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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Scott McClellan on the “liberal media” — (updated below) — 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” …
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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” …
Seth Leibsohn / The Corner:
Re: Scott McClellan — I'll say this for Scott McClellan, at last he learned how to communicate. He was, to my mind, one of the worst press secretaries in presidential history — at least in modern times, continually cowed by the press, never able to show any confidence, and making us all wince whenever he held a briefing.
Ken Herman / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:Bush misled U.S. on Iraq, former aide says in new book
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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:In Ex-Spokesman's Book, Harsh Words for Bush
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Jason Zengerle / The New Republic:What Happened to McClellan? — There's nothing terribly surprising …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:Heckuva job, Scotty: McClellan writes a book Update: AOL Hot Seat Poll added
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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.
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:Dem lawyers: Fla., Mich. can't be fully restored
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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Haig Simonian / Financial Times:
UBS tells unit staff to avoid US visits — UBS has told members of its former private banking team responsible for rich US clients not to travel to America. — The Swiss bank has also made lawyers available to the more than 50 bankers involved, many of whom have left UBS since it decided …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:BIG TROUBLE? — Below I noted MSNBC's story tonight about how fmr …
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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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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 …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
MSNBC, Leaning Left And Getting Flak From Both Sides — MSNBC, which bills itself as “the place for politics,” is being pummeled by political practitioners. — “It's an organ of the Democratic National Committee,” says Steve Schmidt, a senior strategist for John McCain's campaign.
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.
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