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Second Awarding of the Golden McPenis
Balloon Juice —
Move over, Jake Tapper. Mark Halperin has outdone himself today, claiming that the McCain housing gaffe is bad for Obama.
No. Seriously:
For service to the cause, it is with much pride that I award you the Second Golden McPenis, for meritorious service to McCain’s scrotum. Well ...
Hullabaloo — Everything Helps McCain By Batocchio McCain likes to mention himself as part of the "Reagan Revolution," but his greatest legacy from Saint Ronnie may be his Teflon coating. On ABC's This Week, Mark Halperin explained how McCain not knowing how many houses he owned helped... McCain. TPM has the video: A few key lines: HALPERIN: My hunch is this is going to end up being one of the worst moments in the entire campaign for one of the candidates, but it’s Barack Obama... I believe that this has opened the door to not just Tony Rezko in that ad, but to bringing up ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
More from the pundits... Dick Morris: Worried about McCain's embrace of Hillary voters? This will reassure you: I think it's a great idea. See, Hillary head-faked Obama into picking that loser Biden instead of Sibelius. He's doomed, now. Of course, this is the 17th different iteration I've come up with of why he's doomed, but trust me, I'm never wrong. And lest you think Morris is the most asinine pundit pretending to be objective today's Ron Fournier Award Winner out there, we have a double from the champ. Start with a TPM vidclip from This Week with George Stephanopolous, wherein Mark Halperin stuns his co-pundits ...
All news is good news for McCain
Political Animal —
ALL NEWS IS GOOD NEWS FOR MCCAIN.... It's difficult to identify with any real certainty the single worst political analysis of the presidential campaign, but if you missed ABC News' "This Week" yesterday, you missed Time's Mark Halperin offering analysis that was so bizarre, it was tempting to think it was intended as satire. Only in this case, Halperin was serious. For those of you who can't watch clips online, the roundtable discussion turned to the story about John McCain having so many homes, he can't remember how many he currently owns. "My hunch is this is going to end up being one of the worst moments in the entire campaign for one of the candidates, but it's ...
One Pundit’s Stupidity On Full Display
The Democratic Daily —
Forget any thing you ever hear from Mark Halprin. These overwhelmingly stupid remarks stunned even his fellow panelists. His premise? That the McCain house flap will rebound on Barack Obama and create serious damage. Please watch. [H/t to TPM for the original catch and Dkos for posting it on the front page.] ...
Musings Over Morning Coffee
Daily Kos —
What an interesting start to the Democratic convention. While the media obsesses over Hillary Clinton's roll call and Mr. Bill's supposedly bruised ego (both played way out of proportion because, up until last night, there was nothing else to talk about), Ted Kennedy and Michelle Obama each knock the ball out of the ballpark. Meanwhile, the GOP has unity problems and stature problems way beyond that seen in Denver. Brian Williams described John McCain's fixation on Clinton voters as an obsession, and it certainly is. They've launched three separate ineffective ads, only one of which is a real ad buy, and none of which is going to do well with ...
More Good News For John McCain!
Balloon Juice —
Award winning Time columnist Mark Halperin is back in peak condition and cranking out teh stupid:
The entire Republican caucus, we now know, balked anyway. Time’s Mark Halperin, naturally, is blaming Obama. From this morning’s appearance on MSNBC:
“This is a really bad sign for Barack Obama to try to change Washington…. He needs bipartisan solutions. They went for it and they came up with zero…. [This] does not bode well for a future that is supposed to be post-partisan. [...]
“[Obama] could have gone for centrist compromises. You can say to your own party, ‘Sorry, ...
