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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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New York Times:
A Shameful, Ugly Ad — Manipulative. Shameful. Race-baiting. Those are the only words to describe a new television ad from the Republican Party running in North Carolina that attacks Senator Barack Obama as “too extreme” for the state. — Senator John McCain was right to condemn …
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).
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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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