We finally figured out which switch you flip to control Shep Smith’s soul.

[via @elisefoley]

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

MICHAEL, an African-American poll worker.

UNIDENTIFIED POLL WORKER, an unidentified poll worker.

JODIE BRUNSTETTER, wife of North Carolina state senator Peter Brunstetter, who sponsored legislation to put an anti-gay marriage amendment on the state ballot.

CHAD NANCE, a Winston-Salem freelance journalist.

SCENE

An early-voting site at the Forsyth County Government Center in downtown Winston-Salem.

CURTAIN

MICHAEL: “I had my back to her like this. She said, ‘The reason my husband wrote Amendment 1 was because the Caucasian race is diminishing and we need to, uh, reproduce.'”

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Drudge:

OBAMA ADMITS FABRICATING GIRLFRIEND IN MEMOIR

Politico:

Though Dreams From My Father is an autobiography, and hence non-fiction, Obama makes no mention of this “compression,” nor is their any note by the publisher, Broadway Books. In fact, Obama only acknowledged the “compression” after [reporter David] Maraniss learned that [former Obama girlfriend Genevieve] Cook had no recollection of some of the events at which Obama said she was present.

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But we don’t recall him illustrating it.

[via Political Wire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv5TPx_m3-U

Our story begins, as all good stories do, with a Golden Retriever guarding his companion’s bike on a Chinese street. When the companion returns from his errands, he gets on the bike, the dog hops on the back — and then Li Li barks to signal that he’s ready to ride.

Followed by the sound heard ’round the Internet: Awwwwww.

But golly, that’s an awfully thin rack Li Li’s squatting on. So Jeff, an expat Midwesterner living in Bangkok, reposts the video and launches a website to raise money to buy him a proper platform.

Once more, with feeling: Awwwwww.

And then, the twist: YouTube pulls his video.

Say, what?

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“KABUL, Afghanistan — President Obama made a surprise trip here on Tuesday to sign a landmark strategic partnership agreement between the United States and Afghanistan in a midnight ceremony meant to mark the beginning of the end of a war that has lasted for more than a decade.” A televised address is scheduled for 7:30 pm ET. [NYT]

“Richard Grenell, the openly gay spokesman recently hired to sharpen the foreign policy message of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, has resigned in the wake of a full-court press by anti-gay conservatives.” [WaPo, via Political Wire]