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Speaking of smackdowns, here's Jack Cafferty eviscerating the McCain smear campaign. Giggles.

Usually I'm really harsh about Andrea Mitchell of NBC/MSNBC, but lately she has proven that she can get back to her journalistic roots and call "Bullshit" when she sees it, this time from insufferable McCain Campaign Adviser Rick Davis. Watch in awe of her backhand swat of his juvenile positioning.

And for the opposite of the C-U-N-Tuesday awards, here's the totally awesome Rachel Maddow on Keith Olbermann's countdown, both breaking down the McCain lying fiasco better than I ever could... ..as she says, "There's a difference between being a veteran and supporting a veteran as a politician."

This week's C-U-N Tuesday is former Justice Department employee Monica Goodling. Previously the liaison to the White House at the Attorney General's office, Goodling was involved in the vetting of U.S. Attorneys, a politically appointed job, as well as non-political "career" positions such as prosecutors in the civil rights, environmental, and political corruption areas. One year ago, Goodling was in front of the House Judiciary Committee, with limited immunity granted and confronted with the firing of assistant US attorneys based on cronyism and "loyalty" to the Bush Doctrine as it was. She admitted then to "crossing the line" in hiring employees at the Justice Department, using the same criteria for judging political jobs from the historically non-partisan career positions, though refusing that she did anything wrong willfully. Well in the year following, the Inspector General's office expanded the investigation into Goodling's actions to...

Hey guys - I'm trying to get back in the swing of things, so here's my tunes for the week. It's been over a month since the last post, and after a dozen weeks on top, Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love" is replaced by another lady of Welsh heritage, Duffy. Weezer (pictured above), the only Americans in the top-5, are closing in quickly, though. Happy Birthday Mikie! You're 40 before me! Yay! This week Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Mercy - Duffy (2) 2. Pork & Beans - Weezer (3) 3. Bleeding Love - Leona Lewis (1) 4. All I See - Kylie Minogue (4) 5. Pocketful Of Sunshine - Natasha Bedingfield (5) 6. In Love With A Girl - Gavin DeGraw (6) 7. Tryin' To Stop Your Leavin' - Dierks Bentley (10) 8. Love Remains The Same - Gavin Rossdale (13) 9. Feels Like Tonight - Daughtry (7) 10. Stop And Stare - OneRepublic (11) 11. Viva La Vida - Coldplay (27) 12. Reali...

This was the album I was expecting Mariah Carey to make. Actually, it pretty much is Mariah's debut album reincarnated as a soccer-mom car record. Leona Lewis right now has the Oprah-approved mainstream pop single of 2008 so far, "Bleeding Love". The Londoner is the first big export from Britain since the Spice Girls, and while her career track follows a similar course, the result is miles different. A graduate of the BRIT school, the arty trade-school formerly home to Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen , Kate Nash, and Adele, Lewis' rise to fame in the UK comes courtesy of Simon Cowell spin-off from Pop Idol, The X-Factor. Her win on that program made her an instant star in the UK, mimicing the American Idol franchise even to the point of having her release a version of "A Moment Like This" in the UK. This was followed by the blockbuster "Bleeding Love", which bring her to Oprah. Oprah brought Lewis to the audience she needed, and "Bleeding Love...

As long as your a Beltway Bush-lapdog media clown, you can hit-and-run a pedestrian , sending them to the hospital , attempt to leave the scene, and not be arrested?

Well, no where, really. I wish I could say that I was busy travelling the globe filming myself going through seizures to world music like this guy... (I kid, I kid) ..but alas, the truth is a little more mundane. I guess I came across my best approximation for "writer's block". It's not like there isn't a lot to pontificate about - I mean the most important presidential election of my lifetime so far is happening, I've almost caught up on listening to all the CDs I've purchased, and have had a lot of interesting and notso interesting things happen over the last month (or months), as well as enough time in front of a computer screen to go on about it. However I sit, and my mind goes blank. I read other blogs (boy do I read other blogs, I have more bookmarks than my local library), and sometimes think "this is way better than my scralls". I guess my aptness for procrastination led me to fear that I was just going to post youtube videos and charts,...