memeorandum: Jeremy Marks “Attempted Lynching” Case (Katharine Russ/LA Weekly)

6:20 AM ET, December 11, 2010

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Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings from National:

Bernie Sanders: In 2007, “the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income,” which is “more than the entire bottom 50 percent.” — Bernie Sanders, in viral speech, says top 1 percent earn more than 23 percent of U.S. income

Discussion: Jay Bookman and Daily Kos

Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:

Bernie Sanders's last stand — The left's been looking for a new hero. Tonight they latched onto one: Sen. Bernie Sanders. — The Vermont independent took progressive fury over President Obama's tax-cut deal with Republicans to the floor of the Senate Friday, bringing the chamber …

Discussion: The Nation, NewsBusters.org blogs and The Note

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

With Filibuster, C-SPAN Has A Hit On Its Hands — Mr. Sanders has gone to C-SPAN. — Senator Bernard Sanders, independent of Vermont, started speaking against the Obama administration's tax cut deal on Friday morning, in full view of C-SPAN2's cameras, and by lunchtime his old-fashioned filibuster …

Discussion: Associated Press and Colorlines

Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Bernie Sanders going to talk until this country turns socialist, damn it

Discussion: The Fix, National Review, The Other McCain and RealClearPolitics Video Log

Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Sanders Ends Daylong Filibuster Of Tax Cut Compromise

Discussion: Harry's Place

Karoli / Crooks and Liars:
Bernie Sanders Filibusters Tax Cuts NOW

Discussion: Newshoggers.com and Daily Kos

David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Sanders' Long Senate Floor Speech Brings Attention to Details of Tax Cut Deal

Discussion: NPR, USA Today, Guardian and Sky Dancing

CNN:
Mr. Sanders goes to Washington

Discussion: The Politico, Ezra Klein, ThinkProgress, Ben Smith's Blog and The New Republic

David M. Herszenhorn / The Caucus: Sanders Rails Against Tax Bill — For Hours and Hours

Allahpundit / Hot Air:

Great news: Bill Clinton apparently now president again — The depressing truth: Given the alternative, it really would be great news. — I can't do justice to what you're about to see. The spectacle of the president bugging out of his own press conference to go to a Christmas party is weird enough …

Discussion: Bookworm Room, The Caucus, The Hill, Pundit & Pundette, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Power Line, Wall Street Journal, Left Coast Rebel and Pajamas Media

Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:

The Surprise Trip to the Briefing Room — The unannounced visit by President Obama and former President Bill Clinton to the White House briefing room was a surprise to absolutely everyone - including Mr. Obama's top advisers. — When the meeting between the two men ended just after 4:15 p.m. on Friday …

Discussion: Mediaite, Hot Air, Swampland, Moe Lane and New York Times

Associated Press:

Add-ons turn tax cut bill into ‘Christmas tree’ — WASHINGTON (AP) - In the spirit of the holiday season, President Barack Obama's tax-cut deal with Republicans is becoming a Christmas tree tinseled with gifts for lobbyists and lawmakers. But that hardly stopped the squabbling on Friday …

Discussion: Power Line

RealClearPolitics Video Log:

Obama Ditches Tax Cut Presser, Bill Clinton Takes Control — Former President Bill Clinton gave a statement after his meeting with President Obama about his tax compromise with the Republicans. However, after his statement, Clinton began to call on and take questions from the press with Obama at his side.

Discussion: minx.cc, Instapundit, Pajamas Media, Nice Deb, The Gateway Pundit, theblogprof, The Confluence, Clusterstock, JammieWearingFool, Viking Pundit and The Other McCain

Michael D. Shear / New York Times:

Bill Clinton Holds Forth on Tax Plan, for Starters — WASHINGTON — They have been foes and they have been, kind of, friends. And on Friday afternoon, President Obama and former President Bill Clinton walked unexpectedly into the White House briefing room for a news conference …

Discussion: Althouse

Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Will Obama really end tax cuts for rich in 2012?

Discussion: TPMDC, Ezra Klein, Firedoglake and Daily Kos

Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
Bill Clinton Stumps for President Obama-GOP Tax Cut Deal

Discussion: The Daily Caller, The Politico, Ben Smith's Blog, Salon and Wake up America

Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:

Palin-Hating Columbia Professor, Huffington Post Blogger, Busted for Incest — Let's begin with a flashback, shall we? In July 2009, when Sarah Palin resigned as governor of Alaska, Columbia University professor David Epstein wrote at his Huffington Post blog: … Got that?

Discussion: American Power, Flopping Aces, Classical Values, Moonbattery, Althouse, NY Daily News and Gawker

Columbia Daily Spectator:

Professor David Epstein charged with incest with his daughter — Political science professor David Epstein was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with one count of incest in the third degree at an arraignment hearing on Thursday. — Political science professor David Epstein, 46 …

Discussion: Runnin' Scared and AmSpecBlog

Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Huffington Post Blogger Charged With Incest

Discussion: NewsReal Blog, Above the Law and American Power

The Huffington Post: Palin Proves Voters Were Right in 2008

John R. Quain / Fox News:

Navy Sets World Record With Incredible, Sci-Fi Weapon — U.S. Navy engineers at the Office of Naval Research prepared and test-fired a slug from their rail gun in a 2008 test firing. On Friday, December 9, the ONR will attempt to break its own record. — A theoretical dream for decades …

Discussion: Hot Air, Mashable! and TPM LiveWire

National Review:

Levi's Story — A study on “When Marriage Disappears: The Retreat from Marriage in Middle America” was published Monday by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values.

Discussion: Booman Tribune and The Daily Dish

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog: Levi Johnston and the marriage decline

Steven Thomma / McClatchy Washington Bureau:

Poll: Obama's losing support; Romney would beat him now — WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's approval ratings have sunk to the lowest level of his presidency, so low that he'd lose the White House to Republican Mitt Romney if the election were held today, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Michelle Malkin and GOP 12

Katharine Russ / LA Weekly:

Jeremy Marks “Attempted Lynching” Case — Black teen who filmed an LAUSD campus cop hitting a student faces bizarre charges and years in prison — On Dec. 2, Jeremy Marks, a Verdugo Hills High School special education student, was offered a new plea offer by the L.A. County District Attorney …

Discussion: THEROOT.COM, Vox Popoli and The Informer

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:

SOCIAL SECURITY'S HUMBLE ORIGINS.... When President Obama was doing his best to defend his tax deal with congressional Republicans to the left the other day, he emphasized to his allies that “in order to get stuff done, we're going to compromise.” — To bolster his case, the president noted …

Discussion: Sky Dancing and Online NewsHour

Paul Krugman:
Social Insurance History

Discussion: AMERICAblog News, National Review and Open Left

CBS News:

John Not a Speaker at Elizabeth Edwards Funeral — Her Estranged Husband Missing from List of Those Slated to Give Eulogies — (CBS) Plans are set for Elizabeth Edwards' funeral Saturday. — Mourners will hear tributes from her daughter and two close friends - but not her estranged husband …

Ezra Klein:

The White House's case for the tax-cut deal in one graph — They're circulating this around the Hill: — It's also worth nothing that those numbers could end up looking a lot better — say, if the payroll-tax cut gets extended next year, which many think likely - or …

Discussion: The Baseline Scenario, Rortybomb and Washington Monthly

Democratic Strategist:

TDS Contributor Mike Lux: An Open Letter to the President — This post by Democratic strategist and TDS advisory board member and contributor Mike Lux, author of The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be, is cross posted from Open Left.

Discussion: The Reality-Based Community

Minnesota Public Radio:

Ellison: Dems must “create crisis” to force GOP on tax cut — St. Paul, Minn. — Minnesota 5th District Congressman Keith Ellison said Thursday that Democratic lawmakers “need to create a real crisis” to force Republicans to renegotiate the tax cut compromise.

Discussion: Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, iOwnTheWorld.com, Say Anything and Rhymes With Right

Wall Street Journal:

From Audacity to Animosity — No president has alienated his base the way Obama has. — We have not in our lifetimes seen a president in this position. He spent his first year losing the center, which elected him, and his second losing his base, which is supposed to provide his troops.

Discussion: Firedoglake