#78!

By GottaLaff

Please indulge us. We're bursting with pride here.

The Political Carnival hasn't been around all that long, well under two years. We have no staff. It's just Paddy and me, and originally, the wonderful Cliff Schecter.

Considering we're just a couple of working girls (sort of... when possible) who have too much passion to keep bottled up and so feel the need to vent here, we're awfully proud of reaching #78 on Wikio's Top 100 Political Blogs.

We're in great company.... for the most part ::coughconservanutscough::

So, on behalf of Paddy and myself:

UPDATE: We're #248 overall! Wowzers!

How remiss am I? Thank YOU for reading and keeping us afloat! Without our amazing readers, we wouldn't exist!

Lindsey Graham: ‘If we’re going to let the bloggers run the country, then the country’s best days are behind us.’

By GottaLaff


Hey! You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?

Now, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is hitting back at the blogs:

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Republicans would fight back hard if Democrats or liberal groups try to make the Supreme Court confirmation process about Sessions’ record, rather than about Obama’s nominee to replace Justice David Souter.

“If people try to go down that road, it’ll blow up in their face, because Jeff is a good guy,” Graham said. “My hope is that our Democratic colleagues — if you start listening to the bloggers — if we’re going to let the bloggers run the country, then the country’s best days are behind us.”

Too late, Lindsey. We rule the world!

VIDEO: Sarah Palin called me a liar, "bored" and "pathetic"

By GottaLaff

Laffy Note: I've added a video--

Dennis Zaki of The Alaska Report offers this newest interview with the question, “What would you want to tell anonymous bloggers.”

Happier times

Grandma McIncoherent, you don't know me at all, yet you've hypocritically labeled me the way you accuse others of labeling you. I'm a blogger, yet little do you know that I'm rarely bored and I don't lie (Hey, it's not like I haven't tried, I've just failed miserably). But that's okay, you have nothing left in your arsenal. I'm here if you need to vent.

As for pathetic, I can safely and proudly say I've never been called that, but, hmmm, let's think real hard... who has? Oh yes! You! Over and over again:

Sarah Palin fired a new salvo in her war on the media, unloading in a new interview on her home state paper and “bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie.”

The Alaska governor, who has granted a steady stream of interviews since Election Day, also told an Esquire reporter that she wishes she had told McCain campaign advisors she’d be “callin’ some of the shots.”

"Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie annoy me….I'll tell you, yesterday the Anchorage Daily News, they called again to ask — double-, triple-, quadruple-check — who is Trig's real mom,” she said, in an interview to be published in the magazine’s March issue.

“And I said, Come on, are you kidding me? We're gonna answer this? Do you not believe me [Laffy Note: No.] or my doctor? And they said, No, it's been quite cryptic the way that my son's birth has been discussed. And I thought, Okay, more indication of continued problems in the world of journalism."

But Palin said she had adopted a philosophical attitude on the downside of the spotlight. "You have to let it go,” she said. “Even hard news sources, credible news sources — the comment about, you can see Russia from Alaska. You can! You can see Russia from Alaska. Something like that — a factual statement that was taken out of context and mocked — what you have to do is let that go."

Where to begin? First off, if letting go is what one "has to do", McIncoherent may want to take her own advice. The contradictory nature of this interview had me laying my head down, pounding my desk with my fist, and laughing until my eyes welled up with tears.

Next: McIncoherent is revealing her Bush III side once again: blaming the media for her own failures, for starters. But, just as Bush's final press conference did nothing to improve his reputation as someone who has utterly no self-awareness (or awareness of anything around him), neither did Grandma's interview.

Oh, and nobody cared much whether or not Russia was visible from Alaska, although her claim did inspire many an amusing YouTube. No, it was her using that visual to tout her foreign policy experience that widened both Democratic and Republican eyes alike.

I won't go on. It would take more effort and space than she's worth.

One more Bushism from the mental equivalent of our soon-to-be former president [sic]:

Despite a season of barbs aimed at the coastal elites, Palin seemed to offer an olive branch to the Big Apple: "I would think we all tear up during the national anthem at the beginning of a baseball game, don't we? That's an alikeness between Alaskans and New Yorkers," she said.

That last Palinism was a perfect example of an embarrassing alikeness between a dippy Alaskan and a faux Texan.

UPDATE-- Even HuckaScout'sHonor slams Palin:

Mike Huckabee (R), a likely Republican presidential candidate in 2012, took a shot at Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), one of his possible rivals, in an Esquire interview.

Said Huckabee: "Now I must say I did not think that either the Charlie Gibson interview or the Katie Couric interviews were unfair. In fact, if anything, Katie Couric was extraordinarily gentle, even helpful. [Palin] just... I don't know what happened. I can't explain it. It was not a good interview. I'm being charitable."

Apparently, GOP Campaign 2012 is in full swing.

UPDATE #2-- Meghan McCain gets her claws out, too. Suh-nap:

"Sarah Palin is the only part of the campaign that I won't comment on publicly."

-- Meghan McCain, daughter of Sen. John McCain, in an interview with Monday Morning Clacker.