- Sen. Bob Casey picks Latrobe, Pa., as a backdrop for his endorsement of Obama because of it’s “blue-collar credentials.”

- The New York Times follows up with a story speculating about how many of Latrobe’s residents’ objections to Obama may be cover for being uncomfortable voting for a black man.

- Controversy “erupts” after said black man comments on said blue-collar white folk’s bitterness to a bunch of rich white people in, of all places, San Francisco.

- ABC decides to engineer a confrontation between Obama and one of the people quoted in the NYT story. Said person asks if Obama “believes in the flag.”

- McClatchy follows up with flag lady, who says her concerns really have nothing to do with the flag. She’s been through some tough economic times, is, um, bitter about it and is angry at Obama for taking “everything so nonchalantly.” (Perhaps instead of mnaking cryptic comments about flag pins, she should have said ‘I’m a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!’)

- George Stephanopoulos, who in the 1992 docudrama The War Room was shocked – shocked! – by a reporter asked him about his candidates’ marital infidelity and tells said reporter in so many words that “he’ll never work in this town again!” now tells us that these are the kinds of issues the ‘Merican people are interested in.

Jaysus, somebody please call rewrite!