We’re revamping two parts of Talking Points Memo today — comments and the login process. In the past few months, some of you have experienced trouble registering on TPM and logging in to comment. Most frustrating, some of you were getting kicked out of the system after having composed long comments and losing your work (it happened a couple times to ourselves). We realized bug batches weren’t going to do the trick, so we rebuilt the two systems from scratch. More about the changes after the jump. Read More
When whackadoo xenophobia crosses wires with cultural illiteracy the results can be, if not tragic, then at least pretty comical.
Meet Circuit Judge Elijah Williams of Florida. He’s a veteran family court judge down in Broward County Florida and he faced a primary election on Tuesday. But a few weeks ago an group of bloggers began suggesting that Williams had not been straight with voters about being a Muslim. Read More
Even funnier if you know that Crowley is the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, i.e., chief spokesman at the State Department.
A business that rents missiles and old military jets for publicity events seeks volunteers on craigslist to help cart two missiles it’s donating for anti-“Ground Zero Mosque” events.
Yep, hard to know where to start.
Seems like we may have a mini-political reporter jobs program breaking out in New Jersey this afternoon.
More details and answers to your questions on our new comments system after the jump. Read More
Look at this article and note the emails that Brett Schundler shared with reporters in New Jersey after he got canned by Gov. Christie (R-NJ). Christie may have a hard time explaining his comments from earlier in the week, in the face of those emails.
TPM’s Ryan J. Reilly has you covered. From the best in Beck fans’ patriotic duds to the true villains in the federal government (according to one rally attendee) to how much Beck’s fans love MLK, Ryan was there.
And check back tomorrow for more video and photos from today’s event. You don’t want to miss it.