This is fucking insane:

In typical Fox News fashion, when we asked a Fox News writer how a Central Park cyclist ended up being dragged on the hood of his SUV for four blocks, he blamed the victim, calling the biker a “vigilante.”

Read the whole thing – I can only hope they charge they guy and put him in Riker’s.

Fox Newser Accused of Dragging Cyclist Through Central Park [Gawker]

Buddy of mine here at the office says he went to an autism walk with one of his kids on Sunday.  The guest speaker was … Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who was also to lead the walk.

She bailed out 100 yards in, jumped into an SUV, and headed for Yankee Stadium to meet Rudy.

Sarah Palin brings the stupid again:

HANNITY: What do you make of – look at the state of the economy now...

PALIN: Well, when you consider that the federal government is about eleven trillion dollars in debt, and we’re borrowing more to spend more.. it defies any sensible economic policy that any of us ever learned through college. It defies economy practices and principles that tell ya ‘you gotta quit digging that hole when you are in that financial hole’

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And the hits keep coming:

Wells Fargo, Ms. Jacobson said in an interview, saw the black community as fertile ground for subprime mortgages, as working-class blacks were hungry to be a part of the nation’s home-owning mania. Loan officers, she said, pushed customers who could have qualified for prime loans into subprime mortgages. Another loan officer stated in an affidavit filed last week that employees had referred to blacks as “mud people” and to subprime lending as “ghetto loans.”

“We just went right after them,” said Ms. Jacobson, who is white and said she was once the bank’s top-producing subprime loan officer nationally. “Wells Fargo mortgage had an emerging-markets unit that specifically targeted black churches, because it figured church leaders had a lot of influence and could convince congregants to take out subprime loans.”

Bailouts, bitchez. Enjoy the new boss.

Bank Accused of Pushing Mortgage Deals on Blacks [New York Times]

Gee, I wonder what they’ll find?

I don’t know what I like better – the fact that the background music, Fanfare for the Common Man, was written by a gay guy, or the barely contained rage in that douchebag’s voice.

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Will the Bush Administration body count ever stabilize?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtlW5qpBXmo