Here is your Barack Obama in the second, less boring part of his Daily Show appearance last night. The part at the end where he says “I’m calling to find out if you’re happy with your cell phone service” in stentorian, inspiring tones will have all you Obama nuts screaming Yes yes I love Verizon while the rest of us wonder if we’ve been been had by old Hopey. MORE »

CBS News’ delightful Jeff Greenfield — well, he’s not so delightful anymore, according to Ice Queen Katie Couric. His phone went off IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TEEVEE. Katie Couric yells at him, then realizes yelling would make her less pretty. So then she giggles. It’s America’s anchor and her nutty sidekick, on America’s most famous network!

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Here’s a happy feature story from Shep: The FBI can listen to your conversations even if you’re not on the phone and your mobile is turned off. How? There are little GPS locater devices in all modern cell phones. You can supposedly disable them, but you really can’t. MORE »

Generous Israeli army always calls before they bomb a house, and will even follow up with a “my bad” call if they meant they’re going to bomb the other Abdul on your block.
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Yesterday afternoon, our most favorite congresswoman ever, Rep. Cynthia McKinney, spoke with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room.” This was shortly after Blitzer reported that federal prosecutors are considering whether to bring charges against McKinney stemming out of her recent scuffle with Capitol Police.

Here are some highlights:

BLITZER: Well, here is what some of your critics are saying, and I know you know this. And we’ll put a picture up, a recent photo that is in the Capitol Hill book.

This was a picture of you now. This is what you look like now. Obviously, you have a new hairstyle, as opposed to your old hairstyle. And what they’re saying is, when you changed your hairstyle, they didn’t recognize you, they politely asked you to stop and you resisted several attempts by one of the Capitol Hill Police officers to stop and to identify yourself. And as a result, there was this altercation in which they say you allegedly hit the police officer.

MCKINNEY: Wolf, the only thing I can say about the juxtaposition of those two pictures is that in one of them I happen to have a little more makeup on about the way I am here on CNN today. But the bottom line is that my face hasn’t changed, and I haven’t changed.

I’ve looked like this for the entire 11 years that I have been in Congress. And so, I don’t understand exactly why it is that certain police officers have a problem remembering my face….

Amen! It is somewhat ridiculous that the Capitol Police officers can’t recognize a representative, after seeing her day after day for over a decade — regardless of how she styles her hair. It reminds us of that elderly door monitor at the university library who insisted on scrutinizing our I.D. card at length, every single time we entered, even after seeing us several times a day for the better part of three years.

More insanity after the jump.

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BREAKING! BREAKING! MCKINNEY PRESSER AT 5:30 AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY… WILL THE S1W BE THERE? MORE TK… MORE »