Newt Gingrich’s claim in last night’s debate that he was merely giving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac “advice as an historian” when they paid him some $300,000 has good government types rolling their eyes.

Not since John McCain’s green-screen speech has an epically bad performance caused the TV punditry to recoil the way it did last night to Rick Perry’s debate brain freeze. Watch.

The Oregonian: “Nike has no plans to change the name of the Joe Paterno Center, a child day care facility on the World Headquarters Campus near Beaverton …”

(Thanks to TPM Reader PD for the link.)