freedom loving America we all know and treasure.

Census Worker Bill Sparkman: Suicide Suspected

h/t JL in email. Sad, of course. It seems police are increasingly less convinced Census worker Bill Sparkman met with foul play due to his government job. While not yet drawing conclusions, suicide is said to be the way their investigation is going. Don't wait to the Left to care. They got their mileage out of the guy. It isn't as if they actually carted about him at all.

WASHINGTON — Investigators probing the death of a Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest increasingly doubt he was killed because of his government job and are pursuing the possibility he committed suicide, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.

Two officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case, said no final conclusions have been made in the case. In recent weeks, however, investigators have grown more skeptical that 51-year-old Bill Sparkman died at the hands of someone angry at the federal government.

The officials said investigators continue to look closely at suicide as a possible cause of Sparkman's death for a number of reasons. There were no defensive wounds on Sparkman's body, and while his hands were bound with duct-tape, they were still somewhat mobile, suggesting he could have manipulated the rope, the officials said.

Keif Olbermann Leaps To Death From Atop Giant Ego

Oh, gawd! Priceless stuff. With liberals getting trounced everywhere, Keif Olbemann's election night special wasn't only not special, it never happened at all. Keif is said to still be unavailable for comment from under his desk in a feral fetal position. Take that thumb out of your mouth and man up, you perverted gurly man. You've provided us so many laughs over the years but this has to be the best. But I don't wanna go on!!! Waah!!!!  ha ha ha ha ha

Come on out and take a bow!

Keith had obviously left the building. But why? Where in the world was Keith Olbermann? We don't know yet, but we think we have a pretty good idea: