Thursday link dump: A big felting deal

Biden is a person in your neighborhood, Bill O'Reilly compares gay people to terrorists, an Bob Woodward did Iraq

By Alex Pareene

I know the news has been pretty terrible today, for the most part, but at least there is this picture of Joe Biden, with Muppets.
Paul Krugman’s clip-and-save guide to explaining that the CRA and Fannie and Freddie didn’t cause the housing crisis.
I’m not what Bill O’Reilly was trying to say in this clip, but he ends up comparing gay people to al-Qaeda.
Now Nikki Haley (born Nikki Randhawa, and raised a Sikh) will have to deal with the ethnic/religious pseudo-smears. She cannot catch a break!
Former Washington Post investigative reporter Lorraine Adams: “I think Bob Woodward’s capitulation to interviewing people in limousines, as opposed to people on the subway, is something I feel is partly responsible for the fact that we ended up in Iraq.”
Is Rasmussen releasing non-biased polls after the nutty ones get discredited?
Tom Vilsack attempts to defend corn subsidies.
National Review contributor doesn’t understand “irony.”
Artur Davis is done with politics (he says).
California’s Proposition 14 would make all primary elections non-partisan free-for-alls. I’m sympathetic to arguments on both sides but California is obviously completely screwed no matter what. (TNR had a good but not entirely convincing pro-“jungle primary” piece from Michelle Cottle just last month.)