The Obama campaign wasted no time in responding to McCain’s choice of Dan Quayle in a skirt:
Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Governor Palin shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil [...]

McCain’s contemporaries celebrate another birthday
We are not at all concerned that a former beauty queen whose only experience holding elective office is 19 months as governor of Alaska would have to step into the office of president in the event that McCain didn’t finish out his term
We’d like to be among the first to wish [...]

Roger Simon of Politico has a fine analysis of the Obama speech as he accepted the nomination at the Democratic National convention, saying the candidate highlighted his opponent’s biggest weaknesses: he’s old and wrong.
The past, the past, the past. Old, old, old. Tired, tired, tired. That was Obama’s continuing line of attack.
Obama’s speech soared many [...]

Dan Quayle in a Skirt

In the above clip, you’ll see Alaska governor Sarah Palin interviewed by the nauseatingly unctuous Glenn Beck, which makes the clip NSE (not safe for eating while watching). The interview actually starts at 4:20.
She is on the program to discuss her lawsuit against the Bush administration to stop them from including [...]

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Pawlenty, Romney Said to Be Out
Update 7:39 PDT: NBC News’ Kelly O’Donnell has confirmed that McCain has picked Palin.
No less a source than Fox News says this morning that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is en route to Ohio this morning, and is likely to be John McCain choice to be his running mate.
Fox also reports [...]

What someone doesn’t want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.
— Paul Fussell (1924- ), cultural and literary historian

Justin Peters of the Columbia Journalism Review provides a rare insight into what exactly the 15,000 journalists covering the Democratic National Convention are actually doing:
14,000 are wearing terrible suits.
7,500 aren’t doing much at all.
4,021 are smugly bad-mouthing the convention and its participants in their story ledes (“There is no reason for so many journalists [...]

Apparently, Republican Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is determined to further the state’s reputation as a hostile environment in which to vote in presidential elections. That, or he believes that most felons are Democrats. Either way, his belated executive order restoring voting rights to felons who have served their time just five weeks before the deadline [...]

Bob Novak, the rightwing columnist who treasonously revealed the clandestine identity of CIA WMD investigator Valerie Plame, has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, but recently returned to producing short squibs for his syndicate, including the latest on Joe Lieberman’s chances of being named as John McCain’s VP on Friday:
Reports of strong support within [...]