MSNBC’s Courtney Hazlett is reporting that thousands of subscribers have cancelled their subscriptions to Us Weekly in the 24 hours since the magazine’s Sarah Palin smear job became known on the Internet. Most subscribers have not even received their issues yet.

The Chicago Sun-Times understands your excitement at seeing Barack Obama running for President! Now this is a serious candidate!

Just a quick heads-up: We on the Senate Banking Committee — that’s my committee — just passed a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon.

You probably think I’ve gone bonkers, imagining myself a member of the Senate Banking Committee. Not so. Anyone can be a member of the Senate Banking Committee. All they have to do is say they are. We can all be members of the Senate Banking Committee. Yes we can.

Beauties come in ‘bevies.’ Geese come in ‘gaggles.’ Here’s one that was new to me: Reporters come in ‘tankfuls.’

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey found that 49% of voters believe most reporters will try to help Obama with their coverage, up from 44% a month ago.

Just 14% believe most reporters will try to help John McCain win, little changed from 13% a month ago.

Concerning whether people think reporters bend the truth in pursuit of their personal agendas:

• 45% say that most reporters would hide information if it hurt the candidate they wanted to win. Just 30% disagree and 25% are not sure
• A separate survey released this morning also found that 50% of voters believe most reporters want to make the economy seem worse than it is. A plurality believes that the media has also tried to make the war in Iraq appear worse that it really is.

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