In meeting, Messina praised Sherrod handling  —  In a closed staff meeting Tuesday morning, a senior administration praised elements of the White House's initial response to a partial video of a speech by a Department of Agriculture official — a response that the Administration has since reversed.

On Lacking All Conviction  —  Let's take a moment to understand what we've seen over the past several days.  As of last week, the Tea Party was a movement whose leadership included a man who once called the first black president of the United States, “a welfare thug,” and who attempted to satirize the NAACP in the following fashion:

Sherrod: I'm a Victim of Breitbart, Fox ‘Racism’  —  Shirley Sherrod, the former Agriculture Department Georgia Director of Rural Development, says she is a victim.  A victim of poor reporting and, as she contends, clear bias and racist coverage from both Andrew Breitbart and Fox News.

Meet the New Journolist, Smaller Than the Old Journolist  —  Blogosphere, please join me in celebrating the birth of Cabalist, the wittily-named successor to Ezra Klein's infamous Journolist, the listserv of liberal bloggers, pundits and academics that inadvertently brought down (very temporarily) …

Obama wins!  And Journolisters rejoice  —  MATT DUSS, CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: [Mccain aide] Randy Scheunemann Fired [last week]  —  LAURA ROZEN, FOREIGN POLICY (NOW POLITICO): Can you imagine if these bozos had won?  —  Nov. 7  —  LAURA ROZEN: People we no longer have to listen to …