Friday head-scratching briefs

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/the-stink-of-cologne/2012/06/27/gJQAqe0d7V_blog.html

All is not well in Assadville: A big defection in Syria, some big-time general. You know, that Arab Spring is going to cause a Winter War, if you ask me. Israel had better gird its loins.

What kind of idiot would actually buy one of these? Some company actually created a book that self-destructs in 60 days if you don’t read it. Seriously? I mean, seriously?

What do you know, Obama’s lying about conservative Super-PACS, too: Jim Geraghty crunches the numbers and discovers that the anti-Romney super-PAC ads outnumber anti-Obama ads by over two to one in spending:

But that still leaves a two-to-one spending ratio of liberal anti-Romney efforts to conservative anti-Obama efforts. In fact, the president’s allies run the single biggest-spending and most negative super PAC of all: Priorities USA Action, founded by Obama’s former deputy White House press secretary, Bill Burton; Sean Sweeney, the former chief of staff to Rahm Emanuel; and Harold Ickes, who was deputy chief of staff to President Bill Clinton. This super PAC has spent $13.5 million in opposition to Romney so far, outspending all the super-PAC efforts opposing the president combined. While Priorities USA Action is often described as a “pro-Obama” super PAC in news coverage, it has yet to spend a single penny that it categorizes as “supporting” President Obama; all of its spending is classified as “opposing” Mitt Romney.

But don’t worry, you’ll hear plenty about how the Republicans are buying the election. It’s the media narrative. Watch for it.

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