False Positives

• "Currently pregnant with the next generation, let me just say this: There is no greater wish that a mother can have for her daughter than that she will exploit poor people, obliterate Iran, and win rigged class president elections, Putin-style. (Mom, I won 100 percent of the vote!)" [VV]

• "I thought after the recent disaster in Mississippi, Republicans weren't supposed to be relying on the 'San Francisco liberal'-style attack that proved so ineffective in that special election. But this bizarre ad -- the three multiethnic dancers are the crowning glory -- is that very attack, only as interpreted by what would seem to be a GOP campaign strategist in the grips of a terrifying mushroom trip." [TNR]

• "Immediately upon entering Lynn's Paradise Café...the Clintons headed in different directions, causing panic to the traveling press who were pre-positioned neatly behind the diner's counter and making impossible to cover the two." [CBS]

• "I deeply regret the vitriol and the mean-spiritedness and terrible insults and rhetoric that has been thrown around at you, for supporting me, at women in general, at many of those who support my campaign because of who they are and their stand based on principle." [NYT]

• "The everyday threat of having our goods stolen, our ability to travel and earn our livings curtailed, and our personal information harvested by every junior terrorist fighter who wants to see your ID before letting you do anything is overshadowed by the one-in-a-billion confluence of someone with terrorist goals, the means to accomplish them, and the intelligence to bring them off (hint: you can't really blow up an airplane with hair-gel and iPods)." [Guardian]