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via Instapundit

Bert and Cookie Monster explain the Bernie Madoff scandal in terms a child can understand.

Funny stuff, but also effective.

On the Next Right blog, Gary Andres worries about Democrat 527 groups building support for the Obama agenda.

We know Democratic partisans strongly support the White House agenda. But that's only about a third of the electorate. Those with weaker partisan attachments are less engaged, know less about the President's agenda, and are therefore less intense in their support. I believe groups like Organizing for America and Unity '09 (the liberal-backed group that includes MoveOn.org Politico's Ben Smith writes about here ) help mobilize partisan Democrats, but also create the kind of political noise necessary to break through the din of other cultural and media messages -- a crtical tactic in reaching certain electoral blocs.

Andres, like a lot of people, doesn't understand the low information voter (the majority of Americans). The respond to Sesame Street politics, not partisan hack spin. An 80% government owned business (AIG) gives out million in bonuses and Congress and the President knew about it and hoped to hell they could keep it quiet? An Ernie and Bert story every voter can understand. Complicated explanations about legal constraints? Click goes the remote control.

Republicans should burn this into their brains--the simple narrative works everytime.

Victor Davis Hansen

Ms. Sherrod was done a disservice in having her comments edited in a fashion that did not represent what she was trying to say. Yes, but it is also not a wise thing to go before the NAACP to offer a confessional about how one has evolved from seeing oppression in terms of white culpability, to understanding it in terms of the culpability of those “who have.” In other words, the role of minor federal agricultural officials is not confessionals to lobbying organizations about the unfairness of present American culture. One is free to do it, but one is almost asking to be quoted out of context in doing so. (The antithesis would be something like a border-dwelling federal official, who had lost a relative to Mexican smugglers, speaking before a zealous close-the-borders, mostly white group about how he came to no longer see the problem in terms of brown people, but now largely in terms of poor people, white and brown alike. Now that would be an insane thing to do, and a Republican administration, battling selectively edited videos on the Daily Kos and Huffington Post, would have fired him.