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3:05 PM ET, April 1, 2006

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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Call to Censure Bush Is Answered by a Mostly Empty Echo  —  WASHINGTON, MARCH 31 — The Senate Judiciary Committee opened a bitter if lopsided debate on Friday over whether Congress should censure President Bush for his domestic eavesdropping program.  —  Although few Senate Democrats …
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The President's "good faith" defense  —  By Anonymous Liberal  —  In its article covering Friday's censure hearing, the New York Times reports: … Oh really.  Here's a passage from the same 1969 TIME Magazine article Glenn highlighted yesterday:
rawstory.com:
Testimony of John Dean on censure
Discussion: Firedoglake and NO QUARTER
Cori Dauber / Rantingprofs:
More Insight Into Carroll's Situation  —  I think anyone who wants to criticize anything Jill Carroll has done or said should at a very minimum stop and read this article first.  I'll say it again: this woman is not a soldier, and she was under no obligation whatsoever to hesitate for a nanosecond …
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Associated Press:
McKinney Says Police Officer Touched Her 'Inappropriately'  —  Cynthia McKinney, the Georgia congresswoman who had an altercation with a Capitol Police officer, said yesterday that the officer started the incident by "inappropriately touching and stopping" her after she walked past a security checkpoint.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
'Tactical Errors' Made In Iraq, Rice Concedes  —  BLACKBURN, England, March 31 — Greeted by antiwar protesters at almost every stop in a tour of a working-class region of England, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that the Bush administration has probably made thousands of …
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Joel Brinkley / New York Times:
Rice Gets an Earful From British Muslims  —  BLACKBURN, England, April 1 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice faced more protests and public embarrassment here on Saturday that have turned a trip meant to be a friendly follow-up to an American trip by Foreign Secretary Jack Straw …
Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Cranky Al Franken, Matt Lauer, NBC's Today Show, Michael Smercomish  —  FRANKEN: 'SCREW YOU!'  —  On National Television, Grumpy, Testy Al Lets Loose  —  Memo to network producers: avoid booking Al Franken in the early morning hours.  Before a certain point, he's a certifiable grump.
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Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters.org:
Cranky Franken's 'Today' Appearance: Tells Conservative Guest To "Screw You"  —  A very tired and very cranky Al Franken appeared on the March 31 edition of the Today show.  The segment, which aired at 7:12AM EST, saw Franken respond to a barb from fellow radio talk show host Michael Smerconish with this witty barb: "Screw you."
Discussion: Althouse
Claudia Rosett / Opinion Journal:
'I Am Not Running Away'  —  Meet Benon Sevan, the man at the center of the Oil for Food scandal.  —  NICOSIA, Cyprus—"Medium or sweet?" asks Benon Sevan.  He is inquiring how much sugar I would like in the Turkish coffee he's boiling up for us on his kitchen stove, and I am torn between thanking …
TalkLeft:
WSJ Fails to Credit Online Reporter Who Broke Story  —  The Wall Street Journal today published article by Brody Mullins on Michael Scanlon and his former fiance Emily Miller.  It fails to credit investigative journalist Jason Leopold who broke the story in January.
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Politics Is Facing Sweeping Change via the Internet  —  WASHINGTON, March 31 — The transformation of American politics by the Internet is accelerating with the approach of the 2006 Congressional and 2008 White House elections, prompting the rewriting of rules on advertising, fund-raising …
Discussion: Althouse and AMERICAblog
Donna Cassata / Associated Press:
Clark: U.S. Needs New Plan on Terror War  —  WASHINGTON - Former Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark accused the Bush administration Saturday of taking the nation on a "path to nowhere" with misguided moves on national security.  —  The retired Army general and NATO military commander argued …
Discussion: MyDD, Roger L. Simon and PoliPundit.com
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
ABC Suspends Producer Over Bush-Bashing E-Mail  —  ABC News suspended the executive producer of the weekend edition of "Good Morning America" yesterday over a pair of leaked e-mails in which he used inflammatory language to slam President Bush and Madeleine Albright.
TalkLeft:
The Duke La Crosse Players Rape Allegations: Truth or Scam?  —  The best coverage of the story so far: There was a party at a house rented by three Duke La Crosse team members.  They hired two exotic dancers.  The dancers were black and 46 of the 47 team members are white.
Discussion: Feministe and Bring it On!
Mary Katharine Ham / Hugh Hewitt:
The 'I Can't Believe They Said That' Banquet  —  All right, so that wasn't the name of it, but it might as well have been.  I went to the Media Research Center's DisHonors Awards dinner last night.  And, well, you know the media is ridiculous going into something like that …
nytimesfaux.com:
Borders Blasts Back On Controversial Cartoons  —  New York, Mar. 31 - Gregory Josefowicz, the combative chairman of Borders Books, blasted back at his on-line critics today in a scathing on-line letter singling out right-wing blogger Charles Johnson of "Little Green Footballs".
Senator Russ Feingold / TomPaine.com:
The GOP's Stake In Checking The President  —  Russ Feingold is a U.S. senator from Wisconsin.  —  During the Watergate hearings, then-Senator Howard Baker, a Republican, showed tremendous courage, and a deep sense of Congress's duty to hold President Nixon accountable …
 
 
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Globe Investor / Globe and Mail:
Tory MP retracts suggesting jailing bad journalists
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Joe Conason / Salon:
"Saddam chose to deny inspectors"
Guardian:
A just peace or no peace  —  Israeli unilateralism is a recipe …
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Taxonomy of the Center  —  This turned up in a comments thread …
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Mommy wars — a false battle
Donald Lambro / Washington Times:
Ethics charges heat up N.J. Senate race
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Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Liberian President Backs Bid To Move Taylor Trial to Hague
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Guardian:
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OPERATION STEEL GAZELLE: A SMART, MULTI-SLIDE PLAN FOR TOUGHENING …
 

 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Prime Video users will be able to watch local PBS stations and PBS Kids for free in coming months, and two new free PBS channels with ads starting November 26

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

 
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