Hotline After Dark -- Ladies Night

We'll spare you the details of Lindsay Lohan's arrest, but we will give you the highlights of Chris Matthew's interviews with the Obama Girl Amber Lee Ettinger, Hot4Hill Girl Taryn Southern, and Giuliani Girl Adolina Kristina:

Ettinger, on why she did the video: "I am 25, but that is not the whole reason why I did the video. ... I do modeling and acting full time, and Ben Relles, the creator, approached me with the idea and I thought it was going to be a funny great project."

Southern: "I saw Miss Amber strutting her stuff in the Obama Girl video a couple weeks ago, thought it was great, and really funny, and wanted to put together my own spoof version."

Kristina: "I really like what he did for New York City and how he cleaned up the crime."

Matthews: "You are doing it. You are flashing your incredible eyebrows at me. Look at that. It's awful what you're doing. Look, do you think this will affect the elections? Doesn't it scare you if it does, Taryn?"

Southern: "At first I thought that it just seems ludicrous that me shaking my booty in a bikini is going to impact the election. But I guess from a broader scale, we're getting young people more interested in politics. They're going on Youtube and they're at least thinking about the election. I don't think we'll sway votes either way. I hope not."

Matthews: "I feel like Larry King tonight" (MSNBC, 7/24).

FINALLY, A RACE TO REPORT!

And there was a lot of talk about the Hillary Clinton/Barack Obama back-and-forth:

MSNBC's Carlson: "The most substantial development in last night's Democratic debate was some long-awaited conflict between the two front runners on the Democratic side, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton" ("Tucker," 7/24).

CNN's Crowley: "You can expect that this will ratchet up, particularly since Obama has the money to go toe to toe with Hillary Clinton. She's got the poll numbers. So, you have what really is a titanic struggle, at least politically, and then you have John Edwards who is looking for a little running room between the two with his sort of populist approach to a number of things. ... So, you know, it is a real race going on here. And it is only likely to get livelier" ("PZ Now," 7/24).

WashingtonPost.com's Cillizza: "It shows you how desperate for news, frankly, sometimes we are, that a thing like this, which happened in a 15 second span of a two-hour debate, became a huge controversy today" ("Countdown," MSNBC, 7/24).[EMILY GOODIN]