memeorandum: Obama vs. Bill on the media (Ben Smith/The Politico)

7:00 PM ET, January 8, 2008

Top Items:

Angry White Man — The bigoted past of Ron Paul. — If you are a critic of the Bush administration, chances are that, at some point over the past six months, Ron Paul has said something that appealed to you. Paul describes himself as a libertarian, but, since his presidential campaign took off earlier …

Ron Paul 2008:

Press Releases › Ron Paul Statement on The New Republic Article Regarding Old Newsletters — ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA - In response to an article published by The New Republic, Ron Paul issued the following statement: — “The quotations in The New Republic article are not mine …

Discussion: Reason Magazine, Little Green Footballs, The Daily Dish, LewRockwell.com Blog, race42008.com and Michael J. Totten

Daniel Koffler / Pajamas Media:

RON PAUL BIGOTRY REVOLUTION — A damning New Republic expose on Ron Paul shows the “libertarian” Republican candidate to be a racist, a homophobe and an anti-Semite. Will his diehard supporters continue to defend a man who called Martin Luther King a gay pedophile?

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, EconLog and A Blog For All

David Weigel / Reason Magazine:

Exclusive: Ron Paul Responds To New Republic Story — About an hour ago I followed Ron Paul outside the Radisson in Manchester, NH to get his response to James Kirchick's explosive New Republic piece, “Angry White Man." The article goes through the Texas Republican's newsletters …

Discussion: Liberal Values and The American Scene

Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:

Ron Paul Exposed? — It took a while to get through to their server but I was finally able to read Jamie Kirchick's review of the various newsletters sponsored by Ron Paul in the 1980s and 1990s. They are a repellent series of tracts, full of truly appalling bigotry.

Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Audio: TNR editor pores through the archives of Ron Paul's …

Discussion: TownHall Blog

Berin M. Szoka / Gays & Lesbians for Ron Paul:
Jamie Kirchick: “I don't think Ron Paul is a homophobe; I'm just cynical”

Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog

The New Republic:
Selections From Ron Paul's Newsletters

Discussion: Wake up America and Reason Magazine

Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:

New Hampshire Turnout ‘Absolutely Huge’ — ABC News' Karen Travers Reports: New Hampshire Deputy Secretary of State Dave Scanlan told ABC News that turnout among primary voters today is “absolutely huge” — and there are concerns about running out of ballots in towns like Portsmouth, Keene, Hudson and Pelham.

Discussion: MSNBC, Captain's Quarters, The Carpetbagger Report, The Trail, Los Angeles Times, On Deadline, Wonkette, MyDD, Outside The Beltway, The Democratic Daily and HorsesAss.Org

Gloria Steinem / New York Times:

Women Are Never Front-Runners — Correction appended. — THE woman in question became a lawyer after some years as a community organizer, married a corporate lawyer and is the mother of two little girls, ages 9 and 6. Herself the daughter of a white American mother and a black African father …

Pat Grossmith / New Hampshire Union Leader:

Large voter turnout reported — MANCHESTER - Long lines of people formed inside some polls this morning minutes after they opened at 6 a.m. for the New Hampshire presidential primary. — Louise Gosselin, Ward 6 moderator, said election officials expected about 150 people to vote each hour at St. Pius X on Candia Road.

Discussion: TPM Election Central, Liberal Values, BobKrumm.com, Firedoglake and Open Left

Bill Clinton / CNN:

Bill Clinton targets media coverage of Obama — (CNN) - On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, former President Bill Clinton criticized the media for not pressing Barack Obama more fully on Iraq, and accused the Illinois senator of shifting his position to reflect changing attitudes on the war.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Captain's Quarters and The Caucus

Jose Antonio Vargas / The Trail:
Dartmouth Students Walk Out on Bill

Discussion: The Politico, Firedoglake, Daily Kos, Heading Right, michellemalkin.com, Jack and Jill Politics, Power Line, Mike's America and The Moderate Voice

Josh Gerstein / Latest Politics:
President Clinton Sees Post-Iowa ‘Tidal Wave,’ Faults Press for Obama ‘Fairy Tale’

Discussion: Washington Post, Horses Mouth, D-Day, FOX Embeds, The Trail, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, Classical Values, TPM Election Central, Taylor Marsh and Matthew Yglesias

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
GUERRILLA WARFARE?

Discussion: TPM Election Central, MoJoBlog, The Daily Dish and The Huffington Post

Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Voters Surging to Polls at Record Pace in N.H. Primary

Discussion: The Swamp, INTEL DUMP, Real Clear Politics, Confederate Yankee and Outside The Beltway

Wretchard / The Belmont Club:
The Perfect Storm — What destroyed Hillary Clinton's campaign?

Discussion: MSNBC and Chicago Boyz

David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
HILLARY GIVING UP ON NEVADA AND S.C.?

Discussion: Open Left, THE LIBERAL JOURNAL, Hot Air, michellemalkin.com, TIME and Too Sense

Ariel Sabar / Christian Science Monitor:
New Hampshire turning ‘blue’

Discussion: neo-neocon

Jackie Calmes / Wall Street Journal:
Clinton Braces for Second Loss; Union, Senators May Back Obama

Discussion: New York Times, New York Post, FP Passport, Time, The Caucus, The Carpetbagger Report, Taylor Marsh, Political Machine, You Decide 08! and TIME

Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:

James Carville Emphatically Denies That He's Going To Work For Hillary — Fox News just reported that James Carville and Paul Begala will be re-entering the Clinton orbit by coming in to work for Hillary as senior campaign volunteers as early as tomorrow — the idea being that they're …

Discussion: The Opinionator

Major Garrett / Major Garrett's Bourbon Room:
Back to the Future: Carville & Begala to join Clinton campaign

Discussion: Pam's House Blend

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs: Shake-up, the narrative — James Carville is coming on board …

Chris Cillizza / The Fix: Maggie Williams to Join Clinton Effort

Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:

Huckabee vows to defy birthright citizenship — Mike Huckabee wants to amend the Constitution to prevent children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens from automatically becoming American citizens, according to his top immigration surrogate — a radical step no other major presidential candidate has embraced.

Discussion: Firedoglake, Outside The Beltway, PoliBlog (TM), The Opinionator, D-Day, Wizbang, The Sundries Shack, The Carpetbagger Report, PoliPundit.com, The Corner and Say Anything

Byron York / The Corner:
Re: You Have to be Kidding Me — Mike Huckabee just released this statement:

Discussion: The Jawa Report

Mark R. Levin / The Corner:
You Have to Be Kidding Me

Discussion: Rasmussen Reports and Hot Air

Mark Blumenthal / Pollster.com:

LOOKING FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE EXIT POLLS? — Looking for leaked exit poll results from New Hampshire? Sorry to disappoint, but whatever their merits, we are unlikely to see any such leaked results until moments before the polls close. — In past years, the network consortium that conducts …

Discussion: Marc Ambinder, Fruits and Votes, Open Left and Democratic Strategist

New York Post:

IRAN 1, USA 0 — NAVAL ERROR IN THE GULF — EARLY Sunday morning, the US Navy lost its nerve and guaranteed that American sailors will die at Iranian hands in the future. — As three of our warships passed through the Straits of Hormuz, five small Iranian patrol craft rushed them.

Discussion: Weekly Standard, The Corner, QandO, Israel Matzav, Wolf Howling and BLACKFIVE

Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Today's Must Read

Discussion: Associated Press, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Time, The Lede and The Newshoggers

Ben Smith / The Politico:

Obama vs. Bill on the media — Obama talked to reporters at a Dunkin' Donuts in Manchester. — From the pool report: … He also talked about Nevada and South Carolina — where Clinton expects to lose — and offered a glimpse of the momentum the calendar will likely give him.

Discussion: 2008Central.net