Top Items:
Reliable Source:
Rep. Bob Etheridge gets vicious in viral video — but who filmed it and why? — So, what really happened when Rep. Bob Etheridge ran into a couple of self-described “students” on the streets of D.C. last week? The video confrontation between the obscure seven-term North Carolina Dem …
Discussion:
FishbowlDC, Right Now, Moe Lane, The Caucus, The Daily Caller, TPMCafe, OpenSecrets.org, Ben Smith's Blog, The Other McCain, The Impolitic, The Anchoress and Vanity Fair
RELATED:
Raleigh News & Observer:
Video shames Etheridge, galvanizes Republicans — In a frame from the video, Etheridge holds the young man by the neck and demands to know who he is and the young man asks him to let him go. — The video was harsh. There was U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge, a grandfather with a nice-guy reputation, fuming on a Washington sidewalk.
Scott / Power Line:
Etheridge the Unready — and his enablers — Watching the video below in this post at Andrew Breitbart's Big Government site yesterday, my first thought was that there is something wrong with Rep. Bob Etheridge. He was set off by the question asked on the street outside a Nancy Pelosi fundraiser …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Dems defend Etheridge, attack Breitbart
Discussion:
Etheridge, PostPartisan, Comments from Left Field, Another Black Conservative, The Humble Libertarian, Commentary, TPMDC, Moonbattery, Right Wing News, Big Government, The Fix, Left Coast Rebel, Hot Air, Washington Monthly, The Hill, Stop The ACLU, CBS News, Big Journalism, Right Now, The Right Scoop, Mediaite, American Power, Sister Toldjah, Gawker, AmSpecBlog, Gateway Pundit, Michelle Malkin, CNN, The Daily Caller, Wonkette, Outside the Beltway and JammieWearingFool
Mara Liasson / NPR:
NPR Poll Shows Tough Road Ahead For Democrats — A new public opinion survey for NPR shows just how difficult it will be for Democrats to avoid big losses in the House this November. — Democrat Stan Greenberg and Republican Glen Bolger conducted the first public battleground poll of this election cycle.
RELATED:
NPR:
NPR Poll: Congressional Battleground — Attitude Toward Incumbents — As you may know, there will be an election for your representative to Congress in November this year. Do you think you will definitely vote to re-elect [your incumbent House representative] to Congress …
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Angle works to soothe nervous GOP — Sharron Angle is coming to Washington for two days of meetings designed to reassure worried Republican leaders that she will not let Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid define her as an eccentric right-wing extremist before her campaign against Reid even gets off the ground.
RELATED:
Robert Costa / The Corner on National Review Online:
‘The Accidental Politician’ — By: Robert Costa
Discussion:
The New Republic
blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
I admit it: I was wrong to have supported Barack Obama — In three and a half years of blogging, this has been my single most unpopular post. There's little point, I know, in reminding readers that my support for Barack Obama was qualified; that I simultaneously endorsed GOP Congressional candidates …
Political Correction RSS:
Steve King: Obama Favors The “Black Person” By Default — 1 hour and 40 minutes ago — Walid Zafar — Rep. Steve King (R-IA) appeared on the G. Gordon Liddy Show this morning to discuss Arizona's controversial immigration law and accused Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama …
Discussion:
Washington Monthly, Glenn Thrush's Blog, Macsmind, Think Progress, Pam's House Blend, Des Moines Register, TPMDC and FrumForum
RELATED:
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
Because There Are No Racists... From Iowa congressman Steve King:
Discussion:
Balloon Juice
Hans A. von Spakovsky / The Corner on National …:
The DISCLOSE Act and the NRA: Some Bad News — By: Hans A. von Spakovsky — Just as opposition was building in the House to the unconstitutional and burdensome DISCLOSE Act, which is intended to help Democrats in the November election by stifling the political speech of corporations …
RELATED:
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
Efforts to Repel Gulf Oil Spill Are Described as Chaotic — GRAND ISLE, La. — Deano Bonano, the emergency preparedness director for Jefferson Parish, marched from a motor home being used as a command center to an office across the street filled with BP officials. — It was late May.
Discussion:
Politics Daily, JustOneMinute, Questions and Observations, The Nation and Prairie Weather
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
South Carolina voter: I voted for Alvin Greene because ... his name reminded me of Al Green — It's as good a theory as any other. Two things here. First, I'm happy to announce that I'll be a candidate for U.S. Senator from New York this year under my new legal name, Harrison Forde.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Washington Sketch: Clinton finally ahead of Obama in popularity — It's about two years too late, but Hillary Clinton has finally pulled ahead of Barack Obama. — By any measure — favorability ratings or job approval — Americans by a sizable margin have warmer views of the secretary of state than they do of the president.
New York Times:
Setbacks Cloud U.S. Plans to Get Out of Afghanistan — WASHINGTON — Six months after President Obama decided to send more forces to Afghanistan, the halting progress in the war has crystallized longstanding tensions within the government over the viability of his plan to turn around the country and begin pulling out by July 2011.
Discussion:
Jules Crittenden, The New Republic, Balloon Juice, Hot Air, Associated Press and Laura Rozen's Blog
RELATED:
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Meg Whitman Was Accused of Shoving eBay Employee — SAN FRANCISCO — During her 10 years as chief executive of eBay, Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for governor of California, was known as a demanding leader who did not hesitate to express displeasure with employees who failed to live up to her standards.
Steven Levingston / Washington Post:
Glenn Beck's paranoid thriller, “The Overton Window” — Threshold. 321 pp. $26 — The success of Glenn Beck's novel, “The Overton Window,” will be measured not by its literary value (none), or its contribution to the thriller genre (small), or the money it rakes in (considerable) …
RELATED:
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama Will Take to Oval Office With a Familiar Theme — WASHINGTON — The venue says it all. By choosing to speak to the nation on Tuesday night for the first time from the Oval Office, where his predecessors have spoken of wars and disasters, President Obama is conveying the gravity of the spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Ace / minx.cc:
The Real Reason the Right Doesn't Like Soccer Bonus: Stuff White People Say They Like — NPR thinks it knows the answer. Not really a surprise; it's their same answer for everything about the right: Racism. … Wow, for this automatic writing NPR pays people. — Here's a less hacky explanation.
Discussion:
Hot Air, JammieWearingFool, The Other McCain, Moe Lane, Left in the West, NPR, Big Journalism, Liberty Pundits Blog and Weasel Zippers
CNN:
Armed pair held at Central Command base — MacDill Air Force Base, Florida (CNN) — A heavily armed man and woman were in custody Monday after trying to enter the Air Force base that houses the headquarters for U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan without authorization, an Air Force spokeswoman said.
David Muir / ABCNEWS:
Jindal Orders Barrier Wall Off Gulf Shore — Louisiana Gov. Takes Matters Into Own Hands, But Will BP Foot the Bill? — Eight weeks into the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of the Mexico, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has told the National Guard that there's no time left to wait for BP …
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
Paypal Called, Paypal Caved — Paypal backed down. Excelsior! — As many of you know, on Friday of last week, my paypal account was “restricted.” After a recent review of my account they said, “it has been determined” that I was “currently in violation of PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy.
Discussion:
iOwnTheWorld.com
Dave McNary / Variety:
Cameras role on ‘Atlas’ — Production ends 30-year trek to bring pic to screen — The long-brewing feature version of author Ayn Rand's “Atlas Shrugged” has begun shooting in Los Angeles as a $5 million indie produced by John Aglialoro and Harmon Kaslow.
CNN:
American arrested searching for Osama bin Laden — Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — A 52-year-old American citizen who said he was searching for Osama bin Laden was detained in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan this week, Pakistani police said Tuesday. — The Californian named Gary …
Discussion:
Wonkette
New York Post:
Obama's 9/11 envy — President Obama doesn't like the fact that the Gulf oil spill reminds people of Hurricane Katrina, since the public response to that catastrophe hastened the decline of his predecessor's standing. He'd prefer that the American people be reminded of something else …
Michelle Malkin:
TN Dem attacks female Republicans: “You have to lift their skirts to find out if they are women.” — When liberals can't handle GOP women, they infantilize, sexualize, demonize, and dehumanize them. I diagnosed the Four Stages of Conservative Female Abuse a few years ago. Here's how I described the 4th Stage:
Timothy P. Carney / Beltway Confidential:
In defense of the WaPo's Dave Weigel — And our item on his dancing — Dave Weigel of the Washington Post writes plenty of stuff I don't agree with, and I think the Post's hiring him to follow conservatives is another symptom of the Left's unhealthy obsession with the Right that allows …
Reuel Marc Gerecht / New York Times:
Op-Ed Contributor: Iran's Revolution Enters Year 2 — IN 1985 — when no case officer could even dream of widespread pro-democracy demonstrations in Tehran like those that occurred a year ago this week — I first arrived on the Iran desk in the C.I.A.'s Directorate of Operations.
India Reporter, New Delhi — 
China Markets Correspondent, Shanghai — 
Senior Assignment Editor, DC — 
Stocks Reporter, Tokyo — 
Senior Correspondent - Wealth, NY — 
Reporter - Ottawa Bureau — 
Research Director, CA — 
Editorial Writer, TX — 
Presque Island Reporter, ME — 
Audience Editor, MN — 
Contributing Parks Ed. - SW, CA — 
AI Content Editor, WA — 
Legislative Reporter, TN — 
Elon Musk Reporter, NY or CA — 
Government & Politics Editor, WA — 
Business & GA Reporter. VT — 
Lead Digital Editor, OK — 
Energy Reporter, TX — 
Senior Reporter, SC — 
Trade & Climate Correspondent, DC — 
Reporter, WI — 
Copy Editor, OR — 
Content Director/Chief Editor, GA — 
Breaking News Reporter, NV — 
Fearless Reporter/Producer, IA — 
Deputy Editor, FL — 
Editor, Remote US — 
City Reporter, WA — 
Executive Editor, OR — 
Education & Budget Reporter, CA — 
Senior Writer/Editor, FL — 
Scientific Editor, TX — 
Media Editor, Remote — 
