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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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Fox News:
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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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Politico Story Saying Reid Called Generals "Incompetent" Is Denied — One of the big stories of the day is this front-page piece in The Politico that claims that Harry Reid blasted General Peter Pace as "incompetent" and described General David Petraeus in similar terms on a recent conference call with liberal bloggers.
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.
Fox News:
Majority Leader Reid Close to Reviving Senate Immigration Bill — WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will approve a new deal on immigration on Thursday and move to bring the once-dead legislation back to the Senate floor next week, Democratic sources told FOX News.
BarbinMD / Daily Kos:
Politico Continues To Make Up News: Updated — Since its inception a few short months ago, Politico, the online soul-mate to the Drudge Report, has gotten into the habit of creating news stories through innuendo, omission, outright error, and now today, out of thin air.
Jules Crittenden:
Put It On A Bumpersticker — "I think we should just drop it." — Harry Reid's finally laid out his Iraq strategy in bold and uncompromising terms. — It came out of the big debate over whether Reid called Peter Pace "incompetent," which raged all over the Internet yesterday. Not sure why.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:Harry Reid Calls Military Commanders Incompetent (Updated and Bumped …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Chris Matthews on Fred Thompson's sexiness and smells — I've written a fair amount recently about the media's obsession with the faux-masculinity of GOP candidates in general, and the tough-guy military persona of Fred Thompson in particular, and don't have all that much to add about that specific topic at the moment.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Does FOX News have insider info on Cheney and a pardon? — Today both CNN and MSNBC said that Cheney and Bush weren't speaking about a pardon at this time soon after Judge Walton ruled Libby has to serve his time in jail during the appeal process. However, FOX News said that sources told …
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Peter Robinson / National Review:Andy McCarthy, Mark Levin, Byron York—Somebody! —Help Me Out Here
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Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:Delay Denied, Libby Is Seen as Weeks From Prison
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The Big Pharaoh:
Hamastan: Egypt's New Neighbour — It seems that we're going to have new neighbours pretty soon. Hamas is currently on its way to consolidate its power over the Gaza strip. Egypt, at least the government, is watching this with tremendous concern. My advice to the Egyptian government …
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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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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Doing the jobs Americans aren't willing to do — Given the recent rhetoric in Republican circles about immigration policy, I found this story spectacularly amusing. … Wait, it gets funnier. Matthews was hired by Michael Kamburowski, the state GOP's chief operations officer, who is ... wait for it ... an Australian citizen.
Pam Belluck / New York Times:
Massachusetts Gay Marriage to Remain Legal — Same-sex marriage will continue to be legal in Massachusetts, after proponents in both houses won a pitched months-long battle on Thursday to defeat a proposed constitutional amendment to define marriage as between a man and a woman.
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
THE WAR OVER EARMARKS, CONT. — As we noted a few days ago, the House of Representatives has been embroiled in a battle over the Democrats' effort to roll back the earmark reforms that were initiated in the last Congress by the Republicans. The Democrats are trying to adopt a program …
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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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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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Captain's Quarters
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 …
Adbusters:
The American Left's Silly Victim Complex — The biggest problem with modern American liberalism may be the word itself. There's just something about the word, liberal, something about the way it sounds - it just hits the ear wrong. If it were an animal it would be something squirming and hairless …
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