Ardent Clinton supporter Geraldine Ferraro ran for Vice President once, and now she wants everybody to know how fortunate Barack Obama is to be a black man. She recently told the Daily Breeze, an LA-area paper, that “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.” Whoopsy! MORE »

Redding News Review, yesterday: MORE »

It’s like Godzilla vs. Mothra, only it’s even less clear who to cheer against! MORE »

Next week on ‘Reliable Sources’, a roundtable on Bill Keller: Hanging or public hanging? MORE »

Yes, ol’ Adele Fergusen’s brilliant, life-changing column has been Nick Sylvesterized from the Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal’s website, but it is still available — the pony hidden in the internet is that all the crazy shit you put there can last forever and ever! Some kindly blogger has posted the whole thing, in case you missed it yesterday. MORE »

• Inside Politics: Gillespie complains to The New York Times: “[T]he White House would appreciate the opportunity to provide a fuller accounting of a two-way discussion.”. . . Woodward predicts Cheney versus Hillary in ‘08. [WT]
• Names & Faces: Sen. Lamar Alexander and Rep. Steny Hoyer honored for their support of musician’s rights. [WP]
• Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Bush’s nominee to be ambassador to the Netherlands led Ameriquest Capital, which is sponsoring the Rolling Stones tour. [NYDN]
• Page Six: Bill Clinton to speak in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. [NYP]

As you may have heard, Rep. Katherine Harris told Sean Hannity the other day that the reason she looked so unattractive in those photos from the 2000 Florida debacle was because the photos had been doctored. Stranger things have happened, so we decided to check it out, comparing a photo from the debacle (actually the 2001 Inauguration but we think that counts as “debacle”) to a photo from her official website.

• Bill O’Reilly, sex tourist. [Reference Tone] MORE »