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1:15 AM ET, August 10, 2006

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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Exit Poll Results  —  Political Wire obtained a copy of the exit poll last night done by CBS News and the New York Times that provides some interesting insight into the views of Connecticut Democrats who voted in the primary yesterday.  —  Key findings:  — As expected, the war …
Mike Allen / Time:
Why the Republicans Are Loving the Lieberman Loss  —  At a time when the GOP should be back on its heels, Connecticut voters' rejection of a centrist Senator gives the party a potentially powerful new weapon to use against the Democrats this fall  —  From Washington State to Missouri to Pennsylvania …
New York Post:
LIEBERMAN'S LOSS: JOE WILL RISE AGAIN  —  REPORTS of Joe Lieberman's political death are (as Mark Twain once said of rumors of his own demise) "premature and grossly exaggerated."  Lieberman has lost a battle, but he can still win the war running as an independent.
michaelmoore.com:
It's All About Who You Sleep With ... a Cautionary Note from Michael Moore  —  Let the resounding defeat of Senator Joe Lieberman send a cold shiver down the spine of every Democrat who supported the invasion of Iraq and who continues to support, in any way, this senseless, immoral, unwinnable war.
Stephanie Reitz / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Lieberman files to run as independent  —  HARTFORD, Conn. — Sen. Joe Lieberman filed to run for re-election in November as an independent, saying Wednesday it would be "irresponsible and inconsistent with my principles" to quit.  But Democratic leaders in Washington rallied around the man who beat him for the nomination, Ned Lamont.
Discussion: My Left Nutmeg
John McIntyre / Real Clear Politics:
Dems Move Closer to McGovern's Losing Formula
Kat / WesPAC:
Urge Joe Lieberman to help Democrats
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Lieberman Defiant In Defeat
Discussion: DonkeyRising and On Deadline
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Democrats Back Lamont in Race in Show of Unity
Discussion: AMERICAblog and Daily Kos
Brendan Bernhard / laweekly.com:
REUTERS' IMAGE PROBLEM  —  L.A. blog unmasks Hezbollah propaganda  —  It's been a good week for Los Angeles' most controversial political Web site, Little Green Footballs, widely reviled by some because it takes global Islamist terrorism more seriously than, say, a Dick Cheney hunting accident.
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James Poniewozik / Time:
Reuters' Altered Photos: Overhyped?  Dangerous?  Both  —  Every time a straight-news journalist alters a fact—even something as picayune as the color of a bomb blast—it convinces people that the media must lie about big things as well  —  When I saw the doctored Reuters photograph …
Michelle Malkin / Townhall.com:
The Reuterization of war journalism
Discussion: One Cosmos and PrairiePundit
Bruce Kesler / Democracy Project:
Ned Lamont: Pink Diaper Baby With Silver Spoon In Mouth  —  MSM reporters repeatedly comment about how the anti-war Ned Lamont, now official Democrat Party candidate for U.S. Senator from Connecticut, is paradoxically a wealthy businessman.  —  If these MSM reporters had any research skills …
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Martin Peretz / The New Republic:
LAMONT'S UNSAVORY SUPPORTERS:  —  So Ned Lamont did defeat Joe Lieberman.  But Lamont won by just under four percentage points, a far cry from the huge margins he'd captured in the polls just a week ago.  Lieberman's concession speech was also a declaration of intent to run as an independent …
Editor and Publisher:
Photographer for 'Times-Pic' Arrested As He Begs Cops to Kill Him  —  NEW YORK A photographer for the Times-Picayune of New Orleans who has undergone severe personal trauma since Hurricana Katrina hit was arrested Tuesday after trying to get police to shoot him to death.
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Michelle Roberts / Associated Press:
Katrina homeless in search of trailers
Discussion: Pam's House Blend and Facing South
White House:
Press Briefing by Tony Snow  —  MR. SNOW: Good afternoon.  Let me get you apprised first of the President's day.  Also a couple of key issues I know you want to talk about.  I'll cover those first, and then we'll do questions.  —  The President this morning received his briefings from his national security team.
Bernard Lewis / Opinion Journal:
Does Iran have something in store?  —  During the Cold War, both sides possessed weapons of mass destruction, but neither side used them, deterred by what was known as MAD, mutual assured destruction.  Similar constraints have no doubt prevented their use in the confrontation between India and Pakistan.
Agence France Presse:
September 11 — what year? 30 percent of Americans don't know  —  WASHINGTON (AFP) - Some 30 percent of Americans cannot say in what year the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington took place, according to a poll published in the Washington Post newspaper.
MSNBC:
3 of 11 missing Egyptian students found  —  1 arrested in Minnesota, 2 others surrender in New Jersey … Three of 11 missing Egyptian students has been picked up - one in Minneapolis, Minn., and two in Manville, N.J., NBC News' Pete Williams reported.  —  The FBI confirmed the discovery …
Little Green Footballs:
Multi-Use Buildings  —  Unbelievable.  —  The building that we saw in two different photos on July 24 and August 5 ... was actually photographed first on July 18: … Here's another July 18 photo.  (Hat tip: hcq.)  —  The two later photos with their captions:
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
A Fight Against Terrorism — and Disorganization  —  Early this summer, a new strategy for combating terrorism, described by its authors as "revolutionary" in concept, arrived on President Bush's desk.  The highly classified National Implementation Plan for the first time set government-wide goals …
Reuters:
Iranians among Hizbollah combat dead: TV  —  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard have been found among Hizbollah guerrillas slain by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, Israel's Channel 10 television reported on Wednesday citing diplomatic sources.
Justin Rood / TPMmuckraker:
Between Joe's Webheads, Stories Differ  —  I've spoken at length with the two men closest to Sen. Joe Lieberman's ((D/I?)  -CT) re-election Web site, joe2006.com, to understand at length what happened to the site yesterday morning.  Their versions appear to differ, although it's not immediately clear why.
Discussion: Firedoglake
 
 
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