A Couple Things

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Palin’s lectures a hard sell – FlyerTalk Forums.

Yikes.

YouTube – FOX NEWS JOKES ABOUT KILLING OBAMA LIZ A TROTTA SHOCKING.

Fair and Balanced, right?

Facebook removes ‘Should Obama be killed?’ poll — chicagotribune.com.

Facebook moved quickly Monday to take down a user’s poll that asked “Should Obama be killed?”, but only after 730 responses were submitted.

The poll listed four possible answers: Yes. Maybe. If he cuts my health care. No.

A spokesman for Facebook said the Palo Alto-based company was not aware of the poll until early Monday morning and did not know who posted it or who responded to it.

“At this time, we don’t know,” said Barry Schnitt, a spokesman for policy at Facebook. “But we assume the developer has some or all of this information.”

Schnitt said a “third party developer” had created the platform on Facebook that allows individuals to create their own polls. The questions are often silly and trivial, he said.

The Secret Service confirmed it has launched an investigation of the Facebook poll to learn who was behind it and their intent.

“We worked with Facebook to take it down, and we are currently investigating the matter,” said Ed Donovan, a Secret Service spokesman in Washington. Asked about who posted the poll, Donovan replied: “That’s what we are investigating.”

It is a crime to threaten the life of the president, and the Secret Service said that it regularly investigates threatening comments or disturbing incidents involving words or images of the chief executive. But officials also say tasteless comments or idle bluster are probably are not enough to trigger legal action.

Lovely. But race has nothing to do with it, right?

Matthew Yglesias » Ted Kennedy, RIP.

RIP indeed. A U.S. political icon.