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9:20 AM ET, May 2, 2008

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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Fox trumps Netroots; bloggers rebel  —  The nation's top Democrats are suddenly rushing to appear on the Fox News Channel, which they once had shunned as enemy territory as the nemesis of liberal bloggers.  —  The detente with Fox has provoked a backlash from progressive bloggers …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and JammieWearingFool
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Dan Morain / Los Angeles Times:
Barack Obama is the choice of free-agent donors  —  Obama has received twice as much money as Hillary Clinton has from donors who supported other candidates in the Democratic race.  —  Campaign donors who previously backed also-ran Democratic candidates have adopted Sen. Barack Obama as their second choice …
David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
DNC coffers dry amid flood of Dem cash
Discussion: The Caucus and Hot Air
Des Moines Register:
McCain fields audience question on whether he called wife an expletive  —  A widespread Internet rumor about Sen. John McCain popped up in an audience question today during the Republican presidential candidate's Iowa forum.  —  A member of the audience at the Polk County Convention Complex asked …
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New York Times:
Clinton May Be Hopeful, but Obama Rolls On  —  INDIANAPOLIS — Have Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's chances of winning the Democratic presidential nomination improved as Senator Barack Obama has struggled through his toughest month of this campaign?  —  After weeks in which her candidacy …
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Zogby:   Zogby Poll: Obama Holds Big Lead Over Clinton in NC; Pair tied in Indiana
Christopher Cooper / Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Scramble for Indiana  —  In Open Primary,Republican Voters  —  Could Decide Victor  —  INDIANAPOLIS — Determining the victor in Tuesday's presidential nominating contest in Indiana could very well be left to that most elusive of Democratic primary voter: the Republican.
Discussion: The Page
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Party of Denial  —  During Barack Obama's Sunday appearance on Fox News, the interviewer asked him for an example of “a hot-button issue where you would be willing to buck the Democratic Party line” and say that Republicans have the better idea.  —  Mr. Obama's answer was puzzling …
Discussion: Firedoglake, The Confluence and CNN
Bill Vlasic / New York Times:
As Gas Costs Soar, Buyers Are Flocking to Small Cars  —  DETROIT — Soaring gas prices have turned the steady migration by Americans to smaller cars into a stampede.  —  In what industry analysts are calling a first, about one in five vehicles sold in the United States was a compact …
Discussion: TigerHawk and PoliGazette
Adam Zagorin / Time:
D.C. Madam: Suicide Before Prison  —  Deborah Jeane Palfrey, known as the “D.C. Madam,” once implied that suicide was cowardice but, in the end, she seems to have chosen that same path herself.  “She wasn't going to jail, she told me that very clearly.  She told me she would commit suicide …
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Indianapolis Star:
Experience makes Clinton better choice in primary  —  In this extraordinary election year, Indiana's Democratic voters have been presented with an extraordinary opportunity: Choose for their party's presidential nominee between a gifted senator from Illinois who has enthused millions of new voters …
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Amanda / Think Progress:
Washington Post Editorial Board Attempts To Erase Its Pre-War Rush To Invasion  —  Today marks the fifth anniversary of President Bush's “Mission Accomplished” speech aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln.  To commemorate the occasion, the Washington Post has trotted out its editorial from May 4, 2003.
Discussion: The Raw Story
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
AL FRANKEN: THE COVER-UP BEGINS  —  We've covered the tax and legal compliance problems of Minnesota Democratic Senatorial candidate Al Franken over the past few weeks.  First came the revealation of his failure to pay workers' compensation insurance in New York.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune:   Tax guy mum; DFLers backing Franken
Pablo Guzman / WCBS-TV:
On YOUR Dime: Congressmen Lease Luxury Cars  —  Little-Known But Exploited Loophole Allows Politicians To Drive, Maintain Expensive Cars, SUVs On Taxpayer Money  —  Rep. Charles Rangel: ‘My Constituents Appreciate It’  —  NEW YORK (CBS) ― You may not realize it …
Economist:
On the brink  —  Some of America's most venerable newspapers face extinction, unless they evolve  —  THE New York Times once epitomised all that was great about American newspapers; now it symbolises its industry's deep malaise.  The Grey Lady's circulation is tumbling …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The ‘Race’ Speech Revisited  —  Guess it's time to disown Granny, if Obama's famous Philadelphia “race” speech is to be believed.  Of course, the speech was not just believed.  It was hailed, celebrated, canonized as the greatest pronouncement on race in America since Lincoln at Cooper Union.
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John McCormick / The Swamp:
A downsized Thursday for Obama
Discussion: New York Times
The Raw Story:
EXCLUSIVE: MYSTERIOUS CRIMES PLAGUE US ATTORNEY TARGETS  —  The Permanent Republican Majority Part VI  —  MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA - In two states where US attorneys are already under fire for serious allegations of political prosecutions, seven people associated with three federal cases …
Discussion: Unfogged and At-Largely
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
What The Old Farts Don't Get  —  A reader writes:
Frazier Moore / Associated Press:
Barbara Walters reveals past affair with US senator  —  NEW YORK (AP) - entertainmentminute After three decades of keeping mum, Barbara Walters is disclosing a past affair with married U.S. Senator Edward Brooke, whom she remembers as “exciting” and “brilliant.”
 
 
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Richard Norton-Taylor / Guardian:
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Theodore Frank / New York Sun:
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Ross Douthat / The Atlantic Online:
The Return of the Paranoid Style
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New York Times:
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John Gizzi / Human Events:
McCain Veepstakes: Running with Ryan?
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Guardian:
Brown admits election mauling was a ‘bad night’
Gregg Zoroya / USA Today:
Minister: Muslim decree to condemn bombings
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Christopher Dickey / Newsweek:
The Persian Gulf is more dangerous than ever. …
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
I Am Revealed as a Journalistic Malefactor!
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Sidney Blumenthal Uses Former Right-Wing Foes To Attack Obama
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Sources: Shari Redstone does not plan to stay on the board of Paramount Global after the company completes its planned merger with Skydance Media

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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