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SGT Ron Long / They Call Us, "Doc":
Speaking with President Bush — Yesterday, I (bottom right corner in the picture) was chosen to be among a small group of soldiers assigned to the 42ID's Task Force Liberty that would speak to President Bush, our Commander-in-Chief. The interview went well, but I would like to respond …
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Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Up the Creek: Out to Embarrass Bush Over Alleged Video Stunt, Today Gets Caught in Stunt of Its Own — In a deliciously ironic twist of fate, shortly before airing a segment aimed at embarrassing the Bush administration by suggesting that it had staged a video conversation between the president …
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Don Surber:
Staged Controversy — Never let the facts get in the way of a good opinion. Case in point: the "staged" military photo op with the president. The Moderate Voice: "The bottom line is that poor thinking and advance planning created this. The news media was HANDED this story.
Michelle Malkin:
LIGHTS! CAMERA! PROJECTION! — An overwhelming number of our troops support President Bush. This drives the MSM mad. So mad they lied about his Thanksgiving trip to Iraq in 2003. So mad they'll flog anti-military stories that undermine national security. — And have no journalistic merit whatsoever.
Betsy / Betsy's Page:Sgt. Ron Long is a US Army Combat Medic serving in Iraq …
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Washington Post:
Rove Testifies Again in CIA Leak Probe — White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove today testified again before a grand jury probing whether senior Bush administration officials illegally leaked to reporters the identity of a covert CIA operative. — It was Rove's fourth appearance before the grand jury.
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Juan / Informed Comment:
Zawahiri Letter to Zarqawi: A Shiite Forgery? — The Arabic text of the recently released letter alleged to be by Zawahiri (al-Qaeda's number two man) to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq raises questions for me as to its authenticity. — The very first element of the letter is the blessing on the Prophet.
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Washington Post:
In Iraqi Swing City, Hope vs. Defiance — BALAD, Iraq, Oct. 13 — In a dusty room of Qadriya Elementary School, Lt. Col. Jody L. Petery delivered his message: Sunni Arabs should cast their votes Saturday in a referendum on Iraq's proposed constitution. His skeptical audience had other concerns.
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Stephen Gordon / The Speculist:
An Open Letter to President Bush — Dear Mr. President: — Like many Americans I'm deeply concerned about the risk of Avian flu. News about our nation's preparedness has not been reassuring. — The only drug that is thought to have any impact on the disease once contracted is Tamiflu.
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National Review:
Start Over — When President Bush nominated Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, we called it a missed opportunity. The ensuing debate has confirmed that judgment. For all its fury, a consensus was reached early on that point. Leaving aside the president and his employees …
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Ezra Klein:
You Have Got To Be Kidding Me — I thought Noam Scheiber was joking on this. Apparently not: … Dude. We tried this already. Go ask Lyndon Johnson how well it worked. — Update: Maybe this needs a fuller rebuttal. Since my colleague Matt gave it a semi-approving citation …
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Media Matters for America:
Boortz: Faced with an impending national disaster, "we should save the rich people first" — On the October 14 broadcast of his daily radio show, right-wing radio host Neal Boortz stated that if the country is faced with an impending national disaster, it should make it a higher priority …
hughhewitt.com:
Tucker and Teddy (and Beldar) — I agreed to appear on The Situation with Tucker Carlson tonight to discuss Harriet Miers. I appeared, but we did not discuss Hariet Miers. We discussed, for most of the segment, a couple of paragraphs drawn from Miers' articles for the Texas Bar Association magazine when she was president.
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Associated Press:
'Today' Reporter Paddles in Shallow Water — If Michelle Kosinski's canoe had sprung a leak on NBC's "Today" show Friday, she didn't have much to worry about. — In one of television's inadvertently funny moments, the NBC News correspondent was paddling in a canoe during a live report …
Bloomberg:
Bush's Miers Predicament Forces GOP Split or Nominee Withdrawal — Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) — President George W. Bush prides himself as a man who never runs from a fight and as a leader who pays careful attention to his political base. Harriet Miers has put those qualities in conflict.
Los Angeles Times:
Window Into Miers' Legal Thinking in the 1990s Reflects a Glint of Liberalism — HOUSTON — In the early 1990s, lawyer-bashing was all the rage. And Harriet Miers didn't like it one bit. — Then the president of the State Bar of Texas, Miers used her monthly column in the Texas Bar Journal …
