Former McCain campaign manager: Palin claims 'total fiction'

By GottaLaff

John McCain's former presidential campaign manager Steve Schmidt is calling out Barbie McLipSchmutz. This popular practice is becoming a cottage industry of its own.

Now think back a few months... Remember when B-Lip got punk'd by the Sarkozy impersonator? Via CNN:

"Right away, the phones started ringing," Palin writes. "One of the first calls was Schmidt, and the force of his screaming blew my hair back. 'How can anyone be so stupid?! Why would the president of France call a vice presidential candidate a few days out?!'"

In a telephone conversation with CNN's John King, Schmidt said how he is described and portrayed in the book is "fanciful. [And] total fiction."

In the excerpts, Palin also claims Schmidt tried to put her on a strict eating regimen [...]

"Schmidt started in again, telling Randy what an awful pick I was - the "postpartum" problems, the wardrobe "scandal," "legal exposure" for Todd on Troopergate, whatever he meant by that," Palin writes according to the published excerpts.

Poor Babs.So many people are out to get her. Why would anyone ever do that, considering she's been so inclusive and kind to everyone since she pageant-walked her way into our lives.

This is going to be a long book tour.

VIDEO- The ho truth: ACORN woman punks Obama haters, Fox News

By GottaLaff

Psyche!

ACORN employee Tresa Kaelke is shown meeting with them, telling them that she once was an escort and got away with killing her husband.

But Kaelke insisted Tuesday she made up her story for shock value.

Read the rest here.

And speaking of hookers, His Awkwardness David "I'm into Diapers" Vitter steps into it:

Vitter has introduced a bill that would deny any federal funds to the group, which bills itself as the nation's largest grassroots organization serving low-income and middle-income Americans. [...]

The Louisiana Democratic Party, however, points out a point of potential awkwardness for the senator -- the fake prostitution ring the young conservative journalists at BigGovernment.com talked about, versus the very real ones Vitter was accused of having frequented.

Oh, that. Pfft! Just ignore my past and all those cases of Huggies in the other room.

Vitter, as you may recall, was named by a New Orleans bordello Madame as a client of her prostitutes. In July 2007, Vitter apologized after his telephone number showed up in the phone records of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the alleged DC Madame. [...]

Vitter did not vote on Monday.

“For months, David Vitter has been leading the charge to deny federal money to ACORN, but as soon as the topic of prostitution comes up, he doesn’t even show up to work,” said Louisiana Democratic Party Spokesman Kevin Franck.

Franck suggests, per a press release, that "Vitter may have skipped the vote to avoid calling attention to his own admission that he frequented prostitutes."

Maybe an ACORN employee with a hidden camera should have posed as a prostitute and, if you'll excuse the expression, nailed Vitter, too.

Sidebar: Has anyone on the Tee Vee Machine reported on this yet? I know it's out of fashion to present all the facts, but some of you may be interested to know about...

...the offices that rejected the "pimp and ho" (filmmakers) who were staging this sting, including the office in Philadelphia which called the police. We need the filmmakers to explain why they went with the whole "pimp and ho" angle.

As long as FOX is the only telling this story then we are being misled, we need real journalists, objective reporters who will examine this entire project and tell the whole story.

The ho truth and nothing but the truth.

H/t: AltaKocker and Windy City Watch

If Project 9/12 numbers are bad, it's the Dems' fault

By GottaLaff

Earlier I posted about the Democrats' apparent concern over the supposed huge, enormous, gigantic turnout for ::drum roll:: Project 9/12 ::ECHO echo echo::

However, ClusterFox says that they're just trying to raise expectations. Those wily libruls, always a step ahead. Yes, folks, it's time to play "Blame the Dems!"

Conservatives have seized on this memo as proof Democrats are playing an expectations game.

It's a plot! It's all a big, scary plot, I tell ya!

They say the House leadership wrote the memo in hopes it would be leaked and inflate expectations for the turnout anticipating that it will fall short.

Ya hear that? If the -Ers fail to show in GINORMOUS numbers, it's all our fault!

"It's an old political tactic to get out in front and make wild projections and when they're not met, claim their opponents don't have the juice," said Pete Sepp, a spokesman for the National Taxpayers Union, one of the organizers of the rally.

Sepp said there's only one reason to float a number that high.

"You set the bar at 2 million and anything under it becomes a failure," he said, adding that any event in D.C. that attracts 50,000 is considered a success...."

Ohhh, now, you wait just a minute there, mister. I know what you're doing, yes I do. You're pulling the ol' switcheroo by lowering expectations, right? Right? Boy howdy, you nearly had me going there for a second.

Sly fox...

"...A crowd of 2 million people, he said, "would exceed our wildest dreams."

Is that what Rushpublics dream about? I'm more into white sandy beaches, hammocks, margaritas, and Anthony Weiner.

Even President Obama didn't attract 2 million people to his inauguration, when estimates ranged from 1.2 million to 1.8 million people.

Hey, wouldn't that be rich? Topping Obama's numbers? Wouldn't that be something?

Not gonna happen. Never ever. Project Exploit9/11 will not, shall not, shan't, can't, won't generate Obama-sized crowds. But posting this clever article on Fox News saying it'll never happen and turning the tables on the Dems is so-o-o GOP.

Those scamps.

But Thornell told FOXNews.com that he was not playing an expectations game and that he simply used the numbers cited by organizers.

"I was using their own words and predictions and estimates," he said, explaining his memo was a compilation of statements from different Tea Party Web sites.

Wait, so it was the TeaCynics who raised expectations after all, huh? Now who do we believe, them or the astroturfers who pay them to show up?

Adam Brandon, a spokesman for FreedomWorks, told Politico he expects the crowd to be in the 20,000-30,000 range.

Infighting is so much fun. Can't wait 'til tomorrow! Get out your tally sheets.

Did Hong Kong punk Palin?

By GottaLaff

Previously, I posted about Death Panel Barbie's Big Speaking Engagement at a Hong Kong investment forum. That seemed a little like inviting Glenn Beck to a spelling bee. I had even asked what could have possessed them. I mean, D.P. Barbie being paid the big bucks to speak at such a Very Important and Serious Venue was crazy! Far fetched! Ludicrous!

But wait. What have we here?

Think she'll cancel, claiming she had never committed to the engagement to begin with? At least she has a humiliating track record of unreliability and, well, quitting, to back herself up.

If this is what it appears to be, then I only have one word: Suh-nap!

Remind me to send a thank you note to CLSA.

H/t: Mudflats

Punkin' Palin

By GottaLaff

Mon Dieu, IWRC*... Vous aviez été punk'd!

A Quebec comedy duo notorious for prank calls to celebrities and heads of state has reached Sarah Palin, convincing the Republican vice-presidential nominee she was speaking with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

In the interview, which lasts about six minutes, Ms. Palin and the pranksters discuss politics, pundits, and the dangers of hunting with Vice-President Dick Cheney.

The Masked Avengers, who have a regular show on Montreal radio station CKOI, intend to air the full interview on the eve of the U.S. elections.

This is the same team (Sebastien Trudel and Marc-Antoine Audette ) who prank called Jacques Chirac awhile back.

I bet they know more about the role of the vice president than IWRC does.

*"In What Respect, Charlie?"

UPDATE FROM PADDY-