Weekend SNAP!

Sure, it's full of cheap shots. But no more so than Hillary's campaign has been. All in all, I'd say this is quite fair. The adage fits: If you want to play in the mud, don't cry when you get dirty.

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Colbert delivering a softy to Hillrod:

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Ooo. SNAP!

Pennsylvania Democrats delivered this one today, to the Democratic party. While it was merely a glancing blow to the Obama campaign, it was enough to telegraph all the way to weakening the chances of the party to take back the White House (and Congress, and a chance at getting a SCOTUS judge or two).

Those white middle-aged voters are no doubt happy they kept their collective thumb on the black man, and make no mistake about it, the race in Pennsylvania was all about race.

Clinton has only two weeks to pull off a major upset in the next primaries coming up May 6, not the six weeks she had in PA. That means we can expect a rapid fire volley of Karl Rove-style meanness and nastiness, the likes we have not seen yet. But who will be the real winner May 6? It won't be Clinton, and it won't be the Democratic party. My guess is it will be the GOP.

Nice going Pennsylvania. You'll share a special place in history right there with Ohio, Florida, and the Supreme Court of 2000. Hope you're all proud.

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In what has to be one of the most polite bitchslaps ever, in an open letter, Richard Dawkins stands up for his friend - and one of my heros, the good and right Michael Shermer.

Mr J, you have been cruelly duped by Ben Stein and his unscrupulous colleagues. It is a wicked, evil thing they have done to you, and potentially to many others. I do not know whether they knowingly and wantonly perpetrated the falsehood that fooled you. Perhaps they genuinely and sincerely believed it, although other actions by them, which you can read about all over the Internet, persuade me that they are fully capable of deliberate and calculated deception. You are perhaps not to be blamed for swallowing the film's falsehoods, because you probably assumed that nobody would have the gall to make a whole film like that without checking their facts first. Perhaps even you will need a little more convincing that they were wrong, in which case I urge you to read it up and study the matter in detail -- something that Ben Stein and his crew manifestly and lamentably failed to do.

With my good wishes, and sympathy for the losses your family suffered in the Holocaust.

Yours sincerely

Richard Dawkins

Read the full account here.

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This one coming from the New York Times, and it's being delivered to the Pentagon, Fox News and other news outlets, and all the suckers in America who were too blind, dumb, or willfully ignorant to know they were being fed truckloads of bullshit by the Pentagon's sock puppets.

As said of these sock puppets:

To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as “military analysts” whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11 world.

Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found.

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Not that any of this should come as a surprise for those of us who knew all along the invading Iraq was all bullshit, as was anything said in defense of it. Now, with over 4,000 soldiers dead, thousands more injured or horribly disfigured for life, and countless numbers of Iraqi casualties, and all because the leaders lied, and lied, and lied, and lied.

Ya just gotta love our leaders.

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From the Queen B herself, as she is caught on tape bitching - and lying - about MoveOn.org, an organization founded in '95 to help defend then-President Bill Clinton.

"Moveon.org endorsed [Sen. Barack Obama] -- which is like a gusher of money that never seems to slow down," Clinton said to a meeting of donors. "We have been less successful in caucuses because it brings out the activist base of the Democratic Party. MoveOn didn't even want us to go into Afghanistan. I mean, that's what we're dealing with. And you know they turn out in great numbers. And they are very driven by their view of our positions, and it's primarily national security and foreign policy that drives them. I don't agree with them. They know I don't agree with them. So they flood into these caucuses and dominate them and really intimidate people who actually show up to support me."

SNAP! Take that party activists. Hillrod doesn't need your votes in the general.

Read it all here...

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This time from the man himself in Raleigh, NC, about the ABC News sponsored debate last night (h/t to politico):

"I will tell you it does not get more fun than these debates. They are inspiring debates. I think last night we set a new record because it took us 45 minutes before we even started talking about a single issue that matters to the American people.

It took us 45 minutes — 45 minutes before we heard about health care, 45 minutes before we heard about Iraq, 45 minutes before we heard about jobs, 45 minutes before we heard about gas prices.

Now, I don’t blame Washington for this because that’s just how Washington is. They like stirring up controversies and getting us to play gotcha games and getting us to attack each other. And I’ve got to say Sen. Clinton looked in her element."

UPDATE:



Snnnnaaaap!

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Perhaps this should be a "nightly" snap? This particular award goes to ABC News, George Stephanopoulos, and Charlie Gibson for the resounding bitchslap they gave to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, the Democratic party, the American voting electorate, and to our national political dialog.

In a debate moderated with breathtaking inanity, and profound absurdity, and debate so pathetically biased towards the GOP that one could easily have confused ABC News with Fox News.

The blogosphere is full of well-worded recaps from last nights debate - if that name is still applicable - and here are the best from:

Daily Kos

TPM

Firedoglake

MSNBC's FirstRead

HuffPo

If you have any great debate wrap-ups, let me know.

Also, if you watched the debate, and it made you as sick as most people, let ABC know about it:

ABC switchboard: 818-460-7477.

Or you can fill out their online feedback form.

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Keli Goff amusingly presents her perspective on whether or not a sexist bias against Hillary Clinton exists in the media. SNAP!

"How will black women voters be able to decide who to vote for when faced with both a black and a female candidate?." In fact I have been holding my breath and waiting for the article titled, "Left Handed voters from the South who know black females, find themselves torn between loyalty to left handed candidate or staying true to their Southern Roots."
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While no one will ever claim that chants of "Iron my shirt" are anything but the sexist rants of a raving misogynist who should be deplored, denounced, (if not tarred and feathered) accordingly, this does not mean that the majority of anti-Hillary sentiment is steeped in sexism. The reality is that Hillary Clinton was viewed as polarizing by a number of men and women long before she ever ran for president.

From my perspective, I would say absolutely not, but only for the most part. Clearly, there's Chris Matthews, but while his remarks sound sexist, in actuality they are simply stupid, as are most things this vapid mimbo says.

I am in agreement with Keli, because I feel exactly the same way. I have zero problems of voting for women, or being led by them. I gladly report to two women at my job, and most of those who report to me are women, all of whom I have tremendous respect for. I also have a female representative in the House, Nancy Pelosi, whom I respect - and vote for, though I don't always agree with her. I also have tremendous respect for Barbara Boxer and I think she's an outstanding senator. By the same token, I have voted more than once for Dianne Feinstein, but I will not vote for again. If she were running for president, I would not vote for her either, and it has nothing to do with her gender. Nor does Hillary Clinton's gender have anything to do with my decision to not vote for her under any circumstance. Plain and simple, Hillary is worse than a liar. She is someone to whom lies come so easily that she cannot distinguish the truth from a lie, and this is a trait she shares with George W. Bush. She is not someone with the slightest amount of integrity, and that is what is most important to me.

With that said, I may continue to make remarks about Hillary Clinton that sound sexist, and they would certainly be more likely to be interpreted as being sexist since they'd be coming from a man. So I am quite happy when Hillary Clinton is called out by women - and not about her gender, but about who she really is. A liar. And a fraud. And a charlatan. And... well, I could go on.

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I'm launching a new feature on this blog called the Daily Snap!, and what better to inaugurate this feature than with a wickedly funny snap from the Daily Show. In this case, the always terrific Jon Stewart fires up his pimp hand and delivers a volley of snappies to the biggest bitches - the MSM and Hillary. Oh, SNAP!