The latest talk making the rounds among Capitol Hill reporters is that a large news outlet has some “complex” information on Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, which the outlet may run very soon. The story is possibly being held in order to do the most damage to the Illinois politician’s surging campaign.

The speculation likely relates to the recent infamous Robert Novak column, which indicated Obama to be the long rumored sitting Democratic senator with a devastating scandal in his background.

“Agents of Sen. Hillary Clinton are spreading the word in Democratic circles that she has scandalous information about her principal opponent for the party’s presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama, but has decided not to use it,” Novak reported. “The nature of the alleged scandal was not disclosed.” Read more…

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Robert Novak revealed this weekend that the long rumored sitting Democratic senator with a devastating scandal in his background is presidential candidate Barack Obama.

“Agents of Sen. Hillary Clinton are spreading the word in Democratic circles that she has scandalous information about her principal opponent for the party’s presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama, but has decided not to use it,” Novak reported. “The nature of the alleged scandal was not disclosed.”

The Clinton campaign has denied it has such information, but, still, tongues are wagging. Could Obama have cheated on his wife, Michelle, which is the most likely scandalous scenario? Or is something even more sinister involved?

For his part, Obama was quick to strike back, calling the Novak article “slime politics.”

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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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