Oh… My… GOD!!!

Did you know that there are a bunch of swarthy people with foreign-sounding names and terrorist-colored skin… hiding in the shadows of their immensely popular Internet sites… plotting to take down the government by… making eagles cry, or something?

And they're sponsored by that guy George Soros — whom, if talk radio hosts know anything (and they clearly know everything), is very, very evil.

This is no laughing matter! Don't believe me? Just watch this terrifying video that some guy made on his laptop for proof!

Holy Jesus! There was even an actual quote from Abraham Lincoln from that one time when he gave that speech warning real Americans about the dangers of certain Internet websites.

Come on, guys. This is serious. Let's all chip in and protect America from the Internet. It's what Abraham Jesus would have wanted.

(via Matt Yglesias (via Wonkette))

The newspaper is dying, slowly but surely. But who is responsible for the murder? Is it the scrappy blogosphere? Or the saccharin world of TV/radio journalism? Is this a blogger-correspondent conspiracy? Over the next few days, I'll be investigating the relationship between bloggers and TV/radio correspondents to reveal to you a complex web of intrigue and passion.

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How they feel about each other

Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly is a kindergarten style flirt who teases the people he like-likes. But there is nothing innocent about O'Reilly's obsession with Markos.  Markos's legs must be tired because he's been running around O'Reilly's mind for years now. Billo cannot stop talking about Markos, and he even compares Markos to his other major crush, David Duke, who has always been O'Reilly's knight in cotton white armor.

Markos Moulitsas:  Markos once confessed to fellow object-of-O'Reilly's-Obsession, Keith Olberman, that he used to feel jealous and insecure about O'Reilly's crush on Keith: "I looked on as O‘Reilly attacked you for years and turned you into this ratings powerhouse on MSNBC, so I thought, I could use a little bit of O‘Reilly love. I‘m glad that he‘s actually delivered some of that." But after all the attention and love, Markos can't help but realize that he drives Bill crazy and can get him hot and bothered like no one else.

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How they really feel about each other

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Daily Kos' Scout Finch is Twittering Congress' spank-down of AIG's CEO Edward Liddy — currently in progress — and I'll be honest with you and mention that most of this economic stuff makes my eyes roll backward in my skull out of sheer confusion and my opinions change approximately every 32 seconds.

But this Tweet from Scout amused me and put things into a slightly sharper focus…

Wall Street to America: I drink your milkshake…..I drink it up!

That, I understand. It's from that movie No Country for Old Men, right? The Michael Clayton character says it to that smart-talkin' pregnant teen girl just after she climbs out of the fountain, right?

Yeah, I thought so. I'm clever.

(While we're on the subject, here's Scout's post from Sunday on what the hell's going on with Twitter all of a sudden.)

* Markos Moulitsas points out that the Senate is pretty much just as worthless under Obama as it was under Bush.

* Todd Beeton wants to know if Joe Lieberman will ever be held responsible for anything.

* No casualties reported in Rahm Emanuel's first meetings with GOP congressional leadership.

* Ron Paul wants to kill taxes on personal income and replace them with taxes on nothing. (Part 2 to his Freakonomics readers' interview.)

* As Congress brushes off Dingell, Big Three take a dump.

* John McCain happy about prospect of Napolitano appointment. Imagine that.

* The Onion: Editorial "I'm not one of those 'Love thy neighbor' Christians"

* Turns out Christmas was the only thing holding our fragile economy together all those years. How about that?

One of the things I really like about the Daily Kos website is how thoughtful and even-handed the people in its community are. For example, take this refreshingly erudite critique on Ralph Nader's campaign left on the website over the weekend…

Anyone who sails with the Nader crowd deserves nothing more than ridicule.

Fuck Ralph Nader, and fuck his supporters. If the past eight years hasn't smacked any sense into their addled brains, then nothing will. This site caters to the reality-based community. No one else need apply.

Alright, I know what you're thinking. It's unfair of me to pick out a random comment and post it as though it represents the site as a whole or the site's founder, Markos Moulitsas. And you're right.

That's why I didn't do that. That was Markos Moulitsas.

That guy's gonna be some lucky president's chief of staff one day.

Markos Moulitsas — the eponymous Kos of Daily Kos — has been putting together these polling composite maps for the past several months.

Below is his latest map, encapsulating the latest polls. All yellow states are considered too close to call, with 6 percent or less of a difference…

Moulitsas explains…

That is Obama 243, McCain 132. [Ed: Down from Obama 336, McCain 202 five weeks ago.] Looks pretty good, huh? Unfortunately for Obama, other than New Hampshire and Michigan, those are all Red states, with their past history of voting Republican. So we're not out of the woods just yet.

This is a real battle. But make no mistake about it, I'd rather be in Obama's shoes than McCain's.

This year, New Hampshire is worth 4 electoral votes and Michigan is worth 17. So, if Obama can retain those two states from last election, it'd bring him up to 264 electoral votes, just four votes shy of a win.

But, let's not forget. Obama allegedly tried to disenfranchise the entire state of Michigan a few weeks ago in his power-mad ploy to defeat Hillary Clinton for King of America. And he lost New Hampshire to Clinton.

Let's just hope that McCain does start squirting any tears, or the Democrats can kiss the Granite State goodbye.