Hiya Eli – what’s shakin’?

Digg it.

Disrespectful? Bad form? Vigorously pursuing the investigation is “inappropriate conduct” because Sarah Palin is running for vice president? What the hell does that have to do with anything? What legal doctrine says that being on a presidential ticket exempts a public servant from her obligation to testify? Isn’t the law more deserving of respect than any individual, no matter how newly prominent?

it is simply not appropriate to find out if a republican is a criminal

ESPECIALLY if they are going to be president

you’re acting as if palin is a democrat or something eli

Hiya, jayt!

I managed to brick my Treo trying to install Windows Mobile 6 – completely unrecoverable. Fortunately, also completely under warranty.

What legal doctrine says that being on a presidential ticket exempts a public servant from her obligation to testify?

The Bush Doctrine?

the real point is that this investigation was being conducted BEFORE palin became a candidate, I believe they might have a point if the investigation began after the nomination, but they don’t even have that

Yep. Upholding the rule of law is “inappropriate”, “disrespectful”, and “bad form”.

Hi Eli,

As we know, Republicans are no fans of Inconvenient Truth.

In what respect?

The Bush Doctrine?

now now, we know that doctine means we can manufacture data and start wars for the purpose of enriching our pals

this must be “doctrine b”

Eli, nice to see you. And sorry, but we’ll have to agree to disagree about the reason impeachment is off the table.

The reason I was given by someone quite familiar with members of Congress who’d actually put it on the table was that impeachment didn’t poll well.

The weak-spined fools in AK are acting out of a misguided sense of deference that should not be accorded to any human since no one should be above the law. But Congress is acting out of a desire to keep their own jobs (instead of simply doing their jobs by upholding and defending the Constitution).

Completely different kettle of fish.

I understand what you’re saying, but the thing is, *neither* of those are valid reasons for letting a criminal off the hook.

I do not believe “impeachment didn’t poll well”, I believe that is their weak excuse

the very reason they were brought into power was to impeach, that is why they are there

here’s the reason impeachment was off the table;

N.S.A

that’s the reason, they were blackmailed out of it

wow they just SHUT DOWN Rachels show…..and good evening Eli

yup…they are just as bad

I say! Bad form, what? Not quite cricket! Wouldn’t want a sticky wicket and all that… [HarrrrUmph…]

they just shut down rachaels show

excuse me?

In what respect?

kind of an attempted joke that I don’t understand the Bush Doctrine either, just like Sarah.

Possibly the Bush Doctrine, subcategory (a) which states that, once elected, there is no responsibility to testify about a goddamned thing to anybody, anywhere, any time.

Under that notion, she’s just shifting the “I am no mere mortal” absolute privilege ahead to include candidates for office.

‘Absolute privilege – it’s not just for office-holders any more.’

lol

Evenin’, sadly. I know Ike’s kind of a big deal, but surely Rachel could anchor it, or at least participate in the coverage?

EPU’d

*Adjusting tin-foil hat*

“Technical difficulties on Rachel’s show”

pMSNBC going to Ike coverage

Hmmm

Hmmm

kind of an attempted joke that I don’t understand the Bush Doctrine either, just like Sarah.

Which I was returning in kind…

wth? What happened to rachel’s show? Did she say she was getting kicked off?

Ramras said that issuing a subpoena for a vice-presidential candidate “would be disrespectful.” He called it “inappropriate conduct, given the unique political circumstances,” and “bad form.”
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shake me wake,when its over

well in local news here in l.a. a commuter train and a freight train crashed head on.

Audio problems, I gather…

Who = They? What happened?

she is so even toned,logical,absolutly marvelous JOURNALIST/HUMAN BEING
a woman such as she,compared to the GLIB self adoring Gov Mooselini is a striking difference

oh.

ive never had that before,have you?

The Are You Being Served? graphic was an inspired visual accompaniment. When I opened up the Digg I assumed they had blown it and chose ‘no image.’

After a hiatus lasting several years, our local PBS station has just begun to broadcast the series again. Seen them all countless times but it still has it’s moments.

Huh?

i dont know,they said tech problems yet they are STILL broadcasting

i cant understand how MSGOP is broadcasting Shuster,but Rachels show was cut off

Thanks – the show doesn’t do much for me, although my mom absolutely *loves* it.

I did a quick check to see if Michael Palin had perhaps ever guest-starred so I could maybe post a YouTube, but no such luck.

“Disrespectful.”

Smacks of pulling the forelock as the Lord of the Manor rides by… My ancestors didn’t set sail starting in 1620 in order to start a country where I would have to curtsy to the likes of Caribou Barbie. There’s a degree of anger here that had best not be discussed in polite company.

I believe the “problem” originated on Rachel’s set, thereby not having an effect on the mothership?

hmmm just got an email about signing up to be a deputy field organizer in a neighboring battleground state. Just might do it

What was she discussing at the time of the interruption. I only have basic cable and the MSNBC website hasn’t been updating the videos of her show until the next day.

i adore all the BRITCOMS named my dog after Basel Faulty

i smell Rove

*still in tin-foil hat territory*

GOV MOSELLINI and troopergate

Love Fawlty Towers and Flying Circus. Also Red Dwarf, which is total genius.

I don’t know… I couldn’t hear a fucking thing *g*

;~P

Yea!! *applause* I wish I could.

i trust NONE of them anymore,sadly yes

They murmured something about problems in Ithaca, which is where she is. Ithaca? Did she go to Cornell? Why else would anyone go to Ithaca?

is it too late to ship Contessa Brewer down to stand in the streets of Galveston to do some on-the-scene hurricane coverage?

(I got a kinda twisted kick out of seeing her getting blown around, wounded dignity and all, during the Gustav blow)

why yes, I *am* easily amused – why do you ask?

I wouldn’t rank it among my favorite britcoms but it was okay before it reached the point where popular catchphrases (Mrs. Slocum, “I am unanimous in this…”) started cropping up in every episode.

Actually, It…..more…..and……he was…….over….you know…..

;~P

how are you feeling? they want me to be in charge of the phone bank here..i cant…went back to school when my tech guy creeped out

hahahahahahahaha

Moyers: Sarah = Immaculate conception. Media having a hard time covering because their realm is reality not mythology….Journalist to discuss.

My all-time favorite was on a little Daily Show tribute to inane hurricane reporting a while back – reporter is making the usual big deal about how terrible and windy the conditions are… and then you see this guy casually walk by him in, like, shorts and a t-shirt, completely unfazed by the supposed Terrible Hurricane.

Interesting. They can keep a feed alive from the middle of a fracking hurricane, but they lose the ability to keep a show discussing Sarah Palin’s catastrophic problems (Troopergate was being discussed when we lost connection) from ITHACA. I obviously need to go and get many, many boxes of heavy duty tin foil tomorrow. Shit. I look like crap in hats…

and LoudoBBs

Oh, I don’t know, Marion…they’ve got a really good farmers’ market there. And, you can find contra dancing a couple of times a week…

Media having a hard time covering because their realm is reality not mythology….

Wait… what?

I worshiped Python during my formative years, which might have played a role in my being fundamentally alienated from the institutional structures of society. Fawlty Towers, Blackadder and ‘Allo, ‘Allo rank high in my list of favorites.

EPU’d from downstairs:

I have started a personal “truth campaign.” Anytime I hear or read some media outlet using euphemisms to describe McCrackerAss’s or Sarah (im)Palin’s falsehoods I send off an email reminding them that the proper English word for that is “Lies.” Also let them know that the failure to report them as lies is journalistic malpractice.

A good farmer’s market is a treasure, a pearl beyond price. Isn’t contra dancing a first cousin to square dancing? I LOOOOOVE square dancing!

hahahahaha
saw that with Gustav,that rendered Chimpy UNABLE TO BE SEEN OR HEARD at the PUKE CONVENTION

Oh, Blackadder, absolutely. Especially the first two seasons. ‘Allo, ‘Allo, not so much.

Yeah, their coverage of McCain has been almost exclusively myth.

It’s actually been a lot better and more fact-based than I expected. Just… not enough.

fabfun

Just to catch up with the BritCom discussion, “Are You Being Served?” has been on our PBS channel here for years. We howl. We also howl at “Waiting For God.”

Marion…they run their farmers’ market right up to Christmas, shut down and then start up in the spring; it’s fantastic. And yes, contra is a first cousin to square dancing…as well as a first cousin to English Country Dancing, Virginia Reel, and a little boogie at the same time. It’s a total hoot and during the summer, in Ithaca, you can dance three times a week, one of them being outdoors, on The Commons downtown. And it’s always live music.

‘Allo, ‘Allo had the same creator as ‘Being Served and was similarly formulaic in it’s approach. Probably not your cup of tea but I was reading today that Last Of The Summer Wine is starting it’s 30th season.

they make life a little more palletable

Waiting For God is decent, and I’m getting a bit alarmed at just how many Britcoms I’m familiar with.

You know what was awesome, although I’m not sure if it was technically a Britcom? Father Ted.

sounds like fun

I’d always been kind of lukewarm on Waiting For God but recently caught the complete series (4 seasons) and realized it was actually pretty brilliant. Did you know Stephanie Cole (Diana) was only 48 when the show started?

Damn! Are you telling me that I left all that behind when I left NY State? [grin] I learned square dancing and the Virginia Reel, etc., as a kid and could still, having not done it for years, join a square or line and have time time of my life. Down here they adore clog dancing. That doesn’t do a thing for me…

You are shrink wrapping it and stacking it in a warehouse?

Don’t forget Dr Who.

Father Ted qualifies, based on what I just read. Not familiar with it personally.

Oh, yes! A British friend of ours introduced us to Father Ted with 2 CDs. We can’t watch more than 2 or 3 episodes at a time, because we start to get stitches in our sides from laughing. It’s not available, alas, on the TeeBee here.

Replayed the Campbell Brown/Tucker piece. Saying it is so rare for such interruption of the hot air. McC cut off his own nose by not going on Larry King….

Brilliant, but I wouldn’t exactly call it a Britcom.

Every Feb. there is a huge three day dancing blow out in Saratoga Springs, NY called Dance Flurry. If you can dance it, you can find it there – and if you can’t dance it but want to learn, you can find classes for it there, too. Also music workshops, open jamming, etc. etc. Starts at 5 p.m. on Friday night and just keeps on going through 5 p.m. on Sunday. The DH and I have not been there in a couple of years, but when we went, we had a great time.

Really?! I can’t wrap my brain around her name, but the woman who played the oldest character on “Maud” was actually the youngest actress.

I didn’t fully appreciate the camp value at the time the earlier series were airing. My guilty secret is that I have been watching the somewhat juvenile but amusing (high-budget) current incarnation.

“Give me an example” = Stump the Candidate….shouldn’t be such a hard question.

HOLY UNDEROOOOOOOOOS Batman

Not only is it clear that John McCain is no longer running for president, but rather is taking a back seat to his human shield Sarah Palin, but it seems that Sarah Palin herself often takes a back seat in public office to her husband. Putting aside the fact that it’s not clear how great a feminist she can be if her unelected husband is calling the shots in her public office, but what kind of elected official has their spouse in every meeting? They don’t. And Hillary Clinton got a lot of crap from the Republicans for having such an extended role in Bill Clinton’s White House. And with Sarah Palin clearly being billed as the one wearing the pants in the McCain/Palin family, I mean Palin/McCain, does this mean Todd, warts and all, will really be in charge? Because if he is, he just got subpoenaed……americablog

No, but how about AbFab?

hahahahahahahahahahaha i love you muchly …shrinkwraps your friend

when they went to the wine tasting

This Palinpalooza freak show has been one of the more creepy things I’ve ever experienced in politics. In 45 minutes, a large percentage of the Repub “base” gets so behind this disturbing individual that she literally cannot do anything wrong, and there is absolutely nothing wrong in her past. She is the most perfect candidate ever. All because of a 45 minute speech she read from a teleprompter that someone else wrote for her! The extreme group-think of these Repubs literally gives me chills.

I used to wonder how Hitler was able to do what he did. I don’t wonder about that anymore. It’s happening right before our eyes in the Repub party.

Repubs will say it’s the same with Obama supporters but there’s no comparison whatsoever. Obama has been on the national stage for four years and campaigning for close to two years. It took months and years for most Democrats to warm up to him and investigate before backing him, and many still aren’t. Not so with Guv. Mooselini and the instant and intense support for anything she says or does…no questions asked. Freaky how easily swayed Repubs are for the most part. I’m glad organizing Dems is like herding cats.

Was it Bea Arthur?

1,763 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen Eli and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

Breakin’ news on the news front…hurricane Ike is disruptin’ satelite connections from Rochester, New fuckin’ York so Rachel Maddow’s expose on Sarah Palin’s husband’s subpoena won’t be seen tanight or probably ANY night. Isn’t Ike hittin’ the near Gulf coast of fuckin’ Texas??!!!

Pardon my paranoia but I think we’re WAAAY beyond 1984 here…shit if they ken get this pig with lipstick inta the White House without a visitor’s pass (and I’m talkin about McCain) then they really ken get a turnip elected and we either hit the streets or emigrate ta Canada!

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNTION, THIS SHIT IS GETTIN WEIDER AND WEIRDER!!

You don’t mean Golden Girls, do you? Estelle Getty played Bea Arthur’s mom. Unfortunately, she has been completely incapacitated by dementia the last I heard.

It comes on so late here I fall asleep. Maybe a couple more belts of single malt might help. I got hooked on the Dr a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

thanks for turning me on to Billy forgot he was on tonite

I never really got AbFab, not sure why.

More sketch comedy (and more obscure), but hilarious: That Mitchell & Webb Look, and Adam & Joe.

Feeling okay. Tired and feeling weird but that may be from the hectic week.

Now, that’s odd. I’ve been a sci fi freak since God made dirt but Dr. Who (and I’m starting with Dr. Who on the old black & white TV from about 100 years ago) has always left me cold. I’ve looked at the new one too, and it still leaves me cold. Different strokes, and all, and YMMV…

sounds like a blast!

WTF-K?

Hey, Wobbs! Haven’t seen you around for a while. How’s things going?

Love it!!! you are awesome

This is one of my favorite stories on Sarahmania:

A funny thing happened when WRKO conservative talk host Reese Hopkins (inset) told listeners 17-year-old Bristol Palin’s pregnancy makes him question VP hopeful Sarah Palin’s parenting skills. Angry Republican listeners blew up his e-mail box, claiming Bristol’s condition is family business. And Hopkins, who talked extensively on-air about the suspicious Gloucester teen pregnancy pact, was a little shocked. “You called these girls sluts, you said their parents were horrible,” he said of his listeners. “But in 125 e-mails I have stacked in front of me, you’re telling me [Bristol Palin’s pregnancy] is not a big deal.” Hopkins went back to the e-mails he received on the Gloucester story and compared them to his Palin e-mails. He found 70 listeners who flip-flopped on the teen pregnancy issue and invited them to explain. On Monday, Hopkins will broadcast live from George’s Coffee Shop in Gloucester with Gloucester Daily Times reporter Patrick Anderson and editor Raymond Lamont.

Loved the original, but haven’t really been able to get into subsequent versions.

Busy since semester has started back up. I’m wiped out and feeling a little off but outside of that, doing great. How about yourself?

Well, no wonder I was EPU’d down below – just talking to myself while the crowd has moved on. 101 posts already.
I give up. Going home. Take care, everyone along the Gulf Coast.

Citizen bonkers:

“I used to wonder how Hitler did what he did. I don’t wonder about that anymore.”

Welcome to our nightmare Citizen bonker-person…when do we get some courageous folks like Maddow and Olbermann ta started usin’ the word “fascist” in every sentence with a Republican in it?

And my girlfriend is the exact opposite. Me, I like both. Pretty much everything except Fifth Doctor (Davison) and that godawful Fox TV movie with Eric Roberts as The Master (WTF?).

Michael Ickycough reporting that the McCrazy campaign is up in Alaska, workin’ like hell to get the Trooper-gate investigation shut down….

Mrs. Palin really *is* getting an accelerated and first-hand lesson on how things actually work in Washington, isn’t she?

I love, ‘Keeping Up Appearances’ it is old but still a hoot. I also like Coupling

I was in my early teens and fixated on the original Star Trek series when I first saw Dr. Who. I didn’t consider it realistic enough, which is funny because when I see episodes of the original Trek series now I laugh at how campy it was.

No. Bea Arthur was Maud. I’ll scrounge around and find who I mean…

i had an 80 year old FARMER in the supermarket tellme yoday she has 25 years EXPERIENCE over at the catfood aisle

……..i shit you not

Eli, Keep on this! Unbelievable. Remember Robert Hanssen, super spy? He had too much rank to undergo the lie detector test so he got away with SOOOO much for SOOOOO long. They lie detected all the underlings, but the BIG ROTTEN FISH got away.

The hard part of dealing with this level of shameless lying … is accepting that such massive amorality exists, even from ingratiating personalities, and dare to confront despite the spin machinists just waiting to throw their hurricane hissy fits and whip it up among the low info citizenry.

Palin’s unethical behaviors on a local and state level fits right in with the colossal levels of colossal lying that has been deconstructing this country, and causing colossal pain and even death to our citizens and innocent citizens of other countries.

I started with the first Dr. Loved it, no matter how campy it was. Must have been my growing up with serials at the Saturday matinees and later on Saturday morning teebee. Those were the days when I was in love with the Dragon Lady in the Terry and the Pirates comics. Still am.

YES!!! Thank you!!! Golden Girls, not Maud. You’re a life saver x2, having come up with not only the name of the actress but the name of the show that I screwed up! [bows deeply]

I just spit out my tea

you and i are on the same page

Interrogatory WTF. K.

Big Lie + Big Shot = Getting Away With It.

Doing well. The semester is giving me a bit of intellectual schizophrenia. I am teaching a couple of intro level classes (the general intro the anthro and the intro to cultural anthro), a senior level history of anthro theory class, and a graduate seminar in contemporary anthro theory. Seminar is doing really well and the other classes seem good as well.

Estelle Getty died about a month and a half ago.

There will be enough spinning to cause a localized reversal of the Coriolis Effect.

I never really got AbFab, not sure why.

Coming from my family, jokes about drunks kinda weren’t funny to me…

Loved both back in the days when they were both new. The campy element was exactly what I loved about Dr. Who.

definately a chic thing of ….total overindulgence and self absorbtion …very funny

Oh, SWEEEET! However, they’ll explain it somehow… Most likely they’ll slander Jesus by dragging his name into it again…

707

You are correct. July 22. RIP

ahh what I have to look forward to when i become a professor

Yeah, I wouldn’t mind seeing them now, think I could appreciate it.

Firepup Freedom Fighters:

WHERE THE FUCK IS RACHEL MADDOW’S SHOW???!!!

That’s “Boo-Kay…” We love Keeping Up Appearances too.

Coupling I’ve never heard of. “They” may have decided it was to risqué for us. NYPD Blue was not shown here for the first 2 or 3 years of its run. I’m not making this up, you know….

Joan Walsh of Salon on the Sarah Palin is just like me syndrome: “Oh, she is dumb like me?” She added that this woman is just not prepared to be Vice-President.

Respect this, dumb sh*ts.

Pulled by executive order until she stops telling the truth about Republicans, or Ike passes, whichever comes first.

silence the truth tellers

She had technical problems from her remote in upstate NY.

The good Dr. is up.

in ALL the years i have watched MSNBC AT LEAST 8 …that has NEVER EVER happened …NEVER

I’ve always joked about the sheeple tendencies of Repubs, but this Flailin crap is so extreme tht it’s not funny anymore. This is seriously disturbing.

OK….is anyone going to watch this next Palin interview? Not sue I can stand it. Good looking scenery.

Oh great, another installment of minute by minute, second by second talking heads extravaganza of looming disaster, complete with moronic reporters standing out in 100mph winds showing what morons they are. Oh, and while we’re bring you this up to the minute coverage, buy more Viagra and Depends.

She was in Ithica.

Posterchild for Bridge to NOwhere…money still went to Alaska for road to NOwhere.

Here — I just bought 8 boxes of tin foil… I’m still pissed, because I look like crap when I wear hats…

Did anyone else notice that Rachel seemed a bit peeved that KO had taken up so much time at the start of her show?

and?

$$$ for nights at home; technically OK but frowned on.

Switch to the SciFi channel. There’s a new episode of Stargate Atlantis.

ensure,and………………cemetary plots

no i didnt get that at all,they seem to have a mutual admiration society…he adores her i can tell…tremendous respect

probably. tey talked about ’shagging’ quite a bit LOL

why are the idiots standing in 100 mph winds?

I returned my cable box to DimHouse years ago. Thinking of not getting the converter box for rabbit ears. Only watch about 3 hours a week. Plus baseball game of the week if it ain’t them damn Yankees.

I hope it’s heavy duty and not some off brand there Marion. Take it from the hat maker, you really want to use the best material or else.

and crabs and seal dna

I bow to your conciseness! :)

This country has “amorality” fatigue … just witnessing the assembly line of failed accountability occasions (I won’t say attempts… because they aren’t happening very often) is exhausting and dispiriting. They’ll have to write out a new chapter for PTSD. “Palin Trounces Sense (and) Decency.” P-T-S-D.

Trying to prove they’re idiots. Not a difficult task.

Are tinfoil hats compatible with brain bleach?

707!

A reply to sadly yes that he/she had never seen technical problems like that on MSNBC. The show originated from a remote location in Ithica.

i guess Rachel is deep 6ed

Rachel was doing a live show from the historic(read, old, decrepit, and probably has a horrific electric and PA system) State Theatre(which is on the Commons in downtown), Ithaca, NY. Now, being pretty familiar with Ithaca, I can tell you that the say the town is “strategically isolated” is to put it mildly — if you want to make a standard long distance call from Ithaca to Binghamton(going north to south), you have to send the call to Syracuse (which is an hour North of Ithaca) and than have the call go south to Binghamton. If they were feeding her through Rochester(why escapes me, since Rochester is a good two hours north and west of Ithaca), I’m not sure HOW exactly they are doing that because the fiber optic feed from Ithaca goes either to Syracuse ..or to Binghamton(and I know that because my little ol’ company installed that baby and used to own it and operate it). So, I don’t know how they are doing it but they are definitely going the long way round to do it and probably ran into some issues – someone with a backhoe perhaps, or a lineman out there playing with matches in the dark..

so what is wrong,they havent said

In what respect? /s

Because they are media idiots.

This has been another edition of simple answers ….

oh ok ,i get it,thanks for the explanation

any thing could become a missle,ive seen boards go through trees in Fl

As J Edgar Hoover would say, “Sabotage. It’s them damn commonists.” He and Shrub had the same problem with words of more than one syllable.

I gre up in Oklahoma, which is big time tornado country. I long since gave up expecting media droids to show any semblance of rational behavior in these kinds of situations.

Saw a 2 x 4 through and through a cotton bail once. That’s a lot of energy.

A far better choice would have been one of the facilities at
Cornell Univ. – those guys are wired every which way…they could really be their own telecom if they wanted to(and could get the Certificate of Public Need from the NY PSC). But the State Theatre downtown? Jeeze – we’re taking two tin cans and a piece of string…

Is it possible now that Todd has one, Sarah might develop a case of subpoenas envy?

ayup

poor Rach!

Well, I guess justice in America is no longer blind. The rule of law is in peril.

Bob in HI

We also howl at “Waiting For God.”

Look, there’s Harvey!

Is he a pooka?
No, just a puke.

That one’s worthy of punaise.
Todd seems quite able to satisfy any desire she might have for one of them subpoenas.

Back to the topic, why would they need to subpoena Sarah? Due process requires that she have the right to defend herself, but why should she need to testify?

It is not so much deference, but a way to show that they are not setting up a perjury trap for her. They do not need to hear her testimony to conclude she broke the law. And by serving Todd, they neatly expose the ridiculousness of the executive privilege defense. This sounds to me like it is being deftly and ethically handled. Lets see if the AK Senate President gets in the way at this point, given that the committee is clearly not abusing its power.

Hey Eli and gang. sorry I missed this last night. Wanted to let you know Palin & crew not getting unconditional love from the home team:

The Senate committees granted the request [for subpoenas]. Voting for were Sens. Charlie Huggins, R-Wasilla, and two Anchorage Democrats, Hollis French and Bill Wielechowski.

Voting no were Sens. Lesil McGuire, R-Anchorage, and Gene Therriault, R-North Pole.