Mau mauing voters in NY23

Teabaggers intimidating voters at NY23 polling stations.

Bringing a little bit of Dixie Alaska to upstate New York.

Charming.

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It’s kinda funny how things work at the WaPost now. Nick Gillespie reviews two new rightwing hagiographies of Sarah Palin, and casually throws in a:

The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan, a self-identified conservative who calls his Daily Dish “the most popular one-man political blog site in the world,” persistently claimed that Trig Palin, the governor’s then-4-month-old baby with Down syndrome, was not Sarah’s biological child and requested the full release of her obstetrical records, stopping just short of demanding he be sent the placenta for genetic testing. (If President Obama is hounded by a small group of reality-challenged “birthers,” who doubt he was born in Hawaii, Palin is certainly the only politician to have given rise to what might be called “after-birthers,” who doubt that she delivered her own children.)

If you click that link, it takes you to notorious truth-buster Howie the Whore Kurtz whose very deep analysis of the Palin “after-birther” controversy amounts to exactly . . . nothing. Nada. Not one word in the column linked to about the controversy other than the drive by comment:

While taking swipes at bloggers — “probably sitting there in their parents’ basement, wearing their pajamas” — Palin also misstated some facts. She complained to Lauer about “the rumors, the speculation, even in mainstream media, that Trig wasn’t actually my child, that Trig was somebody else’s child and I faked a pregnancy,” calling that “absolutely ridiculous.”

In fact, no mainstream outlet published the Internet rumors until the McCain campaign issued a statement, during the GOP convention, that Palin’s teenage daughter Bristol was pregnant. McCain officials told reporters they were putting out the news because of inquiries about whether the governor was really Trig’s mother.

In other words, coverage of the coverage, not coverage of what would be the biggest political scandal of the last century. Gillespie’s not just sweeping the allegations under the rug, he’s throwing up dummy links in an effort to simulate documentation.

There is no documentation that Sarah Palin is Trig’s mother, at least not that anyone has ever seen. We don’t even know which hospital Trig was born in.

When this eventually breaks, every establishment media political reporter in the country should resign in shame.

How flipped out would the right be if Obama had never released his birth certificate? Why on earth can’t we see Trig’s?

Why on earth doesn’t the media delve into that?

But hey, here instead is the speech Sarah would have delivered election night had Tony the Fixer intervened and handed the election to McCain-Palin.

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America’s Next Great Pundit Contest continues with Lydia Khalil writing a Tom Friedman cabbie column, and Maame Gyamfi who is quickly becoming my favorite contestant.

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Bob Herbert on alt-energy.

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Rep. Keith Ellison has written about the Goldstone Report for Politico.

[via Soren]

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I like the whole J Street concept even more so after reading this.

Isi Leibler wrote an article in The Jerusalem Post that used truly frightening language. Referring to Jews who criticize Israel, Leibler writes: “Such odious Jews can be traced back to apostates during the Middle Ages who fabricated blood libels and vile distortions of Jewish religious practice for Christian anti-Semites to incite hatred which culminated in massacres. It was in response to these renegades that the herem (excommunication) was introduced.” Leibler’s approach is duplicitous. He uses one type of language when speaking to what he takes to be his constituency, but a few days ago denied in a piece in The Guardian that he ever called for the excommunication of J Street or of critics of Israel.

Haaretz

People of all faiths need to start reining in their fringe loonies before they bury us all.

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Screaming “the train took my baby,” a mother watched in horror as a CTA train pulled away from a North Side station with her baby and stroller stuck in the doors.

The southbound train dragged the stroller until it hit a barrier at the end of the Morse station and the 22-month-old girl flew onto the tracks, missing the third rail, police said.

Amazingly the baby was barely harmed. [ChiTrib]

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Goldman Sachs left more than just Americans holding the bag.

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Infrastructure is a good buy?

Well, I always thought so….

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John Solomon admitting to what AP and the WaPost said he never did.

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Claude Levi-Strauss, R.I.P.

I voted, btw.

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