As Jon Stewart has observed, McCain’s “attack ads” suck. While the latest version has been ridiculed for fleeting cameos by Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, what’s really notable are the gorgeous crowd shots from Unicorn’s Berlin speech. What Republican can resist 200,000 people waving American flags? And why is the Geezer going out of his way to remind them? It’s as if his new Rovian advisers really are driving the bus into a ditch.

You don’t make your point with puny text and voiceovers — you make it with strong visuals. Which is why we offer the McCain campaign this modest proposal.

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Big Shitpile hits close to home:

July 30 (Bloomberg) — Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, the New York-based law firm founded in 1792, will fire 96 salaried lawyers in the U.S. and London because of “a significant slowdown” in real-estate finance and securitization work.

“Cadwalader has adapted to this market reality,” the firm said today in a statement sent by spokeswoman Claudia Freeman. Cadwalader fired 35 lawyers in January. The latest round of cuts will leave the firm with 580 attorneys, the same number as in January 2006, it said.

Big Shitpile - it’s not just for bankers anymore.

Cadwalader to Fire 96 Lawyers on Real Estate Slowdown [Bloomberg]

Get ready for some criticism aimed at Barry Christ for his Messianic Complex.

Obama was waxing lyrical about last week’s trip to Europe, when he concluded, according to the meeting attendee, “this is the moment, as Nancy [Pelosi] noted, that the world is waiting for.”

The 200,000 souls who thronged to his speech in Berlin came not just for him, he told the enthralled audience of congressional representatives. “I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions,” he said, according to the source.

He then proceeded to say, “I’m bigger than Jesus!” And before he left to go for a walk on the Potomac River, he went and sunk a no-look three pointer from way downtown, just like Jesus and Abraham Lincoln.
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Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Michael Savage respond to the murders carried out in their names:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Uh, guess not. But we’re sure they’ll get around to it.

Have you seen Barackbook? It’s the RNC’s not-hilarious attempt to lampoon Obama by highlighting his social connections to persons of dubious repute. The Barackbook is designed to emulate The Facebook, which was an extremely popular web site until today, when they shut down Scrabulous and then people realized that “superpoking” is not nearly as fun as it sounds. Anyway, Barackbook is all about how Obama hangs out with assholes like Tony Rezko and the founders of the Weather Underground, but not about how he is friends with terrorists like his wife and Sarkozy and a whole bunch of black voters.

Barackbook
R.N.C. Creates Facebook Parody Site for Obama [The New York Times]
Game Over: Scrabulous Shut Down on Facebook [The New York Times]

On the lighter side of public shootings comes this Snickers ad from the U.K. featuring Mr. T that was yanked by Mars last week after the Human Rights Campaign complained that it was:

a) Violent.

b) Homophobic.

c) Much funnier than the crap they run in the U.S.

Answer and video after the jump!

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So, what’s on Knoxville murderer Jim David Adkisson’s bookshelf? What else?

• Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder, Michael Savage
• Let Freedom Ring, Sean Hannity
• The O’Reilly Factor, pompous asshole who isn’t Limbaugh

But did he read them? Well, he certainly has the party line down:

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Bill Kristol, the most conservative, most repetitive, most slap-dash of New York Times columnists, wrote his best column ever today, in that he was right about three things:
1: It is too early to assume Barry will be president.
2: Hank Aaron is “the true all-time major-league home-run champion”
3. Ad campaigns based on the passe “Got Milk” campaign are cheesy. I mean, really, it’s time to put 1993 to bed.

Of course, one of his central arguments is still shitass crazy. He claims that voters might not vote for Obama because, as the election nears, they’ll realize that the Executive and Legislative branches will both go Democratic, and will want to avoid this. Does he really think the average American will undertake this level of analysis?

Be Afraid. Please. [The New York Times]

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–bee20nine, 11:38 a.m.

That’s untrue, my wife was the choreographer for the play. There wasn’t any kind of squabbling about the play itself.
–ericmoritz, 11:45 a.m., in response to bee20nine

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–spindaddy, 11:46 a.m.

Pro-gun? Are you on something? I’ve gone there my whole life, and the UU church has members that have a whole spectrum opinions on the subject. But if anything, they are strongly FOR gun control…being all over non-violence and all.
–akaikasa, 11:59 a.m., in response to spindaddy

think about it: a “pro-gun” church is the LAST place someone would want to go into to try to shoot up.
–apriest, 12:07 p.m., in response to spindaddy

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Damn I love this website:

Things Younger Than Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain

A few of those things:

• Frozen Waffles
• FM Radio
• The Hindenburg Disaster