Follwoing his kiddie porn acquittal, R. Kelly

I don’t like anybody illegal. Undocumented, that’s cool, but not illegal.

Yawn. I guess we have to look forward to four years of President Obama or four more years of liberals whining about how everyone but them is a racist. Pick your poison.

I agree with Patterico and HotAir that complaining about an SNL skit being sexist is about as helpful to the McCain campaign as everything else is to Michelle Obama’s kids. That said, she does have a legitimate point, namely that there is something sexist, or otherwise toward, about constantly comparing Sarah Palin to Hillary Clinton as though one were supposed to be an acceptable substitute for the other. The two are nothign alike. They’re not supposed to be anything alike. They represent opposite parties. Their backgrounds are nothing alike. The only thing they have in common, aside from a nationality and a chromosome, is that both have relatively little job experience for the positions they seek (though Palin has more). The only reason I can fathom why anyone would expect those two to be any more alike than Duncan Hunter and Dennis Kucinich is … er …. OK, as a McCain supporter I’d best not say it between now and election day, so I’ll just keep my yap shut for once.

In short, Fiorina’s point does need to be made. It should have been made about the serious news media, which is supposed to be fair, not about SNL, which isn’t. Their job is to be funny, and they usually fail as badly as the news media fails at their job of being fair. Not this time.

Snopes defines as “true” the notion that John McCain has defined “middle class” as anyone who earns less than $5 million a year. Sure, you can get the real story if you RTWT, but c’mon.

Jim Lindgren: If I had prayed for the press to be fair to Sarah Palin that would not be the same as stating that the press is being fair to Sarah Palin.

Right now this site is Google’s #1 site for the search terms “people unclear on the concept.” Heh, I think.

Pamela Anderson is in the septic tank for Obama.

NY Governor David Paterson argues that anyone who pokes fun at community organizers is really attacking a race. I’m half-tempted to make fun of dumbasses who think attacks on community organizers are racist, but I’m afraid someone else will identify “dumbasses who think attacks on community organizers are racists” are a race, too, so I won’t.

Patterico has a heartbreaking account of 3-year-old Marten Kudlis, a 3-year-old in Aurora, CO who was killed on September 4 by Francis Hernandez, a drunk-driving illegal alien with a long record of criminal offenses, mostly vehicular. Only three days earlier, Erika and German Clouet, two young newlyweds in Dallas, were killed by another drunk driver with a long string of DWIs, Uriel Perez Palacios. True to form, the Ass. Press doesn’t even mention Mr. Palacios’s citizenship or immigration status. The Dallas Morning News does, but only to discount it without any serious investigation:

Sgt. [Paul] Lehmann said it’s unlikely that Mr. Palacios is an illegal immigrant because no deportation holds have ever been attached to his criminal offenses.

Well, that settles it, then. No deportation hold, no illegal alien. After all, it’s not as though Dallas were a sanctuary city or anything, so if no deportation holds were ever attached to Mr. Palacios’s multiple crimes, he couldn’t possibly be an illegal alien. In fact, seeing as several of his priors are deportable offenses even for legals, the absence of such holds must be proof he isn’t an alien at all!

For all I know, maybe Palacios is a U.S. citizen. But if he’s not, he sure as hell should have been deported a long time ago, even if (and that’s a big if) he originally entered the country legally. And he certainly should have been rotting in prison long before these innocent lives, like Marten’s, were senselessly snuffed out. The only question is which side of the border both of these bastards should have been rotting in jail on before finally turning them loose in whatever country they hailed from (

In this past week’s debate, Republican gubernatorial candidate Pat McCrory made clear that he would make illegal immigration a major priority if elected, and would petition the federal government to establish a detention center here in NC (right now the nearest one is in Atlanta). He also promised to do all he could to ensure that criminal illegal aliens (yes, I know, they’re all criminals, but many are criminals on other levels as well) be deported first. By contrast, Bev Perdue couldn’t even bring herself to use the word “illegal” to describe illegal immigrants, strongly implied she favored a policy of giving them driver licenses, and prattled on about the need not to be “divisive.” The choice could scarcely be clearer.

Barack Obama’s semi-clever reference to putting lipstick on a pig instead of a pit bull is an uncommonly silly non-story, which really shouldn’t be getting anywhere near the attention it’s gotten, least of all from the McCain camp itself. All this sillily (if that’s a word) nonsensical buzz does have a few positive sides, though, to wit:

• It drew a lot more national attention to a tone-deaf, un-Presidential speech that would otherwise have largely gone unreported.
• It scored McCain two new ads, basically for free: post the ad on YouTube, encourage people to email it to each other, and watch the ad turn up on TV news everywhere because fact that you’re running this ad is now news! If I were Bono, I’d call that f—ing brilliant (and with any luck, I wouldn’t get fined for it since everyone knows political ads don’t really f—, and even if they did such f—ing would have nothing to do with their brilliance).
• It keeps The One on his game, running a campaign against the Republican Vice Presidential contender instead of the guy who is … um … running for President.
• It gave Matt Drudge a few nice puns, like “boar war” and “holy sow!”
• Karma. This craptastically stupid story shouldn’t hurt Barack Obama any more in this election cycle than “mi caca” should have hurt George Allen in the last, but as they say, crap for the goose is poop for the gander.