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11:00 PM ET, May 2, 2006

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Adam Green / The Huffington Post:
Mike McCurry — Hurting The Internet, Hurting His Admirers  —  I feel sorry for Mike McCurry.  I really do.  —  As a George Washington University political communications student in the 1990's, I joined many in looking up to Mike McCurry as the best in our field.
Discussion: The Agonist
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talkingpointsmemo.com:
More on Mike.  —  Below (via Atrios) I flagged this Huffington Post Mike McCurry post about the Net Neutrality debate.  But I wanted to focus in on this one paragraph where Mike is discussing not so much the NN debate as the culture of the blogosphere and the relationship between blogs and the mainstream media ...
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Libby Versus The Press  —  Libby's team continues their tussle with the press.  I intend to post the documents shortly. … Hmm, I am looking at more than 45 pages here.  —  1. Here is Part 1 of the Consolidated response (23 page .pdf)  —  2. Here is Part 2 (27 page .pdf)
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Hugh Hewitt:
NYT Editor Bill Keller: Slayer of Straw Men; Inventor of Privileges  —  Like most Americans, the Wall Street Journal's editors have a low opinion of leakers passing top secret material to "reporters" who in fact act as fax machines to the front page.  —  New York Times' editor Bill Keller responds …
Empty Wheel / The Next Hurrah:
Scooter Libby Reads the News
Discussion: Needlenose and Firedoglake
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Time to stop feeling guilty and start really bombing  —  (updated below)  —  The Wall St. Journal's Opinion Journal today published an Op-Ed by Shelby Steele that advances one of the most truly incoherent and just plain inane arguments I have read in a long time.
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Shelby Steele / Opinion Journal:
White Guilt and the Western Past  —  Why is America so delicate with the enemy?  —  There is something rather odd in the way America has come to fight its wars since World War II.  —  For one thing, it is now unimaginable that we would use anything approaching the full measure of our military power …
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Amanda / Think Progress:
FACT CHECK: U.S. Government Commissioned Spanish-Language 'Star-Spangled Banner' in 1919  —  The right wing is up in arms over a new version of the Star-Spangled Banner written in Spanish.  Last week President Bush stated that "the national anthem ought to be sung in English."
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
The Cole Report  —  When it comes to Iran, he distorts, you decide.  —  In some ways, the continuing row over his call for the complete destruction of Israel must baffle Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  All he did, after all, was to turn up at a routine anti-Zionist event and repeat …
Elaine Sciolino / New York Times:
U.S. and Europe Draft U.N. Resolution on Iran  —  PARIS, May 2 — The United States, Britain and France have drafted a binding Security Council resolution requiring Iran to stop key nuclear activities, but Russia and China are already resisting, officials involved in the negotiations said today.
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Human Events:
Exclusive: Shah of Iran's Heir Plans Overthrow of Regime  —  Reza Pahlavi, son of the late Shah of Iran, told the editors of HUMAN EVENTS last week that in the next two to three months he hopes to finalize the organization of a movement aimed at overthrowing the Islamic regime in Tehran and replacing it with a democratic government.
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Drudge Report:
MARY CHENEY SAYS HER FATHER SAID EXACTLY WHAT SHE WANTED TO HEAR WHEN SHE TOLD HIM SHE WAS GAY  —  Vice president tells VANITY FAIR his image might be better if he spent more time trying to improve it, "but that's not why I'm here"  —  New York, N.Y. - In her new memoir, NOW IT'S MY TURN …
Discussion: Attytood and Wonkette
The Raw Story:
New Army documents reveal US knew of and approved torture before Abu Ghraib scandal  —  New Army documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union today reveal that Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez ordered interrogators to "go to the outer limits" to get information from detainees.
Discussion: Cannonfire and Air America Radio
Todd Gitlin / Chronicle of Higher Education:
The Self-Inflicted Wounds of the Academic Left  —  Truly this is a bizarre time for the life of the mind in America.  The airwaves and best-seller lists are noisy with anti-intellectual jeers.  The ruling party embraces the nostrums of "No Child Left Behind" while tossing the teaching …
Justin Rood / TPM Muckraker:
Hookergate: What About the Limo Service?  —  Ah, the Shirlington Limousine Service.  —  I dismissed the angle at first, despite the curious details surfacing about the car company which ferried the hookers to Wilkes' parties, and also brought Cunningham to the hookers, according to reports.
John McIntyre / The RCP Blog:
Hey Democrats.....It's the Contempt  —  The most recent issue of Time Magazine has an article by Caitlin Flanagan, a traditional, stay-at-home mom that should be read along side Brad Carson's piece on illegal immigration that I wrote about earlier today.  The piece is more evidence …
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere and Power Line
BBC:
BBC 'must improve Mid-East view'  —  The BBC fails to always give a "full and fair account" of the Israeli Palestinian conflict but is not deliberately biased, a report has said.  —  The BBC governors asked an independent panel to scrutinise its output.  —  Its report said the BBC …
Discussion: USS Neverdock, EU Referendum and lgf
Washington Post:
The New Bush Twins: Double Dubya  —  The reviews from the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner are in, and the consensus is that President Bush and Bush impersonator Steve Bridges stole Saturday's show — and Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert's cutting satire fell flat because he ignored …
 
 
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