Sarah Palin-backed Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller, who's likely to pull off a surprising upset over incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the Republican primary, thinks that Murkowski is a real whore. Oops! Here comes a deleted tweet...

New York was among the winning states announced today in Barack Obama's "Race to the Top" contest, where states compete for federal education money. A celebratory Governor David Paterson accidentally called it "Race to the Cock," though, to Twitter's delight.

At a Nevada campaign stop yesterday, Sen. Harry Reid responded to an immigration-related question by saying, "I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican, OK?" Outrage! Race Card! Harry Reid must learn to share his Hispanics.

Poor Ken Buck, the Tea Party's favorite Colorado senate candidate. Democrats have him on 24/7 gaffe surveillance, and have just released audio of a juicy one: Buck wishes that the Tea Party "dumbasses" would stop asking about Obama's birth certificate.

Adorably bumbling Starz executive and, uh, lady abuser Chris Albrecht, the disgraced mastermind behind HBO's meteoric rise to the top of the television heap, recently responded to an email about firing two top-level employees and inadvertently CC'd 400 staff members.

Wow, just a really awful metaphor choice here from insane crazy person Sharron Angle, Harry Reid's Senate opponent. She believes girls raped by their fathers shouldn't be able to have abortions; instead, they should turn "lemon situation[s] into lemonade."

Politicians on both sides of the aisle have put aside their differences to collectively humiliate Michael Steele for his "Obama's war" gaffe. First came the Dems with their stupid press release. Now it's John McCain and Co.'s turn.

Political operatives of all stripes are furious at RNC chair Michael Steele today for his anti-Afghanistan war comments. Now everyone must "spin" and "clarify" instead of taking a half-day! Republicans are calling for Steele's resignation, while Democrats are being stupid.

Hilarious RNC chair Michael Steele apparently doesn't know his party's position on the Afghanistan war. Yesterday, Steele called the war one of Obama's choice that's unnecessary and not winnable. Agreed! Steele's flacks have now taken to mop duty.

This week ABC in New Orleans ran a risque story about an injection, G-shot, which can increase a lady's sensitivity down there. It was a segment filled with euphemisms. But not for anchor Michael Hill, who just flat-out said it.

There are many things you can do while visiting Montreal: you could barhop the world famous nightlife, you could try poutine, you could try speaking French, or you could make anti-Semitic gaffes about noses on national TV.

Census Bureau director Robert Groves publicly apologized Friday for including the word "Negro" in the census this year. He apologized to a caller on C-Span, a.k.a. "Black-Span." Not "Negro-Span!" Take note, white folks. [USNWR]

After the health care bill became the health care law yesterday, Joe Biden dropped an f-bomb heard 'round the world. However, this was one of Biden's least egregious gaffes as it was accidental. The others are just PR nightmares.

Larry King sold his suspenders. Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta saved young Haitians. And Jessica Yellin made a terrible earthquake-related pun. Welcome to the strangest night yet of CNN's unrelenting prime-time Haiti coverage.

At a town hall in Allentown, Pa.—coverage of which probably made Billy Joel a couple grand in licensing fees today—Barack Obama said consumers are getting "gypped" by insurance companies. Cue the outrage.

During the presidential campaign, John McCain stupidly announced that "the fundamentals of the economy are still strong," a statement that Barack Obama hung around his neck like a flaming car tire. Today, Obama hailed the economy's "core strengths." Whoops.

Murdoch was on a panel with Indian mogul Ratan Tata and Mexican billionaire and future New York Times owner Carlos Slim. The question that elicited Murdoch's bizarre reference to New York Gov. David Paterson was clearly directed at Fox News: "How do we bring more civil discourse to the discussion, and stop appealing to the populists on the right and the left?"

"Biden's verbal slips won't sink ships—nor will they trick us into a fraudulent war or compromise our values by launching a regime of torture." But, but—gaffes, Bob! Gaffes! [The Week, Photo: AP]

Joe Biden went on the Today Show this morning and very calmly explained that you are going to die from swine flu if you don't lock yourself in a safe room now.

When the vice president says something ridiculous, that is a gaffe, and when the president looks pissed about it, that is also a gaffe, and Barack Obama is sorry for everything, says Joe Biden.