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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.
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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"
Michelle Malkin:
My reply to Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein and his fellow travelers; Plus: Hillary threatens S-CHIP critics — Update 1:00pm Eastern. Snort-worthy blue-on-blue spat of the day: ThinkProgress vs. CNN. — Snort-worthy reverse conspiracy theorizing of the day …
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Faiz / Think Progress:
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.
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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.
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THE FEVER SWAMP....A plainly disgusted Karen Tumulty recaps Graeme Frost's introduction to the modern conservative fever swamp in Time magazine and concludes with this: … But of course, that's the whole point. The slavering hordes of Malkin-land might or might not have made a difference …
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Brian Beutler
Ezra Klein:
An Answer! — Michelle Malkin replies to my challenge for a debate about S-CHIP. Her answer? Of course not. She's afraid to debate policy on the merits. She has no interest in "a good-faith argument." She's here to swing the hatchet, and lacks either the interest or the aptitude to rise above that station.
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
CNN blames Dems for Frost family smear — Over the course of the week, it's been unquestionably obvious, even to many conservatives, that smearing 12-year-old Graeme Frost and his family has been a huge mistake. The right not only launched a vicious smear of a seventh-grader, it more importantly did so with falsehoods.
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Gore to learn whether he'll win Nobel Peace Prize — 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.
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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.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Joe Klein's defense of 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.
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Michelle Malkin:
Why did Google ban anti-MoveOn.org ads? — Update 10:45am Eastern. Want to see the banned ads? Here's the scoop from the guy who tried to place them. — Over the past few weeks, I've been driving home the little-noticed story about MoveOn.org bullying mom-and-pop Internet shop owners who criticized the General Petraeus ads.
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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 …
WorldNetDaily:
Giuliani 'doesn't deserve to live' — Terrorists threaten presidential candidate, cite Rudy's war stance, Arafat treatment — Saying Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani "doesn't deserve to live," Palestinian terror leaders are threatening to harm the former New York mayor …
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The Newshoggers, Comments from Left Field, Israel Matzav, The Van Der Galiën Gazette and PrairiePundit
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 …
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D-Day, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, Shakespeare's Sister, CNN Political Ticker and The Newshoggers
Alex Berenson / New York Times:
Boom Times for Dentists, but Not for Teeth — For American dentists, times have never been better. — The same cannot be said for Americans' teeth. — With dentists' fees rising far faster than inflation and more than 100 million people lacking dental insurance, the percentage of Americans …
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?
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