This was his first “Campaign Comment”..and probably his best on Palin’s attempt to define her resume for the Vice Presidency.

Countdown with Keith Olbermann (MSNBC): 10/21/08 “Campaign Comment” on Sarah Palin getting the Vice Presidential job duties wrong….FOUR TIMES!!! (via YouTube; h/t to cspanjunkie.org)

I wonder, though….is he - Joe the Plumber, that is — trolling for Caribou Eva’s Veep slot in 2012???

Countdown with Keith Olbermann (MSNBC): 10/29/08 “Campaign Comment” on Samuel “Joe The Plumber” Wurzelbacher’s latest attempt to milk his latest 15 minutes of fame (via YouTube)

Memo to the Governor from Alaska and soon to be dispatched Republican Vice Presidential Candidate: If you are going to keep dropping the “socialist” card at your rivals, try not attempting to play one on TV first.

If she’s the GOP frontrunner for 2012, then Walter Mondale might have to share the couch…if you catch me.

Countdown with Keith Olbermann (MSNBC): 10/28/08 “Campaign Comment” on Sarah Palin’s “socialism” hypocrisy (via YouTube)

Should have picked Lisa Ann, old man. You would have even run away with the “Miss Buffalo Chip” demo.

• Re: “Joe the Plumber”…wonder if he’s flashing plumber’s crack?? He certainly is pretty damn cracked. #

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I’ve been getting complaints from some of the regulars (mostly Ms. Shag and Aspasia recently) that readers of this blog are having problems posting comments to the posts here, because of the requirement that you have to sign in and be logged on to become a member.

In order to solve that issue, I’ve went ahead and waived that requirement, so now anyone reading this blog can attempt to post a comment.

That doesn’t mean, though, that spammers will have free reign; I still reserve the right to moderate and/or delete any comment that is either spamming or irrelevant to the topic or otherwise hateful. But, I’m a fair guy with liberal rules; so as long as you are not trying to deliberately be an asshole, your comment will get through.

Actually, if your comment does become assholic, there’s an excellent chance that it will still get through, anyway, just for the sake of exposure and rebuttal. So…post at your own risk, and remember: my blog, my rules, my can of Whupass.

Oh, good Lord…Maggie Hays is riffing and ripping again.

Same old raw sewage….different fragrance of stink.

I will save you the usual detailed fisking this time, since I only have one life and I’d much rather not overstress it out over the same tired bullcrap. But, I can spare a take or two over a couple of graphs.

Regarding prostitution, millions and millions of women and girls are being raped on a daily basis. And hardly anybody cares. Many people just do not want to hear the truth about the sex industry. Some feminists or women who genuinely care about other women are having that truth hidden from them, often by malestream media, sometimes by glamorized prostitution culture, etc.

I reject the term “sex work” as it is somehow too convenient for the men who (ab)use prostituted or prostituting women. I still acknowledge that there are some very unprivileged women in the sex trade who call themselves ’sex workers’ while feeling negative about prostitution though. And when they tell their painful stories while using the term ’sex work’, well I’m absolutely fine with that. Their stories matter as much as so many others’ who’ve been harmed in the sex trade. It is possible that their pimps or madams (and some of their johns) called it “sex work,” “a job” or “work” when they spoke to them, which makes sense why some prostituted women have internalized the term “sex work.” By contrast, however, there are some formerly prostituted women who loathe the term “sex work” because they feel that it attempts to conceal the great suffering they’ve experienced in the prostitution industry and that it also tries to make prostitution look “respectable” when it’s not, when it is in fact a violation of a woman’s body and rights. Anyway, I can fully understand both cases.

Of course, Maggie can do this, because under the powers vested in her by the Great Goddess St. Andrea Dworkin, she has been empowered with the right to speak for every single Goddess-damn woman on the planet who has ever worked in the sex industry.  Even, and especially, those women who are so foolish to think that they have brains and voices and mouths and vaginas of their own and have the capacity and capability to speak for themselves and have their own experiences respected.

And of course, only Maggie has the power of the Goddess to explain how so many women are “raped on a daily basis” inside prostitution (and, by association, pornography and all other aspects of the “sex industry”). Those who don’t share her wisdom….well. read further down the essay:

I have another definition for pornoiarchy. It is also a society that restricts sexual imagination, i.e. that constricts us as sexual beings, because it is a patriarchal society invaded and controlled by pornography. Because pornography tries to control sexuality; it maps out people’s sex lives with the same old scenario of male-over-female domination. To me, not being able to imagine an egalitarian sexuality (that wouldn’t rely on the objectification and the degradation of another human being) is myopia. I believe that sexual imagination can go beyond the boundaries of pornoiarchy.

To me, anybody who defends pornography, prostitution, Christianity, capitalism, and/or male-supremacist laws, customs or institutions, etc (while being fully aware -without necessarily admitting it- that these things are inherently misogynistic or oppressive) is a patriarchist.

Oh…does that mean that Bob Jensen, who recently outed himself as a Presbyterian, is now a “patriarchist” now??  And what about all those Christian capitalists who oppose porn as vehemetly as Maggie does…I guess that they now qualify as “patriarchists” too??  So, when are you going to seperate yourself from folks like Donna Hughes and Kathleen Barry, who take faith-based funds from the Bush Administration, ehhh???

And how nice is this “pornography controls sexuality” meme??? Like if you totally eliminated porn from the face of the earth, a thousand flowers would bloom, and women would suddenly discover their clitorises all over again….or rediscover the true orgasmic joys of intimacy and sheer bliss that goes even beyond mere physical pleasures. Gee, Maggie, don’t we already have this thing called “masturbation” for that?? And eliminating porn wouldn’t eliminate what people see in their fantasies or their brains, either, you know…..unless you also think that personal thought should be just as regulated as to eliminate those evil “patriarchial” images that destroy women…..agreed???

But this is the money graph that really seals the deal for me:

Nowadays, it is almost impossible for a woman to have a close friendship or relationship with a guy without him trying to force intercourse onto her, or trying to persuade her to “do this” or “do that”. Also, generally, a wife has to allow herself to “be fucked” by her husband as a ‘duty’.

Yeah…gotta avoid all those evil MEN….never mind all those attempts to be civil and decent and treat them like equal human beings worthy of respect and dignity; it’s all just a ploy to get into women’s panties. Even the act of intercourse between married persons wanting to spread their progeny through the conception of a child is just another form of “rape” imposed for the sheer pleasure of men….as her civil “duty”. The fact that a woman might actually LIKE the feel of a hard penis inside her vagina (or her mouth, of between her breasts, or even — heaven forbid  — in her anal cavity, is just another lie imposed by patriarchy to keep women from their true freedom.  Riiiiight…..and Sarah Palin is a pioneering radicalfeminist.

And finally, there is this stellar plea for unity….more worthy of Ralph Reed or David Duke than any genuine progressive feminist I know:

Finally, I would like to add that this is pointless women arguing with each other or hating each other in this world, because it distracts us from seeing who really is in power in this society, who is in a position of privilege, i.e. men in a patriarchy. I believe that when women fight or are being cruel to each other it can be called “harem politics” (as some writer once suggested - see quote below). Women who fight, who hurt each other, who are jealous of each other, etc will not unite against patriarchy.

I mean, of course, we all screw up sometimes. We all sometimes happen to, intentionally or unintentionally, hurt each others, e.g. Woman A hurts Woman B, then Woman C hurts Woman D, etc. and vice-versa, etc. Arguments we sometimes have among female survivors of male violence and among women as a class are patriarchy-related. Patriarchy intends to perpetually distract us from being angry at the male-supremacist system which maintains rape, pornography, prostitution, battery, etc as “inevitable facts of life.”

Patriarchy often disconnects women from each other. Woman-hating is historical. Male supremacy takes different forms: patriarchal religions, marriage, forced childbearing, prostitution, pornography, institutions that protect gender roles, etc. The list is big. I believe that women would have to identify all sites of oppression under patriarchy if they ever want to be able to overthrow the system.

Patriarchists are counting on our ignorance, our disconnection from each other, our refusal to see how much their society and culture hates us, our refusal to see all the harms men have been doing to us throughout history. Patriarchists are counting on all that. They “are betting that we cannot face the horror of their sexual system and survive,” as Dworkin wrote in Pornography: Men Possessing Women (p. 224). This is why, like many other women, I struggle everyday in this patriarchal culture…[...]

Allow me a rough translation of that last paragraph:

‘Yo, Renegade Evolution, Aspasia, Caroline Shepard, Amber Rhea, Trinity, Belledame, and all you other pornified bitchez….you might as well STFU and either join the winning team and convert to our true feminist religion, or just get your ass smoked by us superior womyn.  We all know that you all are just slaves to Teh Cock who deep down inside really believe that I am totally correct and you are really oppressed by your own….or should I say, THE MAN’S….sexual oppression; so why not just admit it outright and  repent your sins?  If you don’t immediately surrender, we will know that you are really men in disguise or traitors getting paid by Teh MEN to continue your rape and oppression of other women…and you will be dealt with severely when the Feminist Revolution takes hold.

Yeah…I can see these women shaking in their freakin’ boots at Maggie Hays threatening to out them. Really, I can.

Just over 240 hours to go before the 2008 election season reaches its close, gangstas and gangstrices.

Remember those heady days last February when  the matchup was assumed to be Hillary Clinton versus Rudolph Giuliani in a New York-style Battle Royal???

Seems like a decade ago, doesn’t it??

Almost as long ago as the predictions of a John McCain rout thanks to the nomination of Sarah Palin as his XO (executive officer, Navy term), the seeming hostility of the Hillary groupies towards Barack Obama’s historic campaign, and the usual Republican advantages in voter fixing and voter suppression.

How prophetic do those predictions seem right about now??  Like…not very???

That is the current (October 27th) Presidential Electoral College map courtesy of Electoral-Vote.com. which uses an averaging system of current and most recent polls for each state to reach a current count on where the candidates stand. Red is for McCain and blue is for Obama; white *as in Montana and North Dakota) is a state that is seen as a tie; and the darker the shading, the more solid the state’s voting is for that particular candidate. States with borders reflect close “leaner” states only slightly favoring the candidate colored in the border (Florida and North Carolina leaning for Obama; Arizona and Georgia leaning McCain).

For those who wish for a numerical summary of that map, it converts into Obama/Biden having 375 electoral votes, McCain/Palin ending up with 157, and 6 EV’s still up for grabs as “tied”.

Whoa.  Seriously….WHOA.

And how about this map for your viewing pleasure??

That map is from a different but equally badass Electoral College prediction site, FiveThirtyEight.com, which uses a fundamentally different formula using statisical regression analysis and poll breakdown for predicting what will happen on November 4th. Their formula does have a slightly less routy final solution for Obama, but pretty damn healthy nevertheless.

“But..oh, come on, ‘Dog,” you say..”don’t those sites have a somewhat LIBERAL bias??? What are the conservatives saying about this election?? Surely, McCain must have enough support to make this an election close enough to steal….errrrrrrr, pull out??”

Well, Clones, I give you this map from a solidly conservative site, Election Projection.com:

Their final numbers, based on the map above: Obama 375, McCain 173.

So much for the Bradley Effect.

In fact, just to show in what stout shape Obama is looking right about now, check out the daily update of all the Electoral College mapping sites all amalgamated here at the Three Blue Dudes Election Projection Database site. Notice that only ONE of the over 80 sites they list predict an Obama victory….and most of them are well within landslide territory of at  least 340 EV’s or more. (The single holdout is a wingnut site that basically retreads National Review talking points….and even they can get McCain no higher than 273 EV’s, barely a majority.)

But, you know….Hillary would be approaching 430 EV’s by now, right???  There’s still time for Obama to do the right thing and back out and allow the real candidate to step forward and save him from certain defeat, you know???  Heh.

Of course, an ass-kicking like this will have its benefits…like the prospect of a monster majority of Democrats in Congress like Tip O’Neill used to enjoy (most predictions are that the Dems could turn at least 20-30 Repub seats, with the not-so-outside shot at 35-40); a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate (most predictions favor a gain of at least 7 Senate seats, getting them 57 total, not including independents Lieberman (CT) and Sanders (VT), which would put them just one vote shy of the magic number), and a huge mandate to enact real changes without much obstruction from the circular firing squad that will become the Republican Party.

Now, the “glass-is-always-half-empty” folk will remind us at about this time that it’s still a week away from the actual election, and anything that could change the dynamics could happen.  Early voting, which has mostly favored Democrats due to a record Black registration/GOTV turnout, could end up not being as strong as predicted. The Repubs might convince a few “working class Democrats…White Democrats” that Obama really is the Antichrist who’s masking his inner Wright/Ayers/bin Laden White-hating, America-hating terrorist. Diebold and the Vote Cagers could still attempt a mass strike to suppress and throw out Dem votes.  And remember..these are DEMOCRATS, who are historic with blowing away opportunities when given the chance.

On the other hand, though…not even the usual Dem ineptitude and Joe Biden’s mouth can even come close to topping the degree of EPIC FAIL that the Repubs have fallen themselves into.  Between JohnnyMac’s numerous “senior moments”, Caribou Eva Braun’s loose lips (the ones on her face, Clones….damn, get Lisa Ann off your brains!!!) and Leona Helmsley-like satorial tastes , the gross incompetence of the Repub dirty tricks machine and propaganda (from “Joe the Plumber” to Ashley Hill’s attempted Susan Smith fraud) and the continuing tanking of the economy, there’s more than enough to conclude that even the magic of Karl Rove could save them.

Or….maybe it’s just because the Dems finally got it right this time and nominated a man who fits the modern world so perfectly. Can’t beat a guy who is so frugal that he soles his own shoes. And a woman as his wife who actually seems like…..a classy and normal First Lady.

Being the recalitrant leftie that I am, I still think BHO will be too much of a centrist for my taste, and I still plan on casting my vote for Cynthia McKinney and the Greens just for the sake of protest; and to further the effort of an independent Left opposition to the Democrats. But, I guess that when Barack Obama steps up to the victory celebration after Virginia or Colorado or some other state seals the deal and the networks officially make the call for him as the Next President of the United States, there will be more than a few not-so-dry eyes in the house….and two of them will probably be mine. Leftie or not, that moment would be 400 years overdue….and not just for getting rid of Dubya and the neo-CONS, either.

But..let’s seal the deal one week from tomorrow, first. Get out and vote; make sure your vote isn’t stolen from you…and most of all: Kick. Their.  ASSES.  (The right way..with your votes.)

The following interview is dedicated to all those fools who want to believe that porn starlets are dumber than a box of rocks, and who can’t think anything other than their next blowjob.

Most porn women are generally intellegent. Some more intellegent than most civilians.

And some even more intellegent that certain governors of very icy states of the Union.

OK…I know….the current Vice Presidential nominee of the Republican Party and current governor of Alaska is not exactly breaking the charts as to high expectations regarding intelligent thought these days. But to say that a porn starlet actually has more brains, more compassion, and more heart — heaven forbid, a more grounded sense of morality — than a power player politician, still sounds quite stark and radical to most people.

Most people, however, have never met Lisa Ann.

This interview that she gave to the women’s fashion mag Marie Claire publicizing her role in the Hustler magazine-sponsored spoof Who’s Nailin’ Paylin? should put most of those thoughts about brainless porn starlets to rest…as permanently as the electoral ass-kicking that the real Sarah Palin (and her partner in slime John McCain) will be receiving come November 4th.

It’s the difference between Caribou Barbie/Bible Spice….and Real Live Nude Woman.

Porn in the U.S.A.

Who’s Nailin’ Paylin?

By Lauren Iannotti

A Q&A with Lisa Ann, star of Hustler’s forthcoming, sensation-causing triple-X movie Who’s Nailin’ Paylin, and dead-ringer for the vice presidential nominee.

Marie Claire: Your fans know you from your dozens of porn films, but you’ve been shot into the mainstream with news of this movie. Did you see it coming? Knowing that you look like Sarah Palin, did you know that you’d get this gig?
Lisa Ann: [Fellow porn star] Nina Hartley called me one day and said, “You know someone’s going to ask you to do Sarah Palin. And you’re going to have do it. You have the glasses. You throw your hair up. You’ve gotta do it.” And I said, “Well I want to learn more about her first.” Because it was very new, and I knew nothing about her. When I started to learn about her I remember calling Nina and saying, “There would be so many ways we could spoof off of stuff she actually says!”

MC: Is it strange the way the news of the movie has been received by the mainstream press?
LA: I think it’s awesome. We went on CBS Studios the other day and did a show for Entertainment Tonight’s Insider. It’s not even about the fact that it’s an adult movie, it’s about the fact that it’s a spoof. And, it’s comical how well received it’s been. I did a radio show the other night for some Canadian Sirius station and they were laughing because they said in other countries we don’t make fun of our politicians this way, and that’s what they love about Americans.

MC: Do you worry that when this comes out there’s going to be a backlash? Have you seen any moral outrage yet?
LA: I have. Fox News had a debate about it-one lawyer was explaining the fact that Larry Flynt does have parody protection under his First Amendment rights. The other was saying it’s unfair to depict this woman this way. And it was interesting and yes, I was fully aware of what I signed up for and any negative things that could follow it. Maybe some crazy right-wing activist will try and burn my house down-they burn down abortion clinics! But I put myself in that target spot and it is what it is.

MC: And it’s worth it to you.
LA: It is. It’s worth it to me to say thank you to Larry Flynt for paving the way for us. It’s worth it to me because finally there’s a role out there for someone who could actually come off somewhat intelligent. I get to say some lines that are so ridiculous-and they’re what she actually says!

MC: Just like Tina Fey did.
LA: Tina Fey is so priceless when she does her. I had only four days to prepare, so I didn’t get the accent down. I was too busy ordering all my suits on Macys.com, for rush delivery. I had to get them home and alter them myself because I was afraid to drop them somewhere and have them not be ready at 7 AM that Saturday morning, when shooting began.

MC: How long did it take to shoot the movie? Is it done?
LA: Two days, we did it in two days.

WATCH A CLIP OF THE VIDEO HERE (OKAY FOR WORK)

MC: Do you know if this was Larry Flynt’s idea initially?
LA: I don’t know for sure. I know it was someone at Hustler.

MC: So four days to prepare. The accent is tricky.
LA: I didn’t worry about it too much. There was enough going on in the dialogue and the banter about her hunting and all the things she says and does. I just love that she says you can see Russia from Alaska. That’s just beautiful. I can barely see Catalina because of the smog and that’s only 30 miles off the coast.

MC: Did you ever consider that maybe the choice of Palin [as VP candidate] would be good for women and you shouldn’t do a porno about it?
LA: Yes. I like to do my homework, so first I learn that she is not pro-choice. She even said that if her daughter was raped she wouldn’t let her have an abortion. And I think, come on now. We shouldn’t even be talking about that anymore. We resolved the issue and we need to move on to other things. And then there’s the fact that her daughter is pregnant. That’s a big red flag to me. You can’t run your home and you want to assist in running our country? Because that’s part of running your home-talking to your child about safe sex.

MC: But do you think there is anything of two-steps-back to the idea that she’s the subject of a porn movie?
LA: No, because she carries herself in a certain way. She’s attractive and she puts her sexiness out there. She wore false eyelashes for the V.P. debate!

MC: Did she?
LA: Yes, I was standing in front of my television talking to my girlfriend who’s a makeup artist and I said “please tell me that she’s not wearing fake eyelashes.” And she said, “Oh yes she is!” So, I mean, she puts herself out there that way. She could have toned it down a notch. She doesn’t have to try so hard to look cute. So, of course she’s going to get objectified. And, she’s said some ridiculous things that are enough to enrage people and fuel us to do something ridiculous as a backlash. And, so you know we’re supposed to not talk about it, but I’m sorry we are allowed to judge you on your actions. Athletes deal with it. Actors and actresses deal with it. That’s just how America works.

MC: She definitely goes for heels and skirts. And it’s winning points with her young male constituency.
LA: She had on that shiny, silky tight suit for the V.P. debate. Fitted around the waste. You wouldn’t wear that to your college reunion if you were trying to be conservative. And, of course all men in America are going to wonder what kind of lingerie she’s wearing. That’s how they think. For the film, I was surveying all my friends asking them, “So what do you think she wears?” I wanted to nail this.

MC: What did you go with?
LA: A fuller bottom, but still really cool sexy panty with a nice matching bra. I think her stuff matches. She’s very detail oriented. And I think she probably feels in power by having something sexy on underneath.

MC: So, obviously you’re a Democrat.
LA: I’m not, actually. I choose not to pick a gang. I go by the topics and issues that are covered by both parties, see what each candidate has to say. I will though say in this election that I’m voting for Obama.

MC: What are the issues that have led you to want to support Obama?
LA: There are definitely some tax issues, but more than anything my pro-Obama position comes from being anti-Sarah Palin. And anti-McCain because he picked Sarah Palin as an easy way to win over all of the women who wanted to vote for a woman. The fact that he thought that we would all jump on like some kind of club was silly and insulting.

MC: Were you a Hillary supporter?
LA: I was a Hillary supporter, yes.

MC: Do you take extra pleasure in being able to parody someone whom you don’t respect?
LA: For sure. They asked me the day of the V.P. debates. And I was just watching her and thinking, this is so ridiculous. So the timing was absolutely perfect. And, you know what? If anyone else would have asked me to do it I wouldn’t have. But I said ‘yes’ because it’s Hustler and it’s [CEO] Larry Flynt and he did so much to pave the way for everyone in this industry to be able to have a future, a respectable future. Remember we’re tax paying citizens, it’s considered a legal job. He fought for that. He fought for our first amendment rights.

MC: You mentioned taxes. You have your own talent agency, which is a small business. Do you worry about what Obama’s plan would mean for you?
LA: I don’t know if I would be taxed more or less. But when he says he wants to help the smallest business owners, I hear him. It’s sad that there are so many people out there who run businesses and are just getting by. We all suffer without that neighborhood Ma and Pa restaurant or auto shop, where you can get to know someone and your whole family can go to them instead of having to go to every franchise that just hires horrible employees cause they’re a franchise. Places where people care.

MC: Joe the Plumber-hot or not?
LA: Not.

MC: Not your type?
LA: No. Because he looks like Joe the Plumber.

MC: Have people come out supporting the movie?
LA: Yes! I see people at the gym who never talk to me and they are like, “You are so shrewd. That is so funny, that movie.” And they’re not in any way making fun of what I’m doing.

MC: Do you think that people are going to buy this who wouldn’t usually buy porn?
LA: You know, its funny, most of my friends aren’t in the industry. We call them “civilians.” So, when I talk to my civilian friends they all said to me its just like when the Paris Hilton tape came out. They say they’re not really porn buyers, but when that Paris Hilton tape came out you had to buy it. I think it’s going to be a gag gift. I think its going to be a big thing that people purchase just to say that they have it because it’s kind of history. I think it’s going to be a much broader range of buyers than the X-rated film. I’m planning on giving it to all of my pro-McCain friends for Christmas.

It is a total fucking travesty that Lisa Ann couldn’t run for public office. She’d make the likes of Sarah Palin look…even worse than she is. Such is our obsession for judging women by their boob size and their sex drives…and ignoring their humanity and intelligence.

Consider this interview my own personal “Fuck you” to Maggie Hays and the rest of the GenderBorg. (Background here.)

Oh….and Ann Bartow….ditto for you, too. You wouldn’t know a real pornographer if she came and licked your ass. (No pun…maybe.)

Tags: Lisa Ann, porn satire, radfems go wild again, Sarah Palin spoofs

Just when you think this election season can’t get much whackier….or the New Brownshirt Mafia fueled by the hate of the right wing can’t get any worse….

On Friday, a reporter for the local Greensboro (North Carolina) newspaper News & Record named Joe Killian, who also hosts his own personal blog caled Automatic Writing and contributes to a column on media and culture for his home paper called Culture Shock, was assigned to cover a political rally for the McCain-Palin campaign at Elon College. Considering how such rallies have become fuel for some of the worst behavior (as in catcalls for Obama’s death and baiting liberals and others not quite so glowing of McSame and Sarah Braun’s policies as “anti-American”), I’m sure that they were expecting more than their usual share of fireworks.

Well, they got some…a bit more than they expected. I’ll let Mr. Killian take the story from there (from his blog):

It was an interesting day and I’m glad to have had the experience. But now here I sit, sunburned and sore with a throbbing headache and an aching leg.

Why? Because a McCain-Palin supporter tried to kick my ass.

I know what you’re thinking.

But no, I didn’t have it coming.

[...]

After the speech was over I was walking around getting peoples’ reactions to it when I wandered into several clusters of sign waving Obama supporters outside the stadium area. They were surrounded by McCain-Palin folks and both sides were yelling at each other.

I sidled up to one of the Obama supporters and asked why they were there, what they were trying to accomplish.

As he was telling me a large, bearded man in full McCain-Palin campaign regalia got in his face to yell at him.

“Hey, hey,” I said. “I’m trying to interview him. Just a minute, okay?”

The man began to say something about how of course I was interviewing the Obama people when suddenly, from behind us, the sound of a pro-Obama rap song came blaring out of the windows of a dorm building. We all turned our heads to see Obama signs in the windows.

This was met with curses, screams and chants of “U.S.A” by McCain-Palin folks who crowded under the windows trying to drown it out and yell at the person playing the stereo.

It was a moment of levity in an otherwise very tense situation and so I let out a gentle chuckle and shook my head.

“Oh, you think that’s funny?!” the large bearded man said. His face was turning red. “Yeah, that’s real funny…” he said.

And then he kicked the back of my leg, buckling my right knee and sending me sprawling onto the ground.

From my position there I saw the bottoms of a number of feet almost accidentally stomping me to death as the two political camps screamed back and forth, the music continued to blare and some of the Obama crowd moved the large bearded man and his friends away. When I was helped to my feet the bearded man was walking away quickly.

For a moment I considered running the bloated, twelve-sandwich eating prick down and beating the living hell out of him…and then I remembered that I’m a reporter, how much I enjoy being gainfully employed and how hard it would be to keep my job if I got into a fistfight with a guy at a political rally.

So instead I limped off to try to find a security guard or cop.

When I did the guy was nowhere to be found.

“He’s this big fat guy with a brown beard and he’s wearing a McCain-Palin shirt and hat,” I said.

And then felt like an idiot. I was surrounded by people who fit that description.

So I simply limped to my car fuming.

Oh, Mr. Killan, be really lucky you weren’t Black, because I’m figuring that they would do a heck of a  lot worse….like scream “Sit down, boy” like some McPalin Brownshirt wannabes did to a photographer at a previous rally.

Now…here is where the story goes from the outrageous to the sublime.

One of Mr. Killan’s colleagues who was at the same rally was a political writer named Mark Binker; when he recounted his perspective of the incident and managed to criticize the GOP sponsors of the event for allowing it to get out of hand, he got a lot of commentary and feedback. (Binker is pretty much a conservative who leans toward McCain/Palin, BTW….yet, to his credit, he seemed just as appalled by the whole incident.)

Well, one of the respondents to his post happened to be Tony Wilkins, who is the media chair of the Guilford County GOP and the main sponsor of the rally….and he decided to drop this bomb as to attempt to justify the assault and battery of Killian:

There were at least four angry confrontations there today. Those four all involved what appeared to be college age kids. Much cursing. Much anger.
One group of young black students? were confrontational to the crowd leaving. The only part of what they were saying that I understood was “you white folks”. I’m wondering if the Dems aren’t in some respect giving their supporters license for this sort of crap.
I talked to the guy that dropped Killian to the ground. He said he didn’t like the Pail [sic] porn post.

Ahhh….what’s that again??  Did he mean “the Palin porn post”??

As in, the well publicized porn spoof/sex satire of Governor Palin being released by HUSTLER Films and Larry Flynt called Who’s Nailin’ Paylin? (WARNING: Links to adult explicit content, definitely NSFW) The one where the absolutely gorgeous (understatement alert!!!) Lisa Ann (who also happens to have her own talent agency for porn performers, Lisa Ann Talent Management) plays the title role?? The one with Nina Hartley playing a spoof of Hillary Clinton and Jada Fire playing Condi Rice in a all-girl three-way with “Serra Paylin”??

And THAT’S what Wilkins says justifies dewd kicking Killian’s shin??

WOW.

Oh..but hold on….it gets even better. Turns out, the link that Killian article that so angered our Brownshirt wannabe goes to a post he did at Future Shock which consists of all of these words:

It was only a matter of time.  From the Frisky.com story: [...]

…followed by an excerpt from a post at Susannah Breslin’s blog Frisky.com breaking the story of the upcoming Hustler spoof.

But, you know..it just may be Tony Wilkins imposing his own biases in this…since one look at the thread discussion about the Palin post thread reveals that Wilkins has a bit of an issue with both the Palin spoof and Killan’s reporting in general:

At the top of this post: News-Record.com.
IMO, he should post this crap on his personal blog.
I’ll see if the advertiser(s) agree.

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Joe K., Joe, and Chris,
Based on your logic above are you agreeing that it would be okay for Killian to post the actual video in question when it’s produced?
Ah oh! Did that cross the line?
Who serves as the “line” president?
And all of you think it’s proper for a revolving ad to display for Wesleyan Christian Academy on the same page as this post?

[....]

I’ll attempt to clarify my opinion once more Chris.
I do not think the graphic description in the post is appropriate for a community standards based newspaper. It’s my opinion, we disagree, get over it.
It’s agreed above by some that Joe would not post the video itself. So there was a line drawn there. I would have drawn the line behind the graphic description or posted it on a personal blog.
It’s obviously unimportant to JR. Not a word from him.

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Of course, the fact that Killian only posted a link to a site that posted only the press release announcing the production of the video does nothing to chill down Wilkins’ rage. Maybe he just invented the Who’s Nailin’ Paylin? connection just to take a swipe at Killian for his “liberal” bias?? Or..perhaps he just sent his large friend over to give Killian some payback for not being a “fair and balanced” reporter??

Or, maybe, Wilkins isn’t really involved in this at all, and this was just a dude who simply got hot under the collar at what he was hearing, and Killian just happened to be the unlucky guy in his way.

Who knows???

All I know is that all this does is to hope for a nice 350 - 400 EV ass-whopping by Obama all the more on November 4th….and if I ever get the chance, I most certainly will have my DVD copy of Who’s Nailin’ Paylin?? on my ‘puter screen that night, celebrating the fall of Reaganism/Bushism and Lisa Ann, Jada, and Nina locking lips and clits, too, as a bonus.

In the meantime, my advice to any media thinking about going to a McSame/CaribouBarbie rally: Travel in groups…and bullet-proof vests and mace would be a decent investment.

[P.S.: Special hat tip to Pam Spaulding over at Pandagon for breaking the story; her brief summation of the entire affair is here.

And once you see this video, you’ll see why I say that..and I usually don’t use “bitch” as a insult.

Notice how Tweety gives her just enough rope to hang herself. Sometimes, even he gets it right.

Is that Eau du McCarthy perfume you are wearing, Congresswoman??

Hardball with Chris Matthews (MSNBC, 10-16-2008): segment interview with US Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) — via YouTube

WOW.  Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid….RADICAL LEFTISTS?!?!?! Bill Ayers STILL believes in “anti-Americanism”?? (His conservative backers of his educational foundation would be kinda surprised at that one.)

And how about that call for a revival of the House Committee on Un-American Activities?? Yeah, that would play well in the Heartland, wouldn’t it???

And Barack Obama more liberal than the actual socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders??  Who knew??

Loonies.  I guess that Obama’s upcoming landslide will bring them all out. So be it…the better to be exposed to the sunshine and melt like grilled cheese.