memeorandum: No Seats For You! — Recently there has been increasing discussion … (Dylan Loewe/The Huffington Post)

8:25 AM ET, March 13, 2008

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For an Aspiring Singer, a Harsher Spotlight — She left a broken home on the Jersey Shore at 17 and came to New York City to work the nightclubs as a rhythm and blues singer. Now, at 22, she is the unwitting, and as yet unseen, star of the seamy drama that is the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York.

Associated Press:
Report: Spitzer Call Girl Identified

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, Power Line and A Blog For All

Hillary Clinton / CNN:

Breaking: Ferraro steps down — (CNN) - Geraldine Ferraro has stepped down from her role as a member of Hillary Clinton's finance committee.In a letter to Clinton obtained by CNN's Suzanne Malveaux — who spoke with the former vice presidential candidate shortly after she sent it to Clinton …

Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:

Countdown Special Comment: Sen. Clinton, “This is not a campaign strategy. This is a suicide pact.” — Tonight on Countdown, Keith Olbermann's Special Comment was directed at Senator Hillary Clinton over her failure to immediately fire supporter and former member of her campaign finance committee …

Discussion: MSNBC, Booker Rising, The Moderate Voice, Comments from Left Field, Shakesville and Political Byline

Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:

Clinton Apologizes to Black Voters … WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton did something Wednesday night that she almost never does. She apologized. And once she started, she didn't seem able to stop. — The New York senator, who is in a tight race with Illinois Sen. Barack …

Discussion: Hot Air, Don Surber and Donklephant

Joyce Purnick / New York Times:

Ferraro Is Unapologetic for Remarks and Ends Her Role in Clinton Campaign — Geraldine A. Ferraro resigned Wednesday from Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign finance committee but remained unapologetic for citing Senator Barack Obama's race as the decisive factor in his success.

Discussion: Washington Wire, The Huffington Post, TigerHawk, ABCNEWS, BAGnewsNotes, Discriminations, michellemalkin.com and NewsBusters.org

MSNBC:
‘Countdown with Keith Olbermann’ for March 11

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, NO QUARTER and The Huffington Post

Gateway Pundit: Ferraro Quits Clinton Campaign— Says Obama Blocking Her Freedom of Speech

dnA / Too Sense:
What The Clinton Campaign Wants You To Hear

Discussion: CNN and Daily Kos

Fox News:

Obama's Controversial Pastor Puts Church in Hot Water — CHICAGO - Barack Obama's controversial pastor and the church he's served for 36 years may be in hot water over statements he has made from the pulpit in support of the Illinois senator's run for the White House.

Discussion: Riehl World View and The Jed Report

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:

Wright on film — Sure does feel like we're plunging into the abyss tonight. — Fox just posted a big Jeremiah Wright story, and the video is pretty gripping, and deeply racially confrontational. He begins by describing the Romans, who crucified Jesus, as Italians, and thus white, and more or less goes from there.

Discussion: JustOneMinute and Taylor Marsh

David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:

Support for war effort highest since 2006 — American public support for the military effort in Iraq has reached a high point unseen since the summer of 2006, a development that promises to reshape the political landscape. — According to late February polling conducted by the Pew Research Center …

Discussion: Associated Press, Jules Crittenden, Political Machine and Hot Air

Faiz / Think Progress:

Buchanan flips out, tells guest to ‘shut up!’ — Tonight on MSNBC's Live with Dan Abrams, guests Pat Buchanan, Rachel Maddow, and Keli Goff discussed the role of race in Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Buchanan suggested Obama is winning the black vote simply because he is black.

Discussion: skippy the bush kangaroo

Michelle Malkin:

Hot Air TV: Sen. John Kerry confronted about Winter Soldier II — Grab the popcorn. We've got another joint YAF/Hot Air TV production for you, just in time for the anti-war confab known as “Winter Soldier II” that kicks off in Washington, D.C. tomorrow and runs through Sunday.

Discussion: Obiter Dictum, A NEWT ONE, Democracy Project, The Nation, Gateway Pundit and Pat Dollard

New York Times:

Pentagon Cites Tapes Showing Interrogations — WASHINGTON — The Defense Department is conducting an extensive review of the videotaping of interrogations at military facilities from Iraq to Guantánamo Bay, and so far it has identified nearly 50 tapes, including one that showed …

Kenneth Thiesen / Berkeley Daily Planet:

Commentary: Why I Don't Support the Troops — In the recent political battle around the Marine recruiting station in Berkeley there has been much confusion around the concept or slogan of “supporting the troops,” but opposing the unjust wars of the Bush regime.

Discussion: BLACKFIVE, Right Wing News and Political Byline

Larry McShane / NY Daily News:

Richest man in England may have been Client No. 6 — The richest man in Great Britain was a customer of the same high-end prostitution service patronized by Gov. Spitzer. — The Duke of Westminster, listed as the world's 46th richest person by Forbes magazine, hired four hookers …

Discussion: Gothamist, JammieWearingFool and TalkLeft

John M. Broder / New York Times:

Clinton and Obama Split Over Florida and Michigan — WASHINGTON — After a week of shadow-boxing, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama issued their clearest statements yet on how they would prefer to resolve the impasse over the disputed Florida and Michigan primaries.

Discussion: URGENT AGENDA and The New Republic