Absolutely Fabulous!
At last, there's a candidate whose breasts I can believe in!
Paris Hilton or die.
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Steve Benen:
(1) Paris Hilton's spoof ad offers more substance than McCain's real ad;
(2) Why does Hilton seem smarter and sharper than McCain:
(3) McCain better learn to read a teleprompter!
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)It seems to be missing.
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). . . we will always have Paris
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| parent )it wasn't vinteuil's fault, the embedding as it came from funnyordie wasn't cooperating with drupal.
--I blame it all on the Internet
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| parent )Well, he gets two points for finding a new way to suck and ruin the site. (c:
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| parent )I blame it all on the Internet
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| parent )...take that!
--God help the while, a bad world I say.
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| parent )No, Paris didn't.
vinteuil did it with a malformed embeding.
View source -> line 79
There's an anchor tag with an href that has no close quote. This nukes the next div tag, and the rest is history.
Easy to fix, but no can do from here. Mods?
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| parent )Oh, Vin...
--To think is not enough; you must think of something -- Jules Renard
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| parent )Maybe I'm too quick to blame it on vin. The syntax appears correct on this page, just not on the front page. Maybe it's a Drupal quirk?
Aw, who am I kidding? We all know it's Bush's fault. (c:
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| parent )the Sunday vodka.
--Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. - W. Somerset Maugham
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| parent )the front page is totally killed on my old mac version of Safari but is intact--but missing Vint's Paris diary--on the latest Firefox running on my PCs.
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| parent )and did have the problem. I looked at the source, saw the bad closing tag, thought maybe Drupal had the problem.
There are a few harmless warnings emerging from the css, while I'm thinking about it again...
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| parent )of the site theme done a couple of Drupal versions ago. Still hoping I'll find the time to finish the new theme in the next couple of months.
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| parent )If the past week has taught us anything young white women can not dare be compared to black men, but Paris ignored this valuable lesson and offers this-
"Only I'm not from the olden days and I'm not promising change like that other guy. I'm just hot!”
Disgusting. It seems that our society will never grow past young white women and black men being mentioned in the same political ad, the dream has ended.
--"That Sam-I-am! That Sam-I-am! I do not like that Sam-I-am!"- Dr. Seuss
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)No wonder you defended B's robotic need to inject GOP talking points into irrelevant subjects disguised as humor.
Well done!
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| parent )is hardly a GOP talking point, even the Daily Show did it. But then again, I don't suppose it's very sporting either.
--"That Sam-I-am! That Sam-I-am! I do not like that Sam-I-am!"- Dr. Seuss
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| parent )Are you kidding? Mocking *is* the current GOP talking point, as well as the point of another McCain ad released today.
In this, you're merely following their script. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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| parent )is now part of the VRWC. Who knew?
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| parent )I said nothing of the kind. Tho' I guess this too is humor on your part. The Daily Show was making a fair and humorous point about the election. You're doing something different, and something I've noticed elsewhere with B -- the desire to force talking points into any and all contexts, no matter how irrelevant, and using humor to camouflage the act.
It's not a big deal. Just a weird, if predictable, disconnect I've noticed.
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| parent )If you actually desire to put on your serious face for a change then the talking point in question is the stupid, and I mean stupid, idea that the McCain celebrity ad had anything to do with race. There are many criticisms that can be leveled at that ad, but as the Daily Show pointed out racism is not one of them. Now it is entirely possible that some of the Obama supporters who called the ad racist were doing so in good faith, trying to remain vigilant against the ugly hand of racism creeping into the election, and that they were overzealous in this particular instance. It is also possible that other Obama supporters cynically labeled the ad racist merely out of the desire to play the race card and garner sympathy for their candidate. Whatever the motivation, for most people polled about it, there is no there there, and Brooks and I are just having a little fun with it. And having fun with this faux outrage is entirely relevant when making fun of the next chronological faux outrage (as Brooks did with the Obama supporters alligator tears for Cindy McCain), just as it is here considering Paris was one of the white women supposedly used as a dog whistle against Obama.
Now the above is just in case you're serious, but I really don't believe you were. I get the feeling you're just playing your usual rhetorical game where you try to slap some label on your opponent's line of argument (weird, sad, predictable, thin witted, unoriginal) and act as if every time you repeat the charge that it is confirmation of your point.
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| parent )Lotta words. Same circumstance. If you want to shoehorn talking points into irrelevant conversations the choice is yours, humor -- tho' it's charitable to refer to it as such -- is merely the excuse. And the Daily Show has nothing to do with it.
And JFTR, I don't think the Hilton ad was racist. But the problem with ads like that is that you can't control the subtextural messages that sometimes come with them. The Harold Ford ad is a good and more overt example of that.
Hey, if nothing else, your clarification is helpful. You're not mocking the Obama campiagn, just his supporters.
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| parent )can be anything you want it to be, and as such these types of complaints are completely out the McCain Campaign's control. So I'd say it's the people who worry about the subtextual messages that have the problem. I can just as easily complain about Obama's subtextual arrogance and use the commentary from a number of right wing bloggers as proof of my point, but none of that would actually make it more true. It would all just be part of the same game.
But your response only furthers my doubts that you're the least bit serious here. Making fun of the race grenade which blew up in the faces of the people who threw it at the ad Paris is responding to is not shoehorning, all these things are interrelated. However, you've decided to label it as shoehorning and as such refuse to admit there is any connection. Talk about same circumstances, I've seen this one for years from you. I should probably save myself some time and make a K-code for it.
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| parent )your comment reflects a case in point on the effectiveness of the McCain camp's sub textual messaging.
--GW Bush, leading contender for worst President ever.
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| parent )appear to be your sole focus, interesting. i was waiting for a phallic symbol retort.
--"Making sure your tires are properly inflated, simple thing, but we could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling, if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups. You could actually save just as much." Ob
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| parent )John Cole comes up with a really good "phallic symbol retort". LINK
But she's a queen, and such are queens
that your laughter is sucked in their brains. -D. Bowie
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| parent )Paris isn't really running for President. She is only 27 and therefore she is Constitutionally disqualified from becoming our President.
--But she's a queen, and such are queens
that your laughter is sucked in their brains. -D. Bowie
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| parent )like Paris I was using the whole stupid situation to mock people.
--"That Sam-I-am! That Sam-I-am! I do not like that Sam-I-am!"- Dr. Seuss
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| parent )and just embarrassing to watch.
Seriously...synthetic chaises instead of genuine Adirondacks?
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)sounds like Paris is talking about McCain's energy plan. Paris said "limited drilling with environmental safeguards". McCain has said that states should decide on offshore drilling and exploration, which is a form of limited drilling, and I don't think McCain would be in favor of offshore drilling without proper environmental safeguards.
--"I want America to know that I'm, like, totally ready to lead." -- Paris Hilton
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)(drilling) then they shall have one and it will be bipartisan.
Just don't hold your breath on any actual drilling taking place in the near term, or any significant effect on crude/gas prices whatever paperwork makes its way out of Congress.
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| parent )So you see this as an endorsement of McCain. Heh.
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| parent )http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Paris_Hilton_responds_Really...
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| parent )No, she said "limited drilling with environmentalist lifeguards."
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| parent )So in California, offshore drilling wouldn't be limited, it would be zip. McCain's position is that he is in favor of offshore drilling but would leave it to the states to decide. Other states may decide in favor.
--"I want America to know that I'm, like, totally ready to lead." -- Paris Hilton
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| parent )Me: We! -- Ali
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)Limited drilling with safeguards as part of a balanced and sensible energy policy. Yep, no problem with that.
And now maybe she and Mrs. McCain can do a racy video together using the Sturgis event as a focal point.
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). . .wait, I'm not going to finish that sentence until I get a ruling from Tomsyl and Catchy from earlier today.
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| parent )Paris . . .
Er, the Hilton hotel in Paris?
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| parent )lol
She could probably help with home heating.
And could get a lot of guys to conserve natural gas.
But, given that on the one hand she's accustomed to an extravagant lifestyle, but on the other hand she's promiscuous, would she actually raise or lower the average price at the pump?
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| parent ). . .vision fading. . .need ruling soon. . .
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| parent )...and her net impact on emissions is unclear -- lower greenhouse, but higher nocturnal.
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| parent )The Onion, as usual, is way ahead of us all.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/34777
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