Subject: Sarah Palin

• Hewitt's Hughpocrisy

  Hugh Hewitt came out west from the Reagan White House to oversee construction of the Richard Nixon Library and, later, represent The Irvine Co. and other coastal developers in court as they sought to build whatever they desired on their land, “environmental extremism” like the Endangered Species Act (that Nixon demanded from Congress and signed in 1973) be damned. Hugh’s hobby in those days was writing local commentary that criticized the SoCal media for being too biased and left leaning.

  September 3, 2008

• No. 1 on the Palin/Hewitt/Colbert Threat Down: (Polar) Bears!

  Sarah Palin invigorated the conservative base with her surprisingly poised speech to GOP delegates last night, kicking new life into what had been a ho-hum convention previously “highlighed” by the Dead Man Talking triad (George W. Bush, Fred Thompson and Joe Lieberman). Clockwork's favorite scene: delegates sporting “The Hottest VP From the Coolest State” buttons berating the media for being sexist toward America's favorite hockey mom. Palin's performance certainly perked up Hugh Hewit

  September 4, 2008

• The Mexican invades . . . Signal Hill?

  September 21, 2008

• Will Rappers Cost Obama the Election?

  Please, Plies, come out in support of Sarah Palin Young Jeezy's brief flirtation with John McCain on the set of Saturday Night Live aside, it's clear rappers favor Barack Obama by a wide margin in this election. (Check out this survey, for starters.) Though emcee after emcee has supported Obama with endorsement tracks, the big-ups at this point are likely doing more harm than good. Witness the negative media reaction to Ludacris's Hillary/McCain/Bush-bashing "Politics as Usual" cut, which cause

  September 29, 2008

• Obama Lets the Nuns at St. Joseph's Have It

  There seems to be some confusion out there regarding a band of courageous Catholic nuns turned anti-union, the staff who now work at their multi-hospital system and the big union trying to organize them. Just to add more spice to the mix, Barack Obama has now chimed in, calling on the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange to sit down with SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West, the union that's been trying to organize workers at several of their hospitals for several years, and draw up an election agre

  October 2, 2008

• Obama Wins Presidential Election Thanks to Baby Hewie!

  The New York Observer is reporting that Orange County conservative yackmouth Hugh Hewitt unsuccessfully tried to sell a book proposal involving Republican presidential candidate Sarah Palin. We'd usually laugh at any Baby Hewie gaffe--the proposed title was How Sarah Palin Won the Election ... and Saved America, and ain't that a bit pompous?--except that his failure means hope for Democrats, as his infatuation with Palin might have provoked the Hugh Hewitt curse. Don't know about it? Read our w

  October 10, 2008

• Barbara Coe Upset Sarah Palin Doesn't Acknowledge Her

  On Sept. 15, California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe sent off a questionnaire to Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. "The California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR) is a nationally recognized nonpartisan grassroots organization representing thousands of patriots nationwide," Coe wrote to Palin. "Our goal is the enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of law-abiding Americans from illegal alien invaders and the preservation of the U.S. as a sov

  October 16, 2008

• Nativo Lopez Organization Cowardly Stays "Neutral" on Propositions 8 and 4

  Remember Nativo Lopez? Guy called Larry who became radicalized during the 1960s, led renter strikes against SanTana slumlords during the 1980s, served on the SanTana Unified School Board during the 1990s, then was recalled for his conflict-of-influenza, amongst other sins in early 2004? He's spent the last couple of years trying to remake himself as the next great Chicano Movement leader by heading the Mexican American Political Association (MAPA), a once-great group that now has the moral weigh

  October 14, 2008

• What You Missed Over the Weekend: Margaret Cho

  She opened Saturday night's show with a scowl and a simple "I really fucking hate Sarah Palin." It may seem obvious—particularly from a bleedin' heart lib, fag hag, Christian right-hatin' (and, notably: former Sunday school teacher) comedienne like Margaret Cho. She was met with cheers of course. Cho is currently on her national tour called "Beautiful"—named so thanks to an asshole radio show host who asked Cho not too long ago, "What if you woke up tomorrow beautiful?" Obviously met with

  October 27, 2008

• Halloween Shows! Spooky! Scary!

  H-ween's almost here, dudes. If you're wondering where you and your Don Draper, Sarah Palin or Sexy Jailed Ted Stevens costume should show up to, here are some ideas on what to do this Friday. Or should I say what to BOO! Ahahaha. Right.

  October 29, 2008

• The Party's Over

  State GOP chairman Ron Nehring: "Lease, don't buy..." The state GOP's "Victory Night Party" (hah!) was over before it started. Driving over to the Hyatt Regency Irvine to make the 8:30 p.m. start time, I was talking on my Bluetooth to my brother in San Francisco when he informed me John McCain was already making his concession speech. "Holy shit!" I said as I steered into the Hyatt driveway. "I'm going to miss the Republicans crying in their beers." The mood was definitely somber inside the

  November 4, 2008

• Red County Nearly Turns Blue!

  . . . and if that happened, would the righty Red County blog have to change its name? Final election results from OC: PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT Completed Precincts: 2109 of 2109 Vote Count Percentage JOHN MCCAIN / SARAH PALIN (REP) 430,360 50.8% BARACK OBAMA / JOE BIDEN (DEM) 401,605 47.4% BOB BARR / WAYNE A. ROOT (LIB) 5,884 0.7% RALPH NADER / MATT GONZALEZ (P-F) 5,470 0.6% ALAN KEYES / WILEY S. DRAKE, SR. (AI) 2,672 0.3% CYNTHIA MCKINNEY / ROSA CLEMENTE (GRN) 1,720 0.2% McC

  November 5, 2008

• Presidency by Numbers: Orange County Edition

  Gramps is just gonna rest his eyes some... Orange County Democrats are justifiably happy today as their presidential candidate will be sworn in on Inauguration Day Jan. 20, 2009. And they can take some pride in the Barack Obama-Joe Biden Democratic ticket's 401,605 votes being only 28,755 votes shy of the John McCain-Sarah Palin Republican ticket's 430,360 votes in decidedly red Orange County. Democrats secured a higher percentage of the Orange County vote in 2008 than in any national electio

  November 5, 2008

• In Seal Beach: Measure Z Passes

  Almost from the day I moved to Seal Beach four months ago, my eyes have had to endure the visual pollution of campaign signs begging for either a Yes or No vote on Measure Z. The Yes people gave the No folks a serious ass-kicking on Tuesday, as you can see: Z-Seal Beach, Measure to Establish Uniform Height Limit on Residential Development in Old Town Area Completed Precincts: 35 of 35 Vote Count Percentage Yes 8,202 73.0% No 3,029 27.0% What this means is that the height limit on new con

  November 5, 2008

• Calvary Chapel Transforms Another Gentle Soul into a Homo-Hater

  Honestly, I'm pretty disappointed by all the protests gay-marriage advocates are holding outside Mormon temples. Yeah, the Latter-Day Saints hierarchy urged their faithful to donate millions of dollars to the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign, but Mormonism has always been upfront in their homo-hating--too easy a target. Much more devious and hypocritical in their approach is the Calvary Chapel movement. They're the ones whose primary spark, the Original Jesus Freak Lonnie Frisbee (pictured), was ga

  November 14, 2008

• Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

  You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were demolished by a Midwestern black man, and gender barriers were hurdled by an Arkansan and an Alaskan.Democracy has a few awesome new dance moves rolling into the Obama presidency, and it'll be a feast f

  December 18, 2008

• When the Going Gets Tough, the Rick Warren Scandal Gets Weird

  MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has today's best assessment of the Rick Warren-Barack Obama invocation dust up: "Not only is it getting worse, it's getting weirder."Yesterday, there was Pastor Wiley Drake of First Baptist Church in Buena Park demonizing Warren's participation in the Jan. 20 inauguration of our "evil illegal alien" president-elect, saying God will punish Drake's fellow Southern Baptist preacher Warren.Wacky fundies who have been critical of Warren's social agendizing Christianity for years

  December 24, 2008

• Top 10 Metal Albums of 2008

  In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random strangers in the face. Good thing there were so many awesome records available to serve as a soundtrack for exactly that kind of behavior. The ten discs below are just the tip of a very big, very heavy iceberg. Metal seems to

  December 26, 2008

• Vanity Fair Calls Baby Hewie "Two-Time Loser"

  *Updated, with new info on the bottom...We haven't posted on Orange County's own conservative talk-show windbag Hugh Hewitt in a long time, mostly because I got tired of listening both to his program and reading his blog. But a faithful reader clued us in to the latest Vanity Fair, a magazine I usually don't because I really don't find it that big of a deal (I'm more of a Harper's type of guy, anyway). In a 2008 retrospective by writer James Wolcott, he labels Baby Hewie (whom he describes as a

  January 6, 2009

• Amazingly, Hugh Hewitt Only Classy Local Conservative Pundit for Obama Inauguration

  The great tragedy of our local conservative yakmouth-gone-big Hugh Hewitt is that there is intellect in him. Yeah, he always seems to walk lockstep with wackos (see: Nixon, Romney, Palin), but the guy is well-read, fund-raises often for good non-political causes and isn't ultimately noxious. Silly, sí, but not noxious--especially when compared with his talk-show brethren.Yesterday was further proof of that. On his blog, Hewitt characterized President Barack Obama's speech as "a fine beginning"

  January 21, 2009

• [Trendzilla] Babies for Obama!

  October 9, 2008

• It's a Quick Read 19

  Orange County Register: Yvonne Pampellonne--who it must be noted, based on her DMV mugshot, "That's a man, baby"--is wanted by Huntington Beach Police for grand theft fake boobies. Okay, technically the 30-year-old is accused in a $20,000 arrest warrant of stealing another woman's identity to open a line of credit to pay for breast implants and cosmetic surgery. Dr. 90210 beware! . . . Anaheim coppers' surveillance of the poor may be illegal under federal law, acco

  March 24, 2009

• Tastes Like Progress

  January 15, 2009

• Who Wins In the Worst Lyrics of 2008 Tournament? You Do

  December 18, 2008

• Orange County Sings the Obama Blues

  November 6, 2008

• [Election 2008] 25 Reasons Why John Sidney McCain III Sucks

  October 23, 2008

• [Election 2008] Ron Kovic's War on War

  October 23, 2008

• Say You Will Build It, and They Will Come . . . If the 'It' Is a Toll Road Over Trestles Parkland

  September 25, 2008

• Once Grand, 'The Women' Is Now Just Another Chick Flick

  September 11, 2008

• [Moxley Confidential] The Strange Case of the Deputy-Confiscated Videotape

  September 11, 2008

• James Corbett's Anti-Establishment Comment

  May 7, 2009

• The Great Debate: John McCain and Barack Obama vs. John Oates

  There are two very important cultural happenings tonight. Presidential nominees John "My Friends" McCain and Barack Obama will engage in a sure-to-be-scintillating debate of domestic policy and the economy at the David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex on the campus of Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, and John Oates will perform at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano. (Despite the fact that the press release on the Coach House's site is at least two years old, the show is inde

  October 15, 2008

• Loretta Sanchez-Sarah Palin Fashion Smackdown!

  News item: The Federal Election Commission says Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) improperly used campaign money to buy new clothes, bringing to mind the flap last year when it was discovered the Republican National Committee spent more than $150,000 on designer clothing and accessories for vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family.Fallout: There is but one recourse, and that is a Loretta Sanchez-Sarah Palin fashion smackdown!After the jump you will see each politic

  July 21, 2009

• Loretta Sanchez Fashion-Off With Sarah Palin Draws Response From Congresswoman's Chief of Staff

  Courtesy Rep. Loretta Sanchez's Office The congresswoman presses the flesh at Little Saigon's Tet Festival. For years and years and years--beginning long before most of you were born--Clockwork has taken potshots at Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove). For that, this wind-up Cracker Jacks timepiece has never received an official response from her office. Until today. Adrienne Elrod, Sanchez's chief of staff, apparently saw this morning's post, "Loretta Sanchez-Sarah Pal

  July 21, 2009

• The Other F-Me Pump Drops for Sarah Palin

  Right after her stunning loss to Loretta Sanchez in the Great Navel Gazing Fashion-off, the other pump dropped for former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Apparently, The Associated Press got ahold of a report about an ethics complaint involving Alaska's departing governor and the Alaska Fund Trust, her legal defense fund. Why does Palin need a legal defense fund? Because of all the brewing ethics complaints, silly. The report obtained by The Associated Press says Palin is sec

  July 22, 2009

• Shatner Reading Palin vs. Huell Howser Tripping

  Earlier today, Weekly food blogger Lesley McCave forwarded a video from The Tonight Show Starring Conan O'Brien featuring William Shatner reading from Sarah Palin's goodbye, Alaska speech:Its reign as the Greatest Video Ever only lasted a few minutes, however. That's because a scroll through LA Times' television critic Robert Lloyd's appreciation of a certain roving reporter for KCET/Channel 28 revealed Video Valhalla.Ladies and germs, for your consideration, "Huell Howser Tripping":

  July 28, 2009

• Friday Film Funnies Fun: Shut the Hell Up, Hugh Hewitt!

  I haven't paid much attention to Hugh Hewitt as of recent, mostly because all he seems to talk about is Obamacare, and that's not exactly the sexiest of subjects. But I did tune in yesterday, at the very end of the show, and he was playing one of my favorite songs: Lulu's "To Sir with Love" (don't ask). Beautiful, overwrought, late-1960s Brit pop. I have no idea why Baby Hewie was playing it, or why he kept giving biographical details about the singer, but O.C.'s most prominent conservative yakm

  July 31, 2009

• Incoming: Portugal. The Man, Satyricon at the Glass House

  ​Wasilla may now forever be inextricably linked with Sarah Palin jokes, but the small Alaska town has more going for it than just the ability to see Russia from there. Post-hardcore troupe Portugal. The Man are also from there, and though we don't know what newspapers they read, either, they're pretty neat. Their latest album, The Satanic Satanist, just came out last week, and they're doing the tour thing in support of it. Said tour is coming our way (or our way-ish) on September 26 at the Gla

  July 30, 2009

• SportsNation Loves Angel Nation!

  If the Angels are America's Team, does that make Barbara Coe the new Sarah Palin?​What is going on with America? Forget about the economy, the Know Nothings, the garbage-dwelling Linda Ackerman campaign and refry this: in an ESPN SportsNation poll that I can't find online but was just broadcast on ESPN News, your Anaheim Angels beat out the other three remaining teams in the MLB playoffs as the squad fans most want to see in the World Series. It was a pretty healthy victory, too, with the Ange

  October 13, 2009

• The Top Five Artistic Depictions of Orly Taitz

  Clockwork Coker sent me this Photoshop job he saw posted on Crooks and Liars:​ It's the "Taitz-Tanic," see. Lou Dobbs is being targeted by Media Matters for his questions about Barack Obama's eligibility for the presidency, while Laguna Niguel's attorney/dentist Orly Taitz has recently faced a number of public setbacks in her quest to remove Obama from office. Hence, the ship's sinking.With her unrelenting drive and flair for... drama... Taitz does sometimes seem like a movie character. Or a c

  September 23, 2009

• Al Qaeda's Goat Boy: Back from the Dead and as Annoying as Ever

  Goat Boy: I'm Ba-a-a-a-a-a-ack!​ Apparently, your teabagging grandma isn't the only person who thinks the election of Barack Obama spells doom for America. In celebration of the eighth anniversary of 9/11, Al Qaeda has just released a video called "The West and the Dark Tunnel." In the video, Ayman al-Zawahri  predicts that the "Muslim nation" will bring down the Obama presidency, the AP reports today.Just how the "Muslim nation" will do that isn't clear. Is he talking about the Natio

  September 23, 2009

• More Republi-Drama at OC GOP Meeting

  Chris Norby, in the fray​After a not-so-harmonious Western Conservative Political Action Conference last weekend and amidst a downright ugly state assembly race in north county, Red County's Alan Bartlett reports that last night's OC GOP Central Committee contained a few moments of strife and hand-wringing as well.First up: AD 72 candidate Linda Ackerman reportedly has filed an ethics complaint with the GOP against primary challenger and current county supervisor Chris Norby over one of his ca

  October 20, 2009

• Keith Olbermann Weighs in on the John Ziegler WCPAC Kerfluffle

  MSNBC's top talker spent some time last night on the confrontation between John Ziegler and David Keene at the Newport Beach Radisson this past weekend: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy If you missed it, Olbermann at one point speculates that Zielger was "defending his crush," Sarah Palin, with his actions. Ziegler doesn't take kindly to that assertion and has challenged  Olbermann to a debate. He'll even pay Keith for it!Ziegler's response to Media

  October 20, 2009

• As FCC Weighs Net Neutrality, McCain Tosses in Monkey Wrench

  ​As the Federal Communications Commission meets today to develop some "rules of the road" for the Internet, U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Sarah Palin) has thrown up a roadblock.The bitter, defeated presidential nominee today introduced legislation that would block the FCC from creating new "net neutrality" rules.

  October 22, 2009

• Feeling Slutty? Let Us Dress You Up as OC's Scariest People!

  October 29, 2009