Now that the election is over, Newsweek is at liberity to reveal all the juicy gossip it’s been saving up throughout the campaign. Here are a few nuggets:
- $150,000 is actually a low estimate for the amount Sarah Palin spent on her wardrobe.
- The Secret Service found “a sharp and disturbing increase in threats to Obama in September and early October” after vitrolic Palin rallies.
- McCain’s advisers decided not to tell him the campaign was over before his last debate.
- Palin brought up Obama’s relationship with William Ayers without McCain’s approval.
- McCain set the following boundaries: “no Jeremiah Wright; no attacking Michelle Obama; no attacking Obama for not serving in the military.”
- Obama didn’t choose Hillary Clinton because of her husband. This relieved McCain.
- Hillary Clinton and John McCain are friends who do shots together.
- Before her RNC speech, Sarah Palin greeted campaign advisors wearing only a towel.
Governor Sarah Palin was pranked by a Montreal comedy duo claiming to be the president of France. Read more…
So this “GOP spending $150,000 on Palin family wardrobe” thing seems to be pretty good fodder. But it’s possible it’s more serious than that. In 2002, a Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act was passed that basically set some limits on how much parties could spend on campaigns. This reform also referred to unregulated contributions and “soft money,” being money that does not directly attribute to the election of a candidate or their campaign. The ironic thing to notice here is that this reform is the McCain-Feingold reform, as John McCain was one of its pioneers. So, it is arguable to say that McCain broke his own law. I’m no lawyer, so I can’t say whether that’s true, but check out the specifics of that reform here.
These guys do all the work for me - Brian Williams and Chuck Todd discuss McCain-Palin interview:
So the Bible says “Love thy neighbor.” And obviously this woman has taken that to mean, “Love thy neighbor - unless they go to the wrong kind of Christian church, have an atheist mother, are named ‘Obama,’ are part Muslim, or don’t vote according to which candidate is most faith-oriented.” Hypocrisy at its finest, folks.
In an obvious case of liberal elite media bias, Governor Palin is asked what a US vice president does:
TRANSLATION: “Double talk, double talk, double talk… I’m not really sure. Maverick.”
As I understand it, a VP is also the President of the Senate, which means little more than they have the ability to break a tie vote. Read more…
Yes, you will get clobbered for answering questions wrong. And yes, you will get clobbered for just NOT answering questions. But it is not the media’s job to make things easy for politicians. The debate is the forum where you talk about your ticket and rail on Obama. Leave it to FOX News to allow her the soapbox. And if I hear the words “media elite,” or “Washington elite,” again, I swear…
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