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Early Morning Swim
Firedoglake — Obama leaves campaign to visit ailing grandmother. Novakula: Powell's always been a RINO! The McPalin campaign leaves Colorado. I never knew Ken Adelman was black! Good news -- now where's Palin's medical records? SEC ...

Wasilla: Palin's 'Real America'
Politics Daily — Filed under: Republicans, John McCain, 2008 President, Sarah PalinMy Unusable Signal co-host and fellow Political Machinist Caleb Howe and I were having an argument several weeks ago about Sarah Palin and the Wasilla rape kit policy. Among other defenses, Caleb offered that perhaps Police Dept. policy was outside her purview, or too deep in the minutiae for her to know about or bother with. He gave the Fire Dept. as an example of another of the myriad agencies that a Wasilla mayor would be too busy to micromanage. It was a silly argument, anyway, since every mayor of every ...

Culture War!
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Jon Stewart is pissed. The Jason Jones interview with the current mayor of Wasilla is completely devastating:

BlondeSense — "You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning." --Andrew Jackson, 1828 (to a group of investment bankers trying to persuade him to renew their charter)

What The Pfot?
Daily Kos — Behold, the best Daily Show episode ever. First, John Stewart eviscerates the GOP's "real" America attacks, demolishing both Nancy Pfotenhauer ("real" Virginia) and Michele Bachmann (Bachmann Turncoat Overdrive) and offering audio of Sarah Palin's infamous "pro-America" areas of the country comment. Then, the Daily Show visits Wasilla, Alaska, meeting not just with the Mayor of Wasilla, but also Mark Chryson, the former head of the Alaskan Independence Party -- who talks about Todd Palin's membership in the secessionist group. And finally, take the test on ...

The Real America: The Daily Show's Takes
Hoffmania! — A lethal combination punch from The Daily Show last night as they went after the McCain-Palin "Real America" crap. Remember, Stewart watched 9/11 happen from his window, so to hear anyone call him anti-American based simply on a geographical stereotype must really make his skin crawl (as it should all of us). ...

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Daily Show Visits 'Real America'
Drudge Retort — With all this talk of "real Americans" and the superiority of small town values, The Daily Show's Jason Jones went straight to the heart of these values -- Sarah Palin's hometown of Wasilla, Alaska. Posted by redneckville ...