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Tie: Brown stripes
Music: Ritchie Valens - “Ooh My Head”
Worst Person: News Corp’s stock - like a ton of other stocks right now - is doing poorly. Thus, Bill-O is WPitW by some … petty schadenfreudy logic.

Obama’s going to contact his choice for VP tomorrow afternoon with the decision. Maybe.

McCain has narrowed Obama’s lead in the polls. Oh, I hope these conventions go well. For … selfishly liberal definitions of the word “well,” mind you.

Ohio Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones died today after suffering an aneurysm while driving. The ten-year-representative was the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress, and I knew her best from her appearances on The Colbert Report, where she was fantastic. She was fifty eight.

Lieberman’s speaking at the RNC, as it Rudy Giuliani. So hey - will McCain pick Lieberman as VP? That seems insane. Just insane enough to work? No, no. Just insane.

Oddball: ROGUE MONKEY. I have been waiting my entire life to type those words ** Aaaaaand bikini baristas fight back! No, it’s not the new Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino pulp flick, it’s the actual news.

Yeah, so an audience member at a McCain event suggested that if we’re serious about tracking Osama Bin Laden to the gates of hell, we’d better reinstate the draft. McCain is on board. I realize that if we have a McCain presidency, any children I may have in my life will probably still have a number of ongoing wars to choose from (if it is choice at that point) by the time they’re of enlistment age.

Ok, this was runner up for Worst Person, but I’m putting it here anyway. I’m not actually clicking on the link to the Limbaugh piece (here’s the Google News page for “Limbaugh, Maddow”), because … I’m still really happy about the news and I don’t want to get too angry, but the blurb on the Google search gave me this, about Dan Abrams: He’s losing his show to somebody with more testosterone than he has…

Ohhhhhh, so much for not getting too angry. Just between you and me? As much as I waited impatiently for Rachel to get her own show, I always kind of dreaded it, because I know what’s out there about Keith (and I have some pretty impressive blinders), and I hated the thought of seeing that kind of crap pop up about her. And I know this is just the beginning.

Anyway, yeah. So I guess now basically, whether Rachel wants it or not, Keith is totally going to get all het up and fighty whenever someone messes with his friend? That’s kind of great/cute.

Lieberman’s inclusion on the ticket would enhance the “One Term McCain” perception of the Arizona senator’s intentions, thereby increasing his potential lame duckiness. Just another thing to complicate the VP decision (and oh gosh will I be glad to not hear the term “veepstakes” for a few years). Meanwhile, Senator Joe Biden had a successful dump today. Good for him!

At this point, if I ever meet Gibson or Limbaugh, I will risk the lawsuit and punch them in the face. That’s my doctor they are talking about. D:<

I find it vaguely sweet that Keith is so gung-ho to defend his girl. :pinches his cheeks: Such chivalry. Not that Rachel needs it. She is often Above That Sort Of Thing, I always gathered.

Also, we need to contect McCain labelling Lieberman as a Republican on the ticket. I want it to be Republican-Democrat, because I know a lot of people in the Midwest will not be okay with that.

I was rooting for the monkey.

I think that McCain may just look at Lieberman to get some of the Jewish vote from Obama, especially in NY and Florida.

I know my senior citizen Jewish parents (Arizona residents) are usually Democrats, but they somehow believe that Obama is Muslim or somehow aligned with Muslim crap. They hate McCain, their own senator, but do love Lieberman. I’m afraid many other older Jewish voters may be as uninformed and could got that way.

Rafi’s Mom — I ALWAYS root for the nonhuman primates!!

Just checked in at “Tumbleblogging Olbermann.”

I guess KO is taking over the world — sort of the media’s Putin.

First Rita Cosby, now Dan Abrams and next Chris Matthews and Bob Costas. Watch out Brian Williams, he has you in his sights!

I wish KO did run the network as I would love the programming that would be on MSNBC and the parent network. I do miss my day part MSNBC that’s preempted for the Olympics. Those long blonde bimbos on CNN are driving me nuts!

I guess we can expect to see a new “Maddow Watch” blog in short order (I wonder if it will attack Rachel’s sex life as well?). I guess KO and Maddow should take all that as a compliment as it shows Faux Fans fell extemely threatened!

This word just in.

Tweety and Keith will host Saturday’s Obama veep reveal at high noon ET/9 AM PT (just in case you didn’t get the text message,) plus a special Staurday edition of Countdown at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT.

Oh, don’t forget REAL LIVE BLOGGING as well, both Saturday, PLUS as an added bonus, both the Democratic and Republican Conventions as well. Not only are they blowing out the budget, they’ll take out a second mortage just to do so! (We kid beacuse we love.)

JamesCraven wrote:
“Not only are they blowing out the budget, they’ll take out a second mortage just to do so! (We kid beacuse we love.)”

Speaking of mortgages — KO seems to compare with McCain on his many “residences” — Countdown, MSNBC breaking news, MSNBC election coverage, NBCU election breaks (whatever those are called), Football Night in America, Daily Kos….I wonder if he gets confused. Oh wait, he’s amibextrous!

James: If you want to liveblog somewhere, then that’s great! If you’re talking about the actual ERT staff? We’ll stick to making our own announcements, thanks.

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