I just realized McCain's choice of Palin is meant to curb Biden's Bidenness

[bunny planet]

in the VP debate. Conservatives independents won't want to see a guy lord it over a woman with his usual hard hitting style. If he's condescending and aggressive, they'll pull a Mrs. Alito crying bs move. Just a thought. I'm at a loss to understand this nomination except for the Big Oil connection or considering that they actually want to lose and plan on roaring back in four years.

[Berry Cool]

1. Yeah, they can play the "How dare he pick on a GIRL" card. Sheesh.

Waaaaah! It'll be worse than when Hillary did it!

This was a desperate grab to wrest the news cycle away from Obama and his convention and his speech and his success by picking a name that would shock people and would force the media to preoccupy themselves grabbing for any information they could find on this cypher. If he'd picked one of the well-known shortlisted names, not only would it have generated little flurry in the media, it would have left them able to kick back in their recliners and comment on a relatively known element and relatively rehearsed themes: So, how's he going to share the ticket with someone he hates as much as Romney? Is Lieberman going to play Edgar Bergen to his Charlie McCarthy? Etc. Would have been a fairly easy news day, all things considered, and there still would have been time to say "How about that Obama, huh?"

This pick left little time for that. Everyone had to hurry up and research this woman just to be able to say anything intelligent about her at all. And when you're busy working and researching, you don't have time to stand around and marvel.

[CC]

2. They thought wrong them because Joe

can cut her to shreds with grace and class. He won't have to raise his voice or walk toward her, just give facts and the truth. Now what the media decides to make of it is a whole different thing. Then again they never seem to watch the same debates that I watch when they go over them. Part of why I would rather watch them and things like conventions unfiltered first.
Not griping on Keith Berry but he wasn't alone and just the having someone like Buchanan there spouting off his BS was enough to send me to C-Span.

[Berry Cool]

3. You can do what you like. I need Keith as my filter and my sanity.

True, I have to then deal with Pat Buchanan, but at least I get to see Rachel cut him off at the knees, and that's always a pleasure.

Faux Noise and Rupert's other minions are doing enough of a job trying to whip up a big media story about "Feuding Talking Heads at MSNBC," and how everyone at the entire network is supposedly pissed off at Keith allegedly "running" everything, and how everyone there even hates Rachel now because she is his golden girl and they are tired of her being favored at their expense, and how even Phil Griffin secretly hates Keith and was telling everyone at the convention about it behind Keith's back. Oh yeah, they did a real good job of deciding on how they were going to attempt to destroy Keith and make him look incompetent and not a team player when it came to convention coverage, and it got really good play in the media, too. After all, Rupert Murdoch owns half the news outlets.

The way I see it, Keith doesn't need his own fans running away from him now, too. And he certainly doesn't need any of them referring to his work by the deeply offensive term "an abortion."

OK, so some of you are deep dyed-in-the-wool political junkies, and you can think of nothing better than enjoying the convention the same way you were if there in person--raw and unfiltered. Fine. That's not me, and I think you know it. I want a framework, and I enjoy the frame Keith provides. And I'd just as soon skip any possible boring parts of the convention and come back to the best stuff later. Which, in today's media environment, is eminently doable. (I expect in the coming week, it's going to be a lifesaver.)

Others in the KOEB runs off to C-SPAN if they want to. I''ll stick with Keith.