Allahpundit links to a Kos Kiddie re-raising the complaint about John McCain getting disability pay from his stay in the Hanoi Hilton. The more notable aspect of this (imho) begins with the fact that the Kos diarist is quoting a fresh post at AMERICAblog from John Avarosis.  The blog ranks in the Top 1000 at Technorati, much higher than a random Kos diarist. Even wackier is the conclusion of the Avarosis

The famous website claims he is, but Barack Obama’s bicycle could use a little work.

Earlier today, I considered — then discarded — the notion of blogging about the “Socialists for Obama” community blog at MyBarackObama spewing paranoid bile about “the Jewish lobby.”  The MyBO crew duly removed the post first noted by Doug Ross. But the MyBO people took longer to purge the post about “The Israeli Connection to 9/11”: And as I write this, the blog still has posted “An open letter to our

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan has received at least his alloted 15 minutes to flog his book asserting that the establishment media were “complicit enablers” of President Bush’s agenda prior to the invasion of Iraq. While McClellan trades on the authoritah of his former post, Ari Fleischer — who was the actual White House press secretary during the period at issue — gives the chapter and verse demonstrating how sceptical the

Jeff Jarvis compares an instance of sock-puppetry by an employee of the Politico (and the Politico’s blase attitude about it) with the kerfuffle noted in today’s New York Times over whether Mayhill Fowler should have identified herself when asking Bill Clinton for a reaction to Todd Purdum’s Vanity Fair piece on the former president.  In the comments to his post, Jarvis goes a bit further on questions of identity on

The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder: Strategists for both John McCain and Barack Obama are chewing over a hypothetical scenario wherein Barack Obama recieves millions more votes than John McCain, but, because of the distribution of votes in the electoral college, McCain would become the president… *** So what happens if this scenario comes true? Well, Obama would be in the position of arguing that the popular vote matters more than the

Sunday’s New York Times contains a bit of self-refuting dreck from Adam Nagourney and Jeff Zeleny, headlined “Obama Is Mapping a Nationwide Push in G.O.P. Strongholds”: Senator Barack Obama’s general election plan calls for broadening the electoral map by challenging Senator John McCain in typically Republican states — from North Carolina to Missouri to Montana — as Mr. Obama seeks to take advantage of voter turnout operations built in nearly 50