Fortune editor at really large David Whitford
_Well, that explains everything then-
America hatin' terrorist and McCain adviser Charlie Black's comment that a terrorist attack would be a "big advantage" to McCain keeps churning up comedy gold.
On Dennis Miller's radio show (he has one?), former McCain aide Mike Murphy laughed the comment off this way:
MURPHY: Well, he’s an old friend of mine, so I’ll defend him. I don’t know what happened. I think there must have been tremendous reporter cleavage involved or something.
MILLER: hahahahahahaha
However, the man who interviewed Black, Fortune editor at large David Whitford, denies having a huge rack, saying his middle-aged man-boobs are merely average.
So why Black would've said that remains an indecipherable mystery. That is, if you rule out the obvious -- that he said it because he believes it. (Think Progress)
-Headline of the day-
"Rove critical of NY Times for ‘outing’ CIA agent."
Once again, Karl Rove fails to exploding in a big, whiny ball of flaming hypocrisy. It's really amazing that he can continue to pull that trick off, but Turdblossom's really pushing his luck.
Appearing on Bill O'Reilly's FOX TV show -- My Farts Smell Like Roses, With Dame Wilhelmina O'Reilly -- Rove joined O'Reilly in getting bent out of shape that the NYT had published the name of the guy who'd interrogated Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The reason that this doesn't amount to an "outing" is that the guy was never covert. Of course, that didn't stop Pig Boy from squealing like a stuck Pig Boy over it.
"The New York Times has a double standard," Rove told O’Reilly. "It was deeply concerned when Richard Armitage outed Valerie Plame. Of course, they were only concerned until the point that it became apparent it was Richard Armitage, not Karl Rove."
Hey Karl, you're getting a little ahead of things here. The investigation's not over and you haven't exactly been cleared. (Raw Story)
-See? I told you so-
Daniel Libit has a great piece over at Politico. The title says it all; "Meet the make-believe strategists of TV." It turns out that a lot of those "party strategists" you see on cable news aren't party strategists at all -- they're just people who look good on the teevee. They don't even have positions in the parties. It's like The Daily Show, only they don't clue you in that it's all a joke.
"I think it’s absurd," says real life GOP strategist Ed Rollins. "Everyone calls themselves a strategist. I have been doing this for 40 years, I know most of the players, and I go on these shows and think, ‘Who are these people?’”
Turns out that, not only aren't these people strategists of any kind, but they're often asked to weigh in on issues they don't know anything about. "It’s like Noah’s ark," says Rollins. "There are a couple of these people, a couple of those people, with no skill and no real analytical ability."
So, the next time you see Glenn Beck or Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity interviewing some dumbass, remember that the reason they don't seem to know what the hell they're talking about is because they don't. I've said it before and I'll say it again; the TV pundit's job isn't to inform you, the TV pundit's job is to get you to watch TV.
I guess what I'm saying is don't. (Politico)
