The Dish

Will these politicians please leave the web alone?

In Britain, the hip young new Conservative leader, David Cameron, isn’t merely in favor of a carbon tax and gays getting married, he’s communicating with the public on his own YouTube vlog. The only trouble is: it’s excruciatingly lame. Check it out:

Which led a naughty Labour Party politician to post a YouTube parody of populist Dave. We may have started a new wave of political warfare. Forget the ads. YouTube your message direct to the voters. I prefer the parody myself. Here it is:

So why not add some boobs to feminism? And sell some beefcake for wounded vets?

Am I wrong?

I’m glad I’m not related to Jake Ford.

From Madison’s Capital Times:

The main spokeswoman for a group supporting Wisconsin’s proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage and civil unions has little regard for the separation of church and state, which she calls a "fictitious wall."
"Speaking of it as if it has some kind of constitutional authority is completely bogus," said Julaine Appling, president of the Wisconsin Family Research Institute, at a debate Thursday at Edgewood High School.

First Amendment? What First Amendment?

Some Republicans think the president is out of touch with respect to the Congressional elections, and their potential aftermath. He is said to have no plan if things go awry. That’s not like this president, is it? Just ask the troops risking and losing their lives because he had no plan for the post-invasion in Iraq.

A reader writes:

My entire family is reading your book together, we’re giving each other until Thanksgiving when we can all get together and talk about it. I’d list our nuanced and passionately held political affiliations just to show the incredible range of your appeal, but Bill Clinton beat us to the punch with the speech you linked. It doesn’t matter anymore. If you’re remotely sane, vote Democrat.

If Dick Armey (who has made my skin crawl for years) has suddenly become inspiring to me and Bill Clinton (who has made my father’s skin crawl for years) can motivate disaffected old-school Republicans (and he is, believe me), then there truly is a tsunami on the way.

Maybe the FBI needs to question the governor of Florida as well. And I’d put Karl Rove under scrutiny as well.

New York City, from the East Village, 6.30 pm.

They’ve done it to me now. What will my mother say?