There's a lot to say about the Knoxville shooting, but I'm still digesting the awfulness of it. What we know is that two people are dead -- killed by a right-wing extremist who apparently wanted to...
Author - Bob Cesca
Heckuva Job, McBushie!
(AP) A senior Bush administration official said Monday the U.S. budget deficit for this year will set a record high approaching $490 billion. Somehow this will be President Clinton's or Senator...
'Presumptuous'
The New York Times loves this word: But along the way to appearing presidential, did Senator Barack Obama cross a political line — as he and his advisers quietly feared, and some Republicans hoped —...
Nexus of Politics and Terror
Senator Obama rockets to a nine point lead in the Gallup daily tracking poll. So... Time to lean on the fear swtich! IEEEEEE! Government officials have been quietly stepping up counterterror efforts...
Morning Awesome
Aimee Mann - "Freeway"
Brokaw Wants Obama To Win
...Which is why he wasted Senator Obama's time by reciting the collected works of David Brooks and Klingon Charles Krauthammer (all while sucking spit through his teeth between sentences). Of course...
Next Stop: Hoo-Sane
Josh Marshall: For all the seismic shifts that have taken place over the last two weeks, we need to recognize that McCain has now abandoned virtually everything he's been campaigning on for the last...
Worst Person In The World
If there was any doubt about whether or not Senator McBush was a typical Bush Republican, this commercial totally clinches it. And now, he made time to go to the gym, but cancelled a visit with...
Morning Awesome
"Baman Piderman" (I can't explain why this is awesome, but it just is.)
More Like This One, Please
Bob Herbert gets it right re: The Barbeque Media... Can you imagine the firestorm of outrage and criticism that would have descended on Senator Obama if he had made the kind of factual mistakes that...
Obama-Kennedy?
U.S. News rumor guy Paul Bedard: But if you want a really juicy rumor, consider who some key Democrats want for Sen. Barack Obama's No. 2: his veep search aide, Caroline Kennedy. While many Democrats...
And The Field Narrows – Part 2
More discussion on this story from the Wall Street Journal (via BooMan): Obama: “His focus now includes five colleagues in the U.S. Senate — Joseph Biden, Evan Bayh, Chris Dodd, Hillary Clinton and...
And The Field Narrows – Part 1
(I double posted this one, but I didn't want to delete your comments along with the post, so I've renamed it. The bulk of the content is in Part 2.) ADDING: This might sound like a hedge, but, if...
Here's A Shocker…
Charlie Gibson is slathered in barbeque sauce. Delicious! But I thought he, like all corporate media people, wanted Senator Obama to win.
Conservative Love
Here's some conventional wisdom to think about today... It's okay -- in fact, encouraged by the corporate media -- that Senator McCain could be leaning towards a running mate who is more conservative...
El Douchebo
The Very Serious Mark Halperin has taken to replacing his very serious news posts with promotional blurbs about forthcoming topics on the Rush Limbaugh Show. Mark Halperin is a Very Serious Political...
They Forgot Vince Foster
The far-right conspiracy tweakers have stopped taking apart their televisions long enough to compile an "Obama Death List" -- people (fake people) around the senator who have died mysteriously, not...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday. "Hired! Part One"
FOX News Fountain of Youth
FOX News used Election 2000 footage of Senator McCain, ostensibly to make him seem younger. Isn't an attempt to make someone look younger and admission that he or she is too old?
Oy, Oy
A new FOX News poll. I don't know which is more disturbing: the questions or the answers. Have you heard any of your friends and neighbors say there is something about Barack Obama that scares them...