Thursday link dump: Get me rewrite

• An interview with Ben Wetmore, the author of the "script" for James O'Keefe's failed sex boat "prank."
• The implementation of TARP "[set] up exactly the wrong incentives as we head into the next credit cycle."
• Attacking, again, the idiotic cliche that America is a "center-right nation."
• Larry Summers' airport problems.
• Senate Republicans killed a successful jobs program, for fun, and no one cares.
• Carl Paladino's campaign filings are, predictably, full of weird secrets.
• A Guantanamo detainee is on trial in lower Manhattan right now -- steps from Ground Zero! -- and stupid New Yorkers refuse to be terrified.

By Alex Pareene

Alex Pareene writes about politics for Salon and is the author of "The Rude Guide to Mitt." Email him at apareene@salon.com and follow him on Twitter @pareene

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