This week’s coup: getting a picture of Tennessee Senate candidate Bob Corker’s daughter Julia making out with another girl into the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Now we’re just working on getting Pierce Bush and Leslie Cochran into a Frank Rich column. MORE »

• Bill O’Reilly to appear on Dave Letterman show tonight, will be guest reader for “Top Ten Reasons That Bill O’Reilly Sucks Goat Ass.” [Page Six]

• Yellow ribbon redux. [Tales of the Freeway]
• Harper’s bursts your Obama bubble. [The Swamp]
• Michelle Bachmann may be a fool, but she’s “a fool for Christ.” [Boozhy]
• How to steal an election. [Ars Technica]
• “Stop it Chris Matthews. You and people who share your weird, racial paranoia are hurting the country.” [Media Blog]
• Bob Corker’s attack ad on Harold Ford wasn’t pulled because of racism, but rampant anti-Canadianism. [MoJo Blog]
• Lynne Cheney thinks Jim Webb is “full of baloney.” Lynne is proud of never having baloney in her. [Hotline on Call]
• Next week’s fun: speculating about George Allen’s divorce records. [Talking Points Memo]
• Someone on craigslist has a (creepy) thing for the ladies of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. [craigslist]

• Jean Schmidt afraid that after losing her seat in the House, she’ll also be forced to relinquish the title of most moronic elected official from Ohio. [Talking Points Memo]

• For Dick Cheney, a day without waterboarding is like a day without air. [MoJo Blog]
• New Bob Corker campaign ad being “checked” by Tennessee television stations. The ad won’t be aired unless it meets a minimum threshold of racist content. [Wizbang Politics]
• White House spokesman freely admits Iraq policy is driven by political concerns, MSM finds it too obvious to report. [Media Matters]
• Iraqi Insurgents For Lamont to begin airing campaign ads. [The Carpetbagger Report]
• South Korean panic over North Korean nuclear ambitions being assuaged by copious amounts of life-affirming sex. [Outside the Beltway]
• Roll Call steals our idea, improves it by using research tools other than Google. [TPM Muckraker]
• The Swiss cheese memory of Dennis Hastert strikes again as he replaces “forgotten” facts with made up ones. [Think Progress]

• Bob Corker’s new radio ad avoids confusion by playing an angelic chorus behind a reading of his bio and “jungle theme” tom tom drums during all mentions of Harold Ford. [Talk Left]

• Ohio gubernatorial race gets Kity Harris CrazyTM as Republican candidate accuses Democrat of covering up a NAMBLA conspiracy among his staff. [Political Wire]
• Harry Reid plans to spend election night in DC, already scouting backdrops for his “that’s right bitches, we won” speechifying. [Hotline on Call]
• Cardinals’ pitcher Jeff Suppan to spin curveballs and anti-stem cell propaganda during tonight’s World Series game. [Martini Republic]
• Gay guidos rejoice as New Jersey upholds civil-unions. [Above the Law]
• New blogger Chuck Norris wants everyone to know that he really loves Jesus, and shows that love the best way he knows how — by kicking fucking ass. [World Net Daily]

The Tennessee Senate race between Democrat Harold Ford and Republican Bob Corker is really damn close. Ford, unmarried, does have a bit of a thing for white girls. But because both candidates are pretending that this is about Iraq or some other bullshit like that, Corker has to pretend to “distance” himself from ads like the one above, in which, yes, the terrifying spectre of Harold Ford cavorting with dangerously pale models and strippers is suggested — briefly, but a little too obviously.

Ford responded by crashing Corker’s press conference, which is pretty cool. Ford was ostensibly upset because of Corker’s ad trashing Ford’s family (which painted the other Fords as somehow lazy gadabouts and hard-working corrupt lobbyists). Because everyone’s more comfortable talking about the suggestion of familial impropriety than the race-baiting thing, we’ll compare the Ford and Corker families’ embarrassment potential after the jump.

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• Illionois Senator and Democratic Dreamboat Barack Obama all-but-announced his candidacy for President this weekend, by not not announcing it. [WP, NYT]

• In Tennessee, former Democratic Dreamboat Harold Ford is running for Senate like a Republican. His opponent is escaping charges of secret Democratic tendencies. [Newsweek, Newsweek]
• President Bush seems convinced that the Republicans are a lock to win it all this election year. Washington asks, is he high or does he know something? President’s dad: Less optimistic. [NYT, WP]
• The Virginia Senate Race may depend on women. Which is a problem for both Democrat Jim Webb and Republican George Allen. [WP]
• The United States will be in Iraq forever. [WP, WT]
• “Polls of white evangelical Protestants show that their support for the Republican Party grew substantially from 1999 to 2004, then began a steady decline.” [Time]

Bob Corker is running for Bill Frist’s Senate seat, and he’s already demonstrating that he can be just as great a politician as the Senator Daktari himself. You see, Senator Frist hasn’t been particularly happy with, well, us for (along with others) publicizing the wacky (but harmless!) exploits of his strapping young sons. Not very happy at all. We even suspect he might be partly responsible for this.

So, after seeing all that, you’d think Mr. Corker might have let his lovely daughter know that she probably shouldn’t let pictures of her making out with chicks and dancing at underwear parties show up on a publicly accessible social networking website. Thankfully for all of you, they never had that talk.

Mr. Corker’s daughter is on the left. Another hard-partyin’ pic, after the jump.

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