Republican Convention
Sep 2nd, 2008 by ian
If you want some great commentary about the Republican convention, I highly recommend reading Matt Stoller over at OpenLeft. He’s on the ground in St. Paul and has been putting together some great pieces. For example, here’s him describing the “Security Theater” of the police state in St. Paul…
The soundtrack of this convention so far is helicopter noise, kind of like the final scenes in Goodfellas. Amy Goodman has apparently been arrested (video is here), and the police are detaining lawyers and medics as well as people doing actual property damage…
The city is on ridiculous lockdown, with humvees in the streets, officers patrolling with shotguns and machine guns, and the national guard out. I expected Harrington to announce that he has not yet ascertained the identity of the Batman but that he is working hard and the city of Gotham is safe. Video soon, and a full set of pictures is here.
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Did anybody else see Palin’s youngest daughter lick her palm and slick back the baby’s hair during the speech? i’m so glad we have tivo.
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:15 pm
HA! i caught that in real time and laughed out loud. it was really cute, but surreal at the same time. SNL would’ve have a field day with the whole scene of that speech. just endless fodder. i’m picturing tina fey as palin, getting up there and delivering scathing “yo mama” jokes aimed at obama, the entire audience oooing “OH NO SHE DI-ENT!”
September 4th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
What decent person talks trash about Community Organizers?
September 4th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
no one knows what a community organizer is!
September 4th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
so lets shit on it because we don’t know or understand what it is? McCain ‘08!
here’s barry explaining what indeed a community organizer does…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgHUc3P5aoc&eurl=http://www.dailykos.com/
sounds like the idea is you ‘help’ people.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
why did they use a green screen again?
Colbert’s going to eat his lunch.