Steve Benen has already highlighted a portion of yesterday’s press briefing that also caught my attention, but which in the context of the White House viral email campaign, as the White House PhRMA deal breaks wide, is even more interesting to draw out. JAKE TAPPER: A couple questions. I don’t know if you think it’s [...]
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Hillary Serves Up Jeb, Tina Serves Up Hillary
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton compared Nigeria’s corruption and electoral problems with the 2000 Florida presidential election recount during a town hall meeting today in Abuja, Nigeria. Answering a question about Nigeria’s recent election, Clinton said, “In 2000, our presidential election came down to one state where the brother of the man running for President [...]
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Holbrooke Uses Pornography Standard for Afghanistan
–updated below– “The military struggle with U.S. troops is not an open-ended event, but our civilian assistance will continue,” the special envoy said. But he added that defining ultimate success would require applying a “Supreme Court test,” a reference to a line by Justice Potter Stewart about identifying pornography. “We’ll know it when we see [...]
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Obama Steady at New Hampshire Town Hall
–updated– At the airport – someone wrote the words “Stop Government Health Care” on the doors of an aircraft hangar in sight of press plane. – Mark Knoller VIDEO: Obama addresses “death panels” and insurance co. rationing v doctor guided decisions. Outside the town hall there were a lot of protesters on both sides, as [...]
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Newt Allies Himself with Sarah’s ‘Death Panels’
Watching Newt Gingrich this morning on “This Week” was like watching someone out of an alternate universe from a previous century, especially when compared to Howard Dean. But Newt’s apparent seduction by Sarah Palin after she made her my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel”, statement lunacy [...]
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Olbermann-O’Reilly Plot Thickens, Add Situational Outrage
Salter today: Mr. Olbermann told viewers on June 1 that he would halt his jokes about Fox News because he believed that Fox had played a part in inciting the death of the abortion doctor George Tiller. Inside Fox, executives chuckled. They knew that a pact had already been struck by Mr. Olbermann’s bosses to [...]
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The Week in Africa
via Washington Post Clinton has been in Africa all week, her tour eventually taking her across seven countries, talking about trade, but also Somalia, that sliver on the “horn of Africa” you see on the map to the left, where it isn’t safe for Clinton to venture. What some are calling Obama’s Afghanistan. While the [...]
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The Ongoing Olbermann-O’Reilly Feud.. er.. ‘Truce’
–updated below– On Fridays, I often go back over some items I haven’t had time to fully analyze, with this a particularly good day to do so on this one, especially as RECESS! and summer vacation call for the political class in D.C., though in cities across this country the health care war will just [...]
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TM-DC Podcast, North Korea Rescue Edition
This week’s podcast is up, also available through RSS and ITunes (and also the direct link). Great audio clips this week, helping to tell a wonderful tale of rescue and happy endings. Including Chris Matthews, who actually gave Bill Clinton his due (thus the flying pig). Went through the hot news, starting with Sotomayor, then [...]
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Dear Huffington Post, About That Headline…
–updated below– Originally posted at Huffington Post Yesterday was a pretty big day. The lives of two amazing journalists were saved, their families spared more emotional agony. It all started, as the New York Times reported it, after being arrested on March 17 near the North Korean border with China while reporting on human trafficking [...]
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Lady In Pearls Is Back
Channeling yet another 1950s plot, Maureen Dowd once again forgot the century in which she awoke. Flying into another one of her fantasy fits, Ms. Dowd quickly jumped into her June Cleaver alter ego to deliver herself inside the favorite marriage of her carnal fixation, shrugging off the actual news she’s paid to cover and [...]
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Why the North Koreans Picked Bill
“I want to thank President Bill Clinton — I had a chance to talk to him — for the extraordinary humanitarian effort that resulted in the release of the two journalists.” – Pres. Obama “Thirty hours ago, Una Lee and I were prisoners in North Korea. We feared that at any moment we could be [...]
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PRES. BILL CLINTON RESCUES JOURNALISTS
–updated– “President Clinton has safely left North Korea with Laura Ling and Euna Lee.” – Clinton’s spokesperson Breaking news from multiple news sources that both U.S. journalists (video at the link) will leave with former President Clinton tonight. The pardons were announced by North Korea’s state-run news agency, The Associated Press reported. … .. The [...]
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Pres. Bill Clinton in North Korea
–updated– TM UPDATE 4.4 @ 10:10: Nobody commands more respect around the globe than former President Bill Clinton, especially in North Korea. This is being proven out by the developing story that the North Koreans reportedly contacted the relatives of the girls to tell them they’d surrender the journalists to Bill Clinton, something that’s been [...]
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CNN’s Big Fat Headache
Blared across Huffington Post is this headline from AP: Lou Dobbs A “Publicity Nightmare” For CNN, with the following at the link: He’s become a publicity nightmare for CNN, embarrassed his boss and hosted a show that seemed to contradict the network’s “no bias” brand. And on top of all that, his ratings are slipping. [...]
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