Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
5:05 PM ET, September 29, 2008

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Jeffrey Goldberg:
Sarah Palin Endorses Hamas  —  How can it be that some people still pretend that Sarah Palin is suited for high office?  This country has never seen someone so comprehensively unprepared for the vice presidency; Dan Quayle was Metternich by comparison.  I've watched Sarah Palin's interview …
RELATED:
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
‘Substantive’ Press Is Taken for a Spin  —  OXFORD, Miss. — David Axelrod was surrounded by a pack of camera-toting, mike-wielding, pushing-and-shoving media types, one of whom asked whether his man Barack Obama had been “too nice” in the just-completed debate with John McCain.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
More to come from Palin-Couric  —  Howie Kurtz raised some eyebrows by reporting this morning that “the worst may be yet to come for Palin; sources say CBS has two more responses on tape that will likely prove embarrassing.”  —  A source familiar with CBS News' plans clarified that this is part of the …
Discussion: Truthdig
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
How Democrats set Sarah Palin up to ‘win’ Thursday's VP debate
Discussion: Newshoggers.com and Crunchy Con
Ari / Firedoglake:
Maureen Dowd Banned
New York Times:
House Rejects Bailout Package, 228-205; Stocks Plunge  —  WASHINGTON — In a moment of historic import in the Capitol and on Wall Street, the House of Representatives voted on Monday to reject a $700 billion rescue of the financial industry.  The vote came in stunning defiance of President Bush …
RELATED:
Chris Isidore / CNNMoney.com:
Bailout plan rejected  —  House leaders scramble for support for controversial Wall Street plan.  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The fate of the Bush administration's $700 billion financial bailout plan was abruptly thrown in doubt Monday as a House vote turned against the controversial measure.
Alexandra Twin / CNNMoney.com:
Stocks crushed  —  Dow down 778, worst point drop ever …
Paul Krugman:
Bailout questions answered  —  I'm being asked two big questions about this thing: (1) Was it really necessary?  (2) Shouldn't Dems have tossed the whole Paulson approach out the window and done something completely different?  —  On (1), the answer is yes.
RELATED:
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Bailout follows the 10 normal principles for how our government functions  —  (updated below - Update II)  —  The word being used most frequently to describe the bailout package that is about to pass is “extraordinary.”  That adjective may apply to the amounts of money being transferred …
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
IT HURT THEIR FEELINGS?  —  Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) …
Michelle Malkin:
Nancy Pelosi's bailout attack speech on the House floor; Update: Pence statement added  —  I noted it during my liveblog of the House debate.  Here's a video sample of her crap sandwich.  As I mentioned while it was happening, she received multiple rounds of applause on the floor before and after her spittle-flecked statement.
RELATED:
RELATED:
Krooney / TIME.com:
Frank “Appalled” GOP Pointing Finger at Pelosi
Mike Allen / The Politico:
McCain takes credit for bill before it loses  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and his top aides took credit for building a winning bailout coalition - hours before the vote failed and stocks tanked.  —  The rush to claim he had engineered a victory now looks like a strategic blunder …
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Obama sought rape victim for ad  —  Barack Obama's campaign earlier this month sought to find a rape victim to appear in a campaign commercial, according to an e-mail obtained by Politico.  —  Kiersten Steward, director of public policy at the Family Violence Prevention Fund …
Discussion: Townhall.com and Hog On Ice
Tim Shipman / Telegraph:
US elections: Barack Obama's team believes he can win by a landslide  —  Barack Obama's senior aides believe he is on course for a landslide election victory over John McCain and will comfortably exceed most current predictions in the race for the White House.
RELATED:
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:   Obama takes the lead in North Carolina
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
McCain's Moment  —  No one wants to take ownership of the task of rescuing the economy right now.  The Bush-Paulson plan has failed.  The administration, House Democrats, and House Republicans (above all) have all proved unable to deliver.  But there is someone who might be able to save the economy …
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Maintains 8-Point Lead  —  Registered voters prefer Obama to McCain, 50% to 42%  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update, based on Sept. 26-28 polling, shows Barack Obama with a 50% to 42% lead over John McCain, unchanged from the prior report.
Stanley Kurtz / New York Post:
O'S DANGEROUS PALS  —  BARACK'S ‘ORGANIZER’ BUDS PUSHED FOR BAD MORTGAGES  —  WHAT exactly does a “community organizer” do?  Barack Obama's rise has left many Americans asking themselves that question.  Here's a big part of the answer: Community organizers intimidate banks into making high-risk loans to customers with poor credit.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Swing District Congressmen Doomed Bailout  —  This was predictable, I suppose, but it's remarkable to see how strong a relationship there is between today's failed vote on the bailout and the competitive nature of different House races.  —  Among 38 incumbent congressmen in races rated as …
Brad Flora / The Windy Citizen Full Feed:
Chicago dive bar scores hit with nude Sarah Palin portrait  —  People are flocking to snap pictures of the latest tribute to Sarah Palin, a nude portrait depicting her in red stilettos and her trademark eyeglasses.  —  Brian Boyer  —  Artist Bruce Elliott says the hardest part was “getting the color right.”
Discussion: Wake up America, Gawker and QandO
Michelle Malkin:
Breaking: It's official.  House rejects Trillion-Dollar-Plus Crap Sandwich; roll call vote added  —  Scroll for updates...roll call vote added...  The votes have been tallied.  —  228 NAY.  —  205 YEA.  —  The Crap Sandwich goes down in flames.  —  Still no official announcement on the House floor.
Ross Douthat:
Three Scenarios  —  The best case: This is an example of America's democratic institutions reasserting themselves in the face of the attempt by a panicked technocratic elite to prop up reckless institutions that richly deserve to fail.  —  The worst case: You know what.
Marc Ambinder:
McCain's Share of The Blame?  —  Sen. John McCain and his campaign believe he ought to have gotten credit — some credit — for its passage.  —  McCain, today: … Said Steve Schmidt, McCain's chief strategist, on Meet the Press: … So if McCain wanted credit for passage, should he share some of the blame for its defeat?
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 5:05 PM ET, September 29, 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: 
Amb. Richard C. Holbrooke / The Huffington Post:
Calm, Methodical Obama vs. Angry, Ungracious McCain
Discussion: Swampland
Rasmussen Reports:
Opposition to Bailout Plan Falls Dramatically
Discussion: Eunomia
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
McCain blames Obama, not House GOP, for House vote
Discussion: AMERICAblog News and pandagon.net
Stephen Majors / Associated Press:
State, federal courts uphold early voting in Ohio
Discussion: MSNBC
Associated Press:
Ex-CIA executive pleads guilty to wire fraud
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Freedom's Watch Starts Spending
Discussion: Right Wing Watch
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
COMIC RELIEF  —  Minority Leader Boehner (R-OH) says it's …
 Earlier Items: 
Patrick Edaburn / The Moderate Voice:
House REJECTS Bailout Bill
Jim Manzi / The Corner:
The Bailout Vote  —  I've only done two posts on the bailout.
Ethan Bronner / New York Times:
Olmert Says Israel Should Pull Out of West Bank
Discussion: MoJoBlog
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
MCCAIN CAMP TO IFILL: GO EASY ON PALIN
Discussion: Harry's Place
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale 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

Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Sources: Shari Redstone does not plan to stay on the board of Paramount Global after the company completes its planned merger with Skydance Media

 
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