RNC uses 911 Imagery. Olbermann Apologizes

Keith Olbermann Calls Shame On the RNC

The only line the RNC did not cross last night is Godwin's Law.

Showing direct graphic 9/11 imagery for political gain. Fucking Republicans.

What's next? Headless corpses in the street? People jumping to their death?

They already showed a FAKE military funeral as convention background -- stock footage from Getty Images without a real soldier in it, but boy did it make those Republican eyes swell with tears.

Total cost? Under $5 grand for world-wide commercial use in all formats for ten years. Cheap.

No need to deal with all the ugly mess of an ACTUAL military death, where you know, real grief and shit might fuck up your camera shot, or the pure raw emotion of it all might make the delegates re-think their position even for a moment.

Paying under $5K is CHEAP at that price.

But tonight... tonight those fucks showed 9/11 imagery.

Swear to the Gods, if there is one truth the last eight years have taught me it is this... EVERY FUCKING TIME I think there truly is no lower for George W. Bush and the Republican Party to go, they go lower.

Boston Globe

The death of a taboo
Posted by Sasha Issenberg September 4, 2008 08:41 PM

ST. PAUL -- One of the most enduring taboos in American politics, the airing of graphic images from the September 11 attacks in a partisan context, died today. It was nearly seven years old.

The informal prohibition, which had been occasionally threatened by political ads in recent years, was pronounced dead at approximately 7:40 CST, when a video aired before delegates at the Republican National Convention included slow-motion footage of a plane striking the World Trade Center, the towers' subsequent collapse, and smoke emerging from the Pentagon.

The September 11 precedent was one of the few surviving campaign-season taboos. It is survived by direct comparisons of one's opponents to Hitler.

There is that which is good, that which is alive, that which is moral and that which is right.

The Republican Party is the enemy of aliveness, and with no irony, the Republican Party is the enemy of truth, justice, and the America Way, of 232 years of generally forward progress by Americans since the Declaration of Independence.

We are going to win in November.

This doesn't let anyone off the hook from working their ass off. Working our asses off is how we're going to win. However this kind of bullshit is too obvious, too mean, and doesn't appeal to enough people.

I'd like to say there's always room in the sewer for more shit, but in the last eight years we've seen that with bad management, infrastructure thought reliable can fail when run way past capacity by incompetents.

Again, part of why we're going to win.

They really ran 9/11 imagery at a political convention. *shakes head* What fuckheads. They have NOTHING left.

Only fear. And trying to divide people.

Back to work.

Keep breathing, and get back to work.

Two months and counting. Goodnight.

H/T The wonderful Diane -- GREATSCAT!

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Fun Freudian Slips

Don't worry Tom, we know what you meant. We feel the same way. John Bush, indeed.

TOM BROKAW: But the fact is, governor, that you have had eight years of a bush administration and a lot of Republicans in Congress for the last eight years, so why wouldn't the american people say, look they had their shot we're going to change?

TOM RIDGE: Because John Bush- because John McCain is very much his own man. Because John McCain brings a different style, an approach toward Republican leadership. Because John Mccain has made promises,that I think Americans can feel comfortable about he will keep.

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VP Stakes; The RNC Edition

So, Who's it going to be? Romney? Thompson, Dobbs?

Hard to pick Romney after the rich guy house stuff.
Who does he choose?

Who would balance a ticket for McCain? And when do you think he is going to annouce?

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You Can Run But You Can't Hide

More fun today from the NYT editorial column where Frank Rich lays out the GOP dilemma and the problem McCain is going to have with Bush hanging around his neck like a big dead albatross.
This is proving to be a problem in congressional and senate races. And the whole party must be having collective combustive heart failure at the idea of this administration's role in the GOP convention.

Independents favor Democrats over Republicans on most issues, according to the April New York Times/CBS News poll, including the economy (by 30 points), Iraq (by 13 points) and health care (48 points).

But are independents suckers? They'd have to be to fall for the pitch that Mr. McCain is an apostate in his own party in 2008. He has been an outspoken Bush defender since helping him sell the Iraq war in 2002 and barnstorming for him in 2004. Despite Mr. McCain's campaign claims to the contrary, he never publicly called for the firing of Donald Rumsfeld. He is still one of the president's most stalwart supporters in Congress

Already one of the national convention’s de facto hosts — Minnesota’s endangered Senator Norm Coleman — is frantically trying to save his seat by disowning his record as an Iraq war booster and disentangling himself from the president. Good luck! But how can Mr. McCain escape the dread specter of this White House at the convention? Surely Mr. Bush will exercise his prerogative to address the nation in prime time.

Heh.

Also for today's entertainment-- worth some good laughs to go back and read LM's excellent review of the RNC Convention Logo.

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