Last year during a C-SPAN hearing on the subprime mortgage crisis, Sen. Charles Schumer said that he wished that the news media would report that a significant percentage of the black and Hispanic borrowers who got stuck with subprime mortgages actually qualified for conventional mortgages. I never found a link to the tape, so I didn't blog it.

Women in politics are having a little bit of an identity crisis this week. Have you seen the latest McCain Campaign foray into winning over women? In this case, Mr. Straight Talk is going after the Gossip Girl vote with his daughter Meghan’s new fashion and pop culture/politics blog, McCainBlogette.com. Here’s just a sampling of the stellar election coverage from Meghan McCain (a Columbia University graduate with the bizarre online persona of one of Britney Spears’ assistants):