Blowhard News for Tuesday.

McCain camp wanted Schwarzenegger to tell McCain’s POW story so he wouldn’t mention ‘centrist politics.’
After California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) decided not to attend the Republican National Convention, the RNC replaced him with former senator Fred Thompson, who gave the speech originally intended for Schwarzenegger. The California governor told Der Spiegel that he was ordered to focus on McCain’s biography; that way, the campaign could prevent him from talking about “centrist policies”:

SCHWARZENEGGER: The speech I would have given is the one that Fred Thompson gave. I gave him my speech because I did not go to the convention. It was a great speech because it talked in minute detail about McCain’s torture and his being a POW, and that’s the speech that the party wanted me to give. Why? Because this way I don’t go and talk about centrist politics and maybe rub some people the wrong way. That’s another stage.

Matthews Compares Palin To Fictional Union Organizer Norma Rae
Sunday on his NBC Sunday talk show, Chris Matthews said that “Republicans think they’ve found a pit bull in Sarah Palin” because she spent time “battling big oil” as governor. He added that as “mayor of little Wasilla,” she got “ready for some big fights, a strong female up against the odds fighting for justice.”
Matthews then linked Palin to the fictional union organizer from the film “Norma Rae” :

MATTHEWS: She’s a conservative version, you think, perhaps, of some movie heroes like Norma Rae, the factory worker fed up with minimum wage who did whatever it took, even jail time, to get the union organized.