From the Fox News homepage: A graphic you’d never expect to see. We’ve been ignoring the Drudge-fueled fracas over the White Woman Assaulted By Black Obama Supporter, but now that the story is collapsing faster than Psychogeezer’s polling, we thought you’d enjoy a rare Fair & Balanced moment.

McCain Campaign Volunteer Admits Alleged Attack Was a Hoax [Fox]

McCain Communications Director Gave Reporters Incendiary Version Of “Carved B” Story Before Facts Were Known [TPM]

The Talibunny is a self-made agent of apocalypse straight from the twisted, beer-sodden imagination of Stephen King, a Jesus-crazed Wal-Mart ayatollah bent on the conversion of America into a theocratic dystopia and, finally, a wasteland incinerated in the advance of her apocalyptic fervor exercised in the pursuit of biblical Rapture.

The Talibunny knows that God reveals His plans in mysterious ways though it is obvious to her now that He hath delivered unto her unto a failing, deceived campaign that would provide nothing more – and nothing less – than a pulpit from which she would launch her own own 2012 campaign for the White House.

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Per pinko commie slime merchants over at NBC, this tidbit:

Palin resisted the suggestion that if Ayers was a “domestic terrorist” — a standard line in her campaign addresses — then so were conservative religious activists who bombed abortion clinics.

“I don’t know if you’re going to use the word ‘terrorist’ there,” she said. “It’s unacceptable, and it would not be condoned, of course, on our watch. But if what you’re asking is if I regret referring to Bill Ayers as an unrepenting domestic terrorist, I don’t regret characterizing him as that.”

The video is, of course, worse. Brian Williams asks about abortion clinic bombers. (Also known as: “terrorists, for Pete’s sake.”) First words out of her mouth: Ayers this, but also, Ayers that.

(Of course, terrorism isn’t a crime where the “health” of the bomber is a mitigating factor. Thanks, liberals!)

It’s as if he’s ready to join the reality-based community:

Scotty used to entertain us with mind-boggling lies, but later wrote a book that confirmed what all us dirty fucking hippies knew all along – not only did the emporer have no clothes, he had no clue.

And now, as the stock market crashes again, please enjoy some nice, good Enya.

Oh screw it–

FUCK FUCK FUCK YOU PIECE OF SHIT I TOLD YOU TO SELL ALL OF MY STOCKS NOW MOTHERFUCKER SELL SELL SELL EVERYTHING ARRRRGGH!

Please feel free to vent in the comments. Namaste, bitches.

[Editor’s Note: I have no idea what “nice, good Enya” is. I just told YouTube “Enya” and picked a non-fan video.]

[Editor’s Note #2: Enya has fans? Who knew?]

So if you haven’t heard the story that’s destined to become legend — or if we’re lucky, tossed down the Memory Hole — Bill Kristol first met Sarah Palin when the Weekly Standard’s Cruise Ship of the Damned docked in Juneau, in June 2007.

We know she made an impression on him. And apparently their meeting made an impression on Jay Griffin, an Anchorage hack who sits on the central committee of Alaska Republicans (“Vigilant • Dedicated • Victorious”) when he’s not licking envelopes for state Rep. Bob Lynn.

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Roubini predicted this mess in 2006, but did anybody listen?  Nooooo ….

Hundreds of hedge funds will fail and policy makers may need to shut financial markets for a week or more as the crisis forces investors to dump assets, New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini said.

“We’ve reached a situation of sheer panic,” Roubini, who predicted the financial crisis in 2006, told a conference of hedge-fund managers in London today. “There will be massive dumping of assets” and “hundreds of hedge funds are going to go bust,” he said.
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“Systemic risk has become bigger and bigger,” Roubini said at the Hedge 2008 conference. “We’re seeing the beginning of a run on a big chunk of the hedge funds,” and “don’t be surprised if policy makers need to close down markets for a week or two in coming days,” he said.

See you on the breadlines.  More after the jump.

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