On Wednesday the following post appeared on the popular liberal Daily Kos blog, and it received several comments — but it has since been removed:

Oh dear. Some of you may have seen that crazy guy who popped up on Youtube making ridiculous allegations about limo sex against Barack Obama. Since he first appeared, he has been doing everything possible to get noticed by the media and to my complete shock, he has actually succeeded. A TV Show in Puerto Rico called SuperXclusivo (apparently a very popular show) had a phone interview with him earlier today. I didn’t watch the whole thing but they didn’t even ask him for any evidence whatsoever for his claims. Obviously, there is a PRIMARY in Puerto Rico in a few months, so this is pretty troubling. I saw the clip on Youtube and I believe it aired later today. This is a very popular show. I am somewhat freaking out. What do you guys think? Link below the fold.

Larry Sinclair, the man who claims to have used drugs and had sex with Obama in 1999, believes the site took the post down once it was clear that it was becoming popular.

In recent days, the gay press has expressed concerns that Obama has chosen not to do interviews with members from its community.

The Puerto Rican news interview with Sinclair has yet to appear online.

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It looks like long-time TV critic Roger Ebert deserves two thumbs up for garnering the top punditry prize in the nation from Forbes magazine. What exactly does that mean? Well! It means that out of all the talking heads you see and read each day, he’s the best of the best. Apparently.

Ebert beat out some really loud people you might have thought to be shoe-ins in such a battle of brawn. Bill Maher was ranked second, followed by FOX News’ king Bill O’Reilly; Senate candidate Al Franken; TV “journalist” Geraldo Rivera; Rosie O’Donnell; film critic Leonard Maltin; legal commentator Greta Van Susteren; CNN news commentator Lou Dobbs; and basketball analyst Bill Walton.

Jesse Jackson, Sean Hannity and Keith Olbermann were among near misses for the top ten.

Interestingly, liberal Web pundits like Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos and Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo scored high “likability ratings” with certain population segments, but their awareness numbers, which are more important than appeal, according to the Forbes polling team, were “barely on the radar screen.”

The same is largely true of elite, but popular, newspaper columnists like Thomas Friedman, Maureen Dowd, and Robert Novak.

So! What to take away from all this? Grab some popcorn, stow your politics and start watchin’ some movies.

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Read the shocking (non-scientific) poll results here.

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Markos Moulitsas Zúniga serves up some harsh criticism of the top two Politico editors: “Memo to Jim VandeHei and John Harris: this is 2007, not 1992.” The famous Kos blogger feels that they’re covering social policy issues as they relate to Election 2008 in a tired, non-progressive manner. “I guess we’re stuck with the political press we have, not the one we wish we had,” he laments.

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But not quite:      

The above post from TIME’s Washington bureau chief has been up at Swampland for two days and counting. Where are the editors?

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Bless her soul, Ana Marie Cox liveblogged her little heart out from Yearly Kos this weekend, trying ever so desperately to reclaim her title as the wittiest Wonkette out of Washington. But, is it just us, or is she trying too hard? Like maybe all those years of blogging from her PJs about ass fucking has left her well a bit dry? To wit:

1:12 PM Applause for Gravel, then so much standing ovation I can’t really tell who started it. Also I can’t see. Bai: “This is not going to be one of those forums where people hold their applause.”

She can’t see. She’s liveblogging an event she can’t even see. See?

1:32 PM This debate is going last ELEVENTY HUNDRED HOURS. If you want to watch it, here’s the link: http://www.ustream.tv/

More like, “I’m tired of liveblogging, so liveblog the damn thing yourself.” Yes, she gets paid no matter what.

1:35 PM Ben Smith, who is not sitting next to me, is also liveblogging…

Um. OK. Who? Does that somehow make her feel justified? As in, “I am not alone. This really does serve a purpose. After all, I convinced my Time bosses it does.”

But it doesn’t. It just goes on and on here and here, kids – Ana Marie’s latest attempt to make what was revolutionary in 2004 somehow seem worth it and not completely pathetic today.

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