· We don't know how long that Whoopi Goldberg has been on The View —we suppose we could look it up, but it's Friday night and we're tired as shit— but nary a day goes by when we don't think to ourselves, "How in tarnation is Whoopi qualified to be The View's de facto leader?" Today's evidence of her ineptitude involved her trenchant (and bipartisan!) insight that Barack Obama and John McCain have each "stuck their foot in the doo-doo and are walking around making dookie spots" in their dealings with our country's cratering economy. Check please! [The View] · Looking to make a name for yourself in the high stakes world of blog commenting? Try heading over to our sister site Gawker for their Presidential Debate liveblog, moderated by some of the biggest names in microcelebrity. Should be a good one! [Gawker] · If the above bullet sounds interesting to you, feel free to prep for your high pressure blog commenting debut with this little nugget: Sarah Palin is being encouraged to step aside from the presidential race by none other than leading conversative columnist Kathleen Parker. Who, we might add, is also a female. Try slapping a sexist tag on that! [National Review] · Statler & Waldorf somehow snagged themselves an Op-Ed in today's New York Times. Yes, the muppets. [NY Times] · And lastly, for those of you who could give a rat's ass about politics, we turn our attention back to the world of entertainment. Namely, exactly how much is Tina Fey worth? However much it is (hint: she's made $17 million in her career to date), we think she probably deserves more. [Portfolio]