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Haven't people learned anything from Jesse Jackson?

If you're wearing a microphone, don't say anything you don't want the world to hear! MSNBC's Chuck Todd, political consultant Mike Murphy and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan all put their foots in their mouths today when, after thinking they had gone to commercial, the trio ripped on McCain's "cynical" Sarah Palin veep pick.

The conversation gets really good when Todd wonders, "Do you think the Palin pick is insulting to Democrats? Is the really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?"

Everyone agrees that, no, Palin is not the best choice. Says the pessimistic journalist, "I think they went for the - excuse me - political bullshit about narratives… Every time Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and that's not what they're good at, and they blow it." Todd agrees the party went for the narrative.

Murphy, an informal McCain adviser and personal friend, then says the worst thing is the cynicism of McCain's decision, while Todd describes it as "gimmicky." Earlier in the tape, Noonan describes the race as "over." This morning she wrote this about Palin:

This is a woman who's tough enough to work her way up and through, and to say yes to a historic opportunity, but she will know little of, or rather have little experience in, the mischief inherent in national Republican politics. She will be mobbed up in the McCain campaign by people who care first about McCain and second about themselves.
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They'll run right over her, not because they're strong but because they're stupid.

Oh, the irony!

The Internet's digital 'gina just quivered. Ladies such as Whoopi Goldberg, Peggy Noonan and Candice Bergen joined forces to launch a new Estrogen-driven website, wowOwow.

CEO Joni Evans, Vogue's Joan Juliet Buck and business lady Mary Wells inaugurated the site today with a very revealing - and just as disturbing - tag team with omnisexual gossip monger Liz Smith:

MARY: Do you think there are lots of people out there that you would be attracted to? I know I’m not attracted to lots and lots.

LIZ: No, I’m not either. And I’m always very amused — being rather “gender indifferent” as I have been — that people always assume if they see me with some woman, that I’m automatically interested in jumping on her. I always think that’s hilarious.

JONI: I just realized, Liz, that you have doubled your chances to have a good time!

JOAN: I love the description, “gender indifferent.”

LIZ: I don’t care what people call me, but I never liked to identify myself as one way or another because I always felt I might be cutting off one of my options.

JONI: I’ve heard you say many times from the podium, “You know, I’ve slept with everyone in this room!”

Excuse us while we revive our libido…

There's a war of words brewing between Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan and Salon's Glenn Greenwald.

Noonan used her opinion piece today to offer the "reasonable" presidential candidates. Democrat John Edwards didn't make the cut. Why? Well, he's a Democrat and Noonan finds his populism "intemperate and insincere". The journalist also takes Edwards to task for his grooming habits: "Also we can't have a president who spent two minutes on YouTube staring in a mirror and poofing his hair. Really, we just can't."

Greenwald finds such a statement, well, unreasonable.

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