I noted before our strong affinity for Mitt Romney as McCain’s veep. But if it can’t be Mitt, then we won’t be too disappointed if we have to settle for that exorcism-attending, chemical-castrating Louisiana governor, Bobby Jindal:
See how CNN manages to get through a list of policies where Bush and McCain agree without mentioning Iraq or the War on Terror …
High-res version at Veracifier.com.
The Carson City paper caught scandal-plagued Gov. Jim Gibbons (R), who is in the midst of a messy divorce, on camera at the Reno rodeo Sunday with the ex-wife of a former Reno mayor. She also happens to be a former Playboy playmate (1989).
Asked to comment on why one picture showed him in a parking lot hugging the woman not his wife (nor the other other woman, with whom Gibbons had exchanged hundreds of text messages), Gibbons said he was comforting a stressed out friend: “She was upset, crying. She couldn’t get her breath. I put my arms around her.”
What is it with Gibbons and parking areas? You’ll recall that during his 2006 campaign for governor, then-congressman Gibbons was accused by a Las Vegas cocktail waitress of sexually assaulting her in a Vegas parking garage. Gibbons, who was never charged, said that the woman had simply tripped and he had caught her.
When Nevada women are in distress, Jim Gibbons is there to comfort them. What more could you want in a governor?
Late Update: We have more on the damsel-in-distress-saving governor — including the photo in question — in today’s TPMmuckraker Must Read.
Obama and Hillary meet up today in Unity, NH. That and the day’s other political news in the TPM Election Central Morning Roundup.
Dynamiting a big part of the crown jewel of their plutonium enrichment program is a pretty convincing demonstration of the North Koreans’ seriousness about getting out of the nuclear business. But I question the wisdom of dynamiting a plutonium enrichment facility. Aren’t these things usually buried in cement and forgotten about? 
That’s not simply a rhetorical question. I obviously know very little about the management, let alone demolition of nuclear facilities. But doesn’t this risk kicking a lot of radiation up into the air?
Late Update: And the answer is … No. TPM Reader Nuclear Engineers seem to agree that the cooling towers are isolated from radioactive contaminants. Next question?
From Media Matters:
Continuing a pattern of ignoring developments in the ongoing investigation into the firing of several U.S. attorneys, none of the broadcast networks’ June 24 or 25 evening newscasts reported on the Justice Department Inspector General’s findings of politicization of hiring practices in several of the department’s recruiting programs.
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As Media Matters for America has repeatedly noted, the broadcast networks’ evening newscasts — ABC’s World News, NBC’s Nightly News, and the CBS Evening News — initially were slow to report on the controversy surrounding the dismissal of several U.S. attorneys and have a history of ignoring developments relating to the controversy.
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