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Important news from the Wonkette Inbox(!): “Today on TNR.com, Dayo Olopade offers the definitive fact-check of Paris Hilton’s energy recommendations in her new ‘campaign’ video. While Hilton’s video is perhaps a humorous response to McCain’s recent ‘celebrity’ ad featuring her likeness, Olopade concludes that even Paris, alas, gets the facts wrong on offshore drilling.” While this seems like the perfect setup for a Rick Roll, or a blinking screen that says “No Shit,” Mr. Olopade did, in fact, write this article challenging Paris Hilton’s claims. What’s next? Jamie Kirchick’s imaginary response? UPDATE: Oh dear, someone e-mails to say that it is actually “Ms.” Olopade, which we strongly considered Googling to confirm, but now we’re just racist. [TNR]

Have you seen how many articles have been in the New York Times these past few months? Thousands, for Christ’s sake! What is wrong with the Times when they won’t explain the process behind each one? Fortunately we have the New Republic’s Gabriel Sherman, who first told us why the Times printed a story about John McCain and now explains how the newspaper made a political endorsement, of Hillary Clinton. Why isn’t the Times more transparent? Who cares? Gabriel Sherman can fill us in on all the secret editorial “decisions.” MORE »

Paultards are still up in arms trying to figure out who wrote the crazy, conspiratorial, racist screeds that were published in “The Ron Paul Report,” a newsletter that went out to God even knows who for almost 30 years. The New Republic posted the tirades last week, but it wasn’t the newsletters that hurt Paul as much as his total inability to not sound like a racially insensitive tool on CNN that destroyed his status as the presumptive GOP nominee for president and a shoe-in to the White House in November. Paultarded fingers nonetheless point to Dr. Congressman Paul’s former chief of staff, Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., as the likely (and definitely, totally only) racist in their midst. With a name like that, dude’s got to be a racist. [TNR] MORE »

Kids love Michael Crichton’s popular dinosaur stories, but they probably don’t know he’s a demented right-wing crank who stuffs his wooden-plotted thrillers with puerile attacks on his many, many enemies — mostly journalists who call him on his endless sociopathic bullshit.

The latest victim of Crichton’s typing-with-boxing-gloves characterization skill is New Republic writer Michael Crowley, who magically becomes a child rapist in the wonderful imagination of Michael Crichton. Details after the jump.

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New Republic senior editor Lee Siegel was suspended Friday for anonymously attacking people who left mean comments on his TNR blog. MORE »