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Michelle Malkin:
CNN'S X-MEN...UPDATE: IT WAS JUST A GLITCH...OR NOT? — ***see updates*** — Ok, just got home and have been deluged with e-mails asking for comment and more info on the Drudge Report's big story tonight about CNN's X-tra special treatment of Vice President Cheney.
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Drudge Report:
CNN SENIOR MANAGEMENT LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION OF CHENEY 'X'; CONTROL ROOM STAFFER 'LAUGHED' WHEN X FLASHED — CNN management has launched an internal investigation into how a giant black 'X' mark appeared over Vice President Dick Cheney's face — as he delivered a speech from Washington on Monday!
Drudge Report:
CNN MARKS CHENEY: NETWORK FLASHES 'X' OVER VP'S FACE DURING LIVE SPEECH — At 11:04:45 AM ET Monday CNN was airing Vice President Dick Cheney's speech live from the American Enterprise Institute in Washington — when a large black 'X' repeatedly flashed over the vice president's face!
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Jeff Harrell / The Shape of Days:Oddness at CNN, supplemented with more oddness in the blogosphere
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The Heretik
Salah Nasrawi / Associated Press:
Iraqi Leaders Call for Pullout Timetable — AP Photo XAN107 — CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Leaders of Iraq's sharply divided Shiites, Kurds and Sunnis called Monday for a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces in the country and said Iraq's opposition had a ``legitimate right'' of resistance.
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Hassan M. Fattah / New York Times:
Iraqi Factions Seek Timetable for U.S. Pullout — CAIRO, Nov. 21 - For the first time, Iraq's political factions on Monday collectively called for a timetable for withdrawal of foreign forces, in a moment of consensus that comes as the Bush administration battles pressure at home to commit itself to a pullout schedule.
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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Cheney Sees 'Shameless' Revisionism on War — WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 - Vice President Dick Cheney stepped up the White House attacks on critics of the Iraq war on Monday, declaring that politicians who say Americans were sent into battle based on a lie are engaging in "revisionism of the most corrupt and shameless variety."
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William Branigin / Washington Post:Cheney Accuses Iraq Critics of Shameless Revisionism
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:Opening the Door to Debate, and Then Shutting It
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OSM:
Excuse us while we change back into our pajamas — Once upon a time, some friends who met in the casual atmosphere of the blogosphere (us) got together and decided it would be groovy to start a blog company. "We could call it Pajamas Media," we said, referring to the now-famous quote by whatshisface …
Crooks and Liars:
I've got a leak to sell you — I've got a leak to sell you — Bob Woodward joined Larry King in his first interview after revealing that he knew the name of Valerie Plame and was called to testify in front of Fitzmas himself. — Video-WMP low res QT later
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Philip Shenon / New York Times:
Former DeLay Aide Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy — WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 - Michael Scanlon, a former business partner of the lobbyist Jack Abramoff and a former top aide to Representative Tom DeLay, pleaded guilty on Monday to conspiring to bribe a member of Congress and other public officials.
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Malia Rulon / Cincinnati Enquirer:
Schmidt in war of words — Rookie lawmaker's 'coward' remarks ricochet — WASHINGTON - Three days after Rep. Jean Schmidt was booed off the House floor for saying that "cowards cut and run, Marines never do," the Ohioan she quoted disputed the comments. — Danny Bubp, a freshman state …
Mark Steyn / Telegraph:
Listen to the word on the 'Arab street' — Rumours of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death may be exaggerated. He was reported by several Arab TV networks to have been among eight terrorists who self-detonated in Mosul on Sunday. Still, whether or not he's sleeping with the fishes or the 72 virgins …
Daily Kos:
Pentagon has called WP a "chemical weapon" — About the most frustrating thing about the White Phosphorus "debate" has been the endless discussion whether it's a chemical weapon or not. There are legitimate uses for WP — battlefield illumination and target spotting …
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James Dao / New York Times:
Louisiana Sees Faded Urgency in Relief Effort — BATON ROUGE, La., Nov. 18 - Less than three months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, relief legislation remains dormant in Washington and despair is growing among officials here who fear that Congress and the Bush administration are losing interest in their plight.
City Journal:
Baghdad's Real Torturers — A harsh discovery puts U.S. pundits' distorted reports in perspective. The U.S. military recently uncovered alleged evidence of torture in Iraqi-run Baghdad prisons, including what appeared to be a torture chamber in an Iraqi Ministry of Interior detention facility.
David S. Cloud / New York Times:
Lawmaker Returns Home, a Hawk Turned War Foe — JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Nov. 21 - Representative John P. Murtha, the hawkish Democrat who spent his political career as a staunch Pentagon supporter, came home Monday as something entirely different: an antiwar symbol.
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Philip Thornton / Independent:
Iraq's oil: The spoils of war — Iraqis face the dire prospect of losing up to $200bn (£116bn) of the wealth of their country if an American-inspired plan to hand over development of its oil reserves to US and British multinationals comes into force next year.
