Morbidly fascinated by Bill O’Reilly, but can’t stand to watch more than a minute of him?

Thanks to 23/6, you’re in luck!

Thanks to Sam for the link.

Thanks to Jesse for the link.

NEW ORLEANS REPORTER: “My understanding is that you voted twice against the creation of a commission to investigate the levee failures around New Orleans. My question is why have you voted against the creation of that commission?”

JOHN MCCAIN: “I have supported every investigation and ways of finding out what caused the tragedy.”

…The presumptive Republican nominee twice voted against a Democratic proposal to set up an independent 9/11-style commission to investigate the causes of the tragedy, opting instead for a congressional investigation.

Read on at the Washington Post’s Fact Checker.

It’s not “RTMFA”, y’all.

In a long-awaited report, the Senate Intelligence Committee rebuked President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney today for making prewar claims — particularly that Iraq had close ties to Al Qaeda — that were not backed by available intelligence.

The report, which was supported by some Republicans but criticized by many others, accuses the president and other members of his administration of repeatedly exaggerating the evidence of an Al Qaeda connection to take advantage of the charged climate after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Read on.

Let’s suppose for a minute that the popular vote matters for nominating a candidate. I say that because, of course, not all states have primaries. Some instead have caucuses, where there is no popular vote, so to give a candidate esteem based purely on the popular vote from primaries is to say that the caucus states don’t count. The people of Iowa, Nevada, Washington and Maine beg to differ.

Even then, who’s ahead? Clinton says it’s her, raising the specter of the 2000 Presidential election. Real Clear Politics differs. They’ve got six different tallies, some including an estimate of what the popular vote would be from caucus states, others dealing with the Michigan primary in different ways.

Clinton is indeed ahead, if you count the votes from Michigan – where Obama wasn’t even on the ballot. But if you count those Michigan votes for “uncommitted” as votes for Obama, and include the estimates from the caucus states, well, Obama’s ahead.