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"A little bit of excitement in the air"

"A little bit of excitement in the air," says local Boston WBZ-TV anchorman David Wade as Tiny, our alarm clock of choice, alerts us with nosebiting and loud purring that it's time to rise and greet the day. There's catfood to be served!

Soon we'll be heading out to exercise our franchise, "term limits by other means."

Waiting for sunrise, a new day dawning for God's "almost chosen people."

Then sit back with a hot cup of schadenfreude — Don't get cocky! — and enjoy the show as our friends on the other side of the aisle desperately try to shape the narrative using Ira Stoll's nine ways "the left will spin the election." (h/t Instapundit). Our favorites:

#4: The voters are ignorant.

#5: And, related, it was a communications problem. "You can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R," is how President Obama put it in his interview with the New York Times, conveniently absolving his policies from any blame.

#9: It was Bush's fault.

Update: Talk about excitement, this just in from Boston Herald columnist Margery Eagan, who reports Sean Bielat incursions in Barney Frank territory:

For 25 years I’ve lived in Brookline, where Republicans admit they’re Republicans at their own risk. Yet I haven’t seen so many lawn signs for a Republican since a few courageous matrons put a “Weld for Governor” placard on their lawn in 1990 and paid the price: social suicide. They were promptly shunned at Whole Foods. Their poor children sat alone in the cafeteria.

We believe in American exceptionalism and can see the Shining City from our front porch

Googling to get up to speed on self-described "Social Media Savant" Kinsey Schofield, we stumbled upon this January 2009 "Petition Spot" item: "Kinsey Schofield wants to be on Red Eye!" Where there's a will there's a way. Schofield is apparently a regular on the show these days. We caught our first glimpse of her in the wee hours this morning and discovered that for all the glitz and glamour, when it comes to social media savvy, Kinsey Schofield is no Sarah Palin. See below for more.

"Did anyone in your life ever tell you you couldn't accomplish something and you showed them you did it," asks "nationally recognized writer, social media strategist, and TV personality" Kinsey Schofield (above) in a question that implies its own resounding,  self-affirmative answer: "Yes!" Sounds a lot like something Sarah "out of her comfort zone" Palin would say. Yet on Red Eye in the wee hours this morning the comely occupant of "The Leg Chair" essentially agreed with Karl Rove's grim dismissal of Sarah's "gravitas." Her only caveat was that Rove should have chosen his words more carefully so as not to hurt Palin fans' delicate feelings.

"I heard a rumor that [America's Sweetheart Steven] Crowder is going to be on #redeye tonight," twittered Kinsey Schofield yesterday in a deft display of her social-media savvy, titillating her 42,102 followers and prospective Red Eye viewers with this show stopper: "I'm so excited I could pee."

No need to worry about Palin fans' feelings, Ms. Schofield. Tea partiers that we are, we believe in American exceptionalism and can see the Shining City from our front porch. Like Sarah, we're "embracing and exploiting social media in new ways" that allow us to "bypass the tired gateway media and shape 'the narrative' in our own image." While friend and foe alike are raving about the physical "grandeur that is Alaska" and the grizzly grit of its citizens in "Sarah Palin's Alaska," the Dean of Dourness sees only a glass half empty:

"With all due candour, appearing on your own reality show on the Discovery Channel, I am not certain how that fits in the American calculus of 'that helps me see you in the Oval Office,’” Mr Rove told The Daily Telegraph in an interview.

He added that the promotional clip for Sarah Palin’s Alaska could be especially detrimental to any political campaign. It features the mother of five in the great outdoors saying: “I would rather be doing this than in some stuffy old political office.”

In this season of "term limits by other means," it is exactly those citizen legislators — like our own candidate of choice to retire Barney Frank, Marine and businessman Sean Bielat — who would rather be enjoying the great outdoors than "in some stuffy old political office" that we want to send to Washington. "Time for the 'fuddy duddies' to lighten up, writes Cubachi, who wonders "If Karl Rove objects to Palin's show, what would he have said about Reagan?":

Rove must be worried that a new audience will actually see the Sarah Palin all of us know and admire, and not the Palin the elite in the liberal and republican beltway portrayed her to be …

Sarah Palin is not going with the flow. She is following the Reagan model of going outside the norm and confronting new audiences.

Be sure to treat yourself to Cubachi's links to vintage videos of our 40th President leaving 'em rolling in the aisles with Sonny & Cher and roasting Dean Martin, and then head over to Sarah Palin's for a rousing and definitive answer to Dan Riehl's question of the year, "Dude, Who Stole My List?":

"Lisa, are you going to shut down my Facebook page for writing this."

Update: Sarah's Facebook tour de force is trending #2 at Memeorandum!

Update II: Michelle Malkin Buzzworthy link!

Update III: Stacy McCain boldly goes where no man has gone before and links us in an update to "'Sexism" in the Sexualized Society' as he makes the final push towards 5 million hits:

Sissy Willis got there a week ahead of me, noting some anti-Palin comments by the occupant of the Red Eye "leg chair."

Crossposted at Riehl World View and Liberty Pundits.

Palin's mama-grizzly brand of improvisational humor leaves Jon Stewart in the dust

Glenn Beck trumped Jon Stewart's big "get" on the "Daily Show" last night — the President of the United States sitting opposite him in Comedy Central's "World News Headquarters" in New York at a "desk designed like a slice of the Capitol" — with a "get" of  his own this morning, Sarah Palin herself, chatting by phone with Glenn from her down-home kitchen table in Wasilla.

"AWESOME: Sarah Palin responds to Media Matters!" twittered an ecstatic Brian of The Right Scoop this afternoon. Listen/watch here. He'd just captured a transcendent moment of "Kitchen-Table Politics" — a mama-grizzly brand of improvisational banter between Palin at her kitchen table in Wasilla and Glenn Beck at his talk radio desk in NYC — that left Jon Stewart's stilted, unwatchable "Daily Show" performance last night with the Leader of the Free World in the dust. The premise:

David Brock, founder of [Soros-funded] Media Matters, has come out now, declaring that Sarah Palin is the only person that can save the nation from another Oklahoma-City-style massacre, saying that in order to do so she must speak out against Glenn Beck!

Media Matters founder David Brock, above, praying for a miracle, shared his fears of a Beck-incited massacre with MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell the other day. See below for O'Donnell's childlike failure to understand the gravitas of Sarah and the Tea Party.

Was it "laughable or kind of sad?" Beck pondered in his signature faux "this-hurts-me-more-than-it-hurts-you style as he and Palin discussed attacks on Tea Party candidates from "the machine on both sides of the aisle," those fuddy-duddy establishment politicians, operatives and commentators who still don't "get" Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement:

Palin: Of course I, near and dear to my heart, am very very interested and engaged in the Alaska Senate race, to see how Lisa Murkoswki, running as this third-party establishment — slash — entitlement-party candidate, is throwing everything and the kitchen sink against the Republican nominee, Joe Miller. I'm very engaged in this race up here.

Beck: Isn't it amazing that the establishment, the GOP establishment, you know, people like Karl Rove, who by the way has announced that you're not qualified to [run for President]. It's a good thing you're in the kitchen, Sarah, it is.

Palin: And I'm barefoot too.

MSNBC opinionator Lawrence O'Donnell, earnestly sharing David Brock's apocalyptic concern over the imminence of an Oklahoma-City-style massacre should Beck not be silenced at once provides a glimpse into "that great abyss, the 'progressive' mind we wrote about in discussing Arianna Huffington's cluelessness recently:

O'Donnell said that such a move from Palin would be "an absolutely brilliant political posture for [her] to adopt at this moment, in this kind of atmosphere. She would get so much credit for a move like that without costing her anything from her right-wing base."

In a Joe-the-Plumber "spread-the-wealth-around" moment last night "when Obama was busy defending ObamaCare after Stewart described it as ‘timid’, Obama admitted that ObamaCare is just in its beginning stages and is a framework to set things up down the road," writes The Right Scoop (view video here): "Wow! If you've been listening to not only Beck, but Rush and Levin, you know they’ve all been telling us this very thing."

"So much credit without costing her anything from her right-wing base"? We guess principles don't count. With credit like that, who needs blame? Let's give the last word to the Christian Science Monitor's Peter Grier, who cleanses the palate with a refreshingly thoughtful, unbiased analysis of last night's "Jon and Obama Show":

And here’s the inflammatory question: Do Republicans deserve equal time? We'd love to see possible Speaker-to-be John Boehner on "The Daily Show." Or the biggest news-show get of all: Sarah Palin.

Update: Michelle Malkin Buzzworthy link!

Update II: This is cool: Our post is one of six — including Weeky Standard Blog's "Obama's Daily Show "Campaign Commercial" and Huffington Post's  "Jon Stewart Was Right! President Obama Is Too Timid!" — linked under "From Around the Web" at the New York Times "The Caucus."

Crossposted at Riehl World View and Liberty Pundits.

Question for Arianna: Does graduate school make you dumb?

Longtime old-media fixture Howard Fineman's recent move from a moribund Newsweek — that never really "got" this new-fangled internet thing — to the beating heart of new-media leftspeak, The Huffington Post, presents a sad coda to a distinguished career. The old boy didn't know what hit him. Maybe Arianna saw him as a useful idiot to lend gravitas, albeit faded, to her masthead. See below for more. Above, video still from Taiwanese NMATV's cutting-edge masterpiece of the animator's art, "Jon Stewart rallies the troops in Washington."

Does graduate school make you dumb? Consider this, just in:

Graduate students and former graduate students now form the last redoubt of approval for President Barack Obama, according to [a new] Gallup poll.

Now consider the astonishing lack of factual content and critical analysis in freshly minted Huffington Post Senior Political Editor Howard Fineman's latest column, "A New Appreciation for the 'Rally to Restore Sanity.'" With two graduate degrees and a lifetime of journalism honors to his credit, the former Newsweek Chief Political Correspondent conflates two newsbites from the latest news cycle to explain a come-to-Jesus moment regarding Jon Stewart's forthcoming Oprah- and Arianna-funded, "non partisan," Beck-baiting "Rally to Restore Sanity":

Even though [Arianna's] backing Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity," and even though I now work for her, I had dismissed the event this Saturday on the Mall as self-indulgent, time-wasting comedy.

Until now.

The reason is that I watched two videos: one, of a thug named Tim Profitt pressing his shoe onto Lauren Valle's skull; the other, of Joy Behar calling Sharron Angle a bitch who's going to hell.

That was enough. I now think the rally is a fateful moment in this political campaign, an indispensable plea for a smidgeon of decency in a season of crazy, vicious assaults from both sides of the aisle.

Not unlike Arianna herself — See our post "A momentary flash of insight into that great abyss, the 'progressive' mind" — and Geoffrey Baym, the starry-eyed "media studies" professor we quoted yesterday in our post "Jon Stewart: The clueless leading the clueless," Fineman appears to have swallowed whole the Byzantine spinnings of the soundbite manufacturers, breathlessly unaware of the febrile disintermediations on both sides of the aisle attempting to shape the "narrative." After a brief engagement with the newsman's instinctual skepticism, Fineman settles comfortably into acceptance of his employer's tale of a grassroots longing for peace and love that will inexorably draw the nation's best and brightest to the Mall for a day of holding hands and singing Kumbaya. Meanwhile under their radar the Taiwanese NMATV animators dance on Fineman's journalistic grave, their grasp of the breakneck speed and google-facilitated knowledge base of contemporary politics and commentary leaving him in the dust.

Charles Murray asserts we've got a just-plain-smarter crop if Ivy Leaguers who've married Ivy leaguers of the opposite sex for the last couple of generations to produce a "New Elite," a Master Race for our day, but we think old Charles is missing something that Darwin may have predicted. The newcomers from outside the tribe — Our Cuban-American twittermate Cubachi's first among equals of Tea Party favorites, Florida Senatorial candidate Marco Rubio, son of Cuban exiles, comes to mind — who are reinvigorating the blue bloodline both genetically and philosophically, reminding the fat and happy among us that freedom isn't free. Could anything be more Shining City than that?

Crossposted at Riehl World View and Liberty Pundits.

Jon Stewart: The clueless leading the clueless

Jon Stewart "hailed MoveOn.Org sardonically for '10 years of making even people who agree with you cringe'" a couple of years back, but apparently all is forgiven on the eve of the "Daily Show" host's Oprah- and Arianna-funded, "non-partisan," Beck-baiting "Rally to Restore Sanity," blogged here and here. MoveOn is in full lock-step mode: "We desperately need to restore sanity in this country." Via email: "Party Saturday! Watch the Rally to Restore Sanity & Make Election Calls." No coordination to see here. Above, "media moguls Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post and wealthiest black American according to Forbes Magazine, Oprah Winfrey," kissy kissy May 2009.

"The program has offered 'an important new model of journalism' that abandons traditional ideas about 'objectivity' or 'neutrality' and instead challenges the underlying veracity of official claims and statements," gushes Geoffrey Baym, a starry-eyed "media studies" professor at UNC-Greensboro who wrote "one of the first scholarly studies of 'the Daily Show" in 2005," according to the Washington Post. Where but in the rarefied bubble of Gramsci-addled academia, with its fellow travelers in the nation's "elite" cultural institutions, would anyone buy the notion of the possibility — let alone the desirability — of an "objective" media? Guess they missed the pamphleteer thing:

SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. – Common Sense, Thomas Paine 1776.

Enter stage left history-challenged "Daily Show" chronicler Professor Baym:

A staple of the show is a clip of a politician or official saying one thing, followed by the same official saying something contradictory a few weeks or months earlier, followed by Stewart with a look of mock-horror or surprise.

What a revelation. Reminds us of our own Sean Bielat's latest Retire Barney campaign ad, "Same Old Tune."

"Nevertheless," continues the WaPo article, "there are many, including [assistant professor at American University Lauren] Feldman, who don't view Stewart and his program as above politics or partisanship." Doh:

"The Daily Show's" popularity soared as a direct result of its relentless satirical broadsides against the Bush administration. While it certainly hasn't ignored Obama's foibles and missteps, the critique seems less frequent and more subdued … At the same time, much of Stewart's media criticism has focused on Fox News, the most overtly conservative of the three cable news networks.

Double doh. These ivory tower types need to get out more into the effervescent world of dissenting voices — the pampleteers of our day — disintermediating the powers that be via a heady mix of old and new media. Had that WaPo reporter been paying attention, he might have googled "jon stewart oprah arianna" and stumbled upon our own take on Jon Stewart's forthcoming celebro-turfing "Rally to Restore Sanity" as just a parlor game for the amusement of the credentialed gentry, the Ruling Class formerly known as the elite.

Crossposted at Riehl World View and Liberty Pundits.

Bill Hudak "gets it on terrorism, he gets it on the peace process, he gets it on Iran"

Bill Hudak was only half joking yesterday when he told us "Sean Bielat is lucky" to be running against Barney Frank, a big, fat, juicy target in this wave-election year. Everybody's heard of him, and a lot of people beyond District 4 — ourselves included — are putting our money where our disgust is. Hudak, on the other hand, is running against a relatively obscure incumbent, seven-term Congressman John Tierney (MA 6). But scores could really change in the wake of the Congressman's wife's recent conviction on federal tax charges. As Stacy McCain put it:

Campaigns win elections, and events influence campaigns. When a congressman’s wife pleads guilty to a federal felony charge, my friends, that is an event.

Regular readers may recall it was Tierney who tried to silence dissent at our very first Tea Party back in March of 2009. Now he's trying to smear Hudak with this season's false accusations du jour, racism and nuttiness.

We had a chance to shake hands and chat with the affable and articulate Boxford lawyer and businessman at a rally in historic Newburyport's Market Square yesterday. We hadn't been following the Hudak campaign too closely, but our friend Sol of Solomonia happened to attend a public forum on the subject of America's policy toward Israel last week and was sufficiently impressed to jump districts (he lives in Edward Markey's District 7) and recommend readers contribute to Hudak's moneybomb (through tonight):

Hudak held forth without reference to his notes for just over twenty minutes, then proceeded to patiently take questions and then hang around afterward spending time with anyone who wanted to continue the discussion …

This guy is good. He is a real friend of Israel who believes America's interests and Israel's interests are directly in sync (in direct contrast to J Street's man, the corrupt and arrogant incumbent, John Tierney) … He gets it on terrorism, he gets it on the peace process, he gets it on Iran. He gets it.

According to one of Hudak's campaign workers, Rep. Tierney's office was unable to supply a schedule of where their candidate would be in the coming days.  Disintermediating impediments to communication with his constituency via the new media, Hudak proudly showed us how he keeps in touch with campaign headquarters via smartphone with GPS-enabled foursquare. He then proceeded to send out a tweet naming names. John Tierney may be hiding, but if you want to know where Bill Hudak is, it's all out there on Twitter.

Fellow red stater behind blue lines in this ultra-liberal bedrooom community 30 miles north of Boston Suzanne, above, told us she had been totally energized at the realization that she was not alone when she discovered the monthly meetings of a group of local republicans. As our dear friend neo neocon remarked at our first sub rosa local bloggers' gathering years ago, "Here I am with my peeps at last," unloosing a preference cascade that promises to wash away the fashionable and pervasive political correctness that has stifled free speech in these United States with increasing totalitarianesque psychological jack bootery for decades (See NPR and Williams, Juan). Again, click here to contribute to Bill Hudak's moneybomb.

Crossposted at Riehl World View and Liberty Pundits.

"People>F>Frank, Barney" says New York Times

Poor Barney Frank, yoked to sisu and Patterico's Pontifications, among others, in the bowels of the New York Times "Topics" pages under "People>F>Frank, Barney":

We don't know how the Times decides which "Headlines Around the Web" get paired with their people-in-the-news bio pages, but whoever it is has a sense of humor. We notice Scott Brown's in there, but Sean Bielat, Frank's dashing young challenger for the "People's Seat" of MA District 4, hasn't made the list. That may change after November 2. Speaking of change, Barney doesn't want the focus to be on him and his record, so he's trying to change the subject, but Sean's not letting him get away with that any more. Click here to help Sean and the people of Massachusetts and the nation say Bye Bye Barney.

Scrollnote. Barney's controversy-free blurb on the "Topics" page sounds like it was written by a staffer, but scroll down the page and you'll find more dark humor, with Ashley Parker's amusing Times article on the making of filmmaker Ladd Ehlinger's latest masterpiece — "The Barney Shuffle" — "Behind the Scenes as Barney Frank's Rival Films an Ad" topping the list.

Update: Michelle Malkin Buzzworthy link!

Crossposted at Riehl World View and Liberty Pundits.

Who knew Barney Frank could be this much fun?

"I'm sorry. Can I finish the sentence? … On what planet do you spend most of your time? … You're not going to see the collapse that you see when people talk about a bubble." No need to make this stuff up. Filmmaker extraordinaire Ladd Ehrlinger — auteur of the viral internet masterpiece "Young Mattie Fein" — uses Barney Frank's own bluster for script and voiceover in Sean Bielat's fun and funny new internet ad, The Barney Shuffle, launched via Twitter a couple of hours ago. Unlike Barney, "I don't need to dance around the issues," says Sean. "I'm running for Congress, and I approve this ad." We laughed out loud and found ourselves all smiles. If you approve, click here to contribute to Sean's campaign for the win.

Who knew Barney Frank could be this much fun? Thanks to the Tea Party tsunami that's got incumbents of both parties nationwide looking over their shoulders, together with the throw-the-bums-out momentum of our own Brown Revolution, the power-besotted fuddy-duddy of Massachusetts District 4 is running scared.

There's nothing like seeing your name in print. There we were on the front page of the online Boston Herald this morning, quoted in the lead story, "Tea Party revels in Barney Frank's money woes." Repeat after Glenn Reynolds: "Don't get cocky, don't get cocky, don't get cocky …"

The latest poll, just out this evening from WPRI, shows the incumbent with a 12-point lead, 49 to 37, with 12 percent undecided. Nervewracking, but as someone out there said today, even if we don't manage to dislodge the current occupant from the "People's Seat" of District 4, a message has been sent, and for the first time in decades, Barney Frank is listening.

Update: Forgot to mention that Sarah Palin includes our man Sean in her "More Great Candidates to Support this November" list on Facebook today:

Sean is a businessman, Marine veteran, and young father, and he is running against an ethically-challenged liberal icon who opposed reform of Fannie & Freddie before the meltdown.

Update II: Michelle Malkin Buzzworthy link!

Update III: Instalanche! That should be good for viral-video sales.

Crossposted at Riehl World View and Liberty Pundits.

Stacy McCain scoops The Huffington Post

"While the media focused largely on Palin's support for [Alaska Repubican gubernatorial candidate Joe] Miller, Mike Huckabee's political organization was also playing a key role in turning out conservative voters," reported CNN late August, noting that while "The Palin endorsement was guaranteed to draw more attention … the former Arkansas governor and Fox News host quickly put his political action committee to work for Miller — another example, his aides say, of Huckabee's underappreciated influence on races around the country." With visions of 2012 on the horizon, things are getting complicated in Alaska. See below for more.

"Internal Emails Suggest Palin to Run for President," goes the breathless Huffington Post headline, top story on Memeorandum, but it's blog/twitterfriend Stacy McCain who's got the scoop. On Twitter we'd noticed and retweeted Memeorandum's listing of the HuffPo story. Adrenalin flowing at rumors of a rift between the Palins and Alaska senatorial candidate Joe Miller over the latter's failure to officially endorse Palin for President when asked about it on Fox News Sunday mid-September, we breathlessly twittered sistah grizzly Cubachi:

Let's get rsmccain to ask the First Dude about it. Or how 'bout our sistah grizzly rachellefriberg to ask "The Pistol"!

Cubachi reached Stacy, aka The Other McCain, who picked up the ball — or more precisely the phone! — and ran with it. He's the disintermediating gumshoe reporter, you may recall, who charmed his way into the Palins' Wasilla living room a few weeks back, "Meeting Mr. Palin." A couple of excerpts from that post to set the scene for today's breaking news:

Rumor is that the Palins are out of town and hope of an interview seems doomed to disappointment. Then my cell phone rings. "This is Todd Palin," says the man on the phone. We chat briefly about the recent GOP primary victory of Joe Miller. I explain that I've driven 50 miles from Anchorage to Wasilla just to get a sense of the town where Sarah began her political career as a city council member and mayor …

Professionally, I'm obliged to mention speculation about Sarah's plans for 2012, but Todd says his wife is currently focused on the upcoming mid-term congressional elections, now less than nine weeks away. And after November? I wasn't taking notes and my memory is notoriously dodgy, so it's possible that Todd's answer was, "We'll see."

Fast forward to this afternoon when Stacy apparently made a few calls and churned out the story in record time, "Palin Backers Suspect Huckabee Loyalists on Joe Miller Staff Behind E-Mail Leak":

“This is the worst sort of betrayal I’ve ever seen,” one source close to Sarah Palin said in describing the leak of an e-mail that Todd Palin sent to Joe Miller, the Alaska GOP Senate candidate.

The source noted that some of Miller’s campaign staff have connections to 2008 Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, and suggested that these staffers have been advising Miller to distance himself from Palin.

"In my haste to get this post online, I may have pulled the trigger too quickly — a hazard of the light-speed news cycle in the Internet age," Stacy writes in an update just as we were about to go to press:

A few words have been changed, so that no one draws the wrong conclusion. And, indeed, I have just learned that the Miller campaign is prepared to deny responsibility for the e-mail leak …

But the problem of divided loyalties within the Miller campaign staff — that some Huckabee supporters are “f–ing everything up” — is dead-on accurate. For several months, I've been concerned that the mid-term might suffer because some Republicans are looking ahead to 2012.

Update: Linked at Michelle Malkin's Buzzworthy!

Update II: Huffington story with links to The Other McCain and sisu is top item on Memeorandum. Our buddy Da Tech Guy's there too, with this bit of wisdom:

The fact that this is the top story on Memeorandum does say this: If Sarah Palin announces for the republican nomination she is the defacto front-runner. Democrats ought to be damn scared but some republican establishment types are more scared.

Crossposted at Riehl World View and Liberty Pundits.

Dan Riehl on Hannity loaded for [grizzly] bear

"Yes, I'm a passionate person. When somebody attacks my family — my daughter! — I don't get over it too easy," New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino tells a Capital Tonight anchor over the banner "Yesterday's altercation with reporter." You've probably seen the video. The details are out there if you're interested, but for us it's the mafiosoid dynamics of the race that intrigue:

Fred Dicker is doing the dirty work of [Paladino's opponent] Andrew Cuomo. He's out there, uh, he's a senior editor at the New York Post, his reporter that went to the house was there on instructions, and Fred Dicker wants to deny his involvement.

We just got word from Carl Paladino himself via Twitter that he'll be on Hannity tonight at 9:30. Not sure whether it's a one-on-one interview with the host or part of the "Great, Great, Great American Panel." We're hoping it's the latter 'cause our own New Joisey-born-and-bred, street-fightin' Master of the Riehl World Universe Dan Riehl will be there loaded for [grizzly] bear.

Update: Listening to the full Paladino vid (above), we were smitten with the authenticity of the candidate's voice, not unlike that of Dan Riehl himself:

I'm not a politically correct person. I'm me.

Crossposted at Riehl World View and Liberty Pundits.