Surely, everyone knows about the viral "OMG! OBAMA IS A MUSLIM!!" smear e-mail.

Well, the source of the wildly false material that's been popularized by the e-mail "http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ntent/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062703781 .html?hpid=topnews">has been discovered. And it's none other than self-proclaimed "Obama Expert" Andy Martin.

Some of the Obama supporters here may remember Andy Martin from the dark primary days. Martin's become something of a small running joke on this site after he was touted in a MyDD diary as imminently "exposing" the REAL Obama-Rezko connection. Or something.

And now for something completely different (and less serious)...

I was reading Zack Dennis' diary at dKos a couple days ago, in which he attempted to cast "Primary '08."

There's been other "casting the primary" discussions before, and I thoroughly enjoy 'em. It's fun matching actors to the real-life politicos who've been occupying our TVs for months and years.

Below is the list I've put together (with a few borrowed from Zack and others).

After something like 3 1/2 years at MyDD, this is my first-ever diary.

I write to clarify something, and rather than burying it amidst 200+ comments in the currently top-recommended diary, I thought I'd give it its own pretty blue title link over in the diaries box.

The diary in question states that Obama "finally fesses up" about hearing Jeremiah Wright "punk the United States." If you believe the diary is reporting something new, you've been sold a bill of goods (or hornswoggled, bamboozled, or whatever colloquialism you prefer).