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Did you know that The McLaughlin Group is still on the air? It is, broadcasting live each week direct from 1986. Last Sunday’s was apparently insane. We didn’t catch it, but HuffPo’s Rachel Sklar, Pat Buchanan fetishist, did, and she’s posted the video. MORE »

Pat Buchanan, in full-on raging Old Testament mode, is not going to let the actions of one flamer distract from the real issue at hand, which is that the Democrats are all a bunch of flamers who have gay sex with little flamer kids. MORE »

Rachel Sklar is shocked — shocked! — at ABC’s The Path to 9/11. Specifically, the scene in which Beverly from The Larry Sanders Show Condoleezza Rice reads the now-famous “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” memo and then LEAPS INTO ACTION, calling some sort of meeting and urging an immediate strike against the guy Sandy Berger was too much of a pussy to get rid of a few short years earlier (as illustrated in this clip). The only problem with the scene is that, well, it’s complete bullshit. And it’s really obvious bullshit, as everyone’s got to remember what was one of our favorite soundbytes from the heady days of the 9/11 commission: MORE »

It’s been an exciting week in hating The Note. To recap:

• Dan Froomkin kicked things off on the 7th with a denial that he’s in the gang of 500 and a terse take-down of our “increasingly impenetrable, uninsightful and turgid” friends at the Political Unit.

• Then the Washington Monthly published an excerpt from Eric Boehlert’s book. The piece is a fun collection of The Note’s pet stories that, despite their best efforts, amounted to nothing. Remember the David Rosen story? No?
• HuffPo’s Rachel Sklar, friend of Wonkette, picks up trail and attacks them where it hurts: right in their stupid daily email blast.
• And our too-rich-and-too-thin New York sister learns, finally, of the pain we suffer every day. And we Note: Why the hell have ABC publicists started sending out obtuse excerpts from the Note without explanation? They’re not newsworthy, and, quite often, they’re lies. Anyone care to explain that?

After the jump, we’ll decode today’s Note.

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Earlier this afternoon, we passed along a report from the NYT’s Newark 06 blog, suggesting that Newark mayoral aspirant Cory Booker didn’t exactly “blog” at the Huffington Post. The Times gave this report: MORE »

* Steak and Blowjob Day is already 3/4’s of the way finished, but the night is young, DC. The night is young. [Circle V]
* “Lust stalks you like a beast, attacking at every opportunity, attempting to poison your life with its self-centered cravings.” Gah. We wish. [BreakawayMag]
* What have you done today for the cause? [Tomatoes Are Delicious]
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