memeorandum: Just Another Hiss on the Trail (Washington Post)

9:10 PM ET, November 27, 2007

Top Items:

What's Really in the RESTORE Act — I was pleased to see Time Magazine columnist Joe Klein acknowledge that he "may have made a mistake" in his column attacking the House Majority ("The Tone Deaf Democrats") and misrepresenting the RESTORE Act. Unfortunately, Mr. Klein still professes confusion toward …

Discussion: SquareState.net, Salon and TIME: Swampland

Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:

Shorter Time Magazine: Equal Time For GOP Propaganda — This is their idea of a correction? … I guess nobody troubled themselves to actually read the bill itself, which appears to be written in English. — Rush Holt, one of the authors of the bill: … Time Magazine is in Deborah Howell territory here.

Discussion: Salon, Think Progress and Daily Kos

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

Demand answers from Time magazine — Update III: "Response" from Rick Stengel — I spent the morning working with the tenacious and resourceful Jane Hamsher on finding out exactly which Time editors were responsible for the wildly inaccurate Joe Klein FISA article.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Daily Kos, Threat Level, The Next Hurrah, Hullabaloo and Weekly Standard

Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Time Magazine Circles The Wagons Around Joe Klein

Discussion: Booman Tribune, Daily Kos, Open Left, The Next Hurrah, Crooks and Liars, I Am TRex, The Sideshow, TalkLeft, Salon and BitsBlog

Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:

Exclusive: Romney Opposed Naming Muslim To Cabinet On Second Occasion, Witnesses Say — Presidential canidate Mitt Romney has discounted appointing Muslims to his cabinet on more than just the one occasion reported in a CSM op-ed yesterday. — TPM Election Central has learned …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Hot Air, CNN Political Ticker, The Huffington Post, Think Progress, No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Kos, AMERICAblog, Salon, Blue Mass. Group, TIME, The Atlantic Online, Political Machine, Outside The Beltway, Firedoglake, MoJoBlog, Power Line and The Reaction

Mark Murray / MSNBC:

First Read: Romney clarifies Muslim statement — From NBC/NJ's Erin McPike and NBC's Mark Murray — ST. PETERSBURG, FL — At an availability with reporters here, Romney answered questions about today's report suggesting that he would not appoint Muslims to his Cabinet. "No, that's not what I said.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, National Review, Christian Science Monitor, Big Lizards, The Carpetbagger Report, TIME, Riehl World View and Hot Air

Mike Allen / The Politico:

Romney: Muslims not needed in Cabinet — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, asked about putting a Muslim in his presidential Cabinet, said that he "cannot see that a Cabinet position would be justified" based on the percentage of Muslims in the U.S., according to an Islamic businessman …

Discussion: Think Progress, Chuck Adkins, BLACKFIVE, Wonkette, National Review, Say Anything, The Corner, The Atlantic Online, BitsBlog, Crooks and Liars, The Carpetbagger Report, Slate and The Heretik

John Amato / Crooks and Liars:

Extreme right wing Phil Kline investigated by KCTV5 — You may know of Phil Kline by his numerous appearances with Bill O'Reilly and his constant attacks on Planned Parenthood. You'd think he would have won his election against Paul Morrison because of all the free publicity, but he got defeated.

The KC Blue Blog:
BREAKING NEWS: KCTV 5 BUSTS PHIL KLINE

Discussion: Daily Kos and Shakespeare's Sister

Patrick Healy / The Caucus:

Hillary's Secret Weapon: Colin Powell? — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has been talking for some time now about how, if she is elected president, she will ask both Democratic and Republican statesmen to hit the road on her behalf to declare that "bipartisan foreign policy is back" in post-George W. Bush America.

Discussion: The New Republic, Hot Air, Attytood, Shakespeare's Sister, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, TPM Election Central and PSoTD

CNN Political Ticker:

I was with Fred — Somewhere over South Carolina (CNN) — I am in a coach middle seat, flying from Washington, D.C. to Tampa, Florida on US Airways Flight 1491, destined for the CNN-YouTube GOP debate in St. Petersburg. — The child cooing two aisles in front of me is Samuel Thompson, potentially the nation's future first toddler.

Discussion: Ian Schwartz

Jeffrey Ressner / The Politico:
Actors not buying into actor's campaign

Discussion: The Corner

Ed OKeefe / Political Radar:

Gingrich Predicts Obama in Iowa — ABC News' Ed O'Keefe Reports: Newt Gingrich predicts Barack Obama will win the hotly contested vote in Iowa, saying the junior Senator from Illinois will motivate more energized supported than the former First Lady. — "My guess is Senator Obama's …

Discussion: Ankle Biting Pundits and CALIFORNIA YANKEE

Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
Streisand Endorses Clinton

Discussion: CNN and HorsesAss.Org

Michael J. Totten:

An Edgy Calm in Fallujah — FALLUJAH, IRAQ - "You're probably safer here than you are in New York City," said Marine First Lieutenant Barry Edwards when I arrived in Fallujah. I raised my eyebrows at him skeptically. "How many people got shot at last night in New York City?" he said.

Discussion: Dean's World, The Atlantic Online and Instapundit.com

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

EPIPHANY — Over the Thanksgiving holiday I was looking at some polling charts at pollster.com. And I had what I can only call a computational epiphany. Those of us who are watching the races at least somewhat closely know that the basic tension in the Republican race is that Rudy Giuliani …

Discussion: Weekly Standard, National Review Online, Boston Globe, The American Street, Hot Air, Blue Mass. Group, Blogometer, The Atlantic Online, Lawyers, Guns and Money, The Sideshow and CNN

David Brooks / New York Times:

Follow the Fundamentals — Lou Dobbs is winning. He's not winning personally. He's not going to start winning presidential awards or elite respect. But his message is winning. Month by month the ideas that once prevailed on the angry fringe enter the mainstream and turn into conventional wisdom.

Discussion: US Elections and The Swamp

The Blotter:

Out of Spotlight, Giuliani Embraces Convicted Moneyman — Avni Patel and Richard Esposito Report: — A Pennsylvania man convicted in a notorious corruption case played host to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani at a fundraiser last night, despite the Giuliani campaign's public efforts to distance itself from the man.

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report and The American Street

The Raw Story:

The permanent Republican majority: Daughter of jailed Democratic governor sees hand of Rove — In Part II of the RSI special investigation, The Permanent Republican Majority, the daughter of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman sits down for an exclusive interview about the family's ordeal and her father's case.

Discussion: The Huffington Post and At-Largely

Media Matters for America:

CNN pledges no Dem "gotchas" in Republican YouTube debate — so why did CNN allow partisan "gotchas" in Dem debate? — In a November 21 post to The New York Times' political blog, The Caucus, staff writer Ariel Alexovich purported to give a "sneak peek" at how questions for the November 28 …