When faced with the sheer middle-class brutality of Piers Morgan’s attack-dog interview technique, Chrissy does what any self-respecting Bagger does when confronted with questions: she walks off the set. Or at least she tries to. As I’ve always said, if you plan on exiting in a huff don’t let them wire you under your clothes. You’ll be stuck in your seat and most likely trip on the wire.

Like most of you I too am outraged that Piers refused to ask Chrissy the questions she wanted to answer. What is he, a journalist?

Andrew Sullivan today links to a critique of Paul Krugman’s analysis of the so-called “Texas Miracle” in job creation that is alleged to have ocurred during the past few years. The critique is by Kevin Williamson and appears in the National Review. I won’t quote from the article extensively (you can follow the link and read it yourself) but I will offer my own rebuttal of its claims: Read more »

Hang on, folks, the next few weeks are gonna get ugly:

On September 11, 2001, terror attacks on New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania killed almost 3,000 people. On September 12, the survivors, the families of the victims, the first-responders woke up to find their lives irrevocably altered — as did all Americans.

Ten years later, Yahoo! is asking: How have you changed since September 11?

Quite honestly, we haven’t. Other than being ten years older. But we can’t blame Osama for that.

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“The Obama campaign’s point person in New Mexico recently sent an email to supporters defending the president’s position on the debt deal and bashing the Nobel Prize winning New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and the ‘Firebagger Lefty blogosphere.'” [HuffPo]

Political Wire:

Jonathan Alter says that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is conducting focus groups in preparation for a possible Republican presidential bid in 2012.

NBC:

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s (R) office shot down news — reported by Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter — that the governor is conducting focus groups in preparation of a possible White House bid.

“It’s absolutely not true,” Christie spokeswoman Maria Comella told First Read.

What does seem to be true is that Rick Perry hasn’t cleared the field. Yet.

“As the presidential campaign season begins to get into full swing, radio host Rush Limbaugh is again raising questions about President Barack Obama’s personal background, wondering where all of his former girlfriends, classmates and students are.” [WND] “Limbaugh has been married four times and has no children.” [Wikipedia]

It’s not our place to be Shocked! by Rick Perry, mainly because we have standards for these things, and Deranger Rick is far from meeting them. (For the record, if you want to push our button, suggest that Barack Obama might meet Bobby Kennedy’s fate.)

So we’re still waiting to see how Rick’s act plays outside the Usual Venues, and it might be some time before we get an indication one way or another. Meantime, we are a little surprised that it’s not playing as well inside the Usual Venues as we had been led to expect. Here, courtesy of Salon’s Steve Kornacki, is the — pardon the expression — round-up:

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