"It's something we're looking at and trying to determine what's there... [Edwards] remains a very newsworthy guy because of who he's been in this state and where we are." [Portfolio, Previously]

Sometimes it's the big mistakes that are the easiest to miss. Especially when half the editors are out on summer vacation and you've outsourced production to interns, who have outsourced it to drunken monkeys. The abject correction is after the jump.

Ha ha, let us "say for the record," from one spelling-challenged editor to another: you will never live this down. Ever.

[Regret The Error]

The Wall Street Journal opinion section is truly off its rocker today. In addition to implying that John McCain has no shot of becoming president, it is also running a piece by a mystery writer who believes that the Batman series is part of a long line of fantasy genre movies that bring righteous glory to the conservative movement. Dark Knight, you see, is hugely popular because it allows Americans to embrace their true love for hugely unpopular President George W. Bush: "Like W, Batman is vilified and despised for confronting terrorists in the only terms they understand. Like W, Batman sometimes has to push the boundaries of civil rights to deal with an emergency, certain that he will re-establish those boundaries when the emergency is past." But wait, it gets better!

Did you know that 300, Lord Of The Rings, Narnia, and Spiderman 3 are fundamentally conservative films that support the torture of terrorists and the invasion of Iraq against pansy movies like Rendition, Valley of Elah and Redacted? It's true. And liberals are always making pansy movies, because they are cowards:

The moment filmmakers take on the problem of Islamic terrorism in realistic films, suddenly those values vanish. The good guys become indistinguishable from the bad guys, and we end up denigrating the very heroes who defend us. Why should this be?

The answers to these questions seem to me to be embedded in the story of The Dark Knight itself: Doing what's right is hard, and speaking the truth is dangerous. Many have been abhorred for it, some killed, one crucified

...when our artistic community is ready to show that sometimes men must kill in order to preserve life; that sometimes they must violate their values in order to maintain those values; and that while movie stars may strut in the bright light of our adulation for pretending to be heroes, true heroes often must slink in the shadows, slump-shouldered and despised — then and only then will we be able to pay President Bush his due and make good and true films about the war on terror.

Until Hollywood filmmakers learn to DO THEIR JOBS, we'll just have to settle for a world in which the Bush administration's "War on Terror" can only be made to look brilliant in cartoonish, oversimplified fantasylands.

[WSJ]

Hey, if John McCain, 71, had any hope of becoming the oldest person ever to ascend to the presidency next January, you know what would be important? The identity of the person who would replace the Republican and miracle of modern medical technology upon death. But all news outlets everywhere know McCain cannot possibly win this thing, since voters hate Republican candidates right now and besides Barack Obama is a tender angel of love and hope and also Change. This is why even the rabidly conservative Wall Street Journal editorial page just ran an opinion piece (headline pictured above) arguing that it just doesn't matter who McCain selects as his vice presidential candidate. The writer, senior Ronald Reagan adviser Ken Khachigian, concludes that talking about McCain's VP "is about boredom relief for opinion writers, political junkies and the media. It provides an escape from the fatigue of an 18-month nomination race — a new rabbit to chase" that soon "will be a distant memory." Harsh! [WSJ]

The last time we checked in with Lindsay Lohan and her lesbian lady friend Samantha Ronson, the couple was embroiled in a scandalous toe-stepping scandal that culminated in Lohan ditching Ronson and Ronson shouting "Are you leaving," scandalously. Fellow patrons at the Waverly Inn were, well, scandalized. Possibly shocked fans may also have been distraught that the relationship ended mere weeks after its explicitly acknowledgement in the tabloids and a mere year after they started cavorting in public together. Well, prepare to cry more tears of loss, LoRo lovers, because, according to an emailed stalker sighting, the couple are acting like they're just friends — no graphic make-out sessions or whatever we expect celebrity lesbian couples to do when we see them in a public place.

"I spotted Lindsay Lohan & Samantha Ronson in New York Penn Station on July 23 around 6:15 pm. No paparazzi or screaming fans or security. I believe they were trying to catch a train - problem was every train was cancelled due to a power outage. They didn't look like a couple and weren't carrying much luggage but Lohan did have a ticket/boarding pass for something

Boarding pass! Lohan DOES appear to be leaving, and not just the Waverly Inn, people.