memeorandum: Hillary: McCain ‘legendary’ (Ben Smith/Ben Smith's Blogs)

4:55 PM ET, February 9, 2008

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Hillary rips MSNBC's Shuster — ORONO, MAINE — Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday morning ripped MSNBC over reporter David Shuster's suggestion that Chelsea Clinton was “sort of being pimped out” by the campaign. — “I found the remarks incredibly offensive,” Clinton told reporters in this snowy town outside Bangor.

Discussion: Spin Cycle, Neptunus Lex and The Page

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Chelsea Remark Earns MSNBC Correspondent A Suspension — In case there was any doubt, using a prostitution metaphor for the daughter of a presidential candidate is not a good career move. — MSNBC suspended correspondent David Shuster yesterday for an undetermined period for making a disparaging on-air remark about Chelsea Clinton.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Reaction, Shakespeare's Sister, PERRspectives Blog, The Gun Toting Liberal™, Outside The Beltway, Captain's Quarters, The Radio Equalizer, Taylor Marsh, Political Punch, The Politico and Gateway Pundit

Ann Althouse / Althouse:
NBC wimped out over “pimped out.”

Discussion: Tom Watson, Scared Monkeys, TVNewser, FishBowlDC, The Moderate Voice and SFGate

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
HE'S OUTTA HERE — We now know that MSNBC's David Shuster …

Discussion: Matthew Yglesias, Lawyers, Guns and Money and MyDD

Ariel Alexovich / The Caucus:

Paul Concedes Race, Sort Of — In a message to supporters sent just before 11 p.m. Friday night, Representative Ron Paul, a long-shot G.O.P. candidate from Texas, basically conceded that he's not going to win the party's nomination. — That said, he's scaling back his campaign — but not entirely.

Discussion: The Other McCain, The Carpetbagger Report, DownWithTyranny!, Wake up America, PoliBlog (TM), A Blog For All and Don Surber

Ron Paul 2008:

Message from Ron — Whoa! What a year this has been. And what achievements we have had. If I may quote Trotsky of all people, this Revolution is permanent. It will not end at the Republican convention. It will not end in November. It will not end until we have won the great battle on which we have embarked.

Discussion: You Decide 08!, L.A. Times, Donklephant, Gateway Pundit and Reason Magazine

Jonathan Martin / The Politico: Ron Paul appears to have Kucinich moment

Jc Reindl / Toledo Blade:

Mayor to Marines: Leave downtown — He says urban exercises scare people — A company of Marine Corps Reservists received a cold send-off from downtown Toledo yesterday by order of Mayor Carty Finkbeiner. — The 200 members of Company A, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines, based in Grand Rapids …

Discussion: michellemalkin.com, The Jawa Report, BLACKFIVE, Wizbang, BizzyBlog, Atlas Shrugs, The Strata-Sphere, Little Green Footballs and Instapundit.com

Pajamas Media: Toledo to Marines: Drop dead

Chris Bowers / Open Left:

How I Could Quit The Democratic Party — I am a Democrat. I am my own local precinct captain, and I hold a seat on the Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee. Over the past four years, I have helped raise millions of dollars for Democrats. I believe in the primary process …

Discussion: The Strata-Sphere, Booman Tribune, michellemalkin.com and ABCNEWS

Jill Miller Zimon / The Moderate Voice:
Superdelegate Issue Produces Threats of Quitting Democratic Party

Discussion: QandO, Redstate and CNN

Dan Balz / Washington Post:

Sanctioned States Put Democrats in Quandary — The clever people in Michigan who decided to get into a game of chicken with New Hampshire last fall over the timing of their Democratic primary should be having second thoughts this weekend. — Had Michigan Democrats not engaged in gamesmanship …

Discussion: protein wisdom, Jules Crittenden, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wake up America, Captain's Quarters, Dean's World, Blue Crab Boulevard, Right Voices and You Decide 08!

Serge F. Kovaleski / New York Times:

Friends Say Drugs Played Only Bit Part for Obama — Nearly three decades ago, Barack Obama stood out on the small campus of Occidental College in Los Angeles for his eloquence, intellect and activism against apartheid in South Africa. But Mr. Obama, then known as Barry, also joined in the party scene.

Discussion: The Newshoggers, The Carpetbagger Report, Obsidian Wings, the talking dog, The Reaction, Ben Smith's Blogs, Outside The Beltway, MSNBC and Reason Magazine

Brian Braiker / Newsweek:

McCain romps while the Dems divide in the NEWSWEEK poll. — Mr. Electable? McCain is the man to beat on the GOP side — Sen. John McCain, whose campaign to win the Republican Party's presidential nomination was all but declared dead last summer, has cemented a commanding lead …

Discussion: Pajamas Media and Liberal Values

Washington Post:

For the House in Maryland — Two able incumbents and a spirited challenger — TUESDAY'S DEMOCRATIC primary in Maryland's 4th Congressional District is a rematch of the 2006 contest between Rep. Albert R. Wynn and challenger Donna F. Edwards. In that face-off, just 17 months ago …

Discussion: Obsidian Wings, DownWithTyranny! and TIME: Swampland

Matt Stoller / Open Left:
Donna Edwards Up 40-32 — This is from the Hotline. It's an internal poll:

Discussion: Firedoglake and Baltimore Sun

Matt Taibbiposted / Rolling Stone:

The Chicken Doves — Elected to end the war, Democrats have surrendered to Bush on Iraq and betrayed the peace movement for their own political ends — Quietly, while Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been inspiring Democrats everywhere with their rolling bitchfest …

Discussion: Democrats.com and Cadillac Tight

Mona Charen / The Corner:

Discordant Note — This is the most graceless stunt I've seen a while. Leon Fleisher, the conductor and pianist, received a Kennedy Center honor. As part of the weekend of festivities associated with this prestigious award, Fleisher was invited to attend a White House reception along …

Discussion: Roger Ailes

Leon Fleisher / Washington Post: My White House Dilemma

Little Green Footballs:

British Journalists Dig Sharia — Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has really stirred up a hornets' nest of controversy with his statement that sharia law is unavoidable in the UK. As you might expect, most of the commentary is opposed to his ludicrous position …

Discussion: Guardian, Times of London and The Jawa Report

William Kristol / Weekly Standard:

Good News for Conservatives — We have a great opportunity in 2008. — What a moment! Having learned nothing from the left's Bush Derangement Syndrome, the conservative movement's big talkers spent the days before Super Tuesday indulging in a fiery display of McCain Derangement Syndrome.

Discussion: The Corner

Robynn Tysver / Omaha World-Herald:

Live updates from the Nebraska Democratic caucuses — It doesn't look good for Clinton at Monroe Middle School. — The line to the Clinton box is empty. The line to vote for Obama is about a half block long. — Order is finally being restored at Monroe Middle School.

Discussion: MyDD, Wake up America and New York Times

Amanda Carpenter / Townhall.com:

Coulter Speaks to CPAC — Best-selling author and columnist Ann Coulter elaborated to Conservative Political Action Conference participants why she said she would campaign for Democrat Hillary Clinton for president over Republican John McCain. — “She won't want to be the first girl President …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice