A Milli Vanilli Moment...and Wolves!

I didn't watch Saturday Night Live over the weekend, and I didn't need to. Bloggers took care of it by including plenty of links and references to Ashlee Simpson's embarrassing lip-synch performance all over the blogosphere by Monday.

(If you didn't see it, she began mouthing the words to the wrong song during her second tune of the night and ran off-stage while the band played on). For that bit of musical lore, she jumped to No. 2 on Monday's top people list, squeezing in nicely between the Prez and the Senator, and references to the evening took the top four spots among BlogPulse's key phrases. Even Milli Vanilli, that late '80s pop group shunned out of popdom for faking the lyrics, got a few mentions. Hint to Ashlee: it's called Saturday Night LIVE for a reason.

And wolves? Have you seen the latest Bush commercial that uses bristly-looking wolves to carry the message that Sen. John Kerry isn't prepared to fight the war on terror? No sooner did it hit the air than one animal-loving conservationist with a serious message launched Wolfpacksfortruth.org. On the not-so-serious front, The Poor Man blog re-styled the wolves advertisement to remove some of the fear and add in a bit of warm-'n'-fuzzy adorability.

What does it say about an incumbent conservative when even The American Conservative has nothing good to say? For equal time, Sun-Times columnist Mark Steyn has no soft spot for Kerry, either.

TREND GRAPH OF THE DAY: Electoral jitters continue to climb as Nov. 2 approaches.

The Freedom for All blog also used BlogPulse's trend-graphing abilities to plot some intriguing candidat-related concepts. Who is the liar? The good man? Evil?