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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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William Branigin / Washington Post:
Cheney Accuses Iraq Critics of Shameless Revisionism — Vice President Cheney today accused political opponents of engaging in "corrupt and shameless" revisionism by charging that the Bush administration misled the nation into the Iraq war, and he warned that any sudden withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq …
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Rantingprofs, firedoglake, Talking Points Memo, Booman Tribune ~ Boo!, Dan Gillmor's blog and Suburban Guerrilla
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.
John / AMERICAblog:
Larry King Live blogging - Bob Woodward tries to save his ass — UPDATE: The transcript is already online here. — We're blogging it live. — Oh my, Woodward looks like he's waiting for the firing squad. — Larry is playing the Oct 27 episode where Michael Isikoff say Woodward …
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mediabistro.com:
Woodward & King: Transcript — The full, unedited transcript of Bob Woodward's appearance on Larry King Live is after the jump... CNN's Larry King Live — Guest: Bob Woodward — LARRY KING, CNN HOST: Tonight, an exclusive, Pulitzer Prize-winning — journalist Bob Woodward, caught up in the CIA leak controversy.
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 …
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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Pacific Views
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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom: Willy Pete LIVES! (UPDATED TO SHOWCASE THE MORAL OBTUSENESS OF THE KOSSACKS)
Nico / Think Progress:Declassified Pentagon Document Describes White Phosphorus As 'Chemical Weapon'
Discussion:
The Reaction, Confederate Yankee, Jesus' General, Seeing the Forest and The Moderate Voice
Pete Yost / Associated Press:
Ex-Aide to DeLay Pleads Guilty in Conspiracy — WASHINGTON — Michael Scanlon, a former partner of lobbyist Jack Abramoff, pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to bribe public officials, a charge growing out of the government investigation of attempts to defraud Indian tribes and corrupt a member of Congress.
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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.
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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.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Opening the Door to Debate, and Then Shutting It — Vice President Cheney protested yesterday that he had been misunderstood when he said last week that critics of the White House over Iraq were "dishonest and reprehensible." — What he meant to say, he explained to his former colleagues …
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PBD, Marc Cooper, Tammy Bruce, Wonkette, Taegan Goddard's …, Ace of Spades HQ and War and Piece
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 …
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Betsy's Page
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.
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The Left Coaster
Avedon Carol / The Washington Monthly:
AND THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE... The Daily Howler reported recently that the WaPo finally printed an article pointing out that Ruth Bader Ginsburg is no raving liberal, regardless of the spin. This is just the sort of thing that makes Bob Somerby so useful - if anyone was listening:
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The Sideshow
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.
