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7:50 PM ET, August 30, 2006

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Rebecca Carr / Palm Beach Post:
STEVENS IS SMOKED OUT  —  After much speculation, a staffer to Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, admitted to Cox Newspapers today that the senator is the lawmaker who placed a "secret hold" on legislation that would open up the obscure world of government contracting to public scrutiny.
Discussion: Caerdroia and Redstate
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CNN:
Sen. Stevens is 'the secret senator'  —  From Andrea Koppel, Ted Barrett and Abbi Tatton  —  Adjust font size:  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — The identity of the blogosphere's "secret senator" has been revealed.  —  CNN has confirmed that Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska …
Mark Tapscott / Tapscott's Copy Desk:
As Predicted - It's Ted Stevens; And He Wants a "Cost-Benefit Analysis …
Discussion: Beltway Blogroll
Associated Press:
CBS magazine slims down Couric in photo  —  NEW YORK - No, Katie Couric didn't suddenly lose 20 pounds.  The incoming "CBS Evening News" anchor appears significantly thinner in a network promotional magazine photo thanks to digital airbrushing.  —  The touched-up photo of Couric dressed …
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Don Kaplan / New York Post:
WEIGHING ANCHOR  —  CBS PHOTO TRICKERY TAKES A LOAD OFF  —  'SLIMMER' COURIC  —  Talk about a miracle diet - Katie Couric has become the Incredible Shrinking Anchorwoman.  —  Thanks to a computer "slight" of hand, the Tiffany network has made the new face of "CBS Evening News" instantly drop about 20 pounds.
Discussion: Gawker, Scared Monkeys and Don Surber
Brian Williams / MSNBC:
President Bush talks to Brian Williams  —  An exclusive conversation on the one-year anniversary of Katrina landfall … BRIAN WILLIAMS: You have apologized for the damage, but what about the damage to your presidency?  And Mr. President, here's what I mean, most call it your low point.
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Bradley Burston / Haaretz:
Nasrallah for Prime Minister - of Israel  —  Now it's official.  Israel is a country without a prime minister.  —  This had been no more than an educated suspicion until Monday night, when Ehud Olmert effectively made the announcement.  Not in so many words, of course.
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Chris Bowers / MyDD:
CT-Sen: Lieberman Views Campaign As Revenge For Party Democracy  —  Yet again, it is all about Lieberman: … I have watched the video, which is difficult to stomach and which I will not reproduce here since it is Faux News, and there seem to be two ways to read this quote.
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Scarce / My Left Nutmeg:   The Lieberman Effect  —  Foxnews asks "Will Connecticut senator's …
Think Progress:
From Hype To Hysteria: Fox News Selling Preemptive War Against Iran  —  Tomorrow marks the deadline for Iran to comply with U.N. demands to suspend portions of its nuclear program.  Fox is using the opportunity to sell another preemptive war.  —  Today Fox has aired multiple segments featuring pundits …
Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES and Unfogged
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Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
Iran Enriching More Uranium
USA Today:
Gasoline prices could keep falling  —  Gasoline prices are falling fast and could keep dropping for months.  —  "The only place they have to go is down," says Fred Rozell, gasoline analyst at the Oil Price Information Service (OPIS).  "We'll be closer to $2 than $3 come Thanksgiving."
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
NYT suckers KP by carving up Rumsfeld's speech  —  So I was over at Kirsten Powers's blog, pining away, when I stumbled upon this bit of unwarranted snarkiness.  Emphases mine: … Yeah, it's not nice.  It's also not what he said.  Here's the transcript.  Quote:
Confederate Yankee:
Armored Vehicle Experts: Reuters News Vehicle Not Hit By Israeli Missile  —  There has been quite a bit of debate in the blogosphere surrounding this story (note: link has been deactivated) of several days ago: … Despite the Israeli acknowledgement that they did fire on a "suspicious vehicle …
Barney Frank / Boston Globe:
Afghanistan ignored  —  A WAR is missing.  Sadly, it is not missing from the physical location in which it is taking place, and people continue to die as it is waged.  But it has largely disappeared from our national debate, and that debate has been sorely distorted as a consequence.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Tomlinson Cited For Abuses at Broadcast Board  —  CPB Ex-Chief Put Friend On Payroll, State Dept. Says  —  A year-long State Department investigation has found that the chairman of the agency that oversees Voice of America and other government broadcasting operations improperly used his office …
Mark Steyn / macleans.ca:
Call me crazy.  I blame terrorists.  —  Who is A. K. Dewdney?  He's an adjunct professor of biology at the University of Western Ontario, and he has pieced together the truth about what happened on 9/11.  You may be familiar with the official version: "To account for the events of Sept. 11 …
Bruce Kluger / USA Today:
Lieberman, 'Snakes' and the seductive mythology of the blogosphere  —  If ever America needed a wake-up call about the mythology of blogging, we got it this month.  —  On Aug. 8, Connecticut businessman Ned Lamont defeated U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman in the Democratic primary …
Ynetnews:
Journalists blame Israel for war coverage  —  International journalists discuss Lebanon war coverage; NYT bureau chief: Israel 'not interested in Lebanese deaths'  —  Yaakov Lappin  —  A number of journalists claimed during a convention in Jerusalem Monday evening that Israel and the IDF …
 
 
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Matthew Yglesias / Talking Points Memo:
The Iran debate has really become rather surreal.
Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
Devaluing Labor  —  Labor Day is almost upon us, and like some …
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
The Right Wing Attacks the Just Released FOX News Journalists
Michael J. Totten:
Israel's Other Rocket War
Amit R. Paley / Washington Post:
Iraqi hospitals are war's new 'killing fields'
Discussion: Hullabaloo and NewsHog
Stevenhart / The Opinion Mill:
Cheer up!  It's Bushtemberfest!  August 29th, 2006
Discussion: WTF Is It Now??
Matthew Yglesias:
A New Hope  —  So...as you may have noticed I write a bunch of blogs.
 Earlier Items: 
San Francisco Chronicle:
DRIVER'S RAMPAGE THE HUMAN TOLL
BBC:
Venezuela to seize golf courses
Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Lieberman Ad Focuses On The `Good Stuff'
Michelle Krupa / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Records are examined in an effort to finish list of the dead
Rainer Buergin / Bloomberg:
Germans Leave in Record Numbers, Fleeing Unemployment (Update2)
Discussion: EU Referendum
Washington Post:
For Congress in Maryland  —  Our choices: two worthy incumbents and one fresh face
Alex Beam / Boston Globe:
MIT's inconvenient scientist