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Drudge Report:
CNN SENIOR MANAGEMENT LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION OF CHENEY 'X'; CONTROL ROOM STAFFER 'LAUGHED' WHEN X FLASHED  —  CNN management has launched an internal investigation into how a giant black 'X' mark appeared over Vice President Dick Cheney's face — as he delivered a speech from Washington on Monday!
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Drudge Report:
CNN MARKS CHENEY: NETWORK FLASHES 'X' OVER VP'S FACE DURING LIVE SPEECH  —  At 11:04:45 AM ET Monday CNN was airing Vice President Dick Cheney's speech live from the American Enterprise Institute in Washington — when a large black 'X' repeatedly flashed over the vice president's face!
Brian / mediabistro.com:
Drudge Delighted By CNN Glitch
Discussion: News Blog
Jeff Harrell / The Shape of Days:   Oddness at CNN, supplemented with more oddness in the blogosphere
Evan Coyne Maloney / >bt: Brain Terminal:
Overreacting to the X-ing of Cheney
Discussion: Classical Values
robot guy:   in defense of the Political Teen
Mary Katharine Ham / hughhewitt.com:
X Marks the Vice President
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Cheney Sees 'Shameless' Revisionism on War  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 - Vice President Dick Cheney stepped up the White House attacks on critics of the Iraq war on Monday, declaring that politicians who say Americans were sent into battle based on a lie are engaging in "revisionism of the most corrupt and shameless variety."
Discussion: Daily Pundit and Air America Radio
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William Branigin / Washington Post:
Cheney Accuses Iraq Critics of Shameless Revisionism  —  Vice President Cheney today accused political opponents of engaging in "corrupt and shameless" revisionism by charging that the Bush administration misled the nation into the Iraq war, and he warned that any sudden withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq …
Washington Post:
Cheney too divisive to right Bush's ship?
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
No Way Out for Bush and Co.
Discussion: blogs4God and Daily Pundit
OSM:
Excuse us while we change back into our pajamas  —  Once upon a time, some friends who met in the casual atmosphere of the blogosphere (us) got together and decided it would be groovy to start a blog company.  "We could call it Pajamas Media," we said, referring to the now-famous quote by whatshisface …
Crooks and Liars:
I've got a leak to sell you  —  I've got a leak to sell you  —  Bob Woodward joined Larry King in his first interview after revealing that he knew the name of Valerie Plame and was called to testify in front of Fitzmas himself.  —  Video-WMP low res QT later
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mediabistro.com:
Woodward & King: Transcript
Discussion: The Next Hurrah and The Heretik
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:   Woodward Talks of Admission, Apology
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Bob Woodward: Not Exactly Hero Material
Pete Yost / Associated Press:
Ex-Aide to DeLay Pleads Guilty in Conspiracy  —  WASHINGTON — Michael Scanlon, a former partner of lobbyist Jack Abramoff, pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to bribe public officials, a charge growing out of the government investigation of attempts to defraud Indian tribes and corrupt a member of Congress.
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Hassan M. Fattah / New York Times:
Iraqi Factions Seek Timetable for U.S. Pullout  —  CAIRO, Nov. 21 - For the first time, Iraq's political factions on Monday collectively called for a timetable for withdrawal of foreign forces, in a moment of consensus that comes as the Bush administration battles pressure at home to commit itself to a pullout schedule.
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Malia Rulon / Cincinnati Enquirer:
Schmidt in war of words  —  Rookie lawmaker's 'coward' remarks ricochet  —  WASHINGTON - Three days after Rep. Jean Schmidt was booed off the House floor for saying that "cowards cut and run, Marines never do," the Ohioan she quoted disputed the comments.  —  Danny Bubp, a freshman state …
Mark Steyn / Telegraph:
Listen to the word on the 'Arab street'  —  Rumours of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death may be exaggerated.  He was reported by several Arab TV networks to have been among eight terrorists who self-detonated in Mosul on Sunday.  Still, whether or not he's sleeping with the fishes or the 72 virgins …
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
U.S. Is Slow to Respond to Phosphorus Charges
James Dao / New York Times:
Louisiana Sees Faded Urgency in Relief Effort  —  BATON ROUGE, La., Nov. 18 - Less than three months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, relief legislation remains dormant in Washington and despair is growing among officials here who fear that Congress and the Bush administration are losing interest in their plight.
City Journal:
Baghdad's Real Torturers  —  A harsh discovery puts U.S. pundits' distorted reports in perspective.  The U.S. military recently uncovered alleged evidence of torture in Iraqi-run Baghdad prisons, including what appeared to be a torture chamber in an Iraqi Ministry of Interior detention facility.
David S. Cloud / New York Times:
Lawmaker Returns Home, a Hawk Turned War Foe  —  JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Nov. 21 - Representative John P. Murtha, the hawkish Democrat who spent his political career as a staunch Pentagon supporter, came home Monday as something entirely different: an antiwar symbol.
Philip Thornton / Independent:
Iraq's oil: The spoils of war  —  Iraqis face the dire prospect of losing up to $200bn (£116bn) of the wealth of their country if an American-inspired plan to hand over development of its oil reserves to US and British multinationals comes into force next year.
Discussion: Tim Worstall and The Left Coaster

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