Top Ten Cloves: Reasons McCain Campaign Is Keeping Sarah Palin Away From The Media

News Item: McCain Campaign Plans To Keep Palin Away From The Press

10. She's holding out, for a $300K outfit, just like Cindy's

9. Unlike McCain, her yard isn't big enough to have a barbecue

8. Can't find the spare keys to the Straight Talk Express

7. Afraid she'll take some reporters hunting ... Afterall, when a VP goes hunting ...

6. Waiting for the "community organizer" smear to die down

5. Collecting names from reporters, to throw in a hat, who will be the first to bring her a box of donuts

4. Palin needs to clean up all the Earmark paperwork before she let's reporters in

3. Hasn't stonewalled or buried the Troopergate thing yet

2. Discovered she spells certain words just like Dan Quayle

1. Hockey Mom thing is too real - Staff thinks she smells like a locker room


Bonus McCain-Palin Flying Circus Riffs

EmptyWheel: “Holed Up”

Joe Sudbay: Sarah Palin is taking a "Timeout" -- to begin "the education of Sarah Palin"

Steve Benen: TIME FOR A CRASH COURSE...

Matthew DeLong: Palin to Talk To Voters, Not Media

BooMan: The Phantom Candidate

The 1,001 Points of Light

"I shot a moose once ..."

Well, it was Labor Day today, and despite the promise of this traditional day signaling the end-of summer being one of leisure, it was anything but that on the homefront.

So, we give in to the haunting refrain of "I shot a moose once ..."

That has been ringing in my ears, since mid-afternoon Friday, when Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain chased his selection for vice president to the gates of the Arctic Circle, and all-but carried Sarah "Midnight Sun" Palin into Dayton, Ohio on a dog-pulled sled.

As we soon learned what the live-action-Marlin-Perkins-film the Governor of Alaska was ...

Snowmobiles ... Fishing ... Camping .... Hunting ...

And moose, as in moose burgers and moose stew.

Therefore, we go with a "Moose" post this evening, and kick it off with the aforementioned "I shot a moose once ..."

The Moose - Woody Allen




It's almost a shame, that the Bull Moose Party wasn't still around, that may have been mighty tempting to Midnight Sun (since she did have, at one time, an interest in another party).

But we digress ...

We came here to talk "moose" and "moose it will be, as in, after looking around, we did find some rather interesting "moose" links you may want to check out.

Sarah Palin Totally Eats ‘Moose Burger’

Alaska's Governor Is Tough, Young — and a Woman

Gov.Sarah Palin Moose Recipes Society

Sarah Palin’s Favorite Food is Moose

Sarah Palin And The 3am Moose Call

Five Things You Didn't Know About Sarah Palin

10 Things You Didn't Know About Sarah Palin

And, we would be remiss, not to pay homage to our all-time favorite moose, none other than Bullwinkle J. Moose, from the old Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.























To bad that wasn't still around ...

Fractured Fairy Tales would likely have a bonanza-of-a-field-day with Stumblin' Bumblin' Johnny and Midnight Sun.