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Remainders: We did well!!!
Ben Smith's Blog —   The Daily Show explores the gender card. McCarter: Palin as Jon Stewart. Obama on O'Reilly, part one of three. Palin celebrates earmarks, with exclamation points. Biden demotes her. She claims, inaccurately, that Obama and Biden attacked her family. Sargent has the bio video that Rudy overran. Dave Barry is going to hell? Retired Eliot Spitzer nemesis Joseph Bruno compares Obama to the ex-governor. The New York Sun announces that it may fold at ...

Palin Satisfies Conservative Persecution Lust
Open Left - Front Page — Palin has grown popular among the conservative base primarily because she has been able to satisfy the conservative persecution lust that is at the core of the American conservative system of belief. Without an evil, stereotyped, identity group out to attack them, there is nothing holding together the conservative system of belief. So, as First Read notes, in order to raise money from conservatives, Palin has simply invented a generalized Other that is engaged in unfair and immoral attacks her: ...

McCain/Palin now lying in order to raise money
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... when she said she opposed the Bridge to Nowhere (she supported it only two years ago), she lied when she said visiting Ireland is part of her extensive foreign policy experience (she stopped in Ireland for a brief stop-over and some duty-free shopping). So we've gotten used to Palin's lies already. It comes with the territory. When you've got nothing good to say about yourself - or in Palin's case, nothing to say period - you have to make stuff up. And she does, like a pro. Here's NBC's take: This afternoon, the McCain campaign issued a Palin fundraising ...

Media Play Dumb To Smear McCain/Palin
Confederate Yankee — Media Play Dumb To Smear McCain/Palin MSNBC's Mark Murray and ABC News' Jake Tapper seem to have found a new way to help Barack Obama, playing dumb and purposefully misconstruing a McCain/Palin fundraising letter in order to claim the Republican ticket is being dishonest. Murray writes: This afternoon, the McCain campaign issued a Palin fundraising solicitation for the joint McCain-Palin-RNC fund. (After this week, McCain no longer can raise money after accepting $84.1 million in public funds, but the Republican National Committee and state parties can.) "I cannot ...

Quote of the day
Sister Toldjah — ... He wrote that in response to a bogus story being pushed by MSNBC’s Mark Murray and the normally sensible ...