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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
robot guy:   in defense of the Political Teen
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
Salah Nasrawi / Associated Press:
Iraqi Leaders Call for Pullout Timetable  —  AP Photo XAN107  —  CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Leaders of Iraq's sharply divided Shiites, Kurds and Sunnis called Monday for a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces in the country and said Iraq's opposition had a ``legitimate right'' of resistance.
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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.
John / AMERICAblog:
Iraqi leaders adopt Murtha proposal for withdrawal  —  This is an extremely bizarre and rather earth-shattering story.  Basically, Iraq's leaders want us out, and they seem to have just endorsed Congressman Murtha's proposal for a timed withdrawal, a real beefing up of the Iraqi armed forces, and stronger protection at the borders.
Discussion: Think Progress
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."
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
No Way Out for Bush and Co.
Discussion: Daily Pundit and blogs4God
Washington Post:
Cheney too divisive to right Bush's ship?
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 …
mediabistro.com:
Woodward & King: Transcript  —  The full, unedited transcript of Bob Woodward's appearance on Larry King Live is after the jump...  CNN's Larry King Live  —  Guest: Bob Woodward  —  LARRY KING, CNN HOST: Tonight, an exclusive, Pulitzer Prize-winning  —  journalist Bob Woodward, caught up in the CIA leak controversy.
Discussion: The Next Hurrah and The Heretik
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:   Woodward Talks of Admission, Apology
John / AMERICAblog:
Larry King Live blogging - Bob Woodward tries to save his ass
Discussion: Eschaton and Hullabaloo
Financial Times:
Threat of federal charges against DeLay grows  —  The likelihood of federal charges against members of Congress intensified on Monday when a key player in a broad corruption probe pleaded guilty to conspiracy and agreed to co-operate with investigators.  —  Under a plea agreement …
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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 …
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.
Discussion: Prometheus 6
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.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Brendan Miniter / Opinion Journal:
Friendly Fire  —  John Murtha unites the Republicans.  —  Shortly after stepping off a plane at Dulles Airport last week, Rep. Duncan Hunter was on a cell phone delivering a surprisingly stern message to a few reporters.  Coverage of the debate in the Senate to "ban" the use of torture …
Discussion: GOP Bloggers and Hugh Hewitt
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.

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