Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) will probably resign. He’s just waiting for the right opportunity– and I’ve got it:

Larry King has announced he’s leaving the CNN show he’s been hosting since 1985, when he was only 114 years old.

Anybody who has experienced the joy of watching Larry King’s exhaustively researched and deeply perceptive interviews– epitomized by the clip below– knows he’s leaving some big shoes to fill. Fortunately, Joy Behar’s corpulent feet should fill them quite nicely.

A perfect example of how much less thinking is required when you are permitted to repeatedly cry “racist!” without challenge.

UPDATE: More nuanced, trenchant commentary from the Sultan of Smug and the Kabuki Kid, via Hot Air.

The Sultan: “The line of racist attacks against the President, sometimes poorly disguised as birthers or deathers or whatever, is that what’s in play here, principally?”

I don’t think he’s right about the birthers, but I can at least understand how somebody seeking the specter of racism might find it in the claim that Obama was born abroad. But “deathers”– which I am guessing refers to people talking about “death panels?”– really? Was the Sultan so enchanted by the parallelism of “birthers and deathers” that he didn’t even bother to think through what the words actually mean? An accusation of racism is a powerful and destructive thing, even if it’s just a shortcut to thinking. It’s kind of disgusting how arbitrarily and recklessly Keith Olbermann brandishes it.

Then again, I guess it doesn’t really matter– I mean, not even Keith Olbermann watches Countdown with Keith Olbermann.