McBournie is in Phoenix, testing both invasive airport security and racist police profiling for the price of a Southwestern ticket. I’ll be filling this week, and then YMI won’t be back until December. Now that the election’s long over, if you were abusing your Tea Party phone tree to drum up votes for Dancing with the Stars, odds are you missed it.
No matter how you spell it, it sucks to be Joe Miller
Palin-certified grizzly man, Joe Miller, is by all counts losing his election to a candidate who not only wasn’t on the ballot, but whose name is worth 52 points at Scrabble. For a guy who tried to arrest a reporter with his private security guards, he’s showing an enormous lack of graciousness by refusing to concede. Early reports indicate that he will challenge everyone in Alaska next week to arm wrestling if his federal injunction doesn’t work.
There are easier ways to promote shows, MSNBC
Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, was suspended for political donations to eight different Florida candidates between 2004-2008. This is part of MSNBC President Phil Griffin’s “Look, Liberals, I Did It to the Only Conservative on My Network, Too, Now Will You Leave Me Alone” Human Resources platform.
Gettysburg Address also shared by an outlet mall now
Seven score and five years ago, Abraham Lincoln gave what would be his greatest speech that the South can agree on. (Only a fleeting mention of those pesky slaves.) In only 300 words, he managed to sum up the war, honor the dead at Gettysburg and get home before rush hour. By modern standards, he’d have to accomplish the same feat in 140 characters or less.
