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Do you know what we miss? We miss Sam Donaldson yelling questions at Ronald Reagan, and telling weird stories, and doing his “webcast” at the Republican and Democratic presidential conventions in 2000. Here, our own Liz Glover asks Sam to tell some stories, and good lord, does he oblige. This was at the Michael Kelly Awards over at the Atlantic Monthly’s office on Thursday night. (Yes we know Donaldson is on ABC’s This Week but we never wake up in time for that, due to booze.)

From this morning’s ABC “town hall” with Hillary Clinton, about the gas tax holiday:

STEPHANOPOULOS: “But can you name an economist who thinks this makes sense?”
CLINTON: “Well, I’ll tell you what, I’m not going to put my lot in with economists.”

Silly George, the Clintons don’t listen to economists for economic advice. Spanky the Money Octopus tells them all they need to know.

Barack Obama dismisses the trashy debate last night and then … does he give Hillary Clinton a subtle middle finger? No, sadly — it’s two fingers, and he appears to have an itch on his face or whatever. But it is an important clue into how crazy everyone is going that this video from a local teevee staion in North Carolina is suddenly being sent out by the anti-Obama Internets. ALSO: Funny extended version of this video, in the comments. [YouTube]

The elitist assessment of that terrible debate last night is pretty much, Oh my god, they let that be broadcast on the teevee?” So, obviously, it is the debate “Regular Americans” loved most, because ABC just announced that no primary debate has ever had so big an audience. Take that, Lincoln-Douglas Debate! Suck it, Kennedy-Nixon Debate! MORE »

Greetings from your editor’s spacious couch! We forego a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go to the Pennsyltucky Massacre/Debate in order to bring you this important commentary from beloved cultural icons Chris Matthews, Pat Buchanan, and the guy from Massachusetts. What crazy accidental truths will this bitter old white Catholics utter in between non sequitors? Join us and find out! MORE »

Last night, ABC and NBC News interviewed Getty photographer John Moore who (along with Farooq Naeem of Agence France-Presse) took the photos I published yesterday. During the interview, they showed one of the photographs I swore mainstream media wouldn’t show you (and the one the editors of the New York Times had the stones to put unedited on the front page above the fold this morning). But, did they really show you? Their still, and the original, after the jump.

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The moment we announced the death of The Note this morning, ABC’s publicity department alerted us that no, it wasn’t dead, and in fact, they found someone to write it! MORE »

ABC presented an exclusive Diane Sawyer interview with Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad this morning, in which he skilfully dodged every question while still giving answers with more substance than the last dozen Bush interviews. MORE »

Doesn’t this seem a little insensitive for ABC? MORE »

Here’s a story about Mark Foley with a perfectly standard, randomly chosen, completely innocent file photo of him. And some other guy. Some other guy who coincidentally happens to be Representative and fellow Pagefucker Jerry Weller! MORE »