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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
GROW UP — Am I the only one embarrassed by the dingbat brouhaha over Iranian President Ahmadinejad's attempt to visit Ground Zero to lay a wreath? Given relations between our countries I could see denying him a visa, but as long as we're hosting the UN that's not an option.
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Drudge Report:
AHMADINEJAD SAYS HE WILL NOT PUSH TO VISIT GROUND ZERO; 'AMAZED' GESTURE WOULD INSULT AMERICANS — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will not press his plan — just denied by New York City Police for security reasons — to visit Ground Zero in New York City, he tells 60 MINUTES' Scott Pelley …
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Gromer Jeffers Jr / Dallas Morning News:
Thompson calls for stop to Iranian leader's visit — gjeffers@dallasnews.com — Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson said Thursday that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should not be allowed into the country, much less at the World Trade Center site, when he travels …
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Michael Kinsley / Time:
How Dare You! — Goodness gracious. oh, my paws and whiskers. Some of the meanest, most ornery hombres around are suddenly feeling faint. Notorious tough guys are swooning with the vapors. The biggest beasts in the barnyard are all aflutter over something they read in the New York Times.
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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Senate Approves Resolution Denouncing MoveOn.org Ad — The Senate approved a resolution on Thursday denouncing the liberal antiwar group MoveOn.org over an advertisement that questioned the credibility of Gen. David H. Petraeus, the American commander in Iraq.
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
25 Senate Democrats Support "Betray Us", Including Hillary
25 Senate Democrats Support "Betray Us", Including Hillary
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Middle East Volcano — On Sept. 6, something important happened in northern Syria. Problem is, no one knows exactly what. Except for those few who were involved, and they're not saying. — We do know that Israel carried out an airstrike. How do we know it was important?
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Patrick Graham / Macleans.ca:
How George Bush became the new Saddam — COVER STORY: Its strategies shattered, a desperate Washington is reaching out to the late dictator's henchmen. — It was embarrassing putting my flak jacket on backwards and sideways, but in the darkness of the Baghdad airport car park I couldn't see anything.
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Mary Mapes / The Huffington Post:
Courage for Dan Rather — Gee, just when I was all excited about Wednesday's big premiere of the new CBS cultural triumph Kid Nation, my old friend Dan Rather went and blew my whole evening out of the water by filing a massive lawsuit against the company. — Here we go again.
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Matt Stoller / Open Left:
Wes Clark Interview, Part One: The Petraeus Ad — If anyone can recommend an audio hosting service, please email me at stoller at gmail.com so I can post the audio file of the interview. — I just did an interview with Wes Clark, and there's a bunch of newsworthy stuff in there …
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New York Times:
$6 Billion in Contracts Reviewed, Pentagon Says — Military officials said Thursday that contracts worth $6 billion to provide essential supplies to American troops in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan — including food, water and shelter — were under review by criminal investigators …
Matt Stoller / Open Left:
Obama Betrays Us, Of Course — In Dante's Inferno, the Opportunists were "the people who refused to take sides on the whole good vs. evil thing, but just looked after themselves. As a result, they're doomed to forever run after a banner while being stung by wasps and hornets... These people aren't technically in hell.
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Countdown Special Comment: The President Of Hypocrisy — In light of President Bush's disgraceful presser today, Keith Olbermann decided to make a Special Comment on tonight's Countdown and wow, did he make the most of it. Olbermann blasts the president for his cowardly and un-American behavior …
Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press:
FBI Tapes Stevens Calls As Part of Sting — WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI, working with an Alaska oil contractor, secretly taped telephone calls with Sen. Ted Stevens as part of a public corruption sting, according to people close to the investigation. — The secret recordings suggest …
Jennifer C. Kerr / Associated Press:
Do Not Call listings to expire in 2008 — WASHINGTON - The cherished dinner hour void of telemarketers could vanish next year for millions of people when phone numbers begin dropping off the national Do Not Call list. — The Federal Trade Commission, which oversees the list, says there is a simple fix.
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Drew Westen / The New Republic:
New Democrats — With the curtains finally closing on the limited engagement of Waiting for Petraeus, and Republicans feeling emboldened by the diversion his testimony created (and the cover it gave them for continuing to "stay the course"), Democrats in Congress are searching once again for a strategy on Iraq.