“TODAY, GERALD FORD WAS EATEN BY WOLVES, AND I WAS BEATEN INTO SUBMISSION BY FOX NEWS AND THE McCAIN CAMPAIGN, WHO WANTED MSNBC TO RID CHRIS MATTHEWS AND OLBERMANN FROM THE ANCHOR CHAIRS.” 

Story at Huffington Post.

“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.

“AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF DESTROYING AMERICA, THE LEAST THEY COULD DO IS HOLD A FUNDRAISER TO TRY TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE.”

“BY MAJORITIES OF THREE TO ONE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WOULD ACTUALLY PREFER A ‘CATEGORY FIVE’ HURRICANE, IF IT WOULD CANCEL THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.” 

“MANY ON THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT FEEL THAT A ‘PRICK’ BEGINS AT CONCEPTION, BUT JOHN McCAIN HAS SHOWN THAT YOU CAN ACTUALLY GROW INTO ONE MUCH LATER IN LIFE.”