memeorandum: The epic global leadership fail (Washington Post)

1:20 PM ET, November 13, 2011

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Bachmann, Paul Call Debate Moderators ‘Disgraceful’ — SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Fireworks were few and far between at the GOP's foreign policy debate tonight, but if any issue provoked the ire of some candidates it was not each other but rather how CBS News' moderator Scott Pelley ran the event.

Discussion: Althouse, The Impolitic, Outside the Beltway, Booman Tribune and LewRockwell.com Blog

Marc A. Thiessen / National Review:

The Big Loser of the Night: CBS — If there was a loser on the debate stage tonight, it was CBS. First, they scheduled their debate on a Saturday night between two major football games. Then they decide to only broadcast the first hour of their 90-minute debate. Then their Internet feed failed for the final 30 minutes.

Discussion: Don Surber, Taylor Marsh, Hot Air, JustOneMinute, americanthinker.com, Outside the Beltway, The PJ Tatler and Ballot Box

Ben Smith / The Politico:

CBS panned for Republican debate performance — The first broadcast network presidential debate this year, which ended its national telecast and switched to a choppy livestream feed two-thirds of the way through the event, produced a storm of complaints from viewers across the country …

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Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:

Foreign policy debate highlights differences within Republican field — The Republican presidential candidates finally found a way to draw stark contrasts with one another, revealing a surprising amount of divergence on the proper role for the U.S. in world affairs.

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A.Killough / CNN:
TRENDING: Bachmann cries ‘bias’ after Saturday debate

Discussion: Mediaite, Iowa Caucuses and The Raw Story

Barak Ravid / Haaretz:

U.S., EU pressure Netanyahu to scrap proposed bill against Israeli NGOs — EU ambassador to Israel, Andrew Standley, warns prime minister's national security adviser, Yaakov Amidror that passage of legislation could harm Israel's standing. — The European Union and the United States …

Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy and Israel Matzav

Adrian Blomfield / Telegraph:
Israel refuses to tell US its Iran intentions

Discussion: Founding Bloggers, americanthinker.com and The Raw Story

William Deresiewicz / New York Times:

Generation Sell — EVER since I moved three years ago to Portland, Ore., that hotbed of all things hipster, I've been trying to get a handle on today's youth culture. The style is easy enough to describe — the skinny pants, the retro hats, the wall-to-wall tattoos. But style is superficial.

Discussion: Althouse and Daily Kos

Ross Douthat / New York Times:

The Devil and Joe Paterno — WHEN I think about the sins of Joe Paterno, and the ignominious ending of his long and famous career, I think about Darío Castrillón Hoyos. — Castrillón is a Colombian, born in Medellín, who became a Catholic priest and then a bishop during …

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, No More Mister Nice Blog and Rod Dreher

Washington Post:

The epic global leadership fail — I'm very excited to announce that Wonkblog will be republishing Pulitzer-prize winner Steve Pearlstein's Sunday Business column. Steve has long been an inspiration for my work and, more recently, a mentor to me, and I couldn't be prouder to be showcasing his pieces.

Discussion: ThinkProgress and Modeled Behavior

Charles Dharapak / ABCNEWS:

President Obama to CEOs: 'We've Been a Bit Lazy' — For the second time in as many months, President Obama has taken the nation that elected him president to task for its own lackadaisical economic performance on the global stage. — Obama told a group of CEOs today that the United States has gotten …

Discussion: National Review, americanthinker.com and The Gateway Pundit

Josh Lederman / The Hill:
Obama, leaders set framework for Asia-Pacific trade agreement

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Tyler Cowen / New York Times:

Whatever Happened to Discipline and Hard Work? — THE Occupy Wall Street movement has raised important questions about the respect paid to wealth in our society. There is a good deal of unfairness in the American economy, and by deliberately targeting the “top 1 percent,” …

Discussion: Economist's View, Marginal Revolution and EconLog

Financial Times:

Bundesbank warns against intervention — The president of Germany's powerful Bundesbank has firmly rebuffed international demands for decisive intervention in the bond markets by the European Central Bank to combat the eurozone debt crisis, warning that such steps would add to instability by violating European law.

Discussion: Modeled Behavior and AMERICAN FUTURE

Cameron Joseph / The Hill:

Rep. Hensarling still focused on large deficit-reduction deal, but not optimistic — Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), a member of the deficit-reduction supercommittee," said on CNN's State of the Union Sunday morning that his focus is still on a large structural deal that would reform Medicare …

Discussion: CNN

Justin Elliott / Salon:

Ford's Theatre flunks O'Reilly's Lincoln book — The National Park Service finds that the Fox host's best-selling new book is riddled with factual errors — [UPDATE 11/12/11: A second expert reviewer trashes O'Reilly's book, finds more errors.] — A reviewer for the official National …

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