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Labels: Celebrity Culture, Heidi Montag, Political Spin, Spencer Pratt, The Hills

At least that's how folks would warn him if this were a horror flick at a black movie theater, rather than the desperate death throes of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. (Or so I'm told.)

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Labels: barack obama, Hillary Clinton, Political Spin

This is Laura Bush.



This is the woman who will play Laura Bush in the Oliver Stone version of Dubya's life, which begins filming this spring.



Any questions?

[Story here. And no, I wouldn't dream of a Photochop with Laura's head on Elizabeth's body. Just too weird.]

Labels: Elizabeth Banks, Laura Bush, Political Spin

And he oughta know...



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Labels: Jews, John McCain, Political Spin, presidential race, religion

That's right ... check out the No. 1 result when you enter the name of the right-wing pun-ditz in Google.

We encourage Malkin lovers and Malkin haters alike to come together as one at our little forum for political, celebrity and marketing snark, Spin Thicket.

Labels: Michelle Malkin, Political Spin

Labels: Ashley Alexandra Dupre, Eliot Spitzer, Elliot Spitzer, Kristen, Political Spin

Fearless political prediction, from deep in the heart of Texas....


[Image from IPW.]

Labels: barack obama, Hillary Clinton, Political Spin

The GOP's wheels keep on turning
Wanna get rid of Gov. Siegelman
If they sing some songs about the Southland
Maybe we'll forget they lied again
And they know it's a sin, yes

Well I heard Mr. Rove set up Gov. Don
Karl got him sent to the Big House
I hope Karl Rove will remember
He put Forrest Gump in the White House

Sweet home Siegelman
In prison got the Oakdale Detention Center blues
Sweet Home Siegelman
Lord, what's a good Alabaman to do?

In Birmingham we loved the governor
But Karl Rove's a tricky SOB
He fooled us with trumped-up charges
Now Karl does your conscience bother you?
Tell the truth

Sweet home Siegelman
Poor fellow's got the prison blues
Sweet Home Siegelman
Lord, what's a good American to do?
Here we come Don

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Labels: Don Siegelman, Karl Rove, Political Spin

For Presidents Day:

Rush Limbaugh and the right-wing talk radio crowd have been doing a lot of talking lately about who is, and isn't, a "conservative." It's not an unimportant argument, because how the word "conservative" is defined impacts how words like "moderate" and "liberal" are defined as well.

Were this the 1964 presidential campaign, John McCain would have been considered to the right of Barry Goldwater on many issues. Goldwater was considered a right-wing extremist at the time; Limbaugh and his ilk are working very hard to position McCain as a "moderate."

What would that make Goldwater today? Certainly he was no fan of the religious right. And specifically, he was pro-choice. Those facts alone would prevent him from achieving the "conservative" imprimatur in today's politics.

Limbaugh lays out his requirements this way:

I don't want to have somebody who is pro-choice called a conservative. I don't want to have somebody who is for tax increases, income tax increases, or opposes, more importantly, tax cuts, called a conservative. I don't want to have anybody who stands in the way of individuals prospering on their own, triumphing on their own, called conservative.

Labels: Political Spin, Rush Limbaugh

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Labels: barack obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Political Spin

Labels: barack obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Political Spin, Super Tuesday

A crazed Vietnam vet. A bunch of sissy right-wing pundits who wouldn't know real combat if it blew their last limb off.

God have mercy ... because John McCain Rambo won't.







Who says he's too old to still kick some ass?

Labels: Hugh Hewitt, John McCain, Michelle Malkin, Political Spin, rambo, Rush Limbaugh

You can decide which side is pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-gay marriage, and pro-Iraq withdrawal timetable -- and which side is anti-abortion, pro-NRA, anti-gay marriage and stay the course in Iraq. It doesn't really matter, does it?

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Labels: flipfloppers, Mitt Romney, Political Spin

He thought they looked a little suspicious.



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Labels: Political Spin, Rudy Giuliani

... and back into space.



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Labels: 2008, Dennis Kucinich, Political Spin, presidential campaign

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Labels: Fred Thompson, Miley Cyrus, Political Spin

We're sure he's tired of telling people his favorite show was Friends and that he loves Carrie Underwood.

Labels: barack obama, Iowa, Political Spin

Labels: Iowa, Mike Huckabee, Political Spin

Why does Mike Huckabee think he's surging in the polls? Quote:

There's only one explanation for it, and it's not a human one. It's the same power that helped a little boy with two fish and five loaves feed a crowd of five thousand people.

Labels: Mike Huckabee, Political Spin

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Labels: creationism, evolution, Mike Huckabee, Political Spin

John F. Kennedy allayed fears about a Catholic becoming president with this famous address in 1960. Now, Mitt Romney has announced that he will make a similar speech about his Mormon faith.

Unfortunately, Mitt can't use JFK's script. Kennedy's speech played to the traditional American value of religious tolerance -- whereas Romney must win over a party with a vocal minority that prides itself on its religious intolerance. In fact, he has famously flip-flopped on issues like abortion rights and gay marriage to appeal to this minority.

So, what to say? Maybe he should take a cue from Jon Voight's intolerant rants in the execrable, Mormon-bashing September Dawn. He just needs to skip the part about killing "Gentiles" and focus his wrath on those who "believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute."

People like JFK. That will appeal to the minority he's determined to court all too well.

Labels: Catholic, JFK, Kennedy, Mitt Romney, Mormonism, Political Spin

That guy needs SOOO much attention.

Labels: Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, hostage, Political Spin

A Sudanese judge has sentenced British teacher Gillian Gibbons to 15 days behind bars, followed by deportation, for inciting religious hatred. Her crime? She allowed her students to name a teddy bear after the prophet Mohammed.

Thank God we don't live there.

Labels: anna nicole smith, Dick Cheney, Jesus Christ, Kim Kardashian, Mohammed, Osama Bin Laden, Political Spin, teddy bear

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Labels: Fred Thompson, Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus, Political Spin

(A chop of a Photochop by TNOYF.)

Labels: Dick Cheney, Political Spin, Thanksgiving

According to the London Times, Romney has been the subject of a nasty telemarketing campaign similar to the one that Bush used against McCain in the 2000 Republican primary race. The telemarketers have been making outrageous claims about Romney's religious beliefs.

Media Orchard has exclusively obtained the transcript of one of these slanderous phone calls.

Anti-Romney telemarketer: Sir, as you consider your vote in the upcoming primary, I would like to remind you that one candidate, Mitt Romney, believes that, in 1827, an angel named Moroni gave a New York man a set of engraved golden plates, bound into a book and buried in a magic box. And that this magic box was found on a hill in Manchester, New York. And that the golden plates were engraved by a pre-Columbian prophet-historian named Mormon and his son Moroni (the angel), circa 400 AD. And that these plates represent the foundation of Romney's belief system. And that this man, with these beliefs, wants to be your president.

Prospective primary voter: That's outrageous!

Oh, wait -- that IS what Mormons believe.

And we're worried about Kucinich seeing a UFO?

Labels: Dennis Kucinich, LDS, Mitt Romney, Mormons, Political Spin, religion, UFOs

Great messenger you picked, Dems.

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Labels: Dennis Kucinich, Dick Cheney, Impeachment, Political Spin

Ever since Jimmy Carter "lusted in his heart" in the pages of Playboy in 1976, presidential candidates have been hesitant to don the bunny ears. Until now. You go, Bill.

[Story, from the Tribune Company's great political blog, The Swamp.]

Labels: 2008, Bill Richardson, Political Spin, presidential race

Great quote. But does it go with this story -- or this one?

Labels: Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Political Spin, Terrorism

We think the chart must have been upside down or something.

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Labels: Karen Hughes, Political Spin, public diplomacy

And they favor it, too.

Say what you will about the White House. It may not be good at a lot of things -- but its performance on the war drums is hypnotizing.

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Labels: George W. Bush, Iran, Political Spin, Zogby

Labels: Candyland, Iraq, Political Spin, war

The president was said to be "amused".

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Labels: George W. Bush, Iraq War, Pete Stark, Political Spin