Today John McCain returned to the campaign trail, this time sans running mate/celebrity Sarah Palin. The crowds, needless to say, did not go wild. In fact, they didn’t even bother to show up:

John McCain returned to the campaign trail on Monday, only this time without his popular vice presidential pick, Sarah Palin. The results were somewhat less than enthusiastic. As reported by MSNBC’s First Read, the Republican presidential nominee addressed a crowd of roughly 3,000 people in a stadium that seats 16,000.

A McCain spokesman was appalled by the low turnout, telling us:

Aside from being the hugest dickweed on planet Earth, Tucker Carlson is also an asshole, and one of the most disgusting conservatives in history, right behind Bill O’Reilly.

So it is with great joy his newest program on MSNBC has been given the ax. Hopefully, Carlson might get the hint that spouting horribly biased political rhetoric and wearing a goddamn bow tie doesn’t equate to sympathy for his party’s many plights. Please join me in saluting the brass at MSNBC for getting their shit straight and canning this ham.

For added lolz, check out this older clip of Jon Stewart owning Carlson on Crossfire.

Flipping through the channels yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised that MSNBC was replaying their live coverage of 9/11 in it’s entirety, from the moment the news first broke that the first plane had hit the World Trade Center. Talk about riveting television! Heroes ain’t got nothing on watching planes fly into buildings and hearing Matt Lauer and Katie Couric try to assume a newsy tone, at least until they could wake up Tom Brokaw and get him down there to handle business. I don’t really know to what the occasion this replay was owed, since the 6th Anniversary of the event had passed some days before, and according to the TV Guide there was supposed to be some show about fat people, but nevertheless I was pretty into it, which I guess might sound kind of fucked up, but whatever. It was interesting to see the events unfold in hindsight, with six years worth of conspiracy theorizing and Loose Change/Zeitgeist watching behind me. Not saying that I believe in any of that stuff, but I’m DEFINITELY not saying that I don’t, yaddidimean?

To that end, today brings another tiny chip away from that much-derided “official” explanation for the happenings of that fateful day, in the form of pilot Russ Wittenberg, who flew over 100 combat missions in Vietnam, sat in the cockpit for Pan Am and United for over 30 years, and previously flew two of the actual airplanes that were allegedly hijacked on 9/11 , United Airlines Flight 175 & 93. According to Wittenberg:

I don’t believe it’s possible for… a so-called terrorist to train on a 172, then jump in a cockpit of a 757-767 class cockpit, and vertical navigate the aircraft, lateral navigate the aircraft, and fly the airplane at speeds exceeding it’s design limit speed by well over 100 knots, make high-speed high-banked turns,.. pulling probably 5, 6, 7 G’s… I couldn’t do it and I’m absolutely positive they couldn’t do it.”