memeorandum: Transcript: Hillary Clinton Interview (ABCNEWS)

6:05 PM ET, October 14, 2009

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Adam Schefter / ESPN:

Sources: Checketts to drop Limbaugh — Rush Limbaugh is expected to be dropped from a group bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams, according to three NFL sources. — Dave Checketts, chairman of the NHL's St. Louis Blues and the point man in the Limbaugh group attempting to buy the Rams …

Discussion: The Hill, Newsbroke, JammieWearingFool, Salon, Hot Air, NBC Sports, New York Times and Associated Press

Mark Steyn / The Corner on National Review Online:

Okay, Prove You Didn't Say It! — By: Mark Steyn — For some reason, Rush Limbaugh's mooted purchase of a sports franchise has prompted CNN and others to distribute far and wide what appear to be entirely fabricated racist quotes by Rush. As Tim Blair points out: … Just so. What's the theory here?

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The Huffington Post, Big Hollywood, Michelle Malkin, Ace of Spades HQ, Hot Air, Gateway Pundit, NewsReal Blog, QandO, Big Government, Confederate Yankee, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, GayPatriot, JammieWearingFool, Pajamas Media and Tim Blair

Bob Cusack / The Hill:

Limbaugh fires back at ‘fool’ Jackson Lee for NFL floor speech — Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday fired back at a House Democrat who has called on the National Football League (NFL) not to let him buy the St. Louis Rams. — On his radio show, Limbaugh said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee …

Discussion: Gateway Pundit

RushLimbaugh.com:
State-Run Media Scum Smear Rush Using Fabricated Quotes

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Ruby Slippers, NewsBusters.org, Gateway Pundit, Media Matters for America, Wake up America, Moonbattery, Scared Monkeys, Pajamas Media and 24Ahead

Robert Schmidt / Bloomberg:

Geithner Aides Reaped Millions Working for Banks, Hedge Funds — Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) — Some of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's closest aides, none of whom faced Senate confirmation, earned millions of dollars a year working for Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc. and other Wall Street firms …

Discussion: The Atlantic Politics Channel, The Huffington Post, DailyFinance, The Confluence, The Swamp, No More Mister Nice Blog, Michelle Malkin and LewRockwell.com Blog

Louis Uchitelle / New York Times:

Still on the Job, but at Half the Pay — MECHANICSVILLE, Va. — The dark blue captain's hat, with its golden oak-leaf clusters, sits atop a bookcase in Bryan Lawlor's home, out of reach of the children. The uniform their father wears still displays the four stripes of a commercial airline captain, but the hat stays home.

Discussion: Balloon Juice, naked capitalism, Outside The Beltway and ParaPundit

Wall Street Journal:
Wall Street On Track To Award Record Pay

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, DownWithTyranny!, Gawker, Wonk Room, DailyFinance, American Street, The Note, New York Magazine and Think Progress

Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:

Snowe: Public option could be dealbreaker — The public option is likely a deal breaker for Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), the sole Republican who voted for healthcare reform in the Finance Committee yesterday. — In a number of interviews this morning, Snowe, whose vote is seen as crucial …

Discussion: The Note, Washington Monthly, Ben Smith's Blog, rubber hose, No More Mister Nice Blog, Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog! and Wake up America

Douglas Holtz-Eakin / Wall Street Journal:
The Baucus Bill Is a Tax Bill

Discussion: New York Post, The Huffington Post, Flopping Aces, RedState, Hot Air and The Natural Truth

Ben Frumin / TPM LiveWire:
Schumer To Reid: The Fate Of The Public Option May Be In Your Hands

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Firedoglake, TPMDC, Jack & Jill Politics, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Note, The Hill, TalkLeft and Talking Points Memo

Michael A. Cohen / The Politico:

Now who loves America more? — Twenty-five years ago, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick famously lambasted Democrats as “blame America firsters” and a party plagued by “self-criticism and self-denigration” of America. It was a speech at pace with an emerging political stereotype …

Discussion: JustOneMinute, Right Wing Nut House and Sister Toldjah

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Daisy Chain of Cheneys

Discussion: Washington Post

Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
Liz Derangement Syndrome

Discussion: Wizbang, The Greenroom, Eunomia, Maggie's Farm and Pajamas Media

PittsburghLIVE.com:

Poll shows Specter staring at ‘near fatal’ 31 percent re-election figure — TRIBUNE-REVIEW — HARRISBURG — Only 31 percent of Pennsylvania voters believe Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter should be re-elected, and 59 percent believe it's time to give someone else a chance, a state poll released today shows.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Politics Daily, The Plum Line, TPMDC, Politics Nation and Taegan Goddard's …

Kyle Trygstad / Real Clear Politics:
PA Sen Poll: ‘Staggering’ Specter Numbers

Discussion: Commentary

New York Times:

Saudis Seek Payments for Any Drop in Oil Revenues — Saudi Arabia is trying to enlist other oil-producing countries to support a provocative idea: if wealthy countries reduce their oil consumption to combat global warming, they should pay compensation to oil producers.

Discussion: Democracy in America, Washington Monthly, Conservative Dallas, Indecision Forever, Climate Progress, The Reality-Based Community, The Daily Dish, Raw Story and QandO

Daniel W. Drezner:
So it turns out that Arab sheikhs understand the meaning of “chutzpah”

Discussion: Megan McArdle

ABCNEWS:

Transcript: Hillary Clinton Interview — America's Top Diplomat Talks With ‘Nightline’ in Exclusive Interview in Moscow — The following is an edited transcript of ABC News' Cynthia McFadden's interview with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Moscow, Oct. 14, 2009

Discussion: The Swamp

Andy Barr / The Politico:
Clinton: I'd have hired Obama

Discussion: The Hill and marbury

Megan McArdle:

Democrats Try to Hit the Insurance Industry Where it Hurts — Harry Reid is telling the Senate Judiciary Committee that the real reason health insurance is so expensive is that they're evil monopolists, and we need to repeal their anti-trust exemption:

David M. Herszenhorn / Prescriptions:
For Insurers, a Question of Trust (and Antitrust)

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Firedoglake, Ezra Klein, The Politico and Prairie Weather

Wall Street Journal:

An Apartment Complex Teeters — High-Profile Tishman/BlackRock Property in New York in Danger of Default — The giant Stuyvesant Town apartment complex on Manhattan's East Side, shown Tuesday, was developed by MetLife for World War II veterans. — One of the biggest …

Discussion: New York Magazine and Clusterstock

Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:

The Washington Post Has a Tenuous Grasp on Idea of ‘Incivility’ — I missed this ridiculous A-1 encapsulation of the media's summer of hand-wringing on Sunday, but it's worth reading for a crystal-clear look at the world view within major media. The opening anecdote for “In Today's Viral World, Who Keeps a Civil Tongue?,” is telling.

Discussion: Michelle Malkin

Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:

The Curious Resignation Of Robert Wexler — Today, Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL), a well-regarded young congressman with a good job and enough seniority to ensure that he is comfortable, will announce his resignation from the House of Representatives. The reason: he intends to perform other work in a “public policy” capacity.

Discussion: JTA, Broward Politics and Real Clear Politics

Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:
What Is Wexler Thinking? — By all accounts, Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) loves Congress.

Discussion: wexler.house.gov, TPM LiveWire, Talking Points Memo, MiamiHerald.com, Top of the Ticket and Laura Rozen's Blog

Jordy Yager / The Hill:

House Republicans accuse Muslim group of trying to plant spies — Four House Republicans are accusing a Muslim advocacy group of trying to plant spies on Capitol Hill. — Republican members of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus said the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) …

Discussion: The Politico, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Atlas Shrugs, The Plum Line and The Political Carnival

Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:

Steele: I'm The ‘Cow On The Tracks’ Trying To Block The Health Care Train — Today on Fox News, RNC Chairman Michael Steele railed against Democratic efforts to reform health care and said how proud he was that Republicans have stalled action. “They told us in June that there would be a health care bill …

Discussion: Associated Press, TPM LiveWire, Wonkette and Talking Points Memo

Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Nelson: 'I Don't Know' If I Could Support A Health Care Bill Without Snowe

Discussion: Ezra Klein and Daniel Strauss

Washington Wire:

Palin Plans New Political Group — Michael M. Phillips reports on the doings of conservative favorite Sarah Palin. — Sarah Palin fans can expect to see a new Palin political organization surface as her memoir, “Going Rogue: An American Life,” hits the shelves next month.

Discussion: New York Post, Hot Air, Tammy Bruce and Left Coast Rebel

Ceci Connolly / Washington Post:

Health Insurers Emerge as Obama's Top Foe in Reform Effort — Now they have an enemy. — For months, President Obama and his administration waged their fight for a health-care overhaul without a clear opponent, even courting the industry executives and interest groups that helped kill reform efforts 15 years ago.

Dexter Filkins / New York Times:

Stanley McChrystal's Long War — Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal stepped off the whirring Black Hawk and headed straight into town. He had come to Garmsir, a dusty outpost along the Helmand River in southern Afghanistan, to size up the war that President Obama has asked him to save.

Discussion: Newshoggers.com, Michael Calderone's Blog, ATTACKERMAN, Danger Room and Villainous Company

PewResearch.org:

Daily Number: 15% - America's Health Care is ... Fairly Average — Only 15% of Americans believe that the U.S. has the best health care in the world. Read more — THE TOP STORY INDEX — New Media Index — Celebrity Jeopardy: Polanski on Blogs — 8 Oct 09 The Roman Polanski saga …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Matthew Yglesias, The Plum Line, Ezra Klein, Taegan Goddard's … and BlueOregon

Jake Sherman / The Politico:

Boehner downplays Dow 10,000 — Dow 10,000 just isn't that big a deal, House Republican leader John Boehner said Wednesday morning. — And anyone who places significance on the stock market hitting this symbolic number is “certainly not talking to the American people.”

Discussion: Bloomberg, Washington Monthly and Think Progress

updates.pressherald.mainetoday.com:

Poll: 51.8% plan to vote no on question 1 — in - Central Maine Newspapers - Portland Press Herald — According to new poll data, 51.8 percent of people who plan to vote in November say they will vote no or are leaning in that direction on question 1, the people's veto of Maine's same-sex marriage law.

Discussion: Pam's House Blend and D-Day

KATU-TV:

Apartment residents told to take down U.S. flags — Residents of the Oaks Apartments in Albany have reportedly been told to take down their flags. Even this one, on the back of a motorcycle, is part of the reported ban. — ALBANY, Ore. - At the Oaks Apartments in Albany …

Discussion: Grouchy Old Cripple and Left Coast Rebel

Jenna Greene / The BLT:

FTC Reassures Bloggers - Big Brother Isn't Watching — Bloggers of the world, relax - the Federal Trade Commission is not out to get you. That was the message from Mary Engle, associate director for advertising practices at the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection.

Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Daily Kos

Bruce Bartlett / Capital Gains and Games blogs:

Perils of a Talking Head — Anyone who regularly does TV interviews knows that one is always required to do a pre-interview in which a producer feels you out as to what you will say in response to certain hypothetical questions. It would be simpler if they just came out and said …

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and Free exchange

Sean Higgins / Investor's Business Daily:

Americans, In Reversal, Now Back Afghan Troop Surge — As President Obama mulls the military's request for a big troop build-up in Afghanistan, Americans have swung in favor of such a move, according to a new IBD/TIPP Poll. — The survey of 927 adults found that a plurality of 48% favors sending …

Discussion: Washington Times, The Politico, Hot Air, Jules Crittenden, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Jawa Report, Gateway Pundit, AmSpecBlog, Conservatives4Palin.com and BLACKFIVE

Brian Montopoli / CBS News:

Why GOP Leader Opposes Hate Crimes Protections for Gays — Last week, House Republican Leader John Boehner objected to House passage of a bill that would expand hate crime laws and make it a federal crime to assault people on the basis of their sexual orientation.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Daily Dish, Crooked Timber, Glenn Thrush's Blog and Raw Story