memeorandum: 2007 Hottest Media Types Finalists: Female, Off Air (Patrick/mediabistro.com)

2:35 PM ET, July 23, 2007

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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 …, The Moderate Voice, Outside The Beltway, Comments From Left Field and Donklephant

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: CNN, Taylor Marsh, MSNBC, TalkLeft, Comments From Left Field, The Reaction, Pollster.com and PollingReport.com

David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:

TV provides poor signal for Hillary — When Hollywood producer Rod Lurie created fictional president Mackenzie Allen in 2005 for the show "Commander in Chief" he made no mistake about one of his goals: tilling the soil of popular culture so that it would soon be easier for a real woman to take root in a nonfiction Oval Office.

Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Carry on America

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 …

Discussion: Donklephant, The Carpetbagger Report and The Democratic Daily

Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Obama solicits La Raza backing

Discussion: MSNBC, Lonewacko, PoliPundit.com and Hot Air

Dan Morain / Los Angeles Times:
Small donors playing bigger role in campaigns

Discussion: Washington Post and Donklephant

Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Officially the First, Democrats' Debate Feels Like Anything But

Discussion: News Bloggers, Associated Press, New York Times, New York Times, TIME, Iowa Voice and MSNBC

Natasha T. Metzler / Associated Press:

Sheehan Wants Impeachment, Pelosi's Job — ARLINGTON, Va. — Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan on Monday moved another step _ actually several thousand of them _ toward carrying out her promise to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi because the California Democrat won't consider impeachment proceedings against President Bush.

Discussion: Democrats.com

Wyatt Buchanan / San Francisco Chronicle:
Pelosi promises congressional contempt charge for Harriet Miers

Discussion: Don Surber, The Jawa Report, TalkLeft, Comments From Left Field and BuzzFlash.org

Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Democratic Member Of House Homeland Security Committee Denied Access …

Discussion: The Reaction

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.

Discussion: Don Surber and QandO

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Rasmussen: Liberal Bias In American Media

Discussion: Sister Toldjah

Mike Allen / The Politico:

Politico Playbook: First date — Good Monday Morning. — YOU were the TIME person of the year (great resume fodder) and now YOU (or some of you, at least) get to help out host Anderson Cooper and electronically ask the Democratic candidates questions during the two-hour CNN/YouTube debate at 7 Eastern tonight.

Discussion: MyDD

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Bill Kristol, Highly Recommended — Bill Kristol's the-war-is-being-won piece in The Washington Post brought him plenty of ridicule, but at least one person liked it. — President Bush read the July 15 Outlook article that morning and recommended it to his staff.

Discussion: American Footprints

Robert Pear / New York Times:

Democrats Press House to Expand Health Care Bill — After a rare bipartisan agreement in the Senate to expand insurance coverage for low-income children, House Democrats have drafted an even broader plan that also calls for major changes in Medicare and promises to intensify the battle with the White House over health care.

Discussion: Open Left, Brian Beutler and MSNBC

Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard: An Unusually Effective Minority

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: TPMmuckraker, The Atlantic Online, democracyarsenal.org, The Agonist, Attytood, Open Left, Rising Hegemon, Brian Beutler, Reason Magazine and Mercury Rising

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, TPMmuckraker, Norwegianity, Balloon Juice, QandO and PoliPundit.com

David Nather / CQPolitics.com:

Lieberman's New Party Line — No one was surprised to see Joseph I. Lieberman , the Democrat-turned-independent from Connecticut, siding with the Republican leadership this month during the latest Senate debate over the Iraq War. — Lately, though, Lieberman has taken his alliance with GOP leaders up a notch.

Discussion: Firedoglake, My Left Nutmeg and Outside The Beltway

John Washburn / The BRAD BLOG:

EXCLUSIVE: Milwaukee Election Records Indicate Apparent Forgery, Ballot Box Stuffing in 2004 Presidential Election … After a two year interruption, I am beginning to go through the copies of November 2, 2004 election records which were provided to me in the settlement of my lawsuit with the City of Milwaukee Election Commission.

Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:

Reid's Anti-Reform Maneuvers — When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid picked up his ball and went home after his staged all-night session last week, he saved from possible embarrassment one of the least regular members of his Democratic caucus: Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska.

Discussion: Power Line, Sunlight Foundation blogs, Firedoglake and Blue Crab Boulevard

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: Hot Air, Captain's Quarters, The Strata-Sphere, Betsy's Page, Outside The Beltway, Weasel Zippers, Townhall.com and TigerHawk

Agence France Presse:

Al-Qaeda threatens to escalate attacks in North Africa — DUBAI (AFP) - Al-Qaeda threatened in an Internet statement on Monday to escalate attacks against the "enemies of Allah" in North African countries, warning Muslims to stay away from government sites.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters

Ann Althouse / Althouse:

I call bullsh*t on TPM's defense of its bullsh*t video. — TPM Café's Greg Sargent tries to respond to various bloggers, including me, who wrote about his blog post featuring a video clip of Giuliani supposedly "unhinged" and "screaming" the word "bulls**t." Here's Greg in his new post:

Discussion: Reason Magazine, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler and INSTAPUTZ