Colbert reviews Palin’s Going Rogue: A steaming pile of bullcrap.

As you may have heard, Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman ended up making up some post-election day ground in NY-23 special election after some election day errors were discovered and absentee ballots — at least so far — allowed him to make up some further ground against victor Bill Owens. But it seems clear that it won’t be enough to change the outcome. Now, though, Hoffman has announced to supporters that he believes the election was stolen by ACORN.

Today’s the day when we should start to get our first read on the health care debate end game. The key hold-outs have pegged their willingness to allow the bill to come to a final vote on the scoring from the CBO — and specifically how the bill affects short and long-term deficit numbers. That scoring is out now. So the ball is in their collective court. Read More

Sarah Palin announces plan to crack down on Ahmadinejad by imposing sanctions on “Iraq.”

So many falsehoods and half-truths in Going Rogue and so little time — so we hit the highlights in “Sarah: Plain and Lying.”

Accused Ponzi schemer Hassan Nemazee, the big Democratic donor, is part-owner of an investment firm that manages money for a New Mexico state agency. And, yeah, the firm got the state contract after Nemazee and an associate contributed to Gov. Bill Richardon’s campaign fund.

So this seems to bring together two separate muckraker stories: Nemazee’s alleged multi-hundred-million-dollar-fraud and whether you had to pay to play to get state money management contracts in New Mexico, which involved many of the same players involved in the pay-to-play scandal in New York state pension funds.

Fox News says a “production error” caused it to air 2008 campaign rally footage yesterday during a segment on the crowds greeting Sarah Palin on her book tour. And today the network apologized for mistakenly showing the cover of the Going Rouge, a collection of essays mocking the former governor, rather than the cover of her book, Going Rogue.

Nancy Pelosi: Stupak amendment goes too far in restricting abortion and we’ll work something out with the Senate.

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT): Republicans are about to launch a “holy war” to derail health care reform.

Jon Stewart to Lou Dobbs: Your views are “abhorrent and wrong.”