Tareq and Michaele Salahi gave an interview to The Today Show this morning and told Matt Lauer that this whole kerfuffle is “the most devastating thing that has ever happened” to them. Wow. They’ve led a rather nice life, methinks. They claim that they did not “party crash the White House” and that “the truth will come out.” Ooookay. Watch the White House Party Crashers Today Show Interview right here.

These people are rather bizarre, but I guess they know how to get what they want, which is media attention. So give them credit for that.

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While serving his term as the governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee granted clemency to a man named Maurice Clemmons. Clemmons is the man suspected of shooting four police officers in Seattle; Clemmons was shot and killed early Tuesday, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. This matters (to some people, anyway) because Huckabee is apparently considered a front-runner for the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination. Really? Huckabee? C’mon. (WSJ, HuffPo)

One of the big questions today is this one — is the stimiulus working? The economic stimulus I mean. The one that some people “blame” President Obama for. Well, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Congressional Budget Office “estimates that the federal stimulus package sustained between 600,000 and 1.6 million jobs in the third quarter, and raised gross domestic product by 1.2 to 3.2 percentage points higher than it would have been without the program.” Which is a good thing. This information comes from the CBO’s blog. Not sure why the CBO needs a blog. Do they post funny photos of cats when they aren’t talking about economic matters? (WSJ)

You know that whole Iraq War thing? Maybe it really was about oil. The New York Times is reporting that a number of major oil companies have accepted deals that are less profitable than they would like in order to gain access to all that thick, yummy crude in Iraq. Mmm… oil… (NYT)

On her “Going Rogue” book tour, Sarah Palin has been flying in a private jet “at a cost of more than $4,000 per hour,” according to Joe McGinniss of The Daily Beast. Which means that she has been lying about taking the bus. “To further the illusion, the populist heroine gave televised interviews from the bus, including one to Greta Van Susteren en route to Fort Bragg.” Her staff, however, is using the bus. So there. She’s a mavericky maverick. Remember — the only reason to dislike Sarah Palin is because she lost her baby weight and because Todd is just so dreamy. It’s not this kind of stuff. (Daily Beast)

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