Relax, Only A Few More Days Of This

Next, he’s going to attack Casey for something he did in one of Santorum’s dreams.

Santorum Takes Casey to Task Over Kerry’s Comments [KYW 1060]

When You Lose The Graffiti Artists, You Lose The Election

Snapped by a reader on Richmond Street near Allegheny. Love the “Bob Brady” in the corner, too. (You can click to enlarge.)

Between this and Santorum’s campaign pulling broadcast television ads, it seems like Casey is going to actually win this stupid election after all.

Santorum In Trouble? Campaign Pulls Broadcast TV Ads [AP/NBC 10]

Adwatch: Bob Casey Is Pro-Little League

With a scant two weeks until the midterm elections, the airwaves are clogged with political advertisements. And, as a viewer with limited commercial-watching time, you may be wondering, “But what ads do I watch?” Most of them are hideous, but every once in a while there’s one that’s so over-the-top hilarious I can’t pull myself away.

That’s where this little new featured comes in. Every weekday now until election day, November 7, Philadelphia Will Do will be doing Adwatch, a feature where the best and brightest of television and radio campaign ads show up. Although not an official part of Adwatch (these distinctions must be made, natch), go take a listen to yesterday’s Newspaper Guild anti-Tierney advertisement and then follow past the jump for the first edition of Adwatch.

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Santorum Losing The YouTube Race, Too

That’s Stephen Colbert, of course, making fun of Rick Santorum’s comparison of the War in Iraq to Lord of the Rings. The best part of it, though, is that this version was uploaded by Bob Casey’s campaign.

But of course.

Colbert Comments On Santorum and Lord of the Rings [YouTube via Bob Casey for U.S. Senate]

Casey, Santorum Continue To Bore Their Way To Nov.

There was an extremely boring debate this morning between professional mime Bob Casey and noted perennial foot-in-his-mouth Senator Rick Santorum. (”Kim Jong Il just wants to watch NBA basketball!”) The KYW 1060 “Breakfast With the Candidates” wasn’t as snippy as the last Casey-Santorum debate, and was actually really quite bland.

However, Santorum continues to confuse everyone to no end. On charges that he had alienated some in the commonwealth, the senator replied (emphasis mine, obviously):

“I have a responsibility to be accountable, and you know when you go out to talk about the big issues of the day sometimes your going to make people mad when you hide from them, when you don’t tell their positions on the issues. My opponent said I was a ‘desperate candidate’ — I am desperate… I am not desperate, I’m exasperated what my opponent’s positions are.”

So… which one is he? Is he desperate or not desperate? Looks like Santorum’s flip flopping again.

Breakfast With the Candidates on KYW Newsradio [KYW 1060]
July 12: Look For The Harlem Globetrotters To Make An Appearance In P’yŏngyang Any Day Now

Leftovers: Bill Clinton Slums It

• Bill Clinton hit Bristol’s Mill Street yesterday, stumping for democrat Patrick Murphy. He also called Murphy’s opponent, Mike Fitzpatrick, a “mangy dog” in a really, really weird metaphor that I can’t figure out. [Bucks County Courier Times]

• The American Highway Users alliance did a report on the safest cities to evacuate from, and — surprise! — Philadelphia got an F, much like almost every other city. (Only Kansas City got an A.) Gee, what shocker. It’s hard to evacuate from cities with a million plus people in them. Who knew. [KYW 1060]

• Stop the presses! Dan Savage said something wild! Those alt-weekly editors/sex columnists! Who knew they’d say outrageous things? (Okay, okay, saying Carl Romanelli should be drug behind a car is a little out there.) [DP's The Spin]

• The infamous “Smiling Bank Robber” has been caught after robbing an Upper Darby bank. He said he moved to the suburbs because he had run out of banks to rob in Philadelphia. Guhwha? [KYW 1060]

• Berks County judges and their staffs may soon have to face random drug tests. Ha! [AP/NBC 10]

Cabbies For… Rick Santorum?

You may be wondering why the cab driver above has a bullhorn. Perhaps he’s taking a really aggressive stance on getting the best fares. (”Going to the airport? Come ride with me!”) Perhaps he just got a good deal on car insurance and wants to tell everyone. (”I just saved a boatload of money,” etc., etc.)

But, no, you’d be wrong. You see, that cab driver is shouting out of his bullhorn while looping around Broad Street telling everyone to vote for Rick Santorum. He declined to be interviewed, but here’s what he said, in his thick accent:

“Vote for Senator Rick Santorum, if you really love America!”

I guess the only question is whether ol’ Ricky checked his papers to make sure he was legal. That’s what he’s all about, right?

Leftovers: Crying Green (And Red) Tears

• Green Party gubernatorial candidate Carl Romanelli — whose attempt to get on the ballot was bankrolled by Republicans — has been thrown off the ballot by a state judge for failing to have the correct number of signatures. He’s not going away, though. Romanelli is planning to fight for his right for a third-place finish until 2010, at least. [AP/Philly.com]

• Media fight: It’s Jay Glazer versus Les Bowen! Glazer says, “Jevon Kearse’s career is over! The sky is falling!” and Bowen retorts with, “That exclusive Fox story yesterday about the severity of Jevon Kearse’s left-knee injury contained some details that hadn’t been disclosed previously, but the overall conclusion that the injury was worse than reported was not entirely true.” Snappy comeback! [Fox Sports, Inky via NBC 10 Eagles Blog]

• Next Pennsylvania stop for the smoking ban lobby? None other than Pittsburgh, which is considering it. Sigh. Pretty soon all of Pennsylvania won’t be able to breathe noxious fumes in the steel plant or coal mine (yes, yes) all day and then breathe noxious fumes in the bar all night. [Inky Fishbowl]

• Pennsylvania’s gambling board is going to take time out from being arrested to approve the casinos planned for Pennsylvania’s racetracks later this week. The towns with tracks are pumped. Says Bensalem’s William McCauley: “We know who’s going to be on the property. We’re not going to end up with… another mall or a shopping center-slash-housing development.” Because, really, a housing development is so much more destructive than a casino! [AP/Courier Post]

• The turnpike service plazas are getting more bathrooms! Hooray! [AP/Philly.com]

Santorum Performs Finishing Move On ‘Patriot-News’

Over the weekend, Rick Santorum took a shot at the group that’s costing him the most number of votes in the state: The Harrisburg Patriot-News:

The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pa., report that Santorum, who trails Democrat Robert Casey in most polls, referred to his “rocky relations with the press” as he moved from room to room to attend regional caucuses earlier at a GOP state committee meeting in a hotel in East Pennsboro.

Later he refused to talk when a Patriot-News reporter, Brett Lieberman, approached with a question about Iran — and again complained about what he called biased coverage.

“I have to raise tens of millions of dollars because of the junk you feed the people of Pennsylvania,” he said, according to the paper. It added that he “then used an expletive to describe the coverage and slammed down a newspaper.”

I’d personally like to thank The Patriot-News for their coverage of Sen. Santorum, fair or otherwise. If Rick Santorum keeps raising money, we can only see more unintentionally hilarious ads.

Santorum, in Tough Re-Election Fight, Slams (Literally) Newspaper [Editor & Publisher]
Sept. 15: Santorum Ads Keep Getting Better And Better
Photo by Michael Righi, licensed via Creative Commons

Leftovers: Tough Break

• Jevon Kearse, injured near the end of the Eagles’ loss to the Giants yesterday, is out for the year with a knee injury. Gee, yesterday’s game just keeps getting better and better. Tomorrow, the team’s going to announce that anthrax was accidentally released at the game and everyone needs to get tested. [Inquirer]

• Wireless Philadelphia has a pricetag! $21.95 a month. (The “Digital Inclusion” — read: poor — rate is $9.95.) The service hasn’t even started yet, and the rates have already gone up from the $20/month promoted when the city signed the deal. Capitalism sure is a hideous bitch goddess. [Civil Defense]

• In New Jersey, the state will no longer pick up deer carcasses, which means driving in Jersey just got about a million times more awesome. [AP/Camden Courier Post]

• Just after Chris Ferguson, the astronaut reared in Northeast Philly, leaves the space station, there’s a toxic spill. Coincidence? Yeah, most certainly. [Reuters/CNN.com]

• Hey, Bob Casey can talk!