Is It A Palin Truth Squad? .... Ya Betch'Ya!

Well, it may be that those salad days of shopping, slaughtering turkeys, and inspiring strangers to give a "Thank You" shout out, will be looked at as "the good days".

News comes The Land of the Midnight Sun that Mommy Moose will be getting a look-over that doesn’t send starbursts through the screen.

Mudflats has it in a most creative post today;

Alaska Needs Your Help! In Which I Explain That the Creature from the Black Lagoon is a Good Guy

The boaters realize with growing dismay that the crowd that has gathered on the shore has not come to help them fight off the beast. They are actually cheering for the creature who has boarded the boat! What can this mean?! Why do they hate us?! Quick, offer this thing a sandwiche or something!

But neither the creature, nor the townsfolk on the shore will be deterred. The creature has made itself quite comfortable on the boat, and is now sitting, and has actually begun to row the boat ashore (Hallelujah!) with the intent of delivering the trembling crew right into the middle of the mob of agitated townsfolk….

It’s amazing what can be brought to life with some good old fashioned community organizing. What all this means is that Alaskans for Truth is now an official Political Action Committee, registered with the Alaska Public Offices Commission. And they have issued a call to action.

And what would this "Call to Action be?

Rather than to try to figure out how to get our creature to pull something out of his non-existant pocket, and read an eloquent call to action, I’ll just give you a link to the Alaskans for Truth website, which spells it all out. What do they want?

1. Censure of the Governor for violating the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.
2. Penalties for the state employees and Todd Palin who ignored subpoenas.
3. Hold hearings on whether Governor Palin and her husband committed perjury in their sworn statement to Timothy Petumenos.
4. An independent investigation into Attorney General Talis Colberg’s alleged witness tampering in the Troopergate investigation.

Hmmm ... Sounds a lot different than the Palin Truth Squad we wrote about, wondering if they got per diems too, and, flashing that big, giant "P" in the sky, whenever someone told the truth about Mommy Moose.

Ahhh , but that was the dwarfs, finks, phonies and frauds Palin Truth Squad.

Here's to the Alaskans for Truth, and their success, so that we can have a quieter 2012, leaving only the other Republican nitwits to fight it out.

Oh yeah, one tip;

Ask about her new house....

And Now For Something Completely Different ... Michael Palin for President?

H/T to Will Bunch, over on Attytood, for this;

Michael Palin for President



Considering the Stumblin' Bumblin' McCain camp got confused when he first announced Mommy Moose, I suppose it could be reasonable there's a measurable number of people out there that believe Monty Python is looking to take over the White House.

On another point, how eerily similar is the classic Python "Argument" routine mirroring the McCain crew these days?

Monty Python Argument Sketch




Bonus Stumblin' Bumblin' Johnny and Mommy Moose Riffs

Why Do You Think We've Been Calling Him "Stumblin' and Bumblin"?

How Little We Know ...

"I shot a moose once ..."

We Told You He Was Just Like Bob Dole

How Little We Know ...

Boy, that Palin Truth Squad, as we alluded to last evening, sure has its' creepy, spidery fingers, and hands, full today.

Since the Stumblin' Bumblin' McCain Campaign has left it up to the media to vet Mommy Mayor Moose, Vice President, Sarah "I'm not really a Vice-Presidential candidate, I just play one on the campaign trail" Palin, vet, indeed is what is being done.

Along with the NYT, The Washington Post rings in today with "As Mayor of Wasilla, Palin Cut Own Duties, Left Trail of Bad Blood", and we get more of the fractured picture of the Wasilla Whiz Kid;

But a visit to this former mining supply post 40 miles north of Anchorage shows the extent to which Palin's mayoralty was also defined by what it did not include. The universe of the mayor of Wasilla is sharply circumscribed even by the standards of small towns, which limited Palin's exposure to issues such as health care, social services, the environment and education.

Palin limited her duties further by hiring a deputy administrator to handle much of the town's day-to-day management. Her top achievement as mayor was the construction of an ice rink, a project that landed in the courts and cost the city more than expected.

Arriving in office, Palin herself played down the demands of the job in response to residents who worried that her move to oust veteran officials would leave the town in the lurch. "It's not rocket science," Palin said, according to the town newspaper, the Frontiersman. "It's $6 million and 53 employees."

Along with this, Maureen Dowd weighs in, with her excursion to Alaska, with "Bering Straight Talk", offering "I’ve been in Alaska only a week, but I’m already feeling ever so much smarter about Russia", putting her, nearly on par with the former Mayor, who, when asked by Charlie Gibson the other evening, about her insight to Russian Foreign Policy, with great perk, shot back instantly “They’re our next-door neighbors. And you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska.”

OOOO-Kayyyyyyyyyy!

And, with a little icing, Frank Rich comes running in with his "The Palin-Whatshisname Ticket".

It’s an urgent matter, because if we’ve learned anything from the G.O.P. convention and its aftermath, it’s that the 2008 edition of John McCain is too weak to serve as America’s chief executive. This unmentionable truth, more than race, is now the real elephant in the room of this election.

No longer able to remember his principles any better than he can distinguish between Sunnis and Shia, McCain stands revealed as a guy who can be easily rolled by anyone who sells him a plan for “victory,” whether in Iraq or in Michigan. A McCain victory on Election Day will usher in a Palin presidency, with McCain serving as a transitional front man, an even weaker Bush to her Cheney.

So, as the Stumblin' Bumblin McCain Campaign sifts through the damage, maybe they will be singing, or humming, this tune.

Lauren Bacall: To Have and Have Not "How Little We Know"




Bonus Moose Droppings

Taegan Goddard: Palin's Limited Duties as Mayor

Sadly No: An absolute menace

Marty Lederman: Angler and Barracuda

Brilliant at Breakfast: New York Times to America: Wake the hell up!

Steve Benen: WORSE THAN BUSH...

Well, I Guess It Rules Out On-Line Gambling Too ...

Enormous Searchlight Burning That Gigantic "P" Tonight

Well, it won't be lox and bagels, or a nice, leisurely brunch for the Palin Truth Squad tomorrow.

Nosireebob ... Likely, they'll be churning for days after this.

So, oil up your Lie-O-Meters, as the PT Squad will have to come out with gatling guns, just to catch up and attempt to be in the game on this one (and, of course, they'll get to claim their per diems).

The "this" we refer to is an in-depth profile of the person Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain chased to the gates of the Arctic Circle, Mommy Mayor Moose, Sarah "I'm not really a Vice-Presidential candidate, I just play one on the campaign trail" Palin by the New York Times, and it ain't pretty.

Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes

Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.

So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency.

Ms. Havemeister was one of at least five schoolmates Ms. Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages.

When Ms. Palin had to cut her first state budget, she avoided the legion of frustrated legislators and mayors. Instead, she huddled with her budget director and her husband, Todd, an oil field worker who is not a state employee, and vetoed millions of dollars of legislative projects.

And four months ago, a Wasilla blogger, Sherry Whitstine, who chronicles the governor’s career with an astringent eye, answered her phone to hear an assistant to the governor on the line, she said.

“You should be ashamed!” Ivy Frye, the assistant, told her. “Stop blogging. Stop blogging right now!”

That's just for openers.

How's this;

In Wasilla, a builder said he complained to Mayor Palin when the city attorney put a stop-work order on his housing project. She responded, he said, by engineering the attorney’s firing.

It's as if the West Wing of the Bush Grindhouse was located up there in Alaska.

Monica Goodling wouldn't last a day in a Palin Administration, she'd be viewed as too soft.

There's more;

But an examination of her swift rise and record as mayor of Wasilla and then governor finds that her visceral style and penchant for attacking critics — she sometimes calls local opponents “haters” — contrasts with her carefully crafted public image.

Throughout her political career, she has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and sometimes blurred the line between government and personal grievance, according to a review of public records and interviews with 60 Republican and Democratic legislators and local officials.

Interviews show that Ms. Palin runs an administration that puts a premium on loyalty and secrecy. The governor and her top officials sometimes use personal e-mail accounts for state business; dozens of e-mail messages obtained by The New York Times show that her staff members studied whether that could allow them to circumvent subpoenas seeking public records.

Now, I can just imagine the reaction from the Right Wing Freak Show.

It will be along the lines of "Yeah, so ..." ... And, "What's the big deal?"

More level minds see the Second Coming of Junior.

Anonymous Liberal, in his "Bush with Lipstick;

It really is remarkable. In an attempt to distance himself from the Bush Administration, John McCain scoured the country in search of a running mate and eventually chose, from all appearances, the one politician who most closely resembles George W. Bush. God help us if this person ever becomes president.

Andrew Sullivan;

Does that not seem eerily reminiscent of George W. Bush's appointment of Michael Brown to FEMA? Cronyism, debt, lies, religious fanaticism, and utter ignorance about foreign policy. You want another four years of Bush? McCain-Palin is the ticket

Politico offers "To put it more bluntly, the piece portrays Palin as, in the words of a friend, the Rudy Giuliani of the Last Frontier."

Jesse Taylor, from Pandagon;

The entire article’s a must read, but do so replacing “Palin” with “Bush” and see if it strikes you as a redux of the past eight years. Plus, there’s something really disturbing about someone who keeps appointing their high school classmates to things - there’s a level of corruption I think we’ll all agree is indicative of a certain level of competence at the evil thing. Putting Wasilla High’s Class of ‘82 in charge of a state is something out of a shitty dark comedy.

This piece coming, after the two-week-plus "Prevaricationpalooza" from Stumblin' Bumblin' Johnny, and Whiz Kid from Wasilla, makes the McCain-Palin ticket play like the last few minutes of 'The Invasion of the Body Snatchers', with Kevin McCarthy hysterically screaming, as he runs along the highway "They're here already! You're next! You're next, You're next...!"

Go out and read Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes

And be afraid ... Very afraid ...

Does The Palin Truth Squad Get Per Diems Too?

Do they have uniforms?

Superpowers?

Does the Stumblin' Bumblin John McCain Campaign, ala Batman, have a enormous searchlight that burns a gigantic "P" in the sky, the moment they're needed?

Are they hampered (that is, if they have uniforms) by the lack of public telephone booths from getting to the scene of the needed smear or exploitation?

Will they, as the person they will be welding lies and smears for, be able to claim Per Diems during their work?

The Palin Truth Squad?

WTF?

For a moment, I thought this was some internal mechanism, signaling that Stumblin' Bumblin' Johnny was throwing out a Mea Culpa, and promising to launch what he promised months ago, that being running an "honorable campaign".

Starting with putting a muzzle on Mommy Moose, and her fabricated, phony bold stance on saying "No" to the Bridge from Nowhere (you know, the dreck she's been repeating every day, for the past 10-days; Christ, even the Murdoch Street Journal slapped them down on this).



But, Noooooooo!

The Rove Rats are setting up a propaganda arm, a Ministry of Information, a Rapid Smear Response Team

It's all here, and it gives the list of who these people are

So, let's give'em a hand.

I will defer to someone else, with graphic art abilities, to design an appropriate uniform for the gaggle of prevaricators.

Maybe, we can officially roll them out with this;

Faster than a speeding smear,
More powerful than a pig with lipstick,
Able to heap tall lies in a single call,
Look, up in the sky!
It's a bird!
It's a plane!
It's the Palin Truth Squad!

Yes. It's the Palin Truth Squad, strange visitors from another political party, who came to the campaign with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men.

The Palin Truth Squad, who can change the course of media content, bend truth with their bare hands, and who, disguised as McCain-Palin surrogates, mild mannered supporters for a great swiftboating cause, fights a never-ending battle for non-truth, injustice and the Republican Party way.

Hmmm ... That may be giving them too much respect.

Afterall, Superman is the King, and he wouldn't have put up with their nonsense for very long.

Wait a minute ...

I got it ...

And this will keep it in the species that it belongs.

Mighty Mouse!

Mr. Honesty never hangs around,
when he hears this Mighty sound,
Here we come to save the day!
That means the Palin True Squad is on the way!
Yes sir, when there is a wrong to right,
The Palin Truth Squad will join the fight!
On the sea or on the land,
They've got the lipstick well in hand!

So though she is in danger
We never despair
Cause we know that where there's danger
The Palin Truth Squad is there!
The Palin Truth Squad is there!
On the campaign!
On the stump!
In Alaska!
We're not worryin' at all
We're just listenin' for her call
"Here we come to save the day!"
That means the Palin True Squad is on the way!

(Need help with the tune - go here and sing along)

If it wasn't obvious by now, it's crystal clear that the Rove Rats are firmly in control of Stumblin' Bumblin' Johnny, and what's going down this week will seem like a day-on-the-beach before we see what else they (and the Palin Truth Squad) throw in the road, right up to the minute the polls close on November 4th.


Bonus McCain-Palin Sold Souls Links

Glenn Greenwald: New heights of stupidity

Media Matters - Halperin: Media attention to "lipstick on a pig" comment "playing into the McCain campaign's crocodile tears"

Bertrand Russell: The Great Unmentionable

No More Mister Nice Blog: SCREW 'EM -- HAVE SOME FUN WITH "LIPSTICK"

Tom Tomorrow - Tonight: The latest stupid campaign season distraction that we in the media keep talking about!

Margaret Talev | McClatchy Newspapers: Out of bounds! McCain misstates Obama sex-ed record

Hilzoy: OMG Teh Cub Scouts!

The Boston Globe: McCain launches Palin 'truth squad'

The Raw Story: Republicans launch 'Palin Truth Squad' to defend McCain VP pick's record


Bonus Bonus

1950s "Superman" TV Show - Original Kellogg's Opening!!




Andy Kaufman - Mighty Mouse