Jennifer Rubin at RealClear Politics details 10 ways Sarah Palin has shaken up the race for president since her introduction as John McCain’s running mate. Rubin notes:
Palin has taken the GOP faithful by storm, captured the attention of the largest audience ever to watch a VP acceptance speech, and potentially created an entirely new presidential race. If the Obama camp seems flummoxed and floundering, alternating between horrid insults and praise for the new Republican VP nominee, it is easy to see why: she has completely shaken up the race.
Only a few days after her landmark speech, we can spot at least ten ways in which she may have altered the political landscape.
MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann (left, seen with colleague Joe Scarborough) has been removed as co-anchor for political coverage along with Chris Matthews.
MSNBC, after enduring a public soap opera last week involving celebrity men-children Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, has decided to replace them as co-anchors of political night coverage, the Associated Press reports:
The change reflects tensions between the freewheeling, opinionated MSNBC and the impartial newsgatherers at NBC News. Throughout the primaries and summer, MSNBC argued that Olbermann and Matthews could serve as dispassionate anchors on political news nights and that viewers would accept them in that role, but things fell apart during the conventions.
Of course, they’ll still be around as commentators, so they won’t have to continue their weak act of pretending to be objective and unbiased. Is that harsh? Consider this from the same story:
Perhaps most embarrassing, Joe Scarborough was discussing positive developments in John McCain’s campaign at one point when Olbermann was heard on an offstage microphone saying: “Jesus, Joe, why don’t you get a shovel?”
Scarborough, a former Republican congressman and host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” got in another nasty on-air exchange with MSNBC reporter David Shuster, and Matthews snapped at Olbermann on-air when it appeared Olbermann was criticizing him for talking too much.
Rockstanding 
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