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Corrente — Not a bad idea: In an unusual move, Hillary Clinton’s staff is creating a 40-member “whip team” at the Denver Democratic convention to ensure that her supporters don’t engage in embarrassing anti-Obama demonstrations during the floor vote on her nomination, according to people familiar with the planning. The team, which is being organized by longtime Clinton staffer Craig Smith, is working in conjunction with Obama’s floor organizers to help foster the image of a unified front during a roll-call process Clinton herself ...

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Caption This! — 1. CBS News headline: Clinton Creates 'whip Team' To Quell Anti-Obama Protests. 2. Army of Mom had been warned what would happen if she made any more "phallically speculative" captions about Michael Phelps. 3. Dub's Prom date suffers the penalty for being "insufficiently perky." 4. Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Skank. 5. "You're sure this is a standard TSA procedure?" "It is not, ma'am."

Hullabaloo — ... Digby and dday are in the Mile High City, but here's a view of the convention coverage from closer to sea level. When the news broke last week that the Clinton's formed a "whip team" to handle troublemakers, I immediately realized that any disturbance, no matter how insignificant, would be elevated to a top story. It's kind of like when there's an earthquake and all the helicopters swarm over a burning shack somewhere and people across America get the impression that all of California is engulfed in flames. ...