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11:55 AM ET, April 26, 2008

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Michelle Malkin:
Hey, John McCain: Have you bothered watching the ad you condemned yet?  ; NYTimes piles on  —  Did you know that John McCain lambasted the North Carolina GOP's anti-Obama/Jeremiah Wright ad without having seen it?  —  Yes, this noxious little tidbit was tucked into an AP story three days ago …
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Joe Conason / Salon:
Will McCain denounce Floyd Brown?  —  There is nothing remarkable in the sudden reappearance of right-wing con man Floyd Brown, whose latest venture is an inflammatory television ad now airing in North Carolina that attempts to blame Barack Obama for gang murders in Chicago (and international terrorism, too).
New York Times:
A Shameful, Ugly Ad
Discussion: Althouse and Right Wing Nut House
Media Matters for America:   “Media Matters”; by Jamison Foser
Fox News:
McCain Takes Shot at Obama for Hamas Support
Discussion: Redstate and Whiskey Fire
Eleanor Clift / Newsweek:
Settling Scores  —  If Hillary Clinton finds a way to win, she'll have a long list of grudges and grievances.  —  I'm beginning to think Hillary Clinton might pull this off and wrestle the nomination away from Barack Obama.  If she does, a lot of folks—including a huge chunk of the media …
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Matthew Yglesias:
Vengeance is Hers  —  What happens if Hillary Clinton does somehow manage to become president?  Eleanor Clift speaks for many when she says it'll be payback time: … Maybe.  On the other hand, current Obama endorsers include, among others, the Senators who chair the committees on Health …
Discussion: Eschaton
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Heading Toward the Danger Zone  —  Barack Obama is winning, so why does it look like Hillary Clinton is having all the fun?  —  Senator Obama has been thrown completely off his game by a combination of political attacks (some fair, some foul), a toxic eruption (the volcanic Jeremiah Wright …
Discussion: TigerHawk and NewsBusters.org
Karl / protein wisdom:
Bill Moyers plays Whiffleball with the Rev. Wright  —  Not that anyone should expect that Bill Moyers Journal will involve journalism, but the former LBJ flack's “interview” with Barack Obama's longtime spiritual adviser, Rev. Jeremiah Wright cannot be fairly called a softball game.
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PBS:
Bill Moyers Journal  —  BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the JOURNAL.  —  Barack Obama's pastor was in the news again this week.  North Carolina Republicans are preparing to run an ad tying Obama to some controversial sound bites lifted from Reverend Jeremiah Wright's sermons.
David Barstow / New York Times:
Pentagon Suspends Briefings for Analysts  —  The Pentagon announced on Friday that it was suspending its briefings for retired military officers who often appear as military analysts on television and radio programs.  —  A spokesman for the Pentagon said the briefings and all other interactions …
Amie Parnes / The Politico:
Mommie's dearest: Chelsea outshines Bill  —  In Philadelphia Monday night for a final rally before the must-win Pennsylvania primary, Chelsea Clinton told a packed crowd that she and her father are having an “implicit competition about who is my mother's better surrogate on any given day.”
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Top black lawmaker: Bill Clinton ‘bizarre’
Discussion: The Confluence
Neela Banerjee / New York Times:
Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led to Threats  —  FORT RILEY, Kan. — When Specialist Jeremy Hall held a meeting last July for atheists and freethinkers at Camp Speicher in Iraq, he was excited, he said, to see an officer attending.  —  But minutes into the talk, the officer …
John Wildermuth / San Francisco Chronicle:
Anti-war Cindy Sheehan files to take on Pelosi  —  Peace activist Cindy Sheehan wants to snatch House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat from her in November, but first she's going to need the help - and signatures - of 10,198 friends and supporters.  —  Sheehan was at San Francisco City Hall …
Washington Post:
Party Fears Racial Divide  —  The protracted and increasingly acrimonious fight for the Democratic presidential nomination is unnerving core constituencies — African Americans and wealthy liberals — who are becoming convinced that the party could suffer irreversible harm …
Discussion: Hot Air, AMERICAblog and The Page
Brandon Friedman / VetVoice:
Fort Bragg Barracks: Shades of Walter Reed?  —  A Fort Bragg soldier's father uploaded a YouTube video of photos he took of his son's barracks earlier this month.  The video shows the deplorable living conditions to which his son and the other soldiers of his unit in the 82nd Airborne Division returned …
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Spencer / Attackerman:   Only In Return We Get A Stabbing In The Back  —  These are the conditions at Fort Bragg.
 
 
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Gregg Zoroya / USA Today:
More U.S. troops battle foreclosure
Discussion: Think Progress
Al Giordano / The Field:
45  —  Here's a short list for Obama's vice presidential pick.
Perry Bacon Jr / The Trail:
Clinton Sidesteps Questions About Staying in the Race
Discussion: The Page
Mike Tackett / The Swamp:
McCain backer's new view on God's wrath
Discussion: The Page
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Iran War Drums Beating?
Abdon M. Pallasch / Chicago Sun Times:
Laws alone can't stop violence: Obama
Discussion: TalkLeft, Don Surber and SayUncle
Armed Liberal / Winds of Change.NET:
...and a PG-13 prison movie...
Discussion: BLACKFIVE and GregsOpinion.com
Deborah Feyerick / CNN:
Acquittals in groom's shooting spark outrage
 Earlier Items: 
Greg Sheridan / The Australian:
Esteem for US rises in Asia, thanks to Iraq war
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
SYRIA FOLLOWUP....Here's more on the Syrian/North Korean nuclear reactor thing.
Washington Post:
Who'll Cover the Checks?
Jennifer Schuessler / Paper Cuts:
The Icing Storm  —  Six years ago, Dale Peck reduced Rick Moody …
Discussion: Daniel W. Drezner
Financial Times:
Democrats to choose ‘by end of June’
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