Heartless

Heehee! You know how they've been playing Heart's 'Barracuda' whenever anyone mentions Sarah Palin's name or she walks across a stage???
Well guess who was none too pleased about that?
Yeah, Heart.


Their first response was Thursday morning after hearing their song used in concert with Palin's appearance.

"We have asked the Republican campaign publicly not to use our music. We hope our wishes will be honored."

Polite but fair.
BUT! then the Republican's went and used it again last night, completely pissing off all Heart members, making them feel, "...completely fucked over"
So they had to, you know, for real now, make it clear,

"Sarah Palin's views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women. We ask that our song 'Barracuda' no longer be used to promote her image. The song 'Barracuda' was written in the late 70s as a scathing rant against the soulless, corporate nature of the music business, particularly for women...While Heart did not and would not authorize the use of their song at the RNC, there's irony in Republican strategists' choice to make use of it there."

Jeez Louise GOP! What do you need? Sky writing? Smoke signal? A subliminal brain wave sent through your molars by the IMF???
STOP PERVERTING A RAD SONG ALREADY!!!!!!!!

I couldn't do it...

The last day of the RNC went off without me. Boo.
I hovered over it in my tivo list 4 different times but I just couldn't pull the trigger. Chances of me watching it over the weekend while it's sunny and in the 80's?
Not good, people, not good.
I much prefer good times.

The hardest night yet!

Last night's RNC speeches required a Large amt of groaning and fast forwarding. I barely made it through any of Rudy Guliani's speech but I tried, tried, tried to make it through Palin's.

To me she is Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, but for reals.
'I may just be a humble hockey mom from Alaska, I may not understand your 'plumbing' and your 'foreign policy' and some in the LIBERAL MEDIA might consider me unqualified but I'm going to Washington to serve the proud people of America, not drink lattes and talk with foreign leaders who want to nuke our babies.
She also spent the 1st 10min (!) of her speech talking about her kids and her husband. Though not THAT KID. She concentrated mainly on the one who's being deployed to Iraq on Sept 11th and the one she didn't abort for having Down's Syndrome.


I will say that her husband is super hot! Holy cow!
The whole time I was watching her speech I was ping ponging between irritated huffing, puffing noises and pure wonderment that there are two people in their 40s who are this good looking living in Alaska. Are you with me???


Lastly, and just for fun (!) here's the AP's rundown of all the out and out lies and mere gross exaggerations Palin and other Republican's spouted in the past 2 days. For fun!

Taking the bullet for you!

It's much, much, harder to listen to speeches from outside my comfy liberal echo chamber, but here's some, very, superficial reactions to the 1st real day of the RNC.










1. To me this looked like cowboy sperms swimming towards the cowboy egg. I'm sorry but I could not watch his speech. Honestly I'm pretending he's not still where he is which I won't even name because that makes it hard to pretend he's not there. If that makes any sense.

2. Fred Thompson had something stuck in his throat and coughed a lot. Also he is really old, but folksy.

3. I was able to stand Joe Lieberman because I knew he was McCain's first pick for VP and I know they're both sad about not getting to run together cause they're besties. Of course Lieberman's semi almost Democratic politics went over with the conservative wing of the GOP about as well as a bill to hand out condoms, meth and Queer Eye dvds in every elementary school playground. Poor little jerk face.

More tomorrow, I'm really looking forward to Sarah Palin's speech. Obvi we've heard a lot about her and her outdoorsily named children but the only words I've heard her say is that endlessly recycled sound byte about being a 'hockey mom'.
So more to come!

And now for the RNC

Seeing Sarah Palin like this is the closest I've ever come to voting Republican.

Damn them!!!
Their pandering is working!!!!

I will try to watch the speeches tonight and let you know if anything worthwhile happens, but I can't make any promises.