memeorandum: Fearing Fear Itself (Paul Krugman/New York Times)

3:40 PM ET, October 29, 2007

Top Items:

Jay Newton-Small / Time:

Huckabee Surges, Edwards Fades — The latest still photo from the slow motion, inter-party electoral horse race known as Iowa is in — and it looks like John Edwards is losing steam on the Democratic side while Mike Huckabee is charging at the GOP frontrunners.

Discussion: MoJoBlog, MyDD, Taylor Marsh, Chuck Adkins, Pollster.com, The Carpetbagger Report, Outside The Beltway, Liberal Values, MSNBC, The Caucus, Donklephant and The Plank

University of Iowa News Services:

UI Hawkeye Poll: Huckabee gaining; Clinton and Obama battling for top spot — Mitt Romney continues to hold a strong lead in Iowa among candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination. But Mike Huckabee's Iowa numbers — buoyed, perhaps, by growing support among Evangelical Christians …

Discussion: TIME: Swampland, skippy the bush kangaroo, Washington Wire, The Stump, Boston Globe, Lynn Sweet and The Corner

Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:

Polls don't reflect Obama's star power — The Democrat creates a stir wherever he goes, but runs far behind Clinton nationally. Some observers are puzzled; others say he's too gentle. — DES MOINES — Hutton Street, a modest, racially mixed working-class neighborhood on the city's east side …

Discussion: The Stump, The Caucus, Eunomia, Bookworm Room, PoliBlog (TM), Outside The Beltway, Captain's Quarters and Cliff Schecter

Hillary Clinton / Journalism.org:

THE INVISIBLE PRIMARY—INVISIBLE NO LONGER — A First Look at Coverage of the 2008 Presidential Campaign — In the early months of the 2008 presidential campaign, the media had already winnowed the race to mostly five candidates and offered Americans relatively little information …

Discussion: New York Times, Taylor Marsh, techPresident, Democratic Strategist, Hot Air, Think On These Things, The Van Der Galiën Gazette and Romenesko

Mark Blumenthal / Pollster.com:
NEW IA POLL TOMORROW....BUT A CAUTION

Discussion: The Opinionator, The Page and The Atlantic Online

Frank James / The Swamp:
Iowa's 3-way race for Dems as Romney leads big

Discussion: The Politico

Bluto / The Dread Pundit Bluto:

Full Text of Email Reveals Greenwald Mischaracterizations — Welcome, fellow minions of the lgf New World Odor — Glenn Greenwald, as he had promised in his post at Salon, has forwarded the email he says he received from Colonel Steven A. Boylan, Public Affairs Officer for General Petraeus.

Discussion: The Jawa Report, Crooks and Liars, bustardblog, Bookworm Room, Wake up America, Little Green Footballs, Wizbang, Take Our Country Back, Discourse.net, Classical Values, Ezra Klein, A Second Hand Conjecture, The Atlantic Online, Unqualified Offerings and The Van Der Galiën Gazette

Jules Crittenden:

UPDATE MCMLXVIII — The plot has thickened in Boylangate, where Greenwald at last check is up to UPDATE VII and in an advanced tizzy. As well he should be. Because it would appear the sockpuppet, a bestselling author in addition to being a highly accomplished and widely respected constitutional lawyer …

Discussion: protein wisdom and Blue Crab Boulevard

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Abject stupidity defined

Discussion: Balloon Juice, The Dread Pundit Bluto and Weasel Zippers

M.E. Sprengelmeyer / Rocky Mountain News:

Tancredo says he's leaving Congress — Even if he loses his long-shot bid for the White House, Rep. Tom Tancredo will be leaving the U.S. House of Representatives at the end of 2008. — Tancredo, 61 , waited until after the Colorado Rockies' last out of the World Series on Sunday night …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, The Trail, Open Left, The Carpetbagger Report, The Border Line, Reason Magazine, Associated Press, Swing State Project, MyDD, Political Radar, Redstate, ImmigrationProf Blog, PoliBlog (TM), Hot Air and Mercury Rising

Club for Growth:

Ron Paul's Record on Economic Issues … Ron Paul: The Perfect as the Enemy of the Good — Taxes … Ron Paul's record on taxes is excellent, epitomized by his rallying cry for phasing out the IRS[1]. A strong believer in the economic benefits of tax cuts, he declared in a 2006 article …

Discussion: Donklephant, Reason Magazine and Suitably Flip

The Corner:
Ron Paul and Alex Jones

Discussion: Hot Air

Brad Friedman / The BRAD BLOG:

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds Will Now Tell All - and Face Charges if Necessary - to Any Major Television Network That Will Let Her — Attention CBS 60 Minutes: we've got a huge scoop for you. If you want it. — Remember the exclusive story you aired on Sibel Edmonds …

Discussion: Booman Tribune, The Agonist, CANNONFIRE and The American Street

John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:

Obama campaign spokesman blasts gays at Gospel concert; white preacher and Obama say nothing — UPDATE: Per the NYT, the anti-gay activist turned the entire final half hour of the concert into an anti-gay harangue: … Surprise, surprise, surprise. Obama's anti-gay religious right activist used …

Discussion: Open Left, The Caucus, MoJoBlog, Norwegianity, CNN Political Ticker, DownWithTyranny!, Shakespeare's Sister, Main and Central, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, Slog and The Stump

Sridhar Pappu / Washington Post:
In S.C., Obama Seeks a Spiritual Reawakening

Discussion: michellemalkin.com, MSNBC, NewsBusters.org and The Stump

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Fearing Fear Itself — In America's darkest hour, Franklin Delano Roosevelt urged the nation not to succumb to "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror." But that was then. — Today, many of the men who hope to be the next president — including all of the candidates with a significant chance …

Discussion: The Seminal, TIME, Publius Endures, Shakespeare's Sister, Norwegianity, Connecting.the.Dots, RealClearPolitics, JammieWearingFool, SteveAudio, The Heretik, Tennessee Guerilla Women, All Spin Zone, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Middle Earth Journal and The Democratic Daily

Daily Mail:

Record numbers go abroad for health treatment with 70,000 escaping NHS — Record numbers of Britons are travelling abroad for medical treatment to escape the NHS - with 70,000 patients expected to fly out this year. — And by the end of the decade 200,000 "health tourists" …

Discussion: michellemalkin.com, protein wisdom, Weekly Standard, Captain's Quarters, Hot Air, Blue Crab Boulevard, Take Our Country Back, Liberal Values, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, The Newshoggers, Right Wing News, BitsBlog, Macsmind, Times of London, Don Surber, Outside The Beltway, Stop The ACLU and Fausta's blog

Rick Jacobs / The Huffington Post:

Ann Coulter: On the Gay Circuit in West Hollywood — We had dinner last night at Murano, a new West Hollywood restaurant, owned by gay circuit party promoter Jeffrey Sanker, and lesbian night club owners Robin Gans and Sandy Sachs. It's a visually stunning space, straight lines …

Discussion: The Newshoggers, Gawker, Wonkette, DownWithTyranny! and The American Mind

Katrin Bennhold / International Herald Tribune:

Sarkozy storms out of "60 minutes" interview — PARIS: "No, no. This is stupid," President Nicolas Sarkozy snorted, abruptly unplugging his microphone and calling his press secretary an "imbecile" for setting up an interview with American television network CBS on a busy day.

Discussion: Wake up America and The Van Der Galiën Gazette

Studs Terkel / New York Times:

The Wiretap This Time — EARLIER this month, the Senate Intelligence Committee and the White House agreed to allow the executive branch to conduct dragnet interceptions of the electronic communications of people in the United States. They also agreed to "immunize" American telephone companies …

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, Connecting.the.Dots, The Reaction, The American Street and Brian Beutler

Digby / Hullabaloo:

Psssst — I received this email from Slate this morning: … Well, since I don't think Melinda Henneberger can possibly know anything about the inner workings of the candidates' marriages and I don't think their most intimate relationship would tell me anything particularly relevant …

Discussion: Firedoglake, Eschaton and Lawyers, Guns and Money