memeorandum: CPI — Herbert: … This isn't true. The CPI does include food … (Atrios/Eschaton)

4:20 PM ET, November 10, 2007

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Richard Landes / Pajamas Media:

AL-DURA AND THE "PUBLIC SECRET" OF MIDDLE EAST JOURNALISM — The evidence emerging from the ongoing Al Dura trial in France indicates that Western journalists are fully aware that some of the footage they use in their reports on the Mideast conflict is staged, charges Richard Landes.

Discussion: Power Line

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:

Is Everyone's Game Fixed Now? — One of my favorite films, John Sayles' Eight Men Out, tells the story of the 1919 Chicago White Sox, who threw the World Series for gambler cash. It shows what happens when people feel an entitlement to something other than integrity.

Andrew Malcolm / Los Angeles Times:

Clinton admits planting questions in public forum — Hillary Clinton stopped at a bio-diesel plant in Newton, Iowa earlier this week to see alternative fuels in the making and drive home the week's campaign theme of her energy plan. After a tour, the candidate took questions from the crowd.

Discussion: Booman Tribune and Jules Crittenden

Major Garrett / Fox News:

Clinton Campaign Confirms Planting Town Hall Question, Says It Won't Happen Again — SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton's campaign admitted Friday that it planted a global warming question in Newton, Iowa, Tuesday during a town hall meeting to discuss clean energy.

John McCormick / The Swamp:

Edwards hits Clinton, Dodd says general to be close — DES MOINES—Former Sen. John Edwards lashed out at Democratic presidential rival Sen. Hillary Clinton today for staging a question at a voter meet-and-greet session and compared it to something that President Bush would do. — "That's what George Bush does.

Discussion: CNN Political Ticker

Martina Stewart / CNN Political Ticker:
Questions planted by Clinton campaign

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report and Say Anything

Michelle Malkin:
Hillary's control freak campaign: The politics of planting questions

Discussion: Don Surber, Oliver Willis, The Caucus and Stop The ACLU

NPR:
Clinton Campaign Says It Tipped Maid-Rite Waitress

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, The Stump, Political Machine and TIME: Swampland

Sara Just / Political Radar:
Clinton Camp Admits To Planting Questions

Discussion: Brilliant at Breakfast and Media Blog

Charles McGrath / New York Times:

Norman Mailer, Outspoken Novelist, Dies at 84 — Norman Mailer, the combative, controversial and often outspoken novelist who loomed over American letters longer and larger than any writer of his generation, died today at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. He was 84.

Discussion: Time, Connecting.the.Dots, The Democratic Daily, The Cabal, The American Street, Lawyers, Guns and Money, Commentary and JammieWearingFool

Pajamas Media:

Norman Mailer, a dissenting view — The news that the novelist Norman Mailer died earlier today at the age of 84 has already elicited little hagiographical murmurs. That hushed choir will doubtless turn into a deafening chorus of praise in the coming days and weeks—how much space …

Discussion: Power Line, Althouse, Roger L. Simon and Transterrestrial Musings

Bart Barnes / Washington Post:
Pulitzer Prize-Winner Norman Mailer Dies at 84

Discussion: GregsOpinion.com

Bob Herbert / New York Times:

Recession? What Recession? — If it looks like a recession and feels like a recession ... "Quite frankly," said Senator Charles Schumer, peering over his glasses at the Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, "I think we are at a moment of economic crisis, stemming from four key areas …

Discussion: QandO, The American Street and Grasping Reality …

Atrios / Eschaton:

CPI — Herbert: … This isn't true. The CPI does include food and energy; the "core inflation" measure does not. It seems increasingly likely that the Fed puts its hands over its ears and says "NA NA NA I CAN'T HEAR YOU" when it comes to the CPI and focuses almost entirely …

Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:

Republicans blame the wrong president for overstretched military — Of all of Bush's misstatements from the 2000 presidential election, one of the most obviously-false attacks was on military readiness. Indeed, then-Gov. Bush blamed Clinton and Gore directly for "hollowing out" the military.

Discussion: Prairie Weather

Eric Kleefeld / Election Central:
Top Iowa Story: Rudy Attacks Bill Clinton — Plus Russia And China

Discussion: The Van Der Galiën Gazette

Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:

Rice's Management at Issue — Critics Cite Blackwater, Baghdad Embassy and Passports — Shortly after Condoleezza Rice took charge of the 57,000-person State Department in 2005, she said she relished the challenge of "line responsibility" in leading a large organization.

Discussion: Think Progress, Daniel W. Drezner, The Carpetbagger Report and Prairie Weather

Associated Press:

Play of the Day: McCain's Mom on Mormons — MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) - John McCain's 95-year-old mother, in a swipe at her son's rival Mitt Romney, said Friday that Mormons were to blame for the scandal that rocked the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics. — During an appearance on MSNBC …

Discussion: PoliPundit.com, Riehl World View and Althouse

Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:

NUCLEAR....John McCain offered up some criticism of Bernie Kerik yesterday for bailing out on his job training the Iraqi police, and the Giuliani campaign naturally went ballistic in response. Rich Lowry is perturbed: … But this is just the package you get with Rudy.

Discussion: Hullabaloo, The Atlantic Online, Lawyers, Guns and Money and Riehl World View

Learfield / Radio Iowa:

Edwards @ John Mellencamp concert — It was 7 p.m. on a Friday night in Des Moines and I was driving to meet friends L, M and S at Wells Fargo Arena where I would see one of my favorite bands, Los Lobos, open for John Mellencamp. The sound of my phone ringing pierced the interior of my car.