(Every week political pundits grace us with gaffes, hyperbole, violation of logic and just plain untruths. Every week we try to catch them, because we are smart alecks.)

Larry King's son wants to be black
Inauguration fever swept the nation last week, but no one was more affected than Larry King's young son Cannon, who now wishes he was black. We know this because King repeated his eight-year-old's racial confession during an interview with Bob Woodward. While Woodward has previously tackled controversial subjects such as Watergate and the Iraq War, he punts on King's assertion that being black is the new black among the elementary-school set by laughing nervously, stammering and changing the subject as quickly as possible.



After the jump, we note the aggressive return of Rush.

Rush is back
With his snarling assaults on the Clinton administration, Rush Limbaugh dominated punditry in the '90s, and was considered an instrumental part of the Republicans' congressional takeover in 1994. But the new millennium hasn't been as kind to the ex-DJ, who is now known as much for his prescription drug abuse and opinions on Donovan McNabb as for his political influence. The pendulum is beginning to swing back, though, and Limbaugh's recent comments on how he hopes Barack Obama (and his policies) fail were the talk of Washington, with even the president singling him out for criticism. Only time will tell if this means a return of the dittohead phenomenon. But it does appear that Limbaugh, an attack dog to the core, is prepared to take the reigns of pop-conservatism back from the talkers on FoxNews, who are better suited to be cheerleaders.