I wouldn’t hold my breath. — Though, sensing an impasse — and installing himself in the role of unofficial mediator between the McCain camp and the Times/Obama/Khalidi/Ayers axis — Jimmy Carter has suggested a “compromise” that would provide the McCain camp with an artist’s rendering of the videotape in exchange for Israel returning the country to its 1948 borders. Well, not really. But it’s plausible. Because, like, he’s batfuck insane.

Michael Malone, ABC News: The traditional media are playing a very, very dangerous game — with their readers, with the Constitution and with their own fates. The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling. And over the last few months I’ve found myself slowly moving from shaking my head at the obvious one-sided reporting, to actually shouting at the

Elaine Lafferty, former editor-in-chief of Ms (and soon-to-be-savaged “anti-feminist” feminist): It’s difficult not to froth when one reads, as I did again and again this week, doubts about Sarah Palin’s “intelligence,” coming especially from women such as PBS’s Bonnie Erbe, who, as near as I recall, has not herself heretofore been burdened with the Susan Sontag of Journalism moniker. As Fred Barnes—God help me, I’m agreeing with Fred Barnes—suggests in

Of course, none of this had any impact on him — just as his twenty years at a church based around Black Liberation Theology had no residual effect on his ideology. He was just in it for the pussy, I’m guessing.

Dumb kids. Shoulda just stuck with something benign and uninvestigatable — like, say, wide scale voter registration fraud, or sweetheart real estate deals. (h/t IP)

From the Columbus Dispatch: Ohio’s inspector general is investigating why a state agency director approved checking the state child-support computer system for information on “Joe the Plumber.” Helen Jones-Kelly, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, confirmed today that she OK’d the check on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher following the Oct. 15 presidential debate. She said there were no political reasons for the check on the sudden presidential

“…do I sound too much like Barry White? I worry that I’m overdoing it sometimes, and that the whole ‘Mandingo factor’ thing could kick in for Whitey, causing a kind of unwelcome electoral blowback. I’ll have to remember to ask Michelle. And maybe put together a focus group. Whitey and his bitches, all sitting crosslegged at my feet while I give ’em the whole Hope and Change bit in a

It’s been said before — quite often here, in fact, by yours truly, who has taken pains to dissect the phenomenon rigorously (conclusion? stuck up, unserious coozes, the lot of ’em!) — but as I’m busy just now learning how to fashion makeshift bombs out of old wireframe glasses, ammonia, compost, and some of my son’s battery-operated Thomas the Train engines, I’ll let Pam Meister hammer home the point one

Jesus, conservatives. Can’t you find any new Negroes to trot out — you know, brothers with some flash? Or is it always to be blingless Toms like Mr Sowell?: ACORN is not just an organization on the left. In addition to the voter frauds that ACORN has been involved in over the years, it is an organization with a history of thuggery, including going to bankers’ homes to harass them

From Bob Owens, writing for Pajamas Media — who may or may not have provided him with press credentials, and one of those really boss cardboard microphone wraparounds. As you’ll recall, Grathwohl spoke of the Weathermen’s plans for a revolution / re-education / extermination agenda in a 1982 documentary, an excerpt from which I posted here. A few notable exchanges: Pajamas Media: You stated in your interview in No Place