WHEELS COME OFF STRAIGHT TALK EXPRESS?  —  From NBC's Mark Murray  —  For a candidate who prides himself in “straight talk” — and whose political image in part is based on that truth-telling reputation — Saturday proved to be a brutal day for John McCain and his campaign.

Palin Camp Provides Conflicting Accounts of Iraq Visit  —  RENO, Nev. — Aides to Gov. Sarah Palin spent Saturday scrambling to explain details of her only trip outside North America in the wake of a report that that trip did not include travel into Iraq, as the McCain-Palin campaign had initially claimed.

They Really Are Deranged: Yes, Enough Is Enough  —  So now the media really cares precisely which foot of Sarah Palin may or may not have been across a border on one overseas trip?  Kornblut, who already has a story which had to be edited to at least make it appear truthful (WaPo didn't disclose that), citing the Globe.

Is This It?  Really?  —  The New York Times does the all-so predictable Sarah Palin bill of indictment for its Sunday front page.  It certainly sounds compelling in the paragraph called the “nut graf”: … But what is so remarkable is how little there is in the page after page of minutiae thrown against the wall by the Times.

First report from Alaska back to the NY Times Tom Smith  —  First report from Alaska back to the NY Times  —  You have to check this out.  It looks like the reporters the NY Times sent up to Alaska to dig up what they could on Palin have sent back their first missive.  I would say the great Klondike strike, it ain't.

Palin sticks to the familiar in first solo outing  —  CARSON CITY, Nev. - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin made her first solo campaign appearance outside her home state Saturday, sticking largely to a speech that has boosted her popularity among Republican faithful but drawn criticism for having misstatements.