• SOMEHOW THIS IS VERY OFFENSIVE TO TRIG PALIN AS WELL: Question: Why did Keith Olbermann let Richard Wolffe keep appearing as a guest commentator on his show four months after it became apparent that Wolffe is a known greaseball whore who will take money from literally anyone? Answer: How dare you ask that question, which is an insult to Keith Olbermann’s dead mother. [Gawker]

Richard Wolffe, the formerly esteemed Newsweek journalist who everybody hates now because he works at the PR outfit of a couple of former Bush shills when he’s not pushing his Obama hagiography or playing Keith Olbermann on the teevee, has another book to sell! Would you like to buy it? MORE »

It is apparently very, very lucrative to be one of two Attorney Generals to have presided over the biggest erosion of civil liberties in America since we put Japanese-Americans in internment camps! These days, former AG Ashcroft is a lawyer in a private consulting firm, but many of his minions from the good old days are still at Justice. And one of those minions, U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie in New Jersey, might’ve done John a little, tiny $1 million/month favor. But, what’s a little cash between friends?

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Meet Chris Lehane. He was a spinmaster for Clinton who served as Gore’s spokesman during the 2000 campaign but ditched Kerry in 2003 over stylistic differences. Since then he and his business partner, Democratic hack Mark Fabiani, have built a (one assumes) lucrative business as hacks-for-hire, representing everyone from Kobe Bryant to former California Governor Grey Davis to the Screen Actors Guild to a number of unions united under the Change to Win banner. Recently, though, Lehane and Fabiani picked up a new client: the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, who are trying to bust the writer’s strike. Hmm.

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