LiveBlog for Monday, October 31, 2011

Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 9am ET / 6am PT to co-host Right Wing World

The Rude Pundit calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to talk about Occupy Wall Street and that weird Herman Cain campaign video

Glenn Greenwald, author and Salon.com contributor, calls in at 10am ET / 7am PT to talk about his new book, “With Liberty and Justice for Some: How The Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful”

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (aka Cassandra Peterson) calls in at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to celebrate Halloween

Edie McClurg joins us in the Los Angeles Bureau at 11am ET / 8am PT for another edition of Mondays With McClurg

• During Herman Cain’s tenure as the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, at least two female employees complained to colleagues and senior association officials about inappropriate behavior by Cain, ultimately leaving their jobs at the trade group, multiple sources confirm to Politico.

• A new Des Moines Register poll showed 23% of likely Iowa caucus-goers backed Herman Cain while 22% supported Mitt Romney, making them the frontrunners in the state that will give the first formal read of the race on January 3.

3 million households left without power on Sunday by a rare October snowstorm in the Northeast that bedeviled transportation and was blamed for at least 11 deaths.

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Klassie 20 pts

BOO! Scare a rightwinger today.Give them brownies like Mama did. :-)

Klassie 20 pts

Edie, you look cute as candy corn!

Klassie 20 pts

Cain is a huge distraction to gobble up news headlines.We need a new Congress!!!

AliceinWonderland 5 pts

I brought a friend, who had never heard of you, to see you in San Francisco. The next day, she posted a link to your liveblog on her facebook.. Momma has a new fan, props to me!

Klassie 20 pts

we're losing daylight, people!

Klassie 20 pts

if the people lead, the leaders will follow. yada yada.

Klassie 20 pts

Perry needs a five-finger settlement on a haystack to get back on track.

Klassie 20 pts

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, on HALLOWEEN! Doesn't get any better than that.Morning all!

KAK1958 6 pts

So do we have a 9% unemployment rate or not? The right keeps telling OWS protesters to go out and get a job while they simultaneously criticize Obama for the bad economy and high unemployment. I guess it's only the protesters that could get a job. But all the poor, jobless non-protesters are victims of Obama's horrible economic policies.

gforce1 5 pts

I went to a Halloween party on Saturday night as one of those terrible, OWS hippies!

KarenOVasquez 5 pts

So glad that thanks to this live blog, I now know that Vanilla Ice is also a Scorpio,

Dannybob 6 pts

P.S.: At the end of The Rose, Bette Midler's character ODs on heroin (shoots up in a phone booth).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR6okRuOLc8

Dannybob 6 pts

Happy Monday Juliet and Livefyrers . . . and Happy Halloween!

Onetime blacklisted veteran actress Lee Grant and musician Anita Kerr are both 84, Newsman Dan Rather is the big Eight-OH, veteran actor Ron Rifkin is 72, veteran actress Sally Kirkland is the big Seven-OH, M*A*S*H's Major Charles Winchester actor David Ogden Stiers is 69, Crying Game actor Stephen Rea is 46, Newswoman Jane Pauley is 61, Broadway's Brian Stokes Mitchell is 54, LOTR director Peter Jackson and Jackson brother Randy (no relation) both turn the big Five-OH, actors Dermot Mulroney and Rob Scheneider both turning 48, and singer Robert Matthew Van Winkle aka Vanilla Ice is 44. Happy Birthdays Scorpios!

Herman Cain predicament sort of reminds me of that song in "Cabaret" . . . "Deedeleedeedee . . . Two ladies, und I'm the only mann, ja!"

juliet bravo 26 pts

Happy Mondee, livefyrebloggers at large!

Got Monday morning meeting-o-rama (alliteration's artful aid) - should catch the third hour though. Cheers :-)