During Sunday Night Football, Budweiser debuted a commercial featuring the Los Campesinos! sony “You, Me Dancing.” Below is the song a the commercial isn’t online yet. But the use of the song doesn’t seem to be the end of the band’s involvement with the King of Beers.
A look at the Los Campesinos! Twitter page reveals some pro-Budweiser Tweets. Another after the jump.
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So, you people of the coasts: what do they want? They want Washington to “listen.” They want to not be “treated like sheep.” They want better education (maybe). They want Ronald Reagan bon mots. They want jokes about moving D.C. to North Dakota because the cold would “force politicians to keep their hands in their own pockets.” They want to sing God Bless America. They want, in one speaker’s words, “to take it back for the United States Constitution for liberty.” They want, more than anything, lower taxes…
In light of the tea party primary wins, a look back on my dispatch from a tea party in August 2009. Read it all.
• The Governor’s Race: Milwaukee Mayor Fightin’ Tom Barrett will be the Dem candidate to replace Jim “Eeyore” Doyle, who is leaving office to comfort-eat his way into another 40 extra pounds. Meanwhile, both Republican hopefuls have been racing to the bottom.
Oh yeah, let’s double down on the rich people movie associations.
Fox News has a really interesting completely insipid “Getting to know Glenn Beck” section at their site. Glenn tells us, among other things, that his favorite book is ‘The Christmas Sweater.’ And yes, Beck answers that in the battle of “Mac vs. PC” he is, in fact, a Mac.
Rush Limbaugh is also a Mac fan. Huge Mac fan.
From the one-n non-official Glen Beck fan page. 
Yeah, Al Clark, it does make you think. So 9/11 and Hiroshima are the same thing? Shintofascism bombed Pearl Harbor? The scary part of this is that there are a lot of people out there who are this good with Photoshop and yet are unquestioning Beck fans. The danger posed in that combination cannot be overstated.
The GOP France. Ironically awesome.
If you speak French it is probably three times as funny.
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This isn’t the subjective business of mediums, larges and extra-larges — nor is it the murky business of women’s sizes, what with its black-hole size zero. This is science, damnit. Numbers! Should inches be different than miles per hour? Do highway signs make us feel better by informing us that Chicago is but 45 miles away when it’s really 72? Multiplication tables don’t yield to make us feel better about badness at math; why should pants make us feel better about badness at health? Are we all so many emperors with no clothes?