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4:40 PM ET, October 11, 2007

Top Items:

EXCLUSIVE: E-mail Reveals That McConnell Staffer Propagated Smear Campaign Against Graeme Frost — Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported that there was mounting evidence that a staffer for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) may have been involved in the right-wing campaign to smear Graeme Frost and his family.

Discussion: Eschaton, American Prospect, The Gavel, D-Day, Matt Ortega, Balloon Juice, The Carpetbagger Report, Shakespeare's Sister, Firedoglake, CommonDreams.org, Interesting Times, WHAS11 Political Blog and The Garlic

Faiz / Think Progress:

CNN Pins Blame On Democrats For Right-Wing Smear Of 12-Year Old Boy — This morning, CNN aired its first report on the right-wing smear campaign against 12-year old SCHIP recipient Graeme Frost. CNN pinned the blame on Democrats for assault on the Frost family.

Discussion: Townhall.com, QandO, The Newshoggers, Wake up America, D-Day, Riehl World View and Suburban Guerrilla

Sadly, No!:

Stalkin' Malkin Is Losing It — It's getting funnier and funnier. She's plunged straight off the deep end with this one: … Gad, it's like watching one of the Heathers write in her personal pity diary. All that's missing is angry complaints about Confederate Yankee and Ace turning into Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke Heads.

Discussion: Balloon Juice, The Newshoggers, Pandagon, Bark Bark Woof Woof, All Spin Zone, RADAMISTO, Angry Bear and The Bellows

Time:

The Swift-Boating of Graeme Frost — A 12-year-old causes an Internet storm for speaking out in favor of the Children's Health Insurance Program. Says his father: "My family does not deserve this retribution"

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Jon Swift, Riehl World View, Right Wing Nut House, Macsmind, The Democratic Daily, The Huffington Post, The Sundries Shack, The New Republic, Grasping Reality …, Cliff Schecter, The Heretik, The American Street, The Carpetbagger Report, The Mahablog, protein wisdom, TIME: Swampland and Wizbang

Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THE FEVER SWAMP....A plainly disgusted Karen Tumulty recaps …

Discussion: Brian Beutler

Ezra Klein:
An Answer! — Michelle Malkin replies to my challenge for a debate about S-CHIP.

Discussion: michellemalkin.com, Crooks and Liars, UrbanGrounds and The Moderate Voice

Carla Marinucci / SFGate:

UPDATE - Gore cancels appearance at Boxer fundraiser — Sen. Barbara Boxer's office just contacted us to say former Vice President Al Gore has been called "overseas" for a trip related to his work on global warming and has canceled his scheduled appearance Thursday in San Francisco at a fundraiser for Boxer's re-election effort.

Discussion: On Deadline, michellemalkin.com, Hot Air, Blue Crab Boulevard and Taylor Marsh

Paul Steinhauser / CNN:

Will Gore add Nobel to Oscar and Emmy? — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Will Al Gore add a Nobel Peace Prize to his Oscar and Emmy honors? — "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary featuring the former vice president captured two Academy Awards in February. The film focuses on Gore and his worldwide travels …

Discussion: Times of London, Left in the West, Gates of Vienna, The Democratic Daily, Gateway Pundit, Connecting.the.Dots and Balloon Juice

Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Movement From the Gore-acle? — As regular Fix readers know …

Discussion: JammieWearingFool

Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Could Nobel Prize Spur Gore To Run In '08?

Discussion: MSNBC, If I Ran the Zoo, Attytood and Sister Toldjah

Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Al Gore for President

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Swamp and Make Them Accountable

Editor and Publisher:

Ann Coulter on CNBC Show: Jews Need 'Perfecting' — NEW YORK Appearing on Donny Deutsch's CNBC show, "The Big Idea," on Monday night, columnist/author Ann Coulter suggested that the U.S. would be a better place if there weren't any Jewish people and that they had "perfected" themselves into — Christians.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Atlantic Online, The Anchoress, Eschaton, Bookworm Room, The Opinion Mill, NewsBusters.org, Air America Radio, Roger L. Simon, Media Matters for America and Cliff Schecter

Fox News:

Columnist Ann Coulter Shocks Cable TV Show, Declaring 'Jews Need to Be Perfected by Becoming Christians' — Slash-and-burn columnist Ann Coulter shocked a cable TV talk-show audience Monday when she declared that Jews need to be "perfected" by becoming Christians, and that America would be better off if everyone were Christian.

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, Mere Rhetoric, Hot Air, Sweetness & Light, Wonkette and FreeSpeech.com

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

GLENN GREENWALD: Warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty — There is a lot of debate about what accounts for the decrepit state of our political press, but often overlooked is the sheer sloth and ignorance of journalists, who repeat what they are told without having any idea what they are talking about.

Discussion: TalkLeft

Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:

Not Ready To Make Nice — Well this gets a big, fat "hell, no" from me. Via e-mail from Liz Rose of the ACLU on the draft Senate version of the FISA bill, which is not yet publicly available and not being widely shared for review either: … If they didn't do anything wrong, why should they get retroactive immunity?

Discussion: Open Left, The Newshoggers, Taylor Marsh, Corrente and Balloon Juice

New York Times:

Turks Angry Over House Armenian Genocide Vote — Turkey reacted angrily today to a House committee vote in Washington on Wednesday that condemned the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey during World War I as an act of genocide, calling the decision "unacceptable."

Discussion: Associated Press, PoliBlog (TM), The Glittering Eye, D-Day, Guardian, Outside The Beltway, normblog and Central Sanity

Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard: Hillary's Arrogant Foreign Policy

Tom Hays / Associated Press:

Police: Columbia Won't Turn Over Video — NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University has refused to turn over security videotape that could help identify who hung a noose on a black professor's office door, police said Thursday. — Investigators began asking on Wednesday for tapes from cameras in the building …

Discussion: The Corner, Gateway Pundit, Hot Air and Blue Crab Boulevard

NY Daily News:
Columbia professor: I will not stand for this!

Discussion: New York Post, michellemalkin.com and New York Magazine

Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:

Alberto Gonzales hires defense attorney — WASHINGTON - Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has hired a high-powered Washington lawyer to represent him in investigations of mismanagement of the Justice Department. George Terwilliger, a white-collar crime defense attorney …

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, D-Day, Shakespeare's Sister and CNN Political Ticker

Scott Horton / Harper's:
Karl Rove Linked to Siegelman Prosecution

Discussion: New York Times, The American Street, Norwegianity and Prairie Weather

Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
GOP lawyer ties Rove to Siegelman case

Discussion: At-Largely, Donklephant, MyDD and CANNONFIRE

Marcella Bombardieri / Boston Globe:

Clinton vows to check executive power — Would curb use of signing statements — Senator Hillary Clinton said yesterday that if she is elected president, she intends to roll back President Bush's expansion of executive authority, including his use of presidential signing statements to put …

Discussion: Washington Wire, Moonbattery, MSNBC, TigerHawk and Reason Magazine

Michael J. Totten:

On Patrol in Ramadi — Join me and Army Captain Phil Messer on a walking tour of Ramadi, Iraq, in a 20 minute video shot during a dismounted foot patrol in early August, 2007. — If you enjoy this movie, please consider a donation through Blog Patron or Pay Pal.

Discussion: BLACKFIVE

Rocky Mountain News:

Documents: Qwest was targeted — 'Classified info' was not allowed at ex-CEO's trial — The National Security Agency and other government agencies retaliated against Qwest because the Denver telco refused to go along with a phone spying program, documents released Wednesday suggest.

Discussion: TalkLeft, Eschaton, The Next Hurrah and The Carpetbagger Report