Look, it’s one of your newest pretend boyfriends, Shepard Smith of Fox News, being a Maverick and unloading on comedian Nick Di Paolo for suggesting that the Liberal media was responsible for Obama’s victory. Shep you dirty traitor! More importantly: what the hell is this? They are sitting at a beer pong table in the A/V closet along with some kind of old bagpiper and a house elf in a red sweater. There is an Xbox on the shelf behind Shep Smith. [Salon]

Shameful. Poor Joe Lieberman can’t even take a few days to rest at home in his bath of acidic blood-water without the liberal blog photographers staking him out. [NBC5]

All George W. Bush wants to do these days is sing and dance. Hey, he’s a pretty okay guy after all! So what if he killed 600,000 people and blew up a third of the world and ruined the Global Economy and probably caused AIDS? He loves to entertain, and the Washington Press Corps loves when anybody famous pays attention to them! MORE »

Quitcher bitchin’, libtards! There hasn’t been a single US death in Iraq since the new year, according to Fox’s constantly-updated list! MORE »

When the Post’s Howard Kurtz emailed us to let us know that he was writing about Michelle Malkin, we were excited. After all, not nearly enough is known about this reclusive, media-shy shrinking violet.

And if there’s anyone worthy of being taken seriously, it’s Malkin. From her groundbreaking book on Japanese Internment, Those Nip Fucks Deserved It, to her recent work exposing as fictional the Iraqi police officer/AP source who was later disappeared for talking to the press, Malkin is an intellectual powerhouse whose views need to be heard and publicized.

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This weekend brought two pieces examining the mysterious and terrifying parts of the country that don’t want to push the President down a flight of stairs: The Guardian’s Boise, Idaho and the New York Times’ Provo, Utah. Which piece is more condescending? Which city is stupider? MORE »

That biased liberal media. Always trying to take down the president and give conservatives a bad name. Other than the Alito nomination, Bush

How low are Air America’s ratings in DC? So low “Arbitron couldn’t detect a measurable listenership for the station this time around.” But is there any truth to the rumor that Chris Matthews in a crowded restaurant actually gets more listeners than the typical Air America broadcast? As far as we know, no. But still: what the hell happened to the liberal media elite’s insularity and self-absorption? — GREG BEATO MORE »

• Under the Dome: House Republicans offer podcasts of their news briefings. [The Hill]
• Page Six: Condoleezza Rice has visited new Fifth Avenue spa favored by Lindsay Lohan, Carson Kressley. . . New Yorker fiction editor compares Bush’s reelection to 9/11. [NYP, NYP]
• Rush & Molloy: Chelsea Clinton “spent most of her time cuddling and dancing with a large, sweaty man” at a Las Vegas party. . . Bill O’Reilly enjoyed parts of George Clooney’s latest flick, “Good Night and Good Luck.” [NYDN]