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Bob Geiger:
The Politico Fails Journalism 100 — When I was studying journalism way back in the early 1980s, they hammered on us pretty hard about fact checking, verifying sources and not accepting things as fact based on hearsay. I don't think we covered conference calls specifically …
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Reid Calls Joint Chiefs Chairman 'Incompetent' — WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid confirmed Thursday that he told liberal bloggers last week that he thinks outgoing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Peter Pace is "incompetent." — Reid acknowledged similarly disparaging Army …
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Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Reid Faults Petraeus as Not 'in Touch' — Senate Leader Cites General's Upbeat Remarks About Baghdad 'Normalcy' — The Senate majority leader took aim yesterday at the top U.S. commander in Iraq, who until now has received little criticism from Capitol Hill over his statements or performance.
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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Obtained: A Tape Of Reid's Conference Call With Bloggers — Reid Did Blast Pace — Okay, as we noted below, we've been trying to find out as much as possible about the conference call that Harry Reid held with liberal bloggers that's created so much noise today. — Now we've obtained a tape of the relevant chunk of the call.
Ali Waked / Ynetnews:
Hamas: We'll execute Fatah leaders — At least 10 dead as Hamas overruns Fatah's Preventive Security headquarters, intelligence services building in Gaza. Official Hamas television broadcasts from inside building, displaying weapons 'sent by Israel.' Hamas gunmen: 'This is the first step in the establishment of an Islamic state'
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Peter Robinson / National Review:
Andy McCarthy, Mark Levin, Byron York—Somebody! —Help Me Out Here — I'm with Mark Steyn on the deeply annoying superciliousness of Judge "Reggie" Walton, but, layman in all matters of the law that I most certainly am, I'm quite willing to defer to Andy on His Honor's legal obligation …
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Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Delay Denied, Libby Is Seen as Weeks From Prison — I. Lewis Libby Jr., once one of the most powerful men in government, was escorted by federal marshals out a side door in a federal courtroom here Thursday for processing after a judge issued a final ruling that he would have to begin serving …
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Does FOX News have insider info on Cheney and a pardon?
Does FOX News have insider info on Cheney and a pardon?
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New York Times:
Senate Leaders Agree to Revive Immigration Bill — Senate Democratic and Republican leaders announced on Thursday that they had agreed on a way to revive a comprehensive immigration bill that was pulled off the Senate floor seven days ago. — The majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada …
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Maura Reynolds / Los Angeles Times:
Senate strikes deal to revive immigration bill
Senate strikes deal to revive immigration bill
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Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
State GOP goes outside the U.S. to hire top aide — The California Republican Party has decided no American is qualified to take one of its most crucial positions — state deputy political director — and has hired a Canadian for the job through a coveted H-1B visa, a program favored …
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Bush administration attacks 'shield' for bloggers — WASHINGTON—The Bush administration on Thursday blasted a congressional proposal that would shield a broad swath of news gatherers, including some bloggers, from revealing their confidential sources. — The latest draft of the Free Flow …
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
SELF-RULE? TRY MOB RULE — ISRAEL'S disengagement from Gaza, completed 22 months ago, has succeeded. — It was a demonstration project of a sort - an experiment in Palestinian self-rule. If the management of Gaza had gone well, there would have been a Palestinian state within three years, tops.
Gerard Baker / Times of London:
You won't see Termination 2 at the movies — Liberal Hollywood shies away from abortion — In grim times Americans turn to Hollywood for escapist cheer, and this summer the fantasy factory has not disappointed. The multiplexes are unusually full of feelgood movies to chase away the troubled superpower blues.
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
To Avoid Conflicts, Clintons Liquidate Holdings — Concerned that their personal finances might become a political liability once again, Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton in April sold the millions of dollars of stocks held by their blind trust after learning that those investments included oil …
Edward Morrissey / New York Post:
KATIE COURIC & THE CAVEMEN — SEXIST IDIOTS? IT'S CBS, NOT VIEWERS — CBS News knows its ratings are plummeting - but rather than shoulder the blame, the network's execs prefer to finger America's innate sexism. — Last month, CBS VP Linda Mason told its Public Eye blog …
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