Rachel Maddow gets own show following Countdown beginning Sept. 8

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So many great lines last night, and you picked one of them.

I am still a bit hung up on Keith knowing about the Harmonic Convergence let alone using the term for McCain’s opportunity for the confluence of his birthday being the day after the Democratic Convention and also the day for him to announce his running mate.

I had thought much the same as you, “What, was the fee to play a snip of Satisfaction so high that they went with Wake Me?”

But, watching the second airing (Hey, a Special Comment, I watched the show twice), Keith started that bit by asking why they had not played Wake Me for the coma guy.

Loved the Jim Thorpe story. Years ago, when I was incredibly young, I was doing a basically unpaid internship at a publishing company, and I met one of Thorpe’s daughters who was working on a book about her family’s successful efforts to get her dad’s medals restored. Part of my assignment was to sit and talk with her while she waited for meetings. Fascinating people.

I also discovered during Chris Cillizza’s segment, that the more obnoxious part of having been a proof reader was still with me as Chris knew enough to say “from whom” but still used “between” instead of “among” when speaking of choosing among several vice presidential possibilities.

As I called out the correction at the tv, I realized what an unendearing trait that is and not at all the way to win friends let alone influence people.

I love the brouhaha going on about McCain and the Cone of Silence. I admit turning back to the Olympics half way through McCain’s Saddleback appearance as I found his answers so pat and boring, but having heard many of his recent off the cuff pronouncements, he certainly sounded previously prepared to me. I just assumed that the minister had given him a head’s up before hand.

What an amazing coincidence that Alexander Solzhenitsyn had had the exact cross-drawn-in-the-dirt-by the-guard thing happen to him! Do you suppose that the Siberian guard passed the story on to the North Vietnamese guard, them both being communists and all?

And, again, what are supposed to be stories of McCain’s heroism creep me out about him becoming the President/Commander in Chief.

That he did not take the early release offered due to the code that captives went home in order of capture is again just an example of his lack of critical thinking and lack of any questioning of the wisdom of his actions and choices.

It shows that he may be a good soldier, but that does not only not show leadership, but contraindicates it.

A note to Countdown and MSNBC folks heading for Denver –

Stop by the Tattered Cover Book Store, my favorite book store in the entire world. You’ll probably be closest to the one in LoDo (Lower Downtown district).

The Tattered Cover is an independent book store that people who believe in the 1st Amendment should love. They have constantly fought against neo-cons who wanted to ban books, or prevent speakers (political, gay, etc) from speaking at the store, etc.

In 2002, Tattered Cover stood up to the Bush Administration by refusing to provide its customer mailing list to law enforcement officials. They won!

The LoDo store is wonderful — multi-story, an old feel with books readers cannot find any place else. They deserve our patronage — at it is a pilgrimage for me to go there when I visit relatives in Denver.

Hey, MSNBC, might be an interesting story to interview its owner Joyce Meskis during the convention!!

I cannot stand McCain calling me “friend.” I am not nor have I ever been his friend! I think that is sanctimonious BS. Once again our election comes down to the choice of whom we’d rather have a beer with. We do not like presidents who have depth, thought and intellect. Especially one who is black (i.e. “elite.” e.g. “uppity.”). We don’t want to think of the big issues, just the quick fixes. We have become the “American Idol” electorate. And that is scary.

As I (that is “bodhiness”) mentioned in a comment on KO’s DK diary, our political process is in deep doo-doo when presidential election controversies involve a bit from a Get Smart sitcom — the “cone of silence.” Give me a break. My issue is whether the media should have given that Forum as much coverage as it did — including selling commercial time during it. I don’t care whether McCain was hiding in a cone or a sieve, he was in an audience of those who supported him from the get go. Obama basically got “polite” applause.

KO has been one of the few journalists to call McCain on his campaign and his own flip flops. He kept Hillary honest and now is doing it with McCain. And, I hope, if ever Obama compromises his positions, KO will be at him as well.

And NBC needs not respond to the Republican complaints of “bias.” Just turn KO on ‘em!!