Number Ones Are Number Two
The numbers are in for last night's debate and the winner is... still Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. John McCain and Barack Obama drew over 63 million viewers last night, according to Nielsen, but that was still under the nearly 70 million pairs of eyeballs attracted by their running mates Thursday night. (All three debates outdrew the 46.7 million for the second Bush-Kerry debate in 2004.) Part of the difference can be attributed to the fact that Thursday is the most-watched night of TV in the week (the firs

Biden says attacks from McCain camp are ‘beyond disappointing’
(CNN) -- Sen. Joe Biden on Wednesday charged that Sen. John McCain’s campaign is trying to "appeal to fear" with their latest round of negative attacks. Sen. Joe Biden says Sen. John McCain’s campaign has become "erratic." Biden said Gov. Sarah Palin was raising "the most outrageous inferences" and said the attacks on Sen. Barack Obama are "beyond disappointing" and "wrong." Over the weekend, Palin accused Obama of "palling around with terrorist

KEEP IT UP, JOE
Biden on GMA this morning talking about the “over the edge” language being used at McCain-Palin rallies this week. He’s absolutely right: if McCain or Palin hear this stuff — which every indication suggests they do — the fact that they’re not putting a stop to it, the fact that by their silence they’re giving their consent to that kind of hate filled, murderous talk, is absolutely appalling. Talk about character and judgment: McCain-Palin want to preside over mob-

POLITICIANS OR MOB BOSSES, PT. 5
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell asks Obama spokesperson Bill Burton about the “ugliness” we’ve seen at Palin-McCain rallies in recent days… Burton, ever on the “on-message” guy, downplayed the significance of the random calls for murder and instead claimed that whatever “anger” exists over there is misplaced, that what McCain should be angry about the shrinking middle class… blah blah blah. So we’ve got Joe Biden rightly calling attention to this

Least Memorable Candidate Kicks It Up a Notch
Joe Biden likes a good chuckle as much as the next guy. Just because he's the least well-known candidate on the campaign trail (and is sometimes confused for John McCain) doesn't mean the senator for Delaware can't take a good rib-tickling when it comes to Jason Sudeikis' impression of him on last week's SNL episode. In fact, Biden likes the clip so much when they played it for him this morning on GMA, it starts to freak out Diane Sawyer in a big way and she had to cut to commerci

Nielsen: 63.2 million watch second McCain-Obama debate
UPDATED: It may have been dull, but that didn't stop viewers from watching.  Tuesday night's presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama was seen by 63.2 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. That's about 21% more than watched the candidates' first showdown two weeks ago -- an event seen by 52.4 million -- and ranks as the highest-rated top-of-the-ticket debate since 1992. If one includes PBS viewership estimates, which are not part of the Nielsen sample, Tuesday's

John McCain scares Diddy more than Sarah Palin.
“Diddy” has posted another video blog as a response to Tuesday’s debate. Diddy is NOT HAPPY with the way John McCain referred to Barack Obama as “that one” and rants the video. Last week he vlogged that Sarah Palin scared him, and now he says John McCain scares him even more than Sarah Palin. Related Post Foo Fighters tell McCain to stop using their song. Vanity Fair spoofs In Touch Weekly at the expense of John McCain. 69.9 Million Peop

John McCain Used to Be Funny, Had Hair
In the post-debate blogosphere, the standout watercooler moment, the topline gaffe, was when McCain referred to his opponent as "that one." Everyone wants to know, "what did he mean? Was it disrespect? Racism? A sign of out-of-touchness?" Google "that one" and see what comes up. But to me, even more notable than McCain's already infamous talk-down was his reference to hair transplants. It's no secret that Obama's running mate Joe Biden is rumored to have had his wispy white mane transplanted in, and when di

Biden Calls Palin's Criticism 'Mildly Dangerous'
WASHINGTON — Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican rival Sarah Palin is injecting fear and loathing into their campaign with her criticism that Barack Obama is friends with a terrorist. He called the effort "mildly dangerous." Palin began last weekend...Full Article @ huffington post Comment Share Email Post Your Comment say s

Biden: Palin’s attacks ‘malarkey’
Politico - Sen. Joe Biden said Wednesday that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has gone ‘way too far’ in her attacks against Barack Obama. ‘It’s just malarkey, flat malarkey,’ Biden said of Palin’s attacks linking Obama to former ’60s radical William Ayers. “It's just malarkey, flat malarkey,” Biden said on CBS’s “Early Show” of Palin’s attacks linking Barack Obama to former 1960’s radical William Ayers. “You know, the idea

McCain housing proposal: Easier said than done
AP - Ordering the government to buy up bad mortgages to cut homeowners’ monthly payments might sound good, but experts are skeptical. They say the plan John McCain is promoting is unlikely to solve the housing crisis that’s pushing the economy toward recession. One big problem: The vast majority of the toxic home loans that are clogging financial markets and freezing up credit have been sliced, diced and repackaged into complex investments that the government would be hard-pressed to unravel an

Barack Obama crushing John McCain in cookie war
The latest polls show Barack Obama leading John McCain: 2,717 to 1,523 -- according to hungry commuters at Penn Station.

Can’t Knock the Hustle
The debate was just last night, and already online hustlers have run away with the two taglines of the evening — “That One,” as John McCain grumpily referred to Barack Obama, and “my friends,” which McCain said an astonishing 22 times (good grief, imagine if you were playing a drinking game!). Not even 24 hours, and look at how many That One and “Not John McCain’s Friend” teeshirts are up for sale! I found these on Vote for That One, That One 08, and of

Article: Sarah Palin Watches Debate With Joe Six Packers In North Carolina
While senators Barack Obama and John McCain were locked in a war of words in Nashville on Tuesday night for the second of three Presidential debates, Alaska Governor and vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin enjoyed the verbal tete-a-tete with Main Street type folk at a Greenville, N.C. pizzieria, according to the Washington Post. A debate viewing party was not scheduled for Palin, according to the Post, but at the last minute, the governor told her aides and press that she didn’t want to watch the

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Drew Friedman painted the above artwork for a New York Observer article titled “Weirdest Presidential Race of the 21st Century”. John McCain is pictured as Star Trek’s Captain Kirk, and Barack Obama is pictured as Spock. [boingboing] Lauren Shuler Donner hopes for a Deadpool spin-off movie. [Comingsoon] Empire has a first look at the international poster for Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon. I actually prefer the non-stylish American version. Hulu has added Starship Troopers. You can watc

Debate Reaction: Debating Brokaw
In the first debate with a different format, allowing for questions from the audience and from the web, the role of moderator was slightly modified. How did Tom Brokaw do? Some reaction: • The Associated Press' David Bauder writes, "After Gwen Ifill seemed frustrated at losing control of last week's vice presidential debate, Tom Brokaw seemed determined not to let that happen." Bauder described how Brokaw had to act like a "schoolmarm trying to keey unruly students at bay" at times, since "the rule

Foo Fighters Tell John McCain: No Tune for You!
The Foo Fighters have thrown a monkey wrench in John McCain's use one of their big hits on the campaign trail -- and they're hardly the first big-name band to do so! The Foos are requesting that McCain stop using their tune “My Hero,” says the Associated Press. "The saddest thing about this is that 'My Hero' was written as a celebration of the common man and his extraordinary potential," the band said. "To have it appropriated without our knowledge and used in a manner that perverts the origin

Paris Hilton Gets Advice for 'Fake' Presidential' Campaign
Socialite Paris Hilton released a new video in her bid to become the next "fake" president, and this time solicited advice from actor Martin Sheen, who played the president on the television show "The West Wing." The FunnyOrDie video starts with clips from a Hollywood-type party, before zeroing in on the kitchen, where Hilton and Sheen are sitting at the table. The clip is a follow-up to her August video where she got even with Republican presidential nominee John McCain for using her image in an ad mock

McCain: '100-percent negative' ads
Eleven points down in the newest national tracking poll, Republican John McCain has gone "nearly 100 percent negative'' in his campaign's TV advertising, an independent study reports today. The watchword of McCain's ads about Democratic rival Barack Obama: "Dangerous,'' and "He lied.'' Earlier in the campaign, when the two appeared virtually tied for a long time in the tracking polls, the campaign ads of the senior senator from Arizona dismissed the junior senator from Illiinois as "dangerously unp

Foo Fighters Tell John McCain: No Tune for You!
The Foo Fighters have thrown a monkey wrench in John McCain's use one of their big hits on the campaign trail -- and they're hardly the first big-name band to do so! The Foos are requesting that McCain stop using their tune “My Hero,” says the Associated Press. "The saddest thing about this is that 'My Hero' was written as a celebration of the common man and his extraordinary potential," the band said. "To have it appropriated without our knowledge and used in a manner that perverts the origin

Debate #3: It's Better To Fade Away Than To Burn Out
 Maybe it would be better if Cranky McCrankypants just disappeared for a while, and reemerged a few days (or even a week or two) from now to swoop in with some brilliant attack ad that's effective and actually warranted, unlike everything else he's been for months.Seriously, think about it: it worked for him after his staff began bailing on him in the primary runup; then he did some soul searching, stripped everything away that wasn't working, and bit by bit, built himself back into a winne

Q: What's Wrong with This Picture?
Most assessments today of last night's presidential debate are grim. Under a picture of Barack Obama and John McCain squared off in Tennessee, the Drudge Report presented a single-word critique: "Boring." Politico is calling it the "worst debate ever." We beg to differ. Instead, how about worst electorate ever? The negative general consensus about the debate is summed up tidily in the Times of London's "Gnawingly dull debate won't halt the Obama Tide": Sena

Both candidates increase health coverage, one report predicts
AP - John McCain’s health plan would reduce the ranks of the uninsured by about 21.1 million people if fully put in place by 2010, while Barack Obama’s would reduce the number by 26.6 million, an analysis predicts. Some previous reviews of the presidential candidates’ health plans indicated that Republican McCain’s proposals would amount to little more than a wash when it comes to the number of uninsured, now at about 45 million. But The Lewin Group, a consulting firm, drew a more o

The Old Man Loses Again
Fifty-four percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey conducted after the debate ended said that Obama did the best job in the debate, with 30 percent saying Sen. John McCain performed better. According to the poll, 64 percent had a favorable opinion of Obama after the debate, up 4 points from before the event. Fifty-one percent of those polled had a favorable opinion of McCain after the debate, unchanged from before its start. A majority said Obama seemed to be the stronger leader

DEAR JEWS: STOP THE OBAMA PARANOIA
The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg is fed up with all the emails he’s received that try to smear Obama as a Manchurian candidate secretly hell-bent on the annihilation of Israel.  So he did what anyone would do, he wrote a letter and got straight to the point – ”Dear Jews: Stop the Obama Paranoia.” Money quote:  “So, all you rumor-mongering, fever-headed Jewish conspiracists: Support McCain, if you want, and there are credible reasons for doing so, but stop smeari