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Because the big stories always break, just before lunch time…
1.ECONOMIC ROLLERCOASTER!!! The Fed steps in to save troubled investment bank Bear Stearns. To put this in context, Bear Stearns was being cited as a rock of economic stability as recently as last year. When someone said “Bear Stearns is backing this deal,” you knew your investment was safe. Just goes to show, you’re better off keeping your money under the bed!

BANK OF THE BED: Safer than Wells Fargo…
2.TIBET!!! Remember when Bjork yelled “TIBET” at a concert last week? It seems to have set off a massive great protest, which is turning violent in Beijing.
3.SUPERDELEGATES!!! Obama is cutting into Hillary Clinton’s nominations from top elected officials. Asked why they were changing their votes, the superdelegates responded: “Because he’s going to be president, and she isn’t. Dummy.”
4.FISHY? Is the Branham campaign backpaying or overpaying its campaign manager? John Branham’s campaign manager Phil Busse gets $15,000. More from Amy Ruiz, shortly.
5.THE RACIST CARD!!! Slate examines Clinton campaign doyenne Geraldine Ferraro’s comments about Obama, through a new lens.
Good day.
Bjork performed in Shanghai.
Tibetans are rioting in Lhasa.
Where did you get Beijing out of this equation?
Matt's "meta-trolling" us by pretending to be unable to do his job. It's hilarious, but too sophisticated for some readers. Seriously, guys, have we learned nothing in the past week?
On Geraldine Ferraro, what she said is probably true, but even if it isn't, it raises the more interesting question, can the truth be racist? It seems so. People seem to have gotten in trouble many times for making duh-obvious observations about one race or another (but usually about black people). If blacks excel in some athletics and Indians in mathematics and Asians in running certain kinds of businesses, is it racist to make this observation? Sure, there are bad stereotypes, but NONE of those are!
Oh that's right... It's right there in the "Fast-track to the U.S. Presidency Handbook". Chapter 1: Run as an African American with a strange name reminiscent of a recently deposed Muslim dictator. Now that's what I call a lucky advantage. Not!
Geraldine just can't handle the fact that people aren't buying into the historical context of these elections the way that the Clinton campaign expected. They were counting on sexual and racial bias and whenever it seems lacking, they inject it into the campaign.
This is the fucking dirtiest campaign I've ever seen.
The violent protests are in Lhasa (Tibet's captial), not Beijing. In case nobody else reads past the dateline either...