Portfolio.com’s Jeff Bercovici dissects last weekend’s non-news story about Oprah Winfrey ostensibly rejecting Republican VP nominee Gov. Sarah Palin from a pre-election appearance on her show, which originated with the Drudge Report. “Just to be totally clear: Winfrey didn’t invite Palin on her show and then withdraw the invitation,” Bercovici writes. “I never thought I’d live to see a faux-controversy stupider than the one over Barack Obama’s failure to wear a flag pin,” he muses.
—Christopher Perez