From the Editors
McCain's Maverick Bump
After several weeks of on-air sniping and tantrums, MSNBC takes Olbermann and Matthews off the air for its political events coverage (via Michelle Malkin, PajamasMedia and MyDD). Taylor Marsh bemoans the loss of Olberman but assigns the blame to Keith's unfair bias against... Hillary (via The Moderate Voice). Meanwhile, polls show McCain taking the lead over Obama (via Marc Ambinder, Hullabaloo, and TPM). Maybe that's because Obama cut online ad spending in August while McCain doubled down, says Silicon Valley Insider. Also gaining: Republican enthusiasm (via Strata-Sphere). And Alaskan blogger Andrew Halcro has taken the spotlight, now reporting that oil industry executives get to talk to Candidate Palin before she grants interviews to reporters, or what passes for reporters, which Josh Marshall is calling "the slow slide into oblivion." The American Conservative says Palin has demonstrated a "pattern of abuse of power."
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