A television studio. Night.

VAN SUSTEREN: You have said about your opponent, Mr. Rubio, that he is the greatest fraud perpetrated. So it sounds like you have had a couple of punches back as well. Why do you say that?

CRIST: Because he’s trying to pawn himself off as a fiscal conservative. And yet just in recent weeks, two weeks ago it has come out in news accounts he had a Republican Party of Florida credit card that he charged $130 haircut, or maybe it was a back wax — we are not sure what all he got at that place.

VAN SUSTEREN: Wait a second, stop. A back wax? Wait a second.

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We managed to avoid this yesterday, but finding nothing else worthy of notice, we’re compelled to spoil your morning:

“I’m… naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me because I wasn’t going to vote for the president’s budget,” Massa said. “Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?”

Hey, it was either that or monkeys on crack.

HOH’s One-Minute Recess: Massa’s Naked Rahm Run-In [Roll Call]

Dan Rather to Chris Matthews about Barack Obama: “Listen, he’s a nice person, he’s very articulate, this was going to be used against him but he couldn’t sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.” [Left Coast Rebel]

Don’t mind us, just experimenting with a blank-title post, something we discovered by accident over the weekend. Some subjects aren’t even worthy of a link-dump treatment, but might merit a quick hit. Especially on slow days.

We could wrap up Afterparty Monday with a clip from Inglourious Basterds, but that would be too easy:

Lord Baden Powell, the founder of the Scout movement, was invited to meet Hitler after having tea with senior Nazis, files released by MI5 show.

Intercepted letters show that the Germans were seeking to expand the influence of the Nazi Youth movement in Britain in the late 1930s.

Baden Powell met the German Ambassador, Joachim von Ribbentrop, who went on to become Hitler’s Foreign Minister, in London in November 1937.

While most of those who came into contact with Ribbentrop found him extremely difficult to deal with, Baden Powell reported that he “seemed very much in earnest and was a charming man to talk to.”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmvnXKRfdb8

Never one to miss an opportunity to invoke divine intervention, Sarah Palin is now claiming Isaiah 49:16 (“Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.”) as scriptural support for her cribnote palmistry:

“Hey, if it was good enough for God, scribbling on the palm of his hand, it’s good enough for me, for us. He says, in that passage he says, I wrote your name on the palm of my hand to remember you. And I’m like OK, I’m in good company.”

There’s video showing her saying as much, but since it’s Afterparty Monday, we’re going with Sam Jackson quoting Ezekiel 25:17, “The Lord is My Badass.”

Palin On Her Palm Notes: God Did It Too [TPM]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNdtqzm-v-w

Our afterparty continues with a satellite remote from Florida:

Movies and TV shows with gay characters could be ineligible for a “family-friendly” tax credit in Florida under a little-noticed provision tucked into a $75 million incentive package that Republican House leaders hope will attract film and entertainment jobs to the state.

The bill would prohibit productions with “nontraditional family values” from receiving a so-called family-friendly tax credit. But it doesn’t define what “nontraditional family values” are, something the bill’s sponsor had a hard time doing, too.

“Think of it as like Mayberry,” state Rep. Stephen Precourt, R-Orlando, said, referring to The Andy Griffith Show. “That’s when I grew up — the ’60s. That’s what life was like. I want Florida to be known for making those kinds of movies: Disney movies for kids and all that stuff. Like it used to be, you know?”

Rep. Precourt, have you seen the Monkees movie?

Florida bill to reward ‘family-friendly’ films is derided as 1950s-style moral censorship [Palm Beach Post, via ThinkProgress]