The Dish

Krikorian despairs after Mississippi. Quinnipiac shows both Obama and Clinton beating McCain easily. Obama-scares in the Deep South went nowhere, as Larison explains:

The public mood is so bad and so hostile to the national GOP that drawing direct connections between their candidate and the national party, as they did constantly, seems to have done more to doom Davis’ chances than help them.  The ham-fisted attempt to link Childers to Obama (”Childers said nothing!”) gave off the scent of desperation, and rural Mississippians in the district who were already inclined to vote for one of their own against a ridiculous-looking suburban mayor weren’t buying it.

Powerline concedes:

The Republican nominee, whether we feel comfortable about it or not, isn’t necessarily seen as intimately associated with the Republican brand. Even so, I think that Republican nominee is running uphill.

What does this say about what Bush and Rove and Cheney have done to the brand? What does it say about those conservatives who cheered them on? But no worries: all of them are where they were, pretending they had nothing to do with it.

An Italian is jailed for ten days for … visiting his girlfriend.

There are rumors of an impending decision by California’s Supreme Court on the marriage equality case. Stay tuned. Whenever it rules, we could be in for a major civil rights struggle in the country’s most populous state.

Reality never bites, does it:

2:57 p.m., Yeager Airport, Charleston, W.Va.: A steep descent brings Clinton’s plane to Charleston’s hilltop airport. After an appropriate wait, she steps from the plane and pretends to wave to a crowd of supporters; in fact, she is waving to 10 photographers underneath the airplane’s wing. She pretends to spot an old friend in the crowd, points and gives another wave; in fact, she is waving at an aide she had been talking with on the plane minutes earlier.

John Aravosis loses it – in a good way – here.

"It’s almost like she’s the Al Sharpton of white people," – Chris Matthews.

John Boehner’s surrogate has still not retracted his bald-faced lie about Obama allegedly calling Israel a "sore." Now here’s Mark Levin:

Obama made a point of not wearing the flag pin, knowing that a point would be made of it, just as he makes a point of not placing his hand over his heart during the playing of the National Anthem.

Obama did not make a point of the flag pin. His opponents did. Obama simply did what millions of others did: express their patriotism more intensely after 9/11, and return to less demonstrative gestures thereafter. As for the National Anthem, here’s Snopes.com. The evidence is that Obama has placed his hand on his heart during the national anthem and not, depending on the occasion, as is the modern custom. He has never "made a point" about it.

These are lies, smears, untruths. Both Boehner and NRO need to issue corrections. And the Obama team needs to be more aggressive in countering these deliberate lies.

A beef-flavored non-alcoholic beer for dogs.

It failed again. Jonathan Martin:

For downballot Democrats worried about an Obama drag, tonight’s results are heartening — Mississippi’s First Congressional District includes some of whitest counties in a heavily African-American state and was the only one Hillary Clinton won in the March primary. 

"Islam does not consider Barack Obama ever to have been part of the Muslim community. Apostasy has no relevance here," – Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America, the largest umbrella Muslim group in the country.

Dreher argues against intervention.