"It's Like These Guys Take Pride in Being Ignorant"

It would seem that the tread on the tires of Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain's tires are showing pretty bare, getting worn out, but he keeps them turning and turning ...

Yeah, that Obama Energy Policy Tire Gauge was a real winner ...

The more Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain mockingly fires that line out, the more armies of qualified, experienced people come out to, effectively say, that SB John is talking out of his ass

For example, here, via Think Progress;

In a post on the Wonk Room, Charles Territo, the director of communications for the Auto Alliance (which represents Chrysler, Ford, and GM, among others), notes some facts McCain should keep in mind:

• The Department of Energy estimates that 1.2 billion gallons of fuel were wasted in 2005 as a result of driving on under-inflated tires.

• Fuel efficiency is reduced by 1% for every 3 PSI that tires are under-inflated.

• Proper tire inflation can save the equivalent of about 1 tank of gas per year.

• Proper tire inflation also reduces CO2 emissions.

• Experts estimate that 25% of automobiles are running on tires with lower than recommended pressure, because people don’t know how to check their tires or don’t realize that tires naturally lose air over time.

And, yesterday, Barack Obama lined up the Dead Campaign Express for one, right in the kisser.

From Greg Sargent;

"So I told them something simple," Obama said. "I said, 'You know what? You can inflate your tires to the proper levels and that if everybody in America inflated their tires to the proper level, we would actually probably save more oil than all the oil we'd get from John McCain drilling right below his feet there, or wherever he was going to drill.'"...

"So now the Republicans are going around -- this is the kind of thing they do. I don't understand it! They're going around, they're sending like little tire gauges, making fun of this idea as if this is 'Barack Obama's energy plan.'

"Now two points, one, they know they're lying about what my energy plan is, but the other thing is they're making fun of a step that every expert says would absolutely reduce our oil consumption by 3 to 4 percent. It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant."

Here's the video of Obama's smackdown;

Obama Insists Inflating Tires Better Than Oil Drilling



Even Paris Hilton is telling him to put a sock in it;

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It's getting to the point where someone is going to have to walk up on whatever stage Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain happens to be on and just take the microphone away from him, tell him to shut up and go sit down.

Unless, of course, he is filling with pride with being so ignorant.


Bonus McCain Flat Tire Riffs

Anonymous Liberal: Hop on the Pander Express

Skippy, the bush kangaroo: the gop's talking points are tired

The Jed Report: McCain's Austerity Program: Drive Less, Turn Out Lights

John Perr: Purple Heart Band-Aids and Tire Gauges

Steve Benen: Tires vs. light bulbs

Barack Obama's Giant Schlong!

We couldn't really call this a "Retro Garlic", being it has turned around with such lightening speed.

We posted on Saturday "Bob Herbert Calls Out Stumblin' Bumblin John McCain!", where the NYT columnist "kicks Stumblin' Bumblin John McCain's ass today, than knocks his teeth out for mumbling about it."

Herbert (accurately) contends how the Stumblin' Bumblin' McCain Campaign has gone the extremely low road, going racist, playing the race card, especially with the now-infamous Celebrity Ad, featuring white tabloid girls Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.

Perhaps, if we had known, we could have waited, for Herbert came back this morning, on the Morning Joke show, to further pummel McCain, pointing out, in the Celebrity Ad, the use of phallic symbols in the ad, namely the Victory Tower in Berlin, and the Washington Monument.

From Raw Story;

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski talked with New York Times columnist Bob Herbert who has written a column criticising the GOP for exploiting race in politics. Herbert sees a racial component to the recent advertisement from John McCain’s campaign that is critical of Barack Obama’s celebrity appeal. Herbert believes that the McCain campaign included footage of the Victory Tower in Berlin as a phallic symbol in the commercial to exploit negative racial themes.

Here's the video of it;



Hey, like the old adage goes, you lay down with Rove, you wake up with fleas.

And, man, this is only the beginning of August, before the VP picks, before the conventions, and before Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain (assuming he comes out of Minneapolis with the nomination, officially) starts falling behind in the polls by double-digits.

And the day Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain eschews humor, and lets loose with his infamous temper.

Bob Herbert Calls Out Stumblin' Bumblin John McCain!

Make no mistake about it.

Bob Herbert kicks Stumblin' Bumblin John McCain's ass today, than knocks his teeth out for mumbling about it.

In his column, "Running While Black", Herbert eschews the games most of the MSM pundits have been playing all, week, looking at this issue as if there were two sides of it, and calls out the McCain Campaign (and RNC as well) for what they are doing - playing the race issue on Obama, no If, Ands, of Buts about it.

Spare me any more drivel about the high-mindedness of John McCain. You knew something was up back in March when, in his first ad of the general campaign, Mr. McCain had himself touted as “the American president Americans have been waiting for.”

There was nothing subtle about that attempt to position Senator Obama as the Other, a candidate who might technically be American but who remained in some sense foreign, not sufficiently patriotic and certainly not one of us — the “us” being the genuine red-white-and-blue Americans who the ad was aimed at.

Go read "Running While Black" ... It's excellent, and so dead on the money (you know, those dollar bills with the presidents that don't look anything like Barack Obama).


Bonus Riffs

BooMan: Who Got Dealt the Race Card?

John Cole: Bob Herbert Absolutely Nails It

Jill at Brilliant at Breakfast - Saturday Big Blue Smurf Blogging: What They Said

Maha: Playing the Race Card

Creature: Bob Herbert steps up to expose McCain's disgraceful campaign

Melissa McEwan: McCain blows the dog whistle - By linking Barack Obama with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, Republicans tap racist fears of black men and white women

Top Ten Cloves: Interations of New McCain Ad, Before Settling On Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and the Biggest Celebrity In The World

News Item: New McCain Ad Attacks Obama As A "Celebrity"


10. The Biggest Somalian-dressed candidate in the World

9. The Biggest Defeatocrat in the World

8. The Biggest Bitter Person in the World

7. The Biggest Worst Bowler in the World

6. The Biggest Friend of William Ayers in the World

5. The Biggest American with a Muslim name in the World

4. The Biggest Arugula Eater in the World

3. The Biggest Ears in the World

2. The Biggest “Arrogant” Martini Drinking Country Club Member in the World

1. The Biggest Cousin of Dick Cheney in the World


Bonus Stumblin Bumblin McCain Ad Links

Bill Press: John McCain Plays the Race Card

McCain: 'We're Proud of That Commercial'

Wonkette: Hilton Family FURIOUS Over McCain Insulting Paris Hilton

Warren Street: McCain Will Have to Go With Pity Before Too Long

Oliver Willis: McCain’s Britney Moment

Marc Ambinder: Weaver, McCain's Former Strategist, Calls "Celeb" Ad "Childish"

It's Tuesday And It's Still A Cheneypalooza! ... ' A Strong Push From Backstage'

Whew ... So much to wade through today ...

The Tabloid Princess was sprung... Thanks to Chris Matthews, the Coltergeist was on the loose... The CIA is shooting for a 30+year mea culpa and Tony Blair has accepted becoming a gloried bike messenger ...

But shining through and above all this is our Cheneypalooza ... And the new series, started Sunday, by the Washington Post, "Angler - The Cheney Vice Presidency"

Over the next four days, The Washington Post will present an in-depth investigation of the vice presidency of Dick Cheney, the most influential and powerful man ever to hold the office. The stories will examine Cheney's largely hidden and little-understood role in crafting policies for the War on Terror, the economy and the environment.

Today's Installment: A Strong Push From Backstage
With A Bonus: Expanding Authority for No. 2 Spot

It's hard to say, and we'll likely never find out, if the Darth Vader man is upset his super-secret-decoder-ring world is being exposed, or if he's getting a woody, seeing his governmental prowess on display, verifying the, up-to-now, long-running joke, on who was really the President in Bush Grindhouse.

Links

Keith Olbermann's 'The world of Dick Cheney' (Video)

A GOP Plan To Oust Cheney

Is Dennis Kucinich (God Help Us) Right (Seriously, God Help Us)?

Standards of American justice under George W. Bush

The Cheese Stands Alone

"I Am Spartacus" ... The Bush Grindhouse and Cheneypalooza

Red Rover, Red Rover, Send Dickie Right Over ... Its' A Cheneypalooza!

More Cheneypalooza! 'A Different Understanding With the President'

You can go off and watch Larry King fawn all over Paris Hilton, but the fun and festivities continue with our Cheneypalooza, as the Washington Post begins a series today, "Angler - The Cheney Vice Presidency"

Over the next four days, The Washington Post will present an in-depth investigation of the vice presidency of Dick Cheney, the most influential and powerful man ever to hold the office. The stories will examine Cheney's largely hidden and little-understood role in crafting policies for the War on Terror, the economy and the environment.

Today's Installment: 'A Different Understanding With the President'

It appears that contretemps of the Darth Vader man are far from their final throes.

Links

Rahm Emanuel To Cheney: Please Get The Heck Out Of The White House

"I Am Spartacus" ... The Bush Grindhouse and Cheneypalooza

Red Rover, Red Rover, Send Dickie Right Over ... Its' A Cheneypalooza!

Update

A New Cheney-Gonzales Mystery

Update No.2

Yes, well done, indeed, Juan Williams

Kristol Defends Cheney, Williams Says He’s Creating A ‘Secured Undisclosed Bunker Of His Mind’

A Vice President Without Borders, Bordering on Lunacy

Of Talking Head Paloozas ... Ahh, Dennis, I'll Take Has-Been Hosts for $500, Please ... And Wait A Minute, Didn't You Read This Before? ...

Not quite a Herb Caen mimic today, just a few odds-and-ends that popped up, that I haven't had the time, or energy, to develop into something larger ...

Another Missed Opportunity for Talking Head Paloozas

Quite amazing Friday, the blizzard of media coverage, screaming "Breaking News" crawlers and breathless anchors, all over a white woman - who wasn't missing ... Who didn't run away from her wedding ... And nary a man-voice whisper of intrepid celebrity news hound Rita Cosby ...

Undoubtedly, the cable news guys are bemoaning this happened on a Friday ...If it could have come on a Monday, or Tuesday - CHA-CHING! ... A week's worth of programming specials and talking head paloozas ...

Links

MSNBC Cuts Away From Pentagon To Paris

VIDEO COMPILATION: The Assault On Reason, Paris Hilton Edition















Ahh, Dennis, I'll Take Has-Been Hosts for $500, Please ...

I had to do a double-take when I espied these little gems ...

GSN Taps Dennis Miller To Host Grand Slam

GSN Lands Dennis Miller for 'Grand Slam' Game Show

Oh, how the acerbically droll have fallen ...

I mean, Wink Martindale had a smoother career than Miller

From SNL, to CNBC (and working with the chimpanzee, Ellie, as his co-host), Monday Night Football ... The good gigs just keep shedding off him, like some reptilian scales, giving rebirth to new life, in Miller's case, further down the food chain ... He was, prior to the gleaming GSN spotlight, reduced to fawning in front of Bill O'Reilly on the Fox News Network ...

Now he gets to entertain the "Meals-On-Wheels" crowd, along with the contingent of unemployed, shouting in earnest at the gamers on GSN, often not realizing that they are watching a 20-year-old program

Signs that Miller will blow this one (unless they're paying the audience again), will be around the third or fourth taping, when Ellie appears, as his new co-host (or perhaps, auditioning, to take over the spot) ...

This leaves Miller to step down another rung, perhaps joining the late-night infomercial guys selling knives ...

Dennis, can you say "Look at these pearl handles!"?



















Wait A Minute, Didn't You Read This Before? ...

This story popped out at me, leaving me with the haunting feeling, wondering if the mice used in the study felt like "Hey, I've been in this lab before ..."

Origin of Deja Vu Pinpointed

Noted in the article was MIT neuroscientist Susumu Tonegawa, who conducted the study;

As an aging neuroscientist, Tonegawa admitted it’s a typical phenomenon with him. “I do a lot of traveling so I show up in brand new airports, and my brain tells me it’s been here before,” he said. “But the rest of my brain knows better.”