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Steve Benen explains:

I especially loved the "Exclusive!" with the exclamation point, as if this were a rare, special occurrence.

For those keeping score at home, as of this weekend, there will have been 47 Sundays since President Obama's inauguration in January. With this 16th appearance on a Sunday morning talk show this week, John McCain will have been a guest on one of the programs every 2.9 weeks. No other official in the country has been sought out by bookers this often.

Since the president took office, McCain has been on "This Week" three times (September 27, August 23, and May 10), "Fox News Sunday" three times (July 2, March 8, and January 25), CNN's "State of the Union" three times (October 11, August 2, and February 15), and "Face the Nation" four times (October 25, August 30, April 26, and February 8). His appearance on "Meet the Press" this weekend will be his third (December 6, July 12, and March 29).

This pattern should really be troubling to the GOP, especially the more conservative end of the party. The Sunday talking heads act as though McCain is the defacto mouth piece for the party, and he clearly isn’t. On top of that, this love of McCain is probably a big factor in the decline of viewership when it comes to Sunday talk shows. It’s old and stale, much like McCain himself.

It's funny that we seem to only have Nader popping up every 4 years now. In the past year we have seen enormous consumer problems. Food recalls are becoming a daily occurrence. Countless items from China have been recalled and Americans are paying record amounts for oil, while the oil companies are enjoying record profits. Sounds like a perfect time for a "consumer advocate", doesn't it? So why hasn't Nader been out front speaking up on these issues?

It sounds to me like Ralph is more worried about his own political aspirations then he is about what got him to the point he is today. Screw the consumer, Ralphy boy wants to be President!

Prime Minister Tony Blair said the world has been ignoring
the threats of terrorism since the “wake-up call” of 9/11.

"September 11 for me was a wake up call. Do you know what I
think the problem is? That a lot of the world woke up for a short time and then
turned over and went back to sleep again," Blair said in an article on
CNN. I feel he is misled to some extent.

There are plenty of reminders of terror in the world. One
has to look no further than Iraq, where suicide bombings are an almost daily
occurrence. The problem is, when they get reported, then the right calls out
that the liberal media is being biased and not showing everything happening in
Iraq. Perhaps they want this “reminder” of terrorism to be ignored. That in its
self would contribute to the worlds “lazy” approach to terrorism.

The truth of the matter is, our leaders ignored terrorism.
They took their sites of off our true enemy in order to invade Iraq. This would
explain why Tony Blair refuses to admit a connection between the London bombings
and their presence in Iraq, even though al Qaeda has said that is the reasoning
and promised more attacks on Europe if they don’t withdrawal from Iraq by August
15.