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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
NBC News PR Department Gets Down and Dirty... Somebody's feeling the heat... How else to explain the widely-off-the-mark responses from NBC's PR department in Lloyd Grove's column to our reporting on Russert's multitude of journalistic ethical conflicts. — Instead of dealing …
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NY Daily News:
Big fuss over claims about Little Russ — Celebrity blogger Arianna Huffington regularly attacks "Meet the Press" moderator Tim Russert as a Washington insider who gets chummy with the powerful. Usually there's no response. — But now Huffington has really gotten under Russert's skin - to the point of drawing blood.
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Ethics? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Ethics! — Arianna Huffington's relentless efforts to slog through the tedious hours of pompous beltway bloviating and the ridiculous kabukis played out on Press the Meat from week to week have finally paid off. Tim Russert whips around this morning …
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
NBC, Smears, Arianna, and TV Ethics — Arianna Huffington is getting slimed by the NBC PR department for her blogging on Tim Russert. The gist of her blogging is this. Aside from Russert's stonewalling on Plamegate, he routinely accepts massive speaking fees, which is an obvious conflict of interest.
Richard Bradley / The Huffington Post:
Arianna, Ed Rollins, and Private Detectives — So NBC is coming after Arianna, throwing out the old accusation that she once hired a private eye to investigate Vanity Fair writer Maureen Orth. — Well, maybe NBC knows something I don't—but I doubt it. (Full discloure …
Atrios / Eschaton:The Media Borg — Stoller writes: … This really is a big issue …
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Richard Morin / Washington Post:
Majority Believe White House Should Release Abramoff Records — A strong bipartisan majority of the public believes President Bush should release records of meetings between disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and White House staffers despite administration claims that media requests for details …
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New York Times:
Prosecutor Will Step Down From Lobbyist Case — WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 — The investigation of Jack Abramoff, the disgraced Republican lobbyist, took a surprising new turn on Thursday when the Justice Department said the chief prosecutor in the inquiry would step down next week because he had been nominated …
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Kerry Urges Alito Filibuster, but His Reception Is Cool — WASHINGTON, Jan 26 — Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts could not attend the Senate debate on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. on Thursday. He was in Davos, Switzerland, mingling with international business …
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Digby / Hullabaloo:Learning To Lose Well — I hope some of the comments …
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New York Times:
New Poll Finds Mixed Support for Wiretaps — President Bush at his news conference Thursday. The latest polls show that public opinion on Mr. Bush's surveillance program is still unresolved. — Americans are willing to tolerate eavesdropping without warrants to fight terrorism …
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Michelle Malkin:
DOWD LOVES CLINTON'S "ENDEARING" LIES (VIDEO) — Take an Antacid and watch the clip (.wmv file). — Brad Wilmouth at Newsbusters has the full transcript and more: … So, the "right wing would come down so hard on him and overpunish him," eh, Maureen? Sort of like this: … Oh, wait.
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Brad Wilmouth / NewsBusters.org:NYT's Maureen Dowd: Clinton's Lying "Endearing," While Bush "Lies" In His Bubble
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Wendy Long / Bench Memos on National Review Online:
Remember the Children — As we look forward to the inevitable confirmation of Judge Alito to the Supreme Court next week, an overlooked heartbreaking story out of New York City this morning drives home the real tragedy that underlies one of the outrageous distortions of Judge Alito's record by the liberal Left.
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tcsdaily.com:
Stuck on 1968 — Discuss This Story! Bookmark — "Worldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world." — Bryan Caplan, The Logic of Collective Belief — Most people who were liberals in 1968 still are. Liberals. In 1968.
11alive.com:
ACLU Releases Government Photos — The ACLU of Georgia released copies of government files on Wednesday that illustrate the extent to which the FBI, the DeKalb County Division of Homeland Security and other government agencies have gone to compile information on Georgians suspected …
New York Times:
In the Mideast, a Giant Step Back — For 20 years Ariel Sharon and other Israeli hard-liners have claimed that they had no negotiating partner interested in or capable of securing peace between Israelis and Palestinians. That always seemed a debatable point, until now.
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Eric Dash / New York Times:
Savings Accounts for Health Costs Attract Wall Street — When it comes to medical benefits, millions of Americans already have a health insurer. Soon, many will also have a debit card and a bank tied to their medical plan. — Banks, credit unions and money management firms …
James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web — Animal Senate — "I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part," said Eric "Otter" Stratton in the classic 1978 film "Animal House." Today's lead editorial in the New York Times advocates just such an approach.
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Juan Cole / Salon:
How do you like your democracy now, Mr. Bush? — The stunning victory of the militant Muslim fundamentalist Hamas Party in the Palestinian elections underlines the central contradictions in the Bush administration's policies toward the Middle East. Bush pushes for elections …
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Bloomberg:
Majority in U.S. Say Bush Presidency Is a Failure, Poll Finds — Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) — A majority of Americans said the presidency of George W. Bush has been a failure and that they would be more likely to vote for congressional candidates who oppose him, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll.
