Top Items:
Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
THE VETTING: BEN SMITH RELEASES SELECTIVELY EDITED OBAMA RACE VIDEO — Earlier today, Buzzfeed's Ben Smith announced on Twitter that video researcher Andrew Kaczynski had released “the mysterious Harvard/Obama/race video that the Breitbart folks have been talking about.”
Discussion:
Power Line, Green Mountain Daily, Campaign 2012, Ed Driscoll, New York Magazine, The PJ Tatler, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, nation.foxnews.com, Rumproast, TalkLeft, Hot Air, The Spectacle Blog, Mediaite, his vorpal sword, Nice Deb, No More Mister Nice Blog, Don Surber, Balloon Juice, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Little Green Footballs, Atlas Shrugs, The Raw Story, Sadly, No!, Weasel Zippers, American Spectator, Wake up America, Outside the Beltway, Patterico's Pontifications and The Lonely Conservative, more at Mediagazer »
RELATED:
Andrew Golis / PBS:
The Story Behind the Obama Law School Speech Video — The web is abuzz today about video of a speech Barack Obama gave in 1990 (some reports have incorrectly identified the speech as occurring in 1991) at Harvard Law School defending the actions of Professor Derrick Bell.
Brett Smiley / New York Magazine:
Breitbart's Obama Video Is a Total Dud — That movie stunk. — Breitbart.com's explosive, blockbuster video that would expose Barack Obama as a radical commie who wasn't vetted by the media was almost entirely hype. — Breitbart.com's Editor-in-Chief Joel Pollak and Editor …
Joseph Williams / Politico:
1991 Obama video aired in 2008 — The “racially themed” video of President Barack Obama as a 29-year-old Harvard law student that's gone viral on the Web was broadcast as part of a PBS documentary on the future president nearly four years ago. — On the eve of the groundbreaking 2008 presidential election …
Discussion:
ABCNEWS, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Mediaite and Pat Dollard
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
At Harvard, Obama Dived Into Diversity Fight — In this video, not previously available online but licensed by BuzzFeed from a Boston television station, the future president speaks at a 1991 campus protest organized to demand tenure for minority and female law professors. — Source: youtube.com
Michelle Horstman / The PJ Tatler:
A Few Fun Facts About Professor Derrick Bell Jr. — Today's Breitbart.com has announced a video to be released, showing Harvard law student Barack Obama defending Professor Derrick Bell Jr. in a protest. According to Breitbart.com, the original video has been heavily edited and more will be shown on Hannity tonight.
Discussion:
Doug Ross, The Gateway Pundit, protein wisdom, BREITBART.COM and Ed Driscoll
Amy Bingham / ABCNEWS:
Rush Limbaugh: Over 40 Advertisers Flee, Host Says 'Everything's Cool' — Talk show host Rush Limbaugh sought to reassure listeners Wednesday after the tally of local and national companies that have pulled their advertisements from his time slot topped 40, insisting that the show …
Discussion:
Firedoglake, Mediaite, Addicting Info, Tucson Citizen and Colorlines
RELATED:
The Daily:
Obama adviser slams Romney for Limbaugh while planning to go on Maher — CHICAGO — While slamming Mitt Romney for not standing up to the “strident voices” on his side, a top Obama advisor is planning to spend some quality time with one on his own, The Daily has learned.
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, National Review and The Lonely Conservative
Rush Limbaugh:
Clearing Up Misinformation on Our Sponsors — RUSH: I want to ask if you will indulge me for just a brief few minutes for some inside baseball stuff before we move on to our review of the issues of the day, politics and so forth, Super Tuesday, the results, and where we are.
Discussion:
iOwnTheWorld.com, Don Surber, Daily Kos, The Hill, The Last Tradition, The Right Scoop and Hot Air
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
The ‘Respectable’ Punditocracy Joins The Rush Party
The ‘Respectable’ Punditocracy Joins The Rush Party
Discussion:
Mediaite, Booman Tribune and No More Mister Nice Blog
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Bill Maher Defends Rush Limbaugh
Bill Maher Defends Rush Limbaugh
Discussion:
Townhall.com, The Last Tradition, The Daily Dish, Indecision Forever, The Daily Caller, Hot Air and Examiner
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Party of Hate — Millions of Americans voted for Barack Obama in the hope that he would be a trailblazer who would conduct the presidency in a new way. Well, he has: Obama has been the most divisive president in our modern history, unabashedly stirring up hate against not only his political enemies …
Discussion:
Whiskey Fire
Zandar / Angry Black Lady Chronicles:
Won't Be Long Now, Folks! — And the odds that we'll get to somebody dropping the ni-CLANG word on President Obama took a really big step forward today, along with bonus misogyny to boot. They say a picture's worth a thousands words, and judging from the latest Mike Lester political cartoon from the Rome …
Discussion:
Lawyers, Guns & Money and Zandar Versus The Stupid
Eric Kleefeld / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Bachmann: ‘Health Care Dictator’ Could Decide How Many Babies You Can Have — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is warning that the Obama administration's contraception insurance mandate could put America on a slippery slope — to a totalitarian one-child policy.
Discussion:
Wonkette, Hullabaloo and Dependable Renegade
RELATED:
Scott Baker / TheBlaze.com:
BACHMANN WARNS: FEDS COULD USE BUDGET TO LIMIT NUMBER OF BABIES BORN PER FAMILY
BACHMANN WARNS: FEDS COULD USE BUDGET TO LIMIT NUMBER OF BABIES BORN PER FAMILY
Discussion:
Outside the Beltway, Mediaite, Washington Monthly, Mother Jones, ThinkProgress and The Raw Story
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Bachmann warns healthcare reform law could be used to limit family birth rates
Bachmann warns healthcare reform law could be used to limit family birth rates
Discussion:
CNSNews, Right Wing News and Politico
TSA Out of Our Pants!:
$1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog — How Anyone Can Get Anything Past The Scanners — This video is here to demonstrate that the TSA's insistence that the nude body scanner program is effective and necessary is nothing but a fraud, just like their claims that the program is safe …
Discussion:
Boing Boing, Addicting Info, Moonbattery, The Daily Caller, Crooks and Liars, US Politics and Mashable
RELATED:
Blogger Bob / The TSA Blog:
Viral Video About Body Scanners
Viral Video About Body Scanners
Discussion:
Hot Air, Guardian and Campaign 2012
msnbc.com:
Romney campaign says losing nomination would take ‘act of God’ — By NBC's Garrett Haake and Jamie Novogrod — BOSTON — Mitt Romney's campaign gathered the national press corps in their campaign war room this morning to deliver a simple message: It would take an “act of God” …
Discussion:
Washington Post, Runnin' Scared, The Caucus, The Other McCain, CBS News, Connecting.the.Dots, Politico, Washington Monthly, The Hill, Daily Kos and The Daily Beast
RELATED:
David Corn / MoJo Articles:
Mitt Romney's Zombie Problem
Mitt Romney's Zombie Problem
Discussion:
Mother Jones, BuzzFeed and Slate
Reid J. Epstein / Reuters:
Mitt Romney fights back with math
Mitt Romney fights back with math
Discussion:
Politico, Washington Times, CNN, The Caucus, The Jane Dough and Wonkette
Associated Press:
Satellite images show Iran cleaning secret nuclear activity, sources say — Diplomat tells Associated Press alleged testing at site could indicate attempt to develop nuclear arms; other sources say images show vehicles at site, indicating crews trying to clean it of radioactive traces.
Discussion:
Washington Free Beacon and Israel Matzav
RELATED:
David Batty / Guardian:
Massive solar storm heading for Earth — Airlines and energy suppliers are on alert as the largest solar storm in five years threatens to disrupt flights and power lines — Airlines and energy suppliers are on alert as the largest solar storm in five years heads toward Earth, threatening to disrupt flights and power lines.
Discussion:
The Last Tradition and Boing Boing
Joshua Keating / FP Passport:
Guest post: Joseph Kony is not in Uganda (and other complicated things) — Thanks to an incredibly effective social media effort, #StopKony is trending on Twitter today. The campaign coincides with a new awareness-raising documentary by the group Invisible Children.
Jessica Winter / TIME Ideas:
Subject for Debate: Are Women People? — I've always assumed that women are fully autonomous human citizens—who vote, even!—but now I'm not so certain — From left: Catholic Bishop William Lori, the Rev. Matthew Harrison, Dr. Ben Mitchell, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik and Craig Mitchell …
Discussion:
The Moderate Voice and Hullabaloo
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Warns Apple, Publishers — Justice Department Threatens Lawsuits, Alleging Collusion Over E-Book Pricing — The Justice Department has warned Apple Inc. and five of the biggest U.S. publishers that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of electronic books, according to people familiar with the matter.
Discussion:
The Big Picture and Engadget, more at Mediagazer »
New York Post:
Channel 4 booting anchorwoman Sue Simmons after 32 years — After more than three decades, WNBC/Channel 4 is tossing anchorwoman Sue Simmons overboard. — Last week, the station gave her the bad news that her contract would not be renewed — and come June, she's history.
Discussion:
City Room, Gothamist, New York Times, Colorlines and Gawker, more at Mediagazer »
Financial Times:
Asia defence spending to overtake Europe — Asia is set to outspend Europe on defence this year for the first time in modern history as European Union nations cut military budgets and Chinese expenditure rises, a think-tank says. — Highlighting the shift in military power across the world …
Discussion:
FP Passport and Via Meadia