{"id":1267,"date":"2009-05-13T15:06:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T22:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2009-05-13T15:06:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T22:06:06","slug":"news-blights-re-branding-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"News Blights: Re-Branding Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Item #1<\/a>: The Republican National Committee is planning to meet in a special session next week. One of the items on their agenda will be a resolution to re-brand the Democratic Party as the “Democrat Socialist Party.”<\/em> I’d like to go on record as saying that I have no problem with this as long as I can re-brand Republicans as the “National Socialist Party.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Item #2<\/a>: Has Sarah Palin signed a deal to write her memoirs? You betcha! And she’s signed with HarperCollins, the publishing arm of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. The book will be co-marketed by Harper’s Christian imprint, Zondervan.The publisher says that Palin will work with a collaborator, but Palin’s agent says that every word in the book will be hers. Which begs the question: What’s the collaborator for? Perhaps she’ll need someone to keep an eye on Russia while she’s hammering out her tales of hunting Moose on the tundra – also.<\/p>\n

Item #3<\/a>: Tea Bagger Redux. The Republican Governors Association, led by South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and Texas Secessionist Rick Perry, are attempting to launch Tea Party 2.0. However, this one will be strictly phoned in as it is being arranged as a conference call. The organizational role of the GOP should serve to affirm that the Tea Partiers are indeed a partisan operation, but we may want to wait until Fox News comes aboard before final certification.<\/p>\n

Item #4<\/a>: Louisiana Senator David Vitter is also jumping on the Tea Party bandwagon. He is calling for teabaggers to come together again to “Stand up and fight this July 4th, and make Washington, DC listen to you.”<\/em> Vitter is redirecting considerable resources from his patronage of prostitutes so that he can promote a Tea Party that is sponsored by his reelection committee (Seriously. The website for this project<\/a> was “Paid for by David Vitter for U.S. Senate”<\/em>). We’ll see how many people give up their barbecues and fireworks in exchange for an afternoon of teabaggery. It’s brews vs. brewed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Item #1: The Republican National Committee is planning to meet in a special session next week. One of the items on their agenda will be a resolution to re-brand the Democratic Party as the “Democrat Socialist Party.” I’d like to go on record as saying that I have no problem with this as long as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[253,301,30,381,534],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-news","tag-david-vitter","tag-republicans","tag-rupert-murdoch","tag-sarah-palin","tag-tea-party"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-kr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1522,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1522","url_meta":{"origin":1267,"position":0},"title":"Sarah Palin And The Birth Of The Tea Party Media","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/14\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"It's official. 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