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Matt / Think Progress:
Cooper Contradicts Rove: He's 'Dissembling' With 'Non-Sense' About The Plame Leak — During his tour of the Sunday shows this morning, Karl Rove attempted to downplay and dismiss his role in the CIA leak scandal, telling Fox News' Chris Wallace that he acted benignly in his conversations with reporters about Valerie Plame's identity:
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Crooks and Liars
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Emptywheel / The Next Hurrah:
Why You Don't Have the Guys that Are Part of the Story... ...Covering the story... Not surprising, when David Gregory had Karl Rove on Meet the Press this morning, he never called Rove on any of Rove's misrepresentations. That's par for the course, on NBC.
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Karl Rove Spins His Way Out Of Town On Meet The Press — This morning on "Meet The Press" Karl Rove sat down with David Gregory to talk about his career, Iraq and the state of the Republican party today. Gregory actually asks some tough questions and follows up on them …
New York Times:
The War as We Saw It — VIEWED from Iraq at the tail end of a 15-month deployment, the political debate in Washington is indeed surreal. Counterinsurgency is, by definition, a competition between insurgents and counterinsurgents for the control and support of a population.
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ABCNEWS:
TRANSCRIPT: The Democratic Debate — George Stephanopoulos Moderates Democratic Debate on a Special Edition of "This Week" — STEPHANOPOULOS: Good morning, everyone, and welcome to this special edition of "This Week." We're back here at Drake University in Iowa for the first Democratic presidential debate in Iowa.
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David Saltonstall / NY Daily News:
Giuliani's Fox-y pal cash flap — It's no secret that Sean Hannity, the conservative Fox News commentator, has helped to raise Rudy Giuliani's profile - but now he's helped the former mayor raise money, too. — In a little noticed event this month, Hannity - co-host of Fox News' …
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Steve Benen / Talking Points Memo:
Anyone who's seen Fox News knows its on-air personalities offer Republicans in-kind contributions with practically every broadcast. Once in a while, though, they drop the pretense and make the support more direct. … Atrios' joke about calling a bloggers' ethics panel comes to mind....
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Eschaton
Michael Skube / Los Angeles Times:
Blogs: All the noise that fits — The hard-line opinions on weblogs are no substitute for the patient fact-finding of reporters. — The late Christopher Lasch once wrote that public affairs generally and journalism in particular suffered not from too little information but from entirely too much.
The Independent:
Military commanders tell Brown to withdraw from Iraq without delay — Senior military commanders have told the Government that Britain can achieve "nothing more" in south-east Iraq, and that the 5,500 British troops still deployed there should move towards withdrawal without further delay.
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Scarecrow / Firedoglake:
More Duplicity in the FISA Stampede — James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, the New York Times reporters who originally broke the warrantless domestic spying story, report further on the recent legislation gutting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
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TalkLeft, Talking Points Memo, Eschaton, The Reaction, All Spin Zone, Think Progress and ACSBlog
Atrios / Eschaton:
There Aren't — Of course there are smart people, those we could call "experts," in any field and yes of course they're generally happier and more interested in talking to each other than to the rabble. But AEI and EPI aren't two parts of an "economic policy clerisy."
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Lawyers, Guns and Money
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Observer:
The day reality hit home — The writer Andrew Anthony was a committed member of the liberal left - until the attacks of 11 September, 2001. A veteran of CND and Nicaraguan solidarity campaigns, he was astonished at the liberal left's anti-American reaction.
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Big Brass Blog, protein wisdom, Flopping Aces, USS Neverdock, normblog and Jules Crittenden
Adam Cohen / New York Times:
The Founders Had an Idea for Handling Alberto Gonzales — William Belknap, Ulysses S. Grant's disgraced secretary of war, is experiencing a revival. Impeached in 1876 for taking bribes, he has become the inspiration for a movement to remove Attorney General Alberto Gonzales from office.
Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
Speaking of sanctuary, where's ours? — At the funeral of Iofemi Hightower, her classmate Mecca Ali wore a T-shirt with the slogan: "Tell Me Why They Had To Die." — "They" are Miss Hightower, Dashon Harvey and Terrance Aeriel, three young citizens of Newark, New Jersey …
Mark Lilla / New York Times:
The Politics of God — I. "The Will of God Will Prevail" — The twilight of the idols has been postponed. For more than two centuries, from the American and French Revolutions to the collapse of Soviet Communism, world politics revolved around eminently political problems.
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Hot Air
Speakout:
Single payer cost-effective, viable — It was hot outside and the air conditioning system was acting up when The Lewin Group, a company doing independent analysis for Colorado's Blue Ribbon Commission for Health Care Reform, gave its preliminary report on the reform proposals submitted to the commission.
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Tripping On Crazy — Atrios has posted a YouTube of Tom Friedman from 2003 saying we needed to unleash hell on the first convenient middle eastern country to teach those bastards a lesson. It's a perfect display of the rampant lunacy that overtook most of the punditocrisy after 9/11, and Friedman in particular.
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Gail Martineau / The Columbus Dispatch:
Anti-gay activists crash worship services — Minutemen take 'word of God' to 2 congregations — A conservative Christian values group has been interrupting services at two central Ohio churches to protest their support for homosexuality. — Minutemen United vowed to attend services every Sunday.
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Alex Blaze / The Bilerico Project:
Just in case you thought the Religious Right was all about freedom of religion....
Just in case you thought the Religious Right was all about freedom of religion....
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Pandagon