H/T to Ben Smith

I usually open up a post called Items of Interest and then cut and paste in the items I find interesting but not worth a whole post by themselves. If it was a one I found by reference from another blogger, I usually try to give hat-tip credit. This time it seems all my hat-tips for the items below belong to Ben Smith.

-- Sometimes all you have to do to make fun of the ludicrousness of Faux News is to post the dialog itself.

-- Seems the Rural Vote people are hanging onto Al's DNC blogger credential in addition to the money raised to send Al to the DNC convention.

-- Stephen Medvic has a different take on what really constitutes "Swift Boating".

-- McCain gave a speech and nobody heard him ... literally.