In today’s edition of “Things That Are Impossible To Overstate, According To The News Media,” we return to that years-old question of whether Barack Obama either modestly dislikes women, or hates every single woman’s fucking guts. This was a hot topic last year when Barack Obama defeated a woman in a presidential primary, a heinous display of chauvinism. Why not crap on Susan B. Anthony’s grave and punch Lucretia Mott in the boob, while you’re at it? And now Obama has done something far worse: played various sports with coteries of men, instead of women. This is the very definition of being “pro-life.” MORE »

As he is a Times political reporter, we’ve probably written (or thought) a number of nasty things about Mark Leibovich. We’re past all that now, because he’s written an absolutely beautiful Katherine Harris profile. Here’s but a sampling:

Once Ms. Harris wins her race for a Senate seat, she says, she plans to travel everywhere with a guide dog.

Yeah, that’s right. Katherine Harris — who is not, 1908 Sears & Roebuck catalog wardrobe aside, actually blind — will be using a seeing-eye dog. Until she fires it in a fit of pique and it starts giving anonymous quotes trashing her to Dan Balz. Also, Harris already works in the Capitol. Why wait until she’s on the other end of the building before getting a dog? Is the Senate side just harder to find your way around in?

More — so, so much more — after the jump.

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Perhaps in response to the compelling results of a recent Wonkette poll, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said this to the New York Times:

“I hear them say on TV that I’ve had face-lifts,” said Ms. Pelosi, 66, who added that she had never had one. “I heard one woman say I’ve had a face-lift, but it looks terrible.”

She shook her head and said, “Did you ever think that those two things cancel themselves out?”

Uh, not really. Why isn’t it possible that you had some awful plastic surgery? It does happen, you know.

Also, note her careful wording: no facelifts. But we asked about an eyelid lift.

Additional commentary, including a post-surgery sighting of Pelosi, after the jump.

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