Will Wilkinson - Latest Comments in Veep Liveblog

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civilengineerwebsite — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:30:16 -0000

Hi,
This is great blog you have.
Keep on blogging that way.
Thanks and regards

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Jim Vakuutus — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:48:14 -0000

Amazing

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belajarseo — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:20:21 -0000

it's really funny lol

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rahach — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:36:15 -0000

it's so brilliant :)

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milton — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:11:38 -0000

Democrats will vote for the Democrat. Republicans will vote for the Republican. That’s how it has always been.
John McCain and Joe Biden are politicians. They know their numbers, and they know Washington.
What is different about this election is culture. Where is America going, culturally?
This is where Barack Obama and Sarah Palin come in.
Some say race is a factor against Obama, but I say it is the opposite: Obama has been propelled upwards by his skin color. The positive ‘racism’ (Black-Americans supporting him, White-Americans feeling guilty about the legacy of slavery) far outweighs the few remaining pockets of negative racism (traditional bigotry) that still exist in our country.
Whereas Black-Americans account for 12 percent of America, women number about 51 percent.
This is where America’s reaction to Sarah Palin gets interesting. It is not only sexism at play, but regionalism too. Keep in mind that America’s reaction could be vastly different from the media’s reaction, which tries to intervene in how America thinks and observes for itself.
For the last decade, American women have been trying to become either the fifth ‘Manhattanite’ cast member of ‘Sex and the City’ or a ‘Desperate Housewife’ on Wisteria Lane. The White male executives who created, packaged and marketed these female stereotypes have made plenty of money as women across America spent time and money trying to become ‘Carrie Bradshaw’. But somehow, these wanna-be’s never lived it up as glamorously.
Sarah Palin is all about God, Family, Country and Shot-Guns. She is a completely New American Woman. She was not constructed by a Public Relations agency in either New York City or Los Angeles. She is not a Hollywood creation. Sarah Palin is simply a product of American small-town wholesomeness: happy childhood, hard work, self-discipline and a bright, and almost chirpy, outlook on life.
Sarah is not the high-maintenance, drama-seeking, bulimia-suffering fragile caricature of a working woman as peddled by TV.
Her husband, Todd Palin, is not a neurotic metro-sexual obsessing over the price of organic arugula, or whining about his commitment phobias to his shrink. He is a man’s man, and frankly, a woman’s man: just your regular American guy—wholesome and uncomplicated.
Sarah and Todd are American ‘retro’, but it is retro made cool all over again. They are a brand of Americana that has been tested and true—genuine, confident and mature.
Something happened to the Obama brand on the way to the election. It is as if the fashion gods decided that “Didn’t you know? No one wears Obama after Labour Day.”
Once exotic and different, the Obama brand has been turned into something weird and creepy. “Obama’s Witnesses,” “Obama’s Blue-Shirts,” “The Obama Youth Fraternity League”…Plus, after the initial swooning over him, most people still think that there’s something “off” about Obama; as if he’s hollow, or hiding something.
Today, the Obama brand has become decidedly “uncool”. That’s why people tuned out from watching him debate McCain.
On the other hand, Americans are discovering that they are intrigued by Sarah Palin. The TV pundits may want to spin things their way, but the surest measure of who won the Vice-Presidential Debate is that, at the end, the vast majority of viewers walked away from their TV sets and said to themselves, “I’d like to see more of Sarah Palin—unfiltered and uncut.”
The Obama camp may be celebrating too early. There are still plenty of people out there that haven’t made up their mind, and Obama’s triumphalism may begin to sound like arrogance, and he’s already been accused of that.
This is indeed a culturally interesting time to be an American.

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jm — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:29:21 -0000

Haha--"Biden: Look, Gwen. Gwen, look. Look. Gwen, let me tell you how stupid this dunce is. Really, they’re GWB clones."

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Paul O'Pinion — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:56:18 -0000

Nice post. An excellent synopsis of what happened. The debate was definitely not a game changer. Interestingly enough, as there were no knock-out punches, both sides claim victory. Hell, had a haymaker landed and one of the parties had hit the deck and bled to death, both sides would still claim victory!

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GilM — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:30:46 -0000

Please flip flop. This was great.

It made me happy I watched the debate, because that made this even funnier.

Oh, and 8:40 should have been Palin, not Biden.

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Goethe Girl — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:50:27 -0000

Let's be cynical, shall we? Get serious, man.

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willwilkinson — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:20:07 -0000

Well, if people enjoyed it, I may flip flop.

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brianthawkins — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:41:18 -0000

"I am never doing that again."

That's a shame. Much better than the real thing, and more accurate to boot...

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goatboy — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:32:12 -0000

how silly is it all? Let's face it, if Palin had answered 'Your biggest weakness?' question with 'Tina Fey' everyone would be saying this morning how well she did - that's how silly it all is.

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strangedoctrines — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:25:41 -0000

Brilliant.

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Christopher Monnier — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:01:50 -0000

I guess "Bosniac" is the correct term.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosniaks

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mike — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:28:00 -0000

I watched School of Rock on TNT instead. I probably learned more and was not bored.

Funny post.

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Robert — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:54:07 -0000

"Palin: Nukular. Like an American says it."

I'll wink to that!

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kkassam — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:37:12 -0000

Try using scribblelive.com for live blogging, I used it tonight to cover the Canadian Leaders' debate; live blogging in the past was a serious pain, but this made it actually enjoyable.

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DWAnderson — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:24:50 -0000

Awesome!

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The Drunken Priest — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:29:23 -0000

Wilkinson! Wow, I'm in tears from how hard I'm laughing. That's so incredibly spot on.

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Alz — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:25:01 -0000

Here is specifically what I am referring to. Watch "How Modern Liberals Think" by a guy named Evan Sayet. He used to write for Bill Maher. It's very good. You'll need some quiet time (45 minutes). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c

And, yes, you are right about McCain, but Obama represents the worst of Modern Liberalism. That video has changed a lot about how I think about "liberals."

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fnook — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:14:04 -0000

Great live blog! lol

Alz says: "I can't stand the Modern Liberal's Socialism so McCain is the man."

Good luck fighting socialism with McCain. And thanks so much for capitalizing Modern Liberal's Socialism, otherwise I wouldn't have known precisely which liberals you were referring to! The capitalization suggests you're talking about the whole cohesive mass of people that lean left on social/economic issues. Thanks again.

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RobLight — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:48:17 -0000

Very amusing.

I refused to watch the debate, and I'm taking this to be more informative.

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Alz — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:07:59 -0000

Biden reminds me a used car salesman. Palin did good. I don't know if it changes anything. I can't stand the Modern Liberal's Socialism so McCain is the man.

I do have to laugh when Biden talked about regulation (as in Fannie Mae and Wall Street). Congress was the oversight over Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac AND their work to turn the mortgage industry into a social program ala the Community Reinvestment Act was the root cause of this whole mess. It was just funny watching Biden ignore such key facts.

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Josh — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:48:20 -0000

You're braver than I am, Will. I tapped out and changed the channel after 15 minutes.

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Jim — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:45:37 -0000

Biden is a pompous windbag. He's been in DC since I was 9 (I'm now 46). He's got so much pork sticking out of his ass, he can't stand up straight.

Palin is weak, and showing wear of being overhandled.

Nothing tonight that will move the polls, IMHO.