Kilborn, a couple of nights ago:

As Bill Clinton's autobiography flies off the shelves in the U.S., counterfeiters in China are making unauthorized copies which contain bizarre changes. Here's the Chinese Bill on his first meeting with Hillary: "She was as beautiful as a princess. I told her my name is big watermelon." And then Monica-gate is summed up like this: "She was very fat. I can never trust my own judgement." The Chinese version also claims Clinton had a three way in the back of a rickshaw. So at least some of it is true... Bill Clinton is outraged by these changes and he scheduled a book tour of Asian massage parlors to clear things up.

Bill O'Reilly and Paul Krugman went head-to-head on Saturday's "Tim Russert" (generic show link). Highlights:

The tail end of a long exchange during which Krugman was able to say no more than two words in a row:
Prof. KRUGMAN: Well, I'm tired of...
Mr. O'REILLY: Look, if you think it's bad, fine.
Prof. KRUGMAN: You know...
Mr. O'REILLY: And if Bush made a mistake in his estimation of job creation, you're probably right.
Prof. KRUGMAN: Look, let's...
Mr. O'REILLY: But you paint Armageddon; so does your newspaper. And it's baloney.
RUSSERT: All right. We need to stop.
Prof. KRUGMAN: Well, this is what--yeah, OK. This is not your show; you can't cut my mike. Look, what...
Mr. O'REILLY: Oh, another cheap shot.
Prof. KRUGMAN: No, I--well, it's true.
Mr. O'REILLY: You know, you're a cheap-shot artist, and you know it.
RUSSERT: Wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on, hold on.
Prof. KRUGMAN: Good man.

Later on, after O'Reilly has called Krugman a "quasi-socialist":
Prof. KRUGMAN: And you take a look at anything I've written about economics, and I'm not a socialist. You know, that's a slander.
Mr. O'REILLY: I said quasi.
Prof. KRUGMAN: Well, that's a wonderful--then you're a quasi-murderer. I mean, why--what...
Mr. O'REILLY: I'm a quasi-murderer?
Prof. KRUGMAN: Well, quasi is a pretty open thing.

Even later, O'Reilly argues that FNC puts more liberals on the air than conservatives:
Mr. O'REILLY: If you look at the Fox News commentators in prime time, starting with Hume and ending with Van Susteren, it comes right down the line, OK? Van Susteren is a liberal, Colmes is a liberal, Hannity is a conservative, I'm a traditionalist, Shepard Smith is really nothing and--you know, he's just in--a neutral guy, in the neutral zone, and Hume, I would say that he's slightly conservative, but certainly no bomb thrower. All right?

People for the American Way president Ralph Neas on Bush's denouncement of the legacy system:

"That's like a Powerball winner coming out against lotteries."

Rex the Homeland Security Dog tells kids, "Only you can prevent terrorism."

Click the interactive map to see what Al Qaeda wants to blow up.

"We are in the midst of Al Qaeda efforts to attack the U.S. on a scale as big or larger than 9/11," says John Brennan, chief of the Terrorist Threat Integration Center, the interagency operation that consolidates threat information (and produces the Putter).

Alan Keyes hopes to find a conscience in Illinois:

"I must leave the land of my forefathers in order to defend the land of my spirit, of my conscience and my heart -- and I believe that that land is Illinois."

Today's most obvious headline.

"This is a network that we are trying to break. It is in the process of being dismantled," Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayyat told the AP in an interview Friday. "But the network is still not finished."

This just in: People who aren't voting for Bush means less people are voting for Bush. More at 11.

Paul Krugman says some stuff that's sure to piss Adam off:

"One thing is clear: calls to 'stay the course' are fatuous. The course we're on leads downhill. American soldiers keep winning battles, but we're losing the war: our military is under severe strain; we're creating more terrorists than we're killing; our reputation, including our moral authority, is damaged each month this goes on."

A great post in the Campaign Journal, including such facts and figures as:

Number of times Ben Affleck and the Heinz boys, Andre and Chris, performed a mock hoedown on stage: 1

Number of Bush supporters in Wheeling, West Virginia who inexplicably held a sign that read, "Name one Serb who ever threatened a single American?": 1

Number of American presidents from Ohio, according to John Glenn, who traveled with Kerry through the state: 8

Number of times Kerry said, apropos of nothing, "Godspeed, John Glenn": 1

Number of times the press has complained that its inferior bus, hotel, or train car is "the other America": approximately 1000

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth: falling apart already?

Didn't Dan Aykroyd play this Sam Stolztfus character in the 1991 cult classic My Girl?

Has Dan Aykroyd turned Amish? Does he intend to vote for Bush? Do morticians or actors playing morticians plan to vote for Bush? I wonder how many mortician-playing-actors stomp mice underfoot. And who says the word, underfoot?

Amish farmer Sam Stolztfus waxes incomprehensible:

"You could hold up a dead mouse with a sign 'I love Bush' and we'd still probably think twice about stomping that mouse underfoot."

So does that mean you're supporting Bush ("we'd think twice") or not ("we'd still probably think twice," even though it has Bush on it)? And why would you stomp a dead mouse underfoot? And would the mouse be holding the sign? Or would you be holding up a dead mouse and also a sign? And would you be using the sign to support the dead mouse? Get your ass in gear, Sam.