There is no reason, ever, to invite racist ex-Congressman failure Tom Tancredo onto any television show, or at least the political ones. So thank you Tom Tancredo for graciously acknowledging your unimportance and leaving the set mid-interview! MORE »

Stunningly awful Washington lawyer/lobbyist-cum-pundit Lanny Davis, who demands everyone take a pledge to be civil while he literally does whatever X corporation pays him to do, uses his latest column in The Hill to condescendingly lecture Markos “Kos” Moulitsas about how he didn’t properly apologize to a congressman for an error he made in his own column in The Hill, recently. Does The Hill have a veritable donnybrook on its hands? MORE »

Famous blogger Markos “Kos” of the Daily Kos liberal website claims that this is Barack Obama’s birth certificate, which he obtained by asking the campaign. As you can see, it is clearly false: his race is not “African” as this crap-ument suggests, it is “Muslim,” and the Wingnuts live another day. [Daily Kos]

This general election prediction map comes from the famous angry blogger Kos. It pits Unelectable Obama vs. Maverick McCain and allocates states according to the current Pollster.com state polling averages, so there’s no “funny business” with the math. While the numbers grant Obama Ohio and Pennsyvlania, they don’t give him Michigan (supposedly a must-win), Florida, Virginia or Nevada. The result? Obama 283, McCain 255. And this is how Al Gore will become president again at the Convention. [Daily Kos]

We knew that the kinda-Demrat Sen. Joe Lieberman had gone WALNUTS! a while back, but we didn’t know how literal the descent into loony dipshittery was. This morning, Lieberman endorsed John McCain for president. Yeah, Joe endorsed a Republican, so that’s in any way surprising. This cross endorsement should help Walnuts with the independent-ish Rockefeller Republicans in New Hampshire, and should also finally send the Kos people sprinting Joe’s way with a pickax. [CNN]

Local paper The Hill is hiring two sorta famous new columnists! One is Jim Mills, the former senior producer at Fox News who quit that to work for Fred Thompson and was fired shortly thereafter. The other is Markos Moulitsas, who runs that outfit that’s always babbling on about netroots.

This week, Chris Matthews, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Cecilia Sarkozy, Nicole Richie, and Markos Moulitsas were all spotted being various degrees of famous at various places by our spies and operatives. Voyeuristic fun, as always, is after the jump.

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Apparently Bill O’Reilly has been going on about Daily Kos lately, because he’s a good three years behind everyone else on the internet. Using the typical marginalizing strategy of conflating the site with its craziest commenters, O’Reilly has compared the site to the Klan and the Nazi party — he even got JetBlue to withdraw sponsorship of Kos’ little convention! Naturally, the “Kossacks” are responding by proving conclusively that they are just as fucking crazy as the idiot tv guy says they are. MORE »

• “There’s a growing constituency of low-income white folks in America who aren’t duped any longer… Back in the Sixties, along with the Black Panthers, Young Lords, and the Brown Berets, there was a group of what detractors derided as “white trailer trash” called Rising Up Angry. Its awareness and militancy were second to none.” [Smirking Chimp]

• In a blog clusterfuck, Daily Kos (Markos Moulitsas) disses TNR for defecting to the right, LGF says “Moulitsas’ conspiracy-oriented mindset echoes the anti-rational paranoia of radical Islam.” [LGF]
• Apocalyptic Left Behind video games record which video ads and product placements you view, where your computer is located geographically, and how many New Yorkers you fail to convert and then murder. [Talk To Action]
• Glenn Greenwald on Jose Padilla: “Jose Padilla spent 3.5 years of his life in jail, for charges that the administration is not willing to test in a court of law. Yet it is now bringing a case against Padilla that is “light on facts.” [Glenn Greenwald]
• “Essentially, from time to time Negroponte pulls a toy rabbit around a track and lets the righties get some exercise by running in circles, chasing it.” [The Mahablog]

• HuffPo tsks NYT for being uncritical on the science of breastfeeding, all Tom Cruise on postpartum depression. [HuffPo]

• Daily Kos navel gazes. [Daily Kos]
• Bill Roggio posts video from Afghanistan: “We armed ourselves with automatic weapons and chose the armored 4×4 Toyota pickup with red markings.” [Counterterrorism Blog]
• And finally, something interesting. All blogs are in a frenzy because Kentucky’s Bluegrass Report has been blocked from state government computers. Oh yeah, us too. OUTRAGE. [Bluegrass Report]

How did ‘08 hopefuls impress the Yearly Kos attendees? Here’s the bribe-list, per Michael Scherer at Salon: MORE »