The Political Whore

The McCain campaign is so desperate for something that works that it has Cindy out bashing Obama for voting against troop funding (something that her own husband did as well). Here’s today’s top political and media headlines from Tampa Bay, Florida and beyond. With the usual updated aggregatin’ in the box to the right, you betcha:

• Gut yuntiff to all our Jewish readers.
• Illegally purging voters in six swing states.
• John, John, you’re such a disappointment to me.
• Obama moves top strategists into FLA, sensing victory within reach.
• Did Karl Rove lie get it wrong in a WSJ piece by insisting that we have more swing voters today than in any campaign since 1968? You betcha.
• Condo buyers sue Skypoint in downtown Tampa to get their deposits back after learning of oil storage tanks found at the construction site and successfully cleaned up.
• Does this story lack an explanation or comment from the school system as to why it booted a kid with a Rayhawk? You betcha. C’mon Hillsborough schools, explain yourselves.
• Manny Machin, well-known Tampa lawyer, dies at 50.
• Do we continue to have idiots teaching our public schoolchildren in Florida? You betcha.
• Rock vs. McCain.
• Obama finds his voice on the economy.
• Another reason why the U.S. hates journalists.
• Yes, we’re watching the debates for entertainment, not for political purposes. How else do you explain the fact that the Palin-Biden debate topped the two presidential debates for ratings?

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Working off that post-debate drinking game hangover? Here’s your political and media headlines for Wednesday, and that ought to do the trick. Along with some Aleve and another shot of Frangelico. With updates throughout the day in the box to the right:

• “That one.”
• And “that one.”
• No knockout.
• Fact-checking the debate: AP, Palm Beach Post, Annenberg, ABC News, and PolitiFact.
• Need a debate transcript? Host a staged reading of it in your office for lunch today.
• A transgender victory in Georgia politics and courts.
• Scientology to help Amy Winehouse?
• A shakeout in the auto dealer industry is a-comin’; 700 dealerships could bite the dust.
• One closed dealership is sued by a former worker.
• Hey, didja know that Latinos are going to play a key role in Florida’s election? Yeah.
• The review is in for CL Editor David Warner, appearing in Stageworks’ “The Chosen:” He “could not have been more authentic as a fervent Zionist and equally impassioned man of letters.”
• Dylan’s latest bootleg.
• Don’t drive through Lee County on I-75 with an Obama bumpersticker:

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Did I just see a tease with Gilbert Gottfried giving The Today Show’s Ann Curry tips on how to be a stand-up comedian?!? Strange days indeed. Plus all the political and media headlines, with updates throughout the day:

• Al-Arian loses bid for appeal in Supreme Court.
• First he got bounced from a Bill Young campaign event; now write-in sheriff’s candidate Greg Pound has been bounced from a Palin rally.
• The big FLA swing for Obama.
• A guilty plea in the Wellcare Medicare scandal.
• 160 jobs gone in Plant City.
• Florida Clergy for Fairness.
• The real impact of the anti-gay Amendment 2.
• The do or die fatigue.
• Sarah Palin had a middling-size crowd (at best) in Clearwater yesterday. Though I’m guessing it will be larger than Joe Biden’s Wednesday.
• In Palin’s Estero stop, lots of terrorist-baitin’ and Husseinin’ goin’ on, you betcha.
• Hey, didja know that the I-4 Corridor is an election battleground?
• Prepping for Yom Kippur.
• Siegfried cranks a brewski.
• What’s worse: consorting with a past violent anti-war activist, or consorting with a fatcat banker who wrecked the savings and loan industry and cost taxpayers billions in the 1980s?

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Today marks the first day of the Tampa Tribune’s new Mon-Fri one-news-section era. PIck one up and check it out and let me know what you think. In the meantime, here’s today’s top political and media news headlines, with updates daily (box, right, you know):

• They lined up before dawn to see their political hero,
• My vote for clueless teen of the year goes to this kid.
• And Sarah can raise some campaign cash, darn tootin’.
• Jim Greer, persona non grata.
• Seriously, an item in the Breaking News tbo.com blog about the Weinermobile coming to Lakeland?!?
• Max Hardcore gets hardcore prison time for porno conviction.
• Gore won in 2000 (again).
• Best tweet of the day: “laughterkey: Warning to all moose in the Clearwater area. SHE’S HERE. Run for your life.”
• Joe Biden plays the Sun Dome at USF on Wednesday.
• The I-4 corridor.
• Pulling apart the Yes on 2 arguments like a roasted chicken from Publix.
• The 7th Annual Blogger Boobie-thon (all for a good cause); local Out in Left Field once again bares it all for the cause, but you gotta pay to see it.
• Yes, the Tina Fey turn as Palin on SNL was hilarious, but for those who stayed tuned for another 5 minutes got treated to another example of why Kristen Wiig is the funniest player on the show today:

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Blessed weekend relief is just 8 hours away! In the meantime, here’s all the poiltical and media news that matters, with updates throughout the day in the box to the right:

• Game over in the Great Lakes State; McCain campaign is pulling out of Michigan.
• Orlando mayor is down with the LGBT and domestic-partner benefits.
• A South Florida congresswoman changes her mind about the bailout after a visit to her district.
• Confuserating the voters.
• How does an elevator explode? Here’s how.
• Bailout 2: Porky’s Revenge, set to open today in the House.
• Deggans is right about Ifill being even-handed; she was also boring as shit and didn’t follow up well.
• Tampa Bay’s got itself a brand-spanking newly confirmed US Attorney for the Middle District.
• St. Pete bans soliciting in the medians, screws the Times, MDA.
• Shooting guns and talkin’ politics: sounds like a GOP fundraiser to me.
• Oh, and the Duke insists that the biggest loser in last night’s debate was … the MSM!
• A maverick he is not. No maverick is he:

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Today’s top political and media headlines from Tampa Bay, Florida and the world beyond. Updates in the aggregatin’ box to the right:

• FLA GOP leaders be freakin’ about John McCain’s big slide in this state.
• Pushing Rope to Netroots: Stop backing fringe candidates and get serious!
• One Tampa condo project gets a chance to survive after having its reorganization approved in bankruptcy court.
• The Right: Crist 2-for-2 on Supreme Court picks.
• Nader et al. taking votes away from … McCain?!?
• Economy may sidetrack class-size amendment; we can’t afford smaller classes now.
• Defending Gwen Ifill.
• Sarah Palin making a swing through Florida, including Coachman Park in Clearwater.
• FLA’s in Play! Three polls put Obama head of McCain in FLA, beyond the margin of error.
• Charges and countercharges between Vern and Christine.
• On the agenda: the selling of FLA (in this case, a longterm lease of Alligator Alley to private interests).
• In Hillsborough, no public dollars for letting the public know about a referendum to buy more environmentally sensitive land.
• Charlie not only <3 Carole; Charlie <3 the Rays.
• Tampa House candidate E.J. Ford’s homage to Mike Gravel’s Rock:

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Your vital headlines in political and media news, with updates throughout the day in the update box on the right:

• You can see Russia from one part of Alaska; it’s just that Sarah Palin has never been to that part of Alaska.
• Gorilla Theatre in Tampa shut down by fire marshal.
• Big Film vs. RealNetworks’ new DVD copying software.
• Extending the Crosstown across the Gandy Bridge.
• Legs, legs, legs coming to Tampa Bay’s 10 weathercast?
• The “Newt Gingrich of the Left” on the bailout plan.
• Jay-Z to rawk Miami for Obama.
• The Miami Herald declares that independents rule the Ybor City night scene.
• One Orlando land speculator’s personal bailout, courtesy of FLA taxpayers.
• Everything’s that wrong with newspapers.
• Spokane daily is dropping the AP; rips them a new one.
• Double-shot Wednesday for vids: First up, the anti-Palin, anti-hunting spot:

• And the Democratic reaction to Orlando Congressman Tom Feeney’s “rookie mistake” Abramoff admission:

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Today’s top political and media news headlines, with updates throughout the day in that little box just to the right:

• More Sarah on the media interview circuit!
• Crist, Cabinet to consider funding final segment of Orlando’s beltway.
• Adam Putnam on why he voted for the bailout.
• Congress