Tuesday’s Tie: Navy (with the grey suit, just like the picture)

Segue Music: Do-do-do-do

Worst Persons: American Airlines for charging soldiers headed to Iraq extra for baggage.

5. Former Hillary Clinton campaign manager Mark Penn had sent a memo to Clinton suggesting she brand Obama as culturally un-American because he spent his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia. To her credit, Clinton declined the suggestion. Howard Fineman joins Keith to remind both Penn and Senator McCain that Hawaii is actually, you know, America.

Meanwhile McCain is allowing his lapdog, Joe Leiberman, to spout of drivel such as Obama doesn’t put his country first. Keith reminds us that there is none so zealous as a convert. If only Leiberman really was a convert. At last check he was still calling himself a Democrat.

Chris Kofinis rounds off the segment with a discussion on Clinton’s lack of staff management and the infighting in her campaign, though he too gives her props for refusing Penn’s suggestion.

4. John McCain tries to restart the Cold War by branding the Russians as the sole instigators of the current Georgian-Russian mess. Rachel Maddow joins Keith to explain why “Christ and oil” are not good reasons to go down that path again.

Bushed - War profiteering pays really, really well. The Democrats may be finally waking up and smelling the coffee. And Dick Cheney has no standards (surprise!).

Oddball - Don’t answer questions from cops who say they are from the Division of Underage Pornography. Or something like that. And a Burger King employee who gives us one other reason not to eat fast food.

Best Persons in the World - An Italian medal winner looking for a tax break. A Japanese man who attacked people who looked at his Winnie the Pooh costume. And shit hitting a fan (sort of literally).

3. The US Department of Injustice strikes again. Michael Mukasey will not prosecute Monica Goodling or any other federal employee because…..well, no one is quite sure. Jonathan Turley tells Keith that Mukasey would be a lot better Attorney General if he stopped using the Elmer Fudd defense of, “I’d be a lot better hunter if the varmints weren’t so fast.” Seems another one gets away.

2. Worst Persons in the World:

Bronze to Rocky Mountain News which is passing on the right wing smear attempt that claims Obama is a Kenyan citizen.

Silver to Sean Hannity who thinks Obama should have to go on Fox News to clear up all the mistakes Fox News makes about him and his family.

Gold to American Airlines and its chairman for charging our troops extra for baggage and expecting them to fill out expense reports in between dodging bullets.

Commercial - At this point I get to view T. Boone Pickens once again tell me why he should be super rich rather than the Saudi Arabians. It is enough to turn a person off of the idea of wind power.

1. Factor Fiction is back with the Stewie lead in and Keith doing Bill O’Reilly’s voice. Seems Bill-O would like to take the opportunity to trash John Edwards for going outside his marriage, because Bill O’Reilly would never do something like that himself. Nope. Never, ever. And Keith also provides O-Reilly with a much needed math lesson concerning homeless vets.