Lightning Round - AP Bias, Bush and the Taliban, Atheist Victory in Derby, Cenk Uygur Disagrees With Me, I Disagree With New York Magazine, More

The Carpetbagger Report: Steven Benen has been chronicling the AP's obvious slant toward McCain in their election coverage.

Kpete's Journal: Remember back in 2001 when George W. Bush gave the Taliban $43 million and then four months later their leader's brother in law killed 3,000 of our citizens? That's okay, no one does.

Crooks and Liars: New York Magazine is trying to tell people that Joe Scarborough is the darling of the left since he moved to the mornings to replace Imus on MSNBC. Sure he is.

The Young Turks: Cenk Uygur has a different opinion than me about the The New Yorker cover.

Shakesville: Jesus Christ spent some time helping a ball player knock around a baseball last night at the homerun derby. After propelling a record 28 baseballs out of Yankee Stadium during one round of the derby, Josh Hamilton, who is recovering from a horrific drug addiction, humbly thanked Jesus. Then ESPN's Rick Reilly took it to the next level by saying, "It's bad night for Atheists." Unfortunately the savior took off early, allowing the atheists to prevail when Justin Morneau of the Minnesota Twins beat Hamilton in the final round. Morneau incidentally is from British Columbia, Canada, so it was apparently a bad night for America too.

Wonkette: Word on the street is that Cheney's insanity stems from thinking he was a goner in a anthrax attack in 2001 that turned out to be a false alarm. I thought Cheney sent out the anthrax. Of course I have nothing to base that on, he's just so evil and all. Incidentally, Salon has the story of a guy who was framed for the attacks. That old story keeps popping up.