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John / Discriminations:
"The Swift-Boating Of Jack Murtha"? — Those damn Republicans! How low can they stoop? You'd think that lying us into war would at least provide the limit to their perfidy, but now they've outdone themselves and sunk even lower: they've had the temerity to take a leading Democrat …
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David Adesnik / OxBlog:
HARDBALL: MAYBE THEY SHOULD CALL IT "SOFTBALL": The transcripts for Friday don't go up until Monday, but you can listen to Chris Matthews' interview with John Murtha via podcast. (URL: http://podcast.msnbc.com/audio/ podcast/MSNBC-Hardball.xml) — Actually, it isn't right to call it an interview …
Rob / AMERICAblog:The House Unraveled Tonight
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Ezra Klein, ProfessorBainbridge.com, Hugh Hewitt, Taegan Goddard's … and Shakespeare's Sister
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:YOU WON — NOW WHAT? That's the title of Taegan Goddard's book …
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PoliBlog, Taegan Goddard's …, Ace of Spades HQ, All Things Conservative and USS Neverdock
Eleanor Clift / Newsweek:Murtha's Moment — The White House is still attacking critics …
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The Mahablog, California Conservative, Don Surber, Lifelike Pundits, Sister Toldjah and NewsBusters.org
Times of London:
Security adviser named as source in CIA scandal — THE mysterious source who gave America's foremost journalist, Bob Woodward, a tip-off about the CIA agent at the centre of one of Washington's biggest political storms was Stephen Hadley, the White House national security adviser, according to lawyers close to the investigation.
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The Mahablog, Decision '08, firedoglake, The Strata-Sphere, The Reaction, Macsmind and The Poor Man
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Media Alert! — "On The Story", a CNN show airing tonight at 7 PM ET, will include a segment on the Fitzgerald investigation. It is hosted by Jacki Schechner and will feature bloggers Jeralyn Merritt and, yes, yours truly. The spot will probably air in the second half hour.
Washington Post:Mr. Woodward's Sources
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The Washington Monthly, The Tar Pit, Captain's Quarters, AMERICAblog, The Strata-Sphere, Wizbang, Decision '08, Macsmind, Hullabaloo, blogs4God and War and Piece
Terence Hunt / Associated Press:
Bush Rejects Calls for Iraq Withdrawal — Bush Rejects Calls in Congress for U.S. Troop Withdrawal From Iraq As 'A Recipe for Disaster' — BUSAN, South Korea Nov 18, 2005 — President Bush on Saturday swatted down calls in Congress for a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq …
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New York Times:
Bush, in Beijing, Faces a Partner Now on the Rise — BEIJING, Nov. 19 - Fresh from another impassioned defense of his war leadership, President Bush arrived here on Saturday evening to defuse a host of tensions with China, even as many in Beijing argue that he will be able to apply little true pressure …
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Storm Hit Little, but Aid Flowed to Inland City — JACKSON, Miss., Nov. 19 - When the federal government and the nation's largest disaster relief group reached out a helping hand after Hurricane Katrina blew through here, tens of thousands of people grabbed it.
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No More Mister Nice Blog
White House:
President Addresses Troops at Osan Air Base in Osan, Korea — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Thank you all very much. (Applause.) Please be seated — unless you don't have a seat. (Laughter.) Laura and I are so honored to be here. We thought we'd stop by and feel the thunder and the fury of the Mustangs.
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Talking Points Memo
Philip Shenon / New York Times:
Corruption Inquiry Threatens to Ensnare Lawmakers — WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 - The Justice Department has signaled for the first time in recent weeks that prominent members of Congress could be swept up in the corruption investigation of Jack Abramoff, the former Republican superlobbyist …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Session Exposes Political Risks Ahead for G.O.P. — WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 - It was a bitter and fitting final note for a discordant Congress. — The ugly debate in the House on Friday over the Iraq war served as an emotional send-off for a holiday recess, capturing perfectly …
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Lawmakers Focus on Daily Brief In Prewar Intelligence Debate — Kennedy Pushes for Access to Bush's Classified CIA Reports — Senate and House Democrats focused their attention yesterday on the highly classified intelligence provided in the President's Daily Brief, as they continued …
Washington Times:
200,000 protest Amman attacks — AMMAN, Jordan — At least 200,000 persons demonstrated yesterday against the recent bombings of three luxury hotels, while a new online statement attributed to terrorist leader Abu Musab Zarqawi defended the attacks and threatened to cut off the head of Jordan's King Abdullah II.
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Rantingprofs, QandO, Roger L. Simon, THE ASTUTE BLOGGER, Instapundit.com and Sister Toldjah
Mark Blumenthal / Mystery Pollster:
Columbus Dispatch Poll: Past Performance No Guarantee of Future Results — "Past performance is no guarantee of future results." We typically hear that disclaimer applied to financial investments, but in an era of declining response rates, it should apply just as well to polls.
Laura / War and Piece:
Information War, Cont'd. The Rendon Group issues a very interesting denial to the Bamford Rolling Stone story. I am most intrigued by bullet point two: … In fact, if you read that bolded line closely, you'll see, this is not a denial at all. It is a statement that someone else has issued a denial.
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The Poor Man
Adam Green / The Huffington Post:
No More Wimps Representing Democrats On FOX — I'm generally anti-tirade, but I detest that millions of people watch wimps and incompetent debaters represent Democratic / progressive positions on FOX. — When will the progressive movement object in earnest to the likes of Alan Colmes …
