YOU KNOW IT’S OVER WHEN THE FAT MAN SINGS

“Frankly, I don’t care whether or not Barbara Bush wore denims to Buckingham Palace, it was rude of me to write about her, and I will never mention her again. She deserves to be as much of a regular American kid as you can possibly be when your father is the president. I was wrong.”- Roger Ebert recanting today in the Chicago Sun-Times.

BEGALA AWARD NOMINEE I: “Bush doesn’t like people, unless the people grew up with him at Andover. Clinton can play up, down and sideways.” – an anonymous Clinton crony, given cover in Maureen Dowd’s column today.

BEGALA AWARD NOMINEE II: “I have to wonder if the Bush administration’s position on the World Conference on Racism is just politically dumb or if it is perhaps indicative some something more malignant. Is the Bush White House just full of latent racists?” – Rep. Cynthia McKinney. No, but the Congressional Black Caucus is.