Get this to Keith: A brain

Dana Milbank has been "axed" to leave Keith Olbermann's show because Milbank accurately quoted Obama's "I have become a symbol" remark. Supposedly, the remark was quoted out of context. (It wasn't -- or at least, the reported context was both non-verified and non-exonerative.)

Remember: Get-this-to-Keith Olbermann is the man who called for Hillary Clinton's murder a few months back, a remark he no doubt meant poetically. Of course, Milbank is no prize either, as Bob Somerby reminds us.

On another front:

Radio talk show host, Leo Terrell, however, went to greater lengths to voice his outrage. On Hardball, he said “the obvious message of the ad was to scare people into thinking Obama is somehow ‘linked’ to these white women”. He was specifically explaining how it relates to the idea that maybe Obama is “involved” with one of the blond haired white women in the ad.

Good lord. Do people really believe this crap? Or are they simply hoping to gull the gullible?

If Terrell did not understand that McCain's ad meant to peg Obama as just another vacuous celebrity, then Terrell must be dumber than -- well, certainly dumber than Paris Hilton. At least she got the point, and decided to play along with the gag. She recently announced her campaign for president by saying "I'm just hot."

I'll say this for Paris: She's not as doltish as your average Beltway journalist.