memeorandum: Candidate Statements on FISA (updated) (Matt Stoller/Open Left)

3:15 PM ET, October 11, 2007

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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, TalkLeft, The Carpetbagger Report, Balloon Juice, Matt Ortega, Shakespeare's Sister, Firedoglake, CommonDreams.org, WHAS11 Political Blog, The Garlic, Interesting Times and The Liberal Avenger

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: The Carpetbagger Report, The Newshoggers, QandO, Wake up America, Norwegianity, D-Day, Riehl World View, Suburban Guerrilla and Lawyers, Guns and Money

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, The Huffington Post, Right Wing Nut House, Macsmind, The Sundries Shack, Cliff Schecter, Grasping Reality …, The American Street, The Carpetbagger Report, The Heretik and TIME: Swampland

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: RADAMISTO

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 …

Discussion: Brian Beutler

Michelle Malkin:

My reply to Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein and his fellow travelers; Plus: Hillary threatens S-CHIP critics — Update 1:35pm Eastern. WHY DO YOU HATE CHILDREN SO MUCH?! — Update 1:00pm Eastern. Snort-worthy blue-on-blue spat of the day: ThinkProgress vs. CNN.

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

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and D-Day

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: michellemalkin.com, Blue Crab Boulevard, On Deadline, Hot Air 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, The Democratic Daily, Gateway Pundit and Balloon Juice

Chris Cillizza / The Fix:

Movement From the Gore-acle? — As regular Fix readers know, we have long been fascinated with former Vice President Al Gore and his future (or lack thereof) in elected politics. — The confluence of two recent stories has our Gore-dar buzzing again. The first was an ad that ran in the New York Times yesterday.

Discussion: JammieWearingFool

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

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

Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Al Gore for President

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

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: Corrente

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
GLENN GREENWALD: Warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty

Discussion: TalkLeft

Matt Stoller / Open Left:
Candidate Statements on FISA (updated)

Discussion: Firedoglake, Taylor Marsh and WorkingForChange

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 Atlantic Online, The Huffington Post, Eschaton, Roger L. Simon, The Anchoress, Air America Radio, Israellycool and Cliff Schecter

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, TigerHawk, Moonbattery, MSNBC and Reason Magazine

FactCheck.org:

Fred's Facts Check Out; Rudy's Don't — Thompson avoids error at his GOP debate debut. But Giuliani commits multiple gaffes. — Former Sen. Fred Thompson got the facts straight for his GOP debate debut Oct. 9. But former Mayor Rudy Giuliani added to a lengthening string of exaggerations and misstatements:

Discussion: Fred File and Liberal Values

David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Another Voice in the Choir

Discussion: Boston Globe, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Garlic, The Moderate Voice, MSNBC, The Politico, PrairiePundit and Redstate

Hugh Naylor / New York Times:

Syria Tells Journalists Israeli Raid Did Not Occur — Foreign journalists perused the rows of corn and the groves of date palms pregnant with low-hanging fruit here this week, while agents of Syria's ever-present security services stood in the background, watching closely, almost nervously.

Discussion: Early Warning, Israel Matzav, Yourish.com, Jules Crittenden and QandO

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 …

Discussion: The Newshoggers, Comments from Left Field, Israel Matzav, The Van Der Galiën Gazette and PrairiePundit

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: The Carpetbagger Report

C. Onur Ant / Associated Press:

Turkey recalls US ambassador for talks — ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey ordered its ambassador in Washington to return to Turkey for consultations over a U.S. House panel's approval of a bill describing the World War I-era mass killings of Armenians as genocide, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday.

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