Post Debate Edition
If you watched the 8pm Republican debate last night in it's entirety I commend you on your stamina! I saw the whole thing, and it was mesmerizing, probably because I started Taibbi's drinking game but had to stop after the first half hour as I was getting too hammered....anyway here are two stories that may be relevant to you......
The first from Heather Digby Parton in Salon.....
Carly Fiorina was the clear winner, if that's defined by the one who improved their position the most. One minor problem - most of what she said was total bullshit, but she said it confidently and if you are uninformed and a little stupid she sounded just great.....
Republican presidential candidate, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is seen at a luncheon hosted by the Derry Republican Town Committee, Tuesday, May 26, 2015, in Derry,NH (AP Photo/Jim Cole) (Credit: AP)
It was Carly Fiorina’s night last night. In the very crowded Republican clown car full of fatuous blowhards and screaming hawks, she stood out by being able to think on her feet quickly enough to use standard lines from her well honed, road tested stump speech to good effect as if they were spontaneous answers to the question. Compared to the others she seemed sharp and well-informed and the media dubbed her the big winner.
Fiorina has come a long way since the days of the “Demon Shee
Here's the second from Jeb Lund in Rolling Stone.....
A pretty good summary of the debates......but as he says it numbs your brain after a while......
The second GOP presidential debate was held at the Reagan Library Wednesday. Sandy Huffaker/Getty
Once, years ago, I thought it would be a good idea to try to live-blog a broadcast of NFL RedZone. Not just an hour or two, but all six hours, plus overrun, trying to see what happened when your brain attempted to put it in some kind of order.
It didn't work. The human mind isn't meant to create narrative out of 22 people colliding on every down, then instantly switching to 22 other people, 400 times without relief. Any stimuli, no matter how meatheaded, will eventually overwhelm you. Lights overexpose, detail fuzzes out, colors kaleidoscope into involuted patterns. Things make sense only to themselves, on their terms, and everyone surrenders to it.
This more or less happened last night, at the second 2016 Republican primary debate, at the Ronald Reagan presidential library.
Five-and-a-half hours of primary debates is too much. CNN kicked off the night at 6 p.m. Eastern with analysis for the JV debate, interrupted briefly for CNN's Blitzerian moments of breaking news (the second debate will have 11 candidates, but this one only has four, so there are only four podiums now, but later there will be 11), then over an hour of debate, then more hiccups of analysis (boss! boss! there's a plane in the background!), then over three hours of slog. It was a credit to CNN's Jake Tapper that he was still asking sharp questions until the end, when the skull contents of everyone on Twitter had long turned to oatmeal.
A Bill Maher overtime segment with the first three minutes discussing Ben Carson.....it's 11 minutes total of intelligent discussion, but the Carson bit is brilliant.....
In his Overtime segment last night, Bill Maherdiscussed the popularity of Ben Carson in the Republican presidential race, calling him “the soft-spoken Donald Trump.”
Maher called him “super-crazy” for a brilliant neurosurgeon and remarked, “I will never understand that divide in people’s minds, how you can be brilliant and a total fucking idiot at the same time.”
He also went after Carson for using “one anecdotal moment” about the border to declare he knows exactly what’s wrong with the immigration crisis.
He and some of his guests surmised that the GOP support for Carson is because they want to “look like they like a black person.”
Tom Tomorrow with his fantasy alternate universe "The Simulacron" ......very amusing, I love his cartoons..........
And a blonde joke!
An Alabama pastor said to his congregation, "Someone in this congregation has spread a rumour that I belong to the Ku Klux Klan. This is a horrible lie and one which a Christian community cannot tolerate.
I am embarrassed and do not intend to accept this. Now, I want the party who said this to stand and ask forgiveness from God and this Christian family."
No one moved.
The preacher continued, "Do you have the nerve to face me and admit this is a falsehood? Remember, you will be forgiven and in your heart you will feel glory. Now stand and confess your transgression."
Again, all was quiet.
Then, slowly, a drop-dead gorgeous blonde with a body that would stop a runaway train rose from the third pew. Her head was bowed and her voice quivered as she spoke, "Reverend there has been a terrible misunderstanding. I never said you were a member of the Ku Klux Klan. I simply told a couple of my friends that you were a wizard under the sheets."
The preacher fell to his knees, his wife fainted, and the congregation roared.
Life is short, smile while you still have teeth.
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