JBD

Never-elected CNN spokesdrunk Jack Cafferty gives voice, aid, comfort, and what amounts to an in-kind contribution to Obama with a brash shove-in-the chest challenge to the McCain campaign over Sarah Palin's supposed lack of preparedness to be "one 72-year-old heartbeat away" from the Presidency.

He uses as his coup de grace an excerpt from Palin's interview with Katie Couric.  Scares the hell out of him, she does. He's OK with Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, Frank and the rest of the bona-fide morons who caused our current financial crisis. But dammit, old Jack is going to tell it like it is, no matter the consequences, brave journalist that he is.

Granted, Sarah's answer is mostly incoherent, and that's due, in part, to her cramming for the VP debate this week, and to the pressure on her to spout the McCain campaign message rather than just answering the goddamn question.

And what a bull moose whopper of a "question" Katie comes up with. She forwards the same plan as the guy below, and asks Sarah why don't we simply spend the money on the poor, sick, elderly, children, etc. instead of on the Wall Street fatcats.

Couric's lucky Sarah didn't laugh in her face and say, "Sure Katie, let's just give the money to the poor, and then they won't be poor any more! We'll call it "The New Deal"! Or how about "The Great Society!" Or even "The Community Reinvestment Act!"

No excuses, though. Sarah looked bad, and the merciless press is jubilant.  Joe Biden can commit a gaffe a minute and not scare them at all, but Sarah's game attempt to encapsulate a seminar's worth of talking points into two paragraphs in response to a 'when did you stop beating your Eskimo' type question, hell, that shakes them to their very cores.

Well, in the spirit of 'get right back on the horseface that threw ya', I guess Sarah isn't afraid of Katie, since she's going back for follow-up interviews this week.

All links courtesy National Review Online's excellent group blog - the Corner. If you're a liberal and would like a good, coherent, reasonable reading on the state of mind of Republicans in general and conservatives in particular, this is a great place to visit.

By no means do I agree with everything they post (I'm looking your way, Lowry - any dogs get wet during Gustav?) and some of the posters are occasionally incoherent (Lopez, how do you call yourself an editor - read your posts out loud before you post them - the world can await your brilliance. And Brookhiser! King of the non-sequiturs, suffering from tweed poisoning and haunted by Founders trivia), and they are a little too dialed in to the DC and NYC media and careerist politicos for my taste (Lowry again, and Kudlow - how's that Goldilocks economy running, Larry?), but they immediately and publicly acknowledge and correct any errors, and go out of their way to hear out all sides.

Wish I could find an equivalent liberal site. TPM is OK, but kinda full of itself and mostly obsessed with who-cares scandals like AG Gonzales and his firing of some AAGs. Yawn.

And no fair comparing them to me. I'm a moron, and I admit it. My blog is a tic, not an avocation or business.

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