I don’t expect a vice-presidential candidate to be familiar with all the nuances of the Kyoto treaty, but I do hope that he or she will know more about politics and current events than the average elementary school student.

Sarah Palin has all the gravitas of a feather duster, the former beauty queen is blissfully ignorant of the world outside of Alaska. The only time she comes in contact the outside world is when Putin’s head hovers over the governor’s mansion.

Palin proved herself to be an airhead when she flubbed her interviews with Katie Couric and Charles Gibson, but until now we had no idea about the breathtaking extent of her ignorance.

“Cameron, the Fox beat reporter for the Republican presidential ticket, said he had been told by unnamed sources — and on the condition he not report the details during the campaign — that Palin could not name all of the countries that are part of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

He did not mention which one (or ones) she whiffed on, but there are only three: Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

Nor, according to Cameron, was Palin aware that Africa is a continent. (Perhaps she was hamstrung by the fact that no part of that land mass can be viewed from her homestate.)” — [MORE]

Palin’s handlers were handed a mission impossible, how could they possibly prep the clueless diva to face the media? No wonder that after the disastrous Couric and Gibson interviews, Palin had sit-downs only with Republican sycophants like San Hannity of Fox News.

John McCain ran one of the dirtiest and most inept presidential campaigns in history. McCain ran an undisciplined campaign that sifted focus every few days, but his most colossal blunder was selecting Palin as his running mate. With that one cynical, reckless, desperate and dangerous act, McCain forever ruined his legacy as a maverick and war hero. McCain put his own selfish ambitions ahead of the interests of his county.

McCain is guilty of treason, he put the security of the United States at risk by choosing a woefully unprepared and unqualified fool to be his VP.

In Japan when an individual commits an unforgivable transgression or a huge mistake he commits Hari Kari. I’m not suggesting that McCain commit ritual suicide, although I wouldn’t shed a tear if he did, but at the very least he should retire from Congress.

Sarah Palin’s Greatest Hits

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The loudest of Fox News’ vicious pack of howling hyenas, Sean Hannity has chosen to suffer from Amnesia temporarily — at least for now while hyping the “Moose From Wasilla,” “WasillaBilly” Sarah Palin.

Media Matters reports: This is the same Hannity who said the following a few days ago in reference to Internet rumors about Gov. Sarah Palin’s daughter, “[T]hey tried to make the attack that she has a young daughter, pregnant and engaged. Is that fair that they would attack that? I mean, I don’t remember Chelsea Clinton being attacked. I don’t remember Al Gore’s children being attacked. I thought there was a general rule that children of candidates ought to be left alone.”

In fact, Chelsea Clinton was not “left alone” — not by Sen. John McCain, and not by Rush Limbaugh.

McCain reportedly told a “joke” about Chelsea Clinton in 1998, saying: “Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.”

The late columnist Molly Ivins reported of Limbaugh:

“On his TV show, early in the Clinton administration, Limbaugh put up a picture of Socks, the White House cat, and asked, ‘Did you know there’s a White House dog?‘ Then he put up a picture of Chelsea Clinton, who was 13 years old at the time and as far as I know had never done any harm to anyone.

When viewers objected, he claimed, in typical Limbaugh fashion, that the gag was an accident and that without his permission some technician had put up the picture of Chelsea — which I found as disgusting as his original attempt at humor.”

It is puzzling to note that these two imbeciles command the highest radio listener ship in North America — each with a weekly audience of 13+ million.

Informs me on one thing: A portion of America (roughly 30% = George Bush’s approval rating) is SICK TO THE BONE.

Note: Listen to Limbaugh disparage Obama — The drug addicted radio talk show host most Republicans listen to.

Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants: The Looting of the News In a Time of Terror.

From AudioFile: Muzzle in hand, Woolcott debunks and defangs the “attack poodles” of the right-wing media–including Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Dennis Miller, and a kennel-full more of these biting, snapping, reactionary Republican lapdogs.

Armed with a rolled-up newspaper of wit, sarcasm, and detailed information, the author, through the marvelously funny interpretation of Dennis Boutsikaris, will keep you laughing while you get wiser to the outpourings of the mini-canines mentioned in the title. Thanks to our reader, the snarky humor and highbrow high jinks come through loud, clear, and laughable. D.J.B.

The Hypochrisy of Sean Hannity

Hannity Suggests Obama Is A Dangerous Racist & Anti-Semite

Right-Wing RACISTS like Rush Limbaugh are Petrified of Obama!!

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