Around The Media: Cue Twilight Zone Music

Traveling around from internet news site to internet news site, a thought occurred to me: be afraid, be very afraid.  Not only is there the threat of a major, global economic collapse hanging over our heads, even with the tentative agreement lawmakers just reached, the entire rest of the political news is just as frightening, in a goofy scary kind of way.

Politico’s Ben Smith, seeming more annoyed today by his perpetually twisted knickers than ususal, says Bill Clinton’s not sufficiently being Barack’s surrogate.   Awwwwww…Ben, who always seems to be in a snit about something, is stomping his widdle foot at the former president for having the temerity to refuse to carry Barack Obama’s water.  The nerve of that Clinton guy, huh?

Introducing John McCain at the Clinton Global Initiative in Manhattan, Bill Clinton doesn’t mention that he’s endorsed another candidate, or that there’s a campaign on.

Actually, it’s Politico’s Jonathan Martin giving flavor to Ben’s words, since for some reason, Jonathan chose to do a seperate post basically reprinting Ben’s post, with ‘tude.  Both mention Clinton’s defense of McCain on Good Morning America, which is not surprising, since they’re the same frigging post.

Then there’s the Harry Reid’s “I want you, stay, I hate you, go away” strange courtship of John McCain.

Yesterday, ABC’s Jake Tapper reported Harry Hippy now says McCain’s help wasn’t needed or welcome.

A Democrat tells ABC News that, in a phone call late this afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that it would NOT be helpful for him to come back to Washington, D.C., to work on the Wall Street bailout bill.

Meanwhile, back at CNN, yesterday Florida Congressman, Alcee Hastings, told a Jewish audience that they should be as afraid of Sarah Palin as black people are:

Rep. Alcee Hastings told an audience of Jewish Democrats Wednesday that they should be wary of Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin because “anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.”

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“For those of you like me that supported Sen. Hillary Clinton, she lost! Get over it!”

Get over this, Alcee.  Anyway, looks like Obama may be losing a little luster, just using his name is no longer enough to guarantee huge crowds.  Seems his Faith Tour flopped on it’s first stop.

For the new Barack Obama “faith tour” to have any success, it needs to be able to draw young and evangelical voters. Yet, at its first stop in the Virginia back yard of well-known pastor Jerry Falwell, just 15 people showed up for the event.

And there’s still the “just a guy in my neighborhood” thingy to consider.

Hey, all the guys in my neighborhood like to hand out millions of dollars to people who were only eight years old when they bombed stuff.  RBO has more on this here.

And who the hell is Khalid Al-Mansour, and why does his name keep coming up?

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