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1:00 PM ET, May 16, 2008

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James P. Rubin / Washington Post:
Hypocrisy on Hamas  —  McCain Was for Talking Before He Was Against It  —  If the recent exchanges between President Bush, Barack Obama and John McCain on Hamas and terrorism are a preview of the general election, we are in for an ugly six months.  Despite his reputation in the media …
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
McCain widens dialogue on blogs  —  Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign is trying to tap a new audience of potential voters by taking his campaign message straight to liberal and nonpolitical issues-based blogs, which reach millions of readers but don't often delve into conservative politics.
Discussion: Political Machine
Michelle Malkin:
McCain reaches out to blogs...on the left; Update: “A new standard for transparency and accountability”  —  Scroll down for updates...  The McCain campaign holds weekly blogger conference calls with its candidate.  There are many questions I know you'd like asked, but I've never been able …
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
McCain's Hamas comments, context restored
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Pity Party  —  Big picture, May 2008:  —  The Democrats aren't the ones falling apart, the Republicans are.  The Democrats can see daylight ahead.  For all their fractious fighting, they're finally resolving their central drama.  Hillary Clinton will leave, and Barack Obama will deliver a stirring acceptance speech.
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John Fund / Wall Street Journal:
Flirting With Disaster
Discussion: Eunomia
New York Times:
In the South, a Force to Challenge the G.O.P.
Michelle Cottle / The New Republic:
What Went Wrong?  —  The exclusive story of Hillary's fall, as told by the high-level advisors, staffers, fundraisers, and on-the-ground organizers who lived it.  —  Endings are rarely as joyous as beginnings—and in the case of a long, wearing, and ultimately disappointing campaign, they can be downright brutal.
WHAS-TV:
Secret Service: No guns allowed at NRA event with John McCain  —  Tell Us: Are you bothered by the Secret Service banning guns from the NRA event?  —  WHAS11 coverage  —  Louisville, Ky. (WHAS11) - It's expected to bring some 60,000 people to Louisville and some prominent political figures …
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Glenn Reynolds / Pajamas Media:   SO IF THE REPUBLICANS ARE IN TROUBLE, WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE SO HAPPY?
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Obama, Bush at Odds Over Media-Ownership Vote  —  Democratic Presidential Candidate Urges House of Representatives to Follow Senate's Lead, Scrap FCC's Media-Ownership-Rule Change  —  The fight over the Federal Communications Commission's Dec. 18 media-ownership vote set up a potential battle between …
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Associated Press:
Senate votes to revive ban on media cross-ownership
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Jeanne Cummings / The Politico:
Perfect timing: Obama's super show-stoppers  —  With her deep party ties, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was supposed to own the superdelegate primary.  —  But in the last two months, it's been the rookie, Democratic rival Barack Obama, who has maximized his superdelegate moments.
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Sarah Wheaton / The Caucus:
Edwards Back in the Spotlight Again
Discussion: The Page
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Obama's sniper tale?  When he stood up to Detroit's ‘cold’ shoulder  —  Is this another Bosnian sniper incident, where a Democratic candidate for president describes a scene involving some personal courage, but later videotape shows that maybe perhaps it wasn't really quite all like that exactly?
Libby Copeland / Washington Post:
Belittled Woman  —  At some point along the way, Hillary Clinton became “poor Hillary” and it stuck.  —  She went up against a charmer who once made an audience cheer just by blowing his nose (poor Hillary), and she lost states and delegates and she bet on a filly that died (poor Hillary) …
Discussion: TalkLeft and The Caucus
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: BUSH'S GIFT TO OBAMA  —  From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro  —  *** Bush's gift to Obama: When President Bush — thousands of miles away in Israel — decided to fire his thinly veiled shot at Obama yesterday, it was a giant gift to the Illinois senator and his campaign.
Discussion: The New Republic and Marc Ambinder
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Who You Calling Activist?  —  CALIFORNIA'S GAY-MARRIAGE DECISION REFLECTS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JUDICIAL ACTIVISM AND, UM, JUDGING.  —  When it comes to gay marriage, California is a hotbed of activism.  Their activist Legislature has twice passed bills that would legalize gay marriage …
David Brooks / New York Times:
Obama Admires Bush  —  Hezbollah is one of the world's most radical terrorist organizations.  Over the last week or so, it has staged an armed assault on the democratic government of Lebanon.  —  Barack Obama issued a statement in response.  He called on “all those who have influence with Hezbollah” to “press them to stand down.”
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Ron Paul is no compassionate conservative when it comes to Myanmar  —  Rep. Ron Paul of Texas is proud of what he sees as his truly conservative credentials.  He's for smaller government, much smaller.  He's for foreign trade but not foreign military involvement.
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RADAR:
RON PAUL AGAINST UNCONDITIONAL MYANMAR LOVE
Discussion: Hot Air and Ali Eteraz
Gerard Baker / Times of London:
Barack Obama: the new Great Redeemer  —  First it was Kennedy... now the US media are prostrating themselves before the saviour  —  Every decade or so the people who control the way we see the world anoint some American politician the Redeemer of a Troubled Planet.
 
 
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Jim Manzi / The Corner:
Conservatives and Gay Marriage
Discussion: American Spectator
CBS News:
Bin Laden: Palestinian Cause Prompted 9/11
New Yorker:
SHOULD BURMA BE SAVED FROM ITSELF?
Matt Lewis / TownHall Blog:
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Bruce Wilson / Talk To Action:
Audio Recording of McCain's Political Endorser John Hagee Preaching …
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
SOUNDING LESS LIKE A CAMPAIGN?
Discussion: Spin Cycle
Matthew Miller / DSCC:
After Schaffer's “Mt. Macaca” Moment, Democrats Send GOP Candidate A Geography Quiz
 Earlier Items: 
Matt Kelley / USA Today:
McCain action helped Ariz. land developer
Nedra Pickler / AOL News:
Florida and Michigan Can't Save Clinton
Scot Lehigh / Boston Globe:
Clinton's ‘sexism’ dodge
Discussion: TalkLeft and The Mahablog
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Michelle Obama takes heat from Tennessee GOP
Michael Kahn / Reuters:
Obesity contributes to global warming: study
Discussion: protein wisdom and QandO
Paul Walsh / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Group finds Starbucks logo too hot to handle
Channel '08:
Should Obama Clarify Comments on Detroit Speech?
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

 
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