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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Clinton Adviser Claims Indiana Slur Video Is Conspiracy — A former aide to President Bill Clinton, and current informal adviser to Sen. Hillary Clinton, expressed outrage and shock on Friday after a videotape from 1992 surfaced allegedly showing him describing Indianans as “white n—rs.”
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Pennebaker: Clip Doctored — I just spoke to D.A. Pennebaker, the director of “The War Room,” who said his film had been doctored to produce a widely-viewed YouTube clip. — In a clip from his film on the 1992 Clinton campaign, posted to YouTube today, Clinton advisor Mickey Kantor is …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Clinton operative didn't call Indianans “white n*****s” in 1992 Update III: Dirty trick? Update: Character witness — Update IV: This is almost certainly a dirty trick aimed at Mickey Kantor and the Clinton campaign. Read all the way through the updates.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
“Worthless White Ni**ers”? — Yesterday, I hadn't seen the last part of this clip (see the first version here) and the latest viral video is different and longer: — Kantor is now saying that what you hear on the tape is untrue, and it's been doctored: … Yes, he's a lawyer.
Byron York / The Corner:Mickey Kantor Does Not Hold the People of Indiana in the Highest Esteem
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Dehydratedcracker / Daily Kos:UPDATED (2x): Team Clinton 1992: Hoosiers are “worthless white ni**ers”
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: McCain Moves to 6-Point Lead Over Obama — Clinton 48%, Obama 46% in national Democratic nomination preferences — PRINCETON, NJ — John McCain has moved to a six percentage point, 48% to 42%, lead over Barack Obama in Gallup Poll Daily tracking of the general election …
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Lindsey Ellerson / Political Radar:
Clinton: Tuesday Will Be a ‘Game Changer’ — ABC News' Eloise Harper Reports: Senator Hillary Clinton speaking in Kinston, NC said that Tuesday's primary will be a big day in the contest for the Democratic nomination. Clinton has denied in interviews and in press availabilities that she will drop out of the race if she loses Indiana.
Robert Winnett / Telegraph:
Boris Johnson poised to become London Mayor as Tories seal local election success — Boris Johnson is preparing to be unveiled as the new mayor of London later today following Labour's collapse across Britain in the local elections. — Senior Conservative sources said they would be …
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Telegraph:
The most influential US political pundits: 10-1 — Telegraph.co.uk unveils the last installment of its list of the 50 most influential political pundits in America. With just over six months before United States citizens choose their 44th president, the 2008 election is already proving …
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Bobbank / MyDD:
Change Oregon Can Believe In? — A week ago, I wrote about a 13-page detailed plan, called The Oregon Compact, that Hillary prepared specifically for the state of Oregon. In my original diary, I said: … I am proud of Hillary for putting pen to paper and giving people specific …
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Steven Emerson / Articles by the Investigative Project …:
Investigative Project Releases Gov't Memos Curtailing Speech in War on Terror — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is refusing to identify the “influential Muslim Americans” and “leading U.S.-based scholars and commentators on Islam” who met with Secretary Michael Chertoff in helping shape …
Rasmussen Reports:
58% Say Obama Denounced Wright for Political Convenience, not Outrage — A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 30% of the nation's Likely Voters believe Barack Obama denounced his former Pastor, Jeremiah Wright, because he was outraged. Most—58%—say he denounced the Pastor for political convenience.
Ronald Brownstein / MSNBC:
McCain must explain his Iraq vigil — How long is he willing to keep U.S. forces in a front-line combat role? — POLITICAL CONNECTIONS — WASHINGTON - The firefight over John McCain's long-term intentions in Iraq flared again this week when the Democratic National Committee aired …
Keith Dinsmore / The Huffington Post:
Questioner Dragged Out Of McCain Town Hall Talks To OffTheBus — OffTheBus member Keith Dinsmore was on the scene at the McCain healthcare town hall in Iowa Wednesday where Marty Parrish posed a question to the candidate the mainstream media weren't asking. Parrish was dragged out by secret service agents.
Elizabeth Wurtzel / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Other Radical Friends — When I was 15, I read an article in Rolling Stone about the Weather Underground and became fascinated with Bernardine Dohrn. As a leader of the militant arm of Students for a Democratic Society, she was renowned for her beauty and daring, for her revolutionary rhetoric …
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
John McCain: Chief of own VP search — For those wondering whether an eminence gris such as Warren Christopher or Dick Cheney will soon head Sen. John McCain's vice presidential selection committee, the answer is yes and no, depending upon whether you think of McCain as a wise old Washington hand.
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Matthew Yglesias:
Diplomacy: What is it Good For — I was on a radio show last night where I wound up in a debate about whether or not diplomacy was likely to be able to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue in a satisfactory manner. It occurred to me that one issue I was having that, in retrospect …
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