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Rush Limbaugh's First Shots at Huckabee — So everybody and their brother is listening to Rush today, wondering if he'll take a shot at Huckabee after an unnamed Huckabee aide in DC criticized Limbaugh... The first comment, moments into the show: “You want to whine like Mike Huckabee's whining …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Rush goes nuclear on Huckabee? Update: Audio added — Bryan's headline yesterday said it all. Geraghty has a list of choice quotes from today's tirade — “McCain's starting to look better to than this guy, and that's saying something” jumps out — but the partial transcript suggests …
Michelle Malkin:
Mike Huckabee: The anti-Limbaugh candidate — Yes, the Huckabee campaign “hucked up” again. Time for another NYPost cover! — I was in the car listening to Rush Limbaugh responding to the Mike Huckabee campaign's attack on him. What an unbelievably knuckle-headed move by Huckabee's minions.
USA Today:
Poll: Obama makes gains, is even with Clinton in N.H. — PELHAM, N.H. — Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are locked in a dead heat among New Hampshire voters in a statewide USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, underscoring the volatility of the race less than three weeks before the nation's first primary.
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USA TODAY / Gallup poll — Results are based on interviews with 477 New Hampshire residents deemed most likely to vote in the Republican primary . The results for Section II are based on interviews with 510 New Hampshire residents deemed most likely to vote in the Democratic primary.
Zogby:
Zogby Poll: Obama Leads Top Republicans — Telephone survey shows fellow Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Edwards would defeat some GOPers, lose to others — UTICA, New York - Illinois Sen. Barack Obama would defeat all five of the top Republicans in prospective general election contests …
Michael Levenson / Boston Globe:
Romney never saw father on King march — Defends figurative words; evidence contradicts story — Mitt Romney acknowledged yesterday that he never saw his father march with Martin Luther King Jr. as he asserted in a nationally televised speech this month, and historical evidence shows …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
It Gets Better — Here's the latest on Mitt and MLK. Thirty years ago, Romney's version of the story was even more figurative:
Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
Re: Romney's Explanation — I had the same reaction as David — I thought it was just bad in that sort of “I was named after Sir Edmund Hillary” kind of way when I read Jim Geraghty's account, but it was REALLY tough to watch the video last night. And now (as Jennifer Rubin points …
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Byron York / The Corner:
Why Isn't Anyone Paying Attention to This? — This was not exactly bannered across the front page of the New York Times yesterday. As a matter of fact, I don't think I saw it in my paper at all. But on the Times' website, dated December 20, there is this headline: “Giuliani's Office Shifted Money Around?
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Deacon / Power Line:
THE SCANDAL THAT WASN'T — Remember the frenzy over suggestions that, as mayor, Rudy Giuliani tried to hide his visits to Judith Nathan in the Hamptons by burying the associated security costs in the budgets of obscure mayoral agencies? Well, the New York Times has looked deeply into the matter …
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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Obama Camp Registers Anti-Clinton Web Sites — Campaign Plays Semantics Over Whether Sites Are Personal Attacks — Though Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has pledged to keep criticisms of his rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, focused on the issues, ABC News has learned that his campaign secretly registered …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Hasta La Vista — Tom Tancredo is an angry man. — We know this because he has proposed dropping bombs on Mecca. We know this because he sang “Dixie” at a South Carolina gathering full of Confederate flags and white supremacists. And we know this because he wants to expel 12 million people now living in the United States.
Mark Schmitt / American Prospect:
The “Theory of Change” Primary — Perhaps we are being too literal in believing that “hope” and bipartisanship are things that Obama naively believes are present and possible, when in fact they are a tactic, a method of subverting and breaking the unified conservative power structure.
Tucker Carlson / The New Republic:
Pimp My Ride — On the road with Ron Paul's merry band of misfits and his hooker fan club. — The first thing I learned from driving around Nevada with Ron Paul for a couple of days: People really hate the Federal Reserve. This became clear midway through a speech Paul was giving …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Blindly Into the Bubble — When announcing Japan's surrender in 1945, Emperor Hirohito famously explained his decision as follows: “The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage." — There was a definite Hirohito feel to the explanation Ben Bernanke …