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11:30 AM ET, May 28, 2008

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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Scott McClellan on the “liberal media”  —  In a minimally rational world, this extraordinary passage, from the new book by Scott McClellan, would forever slay the single most ludicrous myth in our political culture: The “Liberal Media”: … Just consider how remarkable that is.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Exclusive: McClellan whacks Bush, White House  —  Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” …
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled U.S. on Iraq  —  Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated “political propaganda campaign” led by President Bush and aimed at “manipulating sources of public opinion” …
Ken Herman / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Bush misled U.S. on Iraq, former aide says in new book  —  Scott McClellan's ‘What Happened’ delivers tough criticism of president, advisers  —  WASHINGTON — In a book due out Monday, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan offers a blistering review of the administration …
Jason Zengerle / The New Republic:
What Happened to McClellan?  —  There's nothing terribly surprising …
CNN:
McClellan book: Propaganda, politics drove policy
Discussion: Wonkette
Seth Leibsohn / The Corner:   Re: Scott McClellan
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Dems seek to avoid meltdown  —  Those people who believe all problems have solutions may be unfamiliar with the inner workings of the Democratic Party.  —  On Saturday, the party's Rules and Bylaws Committee will try to solve a big problem, in order to avoid a huge problem in order to prevent a train wreck.
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Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Obama urges supporters not to demonstrate at crucial DNC meeting  —  Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) campaign is urging its supporters not to demonstrate at Saturday's highly anticipated Democratic National Committee (DNC) meeting on how to handle the delegates of Florida and Michigan.
Discussion: Boston Globe and TIME.com
Marc Ambinder:   The RBC Meeting: A Preview
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Memo: Fla., Mich. can't be fully restored
Discussion: TalkLeft and 2008 Democratic …
Oregonian:
Why I've chosen to back Barack Obama  —  F or the first time in 40 years, the Oregon Democratic primary has played a pivotal role in deciding who may be our president.  In casting our votes, we Oregonians understood the seriousness of our decision.  —  As one of the superdelegates …
Stephen Adams / Telegraph:
John Bolton to be target of citizen's arrest at Hay Festival  —  John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, faces a citizen's arrest when he addresses an audience at the Hay Festival in Wales this evening.  —  George Monbiot, the journalist and activist …
Discussion: MoJoBlog and A Blog For All
Fernando Suarez / CBS News:
Clinton Casts Wide Net of Exaggeration, Claims to Lead in “Every Poll”  —  From CBS News' Fernando Suarez:  —  BILLINGS, MONT. — During an evening rally in Montana's largest city Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton explained to the crowd why she should be the Democratic Party's nominee …
David Boaz / Wall Street Journal:
Our Collectivist Candidates  —  On Sunday Barack Obama urged graduates of Connecticut's Wesleyan University to devote themselves to “collective service.”  This is not an unusual theme for a commencement address.  But it was interesting how long he went on discussing various kinds …
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy and EconLog
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
In Rare Move, 3 Candidates Join in Pledge on Darfur  —  WASHINGTON — The three senators who would be president have agreed to a rare joint statement accusing the Sudanese government of atrocities against civilians in Darfur and warning it not to try to run out the clock on the Bush administration …
Discussion: The Caucus and TIME.com
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Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Using the President, but Carefully Going Only So Far  —  PHOENIX — The last time the two met — 83 days ago — President Bush promised that he would do whatever Senator John McCain asked him to do to help elect him the 44th president.  —  “You know, if he wants me to show up, I will,” Mr. Bush said in the Rose Garden.
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Washington Post:
McCain Accepts a Hand From Bush, at Arm's Length
Scott W. Johnson / Weekly Standard:
The Kennedy-Khrushchev Conference for Dummies  —  Remedial history for Barack Obama.  —  BARACK OBAMA FIRST VOWED to meet unconditionally with the leaders of America's foremost enemies in the YouTube Democratic candidates' debate on July 23, 2007.  Since then he has reaffirmed and expanded …
StrategyPage:
Al Qaeda Discusses Losing Iraq  —  Al Qaeda web sites are making a lot of noise about “why we lost in Iraq.”  Western intelligence agencies are fascinated by the statistics being posted in several of these Arab language sites.  Not the kind of stuff you read about in the Western media.
Paul Graham:
Cities and Ambition  —  Great cities attract ambitious people.  You can sense it when you walk around one.  In a hundred subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you could do more; you should try harder.  —  The surprising thing is how different these messages can be.
Discussion: Megan McArdle and EconLog
New York Times:
Al Qaeda Warrior Uses Internet to Rally Women  —  BRUSSELS — On the street, Malika El Aroud is anonymous in an Islamic black veil covering all but her eyes.  —  In her living room, Ms. El Aroud, a 48-year-old Belgian, wears the ordinary look of middle age: a plain black T-shirt and pants and curly brown hair.
 
 
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Thomas Carothers / Washington Post:
An Unwanted League  —  A puzzle of globalization is that despite …
Charles Q. Choi / LiveScience:
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper:
Czech President Klaus ready to debate Gore on climate change
Discussion: Reason Magazine and Don Surber
Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Bush to stump for McCain in Utah
Discussion: TIME.com
Richard Norton-Taylor / Guardian:
UK ready to scrap cluster bombs
Discussion: Truthdig
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
MSNBC, Leaning Left And Getting Flak From Both Sides
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Andrew Jacobs / New York Times:
Parents' Grief Turns to Rage at Chinese Officials
Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Stark Contrasts Between McCain and Obama in Judicial Wars
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Can He Take a Frisk?  —  After “Rahmbo” Emanuel, the Illinois …
Discussion: Prairie Weather and MSNBC
New York Times:
Challenger Gets Cold Shoulder in New Jersey
Discussion: MSNBC and JammieWearingFool
Evan Kohlmann / Counterterrorism Blog:
Media and Intel Community Caught by Apparent Al-Qaida Nuke Message “Prank”
Amartya Sen / New York Times:
The Rich Get Hungrier  —  WILL the food crisis that is menacing …
Alan Fram / Associated Press:
Obama competitive against McCain with key voters
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
FBI interviews Arizona staffers
Haig Simonian / Financial Times:
UBS tells unit staff to avoid US visits
Boston Globe:
Dunkin' Donuts yanks Rachael Ray ad
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Fred Imbert / CNBC:
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