Yes. YES. Look at him shake it. He’s like, “What up? I’m here, and it’s time to party, baby.” Again: a hilarious dancing hobbit version of Michael Steele appears when you load the new GOP.com. Everyone is loving this. Think Progress is having a very Think Progress-y field day, with its dreaded flat tone of icy partisanship: “However, one of the people listed as a ‘great Republican’ is baseball legend Jackie Robinson, who actually identified himself as an independent. In fact, Robinson spoke out about the ‘hatred’ he saw at the 1964 GOP convention, where Barry Goldwater won the nomination. He called it ‘one of the most unforgettable and frightening experiences of my life.’” Holy potatoes, this is one fuckin’ website here. We’ll probably post about some other insane aspect of it in like an hour. [GOP.com]

Are you FRIGHTENED yet, citizens? Abraham Lincoln would not have cared for this at all, these sinister libtards “working in the shadows” of the publicly available Internet. Abraham Lincoln would be crying like an eagle. [via Matt Yglesias]

Liberals are very upset with John McCain, again, because it appears he has PLAGIARIZED the famous website Wikipedia in his speech about Georgia and Russia. John McCain is using Wikipedia! That’s all we care about and are very happy to learn that he’s discovered this completely awesome and accurate website. But as some of those rascally bloggers have discovered, McCain used such words and dates as “in,” “of,” “economic,” and “1922″ in much the same sequence that Wikipedia used them in a historical laundry list of facts! It’s like he’s writing a college history paper’s “background” section in the post-2005 era — by copy-pasting it from any damn website, because who cares. MORE »

• Glenn Greenwald goes long on the anti-Murtha movement, posts his letter to lawyer Mark Zaid. [Glenn Greenwald]
• More on Rumsfeld’s Senate Testimony, Think Progress commenter says: “Got an answer for everything. I work with a dude like this. It starts with a conversation about dogs and ends with a conversation about umbrellas…” [Think Progress]
• Self-proclaimed punky Josh Wolf remains in jail for refusing to turn over video footage of a protest. [Romensko]
• Ned Lamont apparently doesn’t find blackface jokes funny, plays dumb: “I don’t know anything about the blogs, I’m not responsible for those, I have no comment on ‘em…Independent blogs, I can’t say anything about it.” [Michelle Malkin]
• WP’s David Broder: “reflects the conventional wisdom of his clique back at them. That’s his audience. Once upon a time that clique had power and influence. They imagine they still do, but it’s fading, and not because of the rising power of blogofascism. It’s because the Bush administration doesn’t care what the Grand Old Men of Washington think. They’ve made that perfectly clear.” At least he’ll have a lot of drinking buddies when he’s put to pasture. [Eschaton]

• Think Progress posts line from today’s NYT: “In the past two weeks, more Iraqi civilians have been killed than have died in Lebanon and Israel.” Commenter quotes Jeane Kirkpatrick from 1979: “Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world’s policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world’s midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.” [Think Progress]

• Eschaton really hates Lieberman a lot. [Eschaton]
• Psalm 83: “They say, ‘Come, let us wipe out their nation; let Israel’s name be mentioned no more!’” [The Jawa Report]
• Glenn Reynolds: “DIPLOMACY is the art of saying ‘nice doggie’ while reaching for a stick.’ Condi is saying ‘nice doggie.’ Israel is the stick. One may disapprove of this strategy, but complaints that Condi isn’t accomplishing anything merely indicate that the complainer doesn’t know what’s going on.” [Instapundit]
• Miss Indonesia targeted by jihadis in her home country for insulting Indonesian “dignity and women.” She may face jail time. Commenter says: “Leftist Feminists, of course, would agree with the militant Muslims in this case.” [Dhimmi Watch]

Earlier today, we broke the story of how President Bush poked fun at reporter Peter Wallsten for wearing sunglasses while asking a question. Wallsten, it turns out, is legally blind.

The crew over at Think Progress has followed up on our scoop; check out their work here. They interviewed Wallsten, obtained the transcript of the exchange, and grabbed a video clip of it, too.

We also reprint the transcript here, after the jump.

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