Obama on the Michael Jackson madness: "You know, this is part of American culture. Michael Jackson, like Elvis, like Sinatra, when somebody whose captivated the imagination of the country for that long passes away, people pay attention. And I assume at some point people will start focusing again on things …

"I want Hilary Duff to play me. I think she’s really hot — hotter than me — but I’d still want her to play me" — Meghan McCain, imagining herself in movie form (New York Daily News) . h/t Wake Up Call

Nobody does funny better than Last Call . David Vitter said he’d participate in the GOP’s listening tour, but only if he gets to carry a whistle and enforce "adult swim."

From Wake Up Call: New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd recently visited Twitter’s HQ in San Francisco to find out if the "inventors of Twitter were as annoying as their invention."  [indeed]

“My purpose here is to listen, learn and scoop some risotto.’’  Who said this?

“If John McCain locks up the Republican nomination and has any hope of becoming the next Republican president, he might want consider spending his leftover campaign cash to micro-target that last remaining fringe group that could help him get to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. – Republicans.” -Jim Mills (The Hill, February …