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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Woodward Apologizes to Post for Withholding Knowledge of Plame  —  Bob Woodward apologized today to The Washington Post's executive editor for failing to tell him for more than two years that a senior Bush administration official had told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame …
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rawstory.com:
National Security Adviser was Woodward's source, attorneys say  —  National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley was the senior administration official who told Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward that Valerie Plame Wilson was a CIA officer, attorneys close to the investigation and intelligence officials tell RAW STORY.
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
Pincus: Woodward 'Asked Me to Keep Him Out' of Plame Reporting  —  NEW YORK Walter Pincus, the longtime Washington Post reporter and one of several journalists who testified in the Valerie Plame case, said he believed as far back as 2003 that Bob Woodward had some involvement in the case …
TalkLeft:
Bob Woodward Deposed by Fitzgerald  —  The Washington Post reports that reporter Bob Woodward was deposed by Patrick Fitzgerald on Monday for two hours.  The big news is that Woodward was told by a "senior Administration official" about Joseph Wilson's wife working for the CIA as an analyst …
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Woodward: From Watergate Hero to Plamegate Goat  —  Bob Woodward.  What a career arc.  From exposing a presidential cover-up in Watergate to covering up his role in Plamegate.  And being forced to apologize to his own paper.  And asking a colleague, Walter Pincus, not to mention Woodward's role in the story.
Will / Attytood:
Bob and me  —  I've never been very trendy, but there was one time in my life when I did find myself swept up by a trend, a big one.  And so today I come here to confess: I am a charter member of that '70s show, a generation of starry-eyed idealists who became newspaper reporters all because of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Crooks and Liars
Maria Newman / New York Times:   Washington Post's Woodward Apologizes for Lapse on Leak
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
"Will Mr. Fitzgerald Now Say He Was Wrong?"
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La Shawn / La Shawn Barber's Corner:
Open Source Media: Start Spreading the News  —  Scroll down for updates!  —  I'll update this post with news and views (and photos) on Open Source Media later today.  In the meantime, check out funnyman Scrappleface (blogging on WordPress now).  —  Live-blogging the launch!
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Taking the pajamas off  —  Now I'm even more confused about [Pajamas] Open Source Media.  I just tuned in from Munich to their Rockefeller Center event and they're into a panel about fashion.  The first person says she doesn't blog and thinks blogging is absurd and never reads them and is liberal …
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Liveblogging the Pajamas Media launch festivities from the W Hotel in New York, 1
Discussion: Blinq
Waltisfrozen / The Talent Show:
Vaporware  —  Pajamas Media has launched under a new moniker …
realclearpolitics.com:
Text of Remarks By Vice President Dick Cheney (As prepared for delivery)  —  "As most of you know, I have spent a lot of years in public service, and first came to work in Washington, D.C. back in the late 1960s.  I know what it's like to operate in a highly charged political environment …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate Presses Administration for Iraq Plans  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 - The Senate voted on Tuesday to press the Bush administration to provide more public information about the course of the war in Iraq as lawmakers of both parties made it clear they wanted chief responsibility for securing …
Discussion: The Left Coaster and TAPPED
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National Review:
Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
Discussion: Michelle Malkin, YARGB and Power Line
James Wolcott:
A TOUCH OF CLASS  —  In a scene sadly reminiscent of those titty-flashing Girls Gone Wild videos without which no bachelor's personal library is complete, a female blogger fondles her breast while rubbing up against "globally influential" content provider Glenn Reynolds in the orgy room of the OSM launch party.
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Atlas Shrugs:
THE LAST SUPPER FOR PAJAMA MEDIA
Discussion: Kesher Talk and chicagoboyz.net
Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
Cheney Joins GOP Criticism of Democrats  —  WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday added his voice to the chorus of Republican criticism of Democrats who contend the Bush administration of manipulating intelligence on Iraq.  —  That accusation, he said, "one of the most dishonest …
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John / AMERICAblog:   Dick Cheney, who outright lied …
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
AARP's America Is a Mirage  —  Sincerely, William D. Novelli, Executive Director  —  Among AARP's 36 million members, there must be many decent people who benefit from the 5 to 50 percent discounts offered on car rentals, hotel rooms and airline tickets.  But I won't be joining, because AARP has become America's most dangerous lobby.
Discussion: TAPPED and ResurrectionSong
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Steven Pearlstein / Washington Post:
With Medicaid, Democrats Shirk Chance for Real Progress
Discussion: TAPPED
Dan Savage / New York Times:
Can I Get a Little Privacy?  —  WILL Estelle Griswold ever be able to rest in peace?  Although she died in 1981, the poor woman gets kicked up and down the block whenever someone is nominated to a seat on the United States Supreme Court.  But few people remember who Griswold was or what she did.
Sour Duck:
The Carnival of Feminists, Issue 3  —  Welcome to The Carnival of Feminists!  —  Issue 3 is split into two sections: "1970s into 2000" and the "Editor's Feminist Cafeteria."  —  And I hope you're sitting comfortably, because it is a whopper!  —  First, though: why feminism?
A Sun / Baltimore Sun:
Steele weighs in on the Oreo incident … Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele offered a revised account yesterday of his experience at a 2002 gubernatorial debate where Oreo cookies were reportedly distributed as a racial insult.  —  Steele told the Associated Press that cookies were thrown …
Discussion: AMERICAblog and Daily Kos

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