New Yorker cover: "I think it's clear from the reaction that we made a mistake."

Reba Shemansky.

Another J for O!

"No room for me" on McCain and Palin planes

openly ugly

McCain - reporters got back to the plane and their lunch boxes were empty boxes

TV has pushed politics in the direction of being spectator sport --NFL Sunday; RH: "The big difference is you can't chang eht eoutcome of the game."

"I think crossing the threshold is the important thing"

Hertz: "I'm not a graphomaniac"
Remnick: "When he sits down at the keyboards it's like Thelonious Munk at the keyboard."

Packer - gerund

Identity politics - GOP: For a lot of Republicans it's not what you think but what you are.