Breakfast, the morning paper, and ... "Hype: The Obama Effect"?

The whackjob right-wing will stop at nothing to smear Barack Obama.

We've known that for a long time, but today brought the latest salvo. Included in the Palm Beach Post here in Florida, as well as in the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the newspapers in Ohio's three largest cities, Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati, Hype: The Obama Effect is "THE ONE MOVIE YOU MUST SEE THIS YEAR!," according to its feverishly fearmongering packaging.

A group called Citizens United reportedly has spent $1 million to distribute 1.25 million DVDs in the aforementioned newspapers just before Election Day, trying to stir up the racism and hatred and fear that it somehow believes lurks just beneath the surface of all of us who read those papers. I haven't opened the package nor viewed the 95-minute film -- although maybe I should, because people outside of the five lucky cities are being asked to pay $35.95 for copies of this dreck -- but the fact that Dick Morris is quoted on the packaging ("[Obama] is representative of the ultimate left of the Democratic Party") tells me all I need to know. This is a massive load of bullshit, and anyone with half a functioning brain knows it. And not just because Dick Morris lacks any vestige of credibility or integrity, but because Obama is anything but "ultimate left." Hell, I'd like him a lot more if he really were "ultimate left."

Clearly this DVD, which is, predictably, chock full of lies and disinformation, belongs in the trash bin along with that other load of crap An American Carol. But wait -- maybe I won't throw it out after all. I mean, if list price for the thing is $35.95, I'll bet some dumbass wingnut would give me $25 for it ... man, that's one expensive beverage coaster.

Today's Daily Schadenfreude: Wall Street CEOs and the Bush crime syndicate

Yeah, you criminals in the Bush crime syndicate thought you could force the American people to swallow the shit you were feeding them. And now the Wall Street types are staring at TV screens in disbelief that Congress might actually defeat their golden parachute, the $700 billion, no-oversight bailout package.

Well, fuck you. Fuck you, all you greedy, self-absorbed pricks. YOU own this shit -- not the Democrats, not the American people whom you wanted to pay for your mistakes, not anyone but yourselves. And you richly deserve to fail, you miserable cretins.

Get it -- "richly?!" HAHAHAHAHA!

Maybe you still can scrape together about $4 -- because that along with this award might buy you one last latte at Starbucks ... to celebrate the fact that today's Blast Off! Daily Schadenfreude is for you!

UPDATE (2:15 pm 9/29/08): And a special fuck you to you, Dick Morris.

Guess your guy Huggy Bear isn't a hero after all. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!