What is new is that Harman is said to have been picked up on a court-approved NSA tap directed at alleged Israel covert action operations in Washington.

And that, contrary to reports that the Harman investigation was dropped for “lack of evidence,” it was Alberto R. Gonzales, President Bush’s top counsel and then attorney general, who intervened to stop the Harman probe.

Wow, that would be a "Holy Shit!" moment. Mostly because it's a) a go to jail moment, and b) Fredo stopped an investigation of the other party for political reasons. Funny, everyone gets shit on their face from this one.

CQ Politics | Sources: Wiretap Recorded Rep. Harman Promising to Intervene for AIPAC

Really. Really? Are you serious??? Let me make sure I have this right, the same shitstains who went to Philadelphia, Mississippi, and said "State's rights" because they couldn't say nigger anymore, the same sons of bitches who made the Willie Horton ad, the same bastards who haven't said jack shit about the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians we blew up under W but now have their mouthpiece Rush bitching about the "innocent" Somali pirates who got killed for holding a gun to a ship captain's head are trying to sell crap like THIS???

There are more of these scripts here. And wow, have these guys left the reality train.

Republican PSA?

WOW! So much for that "fair and balanced" bullshit.

YouTube - Republicans own Fox News: Admission by Bush Apologist Robert G. Kaufman

An immigration appeals board has denied an emergency stay of deportation requested by John Demjanjuk (dem-YAHN'-yuk), who faces charges in Germany that he served as a Nazi death camp guard during World War II.

A) I thought he was already dead. B) Going through the history, he was accused of being one guy and sentenced to death by Israel, but their courts tossed that after being given information by the Russians. C) He's now accused of being someone else?

I don't know whether he actually did it or not, but this is looking like a vendetta, and 64 years after the end of the war, I say let drop the issue and let God sort this one out. He doesn't have long left and has been going through this stuff for 20+ years already.

The Associated Press: Ohio's Demjanjuk is denied stay of deportation

Rachel Maddow and Ana Marie Cox have a bit of fun at the teabaggers' expense. I don't know how either one of them made it through this segment without completely busting a gut.

If you haven't seen this, well, I'm not even sure what to say. I think they've got the "ridicule and derision" part down.

The Rachel Maddow Show -- Insani-Tea: Conservatives Rally Around "Teabagging" | Video Cafe

Be that as it may, Mr. Limbaugh acknowledged that New Yorkers were “probably going to celebrate” his departure. He may be right. Mr. Paterson was certainly not choking back tears. For him, having Mr. Limbaugh leave is a dissociation for a better New York. “If I knew that would be the result,” he said, “I would’ve thought about the taxes earlier.”

And the blind governor gets off a good one liner.

NYC - Paterson, Limbaugh and Pericles - NYTimes.com

But he said he is worried that he is being steered too far by the Congress: "Some of the men and women I work with in Congress are socialists."

Asked to clarify his comments after the breakfast speech at the Trussville Civic Center, Bachus said 17 members of the U.S. House are socialists.

Senator McCarthy, your legacy continues...

Bachus tells city and county officials he's worried about socialists in Congress - Breaking News from The Birmingham News - al.com

Here is another great moment in A.P. history. In its quest to become the RIAA of the newspaper industry, the A.P.’s executives and lawyers are beginning to match their counterparts in the music industry for cluelessness. A country radio station in Tennessee, WTNQ-FM, received a cease-and-desist letter warning from an A.P. vice president of affiliate relations for posting videos from the A.P.’s official Youtube channel on its Website.

And now today's episode of "Attack of the morans" (spelling intentional).

A.P. Exec Doesn’t Know It Has A YouTube Channel: Threatens Affiliate For Embedding Videos

Dear Bill: Thanks for including the Chicago Sun-Times on your exclusive list of newspapers on your "Hall of Shame." To be in an O'Reilly Hall of Fame would be a cruel blow to any newspaper. It would place us in the favor of a man who turns red and starts screaming when anyone disagrees with him. My grade-school teacher, wise Sister Nathan, would have called in your parents and recommended counseling with Father Hogben.

Oh, just wait for the closing line...

Thoughts on Bill O'Reilly and Squeaky the Chicago Mouse :: rogerebert.com :: News & comment

It doesn't look like we'll be getting a Harold & Kumar 3 for a while: Kal Penn has quit acting. But it's not for the Joaquin Phoenix reasons or even the Viggo Mortensen reasons. Penn is taking a job in the White House.

Kumar escapes Guantanamo Bay, and lands in the White House.

Kal Penn Goes to Work for Obama - Get The Big Picture -