Tuesday Linkfest

Tuesday Linkfest

Just cleaning out the "I might do something with this later" tabs. My real writing is later tonight when Obama comes to town.

Where's Dennis Kucinich been while he's been complaining that the caucuses are "rigged"? New Hampshire, mostly.

Jonathan Singer at MyDD fans the Steve King for Senate speculation. My bet is no. Steve's crazy but not stupid; why trade a safe House seat and all his talk show attention for a losing Senate race?

The big winner in the writer's strike? Hillary.

The senator from New York was the butt of 186 jokes cracked by NBC's Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien, CBS' David Letterman and Comedy Central's Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, according to a study of the hosts' monologues by the Center for Media and Public Affairs. The rest of the Democratic contenders were joked about a combined total of 197 times, with Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois drawing 56 cracks, the second-largest number.

Altogether, the Democrats drew 383 jokes by the late-night hosts, compared with 312 about the Republicans. In the GOP field, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani triggered the most swipes, with 72, while former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was made fun of 68 times.

Only Clinton and Giuliani managed to crack the list of the top 10 most frequently mocked public figures this year.

In first place: George W. Bush, who drew 826 jokes. He was followed by Paris Hilton with 258 and Vice President Dick Cheney with 197.

More Ron Paul third party speculation.

And how would this GOP candidate fare today: "He was for abortion rights before he was against them... raised taxes several times as governor... He signed the law that Republicans now call amnesty for illegals." Who? Why, that crazy liberal Ronald Reagan, of course.