Salon sticks it to the Dem’s golden boy today with a lengthy piece attacking Barack Obama as someone who was not very good at campaigning seven years ago. Some now-chastised web monkey happened to call the Illinois Senator “uppity” on the front page, though, and you really can’t get away with that unless you’re Joe Biden. MORE »

Salon has created a highlight reel of television news’s Incredible Reappearing Backbone, from Anderson Cooper bitchslapping Mary Landrieu to Tim Russert waving reports in Michael Chertoff’s face. We’re really glad someone did this, not just because it’s both heartening and hilarious but because we worry that in three months no one will remember it happened, especially not the journalists. MORE »