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From the normally dependable Reuters:

This all has to end soon, right?

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Here’s how credulous you have to be in order to be a national media personality.
Mike Barnicle, filling in for Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball on Monday, claimed that the Britney-and-Paris anti-Obama ad which has come in for so much criticism, “offended (McCain’s) sense of honor“. In his view, the McCain campaign has been spending […]

(1) Scoundrel
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary has this entry for the word “scoundrel”:
A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a man without honor or virtue.
That’s the noun version; the adjective version goes:
Low; base; mean; unprincipled.
How long before they start adducing John McCain and his presidential-campaign-conduct as the classic examples of the word?
(2) Charlatan
Then there’s […]

Record deficit expected in 2009 - USA Today (7/27/08):
The White House has increased its estimate for next year’s deficit to nearly $490 billion, a record figure that will saddle the next president with deepening budget problems in his first year in office, a report due out Monday shows.
The projected deficit for the fiscal year that […]

Marc Ambinder:
With less than six months to go before he would be sworn in as the nation’s 44th president, Sen. Barack Obama has directed his aides to begin planning for the transition.
“Barack is well aware of the complexity and the organizational challenge involved in the transition process and he has tasked s small group to […]

…the last time anyone used the word dweeb was in The Breakfast Club. And that was Judd Nelson.
Jim Jones is not down with Nas‘ Fox News protest:

On Tuesday I pointed to Color of Change’s 600,000 strong petition to Fox News demanding that they stop their racist smears of Barack Obama. I was a bit dismissive of their choice to have Nas deliver the petition, and it still seems like an odd choice. But rather than push back and point […]

I think Jon Stewart has referred to Bob Novak for years only as a douchebag.
If you do a google for “bob novak” douchebag, it pulls up 2,310 references.
And today Bob Novak proved to the world exactly how right Stewart (and everybody else) has been all along:
In an exclusive interview with ABC 7 News, Novak, 77, […]

“Y’all appointed me to bring rap justice
But I ain’t five-O, y’all know it’s Nas yo.” - Nas - “Made You Look“
Now I have to start by saying that Nas is one of my favorite rappers, and probably always will be. But is the man who tried to call his latest album N*gger (without the […]

Paulson braces public for months of tough times - AP (7/20/08):
Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. sought to reassure an anxious public today that the banking system was sound, while also bracing Americans for more troubled economic times ahead.
“I think it’s going to be months that we’re working our way through this period — clearly […]