memeorandum: Billary's Adventures in Primaryland (Colbert I. King/Washington Post)

12:55 PM ET, January 26, 2008

Top Items:

Rules? The Clintons Don't Need No Stinkin' Rules! — The Democratic National Committee stripped Michigan and Florida of its delegates for violating scheduling rules for their primaries. It took 365 delegates off the table and forced candidates to stop campaigning in the two vital states.

Discussion: The Corner, Macsmind and Outside The Beltway

Zogby:

Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Polls: Obama Solidifies Lead as Election Day Looms in South Carolina; McCain Holds Narrow Lead Over Romney in Florida; Others Far Back — 1/23-25 — 1/22-24 — 1/21-23 — 1/20-22 — Obama — 41% — 38% — 39% — 43% — Clinton — 26% — 25%

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Pajamas Media, MyDD, Sister Toldjah and Pollster.com

John O'Connor / The State:

Signs pointing to record turnout — If voters surge, party could share winner's momentum — Good weather and an attractive slate of candidates have South Carolina Democrats expecting record turnout for today's presidential primary, continuing a trend seen in other early-voting states.

Discussion: The Politico, Wonkette, The Caucus, QandO, The Strata-Sphere and New York Times

Chris Frates / The Politico:

Clinton pursues selective strategy in S.C. — Columbia, S.C. - With polls showing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton lagging behind Sen. Barack Obama here, the Clinton campaign is concentrating on competing hard in selected congressional districts in an effort to keep Obama from running up the score in Saturday's primary.

Discussion: About.com US Politics, Riehl World View and New York Times

Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
A Stress-Filled Week Shows Obama With a Blend of Humor and Fire

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and MSNBC

Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press:
Clinton: Give States Their Delegates

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, 2008 Democratic … and Associated Press

Bob Herbert / New York Times:

Questions for the Clintons — Charleston, S.C. — Joseph P. Riley Jr. has been mayor of this historic and often tense city since the mid-1970s. He's a Democrat, highly respected and has worked diligently to heal racial wounds that have festered in some cases for hundreds of years.

Discussion: Horses Mouth, Norwegianity and Prairie Weather

Colbert I. King / Washington Post:

Billary's Adventures in Primaryland — “Be what you would seem to be — or, if you'd like it put more simply — Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”

Discussion: Firedoglake and The Carpetbagger Report

Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Corruption Of Feminism

Discussion: Fausta's blog and JustOneMinute

Dana Goldstein / American Prospect:
WHO STEPPED DOWN AND NAMED ANDREW SULLIVAN KING OF FEMINISM?

Discussion: Change of Subject, Slog, The Daily Dish and Feministe

Deborah Charles / Reuters:
Bill Clinton again wagging finger, raising eyebrows

Discussion: URGENT AGENDA, Doug Ross, The Edge of the American West, NewsBusters.org, Cold Fury, Don Surber, PunditGuy and Salon

Jeff Fecke / Shakespeare's Sister:
Andrew Sullivan, King of Feminism

Discussion: The Democratic Daily

CNN:
Bill Clinton: John McCain and Hillary are ‘very close’

Discussion: The Hill, URGENT AGENDA, Roger L. Simon, Flopping Aces, Political Punch, The Politico, Truthdig, THE LIBERAL JOURNAL and Wall Street Journal

Los Angeles Times:

Is the right right on the Clintons? — Hillary's campaign tactics are causing some liberals to turn against the couple. — Something strange happened the other day. All these different people — friends, co-workers, relatives, people on a liberal e-mail list I read — kept saying the same thing …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, JustOneMinute, Don Surber, Riehl World View and Dr. Sanity

Scott W. Johnson / Weekly Standard:

He Didn't Give at the Office — Remember that picture of Yasser Arafat, blood donor? — Charles Enderlin is the France 2 Jerusalem correspondent who broadcast the incendiary account of the death of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura at the hands of Israeli troops operating in the Gaza Strip in September 2000.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, The Corner, Hot Air, Reuters and Democracy Project

The Big Trunk / Power Line:

HE DIDN'T GIVE AT THE OFFICE — This week we've seen the news services become pure instruments of terrorist propaganda on behalf of Hamas. As Noah Pollak and Pajamas Media pointed out, even Time jumped in to lend a hand. Rest assured that the organs of the mainstream media will not pause …

Discussion: Pajamas Media

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

MORE ON DELEGATES — Not surprisingly there's been an avalanche of heated emails in response to my post about the question of whether delegates from Florida and Michigan should be seated at the Democratic National Convention. Oddly enough most of the people who wrote in from Michigan …

Discussion: TalkLeft

HillaryClinton.com:
Statement by Senator Hillary Clinton on the Seating of Delegates …

Discussion: Right Wing Nut House, The Moderate Voice, Wake up America, Outside The Beltway, The Carpetbagger Report, Hard Starboard, Emptywheel, Liberty Street, PoliGazette, Rolling Stone, Wizbang, michellemalkin.com, QandO, Liberal Values, TPM Election Central and Say Anything

Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Obama And Edwards Are On The FL Ballot Too

Discussion: PSoTD, Taylor Marsh, The Huffington Post, American Prospect, the talking dog, Donklephant, JustOneMinute, Talking Points Memo, Matthew Yglesias, The Reaction and D-Day

Karl / protein wisdom:
Dems 2008: Clinton backs seating MI, FL delegates, heads explode

Discussion: The Newshoggers, Don Surber, Redstate and Blue Crab Boulevard

philly.com:

Nude Buttocks May Cost ABC $1.4 Million — WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a $1.4 million fine against 52 ABC Television Network stations over a 2003 broadcast of cop drama NYPD Blue. — The fine is for a scene where a boy surprises a woman as she prepares to take a shower.

Discussion: Eschaton and Suburban Guerrilla

Gail Collins / New York Times:

Heeere's Rudy! — “As I've pointed out over and over again ...” Rudy Giuliani said this week at a press conference in a South Florida suburb. — The great Russell Baker once observed that when a reporter finds himself writing “Once again this year ...” it's time to look for a new beat.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice

Robert D. Novak / Townhall.com:
Attorney General Edwards?

Discussion: Power Line, Sister Toldjah, Donklephant and Political Machine

Garry Wills / New York Times:

Two Presidents Are Worse Than One — SENATOR Hillary Clinton has based her campaign on experience — 35 years of it by her count. That must include her eight years in the White House. — Some may debate whether those years count as executive experience.

Discussion: The Daily Dish, The Carpetbagger Report and TPMCafe blogs

Dermot McEvoy / Publishers Weekly:

Knopf to Release Latest Huffington in April — Founder of HuffingtonPost.com, Arianna Huffington, has a new book on the way that excoriates the media, Bob Woodward and Tim Russert in particular. — Knopf will publish Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America …

Discussion: protein wisdom

Seth Schiesel / New York Times:

Author Faults a Game, and Gamers Flame Back — The Internet hath no fury like a gamer scorned. — That's the lesson Fox News and a self-help author learned this week after a program on that channel featured a discussion of the sexual content of the hit video game Mass Effect.

Discussion: Big Brass Blog, Simply Left Behind and News Hounds

Noor Khan / Associated Press:

American woman kidnapped in Afghanistan — KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Gunmen kidnapped a burqa-clad American aid worker and her driver in southern Afghanistan's largest city early Saturday, snatching the woman from a residential neighborhood as she was on her way to work.

Discussion: The Jawa Report