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Hi. It's Sarah Palin -- Does This Mean I'm Pars'ident Now?

How many of you folks went to bed last night with your head spinning? I'm one of those goddamn news junkies, who spent the entire night in front of one of the various cable shows (Olbermann, Maddow, Cooper, Stewart, Letterman -- you don't get a better night than that). And the entire time, all I could think was: What the fuck is going on, you know?

Actually, around 4:00 yesterday, when I saw that McCain had suspended his campaign, my first thought was: Shit. Bold move, motherfucker. Political as hell, but there's no way Obama can call him on it. We are so fucked. Game. Set. Match. McCain.

Fortunately, I had not given enough credit to the news networks or, from what I can tell, the electorate, almost all of whom saw right the hell through it. The ones that haven't are being cynical, self-denying little bitches. But whatevs.

But the thing is: Even if McCain gets a lot of flak for this, it's probably better than the alternative, which was the brewing scandal over his campaign manager's involvement with Freddie Mac and, worse still, Sarah Palin's embarrassing (oh, God embarrassing) interview with Katie Couric. And this time, no one can clam sexism or elitism. Couric is a woman. And not a terribly bright one, at that.

Anyway, here's some excerpts from that interview, which most of you probably didn't see, since the flurry of other, more important news dominated last night.

To say it was a trainwreck would be a disservice to trainwrecks.

But, my favorite part of the day's news came at the very end of the night. McCain was supposed to appear on Letterman's show last night, but personally called him to cancel, saying he had to race back to Washington. Well, imagine Dave's chagrin when he realized that McCain was a mere three blocks away giving an interview to Couric. This is all the relevant moments from last night's show, and it's fucking great:

Full post as published by Quiz Law on September 25, 2008 (boomark / email).