Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
7:10 PM ET, September 23, 2008

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Scott Conroy / CBS News:
Palin Camp Goes To New Lengths To Shut Out Media  —  From CBS News' Scott Conroy:  —  (NEW YORK) Update: After media outlets complained to the McCain/Palin campaign about its attempt to prevent an editorial presence at Gov. Palin's first meeting of the day, a pool producer was allowed …
RELATED:
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Palin press may boycott UN conference  —  NEW YORK - Journalists, displeased with Sarah Palin's efforts to restrict their access to her, are threatening not to cover her events surrounding the United Nations conference here unless they're allowed more access.
Discussion: Think Progress and Stumper
Michael Cooper / The Caucus:
Palin in the City  —  Meeting Uribe |  2:20 p.m.: The next stop on Governor Palin's whirlwind diplomatic tour was a meeting with President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia.  Mr. Uribe has a warm relationship with Senator John McCain, who paid him a visit during extremely unusual campaign trip …
Peter Hamby / CNN:
McCain camp tries to keep reporters out of Palin meetings  —  (CNN) — McCain-Palin campaign officials shifted course Tuesday after being informed by television news organizations that they would not broadcast footage of Sarah Palin's meeting with Afghan leader Hamid Karzai Tuesday in New York …
Discussion: The Swamp, MoJoBlog and Gawker
Sara Kugler / Associated Press:
Palin meets her first world leaders in New York  —  NEW YORK - Sarah Palin met her first world leaders Tuesday.  It was a tightly controlled crash course on foreign policy for the Republican vice presidential candidate, the mayor-turned-governor who has been outside North America just once.
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Palin press relationship gets testy
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Hot Air
KPIX-TV:
Palin Bans Reporters From Meetings, Then Relents
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
A cluster in Midtown  —  Attempts to shield Palin from questions …
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
The Politico:
House GOP rises up against Cheney  —  There was a time when Dick Cheney could turn back a Republican revolt on Capitol Hill.  —  That time is gone.  —  House Republicans rose up en masse against their vice president on Tuesday morning to blast an administration proposal …
RELATED:
Ali / Think Progress:
Paulson: I Didn't Suggest Oversight In The Bailout Plan Because That Would Be ‘Presumptuous’  —  This morning, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson testified before the Senate Banking Committee on the current financial crisis.  Nearly every senator on the panel criticized the $700 billion bailout …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Biden garbles Depression history  —  Joe Biden's denunciation of his own campaign's ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by.  —  He was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis.
RELATED:
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Biden: ‘No coal plants here in America’  —  Some great rope line video from Joe Biden's recent Ohio swing, where he was asked by an anti-pollution campaigner about clean coal — a controversial approach in Democratic circles for which Obama has voiced support, particularly during the Kentucky primary.
Jesse Walker / Reason:
And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him.  And you would have said to yourself, “Who is that guy?  What happened to President Hoover?”  —  From Katie Couric's sit-down with Joe Biden: … [Hat tip: John-David.]
Discussion: Wonkette
Andy Glass / The Crypt's Blogs:
Gingrich: McCain should make bailout ‘Obama-Bush’ plan
Discussion: The Swamp and Spin Cycle
Stanley Kurtz / Wall Street Journal:
Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools  —  Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience.  From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001.
RELATED:
Marc Ambinder:
Obama And Ayres  —  Associations can be fair game …
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Silent Running
Emptywheel:
Bush Mouthpiece Admits: They've Been Sitting on this Plan  —  Hidden in an article reporting that Cheney's going to go hunt up some support for the $700,000,000,000 bailout is this admission that the Bush Administration has been sitting on it for some time: … Which raises three questions for me:
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Daily Kos
RELATED:
Chris Bowers / Open Left:
There Is No Crisis—Summary  —  Things are getting a little suspicious …
Discussion: The Anonymous Liberal
Keith Koffler / Roll Call:
White House Dispatches Team to Push Economic Bill
Paul Krugman:
Getting real — and letting the cat out of the bag  —  Whoa — it seems that Ben Bernanke ditched his prepared testimony and, instead, let the cat at least partly out of the bag. … As I wrote earlier this morning, the whole “take these assets off the balance sheets” line is fundamentally disingenuous …
RELATED:
Paul Krugman:
Balance sheet baloney
Ryan / Think Progress:
Limbaugh Repeats Myth That Obama Is Of ‘Arab-African’ Descent  —  Yesterday on his radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh falsely claimed that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is “Arab.”  “He's Arab.  You know, he's from Africa.  He's from Arab parts of Africa,” Limbaugh claimed.
RELATED:
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: SUNSHINE FOR OBAMA
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:   Close Contests in Four Key States:
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Hard Landing for the Golden Parachute  —  It's about time somebody in this town stood up for the big guy.  —  After 7 1/2 years of drift, President Bush has finally returned to his compassionate conservative roots with a heartfelt plea to Congress to help a needy and deserving group …
RELATED:
Times of London:
CEO murdered by mob of sacked Indian workers  —  Corporate India is in shock after a mob of sacked workers bludgeoned to death the chief executive who had dismissed them from a factory in a suburb of Delhi.  —  Lalit Kishore Choudhary, 47, the head of the Indian operations of Graziano Transmissioni …
Discussion: American Power
Cincinnati.com:
If Ohio polling looks like Chicago, ‘thank’ Brunner  —  Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has a reputation as the most partisan state official in Ohio.  And she works hard to earn it.  The Democrat's latest stunt rejected absentee ballots for thousands of Republicans.  —  But it's not her first rodeo.
Discussion: Pursuing Holiness
Mark Krikorian / The Corner:
Credit Is Not a Civil Right  —  I have no way of judging whether the Wall Street bailout is a necessary evil or an impending disaster.  But we're in this mess, ultimately, because our political elites thought it was good social policy to encourage banks to give mortgages to uncreditworthy people …
Discussion: Salon
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
McCain ads to air in Indiana?  [CORRECTED]  —  Two sources say McCain's ad campaign is set to extend to Indiana, a reliably Republican state where local polling has long showed Obama unexpectedly strong, and where Obama has been running a full-scale campaign.
Discussion: MyDD
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Holds 3-Point Edge  —  Voter preferences similar to averages seen in post-primaries period  —  PRINCETON, NJ — U.S. voters are closely divided in their 2008 presidential preferences, with 47% favoring Barack Obama and 44% backing John McCain.
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
PIGS AT THE TROUGH  —  Kos comes across this remarkable admission from White House spokesperson Tony Fratto (emphasis mine): … Who are they kidding?  Of course the Democratic proposal for limits on executive compensation only applies to firms who participate in the bailout.
Discussion: White House and Daily Kos
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 7:10 PM ET, September 23, 2008.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Who's Hiring in Media? 
 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
Count me Out of the Bailout  —  Sorry for the radio silence.
Discussion: Wizbang
Ernest Luning / Colorado Independent:
Aurora fifth-grader suspended over anti-Obama T-shirt
Discussion: Law Blog and Stop The ACLU
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Obama's Michigan Attack
Discussion: Swampland
Jim Turner / TCPalm.com:
Democrats point out that Mahoney's challenger Rooney used dog track …
Discussion: TPM Election Central
Gawker:
Chris Rock To Bill Clinton: ‘Hillary Lost!’
David Talbot / Salon:
Mean girl  —  Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in Detroit Sept. 5, 2008.
Discussion: TalkLeft and Daily Kos
 Earlier Items: 
Noah Shachtman / Wired News:
Montgomery McFate: Use Anthropology in Military Planning
Discussion: MoJoBlog
Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
McCain sends press to cabbage class
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Colorado Poll  —  Barack Obama 51  —  John McCain 44
Discussion: TalkLeft and Riehl World View
Suzy Shuster / The Huffington Post:
An Open Letter to Tina Fey
Ron Paul / CNN:
Paul: Bailouts will lead to rough ride
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Not a surrogate  —  I'd missed “The View” yesterday …
 

 
From Techmeme:

Kent Walker / The Keyword:
Google says the DOJ's “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision”, would hurt US consumers, and jeopardize the US' global tech leadership

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Hannah Lang / Reuters:
Sources: a16z, Ripple, Kraken, and Circle are jostling for a seat on Trump's promised crypto advisory council, which is expected to set up a bitcoin reserve

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page