Too good not to share: The Right spins like a top

"I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities."
Sarah Palin.

Nice. Community organizers are not taking that laying down. Community organizers also do much to get out the vote in local precincts; she might have stepped in something messy there.

The word for a choice like Sarah Palin is "cynical." Do Republican women appreciate the condescending pat on the head they've received? Will local squawk radio station WISN rush to scrub the classy "Anchor Babes" feature on their website now that the talking points memo instructs them to cry "sexist" when Palin is fact checked or called to account for hypocrisy? (In WISN's favor, I notice that they no longer seem to have a woman they call "The Garden Hoe" on their Sunday morning gardening show.)

You gotta hand it to John McCain, though; when the Republican party made clear that they would fight his first two choices (Tom Ridge and Joe Lieberman, evidently), he fired back: "Oh yeah? Then I pick....her, whoever she is. Spin that, you $%&^'s! Now get out of here. And I suppose I should actually meet her a couple days before the convention, so set that up."

Counter-programming as party policy. Wonderful.

 

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Comments

[Fred Keller]

John,

I can concede that by the following definition...

“Community organization is that process by which the people...organize themselves to 'take charge' of their situation and thus develop a sense of being a community together. It is a particularly effective tool for the poor and powerless as they determine for themselves the actions they will take to deal with the essential forces that are destroying their community and consequently causing them to be powerless.”

-Reverend Robert Linthicum, World Vision International

... that in a sense, our Founding Fathers could be considered ”Community Organizers,” but you’re not comparing Obama’s “community organizing” to the deeds of the First and Second Continental Congress’, are you?

[Zach W.]

Fred, I don't think anyone would compare what Obama did as a community organizer to what our Founding Fathers did; he's simply pointing out that community organizers are not without importance.

[elliot]

Does anyone really think John McCain was going to win in any community that HAS community organizers?

[John Michlig]

Coincidentally, I happen to be reading a book just now called PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL ...

[J. Strupp]

That Noonan and Murphy piece was flat out hilarious.

[J. Strupp]

The GOP doing something rational would be quite irrational these days.

Somewhere is St. Paul, Pawlenty is still trying to figure out what the hell's going on.

[john]

Another situation where real life looks more like the plot of a bad movie or sitcom.

God help us.