“A conservative group in Missouri is picking up the backing of the Tea Party and Joe The Plumber in its quest to stop the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and other animal rights groups from passing ‘radical’ anti-puppy mill legislation.” [TPM]

We’d like to thank Mr. Chris Coons of Delaware for providing us an excuse to post the I Am Not a Witch ad, which we ignored yesterday because, well, our head was asploding. For the record, we are not Christine O’Donnell. Furthermore, we have more than one nostril.

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If it’s Tuesday, there must be another ex-domestic worker of NutMeg and Harsh in the news. This time, the person is a U.S. citizen who was hired to be a nanny and personal assistant/jack jill-of-all-trades to the Harsh-Whitmans.

Jill Armstrong worked for eMeg in 1998, but lasted only two months before she quit because she “had trouble” getting paid for the time she had worked, and because of “challenges” in supervising the family’s two notoriously ill-behaving sons. (Note: These would be the two children who Meg was too busy raising to vote).

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Well! That was fun!

Problem is, BozoGate was only the third weirdest Christine O’Donnell story Monday. Damn, it’s a jungle out there.

But let’s recap: The New York Times has now clarified its story that Celibabe’s dad played Bozo in Philadelphia — his “signature gig,” as first described. After a squadron of Bozo Truthers questioned the factual basis of that assertion, Dad came forward to explain that he wasn’t the official, accredited Local Bozo, but a Bozo Stringer who would fill in for personal appearances and such as needed.

We’re glad we didn’t grow up in Philly, because we would have been ten at the time, and we’d be crushed to learn now that we’ve been living a lie all these years, thinking we had met the real Bozo. Or a real Bozo.

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Breaking BozoGate News! A visitor to our original Christine O’Donnell Bozo post thickens the plot:

My name is Pat Cashin. I have a daily clown history blog called clownalley.net and am on the Board of Directors of the International Clown Hall of Fame and Research Center in Baraboo, WI.

I’ve researched the Bozo character for many, many years. I have NEVER heard of Daniel O’Donnell portraying the character.

Our deep and sincere thanks to Mr. Cashin for confirming our initial suspicions. (And happy first birthday, Jamie! Yo Gabba Gabba!) Now if the Lamestream Media will just step up to the plate, we might get some action here.

Update: New York Times covers BozoGate — and us:

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“Republican Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell of Delaware said in a 2006 debate that China was plotting to take over America and claimed to have classified information about the country that she couldn’t divulge… She said China had a ‘carefully thought out and strategic plan to take over America’ and accused one opponent of appeasement for suggesting that the two countries were economically dependent and should find a way to be allies.” [AP/Google]

“Rahm Emanuel kicked off his campaign for Mayor of Chicago with a homecoming video, filmed in front of a bookshelf with a vase and a family photograph. ‘I was born here and my wife Amy and I raised our three children here,’ he says. ‘I’m glad to be home.’ But an Emanuel spokeswoman, Lori Goldberg, confirms that the video itself was actually filmed in Washington, D.C., in the offices of AKPD media, the firm founded by David Axelrod.” [Politico]