Forget Oprah: He’s gonna be on Tyra Banks Show. I did not think it was possible to combine these particular threads of the cultural tapestry, but I am sure it will be a beautiful thing to behold. I hope she counsels him a la ANTM: “Barak, baby, you know, you can back the booty up and still make it progressive.” God, I hope she teaches …

The hardest working war room in show business:

Early this summer, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign for president learned that the men’s magazine GQ was working on a story the campaign was sure to hate: an account of infighting in Hillaryland.

So Clinton’s aides pulled a page from the book of Hollywood publicists and offered

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Rough, but real, quote from translation from Ahmedinajad’s speech:

Let me tell you a joke. I think these leaders, that are building nuclear bombs…they are retarded.

He’ll be here all week. Try the veal.

UPDATE: Seriously, I now think we shouldn’t be that worried about these guys. I mean, how much trouble can a country get into when …

It’s a sad day for the GOP when their most-covered sop to values voters stems from a bit of cell phone pantomime and not an attempt to engage with, you know, actual values voters. As other outlets have reported, Alan Keyes headlined last week’s “Values Voter” debate (they gave him his own podium!), the highlight of which appeared to be …

I confess, when I read this:

Dick Cheney doesn’t put much stock in the conventional wisdom that he is the most powerful vice president in American history. In fact, he jokes that he is more like “the flavor of the month.”

My first thought was to create this:

Unfortunately, the pleasure that comes from creating an LOLCheney is …

• Is there a side to Mukasey that Chuck Schumer didn’t know? “Mukasey, 66, reassured top hard-liners…[he] said that he saw ‘significant problems’ with shutting down Guantánamo Bay and that he understood the need for the CIA to use some ‘enhanced’ interrogation techniques against Qaeda suspects. Mukasey also signaled reluctance with …

While Hillary’s get of Evan Bayh is getting more attention in the national media, Obama’s pick-up of Fischer has a pleasing symbolic punch: Fischer was last seen at Hillary’s Des Moines health care speech. Also, there’s a question of who’s endorsement can actually help their candidate where it matters. As an Obama staffer put it: “We see …

McCain’s surprise second place finish at the Mackinac staw poll is another sign of a possible resurgence. McCain spoke last at the event, when everyone, in theory should have been tired and bored and, well, decided. Oh, and he lost his Michigan campaign chair just days before. But he wowed the crowd, garnering one of its few standing …

The Obama campaign is holding a conference call now announcing that their candidate is being endorsed by Gordon Fischer, former Iowa Democratic state party chair. A nice pick-up in a state where experience getting people to the caucuses is a huge plus.

When Republicans try to prove their conservative bona fides by taking on a program aimed for children, the outcome is usually the same. Remember the Reagan Administration trying to declare ketchup a vegetable? And the House Republicans deciding to “curb the growth” of the school lunch program in 1995?

That’s why I’m mystified as to why …