The TV Watch – A Question Reprised, but the Words Come None Too Easily for Palin – NYTimes.com I couldn’t bear to watch the video, but ran across this summary of the Katie Couric interview with Sarah Palin. It’s painfully obvious that without a teleprompter, she fails miserably. No wonder they’ve kept her away from the press… and by the way, she eventually earned a college degree. In journalism, no less. Read it, and weep.

Read the whole thing. Tomorrow is going to be a very ugly day in the markets and in the press. Talks Implode During Day of Chaos; Fate of Bailout Plan Remains Unresolved – NYTimes.com When Congressional leaders and Senators John McCain and Barack Obama, the two major party presidential candidates, trooped to the White House on Thursday afternoon, most signs pointed toward a bipartisan agreement on a grand compromise that could be accepted by all sides and signed into law by the weekend. It was intended to pump billions of dollars into the financial system, restoring liquidity and keeping credit…

Yesterday, it was my birthday. The story of Margriet Oostveen, the Dutch writer who volunteered for both US Presidential campaigns to gather insight and material for her column broke, and what keen prezzie! She claims she was taught how to write “letters to the editor” that would be signed by real McCain supporters in battleground states. The story was originally published in a Dutch paper, but she also had it picked up in English on Salon.com. It’s possible to read it on the AP/Yahoo version (I’m kind of down on AP and their policies and stupid re-design right now so…

Earlier today, I jokingly speculated that the reason McCain was trying to delay or postpone or cancel the debate was really because his polling sucked, and he was stalling for time. It appears that I’m not the only one that thinks this. And now, it looks like Palin’s debate will either be postponed or cancelled – the events are being held hostage, in a way, as bargaining chips in the deal McCain thinks he must make with Senate Democrats in order to look all leaderly ‘n shit. If they don’t wise up and fall into line on the bailout debate,…