Wonkette

* Hillary Clinton’s “One Week, One Million” fund-raising campaign taps into the base impulses of Net surfers. [TechPresident]
* The eyebrow-plucking alligator shoe wearing set is behind you all the way. [GQ]
* Cunningham/Foggo clusterfuck moves on from Watergategate/Hookergate to Highestlevelsofpowercoveringupreallyheavyshitgate. [TPM]
* The 1/2 Hour News Hour is decidedly less funny that the 23 1/2 other hours on Fox, says Olbermann. [C&L]
* How about a vice president who’s on teevee any hour of day or night? McCain/Thompson ‘08. [Hotline on Call]
* Billy Frist the kitty murderer gets older today. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]
* September 11, 2001: the best day of Rudy Giuliani’s life. [Media Matters]

An Atrios guest-blogger posts something rather insensitive about a 9/11 American Airlines ticket agent killing herself due to guilt. It becomes a minor left-blogdom in-fight (and wins one of Andrew Sullivan’s patented “not funny anymore” awards). The source: an Oprah repeat. The problem: there’s not actually any proof that this ever happened.

Our own half-assed investigation, after the jump.

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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 »

• President marks September 11th anniversary with visits to all three crash sites, as do victims’ families, emergency response workers, and conspiracy theorists. [WP, NYT]

• In prime-time speech last night from the White House, President says, “the safety of America depends on the outcome of the battle in the streets of Baghdad.” [WP, NYT]
• The big papers analyze the speech and context in which it was given, find him to be both at his “Reaganesque best” and “most dangerous.” [WP, NYT]
• Condoleezza Rice offers Iran, “a suspension for suspension,” no more uranium enrichment for no more UN sanctions. [NYT]
• New study finds Americans’ have “four distinct views of God’s personality.” [USAT]
• Even internet dating can’t help frustrated Iraqis looking for love among increasing sectarian divisiveness. [WP]
• DC primaries (only election that counts) today, expectations are for “a watershed election for DC.” [WP]

• A cabin in Montana and a copy of Newsweek is all you need to forget this world forever. [The Carpetbagger Report]

• Economics wonks: “9-11 was not that big an event.” DOES THEIR CONTRARIANISM KNOW NO BOUNDS? [Freakonomics]
• The Rude One pens his power ballad at ground zero, finds roses still thorny. [Rude Pundit]
• Freaks don’t just come out at night, they are also regular attendees of disaster anniversaries. [Little Green Footballs]
• White House maintaining policy of admitting to things 18 months after The New Yorker finds them out. [The Cool Honey]
• Bill Richardson eats cheetah steaks for breakfast just because it’s so baller. [The Corsair]
• Abu Ghraib prisoners now torturing selves over complaining about American torture, which apparently isn’t close to Iraqi torture. [Telegraph]

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CNN Pipeline is replaying CNN’s coverage of 9/11 in real time and as it happened. It’s just as you remember it from that dark day: jerky, pixellated, and constantly rebuffering. And with occasional, inexplicable gaps in the tape, like the one seen above, taken from just after the South tower collapsed. It presumably hides the moment when Sandy Berger called in to CNN cackling and accepting full responsibility for the attacks on America. MORE »

• President honors anniversary of attacks in New York by laying wreathes where each tower stood, vowing, “that I’m never going to forget the lessons of that day.” [NYT, WT, W$J, LAT]

• Some Americans’ still have “normal lives” after that day, others not so much. [WP, LAT, USAT]
• Vice President Cheney sounded “uncharacteristically defensive” on Meet the Press yesterday, took back that bit about “last throes.” [NYT]
• Top Marine intelligence officer in Iraq files a “pessimistic” report on the situation in the Western Anbar province: “We haven’t been defeated militarily but we have been defeated politically — and that’s where wars are won and lost.” [WP]
• Growing numbers of CIA counterterrorism officers are enrolling in an insurance plan that would cover them if their actions are ruled as illegal. [WP]
• “Five years after Sept. 11, 2001, ground zero remains a 16-acre, 70-foot-deep hole in the heart of Lower Manhattan.” [NYT]
• If elected, Minnesota candidate Keith Ellison would be the first Muslim in Congress. [WP]

• It’s never a bad week when Education Department press releases sound like the hottest porno movie you’ve ever seen.

• George Allen proves he’s not as dumb we think, cause he knows all the dirty bill introduction tactics.
• Allen’s drive and power to lead come from his heroic American God complex, as captured in oil and displayed, fifty feet long, in his terrifying (we assume) home.
• Angry old flyover state cause du jour is a boycott of Miller beer because of the “money” they “donated” to Mexican American charities. Malkin involved, obviously, so whole thing bound to be forgotten by Monday.
• ABC News stores genuine bullshit dangerously close to the Capitol.
• Anderson Cooper’s hoping his bedroom eyes will distract you from the fact that he’s been sent to personally kill Castro.
• In an attempt to get more Benjamins, Target screws up its Franklins. Though a genuine FDR “action” figure would surely sell like hotcakes too.
• Katherine Harris wins her primary, just like we knew she would. And victory is sweet, so sweet.
• We didn’t make it to Katy’s party, not that we were invited, but we did get to this one, and we still haven’t washed Chris Matthews’ or Tim Russert’s handshakes off.
• Please take some time from your busy September 11th anniversary planning, and think about some stuff no one else will tell you.

• Help support the GWOT by wearing a “Terrorists should die, ask me why” button. [IMAO]

• Bush’s approval rating: really, really, positively not related to congressional campaigns. Also, Gallup just makes that shit up. [Wizbang Politics]
• It’s official, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. [Think Progress]
• Peacekeeping forces in Lebanon to have guns that shoot out little flags with “Bang!” on them, so as not to upset any terrorist militias. [The QandO Blog]
• Spanish and British mobs people are more racist than Americans. [La Shawn Barber's Corner]
• Study finds that newspapers are more trusted than blogs. Trusted, but not actually read. [ E&P]
• Don’t worry, even if the “Stevens ‘tube’ bill” kills the internet, a new way to distribute porn will take it’s place. [The Left Coaster]