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The top 10 weirdest moments of 2009

Via Politico, but this list seems pretty comprehensive.

Obama gets sworn in — twice

Sarah Palin resigns

Sheila Jackson-Lee addresses Michael Jackson's funeral

Patti Blagojevich teams up with Heidi and Spencer on reality TV

The White House beer summit

Sanford confesses — and confesses, and confesses

Tom DeLay goes on "Dancing With the Stars"

Bloomberg, Gingrich and Sharpton team up

Who's the leader of the GOP?

Doug Hoffman says ACORN stole his election

Decade's Top 10 most overhyped stories

Some of my most overhyped stories are also from yesterday's most memorable lines- The Dean Scream and the Kerry Flip Flop, both just beat into the ground over nothing. And just let me say that there were days that Giuliani and Thompson were the only fun to be had in the primaries, and I missed them both when they dropped out. Via First Read.

1. WMD/Iraq as an imminent threat

2. Joe the Plumber

3. Rudy Giuliani/Fred Thompson (tie)

4. The public option

5. Color-coded DHS terror-threat alerts

6. The Obama-Clinton battle over mandates

7. Those PUMAs

8. Bill Ayers

9. Al Gore endorsing Howard Dean

10. The West Virginia Primary

Decade's Top 10 political lines

Via the guys at First Read. Any they missed? I think I would have included the "I'm the decider" just because I found it so damn irritating.

1. “I actually voted for the $87 billion before I voted against it.”

2. "The fundamentals of our economy are strong."

3. Bush's "Bring 'em on" and "Dead or alive" (tie).

4. "I can see Russia from my house."

5. "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."

6. "Go F%&@ yourself."

7. "So it's not surprising then that they get bitter; they cling to guns or religion..."

8. Rumsfeld's "no unknowns" and "Army you have" (tie).

9. "You lie!"

10. "Rudy Giuliani, there are only three things he mentions in a sentence -- a noun, verb, and 9/11."

Decade's Top 10 political speeches

As interpreted by the guys at First Read. I can't think of any to add.

1. Obama's race speech in Philly (2008)

2. Bush after 9/11 (2001)

3. Al Gore's concession (2000)

4. Obama's keynote at the 2004 Dem convention (2004)

5. Bush's "Mushroom Cloud" (2002)/State of the Union-"Axis of Evil" (2002)/Colin Powell on WMD to U.N. (2003) (tie)

6. Palin's convention speech (2008)

7. Hillary Clinton's concession (2008)

8. Zell Miller's keynote (2004)

9. The Dean Scream speech

10. Hugo Chavez at U.N.; Khaddafi at U.N.; Ahmadinejad at U.N., then Columbia (tie)

Time's Top 10 Political Gaffes of 2009

Time's list of all things inconvenient or stupid seems a little administration heavy. What gaffes that the R's have made did they leave out?

1. Joe Biden's Swine Flu Hysteria

2. Barack Obama's Bowling Blooper

3. Joe Wilson's Unwanted Outburst

4. Hillary Clinton Gets Lost in Translation

5. Michael Steele's Abortion Aberration

6. Larry Summers' White House Sleepover

7. Barack Obama Opens the Floodgates

8. Joe Biden's Stimulus Stumble

9. Sarah Palin's Coin Conspiracy

10. Michelle Obama's Buckingham Brush with Etiquette

Top Political Stories of the Decade

Via Taegan. Can you think of any they missed? I'd add the rise of the internet in fundraising and organizing.

Marc Cooper of the USC Annenberg School makes his picks:

1. The unconventional election process of 2000
2. The attack on the Twin Towers, September 11, 2001
3. The invasion of Afghanistan, 2001
4. The invasion of Iraq, 2003
5. The introduction of torture techniques as official American policy
6. The unprecedented expansion of executive power
7. Hurricane Katrina
8. The election of Barack Obama
9. The global financial crisis of 2008-2009
10. The media revolution

The 10 Worst Predictions for 2009

They're all here, but this is my favorite. h/t Ben.

Chris Wallace: "Best guess: Will the president end up giving McChrystal the troops he wants, or will he change the war strategy?"

Charles Krauthammer: "I think he doesn't and McChrystal resigns.

—Fox News Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009

Video- David Letterman: Sarah Palin Book Top Ten

Sigh, it's out today, so I'm guessing the coverage will really start now.

Obama Tops Forbes World's Most Powerful List

Funny how this is the first year they've put out this list.

President Barack Obama is the most powerful person in the world, according to Forbes magazine.

Chinese President Hu Jintao and Vladimir Putin, the prime minister of Russia, are No. 2 and 3, respectively.

The magazine's first-ever rankings of the "World's Most Powerful People" assessed power using four criteria: the number of people one influences; one's ability to project power beyond one's immediate sphere of influence; control of or access to significant financial resources; and how actively one wields power. There are 67 people on the list, one for every 100 million people on the planet.

Obama tops the list for a number of reasons, Forbes said. As head-of-state over the world's sole superpower, Obama presides over the largest, most dynamic and most innovative economy in the world, is commander-in-chief of the richest and deadliest military, his political party has the majority in Congress and he was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, "apparently for general awesomeness," Forbes said.

The top 10 are:
-- President Barack Obama, United States
-- President Hu Jintao, China
-- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Russia
-- Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve chairman
-- Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google founders
-- Carlos Slim Helu, Telmex chief executive
-- Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chairman
-- Michael T. Duke, Wal-Mart chief executive
-- Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabia
-- Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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David Letterman responds to flap over Sarah Palin jokes

By GottaLaff

Original post, with videos, here.

Now, appropriately, Dave gets more serious in his response to Palin's remarks:

Taping tonight's episode of The Late Show, David Letterman took a few minutes to respond to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who called him "pathetic" in a radio interview after he made her and her family the butt of a recent Top 10 list. [...] Camp Palin apparently took [one] joke to be a crack against Palin's 14-year-old daughter Willow, who had recently attended a Yankees game, but Letterman insisted today that the real target was 18-year-old daughter Bristol.

“We were, as we often do, making jokes about people in the news and we made some jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter [Bristol]... and now they’re upset with me…” Letterman says on tonight's show. "These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter. I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl.... Am I guilty of poor taste? Yes. Did I suggest that it was okay for her 14-year-old daughter to be having promiscuous sex? No." Saying he hopes he's "cleared part of this up," Letterman extended an invitation to Palin to come on the show as a guest.

VIDEOS: Palin calls Letterman ‘pathetic’ after ’slutty flight attendant’ joke

By GottaLaff

Children, children! David, Sarah Louise, am I going to have to turn this blog around?!

In his number two highlight of Palin’s New York City trip, Dave pranged that Palin “bought makeup at Bloomingdale’s to update her slutty flight attendant look.”

Speaking to right-wing radio show host John Zeigler on Tuesday, Palin called Letterman’s shot “pathetic.”

Dave’s number one highlight was that Palin “especially enjoyed not appearing on Letterman.”

In case you forgot who John Ziegler is: Link. Link link link link. But the first link's the best. Wink. That was a Link Wink. I'll shut up now.

Letterman's Top Ten List is at about 3:25:



Now the slutty flight attendant's Sarah's response:

Top Ten Surprises In The Sarah Palin Memoir

Can't get the video to work, so you get the script version. As I remember, #2 got a huge laugh.

10 She's already completed her 2012 presidential concession speech

9 Her husband Todd is a person of interest in dozens of unsolved snowmobile hit-and-runs

8 State troopers have been instructed to taser Katie Couric on sight

7 "Memoir" is misspelled

6 Not only can she see Russia, earlier today she saw the astronauts working on Hubble

5 The entire thing, plagiarized word-for-word from Artie Lange's "Too Fat To Fish"

4 Cover shows her in a passionate embrace with a shirtless Fabio

3 Sworn in as Governor with her left hand on a copy of "Guns & Ammo" magazine

2 Claims she had three-way sex with Michael Phelps and a stripper

1 She voted for Obama

Late Show - Top Ten Least Popular Holiday Songs

Missed this the other day, but it fits in well with the inevitable onslaught of Top 10's that are coming. Via John.

Late Show - Top Ten Sarah Palin Excuses On TurkeyGate

She will always be with us.