Hathos Alert

A reader writes:

This is an amazing ad put together by the South Dakota GOP trashing a Dem congressional candidate for getting graduate degrees, studying in far-off places, and learning/writing/speaking about climate change. It's hilarious and sad at the same time.

Update from another:

Thank you for the shout out to Matt Varilek's Congressional campaign in South Dakota. The fact that Matt's made the race close (5.7 behind in the latest poll) in a conservative state while getting NO financial support from the DCCC speaks to the kind of candidate he is. Hopefully some Dish readers find their way to his website and make a donation. You have to think that if the tide turns against the Tea Party in South Dakota, it's surely a sign of its imminent decline.

Hathos Alert

Joe Coscarelli cringes:

Max Rice, who seems to think he's funny, begins his appearance by referring to Carlson as "Miss USA" — "Miss America," she corrects — before he takes a big swig of … water. Rice then admits he lost a bet and stutters his way through what might have been conceived as jokes — funny in theory, smug and awkward in practice.

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Careful, this might compel you to vote Romney:

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It gets worse. From the creator:

To nearly everyone an RPM's a rev-per-minute. To me it's a Rosa Parks Moment. Her decision to remain seated in December '55 moved me to stand up in 2012. Like so many over the intervening years, I've taken inspiration from an unflinching American icon who said, "Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others." For me that seminal Moment occurred when Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke was viciously and repeatedly attacked on the air by a podium-pounding predator whose venomous remarks disgusted pretty much everyone within the sound of his voice. (I don't know Ms. Fluke or her assailant.) More to the point – that predator's driving the Republican bus and arguably no less menacing than the one Ms. Parks encountered 57 years ago.

Update from a reader:

To make matters worse, the students on the French barricades lost. This is a horrendous connection to make. Is Karl Rove making dirty tricks with showtunes now?