Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
10:15 PM ET, February 4, 2008

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Dole scolds Limbaugh  —  Bob Dole, the former Senate Republican leader, wrote an insistent letter to Rush Limbaugh on Monday and suggested that for the good of the party, the conservative talk-show host should stop his strafing of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
RELATED:
CNN:
In letter to Limbaugh, Bob Dole defends McCain  —  BOSTON (CNN) — Former Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole on Monday wrote conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh defending John McCain as a “mainstream conservative” who had supported the party on critical votes during Dole's time as the Senate Republican leader.
Tony Allen-Mills / Times of London:
Flawed Cindy McCain has a grudge list  —  ON almost every step of his march towards the Republican nomination, John McCain has relied on the support of his glamorous second wife Cindy.  Yet she has not always been a political asset.  A Republican victory in November would bring to the White House a formidable but flawed first lady.
Jill Zuckman / The Swamp:   Bob Dole weighs in on McCain as a conservative
Jason George / The Swamp:
Hillary Clinton cries in Connecticut  —  NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Sen. Hillary Clinton teared up this morning at an event at the Yale Child Study Center, where she worked while in law school in the early 1970s.  —  Penn Rhodeen, who was introducing Clinton, began to choke up …
RELATED:
New York Magazine:
Breaking: Hillary Reemploys ‘The Cry’  —  Yep, it's official.  Hillary Clinton is running to be Crybaby-in-Chief.  According to the Tribune Co.'s politics blog, the Swamp, Clinton teared up after a heartfelt introduction by a former colleague at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, where she worked in college.
RELATED:
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Republicans have become the credibility-free party  —  (updated below)  —  Substantial attention has been paid to the historic unpopularity of the Bush presidency, but relatively little attention has been paid to the accompanying collapse of the Republican Party's credibility.
RELATED:
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Tracking Election 2008  —  Based on daily polling from Feb. 1-Feb. 3, 2008  —  PRINCETON, NJ — On the eve of the Super Tuesday election, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama remain closely matched in national Democratic voters' nomination preferences.
Josh Patashnik / The New Republic:
Vote McCain—Because Life Expectancy Is Going Up  —  The McCain campaign must be pretty spooked about conservative reaction to the story that their man isn't a full-throated Sam Alito fan.  Today the campaign sent out an email to supporters trumpeting this Wall Street Journal op-ed …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
RELATED:
Marc Ambinder:
Plouffe Memo: We're The Giants, Baby  —  (not in so many words...despite or because of polls showing that Obama is now leading or tied with Hillary Clinton nationally.). … I'm sorry.  Hold up, time out.  What??  Unless every Obama adviser I've spoken to over the past year has out and out lied to me …
CNN:
FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping  —  CLARKSBURG, West Virginia (CNN) — The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people's physical characteristics, all part of an effort the bureau says to better identify criminals and terrorists.
Seymour M. Hersh / New Yorker:
A STRIKE IN THE DARK  —  What did Israel bomb in Syria?  —  Israel and the U.S. have avoided comment on press reports about a nuclear facility.  —  Sometime after midnight on September 6, 2007, at least four low-flying Israeli Air Force fighters crossed into Syrian airspace and carried …
Little Green Footballs:
Muslims Enraged, Seething at Wikipedia  —  Apparently there are a whole lot of Muslims enraged and offended at Wikipedia, because there are ... gasp ... drawings and images of Mohammed in his Wikipedia entry.  —  Blasphemy!  —  So they're demanding that Wikipedia stop violating …
Discussion: Wake up America
A.B. Stoddard / The Hill:
Before the Big Day...  I resist predictions, as all sane people should after the New Hampshire primary, but I felt compelled to make a few observations before the Big Day.  —  GOP:  —  1) John McCain has another good night.  —  Democrats:  —  1) It will be a draw between Hillary and Barack, deciding little.
Marc Ambinder:
Feb 5 Projections: Revised  —  According to campaign sources, polling and stealing off other analysts, Hillary Clinton has an edge in New York, New Jersey, Tennessee, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Arkansas.  —  Obama has an edge in Idaho, Colorado, Minnesota, Kansas, Alabama, Georgia, North Dakota and Illinois.
Discussion: Spin Cycle and AMERICAblog
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Clinton's January: $13.5 million  —  That's from campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe on MSNBC today: … A lot of money by most measures, but less than half of what Obama's claiming for the month.
Discussion: Political Machine
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 10:15 PM ET, February 4, 2008.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Who's Hiring in Media? 
 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Emptywheel:
FISA Liveblog  —  Reid is on the floor talking about what votes we'll have tomorrow:
Discussion: D-Day and South
Official Google Blog:
Yahoo! and the future of the Internet
Crystal Patterson / Hillary Clinton for President:
Actor Jack Nicholson Endorses Hillary for President
Discussion: The New Republic
John O'Sullivan / The Corner:
Questioning McCain  —  In the debates on and outside “The Corner” …
Mike Nizza / The Lede:
Iran's Space Program Through 3-D Glasses
Pat Doyle / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Clinton speaks to crowd of 4,000 in Minneapolis
Paul Krugman:
Dean Baker is wrong
Discussion: American Prospect and Corrente
Alex Joseph / Slate:
Confessions of a Young Hillary Supporter
Discussion: Power Line
 Earlier Items: 
Southern Political Report:
Romney surges against McCain in Georgia; Obama gains on Hillary in Alabama
Daniel J. Chacon / Rocky Mountain News:
DNC boost for sex biz
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
New York Times:
Bush Seeks Budget of $3.1 Trillion
Mickey Kaus / Slate:
A Reason to Vote Hillary
Stanley Fish / Think Again:
All You Need Is Hate
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Empty seats
Michael J. Totten:
The Final Mission, Part II
Discussion: Sister Toldjah and INDCJournal
Matt Stearns / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Clinton's ‘35 years of change’ omits most of her career
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page