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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
WaPo quasi-retracts page-one story about Feith Iraq/AQ intel — Spruiell e-mails with the subject header, "Good Lord." Indeed. — They're calling it a "correction," but is it really a correction if you're quoting from an entirely different document than the one you thought you were?
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Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Report Says Pentagon Manipulated Intel — WASHINGTON — Pentagon officials undercut the intelligence community in the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq by insisting in briefings to the White House that there was a clear relationship between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida, the Defense Department's inspector general said Friday.
Scott Malensek / Flopping Aces:DoD Inspector General Report Destroys Claims of Pentagon Intel Manipulation
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Pundit Review Radio / BLACKFIVE:REPORT SAYS PENTAGON MANIPULATED INTEL
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Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
Young Woman Meets Tragic End — No, It's Not Anna Nicole — NEW YORK A young woman met a sudden and tragic end, it was reported on Thursday, leaving her family and people who knew her in great distress. — No, it's not Anna Nicole Smith. Her name is Jennifer Parcell, and she died in Iraq.
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Think Progress:
VIDEO COMPILATION: Anna Nicole Smith And Our National Media Embarassment — The death of Anna Nicole Smith yesterday was a feeding frenzy for the national media, and coverage of the war was drowned out: NBC's Nightly News devoted 14 seconds to Iraq compared to 3 minutes and 13 seconds to Anna Nicole.
Dan Collins / protein wisdom:Balloon Juice — Wuzzadem John sends me this email:
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Balloon Juice
Adam Martin / Examiner:
Author attacked in S.F. hotel — SAN FRANCISCO - In a bizarre attack, a well-known author and Holocaust scholar was dragged out of a San Francisco hotel elevator by an apparent Holocaust denier who reportedly had been trailing him for weeks. — Police escorted Elie Wiesel …
David Burge / iowahawk:
MY FAIR BLOGGER — Book by Iowahawk — Music by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner — Based on "Fascist Pigmalian" by the Reality-Based Community Dinner Theater — I tell you why there are two Americas, my dear Dr. Dean. Man is a product of his environment. — HOWARD DEAN — Balderdash!
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Cheney's independent operation — Part II — On Monday, we talked about the Office of the Vice President refusing to cooperate with a government directory known as the "Plum Book," which lists government employees. Federal agencies have to comply by listing staffers in the directory …
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The Raw Story:
Rove on immigration: 'I don't want my son to have to pick tomatoes' — The Corner at the National Review Online reports that at a Republican luncheon yesterday White House adviser Karl Rove was overheard explaining the Bush amnesty immigration plan by saying, "I don't want my 17-year-old son …
Zogby:
Zogby Road to New Hampshire Poll: Hillary Surges on Campaign Announcement, But Edwards, Obama Lurk in Key States Zogby telephone surveys find tight races in Iowa, New Hampshire, but everyone's support is soft as Jell-o — New York Sen. Hillary Clinton received a bounce in her presidential …
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Deadliest Bomb in Iraq Is Made by Iran, U.S. Says — The most lethal weapon directed against American troops in Iraq is an explosive-packed cylinder that United States intelligence asserts is being supplied by Iran. — The assertion of an Iranian role in supplying the device …
Nico / Think Progress:
Bill Donohue Defended Bush Catholic Outreach Staffer Who Was Outed As Sexual Predator — During the 2004 presidential campaign, George Bush's Catholic outreach coordinator, 54-year-old Deal Hudson, was outed as a sexual predator for taking advantage of a drunken 18-year old while he was a professor.
Dana / CampusProgress.org:
Hey You! Over there with the Playboy! … Several young male journalists I know are rather taken with this Jon Zobenica essay in The Atlantic, which lodges three main arguments in defense of Playboy: first, that it's much more culturally sophisticated than newer laddie mags like FHM and Maxim (Hef loves jazz!
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
A Mini-Interview With Dennis Avery, Co-Author Of, "Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years." — Yesterday, I did a short interview with Dennis Avery, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and the co-author of "Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years." — Here's the edited transcript of the interview.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Undoing Obama: Inside the Coming Effort to Dismantle a Candidate — Barack Obama's free ride is ending. — The charismatic Illinois senator has enjoyed a lifetime of hagiography, starting with an 800-word story in The New York Times the day after his election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.
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Grasping Reality …, Decision '08, The Poor Man Institute, The Daily Background, Hot Air, The Caucus, CBS News, The Daily Dish and Wonkette
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
First Democratic Campaign Disses Edwards — The only problem is, we don't know which one. An unamed Democratic staffer for a rival campaign just through Edwards under bus for keeping Amanda and Melissa on staff. From Slate: … Apparently, that person is so brave and unfraid of …
Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:
Wake-up call to a.m. news: moms tuning out — Morning broadcast shows, once a staple for women, are seeing audiences shrink as news sources multiply. — NEW YORK — When her children were young, Jenny Lauck used to flip on "Today" or "Good Morning America" as she brewed her morning coffee and tended to her babies.
Associated Press:
Marine Withdraws Plea in Iraqi Death — CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — Military prosecutors must restart their case against a Marine corporal who made the stunning decision to withdraw his guilty plea for the murder of an unarmed Iraqi civilian. — Cpl. Trent Thomas, 25 …
Kevin Sullivan / Washington Post:
Billionaire Offers $25M Prize to Fight 'Warming' — British billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson, with former vice president Al Gore at his side, on Friday offered a $25 million prize for anyone who can come up with a way to blunt global climate change by removing at least a billion tons …
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A Second Hand Conjecture, The Reaction, Don Surber, Marginal Revolution and CorrenteWire
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