Jesse, it’s a pleasure to have you back in the blogosphere.

Perhaps Macsmind could submit to a gang rape and then report on its similarity to a Katie Couric interview?  I mean, why not?  If that writer is going to use the simile, it’s best to understand the simile…

Charles Gibson, Katie Couric and Hugh Hewitt have a lot to answer for, victimizing and humiliating that “open book” of a woman.  I could come up with some allusions to virginity in regard to Palin’s mental hymen and whether or not any logic managed to break it or not, but some metaphors just don’t make for good politics.

I could have mentioned Sean Hannity, but he was too gentle.

Goddamn these assholes have no shame

I know a guy who wrote an opinion column for his local paper in which he spun out a dramatic story of rape and feelings of shame and repeated victimization—and then it turned out he was using it as a metaphor for paying high prices at the gas pump. And this was a few years ago, when a high price was, like, $2.80 a gallon.

Using the violence of gang-rape as a metaphor for something nonviolent like a Katie Couric interview is ALWAYS WRONG.

Similarly, likening hedge-fund managers’ anxiety to Hurricane Katrina’s devastation is also wrong.

P.S. I’m a little uncomfortable with Sarcastro’s joke.

Is a journalistic gang rape more or less a hate crime than a high tech lynching?  Those playing fantasy victimball need some clarification from the judges.

Does Palin know what Marbury vs. Madison was? Did Couric ask her about that?

fantasy victimball

If its OK w/ you, I’m gonna use that.

If their was a way Chris Matthews would do it.

What an oxymoron, gang-raped by Katie Couric?  By Katie fucking Couric?  And please, since when are questions from one perky news twinky to a vice-president twinky constitute a “gang”?  Does Katie have a posse?

Oh the victims of the right, clutching their pearls and clinging to their bibles and guns like the pacifiers.  In the end, they were even weaker, more pathetic opponents than ever imagined.

<snark>How much did they have to pay for the forensic kit to discover their evidence?</snark>

Not to be a nit-picker, but I never heard Katie Couric mention Marbury v. Madison, and if she had, I sincerely doubt Gov. Palin would have had a twittering clue what Ms. Couric was talking about.

For a party that talks about “personal responsibility” and “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps”, conservatives do an awful lot of complaining and victim card playing.

If there’s anyone to feel sorry for in this mess, it’s Couric. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an interviewer looking more uncomfortable; she has to be thinking, “You’ve got to be kidding me,” and it’s written all over her face.

she has to be thinking, “You’ve got to be kidding me,” and it’s written all over her face.

Joe Biden will have a similar expression on his face tonight.

As has been pointed out elsewhere, Al Gore had that same look on his face in 2000, look what it got him.

the fact is that when Biden was asked about specific Supreme Court decisions he couldn’t cite either, says Macsmind which of course isn’t true either—Biden discussed the decision overturning the Violence Against Women statute in some detail.

Comparing Sarah Palin to George W. Bush is so unfair.

Unfair to George W. Bush. He’s much smarter than that.

<blockqutoe>the fact is that when Biden was asked about specific Supreme Court decisions he couldn’t cite either, says Macsmind which of course isn’t true either—Biden discussed the decision overturning the Violence Against Women statute in some detail.</blockquote>

I’m guessing that Macsmind has no idea that the VAWA even went to the Supreme Court, so he was confused when Biden started talking about it in response to the Supreme Court question.

Not to mention that the obvious answer should be staring Palin and McCain right in the face: it’s Kelo v. New London, which is unpopular both with liberals and conservatives and is based, from what I can discern, on some pretty dubious reasoning. What an easy way to win brownie points, and yet the still botched it. You almost have to be thinking that they’re trying to lose.

I’ll opt for the toughest grilling on Waziristan from the most thuggish gang of policy wonks you can put together.

Seriously, when did the Republicans become so whiny. Yeah, there were the hints of the whine back in the 80s, but now it seems it’s all they have.

BTW, I know more about Waziristan than Palin knows about Russia. I see the Pakistani consulate every day from my window and I cut through their back lot to get to a local bar. Palin’s nevr actually been to the island of little Diomede.. That homeless guy who lived right at the edge of the consulate property must be even more of an expert.

Yet the MSM continues it’s gang rape of Sarah Palin by going after her answer to perky Katiie about the Supreme Court case Marbury vs. Madison.

Please excuse me while I call the waaaahmbulance. Maybe the ECTs (emergency crybaby technicians) can help macsmind out with his third-grade grammar mistakes and superfluous vowel problem.

Maybe the ECTs (emergency crybaby technicians) can help macsmind out with his third-grade grammar mistakes and superfluous vowel problem.

Yeah, a lot of wingnut bloggers seem to have problems with vowel control.

It is really not even worth quoting a blogger who types “it’s” when he or she means “its.” That alone is enough to tell you that whatever precedes or follows is a waste of electrons.