memeorandum: 'Devastating' Moyers Probe of Press and Iraq Coming (Greg Mitchell/Editor and Publisher)

8:45 PM ET, April 20, 2007

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Lieberman Accuses Reid Of 'Surrender In The Face Of Barbarism' — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is under fire from the right over his statement yesterday that the military in Iraq "is lost." — Reid was called "reckless" and accused of "playing to the worst elements of the antiwar left."

Discussion: Right Wing News, www.kansascity.com, Democrats.senate.gov, The Carpetbagger Report, The Caucus, The Mahablog and The Huffington Post

Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:

Leading Democrat in Senate Tells Reporters, 'This War Is Lost' — As Congressional Democrats sought to reconcile their differences and send an Iraq spending bill to the White House, Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, said Thursday that "this war is lost," a stark assessment …

Discussion: Associated Press, The Newshoggers, Middle Earth Journal, Wake up America, The Swamp, Firedoglake, GINA COBB, PoliPundit.com, Agence France Presse and Macsmind

Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:

MIDDLE EASTERN MEDIA TAKE UP REID'S "WAR IS LOST": Iranian Press TV reports, in response to Reid's statement: … A Republican party e-mail also reported the following as translations of items from Al-Jazeera Online, and Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, "The Leading Arabic International Daily"; please let me know if the translations are inaccurate:

Discussion: Cadillac Tight

Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:

No Surrender — [Ross] So Harry Reid announced that he thinks the war in Iraq is "lost," prompting general outrage on the right - capped off by Mark Levin's call for Reid's resignation: … Here's my question: Is there any imaginable point in any imaginable conflict where Mark Levin would admit that the United States had lost a war?

Discussion: Liberty Street and Centerfield

Horses Mouth:
One thing that's been completely missing from all the media attention …

Discussion: The Swamp and Needlenose

Michelle Malkin:
More letters for Harry "Lost It" Reid

Discussion: Right Wing Nut House and The Strata-Sphere

Michelle Malkin: Raising The White Flag

Michelle Homer / Associated Press:

JSC gunman kills hostage, himself — A gunman who took two hostages inside building 44 at JSC killed one of them, then took his own life Friday afternoon. — A second hostage, a woman who had been bound with tape, was rescued. — She was taken to an area hospital by ambulance but was walking …

Discussion: Wizbang and Blue Crab Boulevard

Krazypuppy / Texas Kaos:
Breaking: Shots Fired at Johnson Space Center; Employees & School in Lock Down

Discussion: On Deadline and Instapundit.com

Monica Rhor / Associated Press:
Gunman kills hostage, self at NASA center

Discussion: The Moderate Voice

Washington Post:

Senators Chastise Gonzales at Hearing — Members of His Own Party Pile On as Attorney General Defends Firings — Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales came under withering attack from members of his own party yesterday over the dismissals of eight U.S. attorneys, facing the first resignation demand …

Discussion: Firedoglake, The Gun Toting Liberal™, TPMmuckraker, Secular Blasphemy, Crooks and Liars, Think Progress and New York Times

Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Maybe Gonzales Won't Recall His Painful Day on the Hill

Discussion: New York Times, Couric & Co., Captain's Quarters, Jon Swift, Find Habeas, Pam's House Blend, The Gavel, Happy Furry Puppy Story …, Sweetness & Light, TPMCafe blogs, Democrats.com, The Next Hurrah, The Moderate Voice, Think Progress, Firedoglake and Prairie Weather

Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Cornyn: Gonzales Resignation "Won't Satisfy" Dems

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, CNN Political Ticker and Firedoglake

Media Matters for America:

Radio host Michael Smerconish to be simulcast on MSNBC in place of Imus — According to an April 20 article on Philly.com, the website of The Philadelphia Inquirer, "The Big Talker 1210 AM morning show of Daily News columnist Michael Smerconish is to be simulcast Monday through Wednesday on MSNBC."

Discussion: Scholars & Rogues, Riehl World View and Shakesville

Pajamas Media:

A HERO IS LAID TO REST — The funeral of Professor Liviu Librescu, who gave his life to save his students at VA Tech, took place this morning. PJM Tel Aviv editor Allison Kaplan Sommer was there. — The Middle Eastern sun shone bright in the cemetery where Professor Liviu Librescu …

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, Gateway Pundit, A Blog For All, The Lede, Wake up America and On Deadline

Martin C. Evans / Newsday: Witness tells a hero's story

Kate / small dead animals:

CBC: Hues Of The News — Set aside for a moment the journalistic misrepresentation on display in using a photo depicting air pollution to illustrate a story on the costs of meeting Kyoto mandated C02 reductions... There's a little more than lack of scientific accuracy going on here.

Discussion: Jay Currie and Wizbang

Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Fauxtography at CBC: Global Warming

Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ and The Mahablog

Melanie Phillips / Spectator:

'I found Saddam's WMD bunkers' — It's a fair bet that you have never heard of a guy called Dave Gaubatz. It's also a fair bet that you think the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has found absolutely nothing, nada, zilch; and that therefore there never were any WMD programmes …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Wake up America, Hot Air, Confederate Yankee and Power Line

Jesse Lee / The Gavel:

House Passes Shareholder Vote on Executive Compensation Act — The House has passed the Shareholder Vote on Executive Compensation Act, by a vote of 269-134. — Passage came after defeat of a Republican motion to recommit with instructions. As background, the C-Span Congressional Glossary provides the following definition:

Discussion: The Wire

Dana Perino / White House:

PRESS GAGGLE — MS. PERINO: I have a few things to announce, and I also have the week ahead, which is kind of lengthy, so we'll do that at the end, okay? — This morning — the President taped his radio address this morning. This topic is the tragic shootings that occurred at Virginia Tech this week.

Discussion: TPMmuckraker and First Draft

Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:

'Devastating' Moyers Probe of Press and Iraq Coming — NEW YORK (Commentary) The most powerful indictment of the news media for falling down in its duties in the run-up to the war in Iraq will appear next Wednesday, a 90-minute PBS broadcast called "Buying the War," which marks the return of "Bill Moyers Journal."

Discussion: Booman Tribune, Little Green Footballs, NewsBusters.org, Attytood and Ed Driscoll.com

Associated Press:

Vermont Senate calls for impeachment of Bush … MONTPELIER, Vermont (AP) — Vermont senators voted Friday to call for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, saying their actions in Iraq and the U.S. "raise serious questions of constitutionality."

Discussion: theneweditor.com and Cadillac Tight

Nancy A. Youssef / Real Cities:

Training Iraqi troops no longer driving force in U.S. policy — WASHINGTON - Military planners have abandoned the idea that standing up Iraqi troops will enable American soldiers to start coming home soon and now believe that U.S. troops will have to defeat the insurgents and secure control of troubled provinces.