My friends, there's a full lineup and other fireworks below...
Olympic fire photo via Katherina Flickr
THE LINEUP:
Meet The Press: Corporate Welfare Director Henry Paulson. Very Serious Discourse with legendary hack David Broder, the stunning Erin Burnett, E.J. Dionne and WSJ's Paul Gigot.
Tweety: Failed cable news show host David Gregory, David Brooks, Gloria Borger, Katty Kay.
This Weak with Jake Tapper: Bill Richardson talks energy and Bobby Jindal (R-EXORCIST) talks a lot and generally looks kinda creepy, don't you think? Relics of the past George Will & Cokie Roberts, director of the Pentagon media manipulation scandal Torie Clarke, Matt Bai. George is off vacationing with his crazy wife.
Face The Nation: VA Gov. Tim Kaine. McCain advisor Karl Rove.
Fixed News: McSame lobbyist campaign manager Rick Davis telegraphs all the new negative attacks he will unleash on Obama over the next 90 days. Anyone listening?
Late Edition With Wolf: Swiftboat funder T. Boone Pickens, off-message Ed Rendell. Ed Henry, Joe Johns and Jessica Yellin highlight the two polls over the last month where McCain led, and ponder why Obama is the antichrist.
CSPAN Road To The White House: Michelle Obama discussion with military spouses in Norfolk, VA (6:30 & 9:30pm)
NOTEABLES -
IMPEACHMENT! At Long Last! - oh. darn.
MEET THE PRESS with Brokaw continues ratings domination.
Permanent Minority Leader Boner speaks of violence against a woman & says the people of America are going to "hang" Speaker Pelosi for not allowing a vote on drilling.
Old Man McCain in 2007:
this (OJ arrested again) and Paris Hilton are the kind of issues that seem to get a lot more attention than maybe some of us think they deserve. [MSNBC Hardball, 9/17/07]
The theme of the first night of the gop convention is "Service".
Guess what two chickenhawks are speaking that night...
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Trolloping Trolling for Support!
McSame continues to bribe people to spam websites and blogs with his old man propaganda.
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Obama stops counterpunching, hits McSame in the gut -
Obama earns a Silver Medal for finally going on offense with a good ad.
Great Optics - sandwiched between gas price worry and apple pie. What a cute couple:
AWESOME McSAME MOCKERY!
The Gold Medal for Greatest Gaffe Video goes to TPM. A must-see.
Get the popcorn out & gather the kids 'round.
You will laugh, you will cry from laughter and you will laugh some more!
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PAYBACK FOR A JOB WELL DONE:
After passing Telcom Immunity, Guess who is throwing a big convention bash for the Blue Dogs?
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Speaking of horrible husbands...
When John McCain came back from being a POW, he found his first wife survived a bad car wreck and had 23 surgeries. She looked a little different and John decided it was time to take action -
When he was freed in 1973, he came home to find that his wife had been disfigured in a car wreck three years earlier. So he dumped her and married a much younger woman (who might be our next first lady).
"My accident is well recorded. I had 23 operations, I am five inches shorter than I used to be and I was in hospital for six months. It was just awful, but it wasn't the reason for my divorce," Carol McCain told the UK's Daily Mail in June. "My marriage ended because John McCain didn't want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens...it just does."
There are people who knew John McCain back then who felt so betrayed and disappointed by him that they won't speak to him today.
He wanted to be 25.....and ended up filthy rich.
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WORST POLITICAL JOURNALIST IN AMERICA:
Mark "The Page" Halperin puts out a hilarious list of Things that should go away through November.
Give this man the gold medal for hypocrisy:
Things we would prefer to see banned through Election Day:
– Media coverage driven by horse-race polling data.
–John McCain’s use of his signature phrase, my friends.
–Superfluous use of the phrase the race card.
–The Hilton family injected into the campaign.
–Obama complaints about negative press attention.
–Both campaigns’ going on the attack reflexively when the opposing candidate misspeaks on the trail.
–Coverage of Internet campaign videos as if they were paid television ads.
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(and finally, my favorite...)
–The focus on the trivial and superficial while the nation remains at war and teeters on the edge of an economic recession.
Congratulations, Mark Halperin. You truly are the Gold Medal-Winning, Worst Political Journalist in America. Without a doubt.