Mir Mousavi Sings the Blues...

Frank Rich
Kathleen Parker
Jane Mayer
Mir Hossein Mousavi

"I turn to Arab leaders: Let's make peace, I am ready," Benjamin Netanyahu

"These are Americans “out there in a scary place,” - Shepard Smith


Benjamin Netanyahu gave his policy speech today, and it was better than anyone expected, as reported in the Jerusalem Post: ""To achieve peace, courage and honesty are necessary from both sides. The Palestinians must say - 'enough with this conflict. We recognize Israel's right to exist, and want to live by their side.'

"A public Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish nation-state is a prerequisite for regional peace," Netanyahu said.
"In the heart of Israel there lives a large group of Palestinians," the prime minister continued, noting his will to see a demilitarized Palestinian state existing peacefully alongside Israel.

"For peace," he said, "we must ensure that Palestinians have no weapons and the opportunity to create pacts with hostile forces.We ask that the US commit that in the end-deal the Palestinian territory will be demilitarized. Without that, sooner or later, we will have another 'Hamastan.' And Israel can't agree to that."

"I told Obama that if we agree on the essence, the semantics won't matter," Netanyahu added."

It looks like the major parties can sit down immediately and begin hammring out the details.This could be a historic moment, and we may see Middle Eastern peace in our lifetime, unless it's my optimism overtaking me again...


Well, we've witnessed the Iranian elections, and if its the most honest of all Islamic states, then they are all doomed to living lies in a state controlled environment, much like what our own anti-big government protestors are warning about, all watched over by machines of loving grace... First of all, there were 475 candidates who registered to campaign against Ahmadinejad, and the state made the decision on who the four candidates that did run would be. I didn't realize that Mir Mousavi and the Grand Supreme Ayetollah Burrito have a feud and don't like each other going back over 30 years.

The state assumed that none of their handpicked moderates would win against Ahmadinejad, and so they didn't have a plan in place to steal the election, which is why what they did do seems so fake and lame, just switching the results, giving the majority percentages to Ahmadinejad, and the losing ones to Mousavi. They first reported a landslide victory for Ahmadinejad two hours after th polls closed by counting over five million votes in those two hours. During late Friday night, police came to 200 of the opposing parties houses and took them to jail, and no, they don't have anything resembling Miranda rights.

Back here at home, the two funniest political feuds to watch are the mudslinging back and forth over the Sonia Sotomajor nomination and the Sarah Palin - David Letterman feud. Whenever the latest stories come out on digital television, i break out a beer, get comfy in my leather chair, send grandkids out of the room, and crank the sound up. It's muic to my ears when white men accuse others of racism and its so obvious that they haven't a clue what they are talking about. Go brother Newt! Preach it Rushbo! Strike a blow for intellectual dishonesty,and another for faked outrage...

And Sarah is using her children again to create a platform in the public spotlight. Aren't her 15 minutes up yet? At east Joe the Plumber knew when to pack it up and go home. Yes David Letterman, who often uses retread jokes from the Tonight Show, went into the realm of bad taste with the Alex Rodriguez joke. One salvo back and forth should have been enough, even Todd Palin's statement saying that Dave didn't quite do enough to apologize should have ended it. But now having Sarah getting up and preaching that all decent Americans should rise up against gang raping 14 year old girls is a bit much and an obvious manipulation of the event. She might as well take Willow out on tour with her, as sh'e shamelessly adding her kids into the mix instead of protecting them from public scrutiny. Do you think the older girl Bristol wasn't rebelling against an overbearing, manipulative mother when she got knocked up? It's clear love had nothing to do with it...

In celebration, here are some late night Sarah Palin jokes:

"Sarah Palin is all over the news lately. She told Matt Lauer on the 'Today' show that, yes, the rumors were true, on election night she did want to deliver her own concession speech and she was disappointed that she couldn't. Well, she shouldn't feel bad. Wait till 2012. Deliver it then." --Jay Leno

"This is true, according to a new report, I was reading this today in the paper, thousands of pregnant mothers in this country are planning to name their baby Barack. That's true. Yeah, after hearing this, Sarah Palin told Bristol, 'Don't even think about it.'" --Conan O'Brien

"Well, according to a new post-election survey, people want Sarah Palin to run for president in 2012. It says she's been getting thousands of calls from people pleading with her to run, all Democrats." --Jay Leno

"Of course, everybody now is speculating what the future of the GOP will be. GOP now stands for, of course, 'Ganging up on Palin.'" --Jay Leno

"Sarah Palin thinks the alphabet has 22 letters. She's so dumb she thinks the capital of China is Chinatown. Sarah Palin is so dumb, she thinks billboards are postcards from giants. The governor of Alaska is so dumb, she thinks soy milk is Spanish for 'I am milk.'" --"Daily Show" correspondent Wyatt Cenac

"Of course, a lot of famous sound bites will be remembered for this campaign. There were some good ones. Barack Obama saying, what was his one? Oh, 'We are the change that we seek.' John McCain saying, 'I would rather lose an election than lose a war.' Sarah Palin saying, 'Do you have this in size 6?'" --Jay Leno

"President-elect Barack Obama spent the day thanking the people who helped him win the election. Yeah, and actually, Obama's first phone call was to Sarah Palin. He sent her flowers." --Conan O'Brien

"Sources from the McCain campaign are starting to talk. And they said today that when they were prepping Sarah Palin for the debates, they found out that she thought Africa was a country, not a continent. Now, to be fair to Sarah Palin, it is hard to see Africa from Alaska." --Conan O'Brien

"How about Sarah Palin, ladies and gentlemen. Right now on her way back to Alaska. And I'm thinking oh, I wouldn't want to be a moose now. But on the bright side, at least now Tina Fey can spend Saturdays with her family again, so that's a good deal." --David Letterman

"People all over the world are celebrating Barack Obama's victory. In fact, Sarah Palin watched the Russians celebrating from her house." --David Letterman

"You know who is really, really happy that John McCain did not win last night? The boyfriend of Sarah Palin's daughter. He doesn't have to get married now. 'Whew, thank God!'" --Jay Leno

"Actually, Sarah Palin was pretty upset last night. Did you see her? Yeah, well, she wasn't upset because she lost. Now she's got to give all of her clothes back." --Jay Leno

"A lot of speculation about Sarah Palin's future, but last night, she denied rumors that she's getting ready to run for president in 2012. Palin said, 'That's a long time away. I'll be a great-grandmother by then.'" --Conan O'Brien

"Sarah Palin made three campaign stops today: Saks, Nieman Marcus and Bloomingdales." --Jay Leno

"I guess there seems to be some trouble brewing between Sarah Palin and John McCain. McCain aides say that Sarah Palin is 'going rogue' and not taking advice or notes from the McCain campaign. They say it is hard to keep her from going off script and making statements that hurt the campaign. It's gotten so bad, her Secret Service codename is now 'Joe Biden.'" --Jay Leno

"Here's how it works. Election is Tuesday. And then Wednesday is the first day of Sarah Palin's 2012 campaign." --David Letterman

"You know what? This always happens in politics. Sarah Palin, when she gets on the ticket, everybody is going, whoa, how about this? Come on. Look out. Here we go. We got us something here, you know. Now everything has turned around. McCain staffers are saying Sarah Palin has turned into a diva and is making diva demands. Here's what they're talking about. A couple of days ago, Lenscrafters had to stay open after hours so Sarah could shop alone. Today, she hit a speech writer with her cell phone." --David Letterman

"According to expense reports, Sarah Palin charged the state of Alaska over $21,000 for her children to travel with her on official business. In fairness to Gov. Palin, when she leaves them home alone they get pregnant." --Seth Meyers

"Alaska's largest newspaper has endorsed Barack Obama despite the fact that their governor is Sarah Palin. Luckily for Palin, it's one of the 500 newspapers she doesn't read." --Conan O'Brien

"Sarah Palin is taking heat because the Republican National Committee has so far spent $150,000 on wardrobe for her and her family. She spent $50,000 at Saks Fifth Avenue, $75,000 at Neiman Marcus and about $5,000 on hair and makeup. Hey, representing small town, common-folk hockey moms isn't cheap, folks." --Jimmy Kimmel

"It turns out the highest paid person in the McCain campaign, not the campaign manager, not the pollsters -- Palin's makeup artist. I'm not kidding. She flies to every city where Palin appears. And McCain, he just gets the local gal who does the funeral home. It's not as bad as it sounds. The makeup girl is also Palin's top foreign policy adviser." --Bill Maher

"Sarah Palin was asked a question by a third grader and she got it wrong. She apparently still does not know what the vice president does ... She says he or she runs the Senate. No, not in this country. You know I would never accuse George Bush of being a bright man, but when he was elected, at least he knew which building to show up to." --Bill Maher