Because the last one was filling up.
Republican debate open thread
I’ll be watching the football so tell me what happens. I’ll follow John’s twitter feed too. What else are good places? I would have said Sully a year ago, but he’s lost a step.
Open Thread: Cross-Platform Media Promotion
(Doonesbury via GoComics.com)
I’d actually been wondering about a collusion between these two before the Washington Post confirmed it:
… the fictional character’s [Roland Hedley’s] arrival in McGinniss’s real life marked the beginning of a beautiful relationship. This month, Doonesbury’s creator, Garry Trudeau, has partnered with McGinniss for a cartoon collaboration. (“A wild rumpus, as Joe put it,” Trudeau says.)
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Check out the funnies Monday, and you’ll see Hedley reading excerpts from McGinniss’s bio, “The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin,” ahead of its Sept. 20 release date…
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Trudeau and Lee Salem, president of “Doonesbury” syndicate Universal Uclick, confirm that the excerpts are from the advance edition that the cartoonist received last spring, courtesy of the author. McGinniss did not return requests for comment, but his publicist at Random House/Crown said, “I can confirm that Joe did like the 2010 ‘Doonesbury’ cartoons, and [that’s] why his agent reached out to Mr. Trudeau.”
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As for Trudeau, he says, “McGinniss’s office first approached me for [the 2010] strip-reprint rights in March, and then subsequently about a possible review.” The cartoonist says he “demurred on the review, but proposed instead an exclusive first serial arrangement.”…
Yes, I’m old — so old, I can remember when Roland Hedley first appeared, as an early-1970s glossy-newsweekly journamalist getting spoofed into identifying the lilac bush in front of Walden College as a “marijuana tree”.
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Guess that’s why they broke and you’re so paid
When there was that mini-kerfuffle about whether Romney doubled the size of his house or quadrupled, one of you emailed me something where some rightie was saying “that created more jobs than Obama ever did”. If you take Steve M’s Republican-primary-as-gangsta-rap to to its logical conclusion, shouldn’t Romney be bragging about his wealth? Why not play up his status as a big swinging, job-creating alpha male? Deride Perry as a tax-payer-rent-supported cheapie who lives off of hand-outs from boot-makers and what not?
I think it would work, it would be a way for Romney to get his mojo back.
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My heart’s in a whirl
As you, I am fascinated by the sexualization of conservative leaders. Why does it happen? I do know why there is no liberal analog of this, it’s because liberal men are pencil-necked geeks and liberal women are frumpy ball-busters. Jim Newell fills us in on this year’s edition of the annual Great American Conservative Women calendar:
The calendar women this year include: Clare Booth Luce (who has been dead for 2,000 or so years but, you know, namesake), Kate Obenshain, Star Parker, Monica Crowley, Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, Rep. Renee Ellmers, Rep. Jaime Herrera Buetler, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Andrea Tantaros, S.E. Cupp, and, of course, Rep. Michele Bachmann.
Missing someone, aren’t we, hmm? the CBL Institute has a special note for readers about this: “Our friends and supporters often inquire about why Governor Sarah Palin is not featured in our calendar. We invite Governor Palin to participate every year and are hoping she will be able to join us for the 2013 edition.”
Other People are Too Sentimental
Thanks to all who mentioned the documentary Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns). I wouldn’t have watched this remarkable video if I hadn’t seen the movie. The whole thing was building a time machine and going back. Here’s an open thread.
The Thrill is Gone
If this picture (from Reddit, click to embiggen) doesn’t give you your morning dose of schadenfreude, then perhaps Conor Friedersdorf’s collection of various right wing heroes (Erik son of Erik, Coulter) throwing Palin under the bus might do it for you.