Rachel Maddow and crew get booted from Christine O’Donnell’s campaign headquarters.
The phrase “lake pirates” was entirely new to me before that incident last week on Falcon Lake, which straddles the Texas-Mexico border. “Lake pirates” are who the local sheriff blames for allegedly chasing and shooting at a married couple on jet skis on the Mexican side of the lake. The husband was reported by his wife, who escaped, to have have been shot in the head. The husband and his jet ski have not been found. Mexican authorities, perhaps for their own reasons, are raising questions about the alleged incident. Today, the wife and her husband’s family made the rounds on the TV news shows. Eric Lach takes a closer look at the case.
New York GOP gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino: Andrew Cuomo “should be in jail.”
John Boehner, talking about his relationship with President Obama: “I come in and he’ll say, ‘Boehner you are almost as dark as me.'”
It’s not very often that you have a stripper recording her conversations with a federal district judge (on senior status) and turning them over to the FBI. Then again, it’s not every day (I don’t think) that a federal judge is allegedly boinking a stripper and buying her coke, weed and Roxicodone. Hello, Atlanta!
Colbert: “The definition of bigotry is picking on Rick Sanchez. Watch.
Joe the Plumber and Missouri tea partiers join forces to oppose “radical” anti-puppy mill legislation.
Rachel Slajda brings us up to speed on the big “voter fraud” brouhaha going on down in Houston.
Last night was the first Daily Show episode since that whole unpleasant Rick Sanchez business. It was a tempered Jon Stewart, to the extent he can be. Watch.