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I'm out of clever headlines

Tonight on Countdown, Keith Olbermann had an excellent Special Comment about Joe the Plumber, including an excellent clip of FOXNews calling Joe the Plumber out over the “Death to Israel” flap:

You know how the tagline for this site used to be “pop culture and politics?” Fuck politics. After this election is over I think I’m going to curl up with a bottle of bourbon and watch nothing but cartoons for about a month.

Are you kidding me?

McCain tells people, with a straight face, that Obama and that liberal media outlet, FOX television, played politics with the World Series?

“It’s unfortunate that the World Series’ first pitch is being delayed for Obama’s political pitch. Not only is Obama putting politics before principle, he’s putting it before our national pastime,” spokesman Alex Conant said.

The Obama campaign did not ask that the game be delayed, said a spokesman for Fox, which broadcasts the World Series.

“They asked Fox to buy the air time,” the spokesman said. “Fox went to our partner, Major League Baseball, and asked if it would be OK to delay the game to take this important political advertisement. They agreed.”

Palin tells a crowd that Obama was, to paraphrase, palling around with Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi, whom the Mccain campaign insists was the spokesman for the PLO? The Huffington Post reports:

During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.

I’ve begun to feel like Wyatt Cenac on last night’s Daily Show.

PunditMom seeks to fuel my nightmares

My headache is still pounding, but I can see straight, so it’s horror movie marathon time for the rest of the day. I’m going to have to watch some really scary ones to shake loose the case of the wiggens given to me by PunditMom’s post, “Can You Say Senator Sarah Palin?” The thought crossed my mind earlier, but I was thinking about Palin’s long-term political career and hadn’t even considered this particular scenario.