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Wednesday’s late-night wrap-up of election jokes

as the presidential race enters the home expand, late-continuously tv hosts aren’t letting up. a number of jokes from wednesday:

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“earlier tonight barack obama aired a half-hour infomercial to attract more voters. ostensibly, if you watched the entire infomercial, barack threw in a free set of ginsu knives or a bedazzler.” – conan o’brien, nbc’s “late night.”

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“they now say that there may be some friction between john mccain and sarah palin. staffers suspected there was something wrong when mccain started referring to sarah palin as ‘that one.’” – david letterman, cbs’ “late show.”
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America’s Wrong-Headedness on Cuba

When I find myself nodding in agreement with about 75% of what Jorge Mas Santos, the Chairman of the Cuban American National Foundation, is saying in a critique of George W. Bush’s wrong-headed US-Cuba policy, I know the world is changing and sense that South Florida politics may be undergoing a sea change.

I don’t agree with Mas’ views on regime change in Cuba, but this essay blasts John McCain for status quo-ism and embraces Obama’s “flexibility” in thinking through how to turn away from failed policies.

And Sarah Stephens, Director of the Center for Democracy in the Americas, has an outstanding piece out today on the human costs of the anachronistic, failed, but painful embargo which most of the world strongly criticizes.

Here is a piece of her Huffington Post essay:

un members are now digesting a report compiled by the secretary-general that measures the impact of our sanctions in chilling list.

The embargo hurts Cuba’s health care system. Last year, it forced Cuban children with heart conditions to wait for needed operations because a US-based firm, Boston Scientific, has refused – as it must, under U.S. law – to sell needed devices to Cuba’s William Soler Pediatric Hospital. It prevented the purchase of spare parts for diagnostic equipment used in cancer detection, and delayed the delivery of 3 million syringes for vaccinations against communicable diseases. It forced Cuban medical authorities to buy antiretroviral drugs from secondary suppliers in grey markets, at significantly higher prices – straining an already thin public health budget.

The embargo also takes food off the table in Cuban homes, by blocking the government’s access to imported seeds, fertilizers, and spare parts for farm machinery, and by imposing exotic payment rules that add tens of millions of dollars to its bill for importing food from overseas.

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In other words, the sanctions we aim at Cuba’s government actually hit and hurt the health and diet of the Cuban people instead.

But the embargo is more than a bilateral matter between Cuba’s government and ours. US law reaches companies and countries across the globe in an effort to bend their policy to our will, rallying the rest of the world to Cuba’s side

Brazil calls our policy a violation of international law. Mexico condemns the embargo as an abandonment of diplomacy. Colombia, our closest ally in the region, says of the US embargo “this kind of action should stop.” The European Union, now negotiating directly with Cuba on human rights, objects to the extra-territorial reach of our sanctions. China calls on us to negotiate our differences directly with Cuba. Russia – without a trace of irony – refers to the embargo as “a remnant of the cold war.”

It is no wonder that last year’s sanctions vote went against America 184-4. Only Israel, Palau, and the Marshall Islands stood with us. Every one of our European allies, Canada, Japan and Australia, and nearly all of Latin America (save El Salvador, which was absent) deserted us. It will happen again this year. Already, close to one-hundred fifty countries filed statements with the Secretary General for this year’s debate that bear witness to our isolation.

The funny thing about Israel voting with us on the embargo is that Israeli interests are managing citrus groves in Cuba.

– Steve Clemons

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William the Conqueror Takes His Turn

first it was rob roy. then william wallace. now, it’s william the conqueror’s turn in a new movie to be written for killer films and gc corp. by screenwriters brian edgar and derek wallbank.wallbank was a pellicle editor in the 1970s with hamlet and devices and desires to his credit while edgar is a newcomer to film. their script, according to variety, will require of “the push of the illegitimate son of the duke of normandy to the english crown in 1066 following the battle of hastings.”cutthroat has previously produced films including boys don’t cry, far from heaven and hedwig and the angry inch. producer john wells funds the provision and will receive an executive farmer credit. gc corp. is a plunge capital fund that specializes in entertainment-related portfolios and is capitalized at $100 million.”this is a big-budget studio cinema. in place of many years we’ve been interested in a bigger canvas. it was just a matter of finding the right project,” killer films’ pamela koffler told the trade.

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McCain Odds Slip Below 13% Heading Into Final Week

from clusterstock: heading into the sure week of campaigning, john mccain’s odds of winsome the presidency have slipped to a new low on intrade: 12.8%.

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ContentNext Special Analysis: Positive Bias: The Problem With the Latest Online Ad Forecasts

the unprecedented shocks to the global economic system viagra de in the last two weeks take left analysts scrambling to recalibrate their economic forecasts. what will these jumbo jolts mean for online ad spending? while most analysts recently lowered their forecasts yet again, almost across the board they are still predicting fairly bullish growth this year and next. divers are forecasting double-digit growth for online next year, in story case as much as 18 percent.

In this briefing note, Lauren Rich Fine, CFA, ContentNext’s Research Director, argues that all of this may be a case of wishful thinking.

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In addition to Lauren Rich Fine’s role as research director at ContentNext, she serves as a practitioner in residence at Kent State University’s College of Communication and Information. Until recently she was a managing director at Merrill Lynch in Equity Research..

To get your full copy of the briefing note, register for one of our NYC conferences on Oct. 28 and 29: Future of Business Media, EconSports or EconWomen. Be sure to use the code, LRFbriefing.

If you can’t make it to one of these events, click here to request Lauren’s analysis

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Debate the Prez Debates Online

Even though the presidential debates will for the most part stick to the traditional broadcast television format, there are plenty of places online where you can engage with other voters on the issues.

Here’s a quick round-up of the interesting applications and places where you can engage with others as the candidates battle it out on television at 9 pm Eastern this evening.

Twitter will definitely be an amusing application to have around during the debate.

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We’ve launched our own Twitter widget here on Threat Level, which provides a running stream of commentary. Threat Level and Wired.com readers have specific interests in general technology, culture, privacy, civil liberties and security issues, so one way to engage each other during the debate would be to tag your tweets with #WIREDPD.

If either of the candidates says anything that alarms or surprises you about any of these subjects, you could kick off a discussion with other Wired.com readers by tweeting: “#WIREDPD X candidate’s take on the USA PATRIOT Act is ….” for example.

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If our Twitter feed experiment during the summer conventions are indicative, the conversation should be interesting, colorful and often hilarious despite the serious subject matter.

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The live stream of commentary also provides a peek into group consciousness as people react in real-time to live events.

Current TV and Twitter have also partnered to create “Hack The Debate.” Current will stream live tweets to its television broadcast of the debate. It will also stream the debate live online. The on-air tweets will be filtered to cut out cuss words. Tag your tweets with #Current, and they could be featured on TV. This should be interesting.

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Twitter has launched its own Election 2008 section. You’ll find a torrent of commentary streaming online. Might be fun to check out on your iPhone or iTouch when you’re at a party and bored with the conversation.

C-Span has a meta-page that features blog and Twitter-round-ups, embeddable video clips, a debate timeline and live rolling transcript, and a word tree that will analyze how many times a candidate uses a particular word (sound familiar?.)

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Free Press has launched a web page where you can rate the performances of the debate moderators, perhaps an inevitable development. If you can’t join ‘em, rate ‘em.

Javalava has a weird and interesting application called “Shout” in the iTunes store that lets you vent anonymously in chat rooms with people around the world. The app now has a US Elections room.

CNN has launched a page called “Debate the Debates,” where after you register and log in, you can chat with each other, as you watch the debate either on television or streamed online. Voters will also have the chance to interact with CNN’s correspondents online.

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Obama Tries To Get Ads Pulled – Yet Again

right away again, mr. obama has gone running to mommy. from the politico: obama seeks to take down nra ad the obama campaign has written radio stations in pennsylvania and ohio, pressing them to refuse to air an ad from the citizen go through association. “this advertisement knowingly misleads your viewing audience relating to senator obama’s position on the next amendment,” …

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Natalie Portman is single

natalie portman and population-singer devendra banhart are no longer together, according to people: portman, 27, began dating banhart, also 27, after starring in his “carmensita” video, which was shot last trek. a short time later, they took their romance public when they were spotting kissing on the streets of new york and over a sushi dinner at sparkler bako. for those of you who missed the video when i posted it back in july, i included it after the jump. perhaps it will offer some clues as to why these two broke up. you know, besides the unsubtle reason: the pubes. photo: commotion low-down

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Rubio’s prez prediction: As Florida goes, so does the nation

House Speaker Marco Rubio became John McCain’s latest Florida campaign surrogate Saturday, offering up his observations and predictions on the race as Barack Obama was preparing to speak to a rally in Jacksonville. Here’s an excerpt:

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Who wins? “Florida’s vote is going to reflect the national vote…There isn’t a major issue that isn’t important in Florida…I expect it will be very competitive and Florida always is…John McCain has momentum” and he’ll win.

How can you say McCain supports small government when he just called for a new federal agency to fix the financial mess and impose “significant regulation?” “Let’s be honest. The bottom line here is there is a role for government to play in regulation…But just like in sports, no one pays to watch the referees…There’s a difference that exists to ensure fairness and safety and regulation that exists to justify the regulators. That’s a difference that Republicans understand more than Democrats.”

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Why is Obama’s message not selling in Florida? “Florida is a state that instrinsically understands that larger government is not the answer…Florida is comprised of people who came here to get away from that…who are getting away from overburdened and oversized economy…They didn’t just come for the weather.”

On Obama’s misleading Spanish language ad that compares McCain’s position on immigration to Rush Limbaugh: “It doesn’t just stretch the truth but offends it.”

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How the Detroit Lions mirror their host city

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detroit drive not carry off the palm for 50 years.this column is in the interest of all my football fans out there. however, in the direction of my political junkies, of course i will make a few political points in my analysis. here i pine for to discuss the hapless, hopeless detroit lions football team and why they are so pathetic in narrative to other football teams. also, i will theorize how the lions are related to the terrible leadership of ex-mayor kwame kilpatrick, a politically connected rogue elected to high office twice in an 88 percent jet-black city.

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