Most people think the bailout happened under Obama.

Peggy Noonan thinks we need more old people in politics.

Claire McCaskill is in no hurry on climate change legislation. “You know, it took 50 years on health care.”

Marco Rubio’s campaign raised a lot of money last quarter, but spent almost as much.

Michele Bachmann forms a “Tea Party Caucus.”

There was a record-high number of Army suicides in June.

If a recall of iPhone 4 is coming, Apple will announce it today.

Former McCain strategist Mike Murphy called his old boss “cynical” for tapping Palin, and Peggy Noonan, a widely read columnist and former aide to President Reagan, said McCain’s “political bullshit” made the race basically “over.”

The off-message clip immediately began burning up YouTube on Wednesday night, and within hours, the liberal group MoveOn.org swung into action, tapping its email list and social network to get the clip a wider airing. MoveOn’s Director of Strategic Campaigns, Adam Green, started a Facebook group to push the video beyond political junkies — with the alluring title “Caught on tape: Watch this amazing video and pass it on!” A MoveOn email also urged activists to spread the word:

If we act fast, we can give it more momentum and help it get more attention. Can you forward this video to your friends today?

This kind of media activism — agenda-driven digging — not only pushes politically damaging stories, it also presses the traditional media to discuss gaffes, including their own, that might not otherwise garner much coverage.