memeorandum: Dutch Soldiers Stress Restraint in Afghanistan (C. J. Chivers/New York Times)

6:15 AM ET, April 6, 2007

Top Items:

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 …

Discussion: FRAMESHOP, Pam's House Blend, Daily Kos, TVNewser and Hullabaloo

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.

Discussion: The BRAD BLOG

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!"

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and The Osterley Times

TRex / Firedoglake:
Late Nite FDL: Conservatives UNHINGED!!

Discussion: WTKR Home Page

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 …

Discussion: The Gun Toting Liberal™, Liberal Values, The Osterley Times, Prairie Weather, The Washington Note, Unqualified Offerings and Cliff Schecter

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.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, First Draft and Left I on the News

RushLimbaugh.com Home:
Interview with Vice President Richard B. Cheney

Discussion: Blogs for Bush and Attytood

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

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 …

Discussion: The Reaction, Political Animal, Liberal Values, Matthew Yglesias, Democrats.com, Macsmind and The Mahablog

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.

Discussion: Shakesville, Booman Tribune, Balloon Juice, New Pairodimes and Alternate Brain

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.

Discussion: Gateway Pundit, Wake up America, Neocon Express and The Tank

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

Discussion: Media Matters for America, Horses Mouth, Crooks and Liars, Think Progress, Sister Toldjah, The Swamp, The Mahablog and Macsmind

Elizabeth Williamson / Washington Post:
Speaker's Role In Foreign Policy Is a Recent, and Sensitive, Issue

Discussion: Dayton Daily News, Associated Press, Obsidian Wings, blogs.usatoday.com, Wake up America, myfoxdc.com, Think Progress and The Gavel

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 …

Discussion: The American Street, AMERICAblog, The Reaction and The Democratic Daily

WCCO-TV:

4 In U.S. Attorney's Office Resign In Protest — (WCCO) The four top administrators in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota have resigned their administrative positions. According to highly placed sources, the administrators have quit in protest over the job being done by Rachel Paulose, the U.S. Attorney for Minnesota.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

myfoxtwincities.com:
Exclusive: Shake Up at the U.S. Attorney's Office

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Little Thom's Blog

The Nation:

Making Blogging Pay — As the US attorney scandal unfolds, mainstream media coverage focuses on speculation that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will be forced to resign. But the story behind the story is that Joshua Micah Marshall's TPM Muckraker blog is largely responsible for latching …

Discussion: MyDD, The Democratic Daily and Eschaton

Kathy / Liberty Street:
Getting Paid To Blog

Discussion: QandO and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog

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 …

Discussion: Associated Press, The Carpetbagger Report, NewsHog, TPMmuckraker, Political Animal and The Agonist

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.

Discussion: Redstate, Cadillac Tight, Say Anything and Wake up America

C. J. Chivers / New York Times:

Dutch Soldiers Stress Restraint in Afghanistan — QALA-E-SURKH, Afghanistan — The Dutch infantrymen stood on a ridge near the Baluchi Valley, an area in south-central Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban and tribes opposed to the central government. — Whenever they push farther …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice

Sky News:

'We Gathered Intelligence' — The captain in charge of the 15 marines detained in Iran has said they were gathering intelligence on the Iranians. — Sky News went on patrol with Captain Chris Air and his team in Iraqi waters close to the area where they were arrested - just five days before the crisis began.

Discussion: Little Thom's Blog