memeorandum: Full Text of Email Reveals Greenwald Mischaracterizations (Bluto/The Dread Pundit Bluto)

5:50 PM ET, October 29, 2007

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

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: Pollster.com, Hot Air, The Page, Los Angeles Times, TIME: Swampland, The Atlantic Online, Washington Wire, The Stump, skippy the bush kangaroo, Boston Globe, Lynn Sweet and The Corner

Hillary Clinton / Journalism.org:
THE INVISIBLE PRIMARY—INVISIBLE NO LONGER

Discussion: New York Times, Taylor Marsh, techPresident, Hot Air, Democratic Strategist and Think On These Things

Richelieu / Weekly Standard:
New Iowa Numbers — The Cardinal is back, after a few days …

Discussion: Townhall.com Blog's …, TIME and Boston Globe

Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:
Polls don't reflect Obama's star power

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

Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
Foreign Policy Grown-Up

Discussion: Obsidian Wings, The Atlantic Online, Booman Tribune, The Carpetbagger Report and National Review

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

Discussion: The Politico and CNN Political Ticker

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, Salon, Blue Crab Boulevard, Crooks and Liars, bustardblog, Wake up America, Bookworm Room, Wizbang, Take Our Country Back, Balloon Juice, Ezra Klein, Classical Values and Discourse.net

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

Abject stupidity defined — (updated below - Update II) — If there is a place with more abject stupidity swirling around than the right-wing blogosphere, I'd like to know where it is. Truly, consider what has to be going on inside their brains for this to happen:

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, Chuck Adkins, The Dread Pundit Bluto and Balloon Juice

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

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 …

The Corner: Tancredo — I'm sorry that Tom Tancredo is retiring from Congress.

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

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 and The American Street

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: protein wisdom, Captain's Quarters, Liberal Values, michellemalkin.com, Take Our Country Back, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, Blue Crab Boulevard, Weekly Standard, The Newshoggers and Outside The Beltway

Ezra Klein:
Medical Tourism — Andrew Sullivan's very excited by the fact …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online and Washington Monthly

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: The Van Der Galiën Gazette, Publius Endures, Donklephant, Reason Magazine and Suitably Flip

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: Wonkette, L.A. Times, The Newshoggers, DownWithTyranny!, Gawker and The American Mind

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

Looming Catastrophe as Campaign Opportunity — If Obama is hoping for an issue to gain traction with vis a vis Hillary, he's really muffed it picking Social Security. In itself the idea of removing or significantly restructuring the 'cap' on payroll taxes is a good one, at least one with a lot to recommend it.

Discussion: Daily Kos, Eschaton, The Stump, Open Left and Democratic Strategist

White House:

President Bush Announces Recipients of Presidential Medal of Freedom — President George W. Bush today announced recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation's highest civil award. Established by Executive Order 11085 in 1963, the Medal may be awarded by the President …

Discussion: Washington Wire, The Swamp and Babalu Blog

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, The Carpetbagger Report and Lawyers, Guns and Money

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 …