Mike Tyson?

… And the winner is Lobster, imo. Neither Tyson nor Lieberman was in the class of Mays, Leonard, et al. at their peak (and some would debate whether the athletes actually were humiliating themselves, especially Mays, or just making sure the last bit was used up. Revealing yourself to be a quisling and pretending it’s a virtue, now there’s humiliation.)

Rose may be responding to conservative complaints by inviting more conservatives to his show. For awhile, PBS was under a lot of pressure to balance its “liberal” programming.

Arianna Huffington, E.J. Dionne, Adam Nagourney, Mark Halperin all on Charlie Rose tonight.

Dang, is Rose dense this evening or what? Sounded to me like the rest of them got it about Lamont and Lieberman to one degree or another. But Rose? phew…

I’m glad there’s a program like this, but Rose has been in deep unrelenting confusion for the last couple of years. He really loves the all the Repub strategists – Kissinger, etc – and almost always has his mind made up about every single thing, interrupting and imposing his views on every guest. He’s become nearly insufferable, but there aren’t many other shows like this out there. Bill Moyers was very good.

CIFA was the department responsible for the primary review of the Ports Security deal, the one that was by-passed by goodness-knows-who when they tried to fasttrack that sale to Dubai.

There’s other deals that we should already be hearing about right now; bet CIFA got by-passed again, rather like FISA court got by-passed by NSA domestic spying.

Does that set off a different radar for you?

A hacked module — a form, Hubbell theorized — was generating thousands of emails to joe2006.com addresses. Even after removing various functions from the site, the problems persisted, Hubbell told me. “There were multiple spam attacks,” he recalled. “It seemed like it was internally spamming itself, and there was also potentially an outside source that was hitting it.”

Also known as a cluster-fuck.

http://www.tnr.com/user/nregi……izza080906

Oh crap. From the Lizza/TNR piece:

Some Democratic Senators will endorse Lamont this morning, but don’t expect much more than a press release. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has no intention of throwing any real money at Lamont. “This race will have zero bearing on who controls the Senate after Election Day in November,” says a top Democrat involved in Senate campaign strategy. “Why would we spend money defending a seat that will be blue either way? It just takes funds from important seats like Montana. It’s counterproductive to the cause.” The message to Lamont? If you want the seat so bad, spend your own money: “The fact of the matter is that Lamont has seven million dollars he can draw on.”

[emphasis mine]

I suppose this was to be expected, but it’s not good. In fact, it seems to be the old “concentrate on a few key races and ignore the rest” strategy that’s worked so well in the last two elections.