Lo and behold, lawmakers in Connecticut are proposing a real government bailout for newspapers.

Talk about a silly and stupid waste of taxpayer money.

That was from conservative blogger Ace of Spades, who was responsible for some of the worst bottom-of-the-barrel often-racist attacks against Obama. No Ace, you’re not better than that.

As I said before, these right wing bloggers in the last few months created a stain that will stay with them for a long time to come. And we can’t let them forget it.

1. Obama didn’t actually write his memoir. In fact it was ghost written by none other than Bill Ayers.

7. Because of liberal hatred, it is now justifiable to “fight fire with fire” by photoshopping a picture of Obama’s face next to a noose and the word “asphyxiation.”

I’m pretty sure that all the things listed above (except the last one) were promoted in some form or fashion by at least one conservative blog with 40,000 hits a day or more.

National Review’s Mark Krikorian notes that (1) Washington Mutual became the largest bank to fail in American history yesterday and (2) its last press release touted the fact that it was named one of America’s most diverse employers, having been “honored specifically for its efforts to recruit Hispanic employees, reach out to Hispanic consumers and support Hispanic communities and organizations”; for being “named [one of] the top 60 companies for Hispanics”; for “attaining equal rights for GLBT employees and consumers”; for having “earned points for competitive diversity policies and programs, including the recently established Latino, African American and GLBT employee network groups”; and for being “named one of 25 Noteworthy Companies by Diversity Inc magazine and one of the Top 50 Corporations for Supplier Diversity by Hispanic Enterprise magazine.”

Michelle Malkin, where’s the link love?

Her knee-jerk defense of Palin grew so ridiculous that she even went after gossip tabloid US Weekly today, devoting her lead post to a “partisan hit job” it did. What’s next? A shrieking post about the alien big foot bias in Weekly World News?

Well, later today, to prove her point, she reprinted this photoshopped cover of US Weekly to “prove” the magazine’s bias by making a John Edwards sex scandal love child joke. But do you notice something about the photo? John Edwards is holding Sarah Palin’s down syndrome baby Trig. Michelle “leave her alone” Malkin used Palin’s son to make a cheap sex scandal joke!!!

Thankfully, their gumshoe tactics paid off. Journalists have been running victory laps today, gloating over the fact that they had scooped Obama by revealing that Biden would be joining the Democratic nominee. This AP article sums up the media’s astonishing accomplishment perfectly: “The text message announcing Biden as Obama’s pick began filtering across the U.S. at 3:02 a.m. EDT Saturday, when most people were asleep. By then, it was old news, by today’s standards. The media had reported the pick more than two hours earlier.”

Yes, the media managed to scoop Obama by two whole hours. Not only that, but they broke the story at 1 a.m., when most of the nation was either already asleep or not watching the news.

Sarcasm aside, who are they kidding? Leading up to that 3 a.m. text message the media managed to float every thinly-sourced story announcing all sorts of decisions that Obama had supposedly made. When I went to bed last night slightly after midnight, the top story on Drudge was that thousands of Obama/Bayh bumper stickers had been uncovered, indicating that the Indiana senator would be sharing the ticket (conveniently that story can no longer be found on his site). Hundreds of blogs and news outlets were heavily promoting this “scoop” as late as 1 a.m. So given this, doesn’t the broken clock axiom — you know, being right two times a day — apply in this instance? After listening to five days of constant bullshit, did the few Americans who happened to be watching cable news at 1 a.m. — when this scoop finally came out — actually take it seriously?

For example, let’s take the conservative pundit who is most well-known for her fact checking: Michelle Malkin. When I checked her venerable website late last night she had up a post not only promoting the Drudge bumper sticker rumor, but also her anonymous sources as well pointing to Bayh: “A good friend of mine just informed me that his good friend in IL has his hands deep into selling political T-shirts and he got word that Evan Bayh from Indiana will be his running mate for VP.”

And then this morning Malkin has the nerve to wag her finger at Obama (as if she does anything else when referring to him) for getting scooped before he could alert his supporters; she even insinuates that the presidential candidate had no intention of telling his supporters before the media.

Will someone please write Malkin a polite email informing her that it’s rather easy to read through her posts from the previous night and then rub her nose in her own freshly-laid turds?

What a bunch of clowns. Let’s face it, millions of supporters got the news of Biden’s VP slot when their cell phones started beeping at 3 a.m. That’s when I found out about it for certain. This running narrative today that the media somehow scooped him is, frankly, bullshit.