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Michael Muskal / Top of the Ticket:
White House aide out after $357,012 photo-op with Air Force One  —  A White House aide joined the unemployment lines today for his role in Air Force One's controversial photo-op flyover above New York, the Obama administration just announced.  (Of course, it's scheduled for a Friday afternoon.)
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Obama to Address Muslim World From Egypt  —  President Obama will make his promised speech to the Muslim world from Egypt, a White House official said on Friday.  —  Obama pledged during the campaign to address the Muslim world from a Muslim capital within the first few months of taking office.
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
After Flyover of Air Force One Backup, Military Office Director Resigns  —  The White House on Friday released the April 27 photo of the plane flying over New York City.  —  The director of the White House Military Office submitted his resignation on Friday, less than two weeks after he authorized …
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama: Egyptian speech to Muslim world
Discussion: The Politico
Michael O'Brien / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
CBS announcer: Any U.S. soldier would shoot Pelosi, strangle Reid  —  CBS Sports commentator David Feherty drew criticism Friday for suggesting any U.S. soldier would murder House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) if given the chance.
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Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
CBS golf analyst Feherty: “[I]f you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it ... there's a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death.”  —  From Feherty's column on D Magazine:
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Top Pelosi Aide Learned Of Waterboarding in 2003
Discussion: Emptywheel and Weekly Standard
The Caucus:   Pelosi Criticized Over Interrogation Briefings
Wall Street Journal:
Republicans and ObamaCare  —  The sound of silence is deafening.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Listen.  That sound of silence?  That's what's known as the united Republican response to President Barack Obama's drive to socialize health care.  —  The president has a plan, and he's laid it on the table.
Discussion: Weekly Standard
David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
The face of naked eliminationism  —  You can view this video right here by getting the latest version of Flash Player!  —  Remember that DHS bulletin on right-wing extremism that got all the righties' shorts in a bunch?  Let's quickly recall the bottom line of its assessment:
Wall Street Journal:
Banks Won Concessions on Tests  —  Fed Cut Billions Off Some Initial Capital-Shortfall Estimates; Tempers Flare at Wells  —  The Federal Reserve at the last minute significantly scaled back the size of the capital hole facing some of the nation's biggest banks, following days of intense bargaining …
Michael Hirsh / Newsweek:
Train Wreck Ahead?  —  Why the U.S. and Israel may be headed for a collision.  —  For Israeli leaders, a public break with the United States is the third rail of politics.  The possibility that Israelis might lose the support of the one nation that can guarantee their security awakens …
Discussion: TPMCafe and Newshoggers.com
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Chicago Breaking News:
Alan Keyes among 22 arrested at Notre Dame  —  Former Illinois U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes and 21 other protesters were arrested this morning when they refused to leave the Notre Dame campus during a protest of President Obama's upcoming commencement address there, authorities said.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
IF IT'S SUNDAY.... Just yesterday, Dick Cheney explained his belief that it's time for some of the older establishment Republican voices to exit the stage.  “I think periodically we have to go through one these sessions.  It helps clear away some of the underbrush,” the former vice president said …
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Brett Wilkison / visaliatimesdelta.com:
Q&A:Huckabee points to religious influence  —  Times-Delta: How has your religious faith inspired or influenced your political career?  —  Mike Huckabee: I believe that if a person is a believe, then you take seriously the word of Jesus when he said you're the salt of the earth, the light of the world ... .
Michael Falcone / The Politico:
MoveOn moves against Specter  —  One of the nation's largest liberal advocacy organizations, MoveOn.org , is resisting efforts to clear the Democratic primary field for Republican-turned-Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter.  —  The political arm of MoveOn flexed its muscle Friday by releasing …
Discussion: Open Left
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
CAN LOCAL BLOGGERS REPLACE LOCAL NEWS COVERAGE?  —  “Not only is it going to be intrinsically difficult to ever find a viable revenue model for paying a reporter to cover the zoning board if people don't want to read about the zoning board,” writes Matt Yglesias, “[but] I'm not actually sure …
Moe Tkacik / TPMMuckraker:
Are AIG FP Employees Using Bailout Cash To Get Jobs Elsewhere?  Looks Like It, Says AIG Source  —  Remember the rumors that AIG Financial Products had “thrown in the towel,” handing over massive portfolios of derivatives to the trading desks of major investment banks to unwind in a process …
Discussion: Seeing the Forest
Michael Atherton / Times of London:
Barack Obama to walk in footsteps of uncle who helped free Buchenwald  —  Tom Baldwin in Washington, and Roger Boyes in Berlin  —  President Obama is preparing to follow in the footsteps of his great-uncle, Charlie, with a visit to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany when he returns to Europe this summer.
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Governor Clintonism?  —  The Virginia Democratic Party's annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner, held at Richmond's sprawl of a convention center on a mild Saturday night in February, was particularly festive this year.  The Democratic Party is enjoying a resurgence in Virginia …
Discussion: Swing State Project
Joe Weisenthal / Clusterstock:
Media Still Covering Up The $400 Billion Fannie And Freddie Scandal  —  This morning, Fannie Mae (FNM) announced that it had lost another $23 billion in the quarter, and would have to call down $19 billion more in taxpayer support.  It also said that it would face losses as far as the eye can see.
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
Cue the world's smallest violin.  Again  —  The Hollywood Reporter goes big today with a long article about how entertainment execs at the nets hate pre-empting their schedules for Obama's primetime pressers.  About how the nets are losing millions of dollars in ad revenue, although actually …
Discussion: MyDD
E! Online:
Palin “Supports” Prejean, Dad Claims  —  Carrie Prejean and Sarah Palin go together like lipstick and pigs.  —  So says Prejean's father, at least, who tells E! News in an exclusive interview that the Alaska governor has already been in touch with his lightning-rod spawn.
Donald Douglas / American Power:
Mainstream Bigotry and Racism on the Democratic-Left  —  I've long documented the most vile bigotry and racism on the left end of the dial.  During the 2008 primaries, we witnessed some of the most disgusting racism and sexism in decades.  And across the blogosphere, the most reprehensible racial slurs …
David S. Broder / Seattle Times:
Nation ripe for entitlement reform  —  WASHINGTON — The mountain labored, and brought forth a mouse.  Last week the administration confronted the budget of the U.S. government in the “line-by-line” review long promised by President Obama — and found theoretical savings almost invisible to the naked eye.
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Firedoglake and The Note
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Sources: Senators weigh 3 government health plans  —  WASHINGTON - Senators are considering three different designs for a new government health insurance plan that middle-income Americans could buy into for the first time, congressional officials said Friday.
New York Times:
Text: Obama's Remarks on Training for the Unemployed  —  The following is the text of President Obama's prepared remarks on Friday on government plans to provide educational opportunities for the unemployed, as released by the White House.  —  This morning, we learned that our economy lost another 539,000 jobs in the month of April.
 
 
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