Two shot at North Hollywood synagogue. Both victims apparently in good condition.
There’s a stampede among national Republicans to support Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman in the NY-23rd special election. And there are some signs that Hoffman may be something of a Potemkin candidate. He didn’t show up at a radio debate last night. He was on the finance committee of a hospital that successfully lobbied for a federal earmark before becoming an anti-earmark champion. And he got eaten alive by a local paper editorial board last week after he wasn’t prepared to answer questions about any of the issues facing the district.
But there’s now also increasing evidence that Hoffman has gone ahead of Republican party nominee Dede Scozzafava and is in a dead heat with Democrat Bill Owens. In recent days two polls from highly partisan groups (Club for Growth & Minuteman Pac) backing Hoffman have showed him in first place, though not by much. And now, DK/R2K has a poll out showing close to the same result. Scozzafava in third and Hoffman and Owens tied, a big move for Hoffman who was a relatively distant third in the same poll just last week.
This could be a big story on Tuesday night.
If you want to know how big corporate astroturfing works, and the many layers of money and subterfuge involved, there’s no better case study than the coal industry group that sent forged letters to Congress purportedly from community groups opposing global warming regulation. Zack Roth has been covering today’s hearing in the House on this particular fiasco, but like I said, it’s a rare window into this whole professional bamboozlement apparatus.
Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley were reportedly drinking together again last night — this time in a Cambridge pub.
Fun People.
Randall Terry and fellow anti-abortion protestors staked out congressional staffers this morning with costumes and street theater dramatizing how said staffers will soon be burning in hellfire along with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid for supporting health care reform.
“The fire hurts!!!”
See the video.
During a brief press availability this afternoon, President Obama reflected on his overnight visit to Dover AFB. Watch.
In a real shocker another federal judge has found one of Orly Taitz’s birther lawsuits against the President to be without legal basis — which just goes to show that the entire federal judiciary is engaged in a treasonous conspiracy to protect this impostor of a President.
Arrest warrant issued for Michael Hilton, scammer at the center of the Montana jail/American Police Force debacle.
Pew survey: Fox News is viewed as the most ideologically oriented of the big three cable news channels.