Noted and quoted, Turd blossom edition

“I don’t want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas.“

–Karl Rove, speaking to a group of conservatives about immigration. The White House doesn’t deny he made the remark but say he was “taken out of context.”

Idle worship (cont’d)

“I do almost feel like I’ve lost something. She was an inspiration to me,” said Sian Richter, a 20-year-old office worker who has been posting messages and photos online from her London home and has been glued to E! coverage of her idol’s death.

“I truly believe she had a lot of love to give and just wanted to be loved back,” Richter said. “Also I looked up to her because of the background she came from. Humble roots and making it big time gave me inspiration.”

Richter said she has handbags adorned with pictures of Smith, a bobblehead doll in the former Playboy model’s likeness and recordings of episodes of “The Anna Nicole Show.”

Cap du jour

Noted and quoted, Turd blossom edition

"I don’t want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas."

–Karl Rove, speaking to a group of conservatives about immigration. The White House doesn’t deny he made the remark but say he was "taken out of context."