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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
McCain Orders Shake-Up of His Campaign — WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain's presidential campaign has gone through its second shake-up in a year as Mr. McCain, responding to Republican concerns that his candidacy was faltering, put Steve Schmidt in charge of day-to-day operations and abandoned …
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Schmidt takes control of day-to-day operation — Steve Schmidt is taking over the day-to-day operation of John McCain's campaign, according to multiple campaign sources. — At a staff meeting in the campaign's Arlington, Va., headquarters this morning, campaign manager Rick Davis made the announcement about Schmidt's new role.
Marc Ambinder:
The McCain Campaign Aftershock — Steve Schmidt takes control of John McCain's scheduling and messaging operations. — Was this a shake-up? A natural evolution? A scaling up? — Try a combination of the three. — In the year and a half since McCain and Schmidt first got to know each other …
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Well Known Liberal Blogger Shot In Washington, D.C. — Brian Beutler, a well-known progressive blogger, was shot and seriously injured during a mugging last night in Washington, D.C. — One bullet damaged Beutler's spleen, and he had it removed during surgery this morning at the Washington Hospital Center.
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Addiestan / The Consortium Report:
Bullets Can't Stop Beutler From Cracking Wise — Funny thing about being a journalist: your job is to write about people and mayhem and trauma, but let any of those touch you directly, and it becomes a different game. With that caveat, allow me to recount my brief visit today with my colleague …
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Media Matters for America:
Fox News airs altered photos of NY Times reporters — On the July 2 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade labeled New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe “attack dogs,” claiming that Steinberg's June 28 article on the …
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Fox News Airs Revised Photos of ‘NYT’ Staffers — Sifton Calls It ‘Disgusting’ — NEW YORK The Fox News channel has gaiend wide attention today in the blogosphere for airing photos of two New York Times staff that appear to have been doctored to portray the Timesmen in an unflattering light.
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Simon Romero / New York Times:
15 Hostages Held by Colombian Rebels Are Rescued — CARACAS, Venezuela — Colombia announced Wednesday that it had rescued 15 captives held by the FARC rebel group, including Ingrid Betancourt, a former presidential candidate, and three American military contractors held by the guerrillas for more than four years.
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Michael Newsom / Sun Herald:
Cochran recounts McCain dustup with the Sandinistas — GULFPORT —Notably mild-mannered Republican Sen. Thad Cochran shocked many earlier this year with comments about John McCain's volatile temper. He has since mended fences with the GOP presidential nominee.
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Washington Wire:McCain Denies Senator's Account of 1987 Sandinista Meeting
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:Thad Cochran not helping the cause
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Michael Scherer / Swampland:
Christian Conservatives Uniting Behind McCain — At a meeting Tuesday in Denver, about 100 conservative Christian leaders from around the country agreed to unite behind the candidacy of John McCain, a politician they have long distrusted, marking the latest in a string of movements that bode …
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James Gerber / Political Radar:
Obama Fist Bump Refusal? Not So Fast... ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Senator Obama received critical press yesterday for refusing to give a boy a fist bump while touring the Eastside Community Ministry in Ohio. — According to Tuesday's press pool report, Obama denied the boy, saying …
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Zev Chafets / New York Times:
Late-Period Limbaugh — At one time, Limbaugh did his program from a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper he dubbed, with tongue-in-cheek grandiosity, the Excellence in Broadcasting Building. These days, he mostly broadcasts out of a studio in Palm Beach, Fla., which he calls the Southern Command …
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Andy Borowitz / The Huffington Post:
Liberal Bloggers Accuse Obama of Trying to Win Election — The liberal blogosphere was aflame today with new accusations that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) is trying to win the 2008 presidential election. — Suspicions about Sen. Obama's true motives have been building over the past few weeks …
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U.S. Newswire:
President Bush Boosts Porn Industry With Economic Stimulus Plan, According to AIMRCo — Contact: Kirk Mishkin of AIMRCo, +1-646-552-4754, kirk@aimrco.com — An unforeseen and surprising beneficiary of the Economic Stimulus Plan, a plan that George Bush contends will “boost our economy …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Obama advisor Greg Craig: Adding insult to injury — (updated below) — In today's New York Times, James Risen — who won the Pulitzer Prize for exposing Bush's illegal NSA spying program — has an article reporting on Obama supporters who are criticizing Obama for his FISA reversal …
The Seattle Times:
Screams of Burner's son led to family's escape — Looking into the black, collapsed interior of her home along the shore of Ames Lake on Tuesday, congressional candidate Darcy Burner was matter-of-fact. — “I'd say it's pretty much a total loss, based on the smoldering remains,” she said.
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Mark Mooney / ABCNEWS:
McCain Dogged by Economy Comment — GOP Candidate Heads South to Colombia and Mexico — Sen. John McCain's comment from last year that he doesn't understand economics “as well as he should” has dogged him all the way to South America today during a foreign trip meant to burnish his standing …
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