Country songs

There have got to be at least a hunderd country songs in this sad little dust-up, starting with "Everybody Dies Famous in Wasilla". Unfortunately, they won't be good country songs. Miranda Lambert wouldn't sing this crap, much less write it.

Update: I really have to slap myself about this. Never mind the big media. What the hell are bloggers going to do without fish in a barrel like Sarah Palin? Seriously, it's Friday happy hour and there's nothing analytical to say. What am I going to do without lovely Sarah to kick around any more?

Of course, in a few weeks, she's going to be hosting an hour or two on Fox, making a million dollars a year (and bringing in numbers in the key demographic that make Bill O'Reilly apoplectic with jilted jealousy). They'll have her reenacting the bogus Stars and Stripes bikini pose with the rifle, and the 18 to 54 male share will go, schwing, through the roof. For wingnuts, anyway.

So I guess bloggers won't have to worry for long...

Never their fault

The media is not responsible for any of the intrusive "news" coverage of the Palin-Johnston soap opera. Sarah Palin's press secretary made them cover it.

I note for the record that Newt Gingrich objects to the silly coverage of the Obamas' dog but raises nary a peep about Palin's ex-intended-son-in-law. Yes, he still wants to be President. Being right on the dog story won't help him, but keeping silent on Wasilla Place will.

Is there anyone in big media who's more useless than Howard Kurtz?

Evening of November 4

Levi Johnston admits what was obvious from the start. His relationship to Bristol Palin after knocking her up was a shotgun engagement. Since then, he has washed out of everything he has tried. Now he's the perfect example on all scores of trailer trash. He'll blow all the short money from the paperback deal on crystal meth. At least he got to meet John McCain and stuff!

Truth is Bristol is better off without him - one baby to care for at her age is already too much for her tender years - but she also needs to escape her mother's narcissistic fishbowl.

Update: CNN's comments suggest that a good percentage of the whole world could see through the fraudulent engagement.

Another inspired realization: Wingnuts think we liberals are being over-the-top nasty to them if we merely tell them some truth that they don't want to hear.

Short stories

The fiancé story only has to last two months.