Talking with Keith Olbermann about polls suggesting Gingrich is the GOP’s next sugary flavor for the Anybody-But-Romney crowd.
(“Countdown,” Current TV, 11/11)
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Great appearance once again, Craig.
I know the consensus among the media is that Romney will be the eventual nominee… and that may come to fruition. But I don’t think it’s etched in stone yet.
I know Romney has a big lead in the polls in my state of NH (which quite frankly the primary is shaping up to be pretty boring). What I’d like to know is what do the poll numbers look like in South Carolina and Florida…. I think these states are where the action really is this time around.
ps… oh yeah… nice tie…
and now for something completely different…
Rick Perry does the Spanish Inquisition…
http://dagblog.com/humor-satire/rick-perry-does-spanish-inquisition-12197
Thank you, Craig and thank you, Tony!
Craig you need a segment on Keith’s show. At least once a week.
Tony, this morning the cable and network channels are filled with Paid Programming…just a sign of the pitiful scarcity of good programs. And the commercials are filled with Hollywood film actors…Jackie Chan, Tommy Lee Jones, etc. acting for food and investment. Just crap TV, but you have changed that for me. Thanks for the link.
Watching MSNBC this morning and just realized that the new show “UP With Chris Hayes” is exactly the program I’ve been wanting to see on a news station for years. Why they have it on when half the country if not more is sound asleep is beyond me. If you haven’t seen it, make the effort.
Of course an intelligent young man acting as moderator for a panel of intelligent men and women discussing a topic in depth without coming across as academically boring or politically noisy probably won’t last long. Catch it before it disappears.
RR, can’t argue with that
I’ve always thought Gingrich should change his name back to his birth name of Newton McPherson and start over. Leave his baggage behind and embrace his Pennsylvania, Lutheran heritage. It is the only way he will ever crawl out from under his excessive baggage. Now, he just seems like an extra from Housewives of Atlanta!
Trail Mix in Google Trouble: Ha, looks like you guys did such a good job of ad clicking that Google has thrown us out of their network for “Invalid Click Activity.” Didn’t know there was such a thing, but apparently they monitor these things and didn’t like what we were doing. I thought clicking ads was the point. Oh well, they have an appeals process, which I filed. So you can stand down on the ad clicking.
Meanwhile, the Blog Ads network still likes us. Anyone you know who might want to buy direct ads can click “Buy a Blog Ad” on the side bar or top banner for details.
How dare they! I am OCD and I am offended by their corporate meddling with my condition. It is My America, too!
No such thing as a free lunch with google unless it is during a debate. I remain a bottom feeder.
We are getting Current free for a month…what a pleasant surprise to be flipping through and see Craig Crawford
Boy Howdy I wonder if it hurts Mittens feelings to know that people would turn to Newt before they would see him as the candidate.
Oh yeah..as for google..feh..they have allied themselves with Rupert Murdoch
Craig,
What’s up with that tie? I’m having an 80′s flashback of sorts…and I see I spoke too soon about the Palin comment from the last thread.
I have a serious question though. It’s seems that the Republican primary is in one sense a race to the bottom as a way to be the anti Romney.
Part of me thinks is a GOP establishment plan to make the Mormom front runner, seem more mainstream. All while making batshit crazy seem normal while demeaning the need for a solid education as a means to success. After all why go to school when the old fashion way of Republicans making money is through inheritance right?
With that being said, isn’t it only a matter of time before some tobacco spitting, ass grabbing yokel, male or female, jumps into the race and catches fire?
The good roger ailes has some great posts on the Cain Scrutiny
Lurking out there is Foghorn Leghorn — I mean Haley Barbour
As part of the appeals process you might indicate that your visitors actually know how to read, have bought your books, use Google almost fanatically for information, and as regulars click on anything new that happens to appear.
I just don’t see how new candidates get in. Filing deadlines have passed for most early states.
Good idea Jamie, but the Google ad folks are not so easy to communicate with. Here’s the email I got yesterday disabling account with no prior notice (not much detail):
Hello,
After reviewing our records, we’ve determined that your AdSense account poses a risk of generating invalid activity. Because we have a responsibility to protect our AdWords advertisers from inflated costs due to invalid activity, we’ve found it necessary to disable your AdSense account. Your outstanding balance and Google’s share of the revenue will both be fully refunded back to the affected advertisers.
Please understand that we need to take such steps to maintain the effectiveness of Google’s advertising system, particularly the advertiser-publisher relationship. We understand the inconvenience that this may cause you, and we thank you in advance for your understanding and cooperation.
If you have any questions or concerns about the actions we’ve taken, how you can appeal this decision, or invalid activity in general, you can find more information by visiting http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57153.
Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team
Foghorn on Perry: “Nice mannered boy, jes’ a little on the dumb side.”—-
“He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent!”
Oh BW, i agree crap TV..Man, since i have found Veetle.com i have watched some good movies in HD quality online..Of course its easy for me since my 55 inch Samsung LED is my computer monitor..With a wireless keyboard and mouse i do it all from the sofa..I am thinking of getting rid of my cable and putting up an HD antenna..With HULU.com and TKLIST.net it should be easier..Just wish i could figure out a way not to miss the DVR..HA(Patsi)
Thank you veterans! One day late…
Craig, I did read the ads…I did not buy. Some ads were voting ads and I was blocked from voting twice.
The system is rigged. 70% of the GDP used to be consumer purchases…with the starving of the middle class and high unemployment…only rich, republicans can buy these days. How many read the blog? Geez, even Macy’s, the inventor of modern-day Christmas, was smart enough to hire over 70,000 holiday workers…not to handle the rush, but to make more customers. The department store hubby works for (which directly competes with Macy’s) only sent more product, no holiday hiring. They are on the top five of under-performing department stores in the US. Shame on you Google and your republican agenda.
why is msm not including buddy roemer in on the goper circus? he’s no less colorful then the others. here’s his latest ad supporting the occupyers.
actually, roemer seems like einstein compared to kochcain, little ricky, wrong paul and wander woman…. combined.
“…they may have to eat their vegetables and support Romney…”
Mitt is high in fiber but low in digestible nutrients.
Google’s probably pissed because my browser’s set to erase cookies after looking at the adverts. Up theirs.
wooohooo
More to your point, Bear. You might be onto something there. The rest of the field does make Mitt seem digestible to moderates.
It must be the beginning of the plagues..we just had a swarm of large flies come through…very odd…they seem to be gone now but it was very creepy for about 30 minutes
Not entirely sure yet, but think I’ll be on the tweetie tonight for GOP debate, CBS 8-9pm: @craig_crawford
It was a pleasure giving Roemer his contribution--felt like I was shoving it to the whole political mega-establishment.
And, like a good puppy, he shared my mailing address with the RNC so that they are spending a bundle on useless mailings. I love it.
Today’s Rant: Would Amazon and Apple please merge or at least sinfully cohabit. Amazon has Kindle Fire. Apple has IPAD. Kindle has exclusive magazine contracts and books. Apple has I-Tunes (more than a 1000 that I have already bought). At some point if not now (I don’t know) I-Pad will make telephone calls. Both have games and videos. Does anybody talk to anybody else without standing on your head and twiddling your thumbs at the same time? … of course not. That would make people happy.
All I want is ONE thing that will let me read, write, listen, and call the few people who are still talking to me. Is that too much to ask?
Who knows Flatus. Setting up a new ad server, AdBrite, and their agreement prohibits host or user promotion of clicks. Turns out that’s a big no-no with these ad networks, which I did not realize. So mum’s the word.
That puts you up against a Battlestar Galactica rerun which is fine, but if it bleeds into the new season of BBC’s Primeval, I’m going to be unfaithful.
Craig,you were awesome on Countdown last night.
I have a feeling that they’ll end up picking Mitt Romney as their nominee and will lose the election.
jamie
and that works at my house and where I work
Flatus…I delete the cookies, scrub the cache and erase the browser eyeballs, but Google must be some sort of computer ‘intelligence’ against the clicker class.
KGC…that is how a haunting begins, not a plague.
Or earthquake, KGC --
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/animal_eqs.php
Before the recent Oklahoma earthquake, radar picked-up the flight of birds and insects.
Flight of the Flies --
gearing up for debate tweeting:
Rick Perry debate prep: Execute another innocent — “Oops!”
It’s South Carolina, Craig! Bat-shit crazy tonight and I am looking forward to the Major without his Fauxless News.
I guess if you are Rick Perry and you really do know Shrub--then it’s a apparent a little brain freeze isn’t going to keep you from being president
Steeling stomach to keep from upchucking. I actually like conservatives. This batch of know nothings, idiots, and kowtowing to powers that be is more than one human being should be forced to tolerate.
http://craigcrawford.com/2011/11/12/rise-of-newt/#comment-274743
Jamie…
I watched it last week on msnbctv on line and Chris’s show is very good. I’ll be watching it tomorrow since they will have both hours on.
That’s where I watch the Ed show and Rachel when the veetle link sites video is bad for them.
Have a great day.
So is Craig on or not and if so where?
To start Cain is nothing but knee jerk platitudes. He’s preaching to the choir so they won’t notice that he knows nothing.
Romeny just used the 3rd person singular -- Bring out the laser pistols and eradicate him.
Ron Paul is making sense. Eliminate that man immediately. He is obviously NOT a Republican.
over on twitter tonight, Jamie — my tweets run on sidebar here
I’m watching Pitbull’s and Parolees because those poor misunderstood dogs need loving people to save and adopt them…
Well both Cain and Bachmann support torture. Ron Paul don’t.
So we have another fine field of Nazi’s running for President.
So Romney supports the Presidents decision to assassinate American citizens without legal rights being given to them.
Now Gingrich supports assassination as well.
Feed the captured enemy Godfather’s pizza, Herman. They’ll spill their guts.
Good grief, applause for torture.
They seem to forget about the Nuremberg trials that we used to try Nazi War Criminals.
Some of who were caught before the War even ended.
So how can anyone not see that they are Nazi’s is beyond me.
Well I think I’m going to watch a movie on my computer while the debate is still going on.
Later and hope everyone had a great day.
Back to watching Open Range. I enjoy Robert Duvall.
Primeval followed by Graham Norton. At least the British are sane while being funny.
South Carolina’s flagship CBS station, WLTX, switched the SC debate to an NCIS rerun at 9-pm. At least they know what the people want.
There was a time when a democrat could live with a republican winning. It wasn’t pleasant but at least he/she didn’t think the world would end. In 2011, if Huntsman won, I wouldn’t worry about the world the next day. But things have changed. Someone like Huntsman doesn’t have a chance with *this* GOP. The rest of them haven’t a clue about how the world works. That entire debate..not a single question about the meltdown in Europe. Not a single question about Berlesconi resigning today, and what effect that will have on the Eurozone (and the Euro). Just a line of candidates who believe in *not using quiet (money) diplomacy, but who absolutely believe in torture. What is this world coming to?
Oh, and everyone always talks about how smart Newt is. When did he become such an a-hole? He used to be the kind of guy who would talk policy — a wonk — but he’s just another GOP nutbag.
Is it just me or if President Obama bombed Iran tonight, Romney would be leading the GOP chorus saying that he is a warmonger and overstepped his authority as president?
Good comment, Ty.
Clearly Huntsman is the cream of the crop. Post-Marshall Plan Europe is beyond Americans’ understanding. Newt is a pig, but at least he became a somewhat pragmatic porker.
“Emergency” Arctic Mission Discovers Millions Of Tons Of Powerful Greenhouse Gas Methane Bubbling From Arctic Ocean
http://drich13.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/11/8760677-emergency-arctic-mission-discovers-millions-of-tons-of-powerful-greenhouse-gas-methane-bubbling-from-arctic-ocean
Cream of the crop, Flatus…or cream of the crap???