memeorandum: McCain Talks Energy, Slams Obama as “Carter” (Michael D. Shear/The Trail)

12:25 AM ET, June 18, 2008

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Tim Conneally / BetaNews:

AP sets up a toll booth for bloggers citing its stories — The AP's disharmony with bloggers may have only just begun, as the alternative it's now offering to being served with takedown notices involves paying an up-front sum for excerpting online articles — as few as five words.

Discussion: Techdirt, The Daily Whim, Buck Naked Politics, Donklephant, Legal Blog Watch, Comments from Left Field, The Impolitic, Little Green Footballs, Macsmind, Unqualified Offerings and QandO

Kos / Daily Kos:

More on the AP idiots … Hey AP — that's 120 words. Have your lawyers call my lawyers. — Media experts are swarming over the AP's takedown notice against two bloggers, claiming that no one is allowed to excerpt from AP stories anymore. Remember the AP's idiotic assertion:

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, AMERICAblog News, Ali Eteraz, Democrats.com, Eschaton, Bill Hobbs and Newshoggers.com

Michelle Malkin:

Hey, Associated Press: You owe me at least $132,125! — The Internet firestorm over the Associated Press's heavy-handed attempt to bully bloggers over fair use article excerpts has been absolutely schadenfreude-licious. Now, it's time to turn the tables. If your blog or blog commenters …

Discussion: bRight & Early, Scholars and Rogues and Associated Press

Patterico's Pontifications:

Irony Alert: AP Attacks Blogs for Quoting Their Stories, Then Quotes Even More Extensively from Blogs — So the AP has been threatening bloggers who quote their stories: … Even after an AP spokesman acknowledged that the organization's tactics were “heavy-handed,” they still didn't really back off:

Discussion: Bill Hobbs, The Volokh Conspiracy, snapped shot, Slashdot, culturekitchen and Don Surber

Allahpundit / Hot Air:

AP wants $2.50 a word to excerpt its stories now? — And you thought their PR on this subject couldn't get any worse. Must be nice to have an exemption from the same federal fair use statute every other content provider in America is governed by. … Here's the link to a tollbooth for a random AP news alert piece.

Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ, The Jawa Report, doubleplusundead and The News Buckit

Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
$12.50 For Five Words? “Bite Me” Indeed, AP

Discussion: The Moderate Voice

Julia Hoppock / Political Punch:

Obama Pushes Back on McCain Camp Terrorism Attacks — Responding to charges by the campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, that comments he made to ABC News indicate he has a “naive” pre-9/11 view of terrorism, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, told reporters Tuesday that Republicans are not trying …

Discussion: Hot Air, Marc Ambinder, No More Mister Nice Blog, Flopping Aces, Weekly Standard Blog, The Washington Independent, Commentary, Comments from Left Field, Redstate, American Street and Political Machine

Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:

WOULD BIN LADEN GET HABEAS RIGHTS? — From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy — SAN ANTONIO, Texas — According to the McCain campaign's top foreign policy advisor, Obama equals Clinton — at least when it comes to fighting terrorism. — On a conference call with reporters that took place this morning …

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs, The Anonymous Liberal, PoliBlog (TM), Weekly Standard Blog, Commentary and Spin Cycle

James Gerber / Political Radar:
Kerry: McCain Bin Laden Argument ‘Phony’

Discussion: Weekly Standard Blog

Alexander Marquardt / CNN:
Obama responds to McCain camp on terrorist prosecution

Discussion: TalkLeft

Associated Press: Obama: Bin Laden still free because of GOP tactics

NY Daily News:

Hil and Obama, together again: First joint appearance to rally her donors — Hil and Obama, together again — Hillary Clinton will join Barack Obama for a joint appearance in Washington next week to persuade her donors to begin giving to the Democrats' nominee, the Daily News has learned.

Discussion: NO QUARTER, Taylor Marsh, TIME.com, Boston Globe, TPM Election Central, Wake up America and Salon

Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Hillary Clinton's campaign photo album's got something missing

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Democracy in America

Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
‘Danger Signs’ as Clinton Supporters Resist Obama

Discussion: Political Punch, Flopping Aces, Redstate, TownHall Blog and Wake up America

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

Targeting Steny Hoyer for his contempt for the rule of law — (updated below - Update II - Update III) — It is now definitively clear that House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is the driving force behind a bill — written by GOP Sen. Kit Bond — to vest the President with vast …

Discussion: Firedoglake, TalkLeft, Newshoggers.com, Washington Monthly, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, The Hill, Hullabaloo, Crooks and Liars, The Agonist, DownWithTyranny!, Unqualified Offerings and The Sideshow

Warren P. Strobel / McClatchy Washington Bureau:

Documents confirm U.S. hid detainees from Red Cross — WASHINGTON — The U.S. military hid the locations of suspected terrorist detainees and concealed harsh treatment to avoid the scrutiny of the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to documents that a Senate committee released Tuesday.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Tom Lasseter / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Militants found recruits among Guantanamo's wrongly detained

Discussion: Washington Post, Firedoglake, Think Progress and Prairie Weather

Tennessee Center for Policy Research:

For Immediate Release: June 17, 2008 — Gore's personal electricity consumption up 10%, despite “energy-efficient” home renovations — NASHVILLE - In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President's home energy use surged more than 10% …

Discussion: Hot Air, Post Politics, Stop The ACLU, Sister Toldjah, Wake up America, Argghhh!, Don Surber, snapped shot, PoliPundit.com and Bill Hobbs

Nate Silver / The New Republic:

Today's Polls: Yes, Obama's Still Bouncing — An odd day of polling, but one attention-grabbing result dominates the rest. That is from Ohio, where Public Policy Polling has Barack Obama ahead by 11 points. While Public Policy Polling developed a reputation as being somewhat Obama-friendly …

Discussion: Daily Kos

Francis De Luca / John W. Pope Civitas Institute:
N.C. Poll: McCain Leads Obama 45-41

Discussion: FiveThirtyEight.com, TalkLeft, Daily Kos and Donklephant

Matt Stoller / Open Left:

Dear Chuck Todd and NBC: Iraq Matters — Chuck Todd calls Moveon's latest ad, featuring a mother asking McCain not to kill her child with irresponsible warmongering in Iraq, ‘shameless’. — I didn't notice any outcry from NBC when Progress for America aired this ad …

Discussion: MyDD and The Talent Show

John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Chuck Todd disses Move On's new ad: ‘I think it was a borderline shameless ad’

Discussion: AMERICAblog News and Hullabaloo

SteveK / TVNewser:

How F&F Became WPITW — Keith Olbermann gave Fox & Friends the gold on the Worst Persons list last night. — That's the short story. The long story has actually very little to do with either the Countdown anchor or the FNC morning show. It goes back to Friday night …

Discussion: FishBowlDC and Ed Driscoll.com

Telegraph:

Abu Qatada: Islamic cleric is released from jail — Abu Qatada, the radical Islamic cleric described as Osama bin Laden's “right-hand man in Europe”, has been released from jail after a judge ruled that there were no grounds to keep him in prison. — The decision to allow him to return …

Discussion: ThreatsWatch

Los Angeles Times:

‘Curveball’ speaks, and a reputation as disinformation agent remains intact — The Iraqi refugee and German intelligence source code-named Curveball, left, meets with reporter John Goetz somewhere in Germany. His tall tales of Saddam Hussein's mobile germ weapons labs helped the White House justify the invasion of Iraq.

Discussion: The Reaction