(from the AP)
CAMBRIDGE, Md. (AP) — The eavesdropping tables were turned on President Bush on Friday. The president apparently believed he was speaking privately when he talked about listening in without a warrant on domestic communications with suspected al-Qaida terrorists overseas. But reporters were the ones doing the listening in this time.

The incident happened at a House Republican retreat. After six minutes of public remarks by the president, reporters were ushered out. “I support the free press, let’s just get them out of the room,” Bush said, intending to speak behind closed doors with fellow Republicans and take lawmakers’ questions.

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How the heck this ended up in the “Oddly Enough” section of NY Daily News is quite suspicious to me.

So what do you think is a better campaign slogan

“Vote for Bloomberg and your city will smell like maple syrup from now on”

or

“Vote for Bloomberg or your city will smell like maple syrup from now on.”

Andy Dick as Harlan MacRaney, Presidential Speechologist explains why we Americans want a president that talks our language… and talks it badly.

[Via Alexis @ Sony Pictures Classics, who never thought she'd get blogged about]

Keeping the ‘nets history of being a valuable resource for what real folk are saying, check out AliveInTruth.org, a collection of oral histories from New Orleaneans about Katrina.

Who’dve thunk that the two people in the country making the most sense in standing up to the neo-con assault would be Kanye West and…wait for it…. This guy:

That’s right, Phil Donahue, taking O’reilly to task.

[Via Phil @ Universal Music]