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The McCain campaign has refused to give up Heart’s “Barracuda,” in spite of the Wilson sisters’ very vocal protests, as Sarah Palin’s theme song.
I think this 70’s song suits her much, much better. Maybe someone should give the McCain campaign a head’s up?

Lyrics below the fold, for anybody interested.

(snork!)
Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday said Sen. Barack Obama has ties to a Columbia University professor who she said is “a former spokesperson for the Palestinian Liberation Organization.” Palin said her assertion “is not negative campaigning to call someone out on their record.”
“It seems that there is yet another radical professor from [...]

As I mentioned in comments, I actually stopped watching the veep debate in favor of old episodes of the Muppet Show. I know, cheap escapism, but it sure felt good.
So, afterward I brought myself up to speed by reading Dennis Perrin’s debate transcript, and now I feel very enlightened.
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IFILL: We’ll stay with you, Governor. What [...]

Seriously, I can’t improve on it. It’s pretty much a complete list of all the talking points I hit when I was venting to my boyfriend last night about Teh Palin, except it’s way better written. Check it out.

Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin…responding to a question about how oil obtained from offshore drilling can be kept in the country instead of sold on the world market, with an answer CNN’s Wolf Blitzer characterized as “not exactly easy to understand:”*
“Oil and coal? Of course, it’s a fungible commodity and they don’t flag, you [...]

It’s hard, though. I think it’s because she’s a woman and it just makes my teeth hurt when a woman pops up on the national stage and acts like a power-hungry hypocritical dingbat. Now, that’s reverse sexism–so she’s a female Huckabee! Why don’t I cringe as miserably from his existence? Clearly [...]

You know, people in other countries watch this shit and so do total misogynists. Then again, why worry about what people in other countries think about America’s choices for Supreme Leadership of our country? After eight years of Dubya, how could their opinion of our intelligence fall any further? And misogynists are [...]

In a statement posted today on the EW.com Web site, the Wilsons wrote:
“Sarah Palin’s views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women. We ask that our song ‘Barracuda’ no longer be used to promote her image. The song ‘Barracuda’ was written in the late ’70s as a scathing rant against the soulless, [...]

Via.

I’ve always had a soft spot for Gloria Steinem. She is more of my grandmother’s generation than my mother’s, but when I was growing up surrounded by issues of Ms. Magazine, the cover pictures of Gloria reminded me so much of my mom–tall and slender with long, straight blonde hair and glasses–when I was [...]