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Crooks and Liars:
Russert channels Hannity — Why is Russert asking this question to Obama at all? It's clearly an RNC talking point that the Sean Hannity's of the media thrive on to deflect any negative press away from Bush. As Digby notes: … Nope. Why would Russert ask something like that?
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TalkLeft
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MSNBC:
Transcript for January 22 — Barack Obama, James Carville, Paul Begala & Mary Matalin — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: This United States senator has just returned from a fact-finding mission to Iraq and the Middle East and has now become the Democrats' point man for lobbying reform.
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Why is Russert Asking Obama About Harry Belafonte? — What the hell is Tim Russert asking Barack Obama to express his opinion about Harry Belafonte for? Harry Belafonte said George Bush was the "greatest terrorist in the world" this week, but it was virtually identical to a comment he made two weeks ago in Chile.
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:Russert Watch: Announcing (Sort of) the Carville-Russert XM Sports Show
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New York Times:
Judge Alito's Radical Views — If Judge Samuel Alito Jr.'s confirmation hearings lacked drama, apart from his wife's bizarrely over-covered crying jag, it is because they confirmed the obvious. Judge Alito is exactly the kind of legal thinker President Bush wants on the Supreme Court.
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The Left Coaster
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
NBC Cancels 'West Wing' After 7 Seasons — The new president on "The West Wing" will be a real short-timer: NBC announced Sunday it was pulling the plug on the Emmy-winning political drama after seven seasons in May. — NBC, struggling to regain its footing after the worst season in its history …
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The Moderate Voice
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
NBC Ending 'West Wing' and 'Will & Grace' — PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 22 - NBC will end two of its most successful series of recent years, "The West Wing" and "Will & Grace," at the conclusion of the current season and will shift the schedules of three other hit shows, "The Apprentice," …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Delicate Dance for Bush in Depicting Spy Program as Asset — WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 - With a campaign of high-profile national security events set for the next three days, following Karl Rove's blistering speech to Republicans on Friday, the White House has effectively declared that it views …
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Washington Post:
Attacks Strain Efforts On Terror — Alliance Is Tested By Incidents Along Afghan Frontier — KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 22 — Events along the ever-volatile Afghanistan-Pakistan border this month have exposed deep fault lines in the anti-terrorism alliance among the United States …
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Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
As Profits Soar, Companies Pay U.S. Less for Gas Rights — WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 - At a time when energy prices and industry profits are soaring, the federal government collected little more money last year than it did five years ago from the companies that extracted more than $60 billion …
Christopher Stern / Washington Post:
The Coming Tug of War Over the Internet — Do you prefer to search for information online with Google or Yahoo? What about bargain shopping — do you go to Amazon or eBay? Many of us make these kinds of decisions several times a day, based on who knows what — maybe you don't like bidding …
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The Devil's Excrement:
Opposition marches through Caracas, crowd quite large — The opposition march was quite succesfull, I was suprised at the size of the crowd today as you can see on the left from the podium where the speakers were addressing the crowd. In the picture on the left you can not see the end of the corw as far as it goes.
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ThreatsWatch.Org:
Faultlines in Iraq's Islamist Insurgency — Groups vow to fight al-Qaeda, and Zarqawi's attempts to unite the insurgency — The location of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda in Iraq's commander, and the state of the Islamist insurgency have been recent topics of conversation.
Newsweek:
The Other Big Brother — The Pentagon has its own domestic spying program. Even its leaders say the outfit may have gone too far. — Jan. 30, 2006 issue - The demonstration seemed harmless enough. Late on a June afternoon in 2004, a motley group of about 10 peace activists showed …
Guardian:
Beneath the roof of the world — Ma Jian illuminates the Han Chinese occupation of Tibet in a piercing collection of stories, Stick Out Your Tongue, says Isabel Hilton — Stick Out Your Tongue — In one scene in his travel memoir Red Dust, Ma Jian - who has fled Beijing to escape arrest …
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The Peking Duck
John Cole / Balloon Juice:
Last Thoughts on Haleigh — In a long post/update on the sad case of Haleigh Poutre, Michelle Malkin laments the fact that no talk-show hosts or big media types have taken up the cause, and then dishonestly singles me out: … Some days, Michelle seems to exist only to make Bill O'Reilly look like a straight shooter.
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John / AMERICAblog:
Tell NBC not to cave to the bigoted American Family Association — Gang, please do this action alert now. — NBC is under attack by the bigoted American Family Association for airing a new TV show that - God forbid - includes gay characters and Christian characters who aren't perfect in the eyes of the AFA.
