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Here is that ad we talked about in the Daily Briefing! The best part is it rhymes at the end. Also, this is one of them ads released so that MEDIA ELITES will talk them up, so give yourself a pat on the back, you are now part of the media elite that Normal Americans despise even more than the regular elite. [Ben Smith]

• Here’s Sarah Palin, dressed like an extra from Bonfire of the Vanities, talking about Alaskan national snowgames. [Matthew Yglesias]
• Carly Fiorina has been disappeared, and thus joins the ranks of every single person and tanning machine in Alaska plus one Ohioan teleprompter. [Daily Kos]
• McCain confirms his status as forgotten, tragic Hemingway character as he tells Hunting and Fishing magazine about some catfish, in Arizona, that he’s tried to catch for hundreds of years. I go fishing for catfish. The catfish I go fishing for are in Arizona. I have been trying to catch catfish for years in Arizona. Since the war, catfish have been good. [Jonathan Martin]
• HRC canceled a chance to protest Ahmadinejad just so she could avoid Sarah Palin, who will also be there for god knows what reason. [Top of the Ticket]
• It is literally impossible to overstate the importance of Matt Drudge and the Matt Drudge blog. [The Fix]

You may remember Tony Rodham from the 1990s when he and his brother Hugh were constantly getting their sister Hillary Clinton in trouble by securing pardons for their buddies, befriending hostile foreign leaders, having affairs, doing drugs, and so forth and so on. They were not very classy folks, unlike their morally stalwart sister and her husband, the President. And now Tony is back, fucking everything up again, and hosting a get-together with John McCain’s female outreach coordinator, Carly Fiorina, in an area of Pennsylvania that voted heavily for Clinton in the primary. [Scranton Times-Tribune]

A lot of people think John McCain supports abortion rights and other things many ladies care about, even though he doesn’t support these things. One of those confused people is McCain’s potential lady running-mate Carly Fiorina. On Monday, she said, “There are many health insurance plans that will cover Viagra but won’t cover birth control medication. Those women would like a choice.” But of course John McCain voted twice against legislation that would require insurance companies to cover birth control. Because seriously gals, just keep it in your pants! MORE »