I worked for three years in a newsroom after 9/11. I can tell you a hard and fast rule of thumb when it comes to video from 9/11. You can show the towers on fire, before they fall. You can show the rubble after the fall. You can not show the plane hitting the tower, the plane exploding into the tower, or the towers actually falling. Why? For some people the terror and the horror of that day are still real and still painful. If you were going to show the video, you had to have an explicit warning that

Obama has a pointed rejoinder for Palin's pathetic charge last night belittling his work as a community organizer. Roland Martin, a Republican, also had this sharp response to Palin's attack on community organizers.

A must watch. Funniest stuff in a long time.

What was really said when McCain asked Palin to be his VP

This is a short speech Obama gave Monday night in Milwaukee that's generating rave reviews. It is poetic and powerful. One Time reporter that was there saysTonight, in front of a Milwaukee audience of 14,000, invoking both the Bible and Thoreau, he was as good as I’ve ever heard him. He spoke for just over 14 minutes but he left the audience roaring. Barack Obama:That spirit of looking out for one another, that core value that says I am my brothers’ keeper, I am my sister’s keeper, that spirit is mo

First, let me apologize for the fact that the race for the Presidency has descended into the abyss. Second, let me say how much fun it is! With the pick of Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential nominee, John McCain has sent Republicans scrambling to defend her as "more experienced" than Barack Obama. I don't have the time or the desire to logically explain how this can't possibly be the case. However, an interesting argument to bolster her foreign policy credentials has sprung up: Palin is more experienc

Talk about making lemonade out of lemons!Republican Senator, and should be Vice-Presidential nominee,Kay Bailey Hutchinson:"The fact that I don't know her, the fact that others, maybe in Washington, haven't, uh, known her, and she doesn't know the ways of Washington might be the very best thing of all."h/t JedReport

Things are apparently pretty rocky over at MSNBC. I could explain it all to you, hissy fits, on air personality clashes, etc. Let's just let Jon Stewart sum it up for us.

From Editor & Publisher:In an unusually heated attack on a veteran political reporter by a cable news host, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann laced into the Associated Press's Charles Babington an hour after Barack Obama had concluded his speech in Denver on Thursday night.Nearly all of the top commentators and reporters on the three cable news networks had hailed Obama's speech as something new and powerful, and filled with specifics, and predicted it would have a positive effect on his chances vs. John McCain. This

The highlight video:Barack Obama's acceptance speech. (In case you're wondering, that's U2's City of Blinding Lights" that he walked out to)

Is this sarcastic or serious? It's hard to tell when dealing with someone like McCain.