Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
2:15 PM ET, February 22, 2008

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
A Hole in McCain's Defense?  —  An apparent contradiction in his response to lobbyist story.  —  A sworn deposition that Sen. John McCain gave in a lawsuit more than five years ago appears to contradict one part of a sweeping denial that his campaign issued this week to rebut a New York Times story …
RELATED:
New York Times:
The McCain Article  —  A recent New York Times article examined a number of decisions by Senator John McCain that raised questions about his judgment over potential conflicts of interest.  The article included reporting on Mr. McCain's relationship with a female lobbyist whose clients often …
The Big Blog:
Why we didn't run the McCain story  —  I chose not to run the New York Times story on John McCain in Thursday's P-I, even though it was available to us on the New York Times News Service.  I thought I'd take a shot at explaining why.  —  To me, the story had serious flaws.
Washington Post:
FEC Warns McCain on Campaign Spending  —  The nation's top federal election official told Sen. John McCain yesterday that he cannot immediately withdraw from the presidential public financing system as he had requested, a decision that threatens to dramatically restrict his spending until …
Stephen Singer / Associated Press:
Lieberman defends McCain from suggestion of improper relationship
Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and BuzzFlash.org
Pete Abel / The Moderate Voice:
Fact, Fiction, Fickleness, and Fanaticism
CNN:   Ex-McCain aide: Times report ‘implausible’
Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
Congressman Charged in Land Deal  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Rick Renzi has been indicted for extortion, wire fraud, money laundering and other charges related to a land deal in Arizona.  —  A 26-page federal indictment unsealed in Arizona accuses Renzi and two former business partners …
RELATED:
CNN:
Arizona GOP lawmaker indicted  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Rep. Rick Renzi was indicted Friday on multiple federal charges, law enforcement sources tell CNN.  —  In a 35-count indictment handed up by a grand jury in Arizona, Renzi is charged with conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering extortion and insurance fraud.
Discussion: Macsmind
Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
Congressman charged in land deal
Atrios / Eschaton:
Oh My  —  Congressman Rick Renzi (R-AZ) indicted.
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and War and Piece
CNN:
Clinton faces claims of borrowed language  —  (CNN) - Hillary Clinton - whose campaign has spent the past several days pointing to instances of borrowed language in the speeches of rival Barack Obama - is being accused of lifting words from one very familiar politician: her own husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Discussion: The Daily Dish and KnoxViews
RELATED:
CNN:
The CNN Democratic presidential debate in Texas
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
If Obama Went 0-for-10 . . .
Discussion: The Campaign Spot
Stuart Koehl / Weekly Standard:
Obama Heard Wrong  —  There is a lot about Obama's story that makes no sense.  Let us start with the opening line: … Well, captains command companies, not rifle platoons.  A rifle platoon is normally commanded by a 2nd lieutenant, sometimes (if short handed) by a senior sergeant.
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama once visited '60s radicals  —  In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district's influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
Jim Forsyth / WOAI-TV:
Huckabee: A Deadlocked Convention is My Goal  —  Insurgent Republican giving up dream of winning in primaries  —  In an interview with 1200 WOAI news during his swing through Texas, longshot Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee outlined a strategy which has him not winning …
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Try a Little Tenderness  —  Barack Obama's biggest draw is not his eloquence.  When you watch an Obama speech, you lean forward and listen and think, That's good.  He's compelling, I like the way he speaks.  And afterward all the commentators call him “impossibly eloquent” and say “he gave me thrills and chills.”
Gerard Baker / Times of London:
Obama: is America ready for this dangerous leftwinger?  —  Listen to the rhetoric of Barack Obama ...  For most ordinary Americans, those not encumbered with an expensive education or infected by prolonged exposure to cosmopolitan heterodoxy, patriotism is a consequence of birth.
Abe Greenwald / Commentary:
Reuters' Sadr Story Vanishes  —  Reuters, the news agency with a policy forbidding the word “terrorist” from their stories and a penchant for printing doctored photos as evidence of Israeli aggression, has done it again.  —  Yesterday, Reuters posted a story entitled “Sadr Expected to End Truce” …
Discussion: Little Green Footballs and Reuters
White House:
Press Gaggle by Scott Stanzel  —  MR. STANZEL: Good morning, everyone.  I was going to say, for those of you who have been traveling, welcome back — but I'm not sure if we have anyone — you're all well rested.  —  I'll go through the President's schedule today and then take your questions, and I can do the week ahead at the end.
Discussion: First Draft
Yahoo! News:
Exclusive: U.S. urges Pakistanis to keep Musharraf, despite election defeat  —  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan _The Bush administration is pressing the opposition leaders who defeated Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to allow the former general to retain his position, a move that Western diplomats …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 2:15 PM ET, February 22, 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: 
Ben Fox / Associated Press:
Ex-Prosecutor at Gitmo to Aid Defense
Discussion: Harper's and The Newshoggers
Megan McArdle / Instapundit.com:
LAST WEEK I argued that no one actually thinks their own taxes are too low.
Discussion: 11D, The RBC and Crooked Timber
Matthew Yglesias:
Free Market Iceland
Evan Smith / Poll Dancing:
Hillary: Seat Michigan, Florida Delegates
Karl / protein wisdom:
Rick Ellensburg and all of his socks upset over House GOP video
Discussion: Redstate
Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Fidel Castro: I'm ready for a vacation
Matthew Yglesias:
The Party of Terror  —  This little GOP web video about …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Is Nader planning a Sunday announcement?
Discussion: Salon and Flopping Aces
 Earlier Items: 
Chuck Todd / MSNBC:
INITIAL THOUGHTS: NOT A GAME-CHANGER, BUT...
Discussion: TalkLeft
Schuyler Dixon / Associated Press:
Police officer escorting Clinton dies
Daniel Barbarisi / Providence Journal:
Clinton campaign tells Cicilline to stay away when she's in R.I.
Discussion: Crooked Timber
CBS News:
GOP Operative: Rove Sought To Smear Dem
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Democrats Dug In For Retreat
Bob Owens / Pajamas Media:
OBAMA SHOOTING HIMSELF IN THE FOOT WITH ANTI-GUN STANCE
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Hot Air
Markus Becker / Spiegel Online:
Iran Could Have Enough Uranium for a Bomb by Year's End
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The NYT reports adding 260K digital subscribers in Q3, for 11.9M in total, with digital ad revenue up 8.8% YoY to $81.6M, and The Athletic had its first profit

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Around 75% of the largest US newspapers aren't endorsing anyone for president this year, as publishers try not to annoy any sliver of their remaining customers

Sean Burch / The Wrap:
Report: Garrett Ventry, who will join NBC News' Election Night coverage as a Republican pundit on election day, registered as an agent of Qatar in September

 
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