Received a correction to the ‘Cast from Hillaryland this ayem. My apologies for the inaccurate depiction of Mayberry’s relationship with Clinton.

This from Mark Naymik at the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s political blog:

Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich has seen a UFO, writes Shirley MacLaine in her new book, “Sage-Ing While Age-Ing.”

Kucinich, she writes on page143-144 of the book, “had a close sighting over my home in Graham, Washington, when I lived there. Dennis

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I will be the last person on the bandwagon to remind you the entire Daily Show archives is now online. I think “rival campaigns” might find some excellent YouTube fodder against Colbert. He once ran to the left of Steve Carell!

In this edition, I talk about how both Obama and Hillary face the problem of having welcomed aboard black leaders whose stands on gay issues are not as, well, enlightened as those of the candidate. (Obama’s problem talked about here. Hillary’s has been endorsed by* met with and received glowing reviews from Rev. Harold Mayberry, who’s “ …

By Brooks Kraft, and featured today on our White House photo blog:

Nation editor Amy Sullivan has some further thoughts on Huckabee’s performance at the Family Research Council shin-dig last weekend.

When Pat Robertson ran for the Republican nomination in 1988, he went out of his way to downplay his identity as a religious leader, emphasizing instead his television network and other business ventures.

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I think Tim Russert is used to making people squirm, but it’s usually not the viewers. His interview yesterday was painfully so-ironic-it-was-unironic, and induced the kind of cringes you usually associate with Larry Craig:

NBC Meet the Press Netcast

Russert tried way too hard, Colbert maybe not hard enough, or maybe there’s …

The New York Post has an intriguing story today about the sensitivity that Rudy Giuiani feels about the ongoing probe of Giuliani’s disgraced pal and former NYPD Police Chief Bernard Kerik. (Giuliani, you probably recall, helped engineer the Bush White House’s nomination of Kerik to be Homeland Security Director, which had to be …

This is not especially fair, but it makes a good point:

After the petty and vindictive outing of Valerie Wilson, sure, this makes me feel a lot better about the professionalism of the CIA:

Either the war on terror has been reduced to the level of coughing politely or we’re going to start sending smokers to Gitmo.

Via CopyRanter and More, Better Lies

This just in from the Capitol Police:

“Demonstrators are currently blocking entrances and intersections on the House side of the Capitol complex. Numerous arrested are being made. USCP will continue to monitor demonstration activity on Capitol Grounds.”

The protesters, in town for the IMF meeting, apparently are unaware that hardly …