The JonBenet Fraud

What follows are a chilling six words:

"The place to start is Iran."

Struggling Senate candidate Katherine Harris seems to have an endless capacity for making eye-opening statements:

"Rep. Katherine Harris told a religious journal that separation of church and state is 'a lie' and God and the nation's founding fathers did not intend the country be 'a nation of secular laws.' The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate also said that if Christians are not elected, politicians will 'legislate sin,' including abortion and gay marriage.

"Separation of church and state is 'a lie we have been told," Harris said in the interview, published Thursday, saying separating religion and politics is 'wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers.'"

Non-Christian lawmakers legislate sin? I know a few who'll be surprised to hear that.

Betsy's Page says that Joe Biden is the latest pol to step in it:

"If you watch this YouTube clip , he seems to positively be bragging that his state was a slave state, one of the border states. So, what is his message to South Carolina Democratic voters: Vote for me because I come from a state that had slaves so I'm just like y'all down there. Is he implying that the problems faced by South Carolinians today are a result of slavery?

"He can relate, I guess, because, at the time of the Civil War, Delaware had all of about 1000 slaves that they refused, despite Lincoln's pleas to emancipate even when Lincoln arranged for them to be compensated for emancipating them. I can't figure out what his point was except a vain attempt to seem like some good ol' boy to South Carolinians because Delaware's history has its own race problems. I've just never seen anyone campaign before by trumpeting his own state's slave history. Can't you just imagine if George Allen went down to South Carolina and said the exact same thing regarding Virginia? My gosh, it would be a week-long story of everyone trying to analyze the coded message in the sentence 'My state was a slave state.' With Smiling Joe, the media will just slough it off because it doesn't fit their template about a Democratic politician who is a media favorite."

When the NYT quoted Rahm Emanuel as saying of the Connecticut campaign, "Explain to me how two Democrats running is bad," several liberal bloggers went ballistic, including Firedoglake's Jane Hamsher :

"There is only one Democrat in the Connecticut Senate race in November and his name is Ned Lamont. He isn't the incumbent and thus doesn't trigger knee-jerk DC loyalty but really, this is quite beyond the pale. Lieberman is neither a nominal nor a spiritual Democrat; he's now running a Republican campaign as a once and future lackey of Dick Cheney and Karl Rove. He's doing the devil's own work now and I give you credit, Rahm, for being smart enough to figure that out."

Lieberman has, of course, said that if he wins he will caucus with the Democrats.

Finally, the LAT says that Cruise will have a post-Paramount career:

"Tom Cruise has cut a deal with a group that includes the owner of the Washington Redskins to finance the overhead costs of his film production company, sources close to the negotiations said today."