Does This Font Make Me Look Fat?

McCain operatives steal 12,000 flags from DNC, call Obama “unpatriotic.”

Thank you, mystery buyers.

I like it so far. Drives real nice.

Why Sarah Palin’s record of raising taxes and nationalizing Alaska’s oil profits haven’t caused more of an outcry from her base is a mystery:

When she became governor, Palin championed a new windfall profits tax on oil companies, collecting $6 billion last year. She also gave each Alaskan $1200 to help pay for higher energy costs.

James Kvval has more.

McCain camp insisting they “meant” to use the image.

Unlike most of the other people covering this, I actually believe them. The Republicans don’t give a flying squirrel about the medical center, and never meant to promote it; Greg Sargent had it right when he reported that the school had been used as a backdrop on an episode of “The West Wing”–and that’s why they used it.

What else do you expect from a guy who has been sued five different times for stealing songs for his campaign and using them without permission? Grand larceny, like copyright theft, are not the concerns of a maverick.

Speaking as someone with a Scots-Irish heritage, I can vouch for how fucking cheap my people are.

TPM and HuffPo have more.

Quite a whiny-ass little pitbull we’ve got in Caribou Barbie. Seems to be a long pattern with her: attack, hide, cry she’s being victimized.

Would be funny if it weren’t so sick:

PFOTENHAUER: I’d be happy to have that conversation.

DUNN: Well, maybe we should have it, but Barack Obama believes strongly that health care has to be accessible and affordable, that you should be able to get health care without having to shop all over the country, that you should be able to get health care –

JARRETT: All right, now you’re getting into your talking points.

DUNN: — without having to worry about pre-existing conditions.

JARRETT: Now you’re getting into your talking points.

DUNN: No, no, Nancy gave us the talking points here.

JARRETT: You are.

DUNN: Come on, guys. Come on.

JARRETT: I’ll shut down the microphone if you continue doing that. Nancy, the personal narrative — hockey mom, special needs child, is that especially appealing to undecided female voters who are trying to figure out what to do?

You can’t say Fox News doesn’t know its audience. Full transcript here.

McCain camp hiding Palin from the media until it serves “the campaign’s interest.”

[The whole LA Progressive site is good. Read the article on Scheer's new book about the Military-Industrial complex.]