memeorandum: 'Meet the Press' transcript for July 22, 2007 (MSNBC)

July 23, 2007 - Bloomberg Boosts Democrats' Fortunes In Florida, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; McCain Fades In Republican Primary Race — If New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg runs for President as an independent candidate, it helps Democrats in Florida, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …

Washington Post:

Poll Shows Clinton With Solid Lead Among Democrats — By a wide margin, Democrats view Sen. Hillary Clinton (N.Y.) as the party's candidate best positioned to win the general election, and she holds a double-digit lead over Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in the race for the nomination, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News Poll.

Discussion: Associated Press and PollingReport.com

Bill Schneider / CNN: For Clinton, debate could turn into 7 against 1

ABCNEWS:

Natl. Intel Director Worried About Terror Sleeper Cells in U.S. — Believes Small Numbers of al Qaeda Operatives Are in This Country Raising Funds — The nation's top intelligence official today went further than ever before in outlining what he described as a heightened threat of an al Qaeda attack on American soil.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters

Steve Benen / Talking Points Memo:
The Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes on the declassified National Intelligence Estimate:

Discussion: The Atlantic Online

MSNBC:
'Meet the Press' transcript for July 22, 2007

Discussion: Connecting.the.Dots, The Carpetbagger Report, Dick Polman's American Debate, Air America Radio, Angry Bear, LiberalOasis and Talking Points Memo

William Glaberson / New York Times:

Unlikely Adversary Arises to Criticize Detainee Hearings — NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Stephen E. Abraham's assignment to the Pentagon unit that runs the hearings at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, seemed a perfect fit. — A lawyer in civilian life, he had been decorated for counterespionage …

Discussion: Rising Hegemon, Open Left, Reason Magazine and Mercury Rising

Little Green Footballs:

KILLITARY: Lefties Dropping the Fiction of 'Supporting the Troops' — The leftist blogosphere went out of their way to cover this one up as quickly as possible. — It was posted at Daily Kos, as Ace relates. But the Kidz are on edge about their credibility, so it was deleted within hours, without a word of explanation.

Discussion: Comments From Left Field, The Jawa Report, Sister Toldjah and NewsBusters.org

Ace / Ace of Spades HQ: That Deleted Daily Kos Post About Our Government-Issue Psychopaths, Discovered

Sarah Cohen / Washington Post:

Deceased Farmers Got USDA Payments — The U.S. Department of Agriculture distributed $1.1 billion over seven years to the estates or companies of deceased farmers and routinely failed to conduct reviews required to ensure that the payments were properly made, according to a government report.

Discussion: Don Surber and QandO

Ariel Leve / Times of London:

Al-Qaeda faces rebellion from the ranks — Sickened by the group's barbarity, Iraqi insurgents are giving information to coalition forces — Fed up with being part of a group that cuts off a person's face with piano wire to teach others a lesson, dozens of low-level members of al-Qaeda …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, The Strata-Sphere, Outside The Beltway, TigerHawk, Townhall.com and Don Surber

Reuters:

U.N. suspends peacekeepers amid sex abuse charges — ABIDJAN, Cote d'Ivoire (Reuters) — The United Nations said on Saturday it had suspended a Moroccan military contingent from its peacekeeping mission in Cote d'Ivoire while it investigated allegations of widespread sexual abuse.

Discussion: Outside The Beltway and Blue Crab Boulevard

Wall Street Journal:

Democrats Lead By $100 Million In Money Race — WASHINGTON — With more than a year to go before the 2008 elections, Democratic candidates have raised $100 million more in campaign contributions than Republicans, putting them on track to win the money race for the White House and Congress …

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

[TS] Op-Ed Columnist: The French Connections — What happened to America's Internet lead? Bad policy.

Discussion: Norwegianity, Dohiyi Mir, Bark Bark Woof Woof, Economist's View, Prairie Weather and The Atlantic Online

Rasmussen Reports:

Associated Press, MSNBC and CNBC Seen as Having Liberal Bias — In the final poll of a series measuring perceptions of media bias, the Associated Press, local television stations, MSNBC, and CNBC are all perceived as tilting to the left when reporting the news.

City Journal:

In the Heart of Freedom, in Chains — Elite hypocrisy, gangsta culture, and failure in black America — Two April days threw a clarifying light on the state of race in America. On the 11th, North Carolina's attorney general exonerated three white Duke students of the rape charges …

Discussion: Power Line, Ed Driscoll.com and Betsy's Page

Guardian:

All the rage - victim of US bloggers' cartoon hits back — Riazat Butt — With his clenched fists, wild eyes and gnashing teeth he has become the face of Muslim fury, protesting against the enemies of Islam. — Shakeel Ahmad Bhat has been on the frontline of political activism in Srinagar, India, for more than a decade.

Discussion: Jules Crittenden and USS Neverdock

Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:

Obama solicits La Raza backing — MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Sen. Barack Obama told the nation's largest Hispanic advocacy group yesterday that he earned their support for his presidential campaign by marching in last year's May 1 immigrant rallies and challenged them to learn whether others met that standard.

Discussion: PoliPundit.com