Sunday Talk - The Last Throes

The McSame campaign is scratching and flailing around like a cat in a swimming pool, desperate to claw out of the hole they put themselves in.
My friends, it's time to toss them an anchor.

Full lineup and other goodies below.

Scolding McCain/Palin pic via AP/YAHOO

THE LINEUP:

Meet The Press:  NJ Gov. Jon Corzine (D), Passed-over-for-a-moose-hunter Rob Portman (R-OH), WSJ's Paul Gigot and Discovery Channel's Ted Koppel have Very Serious discourse about the moderate, centrist & rational.

Tweety:  Howard Fineman, Cynthia Tucker, Hollywood scribe David Ignatius & Gloria Borger.  What is the Lieberman 'Doomsday Scenario'?

This Weak:  Former Treasury Secretaries Lawrence Summers & James Baker.  Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO).  Paul Krugman, Dan Balz, George Will and the foreign-ish Cokie Roberts talk shop.

Face The Nation:  Huckleberry Graham, CO Gov. Bill Ritter (D), ex-VA Gov./Richmond Mayor Doug Wilder and Chucky, Opie Rep. Adam Putnam (R-FL).

Fixed News:  Lobbyist and failed campaign manager Rick Davis, David Axelrod, Passed-over-for-a-Hockey-Mom Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) and off-message Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA).

Late Edition with Wolf:  Steve Forbes (not on FOX), Washington Times' Tara Wall, Paul Begala, GOP strategist Leslie Sanchez, James Carville. Robert Reich, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) & Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL).  Gloria Borger, Candy Crowley and Ed Henry talk much, say nothing and preview the final debate.

Political Capital w/Al Hunt:  McCain economic destruction adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Obama economic adviser Jason Furman and DCCC Chair Chris Van Hollen (D-$$$).

Fareed Zakaria GPS:  Evil Mastermind George Soros, Columbia U's Earth Institute Director Jeffrey Sachs, WaPo's Sebastian Mallaby, Peterson Institute for International Economics' Fred Bergsten.  Actually sounds interesting.

60 Minutes:  The fat guy who took down the Gambinos, Leslie Stahl sees death from above in Sadyr City (is this the 'secret technique' Woodward wrote about?), Morley Safer in Italy's oldest vinyard.

 
                 

RANDOM HOLDAY SHOPPING NOTABLE -

Sarah Palin loves the new KOTA robot dinosaur.  Her kids can ride it and sing praise to Jesus at the same time without logical contradiction.

                     

NOTABLES (Rachel Edition) -

- Rachel Maddow still kicking Larry King's ass (sometimes) in key demo.  

- Rachel Maddow TOTALLY OBLITERATING Glenn Beck ten ways from Tuesday.

- Rachel on Pat Buchanan:  "Pat is smart and funny and a lot of his views are incredibly toxic and weird, but he's fun to talk to."

- Detroit Free Press article on the rise of Rachel.

- TV Guide: "Maddow Makes MSNBC Look Smart" - Great interview here.

                 

Scenes of Rage:

Last Throes of a Failed, Angry Party -

- Crowds full of Rage ignite a press backlash

Disgusting Video of frustrated McCain supporters:

- "I don't know what he is."

- Rape victims "should pay double" for their own rape kits.

- "Commie faggot!"

- Rape victims "should die".

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The Monkey:

The phrase "you need gloves to touch him" comes from the little daughter of one of these enraged republicans at about 3:10 into this video.  It's truly sickening:

     

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After digesting even a little bit of McCain rage, there's only one thing that can cleanse the palette -

CUTENESS:

Awwwww.  Now don'tcha feel better?

slides via ObamaFlickr
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After a loss, welcome back to the fight Joe:

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Country Music Impersonator John Rich gets punked in Nashville:

via Anne Paine/The Tennessean

Smart kid.