memeorandum: Politics makes strange bedfellows (Jon Craig/Politics Extra)

1:35 PM ET, October 27, 2006

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Politics and pulp fiction — ***bumping back to the top...Webb responds...*** — Remember how pathetic it was when the Left tried to make scandals out of books written by Lynne Cheney and Scooter Libby? — Cheney wrote a pulpy novel, "Sisters," about a frontier woman that included graphic sexual passages and lesbian lovers.

Discussion: Right Wing Nut House, Sister Toldjah, Redstate, Outside The Beltway, The Right Angle, The Huffington Post, alicublog and Sean Gleeson

Fredrick Kunkle / Washington Post:

Defiant Iraq War Foe Defined by Vietnam — James Webb will tell you that he is first a writer, with several best-selling novels to his name. He is also the descendant of brave-hearted Scots-Irish who stood up to English kings. He is a husband and father of four.

Discussion: Wizbang, OxBlog, First Read, The Caucus and Riehl World View

Radley Balko / The Agitator:
Not to Belabor the Point... ....okay, I have every intention of belaboring it.

Discussion: The American Scene

Drudge Report:
ALLEN'S REVENGE: EXPOSES UNDERAGE SEX SCENES IN OPPONENT'S NOVELS

Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:

G.O.P. Moves Fast to Reignite Issue of Gay Marriage — The divisive debate over gay marriage, which played a prominent role in 2004 campaigns but this year largely faded from view, erupted anew on Thursday as President Bush and Republicans across the country tried to use a court ruling …

Discussion: Associated Press, The Anonymous Liberal, The Democratic Daily, The Moderate Voice, Balloon Juice, The Heretik, Donklephant, Bark Bark Woof Woof, Think Progress, Unclaimed Territory, Hit and Run, TalkLeft and The News Blog

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Alan Cooperman / Washington Post:

Religious Conservatives Cheer Ruling on Gays as Wake-Up Call — The New Jersey court decision that gay couples are entitled to the same rights as heterosexual couples was bad news for social conservatives — the bad news they were hoping for. — "Pro-traditional-marriage organizations ought …

Discussion: Demagogue, The Caucus, Preemptive Karma and Showdown 06

New York Times:
Family Ties Help Kean in Senate Race, Poll Says

Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Blue Crab Boulevard

Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:

The networks' refusal to accept ads for The Dixie Chicks documentary — (updated below) — The new documentary, Shut Up & Sing, chronicles the hostile and sometimes threatening conduct directed towards The Dixie Chicks after one of the group's members criticized the Commander-in-Chief …

Discussion: Balloon Juice, A Blog For All, Wizbang and Blue Crab Boulevard

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Judd / Think Progress: The Dixie Chicks Ad NBC Doesn't Want You To See

Rasmussen Reports:

Iowa Governor: Culver (D) 47%; Nussle (R) 44% — Iowa Secretary of State Chet Culver has broken his tie with Republican Jim Nussle in Iowa's gubernatorial campaign. The most recent Rasmussen Reports election survey shows Culver leading Nussle 47% to 44% (see crosstabs).

Discussion: Daily Kos

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Rasmussen Reports: Virginia Senate: Allen (R) and Webb (D) in Toss-Up

Michael Grunwald / Washington Post:

The Year Of Playing Dirtier — Rep. Ron Kind pays for sex! — Well, that's what the Republican challenger for his Wisconsin congressional seat, Paul R. Nelson, claims in new ads, the ones with "XXX" stamped across Kind's face. — It turns out that Kind — along with more than 200 …

Discussion: New York Times, Firedoglake, The Horse's Mouth, The Caucus, The Corner, Electoral Vote Predictor, The Agitator, Blue Crab Boulevard, Political Animal, KnoxViews, The Influence Peddler, Kiko's House and First Read

Ian Urbina / New York Times:

Democrats Fear Disillusionment in Black Voters — Last weekend, Jim Webb, the Virginia Democrat who hopes to oust Senator George Allen, crammed in visits to 12 black churches, and for several weeks he has been pumping money into advertisements on black radio stations and in black newspapers.

Discussion: DonkeyRising, The American Thinker, Election Law, Cold Fury, PoliPundit.com and Rox Populi

David Cay Johnston / New York Times:

I.R.S. Going Slow Before Election — Mark W. Everson, commissioner of internal revenue, said he regularly discussed the potential impact of agency actions with senior staff members. "We are very sensitive to political perceptions," Mr. Everson said. — The commissioner of internal revenue …

Discussion: Booman Tribune, It Shines For All, TPMmuckraker and Discourse.net

Virginia H. Mannering / bea.gov:

News Release: Gross Domestic Product — In order to view the PDF files on this page, the free Adobe Acrobat Reader must be installed. — Recorded message: (202) 606-5306 — GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT: THIRD QUARTER 2006 (ADVANCE) — Real gross domestic product …

Discussion: MaxedOutMama, Bizzyblog, QandO, Angry Bear, The Street Light and Vox Baby

Washington Post:

Rumsfeld Tells Iraq Critics to 'Back Off' — With his chorus of critics expanding deeper into Republican ranks, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told detractors yesterday to pull back as U.S. and Iraqi officials grapple with the uncertainties of laying out Iraq's course.

Discussion: Mercury News, Real Clear Politics, PoliBlog, democracyarsenal.org, DefenseLINK, The Heretik, Armchair Generalist, Slog, Hot Air and The Democratic Daily

Jon Craig / Politics Extra:

Politics makes strange bedfellows — Now that got your attention, didn't it? — The Ohio Republican Party sent this photo out today in a news release criticizing Rep. Sherrod Brown for enlisting the help of comedian and Air America talk show host Al Franken.

Discussion: Think Progress, The Radio Equalizer and The Daily Background

Paul Schindler / gaycitynews.com:

Email to a friendPost a CommentPrinter-friendlyAbsorbing Gay Pain & Praise, Clinton Says She's Evolved — In an appearance early Wednesday evening in front of roughly three-dozen LGBT leaders, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton indicated that she would not oppose efforts by Eliot Spitzer …

Discussion: The Empire Zone, Vox Popoli, The Right Angle, Pam's House Blend and JustOneMinute

StrategyPage:

Calling Out the New York Times — The U.S. Department of Defense is now taking its requests for corrections public through a website known as For the Record (located at http://www.defenselink.mil/home/ dodupdate/index-b.html). Here, the Department of Defense is openly calling for corrections …

Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:

Andrew Sullivan on The Conservative Soul — The Hugh Hewitt Show — HH: Joined now by Andrew Sullivan, author of The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How To Get It Back, in bookstores everywhere. I will link it at Hughhewitt.com a little bit later. We've got Andrew for the next hour and a half.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Power Line, JunkYardBlog, The Anchoress, Hot Air, Andrew Sullivan and Daimnation!

Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:

In the Libby Case, A Grilling to Remember — With withering and methodical dispatch, White House nemesis and prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald yesterday sliced up the first person called to the stand on behalf of the vice president's former chief of staff. — If I. Lewis "Scooter" …

Discussion: Associated Press, Firedoglake, JustOneMinute and The Caucus