• February 15, 2012

dnc

Yeah this was just too frickin’ cute, wasn’t it? Perhaps six-year-old kids can be programmed to break out in this kind of daddy-love, in the future, on Mars, but for now, this is kind of awesome. [Gawker]

Depending on your sources & your level of paranoia, either a couple of racist dingbats were arrested around Denver’s trashier motels Monday, or an elaborate plot to assassinate Barack Obama was busted up by clever Colorado cops. In any case, a trio of local losers are now in jail (again), and at least one of [...]

Oh what the hell, it’s starting! Here’s Howard Dean, doing what he’ll do for the next 400 hours: introducing people who will give speeches. Let’s liveblog it for a few minutes!

Press level, Pepsi Center, 2 p.m. “Mountain Time.”

Mmm, happy hour with the RNC and PUMAs. Sign us up. Obviously the RNC cares so much about Hillary voters that, um, they’re not letting any of them in: “Space is limited, and attendees must present both a valid DNCC and press organization credential to gain admittance.” So really… what’s going on here. [RNC]

If there’s one thing Democrats can count on, it’s that New Jersey billionaire Bruce “He’s The Boss” Springsteen will play lots of his songs for the presidential candidate, who will then lose the election. That’s why Republicans are so excited about Springsteen playing a couple of songs at Obama’s Acceptance Concert on Thursday.

So we thought it was kind of funny that the local radio was filled with scary tornado reports instead of welcome messages to the DNC crowd. But it turns out that these tornadoes — far from downtown Denver — are the biggest story of the day! Also, the Democrats sort of caused these liberal death [...]

You wouldn’t know it from our serene Casa Wonkette in Denver’s uptown, but just down Colfax in downtown, the cops are going nuts! There are protesters! People are making statements in a way that is sure to be heard (by the cops).

MILE HIGH CLUB: So, everything’s packed, everybody’s already a wreck, and oh hell there is actually a whole theme thing we’ve neglected, despite the daily DNCC emails. Monday: “One Nation” starring Nancy Pelosi. Tuesday: “Renewing America’s Promise,” starring Hillary. Wednesday: “Securing America’s Future,” starring Joe Biden, with grandstanding appearance by Bill Clinton. Thursday: “Change You [...]

Because we are kind of busy, and WTF Jack Reed?, here is your editor’s basic report on what we’re doing, in Denver and Saint Paul and everywhere between, even though your editor just got diagnosed with the Strep Throat.

There is no way we are going to get to all the stuff we wanted to post before leaving for two terrifying weeks of convention madness, so here is a quick listcicle of some stuff we like that might be helpful to you and to us, the American Heroes.

MOST IMPORTANT POLITICAL STORY OF OUR LIVES: “The website Wonkette might have something to do with the proliferation of hoax messages. At 2:07 p.m. Wednesday, managing editor Ken Layne posted a step-by-step manual from a reader under the headline: Freak Out Your Friends With Fake Obama VP TXT. ‘We are proud to help cause confusion [...]

The DNC has sent us this lovely map of John McCain’s houses and airplanes and gnome slaves. Since they’ve made it terribly unreadable, you may view it full size in right here. But to the point: this is devastating you see! Because most of his properties are “condominiums,” a fancy rich word that the well-to-do [...]

John McCain visited an oil rig today, now that the weather’s cleared up. On this oil rig he talked about, well we don’t know, maybe how he refuses to endorse Congress’ energy bill compromise? And then some DNC mole started handing out this “kit” to reporters on the scene. As you can see, the kit [...]

Guess who still needs your money, for her campaign debt? That’s right, it’s America’s First Lady Hillary Clinton, and the latest stunt comes in the form of an email from Bill, in which he mentions that Reverend Jackson also won South Carolina. Let’s all give Hillary more money and then maybe we’ll win a trip [...]