• Rahm Emanuel wanted Obama’s Senate seat for himself — it is a fucking object of inestimable worth — and asked Blaggy to save it for him. Still, he didn’t offer Blaggy any famous nine-fingered handjobs in return. [TPMMuckraker]
• Howard Wolfson is taking his porn and his Bon Iver mixtapes and his dumb blog to New York, where he will be bringing some of the old Clinton Campaign Magic to Bloomberg’s now-doomed re-election team. [The Caucus]
• Here is Brit Hume’s farewell ode to Brit Hume; the former and latter will be starting his depressingly vague-sounding new job as Fox’s “Senior Political Analyst” in 2009. [Michael Calderone]
• How much does America know about this C. Hussein Kennedy? Literally nothing, but things seem Muslim, don’t they? [The Fix]
• Oh hey Merry Christmas: The unemployment rate is the highest its been in 26 years. [Daily Beast]

• Rick Warren will exorcise the all gay out of Barry using the same Bible that Lincoln used at his Invocation. [The Caucus]
• Barack Obama has shipped Rahm Emanuel to Africa, where he will be able to avoid Blaggy. [HuffPost]
• Here is famed music critic Howard Wolfson’s list of all the music he listened to while stress-eating and furiously masturbating in 2008. Howard Wolfson is so emo. [Ben Smith]
• The Pope has said some terrible things about the homosexuals, whom he thinks are totally gay. [Political Machine]
• Sarah Palin says that the most important thing she learned from the campaign was that things go badly when she is not in charge. [Top of the Ticket]

Did anyone else know that Howard Wolfson has a blog on The New Republic now? No, not his elitist indie rock one, but an actual politics blog that is comically titled “The Flack,” where he mostly answers arbitrary questions about Hillary Clinton. And he says that Clinton will not start a “cat fight” with Palin. Thank God, because no one wants to go through an electoral distraction of THAT kind of world-historical magnitude. Can you even imagine how many 52-year-old male D.C. pundits have the first parts of their “Battle of the Bitches” narratives typed up and ready to go, just sittin’ in Microsoft Word, waiting for the first vague Clinton line about Palin at a rally to set the predetermined cycle in motion? [The Flack]

What is this crazy thing by sweater goblin Howard Wolfson in today’s Washington Post? It actually seems like an insightful and … dare we say, candid assessment of his Clinton-induced dementia and eventual Come to Jesus moment with Barry Obama. MORE »

Oh goody, we are now at the “blame John Edwards for pretty much everything” stage of the Edwards Was A Baby Mamma scandal. Somehow the mortgage meltdown and the brand-new war in Georgia will turn out to be his fault, but we’ll leave it to Sam Stein to uncover those crucial links. In the meantime, former Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson has found something else to blame on John Edwards: the implosion of the Clinton candidacy. MORE »

Poor Howard Wolfson. The former Clinton toady was born with only one testicle, half a human soul, and twice the normal complement of genes coding for poor taste in sweaters. But finally it looks like a little ray of lucky light is shining on our Wolfie: he got himself a job! After months of volunteering, he will now be officially paid to appear on Fox News. MORE »

Second only to Mark Penn in Hillary Clinton’s Annals of Campaign Staff Odiousness, former Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson is known for precisely two things: wearing a hideous Cosby sweater stolen off a murdered bum “for good luck,” and being a terrible asshole. Julia Reed, who tried to interview Hillary Clinton for Vogue, called him “the most charmless human being on the planet.” And that is only the beginning of the horrors she suffered trying to land an interview with the Inevitable Nominee. MORE »

Clinton campaign spokesperson and offensive sweater-wearer Howard Wolfson doesn’t have a lot to be happy about these days, but at least he finally sold his Central Park West condo (pictured, left). The property had been on the market since last July. Now the new owner will be able to enjoy its luxurious limestone bathrooms while Sad Howard sleeps on a grate along with John Edwards’ war veterans. [New York Observer]

Yowza yowza yowza, the Spin Room at the National Constitution Center has been conquered by Mr. Spin himself, Howard Wolfson, the Clinton campaign’s communications director and new Chief Strategist! He sure looks like he wants to hit some fella. Maybe the douchebag blogger pointing the camera in his face for like 20 seconds? (Can’t this guy shave?)

Whatever. A multitude of old slaveowners cast in bronze discussing America, after the jump. MORE »

Here’s the best video ever, again, that contrasts Hillary’s account of being shot at by snipers in Bosnia with what really happened — she greeted children while Sinbad and Sheryl Crow boogied in the background. Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson responded to the objective lie today with the closest Clinton admission to guilt in History: “It is possible” that she “misspoke.” If you think like Ken Starr, that is! MORE »

Keith Olbermann’s “Special Comment” about Hillary Clinton last night was nine minutes long, or so, and deranged. Had it been less than three minutes, it might have been vaguely effective. Fortunately, we’ve distilled the thing into a highlight reel in this video, so you might be able to sleep tonight. And the Clinton campaign responded today, too: “We obviously, vigorously disagree with that characterization, although many of us remain fans of Keith and enjoy watching the show on nights other than last night,” said communications director Howard Wolfson. [Ben Smith]