Richard Wolffe, the formerly esteemed Newsweek journalist who everybody hates now because he works at the PR outfit of a couple of former Bush shills when he’s not pushing his Obama hagiography or playing Keith Olbermann on the teevee, has another book to sell! Would you like to buy it? MORE »

Sunday, July 19: Synchronized swimming is all anybody’s talking about these days, and, lucky for you, you can see it in action at the Capitol Skyline Hotel this Sunday from 6PM-7PM. As if that wasn’t exciting enough, Conner Contemporary Art is screening “experimental videos” (we’ll leave that is up to your imagination) poolside after the competition. Free. [Capitol Skyline Hotel] MORE »

“Each of these important titles is at least as good as the Bible. I encourage you to read them all, again and again, until the next scary eight years have finally ended.” [AOL Political Machine]

Only a couple of years after publication of the definitive closet-gay child’s escapist fantasy, Why Mommy Is a Democrat, some dingus has finally self-published the appropriate wartime response, Why Daddy Is A Republican. Because Daddy is John McCain? Oh, wrong children’s propaganda book. MORE »

AP’s NEW D.C. CHIEF HEARTS KARL ROVE: That newish Associated Press Washington bureau chief, Ron Fournier, is making AP copy all dumb and bloggy. Also, he e-mailed this to Karl Rove about Pat Tillman, the anti-Iraq War hero who was slaughtered by his own troops in Afghanistan: “The Lord creates men and women like this all over the world. But only the great and free countries allow them to flourish. Keep up the fight.” [Gawker/TPM Muckraker]

Oh looky, it’s a campaign poster from that terrible man. Add this wretched design to his long list of crimes against humanity. [Copyranter]

The guy who did the “Obey” stickers also did a bunch of Barack Obama posters, which you can see everywhere unless you are blind. And now Candidate Obama, because he is a nice fellow with good manners, has written a thank-you note to Shepard Fairey. MORE »

Incredible as it seems, the Bush Administration may have been dishonest every day, forever, about Iraq. That’s the shocking conclusion of some study funded by “limousine liberal” George Soros. According to the report, Bush and Cheney and the rest of the administration spent all their time between 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq successfully convincing our nation’s dumber people — Congress, reporters, etc. — that Saddam Hussein was about to launch even more jetliners full of anthrax at American buildings. MORE »

“Issuing a stunning rocket” (that is Kate Phillips’ phrase — we have no clue what it means but we like it and may begin all of today’s posts with it), the Pentagon told Hillary Clinton that they were going to sent her to Gitmo if she keeps kinda-sorta planning a withdrawal from Iraq. No, seriously. Her half-assed non-plan is considered “enemy propaganda” and the Pentagon is totally serious about fighting the War on Mild Criticism. MORE »

In a stunning development, the White House has invented a story about discovered that Austrian guns have been used to fire at the American occupiers in Iraq. This is not looking good for Austria. MORE »

Back when he was “Jeff Gannon” and only the Bush Administration senior officials who let him stay overnight at the White House knew he was a gay prostitute, mysterious GOP agent James Guckert was also playing a subtle blatant role in the smear campaign against Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame.

Nobody read “Talon News” — the propaganda website that supposedly employed Gannon/Guckert as a White House correspondent — so Gannon/Guckert’s anti-Wilson articles hardly influenced anyone. Fox News and Bob Novak could reach millions of people with that same White House marketing! Where Gannon/Guckert proved useful was, as always, in the televised press briefings with Scott McClellan and even Bush himself.

Come see the creepy evidence, after the jump.

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