Political activists will surely recognize Dave Bossie in today’s Washington Post profile: “Taking the Cause to the Big Screen: Conservative Advocate David Bossie Turns to Filmmaking after Looking to Counter ‘Fahrenheit 9/11.”

What’s next?

Bossie says he has two more film projects in the pipeline. One, about the American Civil Liberties Union, is scheduled for a fall release. The other is about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), who is widely believed to be positioning herself for a 2008 presidential run. Bossie said he is teaming with Dick Morris, the former Clinton media adviser, on that one.

More in Friday’s Washington Times, a profile, and Friday’s Los Angeles Times, a review of “Border War.”  The films opens in L.A. Thursday and premiers in D.C. Sept. 13th.

Democrats are reportedly in anguish over Wal-Mart — wrestling with how vicious to be in their attack on the job-creating economic dynamo.
President Bush, on the other hand, seems unencumbered by such hatred of Wal-Mart.
Today in New Orleans, for instance, he even gave the company prominent product placement in a major Katrina speech:

Catholic Charities helped her with food and clothes and diapers, and a gift card to Wal-Mart that allowed her to buy the uniform she would need for her new job.

Which puts the President in curious pro-Wal-Mart company, with the Washington Post. Its editorial: “Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and other businesses proved more effective than hapless federal agencies in quickly getting emergency supplies into the disaster zone.”

AP: “Sen. Joe Lieberman, running for re-election as an independent after losing the Democratic primary and being abandoned by top-ranking Democrats earlier this month, will campaign with former Republican vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp.”

After watchiing at hotair this happen — in their words: “CNN’s Kyra Phillips got caught, well, with her skirt down. Someone in CNN left her mic open and on the air as she went to the loo in the middle of President Bush’s speech commemorating the Katrina anniversary “– I could only think of Sergeant Frank Drebin, Detective Lieutenant Police Squad doing the same while the mayor held a press conference in “Naked Gun.”  (Audio here at putfile.com)

Which sparks one of the greatest entertainment did-you-know’s of all time: Did you know that the actress who played Mayor Barkley on Naked Gun also played Tony Soprano’s mother, Livia?   Nancy Marchand.

Those trench-coated sleuths hanging out in the dark corridors of Mediabistro FishBowlDC have done it again.  They solved another mystery surrounding the elusive White House press corps.

Yesterday we wondered which White House reporter got an asterisked smack down by the White House press office.

After throwing their cigarette butt to the ground and extinguisng it with their gum shoe, FishBowlDC smoothly exhaled the answer:

We looked into it and our WH sources tell us that April Ryan had an exclusive with Bush and Mark Silva paraphrased quotes in the pool report that the WH is now objecting to. Bush apparently never said it would take 10 years, but was rhapsodizing to April about coming back in 10 years and what it will look like.

Breaking news on the macaca front.  From the BBC:

A species of monkey unknown to science has been photographed in India by an international team of researchers. The monkey, a member of the macaque family, was sighted in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, which lies in the country’s remote north-eastern region.  Named the Arunachal macaque, the new monkey is a comparatively large brown primate with a relatively short tail. ….   The last species of macaque to be discovered in the wild, the Indonesian Pagai macaque, was described in 1903. … The Arunachal macaque (Macaca munzala) is described in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Primatology.

Couldn’t find a quote from the Jim Webb campaign in the International Journal of Primatology. And no word whether they considered this scientific name, Macacaus Georgeallenus.  But here’s an actual macaca –

Inside Cable News picks up a New York Post story that NBC is moving MSNBC out of Secaucus.

I worked for MSNBC and spent a lot of time going to and from Secaucus.  Maybe it’s the passing years or the advent of hazy older age memory, but I swear this is all I can recall of Secaucus’ tony charm and beauty.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper never looked so good — in this cartoon Newsbusters.org is running.

Dana Milbank’s coverage of John Mearsheimer comically singling out high-level Bush admistration Jews and misspelling the names of other top U.S. officials while claiming there’s too much pro-Israelness in Washington harkens back to a great old “Saturday Night Live” bit.

In a season one skit called “Final Days,” Dan Ayrkoyd played President Richard Nixon as his world was falling apart.  Flashback to Nixon talking to a portrait of FDR.

President Richard Nixon: And you! Franklin Delano Roosenfelt. you were a Jew, too, weren’t you? Jewboy! Jewboy!

(Doonesbury, Washington Post, 8/29/06)