Are you sitting down? Do you have your popcorn ready? I thought after a rough week of BaucuCrats, Blue Dogs and Wingnut Obstruction, some of us could use a good laugh. A reality based laugh!!! As for myself, I have been laughing at this so hard my sides hurt.

About a third of Americans think the best job for Palin is homemaker (32 percent), while nearly one in five see her as a television talk show host (17 percent). Vice president of the United States comes in third (14 percent), followed closely by college professor (10 percent), with president coming last (6 percent). Republicans think the best job for Palin is vice president (27 percent), followed by homemaker (18 percent), talk show host (14 percent), president (12 percent) and professor (7 percent). foxnews.com

When Fox News throws you under the bus, you are either a Democrat, or your FINISHED. Housekeeper?

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Crossposted at Daily Kos.com and docudharma.com

It's official. CNN is FOXlite

On Friday, the Southern Poverty Law Center called on CNN to fire Dobbs for trading in "racist conspiracy theories." And some of Dobbs' staff at CNN have told him and network executives that they are uncomfortable with his persistent focus on the story.

Klein defended Dobbs, saying that the host's treatment of the so-called "birther" movement has been "legitimate."

mediamatters.org

Does this guy even watch his own network? Or does he just prefer to let Dobbs's xenophobic McCarthyistic mania masquerade as objective journalism?

Though Klien has told Dobbs that the birther story is a dead end that has not stopped Dobbs from making it news. In this way, the story is kept alive and made more legit. Journalism FAIL.

Still, the claims about Mr. Obama's citizenship persist among a small but vocal group, essentially portraying Mr. Obama as a foreigner who has managed to conceal his origins for nearly five decades.

"It's racist," said Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC. "It's racist. Just call it for what it is."

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"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."

~ President Franklin Delanor Roosevelt

After almost 80 years, the GOP has hardly changed.

The richest man in the world. The new king of the hill. I know you won't find this financial titan in the lists of Forbes magazines lists of the world's billionaires. He hasn't started a mega computer software company like Bill Gates, nor has he made shrewd investments like Warren Buffet or even inherited his money like the Walton family of Walmart fame. No, the billions amassed over the years by these business magnates are chump change compared to our current champ.

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