Wait, am I the only one who’s voting for Obama because I’ve been promised a few hundred thou?  Or did that email only go to early supporters/donors? 

Shit, maybe I wasn’t supposed to say anything about that…

Wait, am I the only one who’s voting for Obama because I’ve been promised a few hundred thou? 

I’m supposed to be getting a pony.

So, the people who have this tape know it can’t change the outcome of the election?

* Item: That is the stupidest fucking thing I have ever heard in my goddamn life.

* Item: Jesse doesn’t read Sadly No nearly enough.

And where do the Haliburton and Blackwater no-bid contracts figure in all of this?

Oh, sorry.  Those were REAL handouts to connected entities, not made up bullshit.  That doesn’t count.

Nightclub/lure store. 

Okay.

And what do the dancers use for pasties?

Wait, am I the only one who’s voting for Obama because I’ve been promised a few hundred thou?

Noted and copied to Fox News.

Nightclub/lure store. 

Okay.

And what do the dancers use for pasties?

These

Item: Tribune Chairman and CEO Sam Zell is a major Republican donor. Why would he not want his paper to release the Khalidi tape?

Ah, Sam Zell, you crafty Hebrew ... always playing both sides in your lust for the shekels. I’m surprised Derbyshire didn’t bring Soros and the rest of the Elders of Zion into it while he was spinning out this mind-boggling plot.

Amazing. It seems that the increasingly likely prospect of a young black liberal as their chief executive now has the boys at The Corner behaving with all the quiet dignity of the 9-11 Truthers or the Westboro Baptist Church.

I try to avoid evil thoughts about people, but sometimes I wish Derbyshire would try to “rush” a gunman, the way he sneered at the Virginia Tech kids for not doing, and get himself shot.

John Derbyshire is an idiot who occasionally happens to be right about things like evolution, almost certainly by accident and not because he knows anything. Not only is this incredibly stupid, it’s premised on the even more stupid idea that there is anything at all incriminating about Obama attending a party with Khalidi, who it is worth noting is actually a professor at Columbia and a respected scholar in his field. What’s this video going to show, Obama shaking hands at a cocktail party?

I’m starting to suspect that the reason the person who provided the video to the LAT won’t allow it to be shown is that it’s completely innocuous and provides no backing at all to the ridiculous theories that wingnuts have built up around it.

“John Derbyshire is an idiot who occasionally happens to be right about things like evolution, almost certainly by accident and not because he knows anything.”

Indeed. The only reason he’s right about evolution is that he grew up in Britain, where creationism has only recently had any traction whatsoever, and is still considered an extremist viewpoint.

Yup.

Cheney started the Iraq war to flood his buddies pockets with green, but a NEWSPAPER? How could the MEDIA possibly be suspected of engaging in economic chicanery?

I read the dumbest thing I’ve ever read daily right here on Pandagon!

How could the MEDIA possibly be suspected of engaging in economic chicanery?

Care to elaborate on the “economic chicanery” involved here, wtf, or don’t you have anything besides attempts at sarcasm?

Cheney started the Iraq war to flood his buddies pockets with green, but a NEWSPAPER? How could the MEDIA possibly be suspected of engaging in economic chicanery?

I didn’t realize that Obama holds several million dollars in Tribune Company stock the same way Cheney holds millions of dollars in Halliburton stock plus gets deferred compensation from the company.  You learn something new every day, I guess.