On Tim Pawlenty, Bragging About His '05 Government Shutdown, is Toast
The irony of Pawlenty is that he's been planning for the presidency ever since he slid out of the womb. Once Mike Hatch in 2006 blew an election that he was set to win and allowed Pawlenty to stay on as governor, Pawlenty immediately ceased to care at all about the state of Minnesota and instead set out to do crazy-assed crap to woo Republican presidential primary voters nationwide.
And he's getting lapped by Bachmann with the very group of people he's been wooing for the past five years.
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On Shallow 'Rolling Stone' Hit Piece is Just What Michele Bachmann Needed
Taibbi seems to be getting much more jaded and bored lately. In this case, he ignored all but the Mister Mistress Beater scandal and was much more interested in taking zings at the "overeducated" people who catch him being sloppy, which he has been of late. This is not the Taibbi who covered the Michael Jackson trial so adroitly in 2005. Unless, of course, he's saving his coverage of the scandals for when she gets the nomination -- which is a very dangerous move. Bill Prendergast has already documented how Bachmann's rise to power came about because her extremism and insanity was swept under the rug by the local Traditional media:
http://www.dumpbachmann.com/2009/05/city-pages-preview-of-bill-prendergasts.html
http://biasedliberalmedia.com/
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On Anti Paglia: Poor Camille Paglia Thinks Lady Gaga is Trying to be a Sex Symbol
Good points. Like so many rebels without a clue, Paglia has become what she most fears: Out of step with fashion and what's currently cool. Madonna name-checking stopped being cutting-edge, oh, about 1985. A quarter of a century ago.
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On Anti Paglia: Poor Camille Paglia Thinks Lady Gaga is Trying to be a Sex Symbol
Paglia is given press because she sucks up to white hetero males in positions of power by trashing actual feminists and intellectuals. Selling out her sisters has been quite lucrative for her.
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On Anti Paglia: Poor Camille Paglia Thinks Lady Gaga is Trying to be a Sex Symbol
Paglia: "Generation Gaga doesn't identify with powerful vocal styles because their own voices have atrophied: they communicate mutely via a constant stream of atomised, telegraphic text messages."
Now remember, this is the same woman who claimed intellectual superiority over Susan Sontag because Sontag grew up pre-TV and Saint Camille of the Short Attention Span grew up with TV. So now Miss I'm Au Courant And Technically Hip 'Cuz I Watch Five TVs has now morphed into Miss Get Off My Lawn You Damned Tech Addicts?
(Of course, the dig at Sontag likely had other roots. Poor widdle Cammie apparently never got over Big Bad Susan's snubbing her shallow, self-absorbed, self-promoting ass at a party in 1973: http://www.arlindo-correia.com/susan_sontag.html)
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On Real America: Tom Emmer, Minnesota's Last Sovereign Individual
Sad, isn't it? But then, considering that at least two of the four local TV stations (FOX and KSTP) are GOP cheerleaders (http://minnesotaindependent.com/8006/kstps-rare-endorsement-of-rnc-cops-came-from-top-gop-donor-station-owner), as is at least one of the daily papers (Pioneer Press, though the Strib's editor, D.J. Tice, is a hardcore Republican too), not surprising.
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On Amazon's Warehouse of Sadness and Horribleness
Amazon may seem all touchy-feely on the outside, but these are the same jerks who donate tens of thousands a year to ALEC: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Amazon#Support_for_the_American_Legislative_Exchange_Council