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THE PLANK OCTOBER 30, 2008

"my Chats With Bill Kristol Were Never Like This"

You know how Pandas bred in captivity tend to fare poorly when they're released into the wild? Well, watch this video of Weekly Standard alum--and current McCain campaign spokesman--Michael Goldfarb being interviewed by CNN and see if you don't recognize any similarities:

I guess you could say the 2008 presidential campaign is Goldfarb's first hard winter. Maybe after November 4 he can go back to the safety of the nest.

P.S. I'm assuming the name Goldfarb refuses to say is Jeremiah Wright's. It almost makes you feel sorry for him: Yes, he was able to get his candidate to endorse his wild goose chase for the LAT's Obama-Khalidi video, but he couldn't get him to sign off on playing the Wright card.

--Jason Zengerle

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I'm assuming he has nothing and was just bullshitting.  I personally want to interview him, "You and I know Michael, that John McCain had a gay S&M relationship with you know who.  I'm not gonna name names, but you and I sure as hell know who he is, don't we.  Wink, wink, nudge nudge, know what I mean?"

- icarusr

October 30, 2008 at 4:39pm

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we all know which campaign regrets him appearing on cnn. though he's got chutzpah for so brazenly ignoring rick's quesion.

- bnwatson

October 30, 2008 at 4:43pm

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That's pretty bad.  I'll bet the Wright reference was only caught by people who are already really involved with the election and were firmly in one camp or the other and will just be further inflamed by it, and this guy just looked like he was bluffing to anyone who hasn't been following the election that closely.

- Simon Greenwood

October 30, 2008 at 4:47pm

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The whole time Goldfarb was stalling I was hoping Rick woulda just said "Mike, grow a pair and just say it already!"

What a complete waste of space Goldfarb is. He even used the "pals around with" line. Hilarious.

- MichLib

October 30, 2008 at 4:48pm

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Wait, since when is Jeremiah Wright anti-Semitic?  He's been accused of being anti-American, but anti-Semitic?

- FWright

October 30, 2008 at 4:49pm

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wow, bought time the hard questions where asked and if not answered, asked again.

- moldndecay

October 30, 2008 at 4:55pm

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Pandas also have a lot of trouble breeding.

- miceelf

October 30, 2008 at 4:56pm

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I fail to see what John McCain's gay S&M relationship with Rev. Wright has to do with the economy, two wars, climate change, or our dependency on foreign oil.

Look, a lot can happen to a guy's mind when he undergoes what McCain suffered as a POW. Dragging the result into this discussion, or for that matter the sham marriage to a coke addict, or his "friend" in Tehran, or the ritualistic cancer "cure" last year in Manila, or the Cheney/Murdoch connection, or those "donors" registered in Bermuda, or that unfortunate tirade that ended badly for the puppy--it's nothing more than circumstantial hearsay that has nothing to do with mature political discourse, let alone the challenges currently facing our nation.

Far be it from me to bring up any of the above in some cheap ploy to sway a few overly impressionable undecided voters.

Let's try to keep the rhetoric above board, shall we?

- williamyard

October 30, 2008 at 4:56pm

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Some people are tricked into voting GOP. Others are just born to be republican assholes. Here's one. What a smug, self-satisfied (and hypocritical) waste of oxygen.

(Yes, I am being hyperbolic and offensive to reasonable republicans. But this guy just asks for it.)

- ralphnelle

October 30, 2008 at 4:58pm

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It reminds of when I was little and my father had told me he bought me  a surprise and I woudl want to know what it was.  He would say, "It's a secret.  Can you keep a secret?"  And I would say "Yes!" and he would say, "So can I".  I fell for this well into my thirties.

- Nusholtz

October 30, 2008 at 4:59pm

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MichLib - "Grow a pair?"

I thought that phrase was trademarked by Colbert.

- WayneJM

October 30, 2008 at 5:01pm

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FWright,

I'm with you - I thought Wright said "God damn America" not "God damn Israel.....maybe he was confusing his candidate hanging out with Andy Martin and Rev Hagee and all the others - you know who I mean.

icarusr,

you make me laugh - I don't know what I'm going to do after Nov 4 and you won't have the absurdity of the McCain/Republican campaigns to kick around any more. My world will have a lot less laughter, I fear.

- mcgumbleton

October 30, 2008 at 5:01pm

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It is worth remembering the words of Colin Powell when he endorsed Barack Obama on Meet the Press:

-- I'm also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, "Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim." Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he's a Christian.  He's always been a Christian.  But the really right answer is, what if he is?  Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no, that's not America.  Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president?  Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, "He's a Muslim and he might be associated terrorists." This is not the way we should be doing it in America.

www.msnbc.msn.com/.../2

- ndmackenzie

October 30, 2008 at 5:07pm

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yard and nuzholtz, hah.

- blackton

October 30, 2008 at 5:37pm

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FWright and mcgumbleton,

Wright has indeed made many comments critical of Israel.  It's not a stretch to say that he's anti-Israel.  Antisemitic is a much harder case to make.

- AlanSP

October 30, 2008 at 6:23pm

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Fabulous metaphor with the pandas, JZ.

- psantillana

October 30, 2008 at 8:34pm

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Maybe it's just me, but I was thinking Jesse Jackson, not Wright.  Although, either way, that Goldfarb comes off as one smug sob...

- guptatomic1

October 30, 2008 at 8:47pm

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Also, who is the putz?  This is the McCain Spokesman?   It looks like someone dragged him out of the frat house and told him to go after Obama.

- Crock1701

October 30, 2008 at 8:50pm

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Rick Sanchez really humiliated Goldfarb.  The fact that McCain could ever allow the pushing of such a ridiculous message proves he has no capacity for reasonable judgement.  Obama as an anti-semite?  Do they honestly think that kind of bullshit flies?  They've already used up "inexperienced","vacuous celebrity", "secret muslim","un-American","anti-American","terrorist","anti-American terrorist", and now, finally reaching an almost impossibly new low, "anti-Semite."  Just how low can the Republican party sink?  As it turns out, quite a bit lower than even the swiftboating of John Kerry.  Is this Goldfarb guy the best they can muster?  Disgusting.

- K.Crake

October 30, 2008 at 8:52pm

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If this Goldfarb dope is allowed within a mile of a TV news camera at all between now and Tuesday, it should be taken as proof that the McCain campaign has completely collapsed.

- cspencef

October 30, 2008 at 9:11pm

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ON THE SUBJECT of lying and low blows, does anyone remember the Georgia Senate race where triple amputee veteran Senator Max Cleland was smeared as un-American by Republican Saxby Chambliss? AND CHAMBLISS BEAT CLELAND, TOO!!!

RECENT CLELAND REMARKS IN OREGON:

Lincoln said it best about the American character - you can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all the time. This is that kind of year.

There is nothing too low for some Republican politicians, I am afraid.

- barbara1

October 30, 2008 at 9:41pm

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I know Rick (Ricardo) Sanchez from the South Florida market, where he was the longtime anchor of WSVN channel 7 out of Miami, which was easily the hardest Right broadcaster in the region for decades, and I imagine it still is. I've been watching him since I was in high school.

Aside from the quality production values, Sanchez was the only reason that I continue to watch that channel, he's good, and I'm glad to see that this son of Cuba found a home at CNN and not Fox.  I'll bet Ricky likes Obama because he was an immigrant who came to this country and created the American dream for himself.

From the things I used to hear around town, Ricky was something of a wild man back in his South Florida days. maybe that's why I've always liked him. :-)

- AaronBBrown

October 30, 2008 at 11:13pm

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mcgumbleton: thanks; I am certain that there will be much to write about even after November 4. :-)

- icarusr

October 30, 2008 at 11:56pm

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Barbara: If you're that mad, get even.  Give to Jim Martin in his fight to send Chambliss back home:

www.martinforsenate.com

- Crock1701

October 31, 2008 at 6:32pm

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I don't see why you'd assume he was thinking of Rev. Wright. Do Republicans view Rev. Wright as anti-Semitic? I've never heard that until this YouTube clip came out.

- johnalthousecohen

November 3, 2008 at 7:19am

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Anyone who thought neocons' love for Hillary Clinton was purely a product of the presidential campaign

- Anonymous

November 18, 2008 at 10:37am

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