So it's Halloween, and you don't have a costume. You were going to be Kanye West, but the friend you were counting on to be your Taylor Swift got swine flu at the last minute. Then, it was going to be Sarah Palin, until you remembered that that's what you were last year. Then, you were going to dress up as Balloon Boy, but you realized that all of your friends, neighbors, and extended family members were planning to as well. What to do?

Fortunately, Mediaite has come up with some costume suggestions for you. Pulled straight from the headlines, these are guaranteed to be hits:

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VIDEO So, the President, a cop, and a Harvard professor walk into a bar...er, a picnic table. By this point you probably know the rest. Was there other news yesterday? Who knows. The Presidential "it's not a summit" "Beer Summit" dominated from morning to night. At one point CNN split the screen into six windows in order to cover all the angles, literally. And while cable took to the story like alcoholics to an open bar, print reporters all seemed slightly apologetic that they were devoting this much energy and attention to it. But devote they did. Especially after Joe Biden made an unexpected appearance requiring some quick on-the-spot investigating to determine what he was drinking (Buckley's, it's a non-alcoholic beer -- Biden doesn't drink), and Gates who threw a wrench into the best laid plans by opting for Sam Adams Light at the last minute. (more...)

There are stories in both the New York Times and the WSJ today about how President Obama is losing the health care debate in the media.

And despite his efforts — in speeches, news conferences, town-hall-style meetings and other forums — to address public misgivings, 69 percent of respondents in the poll said they were concerned that the quality of their own care would decline if the government created a program that covers everyone.

But losing to what exactly? Health care is a tough topic to sell on any day -- it's detailed, unwieldy and not at all sexy, all terrible qualities where cable coverage is concerned. However you'd think in a slow news July it might get a bit more traction. Instead what we have been getting is the Birthers, and discussions over what type of beer the President prefers. Is that about to change? (more...)

Shall we all hold hands? Should we sing "Kumbya?"

"If my experience leads to the lessening of the occurrence of racial profiling, then I would find that enormously gratifying. Because, in the end, this is not about me at all; it is about the creation of a society in which 'equal justice before law' is a lived reality." (Henry Louis Gates, The Root)

On Friday, President Barack Obama surprised the Washington Press Corps with an impromptu jacking of the daily press briefing to "clarify" his comments on the arrest of scholar Henry Louis Gates. (more...)

The President made a surprise appearance at today's White House Press briefing to address the uproar over his comments about the arrest of Skip Gates at Wednesday's press conference. The President described a phone call he'd had with the arresting officer, Sgt. James Crowley. They apparently spoke for awhile, and the President even suggested that he, Crowley, and Gates might get together at the White House for a beer. What he didn't say would become the topic of most of the rest of the briefing. (more...)