Day: January 29, 2010
Rielle Hunter Tries to Stop Release of John Edwards’ Sex Tape
Smoking Gun: John Edwards’s ex-mistress is seeking to suppress what appears to be a sex tape featuring her and the disgraced politician.
How To Report the News
Charlie Brooker from BBC4.
Every Anatomically Correct Body Scan Is a Win for al Qaeda
TNR: TSA officer to passenger: “Someone ought to do something about those machines–it’s like we don’t have any privacy in this country anymore!”
Racist Tea Bag Leader Depicts Obama as a Pimp in Fundraising Email
Chattahbox: Dale “Niggar” Robertson “photoshopped Obama with a pencil-thin mustache, wearing an oversized zebra-striped fedora trimmed with white fur, a garish purple band and a black feather.”
Should Charlie Crist Change Parties?
TNR: And would he be the only plausible Democrat to win the U.S. Senate seat?
Tea Baggers Bachmann, Blackburn Withdraw from Tea Bag Convention
WaPo: Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) have announced that they will not attend the National Tea Party Convention next month.
Andrew Breitbart vs. MSNBC’s David Shuster Over O’Keefe Arrest
WaPo: MSNBC host David Shuster got into a shouting match Thursday afternoon with conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart over the arrest of four men trying to tamper with phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office.
John Edwards’ Affair Was with a Videographer, So – Surprise! – There’s a Sex Tape
Gawker: And compounding the TMI factor, Edwards “is physically very striking, in a certain area. Everyone who sees it says ‘whoa.'”
HuffPo Closing in on Drudge Report
Editors Weblog: The Drudge Report got 3.2 million visitors in January, against about 2.9 million for the Huffington Post. The race is on.