“MY FRIENDS, NOT ONLY IS TINA FEY A HELLUVA LOT SMARTER, BUT WITH THE ECONOMY IN TATTERS, SHE CAN ACTUALLY SEE WALL STREET FROM HER OFFICE AT 30 ROCK.”

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Chris Matthews: Bailout failed because McCain’s leadership failed — at Crooks & Liars.

“Racism 2008” – at All Hat No Cattle.

Wanted: Another FDR, at Consortium News.

“IF MURROW HADN’T MADE HIS SCURRILOUS ATTACK ON JOE McCARTHY IN THE ’50′s, TODAY CHINA WOULD BE A U.S. PUPPET, WE’D STILL HAVE STAY-AT-HOME MOMS, AND KIDS WOULD BE EXPERIMENTING WITH HULA HOOPS INSTEAD OF DRUGS.”

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BLOGWORTHIES:

Based on the latest polls, BuzzFlash’s P.M. Carpenter laments The American Electorate: From Dingbats to Dingoes.  

Palin and Religion; Need something, just pray — at One Good Move.  (God help us!)  

Madkane’s sneak peek at Sarah Palin’s Barracuda Blog.

“YOU’RE RIGHT, KEITH, FOR NOW ON, I’M GONNA’ TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT IF THEY ELECT McCAIN AND MS. HOCKEY MOM … THIS COUNTRY’S GOING STRAIGHT TO H-E-DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS.”

[Crooks & Liars has the Countdown Interview.]

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BLOGWORTHIES:

The GOP’s Close Encounters with the Truth, by P.M. Carpenter at BuzzFlash.

Lisa Casey with the ‘Ghost of Hellish Present.’

John Amato at Crooks & Liars on “Policies Before Personalities.”

Dan Kurtzman with The Week’s Best Late-Night Jokes.

Chris Matthews off the rails again, dubbing Palin “a conservative version” of “Norma Rae” — at Media Matters.

“AND WITH ALL THE ADDITIONAL SHELF SPACE, YOU’LL BE ABLE TO PUT THE EXTRA HANGARS TO GOOD USE .”