memeorandum: Make Some Noise — Tell CNN to get the facts right on Pelosi trip (Atrios/Eschaton)

1:45 AM ET, April 6, 2007

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Bill O'Reilly Loses His Damn Mind — In the entire, dark, black history of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, this is probably the craziest clip ever. A young girl was tragically killed by a drunk driver. But this was not enough for O'Reilly. Instead, because the criminal was an illegal alien …

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WAVY TV 10:

News conference held in response to Bill O'Reilly's criticism — Thursday night the city of Virginia Beach responded to criticism from a national talk show host. — Bill O'Reilly took aim at the city of Virginia Beadch on his show Wednesday night. City officials held a news conference Thursday evening and responded to O'Reilly.

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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:

Bill O'Reilly's head practically explodes as he screams at Geraldo... We've seen Bill lose it before, but I think this one is the wildest segments I've ever seen. I really thought Bill was going to haul off an upper cut to Geraldo's jaw. Geraldo yelled at O'Reilly that the way he used this case was " A SIN!"

TRex / Firedoglake:
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Atrios / Eschaton:

Make Some Noise — Tell CNN to get the facts right on Pelosi trip — For much of the past week, CNN and its White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux have offered a steady stream of inaccurate and incomplete coverage of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) trip to the Middle East …

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Claudia Rosett / philly.com:

Pelosi was nuts to visit with Assad — In visiting Syria this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi no doubt meant well. She wants dialogue. As a woman, mother, and now the third-highest-ranking elected official in American politics, she has achieved a great deal in life by talking with people.

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Media Matters for America:
CNN's Malveaux asked if Pelosi's trip to Syria is "big wet kiss …

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The Columbus Dispatch:
Boehner, Hobson clash on Pelosi trip

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White House:

Interview of the Vice President by Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show — Q It's always a great privilege to have the Vice President, Dick Cheney, with us. Mr. Vice President, welcome once again to our program. — THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you, Rush. It's good to be back on.

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R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:

Hussein's Prewar Ties To Al-Qaeda Discounted — Pentagon Report Says Contacts Were Limited — Captured Iraqi documents and intelligence interrogations of Saddam Hussein and two former aides "all confirmed" that Hussein's regime was not directly cooperating with al-Qaeda before the U.S. invasion of Iraq …

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Amanda / Think Progress:
Cheney: Senate Committee Is 'Stalinist' For Blocking Swift Boat Funder's Appointment

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Michael Roston / The Raw Story:
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
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Editor and Publisher:

Joe Klein in Tomorrow's TIME: Bush 'Clearly Unfit to Lead' — NEW YORK In the upcoming issue of Time magazine, out Friday, columnist Joe Klein considers what he calls the Bush administration's "epic collapse." He concludes with a statement that may make some wonder if he is hinting that the president ought to be impeached.

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Joe Klein / Time:

An Administration's Epic Collapse — The first three months of the new Democratic Congress have been neither terrible nor transcendent. A Pew poll had it about right: a substantial majority of the public remains happy the Democrats won in 2006, but neither Nancy Pelosi nor Harry Reid …

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Justin Rood Reports / The Blotter:

Probe Targets GSA Chief — Justin Rood Reports: — Another federal investigation is targeting a Bush administration official, this time for possibly using government resources for partisan political purposes. — The Office of Special Counsel confirmed to ABC News it has launched …

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MSNBC:

12,000 more Guard troops may be going to Iraq — Deployment order planned to lessen 'surge's' strain on stretched-thin Army — WASHINGTON - Coming on the heels of a controversial "surge" of 21,000 U.S. troops that has stretched the Army thin, the Defense Department is preparing to send …

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Brian Montopoli / Public Eye:

The Public Eye Chat With.Allen Pizzey — The Public Eye Chat With...Allen Pizzey — It's Thursday, and that means it's time for the Public Eye Chat. This week's subject is Rome-based CBS News Correspondent Allen Pizzey. You can read excerpts, and listen to the full interview, below.

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Gateway Pundit:

Harry Reid Gets Clobbered By Veterans For Not Supporting Troops (Video) — Harry Reid Gets Lambasted By Veterans... In a question and answer session at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Reno, Nev., on Thursday, April 5, 2007, Harry Reid got clobbered by a room full of veterans for not supporting the troops.

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Online NewsHour:

Petraeus Cites Areas of Improvement in Baghdad — JIM LEHRER: Now to our Newsmaker interview with General David Petraeus, the top U.S. general in Iraq. I spoke to him this morning from the Green Zone in Baghdad. — General, welcome. — GEN. DAVID PETRAEUS, Commander, U.S. Forces in Iraq: Thanks very much, Jim.

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