Nutroots picking nits

Apparently, the nutroots are clinging to every half-wit rumor they can these days. the media has given Obama and Biden a complete pass on every misstep while focusing on the minutae of the McCain/Palin ticket.

The latest? Well, McCain and Palin are anti-Semites. Why? Because John McCain was endorsed by that Hagee fellow who has never been part of the McCain campaign or advisor…just a casual acquaintance of McCain’s. And apparently Hagee once said that God was disappointed in the Jews. So McCain must be an anti-Semite. The connection is indisputable. Oh, and Pat Buchanan once complimented Sarah Palin…proof positive.

Oh, and the other day, a former POW who had been imprisoned with McCain supposedly compared an America with Obama at the helm would be like the Holocaust. But is that what he said? Hardly. Some journalist put the words in his mouth. The story from Capitalwire (subscription only);

“All we have to do is open up the history books and look at what the fruits of demagoguery are,” [Colonel Tom] Moe said. “When any individual or group tries to pick up a target of opportunity to blame social problems on … the results can be catastrophic. And you can choose any point in history that you want.”

Asked whether Obama’s statements could cause an event like the Holocaust, Moe responded: “If you like.“

I screen captured the article so readers wouldn’t have to subscribe to Capitolwire;

Col. Moe hardly called it a Holocaust.

Don Surber catches AP nitpicking in Alaska;

Today’s attack is on how many snowmobiles the Palins own:

“In the past two decades, the Palins have owned 43 vehicles, including at least 17 snowmobiles. In 2000, the most recent year for which information is available, there were 33,576 registered snowmobiles for a total of 221,600 Alaskan households, which means the average household did not have even one snowmobile, according to the Division of Motor Vehicles and the U.S. Census Bureau.”

Yes, the Palins gorge on snowmobiles while the poor go hungry. I’m no expert but wouldn’t a champion snowmobiler own snowmobiles? Kinda hard to win a race with a rental, although knowing how cheap I am, I would try.

Imagine that, a family of seven people in Alaska, one of whom races snowmobiles,  over the last twenty years have owned 17 snowmobiles. What a waste of money. Next you’ll tell me they’ve owned 20 snow shovels over the same period. Uppity rich folks with their 20 snow shovels.

The nutroots are also in a tizzie because CNN reported that a “language monitor” determined, somehow, that Biden spoke at an 8th grade level while Palin spoke at a tenth grade level;

The analysis by the Austin, Texas-based Global Language Monitor said Palin, governor of Alaska and the GOP vice presidential nominee, used the passive voice in 8 percent of her sentences, far more than the 5 percent used by the Democratic senator from Delaware.

The analysis noted that the “passive voice can be used to deflect responsibility; Biden used active voice when referring to [Vice President Dick] Cheney and [President] Bush; Palin countered with passive deflections.”

One of the netroots went berserk;

Oh, and there you were, you fancy-pants, elitist, latte-drinkin’ beltway insider, know-nothin’ sillyhead… foolishily thinkin’ that Biden’s reasonably informed, fluid and measured responses were markedly better than the inane gibberish and awkwardly folksy patois of Palin. How remarkably dumb of you.

I guess anyone who thought Biden sounded “reasonably informed” would be surprised that he performed at an 8th grade level.

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